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Designing faculty development : lessons learnt from a qualitative interpretivist study exploring students’ expectations and experiences of clinical teaching
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019)Background: Clinical teaching plays a crucial role in the transition of medical students into the world of professional practice. Faculty development initiatives contribute to strengthening clinicians’ approach to ... -
Feature trajectory dynamic time warping for clustering of speech segments
(SpringerOpen, 2019)Dynamic time warping (DTW) can be used to compute the similarity between two sequences of generally differinglength. We propose a modification to DTW that performs individual and independent pairwise alignment of ... -
Psychological demands of international rugby sevens and well-being needs of Elite South African Players
(Frontiers Media, 2019)Rugby sevens was included in the 2016 Olympic Games, with South Africa’s Blitzboks winning bronze. They also won the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 World Rugby Sevens Series. Whilst peak performance is paramount at the elite level ... -
Interpretable multi-label classification by means of multivariate linear regression
(South African Statistical Association, 2019)In this paper, the potential of using a multivariate regression approach in order to obtain interpretable output in a multi-label classification problem is investigated. We focus in our analysis on extensions of ordinary ... -
Does vegetation structure influence criminal activity? insights from Cape Town, South Africa
(International Biogeography Society, 2019)Dense vegetation, especially thickets of trees or shrubs, has been associated with actual and perceived crime risk in several parts of the world. In some contexts, invasive alien trees and shrubs can create a habitat ... -
Seed survival of Australian Acacia in the Western Cape of South Africa in the presence of biological control agents and given environmental variation
(PeerJ, 2019)Studies of invasive Australian Acacia have shown that many seeds are still produced and accumulate in soil stored seed banks regardless of the presence of seed-targeting biological control agents. This is despite claims ... -
Supervisors’ conceptualisations of creativity in education doctorates
(Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2011)Doctoral study is inherently a creative endeavour through which a student creates a scholarly contribution extending the knowledge boundaries of a discipline. However, creativity is not well-defined within the context of ... -
Fire and life history affect the distribution of plant species in a biodiversity hotspot
(Wiley, 2019)Aim: Species distribution models (SDMs) provide valuable insights into species–environment relationships and potential climate change impacts on diversity. Most SDMs do not account for the role of natural disturbance ... -
Kleinboer as Johannesburgse flaneur, met spesifieke verwysing na Werfsonde
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-04)In sy resensie van Werfsonde (2012) sê Van Coller (2013: 193) dat die outobiografiese roman se hooffiguur nie beskou kan word as ’n flaneur nie. Hy definieer “flaneren” as “doelloos rondswerf” en sê dat dié konsep ’n baie ... -
Submission to Parliament on the review of section 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
(2019)On the 27th of February 2018, the National Assembly adopted a motion to review section 25 and other relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, to permit the state to expropriate land in ... -
Molecular evidence for cryptic species in the common slug eating snake Duberria lutrix lutrix (Squamata, Lamprophiidae) from South Africa
(Pensoft, 2019-04-15)We examined the impact of climatic fluctuations on the phylogeographic structure of the common slug eating snake (Duberria lutrix lutrix) throughout its distribution in South Africa. The evolutionary history within the ... -
Sanctioning of illegal and dangerous ruck cleanouts during the 2018 super rugby competition
(Frontiers Media, 2019)Rugby is a high contact sport that results in many injuries. The majority of injuries at senior elite levels result from contact phases during match-play. It is estimated that 10% of all match injuries are associated with ... -
On the polemic of academic integrity in higher education
(HESA, 2019)Academic integrity is integral to credible scholarship. Yet, the escalation of publications and the desire to publish, even in this journal – South African Journal of Higher Education – often bring into play the important ... -
Expanding the semantic range to enable meaningful real-world application in chemical engineering
(HESA, 2019)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Legitimation Code Theory has proven to be useful in analysing the relationship between theory and practice. Semantic gravity can be used to illustrate teaching and learning processes that move between ... -
The principled leadership scale : an integration of value-based leadership
(AOSIS Publishing, 2019)Orientation: A need exists to investigate leader behaviour necessary to curb the corruption that has infected and weakened South Africa’s moral fibre. Such leader behaviour would need to be underpinned by a set of universal ... -
Nutrient exchange of carbon and nitrogen promotes the formation of stable mutualisms between chlorella sorokiniana and saccharomyces cerevisiae under engineered synthetic growth conditions
(Frontiers Media, 2019-04)Microbial biotechnological processes can be based on single species pure cultures or on multi-species assemblages. While these assemblages can be advantageous by offering more functionalities and more resilience to changing ... -
Perceived enablers and constraints of motivation to conduct undergraduate research in a Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences : what role does choice play?
