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Challenges faced by grandparents caring for AIDS orphans in Koster, North West Province of South Africa
(Sabinet, 2014)Caring for orphans who have lost their parents due to AIDS, and some of whom are infected, is an enormous challenge. This immense responsibility often resides with the grandparents, who are in most cases sickly and not ... -
Challenges faced by small businesses in registering companies in rural Kwazulu–Natal
(Medwell, 2017)The research investigated challenges faced by small businesses in registering companies in rural KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. uMzinyathi District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal was used as a case study, representing ... -
Challenges for the floriculture industry in a developing country: a South African perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The increasing numbers of global floriculture producers, and changes in the basis of competition in this international industry, make it important to evaluate the South African floriculture industry's competitive position. ... -
Challenges in donor-NPO relationships in the context of corporate social investment
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)The purpose of this article is to highlight challenges in the relationship between corporate donors and recipient NPOs within the context of corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa and to link the relational ... -
Challenges in implementing continuous support during childbirth in selected public hospitals in the North West Province of South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: According to a Cochrane review, continuous support during childbirth increases the mother’s chances of a vaginal birth without identified adverse effects. However, this evidence-based practice is not ... -
Challenges in reconciling observations and theory of the brightest high-energy flare ever of 3C 279
(PoS, 2017)Recent high-energy missions have allowed keeping watch over blazars in flaring states, which provide deep insights into the engine powered by supermassive black holes. However, having a quasar caught in a very bright ... -
Challenges in reporting on predetermined objectives to the Auditor-General: the case of Limpopo provincial departments
(AOSIS, 2017)Limpopo provincial departments like all other South African government departments are required to report on performance against predetermined objectives in terms of Section 40 of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of ... -
Challenges in teacher education in South Africa: do teacher educators and teachers effectively prepare student teachers to perform their roles as educators?
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)The Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications provides criteria for designing curricula for initial teacher education. This policy emphasizes that the roles that teachers have to fulfill should be interpreted ... -
Challenges in the integration of multimedia by History teachers in the North West provinces of South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Today's learners are born into a multimedia world and feel quite comfortable in an electronic learning environment. The high-quality sound, realistic colour images, graphics, narrations, real-time recordings and full motion ... -
Challenges in the potable water industry due to changes in source water quality: case study of Midvaal Water Company, South Africa
(Water Research Commission, 2016)Midvaal Water Company treats hypertrophic water abstracted from the Vaal River to supply bulk wholesome potable water to their consumers in compliance with the South African National Standard (SANS) 241:2015 for drinking ... -
Challenges Inhibiting the transformation of subsistence farming into thriving agri–business in rural Uganda
(African Journals On Line, 2014)This study investigates the challenges involved in the development of agri-businesses in rural Uganda, from largely subsistence or micro-enterprise production to self-sustaining viable and thriving economic entities. The ... -
Challenges of testing deep word knowledge of vocabulary: which path to follow?
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2015)The present research explores the challenges of testing deep word knowledge of the vocabulary of students of English as a Foreign/ Second Language (EFL/ESL) at higher education. A productive test modelled on the Lex30 ... -
The challenges of underweight and overweight in South African children: are we winning or losing the battle? A systematic review
(University of Tehran (Graduate Faculty of Environment), 2015)Underweight and overweight are adverse effects of malnutrition and both are associated with negative health consequences in children and adolescents. In South Africa, the burden of economic and social disparity coexists ... -
Challenges to cosmic ray modeling: from beyond the solar wind termination shock
(Elsevier, 2008)Voyager 1 crossed the solar wind termination shock on December 16, 2004 at a distance of 94 AU from the Sun, to become the first spacecraft to explore the termination shock region and to enter the heliosheath, the final ... -
Challenges to the South African corporate leniency policy and cartel enforcement
(Juta Law, 2015)Die voorkoming, opsporing en vervolging van kartelle is ’n prioriteit van mededingingsowerhede wêreldwyd gegewe die negatiewe impak wat sodanige bedrywighede het op pryse en keuse van produkte en die feit dat dit invoering ... -
Challenges to the vision and mission of lifelong learning in Sub–Saharan Africa
(KRE Publishers, 2014)Lifelong learning has become a fashionable term that is being mu ch talk ed about by politicians, occasional reviewers of development policies and academicians who are constantly exploring ways ... -
Challenging old perceptions: the classification of website advertisements according to South African Contract Law
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016)South African law draws a distinction between offers and invitations to treat. Although the intention with which a statement is made is usually cited as a controlling factor in determining its proper classification, there ... -
Challenging the universality of job resources: why, when, and for whom are they beneficial?
(Wiley, 2020)In this paper we introduce the topic of job resources and elaborate on their relevance for research and practice in work psychology. We start out with a brief overview of the historic and current understanding of job ... -
Chandra and HESS observations of the supernova remnant CTB 37B
(EDP Sciences, 2008)We discovered the >100 GeV γ-ray source, HESS J1713−381, apparently associated with the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) CTB37B, using HESS in 2006. In 2007 we performed X-ray follow-up observations with Chandra with ... -
Change detection in INARCH time series of counts
(Springer, 2016)In the present paper we develop an online procedure for detecting changes in the parameters of integer ARCH models of order one. The test statistic utilizes the notion of the empirical probability generating function. The ...