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Are women with history of pre-eclampsia starting a new pregnancy in good nutritional status in South Africa and Zimbabwe?
(BioMed Central, 2018-06-15)Background: Maternal nutritional status before and during pregnancy is an important contributor to pregnancy outcomes and early child health. The aim of this study was to describe the preconceptional nutritional status ...
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Dataset on retail outlet product prices for Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
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A project management framework for small- and medium-sized entities: Accounting software implementation
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Die problematiek en potensiaal van die huishoudelike ruimte in Klaaglied vir Koos (1984) deur Lettie Viljoen
(LitNet Akademies, 2014-12-01)OPSOMMING: Klaaglied vir Koos (1984) is Ingrid Winterbach se eerste boek, wat verskyn het onder die skrywersnaam Lettie Viljoen. Die novelle handel oor ’n naamlose vroulike verteller wie se man haar en hulle kind verlaat ...
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Vroulike muses en die kombuis as ondermynende ruimte in Louoond (1987) deur Jeanne Goosen
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2015-03-01)ABSTRACT: Traditionally the kitchen is seen as the space of the housewife. Her task is to instil ideology in the next generation, but not to play an active role in the shaping of it. The American Second Wave feminists ...
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An ultrasonographic analysis of the activation patterns of abdominal muscles in children with spastic type cerebral palsy and in typically developing individuals : a comparative study
(BioMed Central, 2018-06-05)Background: Abdominal muscles have stiffer appearance in individuals with spastic type cerebral palsy (STCP) than in their typically developing (TD) peers. This apparent stiffness has been implicated in pelvic instability, ...
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Quality of pilot trial abstracts in heart failure is suboptimal : a systematic survey
(BioMed Central, 2018-05-31)Background: Pilot trials are miniature researches carried out with the sole aim of acting as the precursor for larger more definitive studies. Abstracts are used to summarize and introduce the findings to the reading ...
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Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa’s low-carbon energy transitions. This raises the question of how a ‘sustainability transition’ framework can be conceptualised ...
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Optical aid for placing composite material (prepregs) in a mould
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)Increased industrial use of composite materials for manufacturing strong lightweight components stimulates endeavours for more efficient assembly methods. This study attempted to find an optimal method to provide optical ...
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Towards a flexible innovation process model assuring quality and customer needs
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)Successful innovation projects require an adequate innovation management capability in organisations. This means a sufficiently rigorous, continuous, and goal-oriented management of innovation processes. The literature ...
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THE RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS: DIGNITY, CITIZENSHIP AND THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS
(2013-01)This article examines the rights of foreign nationals in view of Hannah Arendt's thesis that human rights amount to little when severed from the rights of members of a concrete political community. It considers three ...
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Probabilistic description of vegetation ecotones using remote sensing
(Elsevier, 2018)Ecotone transitions between vegetation types are of interest for understanding regional diversity, ecological processes and biogeographical patterns. Ecotones are seldom represented on vector, line-based vegetation maps, ...
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Christian ethics in South Africa : liberal values among the public and elites
(Department of Old and New Testament - Stellenbosch University, 2018)This article uses statistical data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the South African Opinion Leader Survey to examine liberal values and attitudes among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, ...
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Valorisation : the case of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
(HESA, 2018)Valorisation is a process that adds value to academic knowledge. It comprises all activities pertaining to the dissemination and exploitation of such knowledge for social and economic benefit. A 4D valorisation map was ...
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#FeesMustFall and decolonising the curriculum : Stellenbosch University students’ and lecturers’ reactions
(HESA, 2018)In South African higher education institutions, the student protests of 2015–2016 called for the decolonisation of higher education spaces and equal access to these spaces. We collected data from students and lecturers ...
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Translating research into action : an international study of the role of research funders
(BioMed Central, 2018-05-24)Background: It is widely accepted that research can lead to improved health outcomes. However, translating research into meaningful impacts in peoples’ lives requires actions that stretch well beyond those traditionally ...
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Realization of the right to adequate food and the nutritional status of land evictees : a case for mothers/caregivers and their children in rural Central Uganda
(2018-05-24)Background: In developing countries like Uganda, the human right to adequate food (RtAF) is inextricably linked to access to land for households to feed themselves directly through production or means for its procuremen ...
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From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2018)What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who are faced with the ...
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The O.F.S. goldfields : planning for an emerging metropolis
(1969)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to find a planning rationale for the Goldfields Metropolis it has proved necessary to study the emerging metropolitan forms in the older Western countries in conjunction with the contemporary ...
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The contours of a pedagogy of law in South Africa
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-03)Reform of legal education is currently a topic of debate in South Africa again. Reform in higher education can, however, be dangerous and counter-productive if it is driven purely by policy agendas and in the absence of ...
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The first-sale doctrine : parallel importation and beyond
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-08)In 2013, the United States (“US”) Supreme Court gave its judgment in Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons Inc, which appeared to fundamentally change the US’ position in relation to copyright law and parallel importation. The ...
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Rethinking the Right to Vote
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-08)South African constitutional scholars have been puzzling for some time over a basic tension in the Constitutional Court’s voting rights jurisprudence. While some of its judgments show a commitment to a vigorous defence and ...
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The rationale for the imposition of non-financial obligations on apartment owners in a sectional title scheme
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-03)The principal aims of sectional title schemes are to preserve the physical integrity and the pleasant appearance of the sectional title building and to strive for harmony in an intensified community where the individual ...
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Beyond UNCITRAL : the challenges of procurement reform implementation in Africa
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have undergone some form of public procurement reform in the last two decades. This reform usually takes the form of the passage of new procurement regulation, which is usually ...
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The various policy options for the settlement of disputes in residential community schemes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)This contribution in honour of David Butler surveys the various policy options for the resolution of disputes in community schemes. The options are internal mechanisms, co-regulation, government regulation, a simplified ...
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Reflections on the concurrence of the remedies in terms of the reformed Pound legislation and the actio de pastu
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)A landowner who finds animals trespassing on his land has the following alternatives: he can chase the animals off the land; impound the animals; or institute the actio de pastu for monetary compensation for damage caused ...
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Deregistrasie sonder likwidasie van maatskappye en beslote korporasies ingevolge die 2008 Maatskappywet
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)It is practically desirable that inactive companies are removed from the companies register. This should also be the main reason for the deregistration of companies that have not gone through winding-up. However, procedures ...
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Addressing the issue in Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality in legislation
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)In Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality 2011 1 SA 601 (KZP) ("Harvey") the High Court had to decide whether it was competent to order the re-transfer of expropriated property to the previous owner when the purpose for which the ...
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Alternative measures to reduce trial cases, private autonomy and "public interest" : some observations with specific reference to plea bargaining and economic crimes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)This note considers alternative measures to reduce trial cases as a strategy to enhance the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. The emphasis falls on economic crime. It is noted that alternative measures, ...
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The new gTLDs and the resolution of trade mark disputes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)Following ICANN's decision to permit new top-level domains pursuant to its New gTLD Program, and the likely explosion in the number of top-level domains ("TLDs"), it was anticipated that there would be competing claims to ...
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