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Domestic workers lived realities of empowerment and disempowerment within the South African labour legislative context: two sides of the same coin
(2015)South Africa is heralded as a global ambassador for the rights of domestic workers. Empowerment, however, remains an elusive concept within the sector. Fear–based disempowerment still characterises the employment relationship, ... -
Dominant inheritance of field–evolved resistance to Bt corn in Busseola fusca
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins have been adopted worldwide, notably in developing countries. In spite of their success in controlling target pests while allowing a substantial reduction of ... -
Don't touch my virtual property: justifications for the recognition of virtual property
(Juta, 2016)While there is growing consensus about the place and value of virtual property, both inside and outside of virtual worlds, the question of how to justify the acceptance of these new objects of property law needs to be ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Call for the continuation of the NPDE
(Unisa Press, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers' workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: call for the continuation of the NPDE
(UNISA press, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers’ workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: call for the continuation of the NPDE
(Unisa, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers' workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Doob's optional sampling theorem in Reisz spaces
(Springer, 2011)The notions of stopping times and stopped processes for continuous stochastic processes are defined and studied in the framework of Riesz spaces. This leads to a formulation and proof of Doob’s optional sampling theorem. -
Dooyeweerd is watching you: using instant messaging to prepare for assessment
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2013)In an Information Technology course, learners are expected to learn about the use of technology. They need to be able to program, do mathematics and statistics, and should also have other technical subjects. Although ... -
Dooyeweerd's legal and political philosophy: a response to the challenge of historicism.
(University of the Orange Free State. Faculty of Law, 2014)A look at the penetrating and encompassing nature of Dooyeweerd's political and legal philosophy makes it understandable why Georgio Del Vecchio, a reputable Italian philosopher of law, appreciated Dooyeweerd as "the most ... -
Dooyeweerd's philosophy entails no support for Apartheid whatsoever
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)In an article on Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique, Rèné Eloff argues that E.A. Venter and H.J. Strauss drew upon the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to justify separate development and that ... -
Dooyeweerd's theory of religious ground motives: a few implications for Christian philosophy and scholarship
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2012)The first part of the article surveys the theory of "religious ground motives" elaborated by Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a Dutch Calvinist philosopher and founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. The main tenets ... -
Dopaminergic and serotonergic modulation of social reward appraisal in zebrafish (Danio rerio) under circumstances of motivational conflict: towards a screening test for anti-compulsive drug action
(Elsevier, 2020)Cognitive flexibility, shown to be impaired in patients presenting with compulsions, is dependent on balanced dopaminergic and serotonergic interaction. Towards the development of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) screening test ... -
Dormancy and dispersal as mediators of zooplankton population and community dynamics along a hydrological disturbance gradient in inland temporary pools
(Springer, 2017)At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of a risk-spreading strategy, only a fraction ... -
Double blow: alien crayfish infected with invasive temnocephalan in South African waters
(Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2013)Trade in live, freshwater crayfish for ornamental markets, as well as for aquaculture, has grown rapidly and has become the major pathway for the introduction of non-indigenous crayfish species to several countries worldwide. ... -
The double call for joy, ''Rejoice and be glad'' (Matt. 5:12), as conclusion of the Matthean macarisms
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2008)In contrast to Luke, for whom joy and rejoicing are major motifs, Matthew rarely writes about them. This may reflect the antagonistic environment in which the Matthean community functioned. However, a few texts refer to ... -
Double diffusion effects on magnetohydrodynamic non-newtonian fluid nanoparticles
(American Scientific Publishers, 2017)In the present article, the double-diffusive natural convection of a micropolar nanofluid over a linearly stretching sheet is discussed. The flow equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity ... -
The Double Love Commandment
(AOSIS, 2015)The Gospel of Matthew was written during a period of dispute between the Matthean community and their fellow Jews, with the Pharisees playing a leading role. The Matthean community was heir to the same scriptures as its ... -
The double odyssey of Madagascan polystome flatworms leads to new insights on the origins of their amphibian hosts
(Royal Society Publishing, 2009)Polystomatid flatworms are parasites of high host specificity, which mainly infect amphibian hosts. Only one polystome species has so far been recorded from Madagascar despite the high species richness and endemicity of ... -
Double product and end-organ damage in African and Caucasian men: the SABPA study
(ELSEVIER, 2013)Background: Increasing urbanisation in sub-Saharan African countries is causing a rapid increase in cardiovascular disease. Evidence suggests that Africans have higher blood pressures and a higher prevalence of hyperte ... -
Double product reflects the predictive power of systolic pressure in the general population: evidence from 9,937 participants
(Oxford University Press, 2013)BACKGROUND The double product (DP), consisting of the systolic blood pressure (SBP) multiplied by the pulse rate (PR), is an index of myocardial oxygen consumption, but its prognostic value in the general population remains ...