Increasing global competition in the business world and heightened expectations of customers have forced companies to consider not only the pricing or product quality, but also reliability and timeliness of deliveries. ...

Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease which is caused by the bites of an infected female Anopheles mosquito and is an issue of grave public health concern. The control of malaria requires effective surveillance ...

This paper is a follow up to an earlier paper, which reviewed the opportunities and threats of the usage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in homes and industries in Ghana. In this paper, the design of an electronic gas leakage ...

Sediment contamination by heavy metals resulting from anthropogenic activities is increasingly becoming a global concern due to the risk it poses to human well-being and ecological integrity at large. The purpose of this ...

The dramatic increase in hydrometallurgical extraction of gold from arsenic bearing gold ores has inevitably resulted in the release of arsenic into the environment worldwide. Residual arsenic minerals in tailings storage ...

The Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASSM) industry is of great importance to the Ghanaian economy. It provides employment for the teeming youth directly and indirectly and produces gold for the local goldsmiths, among ...

Coconut shells are used as precursors for preparation of activated carbons. The shells could vary in terms of their maturity. The influence of the maturity of the shells on gold adsorption efficiencies of derived activated ...

High cost of metric photogrammetric cameras has given rise to the utilisation of non-metric digital cameras to generate photogrammetric products in traditional close range or terrestrial photogrammetric applications. For ...

Arsenic (As) has the potential to negatively affect soils and groundwater quality, and cause several public health challenges. It is usually concentrated and released during metal mining of ores that contains arsenic-bearing ...

Appropriate selection of rheological models is important for hydraulic calculations of pressure loss prediction and hole cleaning efficiency of drilling fluids. Power law, Bingham-Plastic and Herschel-Bulkley models are ...