Some aspects of the mineral chemistry of the peridotite xenolith suite from the Bultfontein Diamond Mine, Kimberley, South Africa by Lawless, Patrick Joseph

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The Griquas of Griqualand East until about 1878 by Knoll, Thelma J N

“…In view of the many contradictory statements contained in the blue books which I had at my disposal, it was indeed difficult (due perhaps to some extent to my lack of experience of official reports) to select the correct data. …”
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Structural and metamorphic evolution of a gneiss terrain in the Namaqua Belt near Onseepkans, South West Africa by Toogood, David J

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Determinants of the cost of credit for project finance debt in Africa by Hatzilambros, Constantin

“…The database represents non-recourse project finance transactions throughout Africa from 1995 to 2015 and was filtered down 89 loan entries that contained the most important loan parameters. Empirical results suggest that secured loans are priced in a different category to unsecured loans, increasing the All-In credit-spread by 196.94 bps (P-value < 0.1%) if the loan parameter is moved from an unsecured to a secured loan. …”
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The removal of nitrogen and phosphorus in anoxic-aerobic digestion of waste activated sludge from biological nutrient removal systems by Vogts, Michelle

“…This compared with anaerobic digestion which is complex to operate requiring airtight containers with fire risk, heating and much recycling. …”
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DNA comparisons of the two orthopoxviruses monkeypox and variola by Pare, Nicola Jennifer

“…Initially restriction enzyme mapping of the two stretches of DNA showed considerable homology and narrowed down the area containing any nonhomologous Variola sequences to within 2.9kb. …”
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Discriminative training of hidden Markov Models for gesture recognition by Combrink, Jan Hendrik

“…This positions the problem as one of fine-grained dynamic gesture recognition, as the hand pose information contained in other modalities are ignored. The method achieves a highest accuracy of 87.3%, comparable to other results reported on the Montalbano dataset using discriminative non-temporal methods. …”
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Pricing with Bivariate Unspanned Stochastic Volatility Models by Wort, Joshua

“…Unspanned stochastic volatility (USV) models have gained popularity in the literature. USV models contain at least one source of volatility-related risk that cannot be hedged with bonds, referred to as the unspanned volatility factor(s). …”
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Ultra-diffuse galaxy candidatesin stripe 82 clusters by Makda, Nazir Ahmed Adam

“…To survive in the cluster environments, where they have been observed, these galaxies must contain significant amounts of dark matter as the strong tidal fields would normally tear diffuse low-mass galaxies apart. …”
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Predicting social unrest events in South Africa using LSTM neural networks by Zambezi, Samantha

“…The social unrest time series contained a significant number of irregular fluctuations with a non-linear trend. …”
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Balancing state sovereignty and the protection of human rights: a case study on the impact of the requirements of state consent and the exercise of political will on the functionin... by Kunaka, Sheryl

“…However, the definition of ‘multilateralism' restricts the application of the legal frameworks of these organizations to sovereign states that have voluntarily consented to be bound by the obligations contained therein. State consent and political will drive multilateralism, and the requirement of voluntariness in these forms has been utilised as a means of respecting the internationally recognized legal principle of state sovereignty. …”
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The relation between Mishna and Tosefta Rosh-Hashana by Barzel, Jacob

“…For this reason, the Tosefta is found to propound explanations of, and to contain quotations from. the Hishnah , in the same manner as does the Talmud. …”
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Development of Open-Source Software for Repeatable Processing of Mechanical Test Data by Slater, Daniel

“…The Jupyter Notebooks containing the code for these demonstrations serve as tutorials for future users of the toolkit. …”
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Intermediary liability: evaluating the liability sections of section 53 (7) and (8) of Namibia's draft copyright and related rights bill 2021 by Ipinge, Ndapandula

“…Similarly, the EU Electronic Commerce Directive of 2000 contains safe harbour provisions which limit the liability of intermediaries. …”
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The doctrine of forum non conveniens and the discretionary limitation of jurisdiction of the South African Admiralty Court in terms of section 7(1) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Re... by Malan, Christopher Cyril Martin

“…The Act has been described as one which contained "novel, unusual and at times far-reaching provisions” and that in being enacted it was the intention of the Legislature: "to introduce a remedial measure designed to provide what is nowadays referred to as 'a new dispensation' in respect of maritime claims and their enforcement in South Africa". …”
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Formulating an effective liability regime for genetic modification regulation in South Africa: a critical and comparative analysis by Niland, Phillipa

“…While steps have been taken to better provide for situations where harm is caused by Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), the liability and redress provisions contained in the South African GMO legislation are unfortunately still lacking in some respects. …”
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Development of a rapid laboratory predictive test method using fluidised bed techniques for the determination of oxidisability of residual CR (III) present in slags by Maidza, Teboho

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An investigation into the biocatalytic application of the thermostable nitrile hydratase from the thermophilic strain Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8 by Chiyanzu, Idan

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Removal of zinc from a base-metal solution using ion exchange at Rustenburg Base Metal Refiners. by Taute, Jacob Johannes

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An economic perspective on the influence of social interaction on risky behaviours by Tibesigwa, Byela

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