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Items published by the Rector, Vice-Rector and other various staff members of the North-West University
Recent Submissions
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Reflection on pastoral care in Africa: Towards discerning emerging pragmatic pastoral ministerial responses
(AOSIS, 2016)Pastoral care takes different forms in responding to people’s needs in their context. Accordingly, over the centuries it has evolved in response to emerging needs. Historical developments in pastoral care are well-documented. ... -
God-image of Servant King as powerful but vulnerable and serving: Towards transforming African church leadership at an intersection of African kingship and biblical kingship to servant leadership
(AOSIS, 2015)Christianity is mediated through culture and people’s cultural practices. One such cultural practice is African kingship. African kingship conveys on the ruler sovereignty, power, authority and supremacy over people under ... -
Gender-based violence and efforts to address the phenomenon: Towards a church public pastoral care intervention proposition for community development in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2019)Gender-based Violence (GBV) is a huge concern in many African countries such as Zimbabwe despite the preventative and mitigatory interventions that have been proposed and implemented by various stakeholders. The interventions ... -
COVID-19 and intimate partner violence in Zimbabwe: Towards being church in situations of gender-based violence from a public pastoral care perspective
(2020)The COVID-19 global pandemic negatively transformed social, religious and economic life globally. Countries implemented national lockdowns among other measures to mitigate against the spread of the pandemic. Zimbabwe is ... -
Changing family patterns from rural to urban and living in the in-between: A public practical theological responsive ministerial approach in Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)African people and their families find themselves in a situation of tension because of their transition from rural to urban life. This tension has created a third family type, namely emerging families. The emerging families ... -
Comparing Transformer-based and gradient boosted decision tree (GBDT) Models on Tabular Data: A Rossmann Case Study
(2023)Heterogeneous tabular data is a common and important data format. This empirical study investigates how the performance of deep transformer models compares against benchmark gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) methods, ... -
Parsimonious airfoil Parameterisation: A deep learning framework with Bidirectional LSTM and Gaussian Mixture models
(Elsevier, 2024)The choice of airfoil parameterisation method significantly influences the overall wing optimisation performance by affecting the flexibility and computational efficiency of the process. Ideally, one should be able to ... -
Transformer-based Text Generation for Code-Switched Sepedi-English News
(2023)Code-switched data is rarely available in written form and this makes the development of large datasets required to train code switched language models difficult. Currently, available Sepedi-English code-switched corpora ... -
Neural network-based vehicular channel estimation performance: Effect of noise in the training set.
(2025-02-12)Vehicular communication systems face significant challenges due to high mobility and rapidly changing environments, which affect the channel over which the signals travel. To address these challenges, neural network ... -
Pre-training a Transformer-Based Generative Model Using a Small Sepedi Dataset
(2025-01-25)Due to the scarcity of data in low-resourced languages, the development of language models for these languages has been very slow. Currently, pre-trained language models have gained popularity in natural language processing, ... -
A data pilot-aided temporal convolutional network for channel estimation in IEEE 802.11P vehicle-to-vehicle communications
(2025-02-06)In modern communication systems, having an accurate channel estimator is crucial. However, when there is mobility, it becomes difficult to estimate the channel and the pilot signals, which are used for channel estimation, ... -
Sequence Based Deep Neural Networks for Channel Estimation in Vehicular Communication Systems
(Springer Nature ( Pre-print), 2023)Channel estimation is a critical component of vehicular communications systems, especially in high-mobility scenarios. The IEEE 802.11p standard uses preamble-based channel estimation, which is not sufficient in these ... -
Is network fragmentation a useful complexity measure?
(2024)It has been observed that the input space of deep neural network classifiers can exhibit ‘fragmentation’, where the model function rapidly changes class as the input space is traversed. The severity of this fragmentation ... -
An Arabidopsis Pentatricopeptide Repeat Is A Moonlighting Protein With Cross-Talking In Vitro Adenylyl Cyclase And Kinase Activities
(Springer, 2023)Downstream signalling involving adenylyl cyclases (ACs) and kinases is a key component of several processes in plants including cell division, growth, and response to stress. ACs are enzymes that generate the second ... -
Testing For The Pareto Type I Distribution: A Comparative Study
(Springer, 2023)Pareto distributions are widely used models in economics, finance and actuarial sciences. As a result, a number of goodness-of-fit tests have been proposed for these distributions in the literature. We provide an overview ... -
When Science Is Taught This Way, Students Become Critical Friends: Setting The Stage For Student Teachers
(Springer, 2023)Efective science education draws on many diferent ways of teaching science. The literature on science education documents some potential benefts of argumentation instruction as a powerful tool for learning science and ... -
Passive Electrochemical Hydrogen Recombiner For Hydrogen Safety Systems: Prospects
(Springer, 2023)This paper presents the concept of a passive electrochemical hydrogen recombiner (PEHR). The reaction energy of the recombination of hydrogen and oxygen is used as a source of electrical energy according to the operating ... -
Early Vascular Ageing Phenotypes And Urinary Targeted Metabolomics In Children And Young Adults: The Examin Youth Sa And African-Predict Studies
(Springer, 2023)Some individuals are susceptible to accelerated biological ageing, resulting in premature alterations in arterial structure and function. Identifying early-onset vascular ageing characterised by arterial stifening is vital ... -
An Arabidopsis Linker Histone-Like Protein Harbours A Domain With Adenylyl Cyclase Activity
(Springer, 2023)Adenylyl cyclase (AC) is an enzyme that catalyses the formation of the second messenger molecule, 3′,5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) from 5′-adenosine triphosphate (ATP). cAMP, in turn, regulates key physiological ...
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