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Department of Geological Engineering
The researcher's work spans multiple themes within Physical Sciences, reflecting a comprehensive exploration of environmental challenges and innovative solutions. Key areas include groundwater studies, water resources management, optimization techniques, climate variability, and environmental health issues.
Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
**Research Focus Synthesis** The researcher's work across diverse domains focuses on global Sahelian ecosystems, emphasizing interactions between climate change, agriculture, hydrology, atmospheric processes, solar energy, and fire impacts. Key areas include: 1. **Savanna Ecosystems**: Investigates plant water relations and carbon dynamics, including effects of rain events, bias correction methods, numerical modeling, and NASA data. 2. **Climate Change Impact on Agriculture**: Analyzes how climate change affects agricultural productivity in Ghana's savannas, focusing on variability and re-classification of agro-climatic zones. 3. **Hydrology and Drought Analysis**: Studies rainfall patterns using the Gumbel model, extreme value theory for rainfall, satellite data, and extreme precipitation indices over the Volta Basin. 4. **Atmospheric Chemistry and Datasets**: Examines atmospheric nitrogen isotopes and solar radiation models, including satellite-based datasets and ozone concentrations. 5. **Solar Energy and Photovoltaics**: Explores modeling global solar radiation in various locations, satellite-based products, and spatial distribution of solar energy. 6. **Precipitation Estimation and Validation**: Develops rainfall data from Ashanti, validates TRMM and FEWS satellite methods for accurate precipitation measurement. 7. **Mathematical Modeling**: Uses GSBR models for global solar radiation in different regions, differential equations for prey-predator dynamics, Holling-Tanner models with cannibalism, and predator interference effects on biological control. 8. **Fire Effects on Ecosystems**: Analyzes climate variability impacts on savanna fires in West Africa and extreme temperature indices over the Volta Basin. 9. **Extreme Weather Events**: Re-examines hemispheric variability with extreme precipitation indices from CMIP6, assesses solar visibility using TRMM data, models time dynamics of population systems, and explores finite time blow-ups in population models. 10. **Fire Studies (Repeats)**: Revisits fire impacts on ecosystems, includes studies on moist convective environments, long-term food chain dynamics, predator interference effects, and finite time blow-ups in population models. The researcher's integrated approach provides insights into Sahelian ecosystems, focusing on climate change, agriculture, hydrology, atmospheric processes, solar energy, precipitation management, and fire dynamics.
Department of Animal Science
The researcher has made significant contributions across a broad spectrum of topics related to ruminant health and sustainability. Their work emphasizes the integrated use of various interventions to enhance ruminant performance, including supplementing with compounds like Feenulophellin and Vachellia, which improve both nutritional and metabolic efficiency. The research also explores the application of ruminant-based crops and feed, such as Napier grass and Bambusa vulgaris, in improving agricultural productivity. In the context of soil health, studies on Moringa oleifera reveal the influence of species diversity on nutrient content and crop residue analysis. Additionally, their work delves into animal nutrition by examining ethanol metabolism and its effects on intake, growth, and utilization of ruminants. The researcher's findings highlight genetic diversity as a critical factor in ruminant health, influenced by both environmental and genetic factors. Furthermore, they address food safety challenges through risk assessment studies involving fed milk with antimicrobial drug residues, aiming to enhance food quality while minimizing risks. Their research underscores the role of bioenergy crops, such as sorghum stover, in addressing global agricultural needs while promoting sustainable practices. This integrated approach across nutrition, agriculture, and environmental science provides a holistic framework for improving ruminant health and ensuring food safety.

Department of Environmental Science
The researcher's work encompasses a comprehensive exploration of healthcare improvements in rural Ghana, addressing both individual and systemic challenges. Their research delves into complementary and alternative medicine practices during pregnancy, climate-smart agricultural innovations among small farmers, mobile health applications and technology adoption, patient satisfaction with healthcare professionals, social dynamics influencing health outcomes, global maternal and child health systems, environmental education on sanitation effectiveness, poverty-related initiatives in agriculture, gendered labor and family structures, forest degradation impacts via religious practices, and the interplay of environmental factors with climate variability.
Department of Geological Engineering
The researcher's research focuses on examining the interplay between earnings management, corporate governance quality, audit integrity, and firm performance or productivity growth across various domains, including social sciences.
Department of Painting and Sculpture
The researcher focuses on the intersections of art, politics, and modernism within the social sciences, particularly examining how these disciplines intersect and influence each other in broader cultural contexts. Their work includes studies such as "SoapSTONE CARVING ASsemblage," which explores how traditional artistic techniques are reinterpreted in contemporary settings.
Department of Geomatic Engineering
This researcher's work centers on understanding land rights and land reforms in life sciences across diverse domains such as Ghana and Ethiopia. Their research integrates 3D modeling techniques to analyze urban land development, legal frameworks, geospatial technologies, and social justice issues while addressing challenges related to environmental impact and sustainability goals. Methodologies that combine interdisciplinary approaches contribute to a comprehensive exploration of land rights and reforms in both life sciences and geospatial applications.
Department of Computer Science
The researcher has engaged in integrative studies spanning multiple domains, focusing on innovative approaches to address challenges in agriculture, environment, and health through interdisciplinary methodologies. Their work integrates sentiment analysis for opinion mining, advanced manufacturing techniques, agronomic practices, climate change impacts, nematode management, molecular biology, and community health. The overarching research effort emphasizes developing innovative tools and technologies across various fields, such as gaze tracking apps and sentiment-based analytics, to enhance agricultural sustainability, environmental monitoring, and human well-being in practical applications.
Department of Accounting and Finance
The overarching focus of the researcher's work is on advancing sustainable practices in resource management, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, legal frameworks, and public policy implications. The research delves into diverse areas such as corporate social responsibility, forest rights, green management, environmental reporting, educational robotics, and fiscal policies, aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and practical applications across various domains.
Department of Animal Science
The researcher's work encompasses a broad range of topics within public health, including occupational health and safety, nutritional challenges, infectious diseases, traffic safety, obesity issues, injury prevention, maternal health, cancer control, urban development studies, technology adoption, leadership research, malaria management, HIV impact, energy policies, bullying dynamics, and environmental sustainability. Their significant papers highlight diverse areas of public health research across various domains.

Department of Horticulture
The researcher focuses on mitigating urban heat islands within the domain of physical sciences, employing innovative approaches such as green roof systems augmented with climbers to enhance thermal performance and plant health.
Department of Child Health
This researcher's work centers on exploring fundamental aspects of human behavior and mental health, with a particular emphasis on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying emotional regulation, cognitive processes, and their impact on mental well-being. Their research spans across diverse fields including psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, aiming to uncover universal patterns that influence societal development and treatment approaches. By synthesizing findings across multiple studies, they contribute to a deeper understanding of how individual experiences shape collective outcomes in health and behavior.