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Home and work demands and resources, social support and work-home interaction of Potchefstroom educators

Tshabalala, Sarona Mabel (North-West University, 2007)

It is universally agreed that education is the key to success. In South Africa, this is evidenced by the effort that the government has put in ensuring that all citizens have equal access to public schools. Despite such ...

Home blood pressure variability as cardiovascular risk factor in the population of Ohasama

Asayama, Kei; Kikuya, Masahiro; Schutte, Rudolph; Thijs, Lutgarde; Hosaka, Miki (American Heart Association (AHA), 2013)

Blood pressure variability based on office measurement predicts outcome in selected patients. We explored whether novel indices of blood pressure variability derived from the self-measured home blood pressure predicted outcome ...

Home characteristics, nonwork-work role demands effects on the well-being of dual-earner parents

Nel, Jolene; Koekemoer, Eileen; Nel, Jan Alewyn (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

This study investigated home demands, home resources, nonwork roles interference with-work roles and the welfare of dual-earner parents. A cross-sectional survey design was used in this research, where a convenience sample ...

Home characteristics, nonwork–work interference and well–being of dual earner parents

Nel, Jolene (North-West University, 2011)

Emotional home demands, cognitive home demands, home pressure, development possibilities, autonomy, social support, nonwork–work interference, spouse–work interference, parent–work interference, religion/spiritual–work ...

Home loan profitability optimisation in the financial industry

Heyns, Sias (North-West University, 2007)

Product profitability needs to remain a competitive advantage to a bank's home loan product. Ever changing customer needs and even more demanding customers today enforce reasons to investigate the profitability of home ...

Homeless in observatory, Cape Town through the lens of Max-Neef’s fundamental human needs taxonomy

Schenck, Rinie; Blaauw, Derick; Roman, Nicolette; Erasmus, Charlene; Ryan, Jill (Univ Stellenbosch, 2017)

The level of homelessness on the streets of South Africa is regarded as a slow-moving tragedy. The aim of this article is to explain the profile of the homeless in Observatory, Cape Town using Max-Neef’s Fundamental Human ...

A homiletic reflection on the theological aesthetics involved in picturing God in a fragmented South African society

De Klerk, Ben J.; De Wet, Friedrich W.; Letšosa, Rantoa S. (AOSIS, 2011)

This article investigates the problematic field of authentic speech in a fragile South African society where the imminence of shattering fragmentation is often addressed either by aggravating hate- speech or pacifying ...

Hominisation and humanisation: a perspective from the sociology of technics

Wolff, Ernst (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, 2006)

This essay will present a few challenges to a new Humanism from the perspective of the sociology of technics. For this purpose Humanism will be described as an effort to intervene in the process of human formation or ...

Homo ludens of homo respondens? ’n Christelikfilosofiese reaksie op ’n hedendaagse idee van die mens as primêr spelende in plaas van antwoordende wese

Van der Walt, Barend J. (OASIS, 2013)

Homo ludens or homo respondens? A Christian-philosophical response to a contemporary view of the human being as primarily a player instead of an answerer. In this article the contrast between a contemporary view of the ...

Homo sacer: Uitsondering en relasie in Eben Venter se Santa Gamka (2009)

Van Schalkwyk, Phil (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2011)

Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's views on homo sacer, it is argued in this article that Eben Venter's novel Santa Gamka (2009) could be read as an exploration of the state of sovereign exception - when the law is temporarily ...

Homocysteine and nighttime blood pressure dipping - is there a connection?

Veerabhadrappa, Praveen; Schutte, Aletta E. (Oxford Univ Press, 2017)

Homogeneous nickel(II) catalysed transfer hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds

Vermaak, Vincent (North-West University (South Africa), 2022)

A variety of well-known N-donor ligands, some synthesised, i.e. bis(pyrazolyl-1-methyl)pyridine (L3.1, L4.1, L5.1) and bis(2,5-dimethylpyrazolyl-1-methyl)pyridine (L3.2, L4.2), and others commercially sourced, i.e. ...

Homogenizing responses to different survey questions on the same topic: Proposal of a scale homogenization method using a reference distribution

De Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Arends, Lidia (Springer, 2014)

Survey data are often used for comparison purposes, such as comparisons across nations or comparisons over time. To be effective, this would require equivalent questions and equivalent responses options to the questions. ...

Homomasculine performativity and the legitimisation of hegemonic Afrikaner ideals in Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid (2011) and Etienne Kallos's Die Stropers (2019)

Boshoff, Danél (North-West University (South Africa), 2022)

Considering the lack of homosexual representation in South African cinema until 1985 (Botha, 2013), films in post-apartheid South Africa have made significant progress concerning this issue. However, despite this progress, ...

Honderd jaar Hollands in Natal (tot 1928) / Nienaber Gabriel Stefanus

Nienaber, Gabriel Stefanus 1903-1994 (Pretoria : De Bussy, 1933)

HONEY FROM THE ROCK Poverty alleviation from a missio Dei perspective presented as a missiological case study of Integral Mission through the African Honey Bee project in the uMfolozi area of South Africa.

Stubbs, G.R. (North-West University (South Africa), 2020)

After many years of experience of working in desperately poor communities in South Africa, Africa and South East Asia, the researcher has come to realise that in order to achieve sustainable social transformation, a holistic ...