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A performance management system application model for public institutions : the case of the Regional Land Claims Commissioner, Limpopo Province
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Public service organisations face unprecedented pressure, not only to achieve the goals set by the government and to meet the expectations of the citizens, but also to deliver increased productivity and efficiency. To ... -
Investigating methods of knowledge transfer in an electricity supplier
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)The aim of this study was to evaluate the optimum way of how to transfer skills and knowledge from senior to junior/trainee employees in the workplace. The study was conducted at two power utilities (Lethabo and Grootvlei) ... -
Straddling border and legal regimes : a legal framework for transfrontier biodiversity conservation in SADC
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Traditional conservation models focus on conservation within sovereign national borders and therefore ignores the fact that biodiversity extends beyond these political boundaries. Since the Southern African Development ... -
How to handle missing data: A comparison of different approaches
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Many researchers face the problem of missing data in longitudinal research. Especially, high risk samples are characterized by missing data which can complicate analyses and the interpretation of results. In the current ... -
Investigating the business relationship between a finance house and motor dealerships
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Building a business relationship is not something that occurs overnight. The research was based on a financial organisation operating in the motor finance industry. The set organisation is deemed to be the second largest ... -
Spel en die spelende mens in Die sneeuslaper (Marlene van Niekerk), Klimtol (Etienne van Heerden) en Wolf, Wolf (Eben Venter)
(2015)Die doel van hierdie artikel is om aspekte van spel as artistieke aktiwiteit in die hede (dit wil sê binne ’n bepaalde periode en sosiale kontekste) te verken, asook die wyse waarop die spelbeginsel en die spelende mens ... -
Songs of struggle in the film Sarafina!
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Sarafina! (1992) started in the 1980s as an inspirational resistance theatre production called Sarafina, The Music of Liberation. After the stage production’s big success on Broadway in the USA, film director Darrell ... -
Field performance of ambient modal estimation in small signal stability
(IEEE, 2015)Small signal stability is one focus of Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS). WAMS systems are becoming more widespread, driven by availability of synchrophasor data from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). In this paper, two ... -
Evaluation of system losses due to harmonics in medium voltage distribution networks
(IEEE, 2016)Power system harmonics are a known cause to failure, disoperation or premature aging of customer's equipment. It also causes additional losses in a distribution network that influence the planning and design of future ... -
Continuous event-based harmonic impedance assessment using online measurements
(IEEE, 2016)The quantification of harmonic emission requires an accurate model of the network harmonic impedances. A number of techniques have been proposed for the assessment of the network harmonic impedances to be practical and ... -
Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: some unexpected lessons
(University of the Free State, 2014)The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective genre of action research. Values in action ... -
Opvoeding vanuit ’n post-postfundamentitiese perspekief
(LitNet Akademies, 2014)Dit het ’n aanvaarde feit onder opvoedkundiges en opvoeders geword dat daar ’n sekere verband tussen die opvoeder se lewens- en wêreldbeskouing en sy of haar pedagogiese teorie en praktyk bestaan. Daar het egter ’n paar ... -
Grootgroeponderrig ter wille van die verhoging van onderwysproduktiwiteit in hoër onderwys
(LitNet Akademies, 2014)Universiteite in Suid-Afrika en elders in die wêreld is onder druk weens sekere eksterne neigings, soos die huidige tydgees van nadruk op prestasie, effektiwiteit en produktiwiteit (performativity), bestuur van byvoorbeeld ... -
The road to reading for South African learners: The role of orthographic depth
(Elsevier, 2014)The study examined profiles of reading skills and cognitive skills for South African children from schools that differed in opacity of medium of instruction. The sample included 122 third graders instructed in Afrikaans ... -
Principal preparation in Kenya, South Africa and Canada
(Emerald Group, 2014)Purpose – The International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP) informs principal preparation in relation to change in schools. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The three-stage ISPP ... -
On the assessment of harmonic emission in distribution networks: opportunity for the prevailing harmonic phase angle
(IEEE, 2016)Harmonic emission assessment for Grid Code compliance of Renewable Power Plants (RPP) has to be fair and pragmatic. The CIGRE C4.109 method lacks the ability to determine which harmonic currents have a positive or negative ... -
Improved event based method for harmonic impedance assessment
(IEEE, 2016)The quantification of harmonic emission requires an accurate model of the network harmonic impedances. A number of techniques have been proposed for the assessment of the network harmonic impedances to be practical and ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of the Financial Threat Scale (FTS) in four European, non–student samples
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2015)The Financial Threat Scale (FTS) was designed to asses levels of fear, uncertainty, and preoccupation about the stability and security of one's finances. In previous research with Canadian university students, it was shown ... -
Domestic workers lived realities of empowerment and disempowerment within the South African labour legislative context: two sides of the same coin
(2015)South Africa is heralded as a global ambassador for the rights of domestic workers. Empowerment, however, remains an elusive concept within the sector. Fear–based disempowerment still characterises the employment relationship, ...
