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Engagement of secondary school teachers in Namibia: relational context effects
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The aim of this study was to investigate relational antecedents of work engagement for secondary school teachers and to determine whether specific psychological conditions mediate the effects of relational factors on work ... -
Engagement – metahistorical considerations on a disputed attitude in historical studies
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014)It is the main intent of this article to correct a misunderstanding of what engagement in historical studies, historiography and historical culture means and what it is about. So, first of all I will shortly describe the ... -
Engaging adolescents as peer educators about the dangers of cannabis use: a participatory action research approach
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Cannabis (dagga) has become one of the most used substances in South Africa, especially among adolescents. Although research has shown that life skills programmes are the most useful prevention methods, these programmes ... -
Engaging alumni in private higher education to develop alumni relations
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)This study explores the possibilities of establishing alumni relations in a private higher education institution. Therefore, the Primary objective of the study is to identify if there is a need from the alumni that have ... -
Engaging in work even when it is meaningless: positive affective disposition and meaningful work interact in relation to work engagement
(SAGE Publications, 2013)The central aim of the present study was to assess the predictive value of affective disposition and meaningful work on employee engagement. Specifically, it was proposed that meaningful work moderates the relationship ... -
Engaging in work even when it is meaningless: positive affective disposition and meaningful work interact in relation to work engagement
(Sage, 2013)The central aim of the present study was to assess the predictive value of affective disposition and meaningful work on employee engagement. Specifically, it was proposed that meaningful work moderates the relationship ... -
Engaging learners as Homo ludens through a pedagogy of puppetry in learning about indigenous knowledge: affordances for self-directed learning
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Puppetry, as example of a pedagogy of play (PoP), utilises storytelling, which has largely been associated with indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) over millennia. It is believed that, by infusing pedagogies such as ... -
Engaging with human rights and gender in curriculum spaces: a Religion and Education (RaE) perspective
(CSSALL (UKZN), 2013)The introduction of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) and how it positions religion in the curriculum requires rethinking. This article first argues that Religion and Education (RaE) has the propensity ... -
Engineering a manager: assessing the factors affecting the career transition from engineer to manager
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The appointment to a managerial position brings with it various managerial challenges. Engineering is one of the most seen careers among managerial positions. A study found that 33% of the S&P 500 CEO's have engineering ... -
Engineering a novel automated pump control system for the mining environment
(North-West University, 2007)South Africa is experiencing serious electricity supply problems. A major concern is the high peak electricity demands between 18:00 and 20:00. This peak is primarily caused by the growing residential sector. Unfortunately, ... -
Engineering a process safety culture in the chemical processing industry
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2022)Industries where fire, explosion or releases (FERs) of hazardous chemicals may occur are administered by process safety management (PSM). Such events have the potential to cause catastrophes resulting in fatalities, facility ... -
Engineering and expression of a human rotavirus candidate vaccine in Nicotiana benthamiana
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Human rotaviruses are the main cause of severe gastroenteritis in children and are responsible for over 500 000 deaths annually. There are two live rotavirus vaccines currently available, one based on ... -
The engineering and optimization of expression of rotavirus–like particles in insect cells using a South African G9P[6] rotavirus strain
(North-West University, 2012)Rotavirus infection causes gastroenteritis, specifically severe gastroenteritis, affecting children younger than five globally, regardless of hygiene and water quality. Current licensed, live, attenuated vaccines do not ... -
Engineering approach to highly-glycolytic cancer models and systems exploration of COVID-19 vascular complications
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2022)In this thesis, engineering approaches are applied to two major medical research diseases, namely cancer and coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19). The first approach (Part A) provides new preclinical cell culture (in ... -
Engineering change management in a large steel manufacturing company
(2014)Engineering is inherently a process of constant change. The process of managing engineering changes is however, not a new topic and it is well defined and implemented in various other engineering management philosophies. ... -
Engineering management and business intelligence: the importance of plant design base
(SAIIE, 2016)Most popular business improvement models center their framework and approaches around business process improvement – thus on people, process and technology aspects of the business. They tend to drive business process ... -
Engineering principles and medical discoveries
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Engineering semantic web services for government business processes automation
(Springer, 2015)Web Services (WS) technology does not allow automatic discovery and execution of services in the current distributed and complex business environments. Semantic Web Services (SWS) overcome this limitation by adding semantic ... -
Engineering students at the Vaal University of Technology : Analysing learning style preferences
(IBIMA, 2010)What are the different learning style preferences of students at the Vaal University of Technology,and how is it possible to address all the learning styles simultaneously? Each individual has a distinctive preference ... -
English Academy Percy Baneshik memorial lecture: education and the form of the humanities: an ‘institutional re-membering’.
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)South African education at all levels is currently recovering from a bad bout of ‘governance as steering’. To restore public confidence the South African academy needs consciously to embrace in its practice the intrinsic ...
