This exploratory study investigated the influence of grandparent-headed families on the academic performance of secondary school learners in Port Elizabeth education district. It draws on Family systems theory and Role ...
Grandparents fail to communicate sexual matters to the youth. It is their duty to initiate this communication. The escalating numbers of sexually transmitted infections among the youth require grandparents as carers to ...
Graphene is a new hope for electronic devices and could possibly replace or rejuvenate silicon based devices. It seems to be a better material than silicon and CNT.
The presence of new emerging pollutants in freshwater systems poses potentially serious threats to human health, food production, ecosystems and hinder economic growth. Emerging personal care products and pharmaceuticals, ...
Robert F. Brand, Leslie R. Brown, Pieter J. du Preez(Koedoe, 2011)
Platberg is an inselberg that presents a refuge for indigenous plants and animals. Uncontrolled
human access to this area threatens this sensitive ecosystem. The vegetation of Platberg was
investigated to obtain an ...
Empowerment aims at assisting the disadvantaged members of society to take control of their livelihoods. However, questions still arise as to whether women have full control of their lives given the socio-cultural dynamics ...
We don’t have to look far to see that colonialism,
modernity, and the disciplines that accompany
them provided the framework for the organized subjugation
of the cultural, scientific, and economic life of many
on the ...
In a diachronic and multi-sited study that extended from 2004 through
2012/2013 I deconstructed the sociocultural dynamics of relocating farm graves
from the farm Zevenfontein in northern peri-urban Johannesburg. The ...
No one worked harder on his own image than Bernard
Montgomery, but he is rightly ranked among the most notable
British Second World War commanders. Less well-known is
Richard O'Connor, largely because of his own ...
In this review article, the book entitled Emergence Christianity, What it is, Where it is Going, and
Why it Matters, written by Phyllis Tickle in 2012, is discussed. The discussion is both informative
(as most of the ...
The main aims of this broad exploratory study were (a) to gain insights as to the
possible interrelations between Unisa students' expectations for success and a
variety of significant variables (such as their academic ...
Mubiana, Precious; Easterbrook, Cheryl(Unisa Centre for Applied Psychology, 2009)
The year, 1998, saw the reopening of the UNISA Centre
for Applied Psychology (UCAP) by Juan Nel, a man with a
vision, to create a ‘space’ where people and professionals
alike could be empowered. With this in mind, ...
Chapter I begins with a brief history of the topic of greatest common subgraphs.
Then we provide a summaiy of the work done on some variations of greatest common
subgraphs. Finally, in this chapter we present results ...