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Gender-based discrimination in South Africa: a quantitative analysis of fairness of remuneration
(AOSIS, 2015)Equity is important to most individuals and its perceived absence may impact negatively on individual and organisational performance. The concept of equity presupposes fair treatment, while discrimination implies unfair ... -
General employee perceptions of gender-based discrimination in a selection of South African organisations
(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2015)Gender-based discrimination is prohibited in many countries, including South Africa. Despite this prohibition, employees continue to report discrimination. These perceptions affect individuals and organisations negatively. The ... -
Differences between managers' and employees' perceptions of gender–based discrimination in a selection of South African organisations
(UKZN, 2015)Introduction: The relationship between employees and employers depends, among other things, on the level of consensus on what is perceived as fair or unfair in the workplace. When these perceptions are similar, a ... -
Proactive behaviour towards strength use and deficit improvement, hope and efficacy as predictors of life satisfaction amongst first-year university students
(AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: The orientation of this study is towards proactive behaviour towards strength use (PBSU) and proactive behaviour towards deficit improvement (PBDI) and their relationship with hope, efficacy and life ... -
Authentic leadership as a source of optimism, trust in the organisation and work engagement in the public health care sector
(AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: The orientation of this study is towards authentic leadership (AL) and its influence on optimism, trust in the organisation and work engagement of employees in the public health care sector. Research purpose: ... -
Exploring relationsip intention and the duration of customer support in the South African banking industry
(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2015)Because it is generally more expensive to attract new customers rather than retain the existing ones, service providers are investing in resources to establish successful customer relationships. In identifying and ... -
Exploring the meaning and origin of stereoypes amongst South African employees
(AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: Stereotypes are defined in different ways and also originate from various sources. Research purpose: To investigate how the employees from selected South African organisations understand and define the concept ... -
Investigating the financial benefits of green buildings
(Business Perspectives Publishing Company, 2015)Due to the deterioration of the Earth’s health and the uncertainty in terms of climate changes, issues such as the economy, food, water and energy supplies, have become worldwide phenomena. Buildings have a huge role to ... -
Assessing the awareness of environmental management accounting in the mining industry in South Africa
(Business Perspectives Publishing Company, 2015)Mining activities normally have a huge impact on the environment. The whole lifecycle of a mining company with activities such as exploration, development, production and mine closure could result in high environmental ... -
Early-life exposure to fluoxetine and/or exercise on bio-behavioural markers of depression in early adulthood in stress sensitive rats
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Juvenile depression is a major concern worldwide, with only the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) fluoxetine and escitalopram approved for treatment. The effects of early-life exposure to SSRIs on neurodevelopment ... -
EBL inhomogeneity and hard-spectrum gamma-ray sources
(IOP Publishing, 2017)The unexpectedly hard very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray spectra of a few distant blazars have been interpreted as evidence of a reduction of the γγ opacity of the universe due to the interaction of VHE γ-rays with ... -
Risk mapping of eMalahleni municipal area with focus on coal mining impacts
(North-West University (South Africa), 2016)Coal-mining in eMalahleni raises a number of environmental challenges, including coal fires, subsidence, acid mine drainage (AMD) and air pollution. Previous studies by a number of institutions, including the Council for ... -
The effects of residual platelets in plasma on plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1-related assays
(PLOS, 2017)Due to controversial evidence in the literature pertaining to the activity of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in platelets, we examined the effects of residual platelets present in plasma (a potential pre-analytical ... -
Metabolomics biomarkers for tuberculosis diagnostics: current status and future objectives
(Future Medicine, 2017)Numerous studies have contributed to our current understanding of the complex biology of pulmonary tuberculosis and subsequently provided solutions to its control or eradication. Metabolomics, a newcomer to the Omics ... -
Metabolomics variable selection and classification in the presence of observations below the detection limit using an extension of ERp
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background ERp is a variable selection and classification method for metabolomics data. ERp uses minimized classification error rates, based on data from a control and experimental group, to test the null hypothesis of ... -
Case study of postgraduate student dropout rate at South African universities
(Clute Institute, 2015)Public funding for higher education in South Africa is a significant investment. Large amounts of funds are invested in students and there is a national shortage of high quality students in scarce skills - in particular, ... -
Fourier methods for analyzing piecewise constant volatilities
(Springer, 2017)We develop procedures for testing whether a sequence of independent random variables has constant variance. If this is fulfilled, the modulus of a Fourier-type transformation of the volatility process is identically equal ... -
Global scale variability of the mineral dust long-wave refractive index: a new dataset of in situ measurements for climate modeling and remote sensing
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2017)Modeling the interaction of dust with long-wave (LW) radiation is still a challenge because of the scarcity of information on the complex refractive index of dust from different source regions. In particular, little is ... -
Students’ perceptions for the use of interactive white boards in the delivery of distance learning programmes
(Unisa, 2015)Due to the need for higher education in South Africa, the country experiences a rapid growth in open distance learning, especially in rural areas. Owing to work pressure and financial constraints, people find it difficult ... -
Measuring religious tolerance among final year education students: the birth of a questionnaire
(International Institute for Religious Freedom, 2015)Given the fact that most societies worldwide are currently suffering from (serious) incidents symptomatic of religious intolerance, and since education can be regarded as one of the main instruments that society has at its ...
