Outliers and influence under arbitrary variance by Schall, Robert

“…Using a geometric approach to best linear unbiased estimation in the general linear model, the additional sum of squares principle, used to generate decompositions, can be generalized allowing for an efficient treatment of augmented linear models. …”
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Investigating teaching and learning support for students with hearing impairment at a university in the Western Cape by Bell, Diane

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Molecular and evolutionary analysis of a gene conserved in most Orthopoxviruses by Douglass, Nicola Jennifer

“…An open reading frame (ORF), potentially coding for a protein of 341 amino acid residues, was found to be conserved in two strains of variola virus (Harvey and Somalia), but degenerate in the Denmark strain of monkeypox virus. …”
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Predicting corporate turnaround of listed companies in South Africa by Chin, Chu-Kuo

“…Corporate turnaround, in comparison to financial distress, is not substantially researched either internationally or locally in South Africa. …”
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Heterologous expression of alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 structural proteins and their use in the development of an ELISA

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Reframing the comparative discourse surrounding Malaysia's New Economic Policy and South Africa's black economic empowerment program through the lens of the political settlements f... by Mtshali, Hlumelo

“…While there certainly is a sound basis for direct comparison, much of the existing literature has viewed the comparison in a limited manner with the NEP often being hailed as an emulate-worthy model of transformation. …”
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Designed for durability in reinforced concrete structures, and associated economics by Scott, Allan Nye

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A study of nucleon unstable states produced in direct nuclear reactions by Hartmann, Kurt Miklos

“…An expression is derived for the wave function of such an excited nucleus, using the continuum shell-model theory. The bound and resonant states of the shell-model Hamiltonian are treated on an equal footing. …”
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An analysis of frictional effects in non-stationary contact problems for metal forming simulations by Colville, Kevin

“…Most FEM codes use a friction model that assumes that the contact surface is a plane. …”
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Human action recognition with 3D convolutional neural networks by Cronje, Frans

“…The KTH human action dataset is used to assess the CNN model, which, as a widely used benchmark dataset, facilitates the comparison between previous work performed in the literature. …”
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Creep predictions for turbomachinery components by Sieburg, H O

“…The creep-damage material model is extended to multidimensional situations. …”
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Experimental investigation and theoretical analysis on the effects of nanolayers on nanofluids' thermo-physical properties

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Numerical valuation of surrender options by Boateng, Kwasi

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Short-term sea level forecasting using machine learning techniques: A case study for South Africa by Ingreso, Maria Kristina

“…In this study, data-driven methods, which are more computationally efficient in comparison to numerical models, are applied to predict seawater levels. …”
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Optimal Visitation of Base Transciever Station Site: (Case Study of Vodafone Network; New Juabeng Municipality, Eastern Region, Ghana) by Ansah, Isaac

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Rapidity evolution of observables at high energies using the Gaussian truncation by Adamiak, Daniel

“…Today, the biggest predictive uncertainties in the Standard Model arise from theoretical uncertainties in quantum-chromo-dynamics contributions to cross-sections measured at high-energy collider experiments. …”
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A developmental profile of speech sound and syllable acquisition in Zulu speaking children

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Toward assessing scientific thinking : a qualitative analysis of student reasoning among psychology undergraduates by Bezuidenhout, Shaughn

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Predicting social unrest events in South Africa using LSTM neural networks by Zambezi, Samantha

“…This thesis demonstrates an approach to predict the count of social unrest events in South Africa. A comparison is made between traditional forecasting approaches and neural networks; the traditional forecast method selected being the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA model). …”
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Assessing the quality of airline websites and its impact on user satisfaction and continuance intention by Nazeer, Mohammad Nabeel

“…A conceptual research model that incorporates a very comprehensive set of website quality attributes is then formulated. …”
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