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Achieving operational efficiency within the local sphere of government
(North-West University, 2008)The study was done within the local government environment. It was conducted with the aim of assisting municipalities to achieve optimum levels of operational efficiency, following the realisation that all over the world ... -
Achieving results in History and the role of the teacher: A learner’s perspective.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Matriculating in December 2013 from a co-educational government school in the Western Cape, the writer was the top student in the National Senior Certificate examinations for History in the Province. She shares her ... -
Achieving the efficiency frontier in IT service delivery
(IBIMA, 2010)This paper researches and implements the best practices that lead to best performance in Information Technology service delivery. A customer quality defined standard is created by benchmarking the Information Technology ... -
Achieving the millenium and sustainable development goals in Africa: what role for female social workers
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2017)The point that African continent has been trying to solve its development challenges will be an overstatement. One of the major efforts was the decision taken at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in September 2000 ... -
Acid leaching of heavy metals from bentonite clay, used in the cleaning of acid mine drainage
(SAIMM, 2010)Heavy metals and sulphates in acid mine drainage (AMD) can be adsorbed onto bentonite clay, leaving clean water and a heavy metal loaded clay precipitate as products. Due to the toxicity of heavy metals, the clay could ... -
Acknowledgeing the audience : the readers behind the success of the Afrikaans–language tabloid Kaapse Son
(North-West University, 2012)Despite a worldwide decline in newspaper sales and a fear that printed media's days are numbered, the circulation figures of South African tabloid newspapers paint a picture of a thriving industry. About seven million South ... -
Acknowledgement to reviewers
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)The editorial team of Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies recognises the value and importance of peer reviewers in the overall publication process – not only in shaping individual manuscripts, but also in shaping the ... -
Acknowledgement to reviewers
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)The editorial team of Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies recognises the value and importance of peer reviewers in the overall publication process – not only in shaping individual manuscripts, but also in shaping the ... -
Acknowledgement to reviewers of Volume 4, Issue 1
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Acknowledging and protecting language rights on SABC TV through the use of subtitles
(Unisa Press/Taylor&Francis, 2011)In this article the use of subtitles is proposed as a way by means of which the problem of acknowledging and recognising language rights on SABC TV can be addressed. The concept of language rights is approached in terms ... -
Acoustical features of diphthongs in Afrikaans
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1998)The main purpose of the study was to shed more light on the acoustical features of diphthongs in Afrikaans. To achieve this goal diphthongs were examined and analysed in a production test as weIl as a perception test. In ... -
Acquisition of ownership inside virtual worlds
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2013)Die artikel het ten doel om as kort inleiding te dien tot die manier waarop eiendom binne in ’n virtuele wêreld verkry kan word. Die Suid-Afrikaanse sakereg word as agtergrond gebruik om die nuwe veld van virtuele goederereg ... -
Acquisition of pedagogical knowledge by instructors of veterinary medicine
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: When practitioners of veterinary medicine enter academia as faculty or clinical instructors, they are asked to perform research, provide service and outreach, and educate students, yet the teaching component ... -
Actantial model of Judith, a key to unlocking its possible purpose: a greimassian contribution
(Old Testament Society of South Africa (OTSSA), 2015)The goal of this article is to investigate the possible purpose of the Greek apocryphal book of Judith. The investigation of the possible purpose of Judith has attracted the interest of many scholars and varying contributions ... -
Actinellopsis murphyi gen. et spec. nov.: a new small celled freshwater diatom (Bacillariophyta, Eunotiales) from Zambia
(Magnolia Press, 2014)In this paper we describe Actinellopsis murphyi gen. et spec. nov. a small heteropolar and dorsiventral diatom from a seep habitat in Zambia. This novel taxon has the chief distinguishing characteristic, along with its ... -
Actinomycetes impacts on drought stress in maize (Zea Mays L.)
(North-West University (South Africa), 2018)Drought is a major cause of the present decrease in crop yield and agricultural productivity, accounting for the recent worldwide shortage in food availability. Drought results from the current change in climate conditions. ... -
Action evolution for intelligent agents
(IEEE, 2005)This paper introduces an alternative method of reinforcement learning for intelligent agents. The aim with this method is to closer emulate the natural thought processes of problem solving. This paper only provides a ... -
Action research for the 21st century : exploring new educational pathways / Lesley Wood
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Action research for the 21st century: exploring new educational pathways
(Unisa, 2014)Twenty years into democracy in South Africa, poverty and disease continue to limit the life prospects of the majority of people. Researchers in higher education have an opportunity, not to mention a moral obligation, to ... -
Activating whole brain® innovation: A means of nourishing multiple intelligence in higher education
(2015)The interconnectedness of the constructs ‘whole brain® thinking’ and ‘multiple intelligence’ forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when whole brain® thinking is activated multiple intelligence ...