7 research outputs found
Oral History Interview, Kobina Intsiful (2539)
No full textIn his August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, WiscAMP alum Kobina Intsiful outlines his background and professional career, as well as his experiences with WiscAMP STEM Inspire at UW-Milwaukee. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.In his August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, WiscAMP alum Kobina Intsiful outlines his background and professional career, as well as his experiences with WiscAMP STEM Inspire at UW-Milwaukee. Kobina Intsiful grew up in Ghana and moved to Wisconsin when he was eleven years old with his brother and father. He majored in mechanical engineering at UW-Milwaukee and is currently the Pre-Sales Manager of Consulting for JLL, a commercial real-estate company. He is in the process of earning his MBA at NYU Stern Business School. Intsiful shares how WiscAMP supported him as he encountered challenges in his academic life in the engineering program as well as through major personal events and life changes. It gave him a group of peers to look up to and connect with, and helped him explore opportunities and find his own path. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the WiscAMP Legacy Oral History Project and the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management oral history collection
Ultrasonic imaging of pore fluid pressure and scaling to field measurement.
No full textThe thesis deals with the development of scaling models for acoustic imaging of pore pressure in reservoir. This topic has gained interest in the last decade mainly because of the appealing possibilities given by non invasive methods of imaging, which are very flexible and cost effective. P and S wave velocities and attenuation characteristics are used to retrieve information from the earth through non-destructive techniques. However, there are some problems on how to resolve the discrepancies between, laboratory/core velocity that uses high frequency waves and field velocity that uses low frequency waves. This velocity discrepancy, discussed intensively in scientific literature, is referred to as scaling problem, and has caught the attention of many practitioners. Extensive literature review indicates that, to date, Backus averaging is the only practical method that provides a finely foliated velocity model in an attempt to solve the scaling problems. However, Backus averaging has two major shortcomings and limitations: (i) there is no source of intrinsic energy dissipation such as friction or viscosity (attenuation) catered for in the model, (ii) the model also applicable to layered formation and requires that layer thickness of the media must be larger than the seismic wavelength: how greater is still a question of disagreement among scientist. The author believes that, the way to reconcile the various velocity differences is to develop a numerical model that would scale the velocities depending on the type of waves used at a given frequencies and wavelength.The research therefore provides the opportunity to examine the dispersion of elastic wave velocity over a wide frequency range. The thesis has three main objectives: (i) To answer the question of what factors contribute to velocity differences in acoustic imaging across the various frequency bands; (ii) to develop practical scaling models and methodology that take into account intrinsic energy dissipation; and (iii) to find ways to image pore pressure at high overburden pressure (deep depth of reservoirs).The methodology used was based on laboratory experimental methods and numerical modeling. The laboratory experiments coupled elastic, petrophysical and geomechanical measurements under insitu conditions, over a broad frequency band, on texturally well-characterized artificial and natural sandstones. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2005
Cost and non-cost factors associated with delays in receiving medical care in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
No full textMszar R, Hagan K, Lahan S, Parekh T. Cost and non-cost factors associated with delays in receiving medical care in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 2024;0(0). Copyright © The Author(s) 2024. doi:10.1177/14782715241256693. This article was originally published in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/14782715241256693.Introduction:
The study aims to compare cost and non-cost factors associated with delays in receiving medical care in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).
Methods:
Using 2014–2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behaviour Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey (N = 508,203), multivariate logistic regression models were developed to compute the adjusted odds ratio of reasons for delays in medical care in adults with ASCVD.
Results:
Our study population of 61,227 adults with ASCVD (9.1%) had higher odds of any medical care delay (aOR 1.50, 95% CI 1.43–1.57), delay due to cost (aOR 1.55, 95% CI 1.45–1.65), long clinic wait times (aOR 1.21, 95% CI 1.04–1.39) and lack of transportation (aOR 1.64, 95% CI 1.47–1.84) than those without ASCVD.
Conclusion:
Novel public health and health policy approaches are urgently needed to reduce the cost- and non-cost-related barriers that adults with ASCVD encounter when accessing healthcare services.The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
Women in African Drama: Representation and role
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine the representation and role of women in African theatre. The discussion is based on published and unpublished plays by African writers selected from a pan-African perspective.
The thesis is divided into two major parts: Women in Society; The Portrayal of Women by Major Playwrights. Part I follows a thematic approach aimed at examining the position of women in three different areas which form the chapters for the part : Women, Tradition and Social
Change; The Urban Woman and Women in Politics. Part II of the thesis analyses major African playwrights' presentation of women characters. This part discusses not only the characterization of women by major playwrights but also these writers' attitude towards women and women's issues. Examined here in two chapters are The Portrayal of Women by
Major Male Playwrights and The Portrayal of Women by Major Female Playwrights.
