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Classifying Africans with the Metabolic Syndrome
(Thieme, 2009)This study was aimed to compare prevalences of the metabolic syndrome in Africans using five definitions as proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR), ... -
Classifying bent radio galaxies from a mixture of point-like/extended images with machine learning
(IEEE, 2016)The hypothesis that bent radio sources are supposed to be found in rich, massive galaxy clusters and the avalibility of huge amount of data from radio surveys have fueled our motivation to use Machine Learning (ML) to ... -
Classifying bilinear differential equations by linear superposition principle
(World Scientific Publishing, 2016)In this paper, we investigate the linear superposition principle of exponential traveling waves to construct a sub-class of N-wave solutions of Hirota bilinear equations. A necessary and sufficient condition for Hirota ... -
Classifying objects in space according to South African property law
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016)Traditionally, objects were classified according to their relation to man or according to their own nature. The classical division according to their relation to man relates to the question of whether something is susceptible ... -
Classifying recognised speech with deep neural networks
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)We investigate whether word embeddings using deep neural networks can assist in the analysis of text produced by a speechrecognition system. In particular, we develop algorithms to identify which words are incorrectly ... -
Classroom assessment of reading comprehension: how are preservice Foundation Phase teachers being prepared?
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)A number of assessment studies in recent years have shown that the educational achievement of learners in South African schools is unacceptably poor. The Department of Education’s systemic evaluations, conducted in Grade ... -
Clayey materials in river basin enhancing microbial contamination of river water
(Elsevier, 2014)Mineral constituents of clay materials may promote interaction, adsorption and attachment of microorganisms, often resulting in biofilms’ formation. In this study investigation is made to determine how littoral clayey ... -
Clergies and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic : a challenge to pastoral care
(AOSIS, 2022)On the 15th of March 2020, the current president of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a National State of Disaster as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A range of regulations ... -
Client perceptions of interaction with community pharmacists in the Nelson Mandela Metropole
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Communication plays an important role in health care professions, such as pharmacy, which is an information-driven profession in which community pharmacists are embedded. They are responsible for ensuring patient-centred ... -
Clifford-Fischer theory applied to a group of the form 2_1+6:((31+2:8):2)
(Iranian Mathematical Society (IMS), 2017)In our paper [A. B. M. Basheer and J. Moori, On a group of the form 210:(U5(2):2)] we calculated the inertia factors, Fischer matrices and the ordinary character table of the split extension 210:(U5(2):2) by ... -
Climate and air quality trade-offs in altering ship fuel sulfur content
(EGU, 2013)Aerosol particles from shipping emissions both cool the climate and cause adverse health effects. The cooling effect is, however, declining because of shipping emission controls aiming to improve air quality. We used an ... -
Climate and food resources shape species richness and trophic interactions of cavity‐nesting Hymenoptera
(Wiley, 2020)Aim: Temperature, food resources and top-down regulation by antagonists are considered as major drivers of insect diversity, but their relative importance is poorly understood. Here, we used cavity-nesting communities of ... -
Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction integration: strategies, policies, and plans in three Australian local governments
(Elsevier, 2017)Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) integration is a pressing concern for Australia. Normative instruments such as Strategies, Policies, and Plans are among the principal ways that Local ... -
Climate change and sustainable tourism: South Africa caught in-between
(AJHTL, 2017)Climate change and tourism are symbolically two-sides of a coin. While climate change portends serious threats to ecosystems and biodiversity (the world's foremost tourism assets), environmental impacts associated with ... -
Climate change induced occupational stress and reported morbidity among cocoa farmers in South-Western Nigeria
(Institute of Agricultural Medicine, 2015)Introduction and objective: Climate change is one of the major development hurdles in many developing countries. The health outcome of farm households are related to climate change, which is related to several external and ... -
Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background: Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, ... -
Climate change vulnerability index for South African aquifers
(South African Water Research Commission, 2012)South Africa is viewed as a water-stressed country with an average annual rainfall of 500 mm and any climatic change could have adverse impacts on water resources of the country. The potential impacts of climate change on ... -
Climate change, complex interdependence and development: assessment of Lesotho-South Africa relations
(Business Perspectives, 2015)Climate change and its negative effects on the developing states are a reality of which there is a need to focus on likely mitigation and adaptive strategies to ensure sustainable development. Industrial development back ... -
Climate change, public trusteeship and the tomorrows of the unborn
(Juta, 2015)The impacts of climate change on human and ecological systems and the increasing volatility of life situations demand of scholars to critically evaluate governments' protection of the natural resource base and the interests ... -
Climate change: a comparison of market–based instruments from a South African perspective
(Clute Institute, 2013)This article aims to consider the relevancy of (i) cap-and-trade schemes and (ii) carbon tax schemes in a developing economy context. Even though both schemes have a common goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they ...