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The principals’ role in developing social capital for the promotion of healthy school environments
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES, 2017)School leaders’ individual and collective efforts are essential in the promotion of healthy school environments. In this respect, the building of social capital is very important for a school’s improvement. The aim of this ... -
Stakeholder perceptions of the determinants of reputation in South African public schools
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)This research focuses on perceptions of reputation in black township schools in South Africa. The call for the provision of equal education compels school managers to be proactive in their efforts to build reputation for ... -
The need for professional development of educators : a Key to improving the culture of teaching and learning
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)Professional development of educators is important in advancing educational practices. The resultant collaboration between the district and school (i.e. principals and educators) serve as a foundation for skills acquisition, ... -
Caring principal leadership for the support of teachers leading committees for promotion of healthy school environments
(New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)Caring lies at the heart of effective enhancement of healthy school environments and good school leadership. This is evidenced by health policies wherein principals are indirectly obliged to act ethically and morally. By ... -
School Community Participation and School Health Promotion : challenges and Opportunities
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)Issues surrounding community participation at schools are frequently debated in South African education spheres. However, communities remain not totally convinced to participate in health promoting ... -
Factors that promote teacher well-being in the physical environment: the context of a rural high school
(International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023)Although factors that affect teacher well-being are better understood, there is a lack of clarity on factors that bolster teacher well-being in rural schools. This study illustrates the factors that promote teacher well-being ... -
Intergrated Approach to Health Promotion : the South African Schools’ Role
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)This research sought to examine the schools’ role in integrated health promotion. The key focus was on the understanding of the integrated policies and the implications of practical implementation of such policies in ... -
The value of teaching practice as perceived by Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students
(AJOL, 2019)The pursuit of excellence in preparing student teachers for the teaching profession is a never-ending endeavour. This study aimed at investigating the value of teaching practice as perceived by the participants, how they ... -
The role of principals in school health promotion in South Africa : a qualitative study
(Emerald Insight, 2021)Purpose – School principals are presumed to be pillars of school health promotion implementation. Their understanding of their role could enhance school health promotion. This study aims to investigate how principals ... -
Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance
(Cornell University, 2022)Pretraining methods are typically compared by evaluating the accuracy of linear classifiers, transfer learning performance, or visually inspecting the representation manifold’s (RM) lowerdimensional projections. We ... -
The performance of wearable sensors in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection : a systematic review
(Elsevier, 2022)Containing the COVID-19 pandemic requires rapidly identifying infected individuals. Subtle changes in physiological parameters (such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature), discernible by wearable devices, ... -
Hopelessness and shame in relation to suicide attempts by Cuban adolescents
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Youth suicide rates in Cuba are very high compared with most other countries, despite considerable improvement in recent years. The purpose of our study was to determine whether hopelessness and shame distinguish adolescent ... -
Environmental attitudes among undergraduate students at a South African university
(ediPUCRS [University Publisher], 2022)Understanding environmental attitudes (EAs) has been viewed as prerequisite to changing environmental behaviour and is a particularly salient topic in the context of higher educational institutions which play an important ... -
Employers’ attitude, intention, skills and barriers in relation to employment of vulnerable workers
(2022)BACKGROUND: Little is known why some organizations employ vulnerable workers and others do not. OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationships between the attitude, intention, skills and barriers of employers and employment of ... -
Does occupational self-efficacy mediate the relationshipsbetween job insecurity and work-related learning? A latentgrowth modelling approach
(2022)This study investigates whether job insecurity is related to employee learning (i.e. the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies/characteristics; KSAOs) and whether occupational self-efficacy functions as a ... -
Catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol using synthesized and characterized CoS@MorphcdtH/CoS@4-MPipzcdtH nanoparticles
(JCCS, 2023)CoS@MorphcdtH NPs and CoS@4-MPipzcdtH NPs were synthesized by precip itation method involving three mechanisms: inclusion, occlusion, and adsorp tion. The synthesized NPs were characterized with the help of UV-Vis spectroscopy, ... -
Residual activity of spinosad applied as a soil drench to tomato seedlings for control of Tuta absoluta
(SCI, 2023)BACKGROUND: Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is difficult to control by means of foliar insecticides, partly because of the endophytic feeding behavior of its larvae. The biopesticide spinosad is applied as a ... -
In vitro and ex vivo experimental models for evaluation of intranasal systemic drug delivery as well as direct nose‐to‐brain drug delivery
(Wiley, 2023)The intranasal route of administration provides a noninvasive method to deliver drugs into the systemic circulation and/or directly into the brain. Direct nose‐to‐ brain drug delivery offers the possibility to treat ... -
Evaluation of BAYESIL for automated annotation of 1 H NMR data using limited sample volumes: application to African elephant serum
(Springer, 2023)Introduction Technological advancements enabled the analyses of limited sample volumes on 1 H NMR. Manual spectral profiling of the data is, however, complex, and timely. Objective To evaluate the performance of BAYESIL ... -
Markers of arterial stifness and urinary metabolomics in young adults with early cardiovascular risk: the African‑PREDICT study
(Springer, 2023)Introduction Increased exposure to risk factors in the young and healthy contributes to arterial changes, which may be accompanied by an altered metabolism. Objectives To increase our understanding of early metabolic ...
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