Between a Rock and a hard Place Exploring Xenophobia and Voluntary Refugee Repatriation in South Africa by Görgmeier, Anne Juliane Ulrike

“…This study aims to explore the relation between xenophobia and voluntary refugee repatriation in a South African context. The fear of xenophobic violence that was expressed by the 2019 protesters raises doubt about South Africa's ability to meet the UNHCR's standards of refugee protection. …”
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Roman Catholic liturgical music in urban Kenya: Processes of inculturation at St. Veronica parish Syokimau, Nairobi by Mulwa, Kennedy

“…I study how different aspects of this relationship interweave to provide a platform for inculturation of liturgical music in a way adapted to the unique urban characteristics of the parish. A historical context is provided as well as an overview of the development of liturgical music in the country. …”
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Shared values as organising principles in complexity by Philipp, Felix

“…Case studies are narratives, which can provide a rich and descriptive picture of the investigated object, portraying the complexities and ambiguities of the context and a socially constructed world (Tsoukas & Hatch, 2001). …”
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The implication of privatising water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative study on urban water supply public-private partnerships in Ghana and Tanzania by Putu, Tshegofatso Luthando

“…The paper suggests that preoccupation with private or public ownership in the sub-Saharan African context is undue and that more focus needs to be assigned to capacitating local human resources and institutions.…”
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Aspects of Bayesian inference, classification and anomaly detection by Roberts, Ethan

“…Although this is explored specifically through supernova cosmology, the context is general. Supernova cosmology without spectra will be an important component of future surveys due to massive increases in data volumes in next-generation surveys such as from the Vera C. …”
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Family Histories of Mental Illness and Violence in State Patients by Vogts, Elizabeth

“…Aim: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of violence and mental illness in the families of state patients, to what extend these coincide and to compare schizophrenia and mood psychosis in that context. Setting: The study included 60 state patients' folders, all of whom were diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, in accordance with DSM5 criteria. …”
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A virtual element method for hyperelasticity by van Huyssteen, Daniel

“…Examples of transversely isotropic materials, which are characterised by an axis of symmetry normal to a plane of isotropy, range from simple fibre-reinforced materials to biological tissues. To date, in the context of hyperelasticity, investigation of the performance of VEM has primarily focused on problems involving the isotropic neo-Hookean material model. …”
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The Role of Socioeconomic Status on Students' Employment Expectations in South Africa by Weaver, Michaela

“…The influence of students' socioeconomic statuses (SES) on their employment expectations is a largely understudied topic in the context of South Africa. There has additionally been little focus on the extent to which students' SESs affect their willingness to settle for lower earnings and their anticipation of socioeconomic discrimination in the workplace. …”
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Popular talk radio and everyday life in Mauritius by Chenganna, Azhagan

“…Anchoring popular talk radio as practice, the study has used a multilevel approach to find out what do people do to talk radio, what kinds of engagement are pursued, which ethical considerations are valued and the implications for citizenship and democracy in a Mauritian context of power differentials and social inequalities. …”
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Investigating automated bird detection from webcams using machine learning by Mirugwe, Alex

“…Through the use of transfer learning, all the models were initialized using weights pre-trained on the MS COCO (Microsoft Common Objects in Context) dataset provided by the TensorFlow 2 object detection API. …”
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Blockchain from farm to fork - a new business model for tracing local South African market food supply chains using blockchain technology by Oates, Natasha Lee

“…Overall, it is determined that a subscription-based business model for a supply chain traceability application will contribute value and solve problems for the main environment stakeholders, but is not considered financially viable in this local, Cape Town context.…”
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Capturing transients: an application of biostatistics to astronomy by van Dyk, Anke

“…Bias corrected estimation proves to be potentially useful in this context. In the third and final investigation, we present a ‘robust design' approach with a population of Dwarf Nova located towards and in the Galactic Bulge identified from the OGLE-II, -III, and -IV phases. …”
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Young and the urban in Addis Ababa: towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, c. 1950s-1974 by Asfaw, Semeneh Ayalew

“…In its attempt towards writing the popular dimensions of the history of the Ethiopian revolution in the Ethiopian capital, this study examines the conditions in which the social protests of 1974 occurred, and the social and cultural context in which the revolution became "thinkable". …”
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Evoked emotional responses in the performance practices of selected Yorùbá dùndún ensembles by Durojaye,Cecilia

“…Hence, communication of emotion in the world of dùndún consists of an interaction between the performer, the listener, the music and the culture, which also encompasses the context of performance. The findings of the study could be beneficial for further understanding of non-Western indigenous music from music cognitive perspectives.…”
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Domestication of open educational resources by academics in an open distance e-learning institution of South Africa by Mncube, Lancelord Siphamandla

“…The study established how academics accept, feel, perceive, and what skills, opportunities, challenges exist to hinder the domestication. The study context had no uniform guidelines or tools and policy in place for the domestication of open educational resources. …”
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Towards a qualitative framework for blending equity and excellence in transforming South African higher education to achieve development by January, Chanaaz Charmain

“…The key question around which major debates have revolved relates to achieving development within the context of a post-apartheid South Africa. At the heart of this question stand the twin imperatives of equity and excellence. …”
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Towards a grounded theory of how and why founders vary in their scaling approaches: Alleviating period poverty by Bhogal, Nishana

“…In addition, this study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship in impoverished contexts. I demonstrate that prosocial founders engaged in ostensibly similar efforts may play very different roles in engendering social capital that connects actors from impoverished and resource-rich contexts. …”
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The profile and outcomes of patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma treated with curative intent at Groote Schuur Hospital, a Tertiary Referral Centre in South Africa by Chilton, Gareth Harvey

“…Whereas several papers have reported on HCC in the South African context, very few studies have evaluated treatment options and subsequent survival data. …”
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Groundwater contamination at a landfill: a case study of coastal park landfill, Cape Town by Baderoon, Muneeb

“…Groundwater monitoring results obtained from predetermined low frequency sampling schedules should then be interpreted in the context of the prevailing intra-seasonal rainfall patterns and sampling locations if the groundwater monitoring results are to be understood correctly. …”
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Why Didn't They Get It? An Investigation into the Pedagogic Practices of a Vocational Curriculum by de Jager, Rae

“…Students are immersed in an authentic learning experience and the curriculum is centred around an assessment where students stage a Live Sound event that takes place in a real-world context. This study specifically examines the enabling and constraining factors that facilitate students to make the transition from learners to knowers. …”
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