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Conceptualizing microfinance for effective smallholder farming in Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2014)Smallholder farmers in Africa desperately need pro-poor interventions to alleviate their poverty through self-sustenance. In Africa, poverty is more prevalent in rural areas, where the overwhelming majority (about 80%) of ... -
Concern regarding the "debt" created by rule 14.10.9 of the government employees' pension fund rules
(2016)This paper highlights the prejudicial effect of the rule within the rules of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), which allows this fund to create a "divorce debt" for its member when the court has ordered that ... -
Concerns about the future of creation order
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2011)The theological background to the notion of the law of nature/ creation order is indispensable to the reformational tradition, which recognises that these laws are the Creator‟s will, and therefore holds a “necessity” view ... -
Concerns for the language skills of South African learners and their teachers
(Kamla-Raj, 2014)The language of instruction and learner achievement is directly linked. In South Africa many English teachers lack the necessary English language skills to teach English effectively. The results of this research reveal ... -
A concessionaire model for food and beverage operations in South African National Parks
(North-West University, 2012)In recent years, protected areas have come under pressure due to the budget cuts of government. As a result, national parks have had to devise strategies by means of which they are able to generate additional revenue, in ... -
A concessionaire model for food and beverage operations in South African National Parks
(African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2014)In recent years, protected areas have come under pressure due to the budget cuts of government. As a result, national parks have had to devise strategies by means of which they are able to generate additional revenue, in ... -
Concordance between goals and meaning in the community domain of life: Association with well-being and socio-demographic variables
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2020)According to the self-concordance model, people experience higher levels of well-being when their goals and the things they find meaningful in their lives are aligned. For eudaimonic well-being, meaning and goals are ... -
Concordance of goals and meaning in the family domain: Associations with demographic variables and well-being
(North-West University (South-Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2019)Goals and meaning as important constructs of eudaimonic well-being have been studied separately, but research is scant on the concordance of goals and meaning, especially in specific life domains. The aim of this study was ... -
Concordance of goals and meaning in the intrapersonal life domain: Associations with demographic variables and well-being
(North-West University (South-Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2019-05)Goals and meaning are important facets of eudaimonic well-being. Scholars have studied goals and meaning separately, but research is sparse on the alignment of goals and meaning, especially in specific life domains and how ... -
Concordance of goals and meaning in the spirituality domain: associations with socio-demographic variables
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2020)Key constructs in the process of human flourishing towards well-being are goals and meaning. These constructs have been studied individually, but limited studies are available on how they are aligned in various domains of ... -
Concurrent class analysis identifies discriminatory variables from metabolomics data on isovaleric acidemia
(Springer, 2012)Metabolomics data are typically complex and high dimensional. Multivariate dimension-reducing techniques have thus been developed for analysing metabolomics data to disclose underlying relationships, with principal component ... -
Concurrent tobacco use and risky drinking in South Africa: results from the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The aim of this study was to examine socio-demographic and psychosocial correlates of concurrent tobacco use and risky drinking We analysed data from the cross-sectional South African National Health and Nutrition ... -
A condition based maintenance approach for a rotary drum crop shear
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)An alternative solution was proposed to the current replacement strategy employed to maintain the rotary drum crop shear at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) Vanderbijlpark Hot Strip Mill (HSM). Process and production ... -
Condition based reliability simulator for power stations
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)The SA Power Utility operates 27 power stations with a total nominal capacity of 41,995 MW, comprising 35,726 MW of coal-fired stations, 1,860 MW of nuclear, 2,409 MW of gas–fired, 2,000 MW hydro and pumped–storage stations ... -
A condition based reliability simulator framework based on a heuristic fault model
(NWU, 2018)There are significant concerns as well as remedial efforts by the SA Power Utility to improve the generation plant performance that showed a significant decline over the past number of years. There is general consensus on ... -
Condition monitoring analysis methods for electrical machines: a review
(SPC, 2018)This paper provides a review on condition monitoring analysis methods for electrical machines. An overview of condition monitoring is provided where online as well as offline monitoring is discussed. A section on vibration ... -
Condition monitoring of a gearbox through the Internet
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2015)Condition monitoring of rotating machines used at factories and mines could significantly reduce production losses to allow continuous production. Unexpected machine failures could be eliminated, and specific problems ... -
Condition monitoring of active magnetic bearing systems
(North-West University, 2007)In this thesis, the author contextualises condition monitoring of active magnetic bearing (AMB) systems and proposes the real-time condition monitoring of AMB systems. Three real-time fault detection, diagnosis, correction ... -
Condition monitoring of lubricant shortage for gearboxes based on compressed thermal images
(Springer, 2020)Condition monitoring of gearboxes is a crucial task because gearboxes are essential power transmission components whose failure can lead to a catastrophic breakdown of machines. The common faults of a gearbox system, such ... -
Condition monitoring of medium voltage electrical cables by means of partial discharge measurements
(SAIEE, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to discuss condition monitoring (CM) of medium voltage electrical cables by means of partial discharge (PD) measurements. Electrical cables are exposed to a variety of operational and ...
