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Analysis of the post-earnings announcement drift anomaly on the JSE
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The post-earnings announcement drift anomaly has been widely researched and confirmed for several markets around the world. This paper investigates the relationship between the earnings surprise as reflected by the price ...
A twostep clustering algorithm as applied to crime data of South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This study applied a TwoStep cluster analysis on the 29 serious crimes reported at 1119 police stations across South Africa for the 2009/2010 financial year. Due to this high number of variables and observations, it becomes ...
Robust torque ripple mitigation of a line-start PMSM by means of the Taguchi method
(IEEE, 2019)
—In this paper, a robust design framework is proposed
to mitigate torque ripple for line-start permanent magnet synchronous machines (LS-PMSM) by using the Taguchi method.
The framework is intended for fine-tuning initial ...
A tripartite approach to ensure municipal service delivery. The case of a mining town in South Africa
(CCAU, 2019)
Postmasburg, a small mining town, has been an agricultural centre for the past 120 years, the iron ore mining being the only diversifying factor to the local economy. Mining endeavours resulted in the traditional boom-town ...
Paradigms, beliefs and values in scholarship: a conversation between two educationists
(AOSIS, 2011)
Scientific paradigms constantly play a role in scholarship, but researchers tend not to examine the roles of the belief and value systems associated with them. From time to time, however, a researcher may be confronted ...
Understanding the anatomy of religion as basis for religion in education
(AOSIS, 2011)
This article sprung from previous structural analyses of religion as onticity, but went somewhat further by placing more emphasis on encounters with the numinous as the core of religion, as well as on the dynamic character ...
Morality as the substructure of social justice: religion in education as a case in point
(Educational Association of South Africa (EASA), 2011)
Moral issues and principles do not only emerge in cases of conflict among, for instance, religious communities or political parties; indeed they form the moral substructure of notions of social justice. During periods of ...
Enabling white, Afrikaans–speaking adolescents toward post–divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2010)
Using rich qualitative data, we describe the ecosystemically-embedded protective antecedents that enabled 10 white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families towards resilience. The description both confirms ...
Implicit personality conceptions of the Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa
(Sage, 2011)
The present study explored the personality conceptions of the three main Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa: Swati, Xhosa, and Zulu. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 116 native speakers of Swati, ...
Ontology and epistemology: a transcendental reflection on decision-usefulness as an accounting objectivecounting Objective
(Sabinet, 2011)
As key global accounting regulators, the FASB and the IASB have accorded much importance to the concept of decision-usefulness, especially in the context of the capital providers as a specific user group. However, a vague ...