Chapter 1, 'Women, Tradition and Social Change' discusses selected playwrights' examination of African women's experiences in the traditional African setting as a major foundation of the present and future socio-political situation of the continent; this chapter is the springboard
of the study.
From the traditional milieu the study then moves on to the
relatively new urban environment. This Chapter examines the predicaments in which the African woman finds herself as she struggles to survive in a world which differs significantly from the traditional one. Survival in the urban environment demands a certain degree of autonomy
from communal ties on the part of the individual. Yet in the case of the African woman, society does not hesitate to censure her movements and even to point an accusing finger at her for failing to satisfy traditional expectations when she is genuinely trying to meet the challenges presented by life in towns.
The myth that a woman's place is exclusively in the kitchen is a widespread one the world over. A more negative myth found in Africa is that participation of women in public affairs leads to social disaster. The third chapter of this study examines the role of African women in politics in the traditional and contemporary periods.
The fourth chapter discusses the portrayal of women by major male playwrights. Of great significance in this analysis is the attitude of these male writers towards women and also towards issues affecting women. It is for this reason that cross-references are made between these male writers and the female playwrights examined in Chapter 5.
Very negligible research has been done on drama by African women. It is in recognition of this unfortunate situation that the fifth and last chapter of this thesis is dedicated to women's self-perception as reflected in their portrayal of fellow-women in theatre. This chapter examines only major female playwrights; the minor female playwrights
are examined alongside the male in the appropriate areas in Chapters 1 to 3
Towards the solution of abysmal performance in mathematics in junior high schools: Comparing the pedagogical potential of two designed interventions
No full textIntroduction
In this study, the effectiveness of two different interventions was investigated. The effects of a concrete abstract intervention and a regular method of teaching intervention were compared. Both interventions were designed in line with the specifications of classical principles of instructional design for learning mathematics in the traditional classroom of junior high school (JHS) in Ghana. The purpose was to contribute to the solution of abysmal performance of mathematics in the JHS. Method. Eighty students randomly selected from JHS, were randomly assigned to the two treatments. The content for the treatments were selected from the JHS syllabus. A teacher was trained to implement the treatments. The main study, consisting of six sessions, was conducted in a regular classroom of the school. Descriptive statistics, paired-samples t test, and t independent test were used to analyze the data.
Results
Generally, the general performance of students in both groups improved significantly after they had experienced the designed treatments. Comparatively, t independent test revealed that the designed concrete representational abstract intervention (DCRAI) is more effective for improving students' general performance in geometry and algebra than the designed regular method of teaching intervention (DRMTI).
Discussion and conclusion
The results of the study imply that instructional design principles are relevant, effective and needed in the design of classroom teaching, to address the poor performance in mathematics in JHSs (in Ghana).sponsorship: The authors would like to thank VLIR-UOS as (co) sponsor of the development of this scientific article. Furthermore, they also wish to express their deep appreciation to the Professors, Research Staff, Ph.D students, and Secretariat of the Center for Psychology and Instructional Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Staff of International Office, KULeuven, Belgium for their relentless and vigorous support to the first author of this article during his short research stay in Belgium fully sponsored by VLIR-UOS. Finally, the authors wish to thank the Management of University of Education, Winneba, Ghana for their support and cooperation. (VLIR-UOS, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)status: Publishe
Christianity, imperialism and culture : the expansion of the two Krobo states in Ghana, c. 1830 to 1930
No full textThis study is concerned with cultural change in south-eastern Ghana during the colonial period. It examines how the two Krobo states negotiated their dramatic economic and territorial expansion in terms of culture from c. 1830-1930; how they remember their erstwhile settlement on Krobo Mountain and the abandonment of these homesteads; how they coped with the abolition of their national centre and recreated it in their principal farm settlements; how they dealt with and circumvented the prohibition of their principal cults and reinvented new festivals; and how today they mobilise their cultural and historical heritage in the context of ‘development’. While the abolition of the national centre and the principal rites of the Krobo is remembered as an act of colonial violence motivated amongst others by a ‘civilising mission’, the thesis argues that the Krobo themselves initiated this intervention in order to achieve the dramatic expansion and negotiate the necessary political transformation. The Krobo did not merely react or respond to external factors such as colonialism and mission. Rather, they actively drew on them (but also on the culture of the neighbouring Akan states) as resources in order to achieve internal transformations and expand their economy and territory. This explains why today mission and church can be considered part of Krobo tradition. The thesis traces these transformations by looking at ritual, ceremony and dress and by making extensive use of missionary sources combined with documents from the colonial administration and oral history
