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The development of a spatio-temporal model for water hyacinth biological control strategies
(University of Georgia, 2016)A reaction-diffusion model for a temporally variable and spatially heterogeneous environment is developed to mathematically describe the spatial dynamics of water hyacinth and the interacting populations of the various ...
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A systematic review of the effects of single-event multilevel surgery on gait parameters in children with spastic cerebral palsy
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Three-dimensional gait analysis (3DGA) is commonly used to assess the effect of orthopedic single-event multilevel surgery (SEMLS) in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Purpose: The purpose of ...
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A comparative discourse on Christian and secular distinctive features of transformational development
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2017)The primary objective of this article is to explore some distinctions between Christian and secular views of transformation, characteristics of transformational development and the holistic practitioner. To meet this aim, ...
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The application of business process mining to improving a physical asset management process : a case study
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)Business process planning and control is important for effectively managing and improving processes relating to the management of physical assets. This is especially true when processes affect the uptime and value creation ...
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A decision support system framework for localisation investment selection
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)Formulating localisation strategies is crucial to ensuring the development of local suppliers, which in turn results in job creation, increased export earnings, and local and national economic growth. The aim of this article ...
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Water resource infrastructure implications of a green economy transition in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : a system dynamics approach
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)The Western Cape Province government in South Africa has established the transition to a green economy as a high priority. The sustainable use of water resources has been identified as a critical necessity for such a green ...
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Framework for identifying the most likely successful underprivileged tertiary study bursary applicants
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)In this paper, a decision support system framework is proposed that may be used to assist a tertiary bursary provider during the process of allocating bursaries to prospective students. The system identifies those in an ...
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Single- and multi-objective ranking and selection procedures in simulation : a historical review
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)Ranking and selection (R&S) procedures form an important research field in computer simulation and its applications. In simulation, one usually has to select the best from a number of scenarios or alternative designs. ...
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An approach to improving marketing campaign effectiveness and customer experience using geospatial analytics
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)This article discusses a case study in which a South African furniture and household goods retailer wishes to improve its marketing campaigns by employing location-based marketing insights, and also to prioritise customer ...
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Concentrated solar power (CSP) innovation analysis in South Africa
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)South Africa aims to generate 42 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy technology sources by 2030. Concentrating solar power (CSP) is one of the major renewable energy technologies that have been prioritised ...
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Low vitamin-D levels combined with PKP3-SIGIRR-TMEM16J host variants is associated with tuberculosis and death in HIV-infected and -exposed infants
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: This study examined the associations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and specific host genetic variants that affect vitamin D levels or its effects on immune function, with the risk of TB or mortality in children. ...
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Propensity score-based approaches to confounding by indication in individual patient data meta-analysis: non-standardized treatment for multidrug resistant tuberculosis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: In the absence of randomized clinical trials, meta-analysis of individual patient data (IPD) from observational studies may provide the most accurate effect estimates for an intervention. However, confounding ...
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Glutamate dehydrogenase is required by mycobacterium bovis BCG for resistance to cellular stress
(Public Library of Science, 2016)We recently reported on our success to generate deletion mutants of the genes encoding glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and glutamine oxoglutarate aminotransferase (GOGAT) in M. bovis BCG, despite their in vitro essentiality ...
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Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential : results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Childhood maltreatment has diverse, lifelong impact on morbidity and mortality. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) is one of the most commonly used scales to assess and quantify these experiences and their impact. ...
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Narratives from North Africa : South African prisoner-of-war experience following the fall of Tobruk, June 1942
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)South African prisoners of war (POWs) captured at Tobruk in June 1942 experienced similar events and conditions. All shared a feeling of shock at becoming POWs and all of them had to deal with extremely difficult living ...
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Treatment Contact Coverage for Probable Depressive and Probable Alcohol Use Disorders in Four Low- and Middle-Income Country Districts : the PRIME Cross-Sectional Community Surveys
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Context: A robust evidence base is now emerging that indicates that treatment for depression and alcohol use disorders (AUD) delivered in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) can be effective. However, the coverage ...
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Die geskiedenis van Afrikanerbetrokkenheid in die Rhodesiese tabakbedryf (1890-1980)
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)Die tabakbedryf in Rhodesië (vandag Zimbabwe) het ongetwyfeld 'n kardinale rol in die ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Rhodesië gespeel. Sedert die Britse kolonialisering van Rhodesië gedurende die 1890's het die klem van ...
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Still Bay Point-production strategies at Hollow Rock Shelter and Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter and Knowledge-transfer systems in Southern Africa at about 80-70 thousand years ago
(Public Library of Science, 2016)It has been suggested that technological variations associated with Still Bay assemblages of southern Africa have not been addressed adequately. Here we present a study developed to explore regional and temporal variations ...
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How effective is help on the doorstep? a longitudinal evaluation of community-based organisation support
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Community-based responses have a lengthy history. The ravages of HIV on family functioning has included a widespread community response. Although much funding has been invested in front line community-based organisations ...
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Boer-uitbeeldings in Franse jeugliteratuur tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-07-13)Voorstellings van die “ander” of die “vreemde” word grootliks beïnvloed deur die voorsteller se eie historiese konteks. Wanneer hierdie konteks verander, gebeur dit dikwels dat die voorstelling van die “ander” ook aangepas ...
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Die verband tussen vroee apartheidsintellektualisering, Afrikanermusiekhistoriografie en die ontluiking van 'n apartheidsestetika in die toonkuns
(LitNet, 2011-12)Epistemologiese afhanklikheid van Europese verwysingspunte kenmerk dikwels analitiese modelle van Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek en kunsmusiekhistoriografie. ’n Tipiese voorbeeld is die beskrywing van Stefans Grové se musikale ...
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"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ...
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Patient-reported barriers to adherence to antiretroviral therapy : a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Maintaining high levels of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a challenge across settings and populations. Understanding the relative importance of different barriers to adherence ...
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Epistatic gene-based interaction analyses for glaucoma in eMERGE and NEIGHBOR Consortium
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disease and is one of the major leading causes of blindness worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified several common variants associated with ...
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Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity
(Unisa Press, 2016)Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are, continue to be an issue in every society. It is even more rampant when we think of the role religion plays in determining ...
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Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
(Unisa Press, 2016)This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African philosophy as a ...
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Intimate partner violence and depression symptom severity among South African women during pregnancy and postpartum : population-based prospective cohort study
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Violence against women by intimate partners remains unacceptably common worldwide. The evidence base for the assumed psychological impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) is derived primarily from studies ...
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Remembering the Heidelberg Catechism in South Africa today? Some remarks on the commemoration of a 16th century Reformed confession
(University of the Free State, 2014)With the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism of 2013 in mind, this article offers some remarks on the question what it means to remember and commemorate this 16th century Reformed confession in South Africa today. ...
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The Heidelberg Catechism : elements for a theology of care
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article proposes a fresh reading of the Heidelberg Catechism from the perspective of an ethics of care, a new paradigm of doing ethics, strongly influenced by feminist philosophy. In its anthropology, this approach ...
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The Heidelberg Catechism on human sin and misery
(University of the Free State, 2014)The Heidelberg Catechism's section on Sin and Misery does not provide a moralistic or legalistic perspective on the human condition. Instead, it offers, in abbreviated format, a restatement of the doctrine of original sin, ...
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