Exploring impacts and effectiveness of the City of Cape Town’s interventions on household water use practices during the drought by Matikinca, Phikolomzi

“…The occurrence of water crises in many parts of the world raises the need to consider more efficient and sustainable consumption of water resources. …”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in non-communicable diseases in South Africa by Zulu, Tryphine

“…The two wealthiest quintiles benefit disproportionately more than they should, given their share of the population. …”
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Understanding risk of injury in novice runners: exploring the link between runner characteristics, biomechanics and injury outcome by Coetzee, Devon Ross

“…No differences in injury incidence, bone oedema or pain or discomfort prevalence were found between footwear groups, however the RC group experienced pain or discomfort more frequently. Footwear with reduced cushioning was found to promote kinematic strategies, including a lower foot strike angle (FSA), more flexed knee angle at foot strike and reduced knee range of motion during stance phase to compensate for the lack of cushioning. …”
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The influence of various factors on the results of carbonation, cover depth, half-cell potential and resistivity tests that are used in the assessment of reinforcement corrosion by Akhalwaya, Mohammed Faraaz

“…Rainy weather caused the values to become more negative, while dry weather led to more positive values. …”
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Investigation into the use of learning analytics in online learning at South Africa's higher education institutions by Molokeng, Palesa Maralitle

“…Barriers and challenges exist that have impacted the adoption of LA; these include technological, organisational and environmental challenges such as quality of systems, culture to use data and ethical concerns. Opportunities for more advanced use of LA also exist which are econcouraging institutions to prioritise LA initiatives in their drive of being more data-driven. …”
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Kalman Filtering and its Application to On-Line State Estimation of a Once-Through Boiler by Patel, Zubeida

“…These developments are aimed at producing more practical and efficient algorithms in non-linear continuous discrete Kalman filtering for stiff large-scale industrial systems. …”
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Financial vs Non-Financial Gifts and Workers' Performance: An Experimental Analysis of Reciprocity in the Workplace by Thompson, Megan

“…The present study made use of an experimental research approach, more so, a controlled field experiment in a naturally occurring work environment. …”
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Behavioural economics: The missing ingredient that makes sexual health services responsive and acceptable to young South Africans by Smith, Philip John

“…Participants in the mobile clinic study (n=304) rated mobile services' acceptability highly (median = 4,6 out of 5), attracting more males proportionally than conventional clinics. …”
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The Effect of Dataset Size on the Performance of Classification Algorithms for Credit Scoring by Gidlow, Liam

“…The learning curve analysis shows definitively that the more sophisticated classification algorithms - random forests, neural networks, gradient boosting machines, extreme gradient boosting and stacked ensembles – are able to consistently improve performance with more data available to train on. …”
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Detection and Analysis of Molten Aluminium Cleanliness Using a Pulsed Ultrasound System by Matlala, Kgothatso

“…Supervised machine learning is preferred as it offers more flexibility than a polynomial approximator, and it is more accurate. …”
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The levels and patterns of racial residential desegregation in Cape Town by Le Fleur, Chantel Carmen

“…The lower and middle class suburbs were more likely to be desegregated than the more affluent upper class areas. …”
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The identification and evaluation of factors influencing the use of quantitative methods in South African business by Uliana, Enrico Orlando

“…The major differences were found regarding the use of interactive models and the position of the quantitative methods person in the organisation. Managers wanted more use of interactive models and considered them to be more important than did the quantitative methods people. …”
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Using the Strategic Alignment Model to explore alignment issues between business and IT in a large, financial service organisation in South Africa by Sader, Farhad

“…In addition to proposing specific recommendations on what the organisation can do to ease the transition from a traditional perspective on alignment towards a more strategic view, this research recommends that Henderson and Venkatraman' s (1993) model be adapted to recognise three further elements that must be considered as part of the strategic alignment equation, namely: (a) values and beliefs; (b) expectations; and, (c) success criteria.…”
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Analysing the use of fintech for cross-border remittance as a livelihood strategy - A case of Nigeria by Dudu-Eniola, Onaririnogho

“…The outcomes of this study will aid in the development of more innovative FinTech technologies for easy cross-border remittances and remittance receivers' livelihoods. …”
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Impact of nighttime versus daytime emergency surgery on the outcome of necrotising enterocolitis by Mbonisweni, Akhona

“…“Damage control” surgery was more common at NT (p=.01) and associated with 25% 30-day mortality compared to 33% for other patients (p=.03). …”
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Estimation of Cable Forces at the Ashton Bridge through Ambient Vibration Testing by Nare, Kaboyamodimo

“…Hanger cables distribute forces and become more dynamically active as span lengths increase. …”
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Red Sea Intermediate Water in the greater Agulhas Current system by Roman, Raymond Edward

“…In terms of variability, the maximum RSIW contribution differed by more than a 100% between different sections at the southern tip of Madagascar. …”
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Investigations into the Effect of Temperature on Power-line Corona using Bridge Measuring Techniques by Pieterse, Petrus

“…The need for more power and the limitations on building new power lines have made compact power lines a necessity. …”
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A complex, high-performance agent-based model used to explore tuberculosis and COVID-19 case-finding interventions by Low, Marcus

“…With both these infectious diseases substantial pathogen transmission takes place before people report to health facilities. Diagnosing more people more quickly and placing them on treatment and/or isolating them is thus critical to achieving epidemiological control. …”
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Persistent (>6 months) Neuropsychiatric symptoms in a cohort of SARS- CoV-2 PCR positive patients in Cape Town, South Africa by Van Niekerk, Inette

“…Background : SARS-CoV-2 is a neurotrophic and pro-inflammatory virus, with several acute and more persistent neuropsychiatric sequelae reported. …”
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