Towards Naturalistic Data Collection in South Africa: Feasibility of Home-based Smartphone Recordings of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Coding with the Joint Engagement Rating In... by Ndlovu, Minkateko

“…The majority of smartphone-recorded caregiver-child interactions could be coded with only some difficulty and with good inter-rater reliability on the JERI. …”
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Development of a collaborative framework for wine bottling facilities and their supply chain partners by Koegelenberg, Marianca

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Examining personality assessment in asynchronous video interviews (AVI): convergence between human personality judgements and AI/ML scoring by Cronje, Jacobus Fouche

“…To measure personality, the study focuses on the HEXACO model, which measures Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. …”
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Towards answering unanswerable questions: data augmentation for enhanced medical domain question answering by Alexander, Natalie

“…In addition, we ensure model reliability by applying answer abstention when the text-to-SQL model cannot reliably answer a question, while also ensuring that the model does not deteriorate the answerability of the original answerable questions. …”
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Responsible government, 1873-1878 by Johann F Preller

“…(see, in this conn~~ion, the Johannesburg "St.ar", 12/8/4 3) The prevailing circumstances however, will prevent the South African s'tudent to see these letters for some time to come. In writing this essay I have assumed two things, e.g. that the reader is aware of the existence of freedom of speech in Parliament, granted by Act No. 1 of 1854, and . ' • (iii} secondly, that the only language recognised by the Constitution was English. …”
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The influence of transformational leadership on trust, psychological empowerment, and team effectiveness by Aucamp, Linza

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The school mathematics textbook as an instantiation of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics by Press, Karen

“…In particular, the analysis examines how a chapter of the textbook constructs its own model reader and model author, how it produces literacy practices and narratives that contribute to the construction of school mathematics· as a discursive practice, how it defines the rules for reading its messages and how these rules are in tum susceptible to modification by logonomic systems present in contexts where the textbook may be used. …”
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Environmental factors influencing the distribution of bats (Chiroptera) in South Africa by Salata, Hassan Aburaida Babiker

“…The majority of the environmental variables employed in this study to model the distribution of bats, were correlated to some degree, which could affect the contribution of an individual environmental variable to the performance of a model. …”
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Evaluation of when road space prioritisation/infrastructural improvements for paratransit vehicles is warranted: A case study of Mitchells Plain, Cape Town by Oni, Oluyemi

“…So, actions are needed to be taken to improve the travel speed, safety and reliability of paratransit vehicles. In 2007, South Africa’s department of transport envisioned some strategies to revitalise public transport system in South Africa whereby one of the strategies is to replace paratransit called Mini-bus taxi in South Africa with scheduled trunk-feeder services. …”
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Ubiquitous intelligence for smart cities: a public safety approach by Isafiade, Omowunmi Elizabeth

“…Evaluation was conducted to investigate: (i) the reliability of the model in identifying all inherent series in a crime dataset; (ii) the scalability of the model with varying crime records volume; and (iii) unique features of the model compared to competing baseline algorithms and related research. …”
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How can sense-data processing generate perception? by Ghattas, Marian Reda Asaad

“…Paul Snowdon suggests that sense-data theory had three different models in the twentieth century: (1) what he calls the dominant model, which is a strict model that takes sense-data as real and extra objects involved in our perceptual experience, (2) a weaker model, where G. …”
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Towards the quantification of intellectual disability in children and adolescents in Africa: an exploration of the psychometric properties of the Wessex Behaviour Schedule (WBS) in... by Abbo, Catherine

“…One tool that has been used to investigate the broad category of 'disability' (which includes ID) is the Ten Questions Questionnaire (TQQ). The TQQ has given some rates of 'disability' in lowand middle-income countries (LMICS) in the order of 10-25%. …”
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Evaluating a pre-screening questionnaire's predictive validity at a large financial institution by Adams, Reygana

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Beyond a reasonable doubt: how South African courts assess eyewitness testimony in murder trials by Musabayana, Anesu Michelle Catherine

“…It also damages the reliability and relevance of the criminal justice system, which should be underpinned by principles of fairness and justice. …”
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The Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) by Ghanaian companies the level of compliance with reference to the preparation of financial statement. by Acquaye, Sandra

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Low cost condition monitoring under time-varying operating conditions

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Understanding bandwidth constraints on South African university students during the COVID-19 pandemic by Lakay, Mc Guigan

“…This includes those who come from under-privileged backgrounds or who live in underprivileged areas with a lack of resources. …”
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Degradation behaviour of the mechanical properties of bovine cortical bone by Daras, Nicholas

“…A comparison between the material model for cortical bone in the commonly used ‘Total Human Model for Safety' (THUMS) and a strain-rate dependent plasticity material model highlights the advantages of the latter, emphasizing the potential for enhanced simulation accuracy.…”
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