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Understanding genetics and inheritance in rural schools

Kibuka-Sebitosi E. (2007)

Conducted in urban and rural schools in two provinces of South Africa, the present study reports biology learners' understanding of concepts about genetics and inheritance. Participants were Grade 11 and 12 learners, aged ...
The canary in the coal-mine: Archaeology and development in South Africa

Swanepoel N. (2011)

[No abstract available]
Software engineering team diversity and performance

Pieterse V.; Kourie D.G.; Sonnekus, I.P. (2006)

Reflection on software engineering as a sub-discipline within computer science reveals that it is as much about people and teamwork as it is about technical expertise. It is therefore important that a software engineer is ...
Complicity in Creating Unnecessary Boundaries: Considerations concerning our Accountabilities as Analysts and Actors

Romm, Norma R.A. (2012-11-01)

[No abstract available]
Issues of Accountability in Social Research, with Special Reference to Research on "Diversity"

Romm, Norma R.A. (2012-11-01)

[No abstract available]
Looking for opinion leaders: Traditional vs. modern measures in traditional societies

Weimann G.; Tustin, Deon Harold; Van Vuuren D.; Joubert J.P.R. (2007)

Since the introduction of the opinion leadership conceptualization, both practitioners and academics have been keenly interested in its applicability in modern society. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify ...
Kinship terminology: Problems in some english-tshivendcombining circumflex accent belowa bilingual dictionaries

Mafela, Munzhedzi James (2007)

With the introduction of a new political dispensation in South Africa, bilingual dictionaries have become a necessary part of daily life. The main function of a bilingual dictionary is to provide one or more equivalents ...
Appreciative inquiry: A case study of a woman's experience of poverty

Tebele C.; Nel K. (2011)

This study utilised an instrumental case study to investigate the experience of a woman living In poverty in a South African community. The participant was a widowed African female with two children. Data were collected ...
Psychometric properties of the schlinger Viewer Response Profile (VRP): Evidence from a large sample

Strasheim A.; Pitt L.; Caruana A. (2007)

The Viewer Response Profile (VRP) scale is often used in commercial advertising research, and frequently used and cited in the academic advertising literature. This paper describes an investigation of the psychometric ...
A Functional Fusion of Literacies: The Graphic Adaptation of Bessie Head's Short Story, 'The Collector of Treasures'

Latha R.H. (2007)

[No abstract available]
Words, Slogans, Meanings, and the Role of Teachers in Languages Education

Scarino A. (2007)

[No abstract available]
Strengthening public health in South Africa: Building a stronger evidence base for improving the health of the nation

Bradshaw D.; Norman R.; Lewin S.; Joubert J.; Schneider M.; Nannan N.; Groenewald P.; Laubscher R.; Matzopoulos R.; Nojilana B.; Pieterse D.; Steyn K.; Vos T. (2007)

[No abstract available]
Collecting injury surveillance data in low- and middle-income countries: The Cape Town Trauma Registry pilot

Schuurman N.; Cinnamon J.; Matzopoulos R.; Fawcett V.; Nicol A.; Hameed S.M. (2011)

Injury is a major public health issue, responsible for 5 million deaths each year, equivalent to the total mortality caused by HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The World Health Organisation estimates that of the ...
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa in 2000

Norman R.; Bradshaw D.; Schneider M.; Jewkes R.; Mathews S.; Abrahams N.; Matzoupolos R.; Vos T. (2007)

[No abstract available]
Assessment of accuracy of suicide mortality surveillance data in South Africa: Investigation in an urban setting

Burrows S.; Laflamme L. (2007)

Although it is not a legal requirement in South Africa, medical practitioners determine the manner of injury death for a surveillance system that is currently the only source of epidemiological data on suicide. This study ...
Determination of suicide in South Africa: Medical practitioner perspectives

Burrows S.; Laflamme L. (2007)

Decisional processes underlying the determination of a suicide in the largest injury surveillance system currently available in South Africa are assessed through face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 32 medical ...
Bounds for the Bayes error in classification: A Bayesian approach using discriminant analysis

Pham-Gia T.; Turkkan N.; Bekker A. (2007)

We study two of the classical bounds for the Bayes error P e , Lissack and Fu's separability bounds and Bhattacharyya's bounds, in the classification of an observation into one of the two determined distributions, under ...
Childhood cancer: A parent's perspective on social support, with a case illustration

Papaikonomou M. (2007)

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, parents enter unfamiliar terrain, where their basic childrearing tasks are challenged. Life changes from diagnosis onwards, through adjustment and then life beyond the illness. Provision ...
Mountain wolf snake (Lycodon r. ruhstrati) predation on an exotic lizard, Anolis sagrei, in Chiayi County, Taiwan

Norval, Gerrut; Huang S.-C.; Mao J.-J. (2007)

The Mountain wolf snake (Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati) is a common snake species at low elevations all over Taiwan. Still, it appears to be poorly studied in Taiwan and adjacent areas since little has been reported about ...
Generic process model structures: Towards a standard notation for abstract representations

Van Der Merwe A.; Kotze P.; Gerber A. (2007)

The identification of process model structures is usually complex and costly. If these structures can be reused across boundaries, this could not only benefit the internal structure of one application domain, but could ...

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