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Magnetite immobilized metal nanoparticles in the treatment and removal of pollutants from wastewater: a review
(Springer, 2023)The increase in population and industrial activities has resulted in harmful pollutants in our water sources that cause a concern for our future health and environmental well-being. These pollutants include pharmaceuticals, ... -
Managing conflict at work: a qualitative analysis of municipal sports officers views in Gauteng province, South Africa
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)Conflict is an inevitable part of life and the importance of understanding and managing it is cardinal. The lack of understanding of conflict can affect various areas within an organisation, creating unstable and sometimes ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Materialism, status consumption and consumer ethnocentrism amongst black generation Y students in South Africa
(Academic Journals [© 2010 Academic Journals], 2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which black Generation Y students’ exhibit status consumption, materialism and consumer ethnocentrism tendencies, and the relationship between these three constructs. ... -
Measurement Invariance of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire Across 17 Countries
(Springer, 2023)The Meaning in Life Questionnaire assesses presence of and search for meaning in life. Although the questionnaire has shown promising psychometric properties in samples from diferent countries, the scale’s measurement ... -
Mediocracy and the fraud called education: the case of South Africa's curriculum statements in English
(Kamla-Raj, 2014)This paper examines the changes effected in the curricular statements that have guided English Language education in South Africa since 1994. It questions the philosophical, pedagogical and instructional logic that has ... -
Meeting challenges in rural African education:a Zambian case study
(2012)Private initiatives can contribute to the eradication of many of the educational problems of developing countries, specifically in rural Africa. This article explores the crippling education problems of several developing ... -
Metapolystoma ohlerianum n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis (Anura: Mantellidae)
(Springer, 2023)Purpose Despite Madagascar’s high amphibian diversity of more than 400 species, only a few polystome species are known from the island. The dissection of frogs from museum collections, together with amphibian and parasite ... -
Methodologies of targeting – renaissance militarism attacking Christianity as 'weakness'
(AOSIS, 2013)Intellectuals in the post-Medieval West, striving for scholarly emancipation, developed methodologies to target so as to free themselves from the dominant Christian, largely Roman Catholic, intellectual tradition. Machiavelli ... -
Mobile technology interaction to e–Commerce in promising of u–Commerce
(Academic Journals [© 2010 Academic Journals], 2013)Mobile technology interaction is gaining increasing acceptance. The need for mobility is a primary driving force behind mobile banking, mobile entertainment and mobile marketing, and is supported by an ever increasing ... -
Monoamine oxidase inhibition properties of 2,1‑benzisoxazole derivatives
(Springer, 2023)onoamine oxidase (MAO) are favoenzymes that metabolize neurotransmitter, dietary and xenobiotic amines to their corre sponding aldehydes with the production of hydrogen peroxide. Two isoforms, MAO-A and MAO-B, are expressed ... -
Municipal sports officers perceptions of performance appraisal and their relationship with satisfaction with the process
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)One of the human resources management functions is the appraisal of employee performance. Given the fact that employees are the most important source of capital advantage to an organisation, the overall aim of performance ... -
Music and dance as learning interventions for children with intellectual disabilities
(2013)Amongst the many disadvantaged groups of people in the world, an important minority are children with intellectual disabilities. Relative to their counterparts without intellectual disabilities, children with intellectual ... -
The nature of experimental and quasi–experimental research in postgraduate education research in South Africa: 1995–2004
(Unisa, 2011)It is widely known that there is a dearth of education research in South Africa which takes as its methodological basis experimentation. The emphasis has been on educators' and learners' experiential understanding in the ... -
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, ... -
An observational study of outdated technology
(Kre publishers, 2012)The use of paper-based approaches is still alarmingly prevalent in corporate environments. The objective of thispaper is to explore paper usage in corporate and higher education institutions by observing the use of traditional ... -
Old Testament Prophecy as Divination: the Case of Isaiah 14:28–32
(Unisa Press/SASNES (South African Society for near Eastern Studies) / Sabinet, 2013)Comparative studies of ancient Near Eastern prophecy in recent years have focussed on the distinction between inductive forms of divination, such as extispicy and astrology, which involve the so-called "scholarly" ... -
Pan–African Parliament and civil society: towards representing the voices of the people
(Unisa, 2011)The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) plays a major role in the democratisation process and the harmonisation of relations with civil society organisations (CSOs) for socio-economic and political development to be realised in ...
