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Unearthing a hidden treasure: 60 years of karst research in the Far West Rand
(Acad Science South Africa A S S Af, 2015)Karstified dolomitic formations situated in the Far West Rand goldfield of the Witwatersrand Basin constitute a significant groundwater resource in semi-arid South Africa and would be of strategic importance for alleviating ... -
The unique nature of the Bible and how to read It - a reformational-philosophical reflection
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The uniqueness of public sector project management: a contextual perspective
(Sabinet, 2011)Debates about the differences between management applications in public and private sector settings are prevalent in higher education institutions. Within the context of these debates, higher education service providers ... -
The uniqueness of public sector project management: a contextual perspective
(Unisa Press, 2011)Debates about the differences between management applications in public and private sector settings are prevalent in higher education institutions. Within the context of these debates, higher education service providers ... -
United Nations Security Council reform and the dilemmas of African continental integration
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2014)This article analyses the disunity among African states in terms of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform, and attributes it to the contest between South Africa and Nigeria. These two countries have been locked in ... -
Unraveling the importance of the quantity and the quality of workers motivation for well–being: a person–centered perspective
(Elsevier, 2013)The current study compares the quantitative and the qualitative viewpoints on work motivation by relying on Self-Determination Theory's differentiation between autonomous and controlled motivation. Specifically, we employed ... -
Unraveling the importance of the quantity and the quality of workers motivation for well–being: a person–centered perspective
(Elsevier, 2013)The current study compares the quantitative and the qualitative viewpoints on work motivation by relying on Self-Determination Theory's differentiation between autonomous and controlled motivation. Specifically, we employed ... -
Untold history with a historiography: a review of scholarship on Afrikaner women in South African history
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)In ‘The Rise and Fall of Afrikaner Women’ (2003), Gilliomee argues that Afrikaner women’s history ‘is the biggest untold story of the Afrikaner people’, and in doing so ignores the research on Afrikaner women’s history. This ... -
Uranium contaminated drinking water linked to leukaemia - revisiting a case study from South Africa taking alternative exposure pathways into account
(Elsevier, 2017)The paper presents results of a follow-up to an earlier study which established a geospatial link between naturally elevated uranium (U) levels in borehole water and haematological abnormalities in local residents serving ... -
Uranium pollution in South Africa: past research and future needs
(SRCE, 2015)Extracting gold for over a century from the Witwatersrand basin in South Africa as the largest known deposit on Earth, inadvertently also brought large amounts of radioactive and chemotoxic uranium (U) into densely populated ... -
The use of first-person pronouns in argumentative writing of Afrikaans-speaking first-year students: a corpus-based investigation
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2015)The writing of academic texts in which the voice of the author figures more prominently is actively gaining support among academics. There is an increasing shift towards a more personal style of academic writing where ... -
The use of traits and contextual information in free personality descriptions across ethnocultural groups in South Africa.
(APA, 2013)The present study investigates the differences between 3 ethnocultural groups in South Africa in the use of traits and contextual information for personality descriptions and the interaction of these differences with social ... -
The uses of 'some' as determiner in BSAfE
(Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2015)The determiner some is used primarily as an indication of an unspecified, but particular quantity. The question of whether this core meaning of some is extended in Black South African English (BSAfE) is addressed in this ... -
Using impacts of deep-level mining to research karst hydrology—a Darcy-based approach to predict the future of dried-up dolomitic springs in the Far West Rand goldfield (SouthAfrica). Part 2: predicting inter-compartmental flow and final groundwater tables
(Springer, 2014)Some of the world’s deepest goldmines operate below dolomitic karst aquifers in the Far West Rand (FWR) goldfield, South Africa. Associated impacts include the continuous dewatering of karst aquifers for over six decades ... -
Using project management to measure the provision of low–cost housing in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality
(South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM), 2013)This paper concentrates on the use of project management to measure the provision of low-cost housing (LCH) in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality (MLM). The provision of LCH forms part of government urban regeneration ... -
Using readability, comprehensibility and lexical coverage to evaluate the suitability of an introductory accountancy textbook to its readership
(University of Stellenbosch, 2016)At universities, textbooks are still a primary source of course content. However, this can only be efficacious if the intended readers are able to comprehend the content of the textbooks adequately. This study investigated ... -
Using technology recycling to develop a named entity recogniser for Afrikaans
(Natl Inquiry Services Centre Pty Ltd, 2015)Named entity recognition is a core technology, widely used in applications such as question–and–answer systems, automated text summarisation systems, information retrieval, machine translation, bioinformatics and search ... -
Using the features of translated language to investigate translation expertise: a corpus–based study
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015)The study reported on set out to test the hypothesis that linguistic operationalisations of the features of translated language will demonstrate signficant differences in the work of experienced and inexperienced translators. ... -
Using the Youth Self-Report internalizing syndrome scales among immigrant adolescents: Testing measurement invariance across groups and over time
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Although the Youth Self-Report (YSR) has been used in many studies throughout the world, little is known about the equivalence of the factor structure of this instrument for immigrant adolescents. Measurement invariance ...