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Facebook in higher education: An Auto ethnographic journey entering into edu-social space
(Global impact factor, 2014)This researcher uses auto ethnography within an education context. The author explains their experiences in attempting to research Facebook and other websites and innovation in their organisational setting. They propose ... -
Factors associated with employee engagement in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2010)Orientation: Knowledge of the factors associated with employee engagement is important for practitioners and researchers in industrial/organisational psychology in South Africa. Research purpose: The objective of this ... -
Factors associated with employee engagement in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2010)Orientation: Knowledge of the factors associated with employee engagement is important for practitioners and researchers in industrial/organisational psychology in South Africa. Research purpose: The objective of this study ... -
Factors influencing editorial work within the sectors of the South African editing industry
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)South African editors currently work in a highly diversified industry that comprises a number of different sectors. As a result of this, the role of the editor remains contentious, with varied definitions and demarcations ... -
Factors influencing first-year students' intention to stay on at an educational institution
(Unisa Press, 2013)The aim of this study was to identify whether social support, academic fit, the psychological conditions of meaningfulness and availability, and engagement can predict first-year students’ intention to stay on at an ... -
Factors influencing first–year students intention to stay on at an educational institution
(HESA / Unisa Press, 2013)The aim of this study was to identify whether social support, academic fit, the psychological conditions of meaningfulness and availability, and engagement can predict first-year students’ intention to stay on at an ... -
Factors influencing women's utilization of public health care services during childbirth in Malawi public health facility utilization
(AJOL, 2017)Background: Maternal mortality remains a public health challenge claiming many lives at the time of giving birth lives. However, there have been scanty studies investigating factors influencing women's use of public health ... -
Faktore wat die weglating van die Afrikaanse onderskikker dat bepaal
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)Verb complement clauses in written Afrikaans have two formal variants. One form has an overt complementiser dat "that", followed by dependent word order (dat+SXV), while the other form has no complementiser and independent ... -
Families, intergenerational bonds, and aging in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2015)This Research Note proposes a rationale, and offers a set of initial parameters, for an explicit effort to forge a policy and scientifically relevant family gerontology for Africa. It builds on a critical appraisal of ... -
Family structure and children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa
(CODESRIA, 2017)To examine the effect of family structure on children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa, we employed Multi-level Modeling to analyse data from recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in 26 African Countries. In general, ... -
Family type, domestic violence and under-five mortality in Nigeria
(AJOL, 2017)Background: Nigeria still showcases unacceptably high under-five mortality despite all efforts to reduce the menace. Investigating the significant predictors of this occurrence is paramount. Objective: To examine the ... -
Father involvement and demographic factors influencing anti-social behaviours of adolescent learners in South Africa
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)South Africa enjoys the highest rates of fathers' absence (not father involvement) among Blacks in Africa after Namibia and in addition, have an increasing living father absence for all racial groups and among blacks in ... -
FeesMustFall : the 'inner' gender dimensions and implications for political participation in South Africa
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)Mostly, there are four stages in the cycle of an issue-based protest like the FeesMustFall, and each of the stages attract male and female participation for different, yet complementary reasons; in different degrees too, ... -
"Fictional" Texts in Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The Moon and Sixpence (1919) draws on the life of Paul Gauguin in complex ways, some of them surprising. Not intended as fictionalized biography—the raw biographical facts are too plainly incompatible—the novel nevertheless ... -
Financial accountability at schools: challenges and implications
(School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2010)Financial accountability is the cornerstone of ensuring that schools disburse funds allocated to them for the sole purpose of advancing the best interests of the learners. The prescriptions of the South African Schools ... -
Financial accountability at schools: challenges and implications
([School of Education and Development (SETD) ] University of KwaZulu Natal, 2010)Financial accountability is the cornerstone of ensuring that schools disburse funds allocated to them for the sole purpose of advancing the best interests of the learners. The prescriptions of the South African Schools Act ... -
Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Using data for 28 European countries for the period 2008 to 2012, we examine whether employed individuals are affected by the economic crisis. We provide robust evidence that unfavourable macroeconomic conditions are ... -
Finger-pointing and second-guessing: Executive versus legislative oversight
(SAAPAM, 2014)The legislature plays a pivotal role in the realisation of the ideals of democratic governance by, among other things, demanding transparency and enforcing accountability. Democratic governance entails government that is ... -
First-year university students' receptive and productive use of academic vocabulary
(University of Stellenbosch, 2016)The present study explores academic vocabulary knowledge, operationalised through the Academic Word List, among first-year higher education students. Both receptive and productive knowledge and the proportion between the ... -
First–year university students' productive knowledge of collocations
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)The present study examines productive knowledge of collocations of tertiary-level secondlanguage (L2) learners of English in an attempt to make estimates of the size of their knowledge. Participants involved first-year ...
