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What can we learn from a narrative reinterpretation of a mission (hi)story? Reflecting on the mission history of the Dutch Reformed Church according to Willem Saayman
(Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2015)
On 16 May 2015, the well-known missiologist, Willem Saayman, passed away. In this article, his overview of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) mission history, Being Missionary, Being Human (2007), is revisited from the ...
A microeconomic analysis of energy choice behaviour in South Lunzu Township, Malawi
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)
This paper reports results of a study that aimed at analysing the energy choice behaviour of people in South Lunzu Township in Malawi. A Microeconometric approach was adopted on survey data collected by way of a questionnaire. ...
Comparative study of an HIV risk scorecard and regression models to rank effects of demographic characteristics on risk of aquiring an HIV infection
(IEEE, 2013)
This research paper covers the development of an HIV risk scorecard using SAS Enterprise MinerTM. The HIV risk scorecard was developed using the 2007 South African annual antenatal HIV and syphilis seroprevalence data. ...
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ...
Prevalence and correlates of behavioral non-communicable diseases risk factors among adolescents in the Seychelles: results of a National School Survey in 2015
(MDPI, 2019)
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and correlates of behavioral non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors among a national sample of school-going adolescents in the Seychelles. Cross-sectional data ...
Totius en die standaardisering van vroeg–moderne Afrikaanse werkwoorde
(South African Academy for Science and ArtsSouth African Academy for Science and Arts, 2013)
In the diachronie studies of Afrikaans in the past, the focus used to be on the origin and early development of Afrikaans from Dutch. During the twentieth century the philological school, with a tradition of researching ...
Comparison of the damage potential and yield loss of the rice root–knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminicola, on lowland and upland rice varieties from Myanmar
(Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015)
In Asia, the rice root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminicola, is an important pathogen of
Asian rice (Oryza sativa) in most rice producing countries including Myanmar. In the first part of our
study, the damage potential ...
Interactions between Phaedrotoma scabriventris Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Diglyphus isaea Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoids of Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
(Elsevier, 2015)
Liriomyza leafminer flies represent a serious threat to horticultural production in East Africa. Total field parasitism rates recorded in Kenya are below 5%, with the indigenous ectoparasitoid Diglyphus isaea Walker being ...
Appraising the value of independent EIA follow–up verifiers
(Elsevier, 2015)
Independent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) follow-up verifiers such as monitoring agencies, checkers, supervisors and control officers are active on various construction sites across the world. There are, however, ...
A preliminary survey of the diversity of soil algae and cyanoprokaryotes on mafic and ultramafic substrates in South Africa
(CSIRO Publishing, 2015)
Despite a large body of work on the serpentine-substrate effect on vascular plants, little work has been undertaken to describe algal communities found on serpentine soils derived from peridotite and other ultramafic rocks. ...