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Survival outcomes of breast cancer in Ghana: An analysis of clinicopathological features.

Mensah, A. C. (The International Journal of Business & Management, 2016)

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in female’s worldwide. Its incidence is on the ascendancy in Africa including Ghana. In addition, Ghanaian women are more likely ...
Cocoa production in Ghana: Trends and volatility

Okyere, E.; Mensah, A.C. (International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2016)

The Ghanaian economy is dependent to a high degree on primary production, in agriculture and mining for exports. The exports of cocoa, gold and timber traditionally account for the greatest bulk of merchandise exports. ...
Computing statistical precision of efficiency and productivity change indices: A bootstrap application to Ghanaian Polytechnics.

Mends-Brew, E.; Ashiagbor, A. A. (European Scientific Journal, 2016)

This study employs a bivariate smoothing bootstrap technique to obtain a statistical inference for Technical Efficiency and Malmquist Indices and their components of Polytechnics in Ghana over the period 2009-2014. The ...
Evaluating knowledge of quality assurance practices in tertiary institutions in Ghana.

Morrison, S.; Mensah, A. C. (The International Journal of Business & Management, 2016)

Tertiary education assumes greater importance as it generates knowledge, the key engine of global economy and development. One way to guarantee this is constant and efficient assurance of high standards is the setting up ...
Comparative analysis of parametric models on survival of breast cancer patients in Ghana.

Mensah, A. C.; Nokoe, S. K.; Yarney, J.; Okyere, E. (International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics, 2017)

Survival analysis methods that measure the risk of death or progression of a disease provide predictions that help clinicians to estimate trends in their patient outcomes. The objective of the study was to determine the ...
Does concurrent chemoradiotherapy preceded by chemotherapy improve survival in locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer patients? Experience from Ghana.

Yarney, J.; Aryeetey, N. A.; Mensah, A.; Kitcher, E. D.; Vanderpuye, V.; Aidoo, C.; Baidoo, K. (Cancers of the Head & Neck, 2017)

Background: To find out how chemotherapy given prior to concurrent chemoradiotherapy compares with concurrent chemoradiation alone in the treatment of locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer. Methods: Patient charts were ...
Factor analysis of competency based trained graduates of polytechnic/technical universities in

Mends–Brew, E.; Dadzie, J.; Apau-Dadson, B.; Amoamah, M. O. (European Scientific Journal, 2017)

Higher Education, particularly Polytechnic education which sits at the apex of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has undergone a great deal of transformation over the last several years. Polytechnic ...
Informal Entreprenurship in Ghana: An analysis of motivational factors.

Kumi, K. P.; Mensah, A.C. (International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2017)

The study was conducted in Ghana specifically Greater Accra region. The aim was to identify the motives for informal entrepreneurship. A total of 400 respondents were selected for data collection. A structured questionnaire ...
Modelling the trend of road traffic accidents in Accra.

Mends-Brew, E.; Dadzie, J.; Apau-Dadson, B.; Amoamah, M. O. (2018)

Road transportation remains the dominant mode of transporting goods and commuters in Ghana. Over the last couple of decades, the Government of Ghana has aggressively pursued a comprehensive road infrastructural development ...
Analysis of Ghana’s imports and exports

Mensah, A.C.; Okyere, E. (Journal of Economics and Financial Research, 2018)

The long-run relationship between exports and imports has been the subject of intensive research in developed and developing economies. This relationship is of importance due to the fact that it reflects the stability of ...
Use of principal components regression and time-series analysis to predict the water level of the Akosombo Dam Level.

Asare, I.O.; Frempong, D.A.; Larbi, P. (2018)

Knowing the water level of the Akosombo Dam would help Ghanaian since we depend heavily on hydroelectric power. When the future of the water level is known, society would be able to plan on the usage of electricity for the ...
Improving health workers’ organisational commitment: drawing lessons from the interaction between internal marketing and key job characteristics.

Mends-Brew, E.; Asiamah, N. (2018)

Purpose: This study assesses the effect of internal marketing on the organizational commitment of health workers, with the effect of the interaction between internal marketing and each of four job characteristics (i.e. job ...
Proximate breast cancer factors using data mining classification techniques.

Mensah, A. C.; Asare, I. O. (IGI Global, 2019)

Breast cancer is the most common of all cancers and is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. The classification of breast cancer data can be useful to predict the outcome of some diseases or discover the ...
The prevalent causes of non-disclosure of HIV status and their effect on Tema Municipality.

Tawiah, S. K; Dzivor, N. D.; Mensah, A. C.; Adjei, S (2019)

This research looks at the widespread effect of HIV patients (adults)’ unwillingness to disclose their HIV Status. The study takes the Tema Municipality as a case study to investigate the causes of non-disclosure of HIV ...
Linking entrepreneurship education and training with students and graduates entrepreneurial intention.

Pobbi, M. A.; Antiaye, E. (ProQuest, 2020)

Recognising the relevance of entrepreneurship, most African universities have made significant input into delivering Entrepreneurial Education in Higher Educational Institutions. However, the rising number of graduate ...
Application of principal component analysis on perceived barriers to youth entrepreneurship

Mensah, A. C.; Dadzie, J. (2020)

Entrepreneurship is an imperative driving force for innovation in a country. Nevertheless, there is lack of systematic investigation in the area of barriers to entrepreneurship and its effects on the intentions of the youth ...
Crash severity modelling using ordinal logistic regression approach

Asare, I. O.; Mensah, A. C. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020)

Road traffic accident is one of the major problems facing the world. The carnage on Ghana’s roads has raised road accidents to the status of a ‘public health’ throbjective of the study is to identify factors that contribute ...
Monetary policy and private sector credit interaction in Ghana.

Mensah, A. C.; Okyere, E. (2020)

Using a series of econometric techniques, the study analysed interaction between monetary policy and private sector credit in Ghana. This study made use of monthly dataset spanning January 1999 to December 2019 of credit ...
Causality analysis on export and economic growth nexus in Ghana.

Mensah, A. C.; Okyere, E. (Open Journal of Statistics, 2020)

The study examined the causal relationship between export and economic growth based on monthly data for the period 2010 to 2019. Composite Index Economic Activity (CIEA) was used as a proxy for real GDP (economic growth). ...
Assessing the performance of the discrete generalised pareto distribution in modelling non-life insurance claims.

Dzidzornu, S. K .B; Minkah, R. (Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2021)

,e generalised Pareto distribution (GPD) offers a family of probability spaces which support threshold exceedances and is thus suitable for modelling high-end actuarial risks. Nonetheless, its distributional continuity ...

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