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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
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Exploring place-making in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa: a mixed-method approach
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Exploring pluralism: different stakeholder views of the expected and realised value of strategic environmental assessment (SEA)
(Elsevier, 2018)This paper explores the concept of pluralism by evaluating different stakeholder views on the expected and realised value of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). The research followed a single embedded case study ... -
Exploring programmes to support police officials exposed to trauma
(Unisa Press Host: Dept Social Work, UJ, 2015)As a result of the critical nature of police officers' work, it is of utmost importance that they have direct access to support. The efficacy of the present trauma intervention programmes in the South African Police Service ... -
Exploring rain forest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam‐nest treefrog Chiromantis rufescens
(Wiley, 2019)Aim Species with wide distributions spanning the African Guinean and Congolian rain forests are often composed of genetically distinct populations or cryptic species with geographic distributions that mirror the locations ... -
Exploring relationsip intention and the duration of customer support in the South African banking industry
(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2015)Because it is generally more expensive to attract new customers rather than retain the existing ones, service providers are investing in resources to establish successful customer relationships. In identifying and ... -
Exploring resilience in nurses caring for older persons
(Elsevier, 2017)Background A shortage of nurses caring for older persons is experienced due to adverse working conditions. Resilience might empower nurses to persevere while caring for older persons. Research regarding the resilience of ... -
Exploring soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and its relationship with arterial stiffness in a bi–ethnic population: the SAfrEIC–study
(Elsevier, 2012)Introduction: Elevated soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) indicates an inflammatory state caused by conditions such as HIV and cancer. Recently suPARwas identified as an indicator of ... -
Exploring South African high school teachers' conceptions of the nature of the scientific inquiry: a case study
(2014)The paper explores conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI) held by five teachers who were purposively and conveniently sampled. Teachers’ conceptions of the NOSI were determined using a Probes questionnaire. ... -
Exploring South Africa’s ‘black diamonds’ at live music performances
(AOSIS, 2014)Problem under investigation: This exploratory study fills a gap in the literature by profiling ‘black diamonds’, the South African up-and-coming middle-class market, at live music concerts. Design, methodology and ... -
Exploring tax options to curb excessive gambling in South Africa
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)Since 2010, the South African government has made various proposals to impose a gambling tax with the objective of discouraging excessive gambling in South Africa. Although the South African gambling industry is already ... -
Exploring teacher self–efficacy for inclusive practices in three diverse countries
(Elsevier, 2013)The purpose of this study was to explain teachers' perceived efficacy for teaching in inclusive classrooms by using a sample of 1911 in-service teachers from China, Finland, and South Africa. Bandura's theory of self-efficacy ... -
Exploring the acceleration mechanisms for particle injection and power-law formation during transrelativistic magnetic reconnection
(IOP Publishing, 2020)Magnetic reconnection in the relativistic and transrelativistic regimes is able to accelerate particles to hard power-law energy spectra f ∝ γ −p (approaching p = 1). The underlying acceleration mechanism that determines ... -
Exploring the acceptability of amaranth-enriched bread to support household food security
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the acceptability of an identified staple product enriched with amaranth grain, a traditionally used wild plant familiar to most of the population, after households’ food ... -
Exploring the attainment of career success
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study examined the role of the organisation as well as the role of the employee in the attainment of career success for senior management employees. Participants were a purposive sample of 24 senior management employees ...