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Self Reported Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in a South African Low Income Neigbourhood
(World Business Institute, 2013)
Food security is defined as a state in which all people in a household at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Household food ...
Demonstrating an interpretive data collection and analysis process for a DSR project
(Czech institute of academic education z.s, 2014)
Design science research has two essential processes, design and evaluation, supported by various approaches. Two of these activities, namely problem identification and evaluation, require qualitative data to be gathered ...
Prevalence of household food poverty in a South African Township
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)
This study analyzed the prevalence of household food poverty in a township of Kwakwatsi, South Africa. A household was defined to be in food poverty when its monthly food spending is less than the cost of a basic food ...
Factors contributing to a long term talent development focus for university athletes
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)
Talent development in sport is a complex process involving the interaction of multidisciplinary aspects that directly and/or indirectly affect athletic progression and performance. The purpose of this study was to identify ...
A critical systems perspective on research methodology for research in e-learning in information systems classes
(ISSS, 2014)
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical systems thinking perspective on e-learning research in information systems classrooms. Many higher education practitioners are under pressure from their institutions to do ...
A target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS
(ISCA, 2014)
A complete intonation model based on quantitative target approximation is described for Yorùbá text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. This model is evaluated analytically and perceptually and compared to a fundamental frequency ...
Why use communication training as enterprise-wide project risk mitigation tool?
(IEEE, 2013)
Complex enterprise-wide projects often fail even when formal project management methods are followed. Project management processes and methodologies are well defined and described in academic and business literature. There ...
Emergence and new concepts of God – example from the Old Testament
(Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, 2013)
In this article, the author looks at “emergence” in the context of new concepts of God in the Old Testament. Within biblical scholarship, various types of emergence are alluded to in various methodological reductions, i.e. ...
The effect of ten years on the capacity component of the Water Poverty Index
(IBIMA, 2013)
Water management has been carried out for many centuries wherever there has been a need to provide water to large numbers of people. Complex social norms have developed around water management and competing users have ...
The good, the bad and the ugly: using videos to reverse systems analysis and design instruction
(IEEE, 2013)
Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) is a second-year subject offered within the Information Technology (IT) course at the Vaal Triangle Campus of the North-West University in South Africa. The diverse environment of this ...