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Survey of Fallout Operations (open access)

Survey of Fallout Operations

From Abstract: "The Laboratory has made a survey of fallout operations in the various countries of the world. The source of information has largely been the reports submitted to UNSCEAR forwarding data for their consideration. The abstracts are given in order of type of operation as shown in the table of contents."
Date: July 1, 1962
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Health and Safety Laboratory.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Study 16, Chapter 3. Pan-Africanism, Part 2 (open access)

Current Study 16, Chapter 3. Pan-Africanism, Part 2

This booklet is the third chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about African countries. This chapter discusses the idea of Pan-Africanism and includes background information, review questions, and a list of suggested readings for further study.
Date: October 1966
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Village outside village

Photograph of tourists from the Zichner group and people in a village around the area of Accra, Ghana.
Date: 1968
Creator: Zichner, Mildred Schaeffer
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Catholic Church in Techiman, Brong-Ahafo, Ghana

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
The Catholic church in Techiman, Ghana incorporates Akan stool symbols.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Christianity to the Ashanti Tribe: A Study in Cross-Cultural Communication (open access)

Communicating Christianity to the Ashanti Tribe: A Study in Cross-Cultural Communication

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of identifying the significant variables involved in cross-cultural communication and applying these concepts in communicating the Christian faith to Ashanti tribe members of central Ghana in West Africa.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Davenport, Donald Dewayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Development in Ghana: Some Problems and Prospects (open access)

Economic Development in Ghana: Some Problems and Prospects

After independence on March 6, 1957, Ghana, under the late President Kwame Nkrumah, turned to diverse developmental activities. Economically, Ghana was on sound footing; the balance of payments was favorable and cocoa was yielding a good harvest. In 1967, Nkrumah was ousted due to his dictatorial rule. In this study the available primary and secondary sources were utilized. Primary sources were made available by the Ghana Embassy in Washington, D. C. and by friends and relatives in institutions of higher learning in Ghana. The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter I concerns itself with a geographical survey of the country, including land, climate, people, and natural resources. Chapter II explores political developments, and Chapter III examines some of the crucial economic problems. Chapter IV explores some economic progress and Chapter V makes suggestions, some of which may seem sordid and grim, but at least they offer a "stepping stone."
Date: May 1974
Creator: Attuquayefio, Alan B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
West African Journal: A Travel Account (open access)

West African Journal: A Travel Account

West African Journal: A Travel Account is a narrative of the author's trip in twelve West African countries. In the first chapter the author describes her previous travels and preparations for this trip and introduces her husband. She begins the second chapter with a discussion of the benefits and hardships of independent travel and describes the hotels, restaurants, forms of transportation, and difficulties with language. The remainder of Chapter II is a close account of the first sixteen days of travel. The narrative continues chronologically in Chapters III through VIII. Each chapter pertains to a distinct stage of the trip. In Chapter IX, the author reviews her personal accomplishments during the journey, relates her and her husband's reactions on their return to the U.S., and concludes with some evocative descriptions of West Africa.
Date: December 1980
Creator: Hudson, Jacquelyn Fuller
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Historical Inquiry Into the Development of Higher Education in Ghana 1948-1984: a Study of the Major Factors That Have Controlled and Inhibited the Development of the Universities of Ghana (open access)

An Historical Inquiry Into the Development of Higher Education in Ghana 1948-1984: a Study of the Major Factors That Have Controlled and Inhibited the Development of the Universities of Ghana

Universities in many industrialized countries including Japan, and Australia, have enabled those countries to achieve rapid economic and social advancement. However, this is untrue for the universities of Ghana, due to the country's ailing economy, its continued dependence on foreign manpower, aid, and material goods. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to illuminate the major factors and events that have controlled and inhibited the development of higher education in Ghana from 1948 to 1984. The method of acquiring data involved a computer and manual search for documents from 1) ERIC Database, 2) libraries , and 3) Embassy of Ghana, Washington, D.C. The findings include (1) Establishment of universities on the basis of the Asquith Doctrine; (2) Imitation of British universities' curriculum, constitution, standards and social functions; (3) Characterization of universities by elitism, lack of diversity and adaptation, autonomy, excellence and narrow specialism in their honor degree programs; (4) Emphasis on cognitive rather than psychomotor learning; (5) Matriculation of inadequately qualified secondary school science students; (6) Absence of a nationally formulated statement of manpower needs, goals, and effective long-term planning; (7) Financial exigencies; (8) Suppression, perversion and abuse of academic and intellectual freedom by the government and universities; (9) Inconsistent …
Date: December 1985
Creator: Darko, Samuel F. (Samuel Fordjour)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
["Well Spring of Life: Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora" slideshow video] captions transcript

["Well Spring of Life: Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora" slideshow video]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters of a slideshow showing the works in exhibition for "Well Spring of Life: Contemporary Arts of the African Diaspora". The video includes still photographs of works from the countries of Ghana, Haiti and Nigeria transitioned by a page-turning animation. The art is primarily painting and mixed 2-D media.
Date: 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Medicine: a Blessing or Bane? The Case of Ghana (open access)

