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Partisanship, Ethnicity and Tax Policy Perceptions: Investigating Public Responses to Ghana's E‐Levy

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of public opinion on Ghana's electronic transaction levy (E‐Levy), focusing on party politics and ethnic identity roles. The E‐Levy, introduced in 2022, imposed a 1.75% tax on electronic transactions, sparking a nationwide debate. A review of E‐Levy implementation across Africa revealed mixed outcomes, with
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
wiley   +1 more source

VOLTA: an enVironment-aware cOntrastive ceLl represenTation leArning for histopathology

open access: yesNature Communications
In clinical oncology, many diagnostic tasks rely on the identification of cells in histopathology images. While supervised machine learning techniques necessitate the need for labels, providing manual cell annotations is time-consuming. In this paper, we
Ramin Nakhli   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating Uncharted Waters: The EU Platform Work Directive Between Uncertainty, Lobbyism and Politicisation

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member ...
Sven Schreurs
wiley   +1 more source

Model based distributed water balance monitoring of the White Volta catchment in West Africa through coupled meteorological-hydrological simulations [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Geosciences, 2006
Sustainable water management requires the quantification of the spatial and temporal changes of water balance variables. Fully distributed hydrological simulations of these variables are especially in regions with weak infrastructure challenging, because
S. Wagner, H. Kunstmann, A. Bárdossy
doaj  

The 2004 Elections in Northern Ghana

open access: yes, 2005
A study of the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2004 in Ghana, focusing on the particular issues that led to the three Norethern Regions defying the nnational trend and voting for the opposition NDC.
Kelly, Bob
core  

Biodiversity in a forest island: reptiles and amphibians of the West African Togo Hills [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Our recent surveys of the herpetological diversity of the West African Togo Hills documented a total of 65 reptile and amphibian species, making Kyabobo National Park one of the most diverse sites surveyed in Ghana.
Diaz, Raul E.   +5 more
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Feeding ecology of an Amazonian electric knifefish under altered flood‐pulse dynamics caused by hydroelectric damming

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study evaluated the effects of the controlled flood pulse on diet composition, trophic niche breadth and feeding intensity of Archolaemus janeae, an electric knifefish species with a restricted distribution in the Amazon Basin. Monthly samples were collected from December 2020 to November 2021 in the Volta Grande stretch of the Xingu ...
Ana F. V. N. M. Costa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Untapped Economic Resource Potential of the Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic Volta Basin, Ghana: A Review

open access: yesNatural Resources Research, 2019
The ~ 115,000 km2 Volta Basin of Ghana is one of the most studied geological terrains. However, unlike the Birimian and Tarkwaian which have been targeted due to their gold potential, the Volta Basin has been studied largely only toward resolving its lithostratigraphic-related issues.
Mahamuda Abu   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Risk of Spread of Megalocytivirus pagrus1 (Infectious Spleen and Kidney Necrosis Virus) From Frozen Fillets

open access: yesJournal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) is a significant threat to global aquatic food security by causing large‐scale mortality in the aquaculture of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi). ISKNV is a genogroup of Megalocytivirus pagrus1, along with RSIV and TRBIV, and their recent listing as WOAH ...
Joy A. Becker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-Principles Study on the Structural Stability and Segregation Behavior of γ-Fe/Cr2N Interface with Alloying Additives M (M = Mn, V, Ti, Mo, and Ni)

open access: yesMetals, 2016
This study investigated the structural stability and electrochemical properties of alloying additives M (M = Mn, V, Ti, Mo, or Ni) at the γ-Fe(111)/Cr2N(0001) interface by the first-principles method.
Hui Huang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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