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Exploring contingent convertible bond alternatives for African banks
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: A variant of the contingent convertible bond, first proposed in 2011, is investigated: the Call Option Enhanced Reverse Convertible (COERC). Although issued as a bond, it converts to new shareholder’s equity ... -
Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations
(University of Johannesburg, 2017)his explorative article qualitatively describes reputation variables that are applicable to both corporate and personal reputations: identity, image, branding, personality, behaviour, culture, ethics and storytelling. The ... -
Exploring differences between self-regulated learning strategies of high and low achievers in open distance learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Open distance students differ in their preparedness for higher education studies. Students who are less self-regulated risk failure and drop out in the challenging milieu of open distance learning. In this study, the ... -
Exploring educators’ experiences regarding empathy within inclusive classrooms
(Centre for Human Development and Research (Vancouver), 2018)An inclusive educational setting is a model in which educators must have empathic sensitivity, which will enable them to identify the different needs of the various learners. However, there is gap in research concerning ... -
Exploring effective communication in district education offices in South Africa
(Wiley Online Library, 2014)Managers at district education offices in South Africa should be able to apply a variety of communication skills effectively in a range of management contexts for these district offices to be successful. This paper reports ... -
Exploring effective communication in district education offices in South Africa
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)Managers at district education offices in South Africa should be able to apply a variety of communication skills effectively in a range of management contexts for these district offices to be successful. This paper reports ... -
Exploring Group Life Design with teachers in the context poverty related psychosocial challenges
(Education Association of South Africa, 2017)Working in challenging contexts can impact negatively on a teacher's sense of purpose and efficacy. This article explores the potential of group Life Design (LD), a narrative constructivist career counselling process, for ... -
Exploring history teachers' perceptions of outcomes-based assessment in South Africa
(University of Venda, 2014)In an attempt to restructure the unequal South African education system of the apartheid regime, Curriculum 2005 – with an Outcomes-based Education (OBE) approach – was introduced by the ANC government in 1998. This new ... -
Exploring history teachers' perceptions of outcomes-based assessment in South Africa
(University of Venda, 2014)In an attempt to restructure the unequal South African education system of the "apartheid regime, Curriculum 2005 with an Outcomes–based Education (OBE)" approach was introduced by the ANC government in 1998. This new ... -
Exploring home visits in a faith community as a service-learning opportunity
(Elsevier, 2013)Background: Within South Africa the Psychiatric Nursing Science curriculum in undergraduate Baccalaureate nursing education utilizes home visits as a service-learning opportunity. In this context faith communities ... -
Exploring Interdisciplinarity: a theoretical consideration of Bioethics at the interface between Theology, Philosophy and Life Sciences
(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2009)Complex ethical problems resulting from research and advances in biotechnologies increasingly confront Christian ministers and theologians with difficult and complex moral dilemmas. Where do they turn to in order to ... -
Exploring leadership hubs as an intervention in strengthening the resilience of health caregivers
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This article reports the findings from an intervention to strengthen the resilience of leaders of health caregivers involved in HIV and AIDS care across 4 countries, namely South Africa, Uganda, Jamaica and Kenya. Data ... -
Exploring levels of egg parasitism and variation in egg cuticular chemistry in different Clavigralla spp.
(Wiley, 2019)Clavigralla spp. (Hemiptera: Coreidae) are major pests of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp, Fabacae), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L., Fabacae) and pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L., Fabacae) in Africa. Clavigralla spp. ... -
Exploring lived experiences of spirituality amongst five Dalcroze teachers
(Sage, 2018)This article presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the lived spiritual experiences of five Dalcroze teachers while teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics. It responds to a recent expansion of research into ... -
Exploring mindfulness in self-injuring adolescents in a psychiatric setting
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)This study explored mindfulness amongst eight self-injuring psychiatric adolescents. A mixed-method design was used. Interviews and clinical records comprised the qualitative data, while quantitative data was gathered using ... -
Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages
(IOS Press Inc, 2015)Pronunciation lexicons can range from fully graphemic (modeling each word using the orthography directly) to fully phonemic (first mapping each word to a phoneme string). Between these two options lies a continuum of ... -
Exploring neural network training dynamics through binary node activations
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)Each node in a neural network is trained to activate for a specific region in the input domain. Any training samples that fall within this domain are therefore implicitly clustered together. Recent work has highlighted ... -
Exploring panarchy and social-ecological resilience: towards understanding water history in precolonial Southern Africa
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)There is a growing corpus of social-ecological thinking in the field of resilience studies.One example is the pioneering work of Gunderson and Holling (2002) on panarchy. The work has had a significant impacton disciplinary ... -
Exploring place-making in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa : a mixed-method approach
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, 2009)