(Public Library of Science, 2019)Background: Enhancing evidence-based practice and improving locally driven research begins with fostering the research skills of undergraduate students in the medical and health sciences. Research as a core component of ... -
Environmental temperature alters the overall digestive energetics and differentially affects dietary protein and lipid use in a lizard
(The Company of Biologists, 2019)Processing food (e.g. ingestion, digestion, assimilation) requires energy referred to as specific dynamic action (SDA) and is at least partially fuelled by oxidation of the nutrients (e.g. proteins and lipids) within ... -
The garlic compound ajoene covalently binds vimentin, disrupts the vimentin network and exerts anti-metastatic activity in cancer cells
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019)Background: Garlic has been used for centuries for its flavour and health promoting properties that include protection against cancer. The vinyl disulfide-sulfoxide ajoene is one of the phytochemicals found in crushed cloves, ... -
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Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated is located in cardiac mitochondria and impacts oxidative phosphorylation
(Springer Nature, 2019)The absence of Ataxia-Telangiectasia mutated protein kinase (ATM) is associated with neurological, metabolic and cardiovascular defects. The protein has been associated with mitochondria and its absence results in mitochondrial ... -
Chemoresistance : intricate interplay between breast tumor cells and adipocytes in the tumor microenvironment
(Frontiers Media, 2018-12-11)Excess adipose tissue is a hallmark of an overweight and/or obese state as well as a primary risk factor for breast cancer development and progression. In an overweight/obese state adipose tissue becomes dysfunctional due ... -
A systematic review of 3PLS’ entry into reverse logistics
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-08)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concepts of Industry 4.0 and closed loop supply chains are becoming popular as logistics management evolves. Industry 4.0, through its instruments such as cloud manufacturing and the Internet of Things, ... -
7-Year experience of transcatheter aortic valve implants (TAVI) in a Western Cape private healthcare setting
(South African Heart Association, 2019)Introduction: We describe the largest South African transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) outcome report of a single team in the Western Cape, over a 7-year period from 2009 - 2016. Methods: All patients who ... -
Linking terpene synthases to sesquiterpene metabolism in grapevine flowers
(Frontiers Media, 2019)Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) terpene synthases (VviTPS) are responsible for the biosynthesis of terpenic volatiles. Volatile profiling of nine commercial wine cultivars showed unique cultivar-specific variation in volatile ... -
Where there is no evidence : implementing family interventions from recommendations in the NICE guideline 11 on challenging behaviour in a South African health service for adults with intellectual disability
(2019)Background: Low- and middle-income countries often lack the fiscal, infrastructural and human resources to conduct evidence-based research; similar constraints may also hinder the application of good clinical practice ... -
The heart of the poet at the heart of his poem : the manner and purpose of Catullus’ identification with Ariadne in poem 64
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2018)In recent times, the longer poems of Catullus have been receiving renewed attention. Previously regarded as highly technical, impersonal works written to earn the poet the epithet of doctus in neoteric circles, there is ... -
An ancient example of literary blackmail
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2018)Towards the end of his life and especially after his exile in 58-57 BC, Cicero’s publication program accelerated. While he aimed to promote his own glory, he had to do so in an environment where writing about oneself ... -
Beyond mere communication
(Stellenbosch University, 2000)This article argues that language teaching must involve the systematic development ofdiscourses which will empower learners to use language effectively in particular situations.At present many language teachers concerned ... -
Learning dynamics of linear denoising autoencoders
(PMLR, 2018)Denoising autoencoders (DAEs) have proven useful for unsupervised representation learning, but a thorough theoretical understanding is still lacking of how the input noise influences learning. Here we develop theory ...
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