Traditional Medicine: a Blessing or Bane? The Case of Ghana

The study examines the socio-demographic characteristics of Traditional Medical Practitioners in Ghana. Their attitudes towards collaboration with biomedical practitioners, their associations, and regulation is also discussed. Data for the study was obtained from a Survey of Traditional Medical Practitioners in Ghana.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Sakyi-Addo, Isaac
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habit Favorability and Geographical Links Between Mycobacterium ulcerans and Eichhornia crasspies in the Amansie West District, Ghana: Social, Economic, and Health Implications (open access)

Habit Favorability and Geographical Links Between Mycobacterium ulcerans and Eichhornia crasspies in the Amansie West District, Ghana: Social, Economic, and Health Implications

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the invasive water hyacinth in Ghana, how it spreads the Buruli ulcer, the environmental factors in the areas affected by the plant, and related hospital case studies.
Date: Autumn 1999
Creator: Pearson, Amber L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Geography of Tuberculosis in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

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In Ghana, spatial patterns of TB vary for different regions and variations may occur within the same region. This study examines TB distribution in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Behavioral, cultural and economic variables associated with TB morbidity are examined. From January 1998 to June 1999, data obtained from the Ghana Ministry of Health revealed that, men had a higher TB rate than women, TB was common among the age groups 20-29 and 30-39, and the average TB rate of 67.7 per 100, 000 population in the Greater Accra Region was higher than the national average (58.6 per 100,000 population). Using the human ecology model, this study attempts to explain the spatial distribution of the disease.
Date: May 2001
Creator: Donkor, Kweku
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 1, Number 3, 2004 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 1, Number 3, 2004

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to food issues related to the environment.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (open access)

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

This comprehensive atlas provides data, satellite imagery, and analysis of the environmental conditions and issues relevant to each African country, and several surrounding island nations. The atlas also covers trans-border international issues in Africa.
Date: 2008
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon (open access)

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon

According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.; Baird, David & Harden, Virginia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (open access)

The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation: Update of the Report prepared for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change

According to the introduction, this report provides a global estimate of the cost of reducing the rate of deforestation.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Grieg-Gran, Maryanne
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, December 2008 (open access)

Our Planet, December 2008

Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted the use of renewable energy in climate strategy and economic growth.
Date: December 2008
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy (open access)

Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy

This booklet discusses how energy sufficiency is the best solution for reducing energy consumption and waste. It presents policies for reducing global energy consumption such as energy auditing, phasing out incandescent light bulbs, combined heat/cooling energy and power, carbon-negative cooking, smart metering, area road pricing, and other measures.
Date: 2009
Creator: Rohde, Anja & Bee, Hilmar
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ghana: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Ghana: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides background information on current developments in Ghana and U.S. bilateral relations with Ghana.
Date: January 6, 2009
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ghana: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Ghana: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides information on current developments in Ghana and Ghana's relations with the United States, which are close. It describes the purpose of President Barack Obama's forthcoming trip to Ghana, which will focus on issues of good governance and socio-economic and political development, and characterizes the current state of play in bilateral relations. It also summarizes the policy agenda of Ghana's president, John Atta Mills, who won office by a narrow margin in elections in late 2008. The dynamics of that election are described in the report, as are recent policy-centered developments, economic challenges and performance, and socio-economic prospects. Ghana's international relations and bilateral development cooperation with the United States are also covered in the report.
Date: July 8, 2009
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa Adaptation Programme: An insight into AAP and Country project Profiles (open access)

Africa Adaptation Programme: An insight into AAP and Country project Profiles

The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has been designed to support the long-term efforts of targeted countries to further develop their capability to successfully identify, design and implement holistic adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes that are aligned with national development priorities. This report provides insight into the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) and its related country project profiles. The AAP has shifted into implementation, with Namibia and Tunisia as the first countries to complete national inception workshops. Eighteen out of the total twenty programme countries will complete national inception processes and start full-fledged implementation in the coming months.
Date: January 2010
Creator: The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ghana, an Emergent Oil Producer: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Ghana, an Emergent Oil Producer: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides information on current developments in Ghana and Ghanaian-U.S. relations, which are close.
Date: January 10, 2010
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The President's Malaria Initiative: Sixth Annual Report to Congress (open access)

The President's Malaria Initiative: Sixth Annual Report to Congress

A report discussing the impact and possible preventative measures to Malaria in Africa.
Date: April 2012
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ghana: Recent Developments and U.S. Relations (open access)

Ghana: Recent Developments and U.S. Relations

This report provides information on current developments in Ghana and Ghana's relations with the United States, which are close. It describes the purpose of President Barack Obama's forthcoming trip to Ghana, which will focus on issues of good governance and socio-economic and political development, and characterizes the current state of play in bilateral relations. It also summarizes the policy agenda of Ghana's president, John Atta Mills, who won office by a narrow margin in elections in late 2008. The dynamics of that election are described in the report, as are recent policy-centered developments, economic challenges and performance, and socio-economic prospects. Ghana's international relations and bilateral development cooperation with the United States are also covered in the report.
Date: January 4, 2013
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library