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Testing controlled productive knowledge of adverb-verb collocations in junior researchers using English as a foreign language
(University of Stellenbosch, 2016)The present study examines English as a Foreign Language (EFL) junior researchers' use of adverb-verb collocations of academic vocabulary in both free written and controlled productions. A small corpus was compiled and ... -
Thanks? Gratitude and well–being over the Thanksgiving holiday among college students
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study examined the interaction of the Thanksgiving holiday with gratitude in relation to well-being using a three-week long, daily diary design with a sample of 172 undergraduate students. Multilevel modelling revealed ... -
The "hypnotic state" and eye movements: less there than meets the eye?
(Public Library Science, 2017)Responsiveness to hypnotic procedures has been related to unusual eye behaviors for centuries. Kallio and collaborators claimed recently that they had found a reliable index for "the hypnotic state" through eye-tracking ... -
The '10 Excess' phenomenon in responses to survey questions on happiness
(Springer, 2017)Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: 'all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to ... -
The (de)professionalisation of the gay male academic identity: locking the closet door on South African university campuses
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Considered as a principal method in organising forms of sexual orientation, the heterosexual/homosexual binary emphasises the centrality of heteronormativity in the everyday lives of social and sexual actors; thus, ... -
The (non)-utilisation of information provided by the senior information officers to the researchers in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)Members of legislatures are relying on the researchers to guide and advise them on the alternatives to deliver on their constitutional mandates of law making, oversight, public participation and cooperative governance. The ... -
The African expatriate composer as diplomat
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Diplomacy provides us with an alternative context in which to read ‘foreignness’ in composition, other than the existing discourses on the forming of identities in the contexts of exile and displacement. It is a reflexive ... -
The alleged 'essentialism' of Dooyeweerd
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)Ed Echeverria argues that Jonathan Chaplin attempts to avoid social constructivism by grounding the normativity (structural-typical invariance) of societal entities in the invariant "possibilities or potentials given with ... -
The application of a resilience assessment approach to promote campus environmental management: a South African case study
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - This paper aims to outline the benefits of using resilience assessment instead of command and control mechanisms to evaluate sustainable campus environments. Design/methodology/approach - An exploratory mixed-method ... -
The battle of the Lomba, 3 October 1987 : a tactical and operational analysis
(University of the Free State, 2017)The Battle of the Lomba, which was fought on 3 October 1987, was the final contest between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) during the first phase of ... -
The case for an emergentist approach
(2015)This paper sets out an argument in favour of emergentism as an alternative theoretical paradigm to nativism, arguing that it offers a coherent, evidence-based account of language structure, language acquisition, language ... -
The challenges of democratisation in Africa: evidence and the way forward for Nigeria
(Biga Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 2017)Democracy is perhaps the most popular political norm in modern discourse. For most sovereign states in Africa however, democratisation and its challenges have for long remained daunting. Even though described as 'false ... -
The components of attentiveness in Oncology Care
(Nova Southeastern University, 2016)This article presents the first findings of a qualitative empirical study of caregivers' attentiveness in hospital oncology care. It takes a care ethical perspective, in which attentiveness is considered an indispensable ... -
The concealed crime of the nadītu priestess in §110 of the laws of Hammurabi
(Unisa Press/SASNES (South African Society for Near Eastern Studies) / Sabinet, 2015)LH 110 is part of the ancient Near Eastern scholarly debate regarding the function and role of the nadiātu-priestess groups in Old Babylonian society. Seemingly, LH 110 forbids the uncloistered nadītu from opening up or ... -
The conglomeration of flesh and cloth in a beautiful place': the politics of aesthetics in Michiel Heyns's Invisible Furies
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article investigates the ideas related to aesthetics that are discussed explicitly in Michiel Heyns's Invisible Furies (2012). These ideas are communicated in the novel by means of a variety of narrative situations, ... -
The corruption bogey in South Africa: Is public education safe?
(Education Assoc South Africa, 2015)Corruption is a constant global phenomenon, which is becoming more complex and intense as competition for resources increases. It is even more so amongst those living in developing countries, particularly emerging economies ... -
The cultural aspect in the contextualisation of pastoral caregiving ministry
(AOSIS, 2017)Due to the political changes during the last three decades in South Africa, many voices raised for the post-colonializing of sciences. This is also applicable to the pastoral caregiving ministry. Although the science of ... -
The demise of post-apartheid and the emergence of post-colonial South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2016)The notion of post-apartheid initially signalled a unique South African social and political trajectory that differed from the conventional African colonial and post-colonial experience. However, this article demonstrates ... -
The DSW: From Skeptic to Convert
(Springer, 2015)The author traces the history of the original DSW degree in relation to the Ph.D. which was viewed as the more respected, rigorous, and traditional degree, essentially replacing the DSW in social work doctoral programs. ... -
The education and training levels of the South African traditional healer: a present-day perspective
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background:The traditional healer in Southern Africa received new status as a statutorily recognized health professional with the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007). Usually such recognition ...