Browsing Research Output by Subject "Adaptation"
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Adaptation and preliminary validation evidences of the School Climate Questionnaire - Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS)
(Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2016)This study presents the procedures for adapting the School Climate Survey - Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS) to the Brazilian context and demonstrates the first evidence of the validity of its use ... -
Adaptation in an era of vanishing territory – the political economy of the impact of clime change versus total migration, status of statehood and refugees in Africa
(Business Perspectives, 2014)Mass migration as a way of adapting to climate change impact is not new. However, the total migration of a permanent population from a defined territory as a coping response to the impact of climate change is only emerging. ... -
Conflicts in adaptation: case studies from Nepal and the Maldives
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose Adaptation appears to be regarded as a panacea in policy circles to reduce the risk of impending crises resulting from contemporary changes, including but not restricted to climate change. Such conceptions can be ... -
Die voortbestaan van kulkuns: die dilemma van tegnologiese invloede op die wese van die kunsvorm
(South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2014)The survival of magician's magic : the dilemma of the influence of technology on the art of magician's magic. Magic as a performing art has been an interpersonal medium for centuries. In the early 1930s close-up, face-to-face ... -
Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory: finding common grounds for risk reduction
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of resilience into the contemporary discourse of disaster risk. As a counter position to the current status quo in defining and addressing resilience, this ... -
Do the contour feathers of Cisticolae exhibit adaptations to annual rainfall in their habitats?
(Wiley, 2019)Birds of the genus Cisticola occur over most of Southern Africa in varying habitats ranging from low to high altitudes and wet to dry areas causing species to have unique distributions. In order to determine if Cisticolas ... -
Do they adapt or react? A comparison of the adaptation model and the stress reaction model among South African unemployed
(Springer, 2014)This study investigates affective experience as a function of unemployment duration in South Africa. The study contrasts two models. The stress reaction model proposes a linear decrease of affective experience as unemployment ... -
Emergent system behaviour as a tool for understanding disaster resilience: the case of Southern African subsistence agriculture
(Elsevier, 2016)Prominent international policy documents such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and contemporary academic discourses on disasters reiterate the importance of understanding and prioritising ... -
Onderweg na 'n Christelik-filosofiese analise van evolusie en evolusionisme: Die bydrae van 'n konsekwent probleem-historiese metode
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)This article intends to gain more clarity about the philosophical presuppositions underlying evolutionary theories and evolutionism as a worldview. In the light of the wide confusion and disagreement among Christians and ... -
Prolonged cooling with phase change material enhances recovery and does not affect the subsequent repeated bout effect following exercise
(Springer, 2020)Purpose The aim of this investigation was twofold: (1) to examine the effect of prolonged phase change material (PCM) cooling following eccentric exercise of the quadriceps on indices of muscle damage, and (2) to elucidate ...