Browsing Inaugural Lectures - Vaal Triangle Campus by Title
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The nexus of poverty and housing insecurity : Developing a Household Housing Insecurity Index (HHII) / Steven Henry Dunga
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2021)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise poverty as one of the biggest challenges to the achievement of global development. Poverty is featured among the top challenges of the 21stcentury, which include ecological ... -
Operational research : a better science for better decision making / Philip Pretorius
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)This article aims to illustrate better science for better decision making, using new data, new models and/or new frameworks. An operational researcher (OR) incorporates new data, new models and/or a new framework to improve ... -
Profiling the Generation Y cohort / Ayesha Bevan-Dye
(Vanderbijlpark: North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)Generational differences are relevant as they reflect differences in attitudes, values, ambitions and mind-sets between people. A generational cohort refers to the aggregate progeny of the preceding generation and parents ... -
Siyakhulisa :an empowerment driven journey towards quality early childhood development practices / J.E. Fourie
(Potchefstroom : North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)Investment in Early Childhood Development (ECD) is one of the most effective ways in which to decrease social disparities caused by adverse environments as such environments hamper the development of young children. This ... -
Speech technology for development working towards impact / Etienne Barnard
(Vanderbijlpark : North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2013-02-01)Providind people in under-served communities with information access could be of great social value. I discuss some of our attempts during the past decade to create systems based on speech technology which can be used for ... -
Sustainable business intelligence systems : Modelling for the future / Roelien Goede
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)Business intelligence systems are used in support of strategic decision-making in organisations. Strategic decisions in support of the sustainable development goals require accurate and accessible data. Of equal importance ... -
Theory (academic) and practice (industry) : dissimilar research fields and subject specific disciplines : an interdisciplinary approach / J.P. Beukes
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Turning potential into performance : the missing link in (IS) leadership? / Marius Stander
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)Globally, the business environment and business leadership is increasingly becoming more volatile, uncertain and complex. Leaders need to reconsider the way they think about and manage their businesses. During the 4th ... -
Uranium pollution of water : a global perspective on the situation in South Africa / Frank Winde
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Urban food insecurity: A case for conditional cash grants? / Wynand Grobler
(Vanderbijlpark: North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2015-11-12)Food security, as a concept, can be traced back to the mid-1970s when the UN World Food Conference set up the Committee on World Food Security in 1975. In the early-1980s, the Committee on World Food Security expanded the ... -
Vulnerable, but invincible? ecosystemic pathways to South African youths' resilience / L.C. Theron
(2013-02-01)The earliest studies of resilience (Anthony & Cohler, 1987; Werner & Smith, 1982) posited that resilient young people were "vulnerable, but invincible" (Werner, 1996) or even "invulnerable" (Anthony & Cohler, 1987). At ... -
Wither thou the African peer review mechanism process? / Ernest Peprah Ababio
(Vanderbijlpark : North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009-10-30)