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In good times and in bad: die stormagtige verhouding tussen kerk en die orrel - is egskeiding onafwendbaar?
(Universiteit van Pretoria/AOSIS (as Verbum et Ecclesia, maar met elektroniese artikels van Skrif en kerk), 2015)In good times and in bad: The tumultuous relationship between the church and the organ – is "divorce inevitable? Through the ages, a delicate relationship has existed between the church" "and the pipe organ. Since the 10th ... -
The influence of work behavioural styles on teaching and learning approaches
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Kuyper's razor? Rethinking science and religion, trinitarian scholarship and God's eternity
(AOSIS, 2015)This article explores three research fields in contemporary Christian scholarship and argues that the way they are approached is often questionable due to the basic assumptions, the methods or the implications. The ... -
A computer based assessment system for undergraduate electrical engineering modules
(SAIEEE, 2013)Good assessment is an essential component of good learning. Marking test and exam papers for large classes is however a time-consuming and repetitive task. This paper reports on the design and implementation of a computer ... -
Paul Ricoeur se begrip van transendensie met betrekking tot tyd en narratief
(LitNet, 2015)Paul Ricoeur se verstaan van die narratiewe struktuur van menslike “tydlikheid” bevat ’n dialektiese begrip van die transendensie van tyd, ’n begrip wat meer inhou as die gebruiklike tweedeligheid van transendensie en ... -
The Empowerment Approach To Parental Involvement In Education
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore how parents perceive the essence of parental involvement in education. A qualitative phenomenological design using eight group interviews of ten parent participants was used for ... -
μ-Analysis applied to self-sensing active magnetic bearings
(SAIEEE, 2011)The stability margin of a two degree-of-freedom self-sensing active magnetic bearing (AMB) is estimated by means of μ -analysis. The specific self-sensing algorithm implemented in this study is the direct current ... -
A theologically informed ontology of land in the context of South African land redistribution
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Comprehension of television news signed language nterpreters
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015)This questionnaire-based study evaluates interpretations of TV news broadcasts into South African Sign Language from the perspective of 360 adult Deaf respondents, who identify factors hindering comprehension. Methodologically, ... -
The in-group/out-group dynamics of Nerdrum’s positioning of Kitsch as a reflection of situatedness within contemporary art
(AHWG, 2015)In his description of the Kitsch movement Odd Nerdrum distinguishes between Kitsch and art. This article investigates the concept of Kitsch as theorized by Nerdrum as a manifestation of situatedness within contemporary ... -
Lucky Marais: die verpersoonliking van kameleontiese manlikheid
(AOSIS, 2015)Hierdie artikel fokus op die representasie van manlikheidsbeelde in Eben Venter se roman Santa Gamka (2009) en meer spesifiek op die uitbeelding van die veelfasettigheid van manlikheid in die hoofkarakter Lucky Marais. Die ... -
Exploring history teachers' perceptions of outcomes-based assessment in South Africa
(University of Venda, 2014)In an attempt to restructure the unequal South African education system of the "apartheid regime, Curriculum 2005 with an Outcomes–based Education (OBE)" approach was introduced by the ANC government in 1998. This new ... -
Voltaire: natural scientific light against Christian criminality methodologies of targeting
(AOSIS/KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)Western thought, since the Renaissance, shows a repeated development of methods aimed at attacking Christianity, from Machiavelli’s Classicist militarism up to William James’ ‘empty’ Pragmatism. Methods have aims, and aims ... -
Methodologies of Targeting Neoclassicist Voltaire's Twisted Hermeneutic for Targeting Criminal Christianity
(AOSIS, 2015)This article is the third of four written to line up two extremes in the history of methodology: early 20th century Pragmatism and late-Renaissance militarism, filling in the middle period, focusing on Voltaire and the ... -
Informed pursuit of happiness: what we should know, do know and can get to know
(Springer, 2015)The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: (1) Is greater happiness realistically possible? (2) If so, to what extent is that in our own ... -
Social conditions for human happiness: A review of research
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Empirical research on happiness took off in the 1970s and accelerated after the emergence of positive psychology by 2000. Today this has resulted in some 23,000 research findings. In this article, I take stock of the ... -
Perceived employability and psychological functioning framed by gain and loss cycles
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the gain and loss cycle ideas from the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory with regard to perceived employability and psychological functioning among employed workers and ... -
Constrained statistical inference:sample–size tables for ANOVA and regression
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015)Researchers in the social and behavioural sciences often have clear expectations about the order/direction of the parameters in their statistical model. For example, a researcher might expect that regression coefficient ... -
Prostitute, Nun Or Man–Woman : Revisiting The Position Of The Old Babylonian Nadi?tu Priestesses
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Present–day scholars debate the status and role of the Old Babylonian nadi?tu, describing them as priestesses who served as sacred prostitutes (Astour 1966), and/or living as virgin–celibate devotees of god(s), comparable ...
