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Cognitive fuzzy modeling for enhanced risk assessment in a Health Care Institution

Smith, Elme; Eloff, J.H.P. (Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE, 2000-04)

Human observation and intuition form the basis of any risk assessment. The authors propose a cognitive fuzzy modeling approach to risk assessment in health care institutions, building on fuzzy logic's great potential in ...
Community engagement praxis at the University of South Africa

Nhamo, Godwell (2013)

Praxis: this is a concept that depicts how policy is disaggregated into practice. In many instances one finds huge gaps in this area. With regard to community engagement at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in South ...
Conceptual framework for carbon footprinting in the South African banking sector

Bihma, Alfred; Nhamo, Godwell (2013)

The rationale of embarking on this study is based on banks being at the center of all economic activities and mainly in charge of screening and funding economically viable enterprises. Although, deemed lesser polluters, ...
Copenhagen 18/12: Africa must continue calling for a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal

Nhamo, Godwell (2011)

The date, 18 December 2009, left the world perturbed, as global leaders failed to reach consensus on a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen. Since Bali 2007, much work had been done on preparing for a fair, ambitious ...
Correlates of corporate accountability among South Africa's largest listed companies

Eccles, N.S.; Pillay, V.; De Jongh, D. (University of South Africa, 2009)

This paper explores the relationships between a publicly available measure of corporate accountability (the Accountability Rating™) and a range of other corporate variables for the largest 50 companies in South Africa. The ...
Cybersecurity Economics - Induced Risks, Latent Costs and Possible Controls

Frangopoulos, Evangelos D.; Eloff, M.M.; Venter, L.M. (2015-01-12)

Financial decisions indirectly affect and are affected by the effort towards Information Security. The 'Economics of Cybersecurity' should thus constitute a significant part of the Information Security Posture Assessment ...
Enhancing optimistic access controls with usage control

Padayachee, Keshnee; Eloff, J.H.P. (2007)

With the advent of agile programming, lightweight software processes are being favoured over the highly formalized approaches of the past. Likewise access control may benefit from a less prescriptive approach with an ...
From sustainable development through green growth to sustainable development plus

Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

From sustainable development (SD) through green growth to sustainable development plus (SD+)! Does the ‘+’ really matter? This is the question that brings life to this article and the answer is: YES, it does. The ‘+’ ...
Green economy and local government : towards resource efficient and climate responsive African settlements : editorial

Nhamo, Godwell; Phago, Kedibone Goodwill (2015)

The multi-disciplinary nature of Public Administration is an important platform for the scholarly engagement on issues of multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity (MIT). Common problems confronting modern governments worldwide ...
Green economy readiness in South Africa: A focus on the national sphere of government

Nhamo, Godwell (Taylor and Fransics Ltd, 2013)

Readiness! This is a concept interchanged with preparedness and, many assume, adequate knowledge. Simple as it may be, readiness denotes a complex interaction of parameters and conditionalities required for an uptake of ...
Higher education institutions and carbon management: cases from the UK and South Africa

Nhamo, Godwell; Ntombela, N (2014)

As the world sets its eyes firmly on sustainability issues, carbon management has found its way onto the radars of higher education institutions. When one considers carbon management, global warming and climate change ...
The horizontal distribution of root biomass in a South African winter-rainfall desert community

Esler, KJ; Cowling, R.M; Eccles, N.S (2002)

We address the question of whether the spatial distribution of root biomass mirrors the highly clumped distribution of shoot biomass in two desert plant communities (short and medium strandveld) on the west coast of South ...
Information Security within an e-learning environment

Kritzinger, E.; Von Solms, S.H. (2008)

This paper introduces information security within the educational environments that utilize electronic resources. The education environment experienced a paradigm shift over the last several years, due to the rapid growth ...
Integration of policy aspects into information security issues in South African organisations

Dagada, R; Eloff, M.M. (2013-08-21)

Information for individual organisations should always be secured. Organisations need to protect their information from attackers or competitors as these could lead to law suits or loss of business. With the more advanced ...
An Investigation into Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism as Kenya’s Green Economy Transition Mechanism

Nyambura, Brenda; Nhamo, Godwell (2014-03)

This article focuses on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a transition mechanism to Kenya's green economy and the contribution of CDM projects towards sustainable development in Kenya. Accordingly, ...
An Investigation into Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism as Kenya’s Green Economy Transition Mechanism

Nyambura, Brenda; Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

This article focuses on the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a transition mechanism to Kenya’s green economy and the contribution of CDM projects towards sustainable development in Kenya. Accordingly, ...
Mainstreaming green economy into sustainable development policy frameworks in SADC

Nhamo, Senia; Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

In the lead to Rio+20, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) provided provocative insights into the Southern African Development Community (SADC) position on green economy and sustainable development. ...
The management of security in cloud computing

Ramgovind, S.; Eloff, M.M.; Smith, E. (Information Security for South Africa, 2010-08-02)

Cloud computing has elevated IT to newer limits by offering the market environment data storage and capacity with flexible scalable computing processing power to match elastic demand and supply, whilst reducing capital ...
Managing Innovative Projects

Maphosa, M; Eloff, M.M. (2012-09-17)

Businesses and organisations are undertaking innovative projects to gain competitive advantage in the market. Research into innovative project management has been biased towards how innovative projects are managed to the ...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Green Economy Transition: Feasibility Assessment for African Higher Education

Nhamo, Godwell (2013)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new phenomenon globally and in Africa. MOOCS have attracted student registration in hundreds of thousands per course in certain instances, as well as gaining acceptance across ...

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