Lipid accumulation product (LAP) index as a potential risk assessment for cardiovascular risk stratification among type II diabetes mellitus in a Ghanaian population: A cross-sectional study by Evans Asamoah Adu, Christian Obirikorang, Emmanuel Acheampong, Aaron Siaw Kwakye, Foster Fokuoh, Yaa Obirikorang, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuella Nsenbah Batu, Brodrick Yeboah Amoah, Patience N. Ansong

“…The study determined the comparative usefulness of Lipid Accumulation Product (LAP) index, for identifying individuals at immediate risk of cardiovascular diseases in a Ghanaian population. A cross-sectional study that involved 324 T2DM patients attending the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua, Ghana was selected using a simple random sampling method. …”
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Influence of Organizational Culture on Construction Firms’ Performance: The Mediating Roles of Innovation and Marketing Capabilities by Abdul Manaan Osman, Yisheng Liu, Zhaojing Wang

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The Case for a Construction Industry Council in Ghana by Kuragu, Joseph Kwame Ofori, Manu , De Graft Owusu, Ayarkwa, Joshua

“…The Ghanaian construction industry faces major problems that undermine its potential and contribution to overall national development. …”
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Socio-Economic Realities of Returned Immigrant Reintegration in Ghana: A Systematic Review by Aaron Nartey

“…Scholars have observed that in the face of wage differentials that favor destination countries, an increasing number of presumably rational Ghanaian migrants in developed countries choose to return to Ghana. …”
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Testing texture in presidential inaugural address by Benjamin Amoakohene, Osei Yaw Akoto, Richard Senyo Kofi Kwakye, Peace Fiadzomor

“… This study adopts the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), specifically the textual metafunction, to explore cohesion in Ghanaian and American Presidential Inaugural Addresses (PIAs). …”
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Acid Test of Ghana’s Educational Institutions Operating Distance Learning Programs by William K. Koomson, Naa Kai Amanor-Mfoafo

“…This poses the question: how prepared are Ghanaian institutions to carry out distance learning using online teaching approaches? …”
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Genomic diversity and evolution of Mycobacterium ulcerans revealed by next-generation sequencing. by Weihong Qi, Michael Käser, Katharina Röltgen, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Gerd Pluschke

“…We estimated that the divergence of the M. ulcerans Ghanaian clade from the Japanese strain occurred 394 to 529 thousand years ago. …”
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Drivers of Banks’ Financial Performance by Evans Te, Lawrance Asari Boadi, Philomena Dadzie

“… A significant number of banks folded up during the Ghanaian banking financial crisis of 2017 to 2018 causing significant social costs as well as impeding economic growth. …”
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Corporate reliance on bank loans: Evidence from listed companies in Ghana by J Abor

“…This paper examines the incidence of bank financing among Ghanaian listed companies and the determinants of listed firms’ reliance on bank borrowing. …”
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Exploring Ethos in Contemporary Ghana by Gladys Nyarko Ansah, Augustina Edem Dzregah

“…In this article, we discuss contemporary Ghanaian ethos reflecting on female sexual behavior as a discursive construction that shifts and changes across time and space. …”
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The impact of China–Africa trade on the productivity of African firms: evidence from Ghana by Hou, J, Fu, X, Mohnen, P

“…Using firm- and industry-level panel data, this study investigates the impact of the Ghana–China trade on labour productivity of Ghanaian manufacturing firms and compares it to the impact induced by the trade of Ghana with the OECD. …”

Sequence and immunologic conservation of Anaplasma marginale OmpA within strains from Ghana as compared to the predominant OmpA variant. by James E Futse, Grace Buami, Boniface B Kayang, Roberta Koku, Guy H Palmer, Telmo Graça, Susan M Noh

“…When considering only amino acid changes, three unique Ghanaian OmpA variants were identified. In comparison, strains from all other geographic regions, except one, shared a single OmpA variant, Variant 1, which differed from the Ghanaian variants. …”
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A Call for Action to Improve Occupational Health and Safety in Ghana and a Critical Look at the Existing Legal Requirement and Legislation by Joe-Steve Annan, Emmanuel K. Addai, Samuel K. Tulashie

“…The objective of this paper is to identify the areas of opportunities for improvements in OHS management in Ghana with regard to the nation's legal requirements, commitment of the Ghana government, and Ghanaian leadership as well as appropriate structuring of Ghanaian institutions responsible for monitoring and managing OHS in Ghana. …”
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Russia-Ghana relations in the past and the present: a time-proven partnership by Olga Sergeevna Kulkova, Hajj Ahmed Sanusi

“…The article of Russian and Ghanaian authors describes the evolution of political and economic relations between Soviet Union/Russia and Ghana throughout different historical periods (starting from 1950s to present). …”
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Ghana’s Free Zones Strategy and the “Role of China” in It by Paola Pasquali, Wei Xu

“…This paper explores the history of free zones in Ghana and Ghanaian policy makers’ related strategy. It looks at the “role of China” in these zones: both in terms of Chinese companies’ presence there, and in terms of reference to a “Chinese model” to develop free zones. …”
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Cultural Scripts for Asymmetrical Interactions in Ghana by Rachel G. A. Thompson

“… This paper focuses on expected communicative behaviours during asymmetrical interactional events among Ghanaians, with special reference to Ewes and Akans. …”
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Decolonization of indigenous language media practice in Ghana: myth or reality? by Eric OPOKU MENSAH, Caroline ABOAGYE DA-COSTA

“…The marginalization of Ghanaian indigenous languages from the media space ceased in the 1990s when the airwaves were liberalized. …”
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EXPLORING THE CONTEXTUAL IMPLICATIONS OF KOFI ABREFA BUSIA’S SOCIO-POLITICAL ETHICS FOR CONTEMPORARY GHANA by Isaac Boaheng

“…With 71.2 percent of Ghanaians professing Christianity, one would expect Ghanaian public life to depend immensely on Christian norms. …”
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Post-Coloniality: Projection of Ghana In Video-Films by Augustine Danso

“…Normative scholarships have critically explored the visuality of Ghanaian video-films and their themes. Nonetheless, these normative scholarships have often overlooked the nexus between the Ghanaian society and video texts. …”
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DNA-Based Identification and Chemical Characteristics of Hypnea musciformis from Coastal Sites in Ghana by Marcel Tutor Ale, Kristian Barrett, Gloria Naa Dzama Addico, Nanna Rhein-Knudsen, Amoako Atta deGraft-Johnson, Anne S. Meyer

“…This work reveals new, important insights about the influence of broad spatial variations on the phylogenetic relationship and chemical characteristics of Ghanaian Hypnea musciformis—a carrageenan-containing red seaweed. …”
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