On the fence: The impact of education on support for electric fencing to mitigate negative human-baboon interactions in Kommetjie, South Africa by Walsh, Debbie

“…There was also a significant difference in level of support for the fence in the pre- and post-test experiment, and my results show that women were more likely to adjust their response in favour of the fence. …”
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Comparative study on the behaviour of concrete reinforced with FRP and steel singly reinforced beams by Bakheit, Paul Charles Saki

“…The FRP reinforced concrete beams exhibited extensive cracking in comparison to the steel reinforced concrete beams and significantly more deflection before failure. The maximum deflection produced by the FRP reinforced concrete beams was around 20mm more than the steel reinforced concrete beam. …”
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An analysis of cybersecurity culture in an organisation managing Critical Infrastructure by Parbhunath, Abraham

“…The 4th industrial revolution (4IR) is transforming the way businesses operate, making them more efficient and data-driven while also increasing the threat-landscape brought on by the convergence of technologies and increasingly so for organisations managing critical infrastructure. …”
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Detecting subclinical anthracycline therapy related cardiac dysfunction in low income country (SATRACD study) by Zhang, Wanzhu

“…Anthracycline changes lipoprotein subfraction to more atherogenic pattern. Further studies are needed to explore more on its role on lipid metabolism.…”
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Spatial Patterns and Correlates of Lower Respiratory Tract Illnesses in Children from Drakenstein, Western Cape by Bhenxa, Namhla

“…Those who developed pneumonia and wheeze were more likely to be males as compared to females (both p<0.05). …”
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An investigation of the implementation of the Employment Equity Act (No. 55 of 1998) of South Africa by organisations in Cape Town in the Western Cape by Thabethe, Wandile

“…This study then sought to find out why the implementation of the Act has not resulted in more people of colour ascending into management positions. …”
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ISO-maps for Non-linear Dimension Reduction - Addressing Geometric and Numerical Issues Observed in Practice by Evert, Francois

“…To this end, Tenenbaum, de Silva, and Langford [2000] proposed an approach for approximating the underlying non-linear structure on which the variation occurs and such assumptions would be more tenable. This is achieved by first finding the non-linear underlying structure (manifold) in a high dimensional input space and then using the shortest distance matrix of the data points along this manifold to achieve non-linear dimensionality reduction. …”
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Ancestry-independent osteometric sex estimation from selected postcranial skeletal elements of South Africans: a machine learning approach by Scott, Michelle

“…Most methods are specific to SA African, European or, more recently, Mixed ancestry groups and are unreliable when ancestry is unknown. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness of reduced parking requirements in facilitating transit-oriented development: a case study of “PT areas” in Cape Town by Sasman, Nicola Anne

“…It recommends that the moment is right, due to changing behaviour as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, for authorities to take actions to reduce parking demand and supply, and related management, in support of more people- and planet-orientated cities.civil…”
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Pharmacometrics of dolutegravir and tenofovir: a quantitative approach to characterise drug-drug interactions, pharmacogenetics and optimise treatment by Kawuma, Aida

“…Africa houses more than 50% of the 37 million people estimated to be living with HIV (PLWH). …”
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The Maledu and Baleni cases impact on customary communities vulnerability to expropriation by Massyn, Julie-Hannah

“…However, the attempt to empower communities may have rendered them more vulnerable to the expropriation of their land. …”
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The alternative press in Black and White: Analysing the representation of Black voices in the weekly mails political reporting by Mpemnyama, Zimasa

“…While black women were put strictly in their motherhood boxes, white women were allowed space to think and speak more broadly about their political ideas and aspirations. …”
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Design and development of an autonomous duct inspection and mapping robot by Booysen, Tracy

“…An autonomous robot would be even more useful as no operator would be needed thus reducing operating costs. …”
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Disadvantaged students' academic performance: analysing the zone of proximal development by De Villiers, Abraham Benjamin

“…For the less modifiable group of students, the matriculation marks and, to a certain extent, static tests were good predictors, while for the more modifiable group of students a dynamic test proved to be a significant predictor of academic performance. …”
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Bacteriome interactions in pediatric atopic dermatitis in a rural and urban South African cohort by Ndhlovu, Gillian Ophelya Nondumiso

“…Staphylococcus aureus was more common in children with AD (cases) than healthy children (controls). …”
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Institutional change in higher education: a case study by Bleazard, David Keith

“…The analysis is then extended (effectively recontextualised) within a more pedagogic, social and political theoretical framework which is dependent largely on Bernstein. …”
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The Impact of Peculiar Velocities on Supernova Cosmology by Martin, Bryony

“…Since H0 is determined by low redshift data, it is not surprising that it is more affected by the correlations which occur primarily at low redshift. …”
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Multilingual Selves: Exploring Language Ideologies and Linguistic Repertoires among Young People in Cape Town by Adams, Imrah

“…This was explored through language portraits, which helped to foreground participants' lived experiences, and which also brought African languages more strongly into focus…”
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Developing a framework for assessing equity in contributions to the global goal on adaptation as part of the global stocktake by Barkai, Kalia

“…While mitigation has been more frequently defined based on allocations of “fair shares” in terms of emissions responsibility and targets, it is less clear how equity can be assessed in contributions to the global goal on adaptation (GGA). …”
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Stranger's Location: Interrogating Apartheid Spatial Legacies and the Idea of Home in New Brighton by Gqunta, Lungiswa

“…(Hannah Britton 2006:148) These violences worsened during apartheid making it an even more dangerous and vulnerable place to live in as black women. …”
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