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Hydration of medium reactive magnesium oxide using hydration agents

Van Der Merwe E.M.; Strydom C.A. (2006)

Water, magnesium acetate, magnesium chloride, acetic acid and hydrochloric acid were used as hydrating agents for an industrially obtained MgO sample. The influence of these different hydrating agents on the pH of the ...
The JSE socially responsible investment index and the state of sustainability reporting in South Africa

Sonnenberg D.; Hamann R. (2006)

The JSE Limited (JSE) in South Africa is the first bourse in an emerging market to develop a sustainability index for its top 160 listed companies. This article provides an overview of the Index methodology and uses the ...
The education and training of cataloguing students in south africa through distance education

Cloete L.M. (2006)

This paper discusses the education and training of cataloguing students in South Africa at a distance education institution where the focus is on career-specific training. The position of the cataloguing course in the ...
Reading scripture through a mystical lens

Kourie C. (2011)

In addition to the unprecedented interest in spirituality in recent decades, both at a popular level and also as an academic discipline, there has also been a resurgence of research dealing with spirituality and scripture. ...
What is quantitative finance?

Swart B.; Venter A. (2006)

THERE HAS BEEN AN EXPLOSION OF activity in financial mathematics and financial engineering worldwide. It is a dynamic multidisciplinary field which received a major impetus in 1973 with the work of Fisher Black, Myron ...
First principles study of ferromagnetism in Ti0.0625 Zn0.9375 O

Osuch K.; Lombardi E.B.; Gebicki W. (2006)

We present ab initio full-potential density functional calculations of the electronic structure of Ti0.0625 Zn0.9375 O. We show that it is likely for Ti to order ferromagnetically in ZnO, forming a dilute magnetic ...
Bayesian analysis in the L 1-norm of the mixing proportion using discriminant analysis

Pham-Gia T.; Turkkan N.; Bekker A. (2006)

We consider the mixing proportion π in a mixture of two independent distributions, and establish the expression of its posterior density, in closed form and in terms of L 1-norms of various related functions, using a prior ...
Knowledge production and publishing in Africa

Zegeye A.; Vambe M. (2006)

This article explores the practice of 'knowledge production' and 'publishing' in Africa. Knowledge production and publishing in Africa has been and still is dominated by Western experts, most of whose interests do not serve ...
The strategic use of anti-dumping in international trade

Bekker D. (2006)

Although anti-dumping duties are the official countermeasure to the unfair trading practice known as injurious dumping, it is alleged that in some cases anti-dumping duties are being used to protect certain strategic ...
Party dominance 'theory': Of what value?

Suttner R. (2006)

This paper critiques the alleged value of the notion of 'party dominance' or the 'dominant party system', mainly propagated in South Africa by Roger Southall, Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins, and very much in vogue ...
Implications of the position of indigenous languages in South Africa for the use of indigenous knowledge in community development

Kamper G. (University of South Africa Press, Unisa, 2006)

[No abstract available]
Admixture practises in South African languages : impact on speech-enabled technology design

Ndwe, T. J.; Barnard, Etienne; De Villiers, Mary Ruth (2011)

The paper reflects on the user studies that were conducted for the development of a soccer results application that enables its users to access results of matches that have been recently played in the premier division of ...
Student cycle commuting as a spur to bicycle friendly cities

Koth B.A. (2006)

The University of South Australia (UniSA) campus at Mawson Lakes offers a demonstration case for integrating the dual issues of building a cycle-friendly image and reality for Adelaide as a place to live and increasing ...
Metaphorical and literal readings of aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs

Loader J.A. (2006)

Starting with a recently proposed thesis that the key to recognizing the coherence of Proverbs' discourse of wealth and poverty should be seen in an appreciation of the text's figurative interpretive possibilities, it is ...
Serving culturally diverse communities in South African public libraries

Rodrigues A. (2006)

This article presents an overview of the multicultural nature of South Africa including the meaning of multiculturalism and multicultural public libraries in the South African environment. An empirical survey was conducted ...
Tagging an Agglutinating Language: A New Look at Word Categories in the Southern African Indigenous Languages

Hendrikse R.; Poulos G. (2006)

[No abstract available]
Language Learner Identities and Professional Standards for TESOL Practitioners

Barnett J.; Antenucci R. (2006)

[No abstract available]
The Effects of Immersion on Grade 7 Learners' Vocabulary Size: Is Incidental Learning of Vocabulary Enough?

Scheepers R. (2006)

[No abstract available]
Virtual Languages in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Barnes L.; van Heerden C. (2006)

[No abstract available]
Migration and inequality in South Africa: Unravelling one thread of a complex web

Gelderblom D. (University of South Africa Press, Unisa, 2006)

[No abstract available]

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