Homosexuality in Ghana Today: The Role of the Church in Mission by Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh

“…The results are that Ghanaians are increasingly aware of the homosexual phenomenon in some spots in urban cities. …”
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Recurrent stroke in an African female with idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: A case report by Kwabena Oteng Agyapong, Aba Folson, Roland Wonkyi, Kelvin Amenyedor, Jeffrey J. Boateng, Kate Fiador

“…Abstract We report on a young Ghanaian female who was diagnosed with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) but had an ischemic stroke as the initial presentation. …”
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Planting Islam in Ghana: A Critical Review of the Approaches by Cosmas E. Sarbah

“…By means of information derived from historico-theological methods, the essay concludes that indigenous Ghanaian life has played a significant role in molding and shaping Islamic beliefs and practices into their unique forms as they are in Ghana today.…”
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Fiscal Deficits and Inflation in Ghana by Solomon Hanson Obeng, Anselm Komla Abotsi

“… The Ghanaian economy has been faced with persistent fiscal deficits over the years and this affects other macroeconomic variables like inflation. …”
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Trade Union, collective bargaining, and its effect on membership growth among public university lecturers in Ghana by Eric Amankwaah

“…The study showed that the main difficulty facing trade unions is mobilizing members for effective negotiations. The Ghanaian legal system is very sensitive, and hence the trade union procedures are necessary to ensure and preserve industrial peace. …”
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Assessing financial literacy and food and nutritional security relationship in an African country by Martinson Ankrah Twumasi, Gloria Essilfie, Evans Brako Ntiamoah, Huidan Xu, Yuansheng Jiang

“…This study investigates the relationship between rural Ghanaian household food and nutrition security and financial literacy. …”
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From the Cloud to the Landfill: The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform and Akwasi Bediako Afrane’s TRONS by Cyrus Khalatbari

“…The contribution then focuses on the work of Akwasi Bediako Afrane, a Ghanaian media artist who re-appropriates discarded computers to critique and speculate on our sociotechnical condition. …”
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The Readability of Political Party Manifestos of the 2016 General Elections in Ghana by William Kodom Gyasi

“…The statistics show that all three manifestos were written at difficulty levels that were quite above the reading abilities of the average Ghanaian voter. Further, it was found that the manifestos did not differ significantly from each other, statistically speaking. …”
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Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana by Buruwaa Adomako Agyekum

“…The lack of knowledge of mental health disorders in this study and the expression of contextually relevant and culturally defined constructions and experiences of prenatal mental health problems, highlight the need for the development of culturally suitable interventions within the Ghanaian context.…”
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Modeling Stock Market Returns under Self-exciting Threshold Autoregressive Model: Evidence from West Africa by Emmanuel Numapau Gyamfi, Kwabena A. Kyei

“…The study seeks to investigate whether non-linear patterns are present in the returns of two indices on the stock markets in Ghana and Nigeria between the period of 2011 and 2015.The results of applying four linearity tests on the returns concluded that the null of linearity is rejected on all four tests for the Ghanaian index but mixed for the Nigerian index. We modelled the indices under the non-linear self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) model. …”
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Alikoto: Mathematics instruction and cultural games in Ghana by Patrick Owusu, Akosua Obuo Addo

“…By describing math-rich games from Ghanaian culture and showing where they fit into the curriculum, we aim to provide teachers with examples of incorporating cultural games into their instruction. …”
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Basic Computing Knowledge of Students with Visual Impairments by Ebenezer Ofori Atta, Ephraim Quaynor Teye, Adam Awini

“…This study investigated the computing knowledge of students with visual impairments in a Ghanaian university. Using the case study research design, 103 students were randomly sampled from a population of 118 students with visual impairments. …”
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Women Education: Women and Teaching Profession in Ghana by Wang Jiajia, Portia .V. Samba

“…Findings indicated that Ghanaian women are into teaching because of numerous reasons but a few of them include, the acceptance in the teaching profession i.e. they feel accepted and there is no discrimination. …”
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On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution in an African Economy. by Sandefur, J

“…I use a new panel of Ghanaian firms, spanning 17 years immediately post-reform, to model firm dynamics that differ markedly from well-established ‘stylized facts’ in the empirical literature from other regions. …”

Paths to viability: transnational strategies among Ghana's small-scale ICT entrepreneurs by Taylor, L

“…It is based on a study of Ghanaian commercial internet cafes, the majority located in the country’s remote northern regions, with a second group of cafes studied in the capital city, Accra. …”

Wages and reciprocity in the workplace. by Barr, A, Serneels, P

“…The experiment is similar to Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe's (1995) and is conducted with Ghanaian manufacturing workers. The survey relates to the same sample workers and the firms within which they are employed. …”

Wages and reciprocity in the workplace by Barr, A, Serneels, P

“…The experiment is similar to Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe's (1995) and is conducted with Ghanaian manufacturing workers. The survey relates to the same sample workers and the firms within which they are employed. …”

Plasma glutamine levels and falciparum malaria. by Cowan, G, Planche, T, Agbenyega, T, Bedu-Addo, G, Owusu-Ofori, A, Adebe-Appiah, J, Agranoff, D, Woodrow, C, Castell, L, Elford, B, Krishna, S

“…Changes in glutamine concentration were examined in Ghanaian children with acute falciparum malaria and control cases. …”

Common variants at 11p13 are associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis by Thye, T, Owusu-Dabo, E, Vannberg, F, Van Crevel, R, Curtis, J, Sahiratmadja, E, Balabanova, Y, Ehmen, C, Muntau, B, Ruge, G, Sievertsen, J, Gyapong, J, Nikolayevskyy, V, Hill, P, Sirugo, G, Drobniewski, F, Van De Vosse, E, Newport, M, Alisjahbana, B, Nejentsev, S, Ottenhoff, T, Hill, A, Horstmann, R, Meyer, C

“…After imputation of data from the 1000 Genomes Project into a genome-wide dataset of Ghanaian individuals with tuberculosis and controls, we identified a resistance locus on chromosome 11p13 downstream of the WT1 gene (encoding Wilms tumor 1). …”

‘Grammars of displacement’: Kojo Laing’s lines of flight by Hankinson, J

“…Departing from the relationship between the texts of the Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing and a recent international art exhibition, this article traces the relationship between style and the multivalent activity of flight across Laing’s work. …”