Children’s perspectives on child well-being : a pathway to sustainable futures. a case study in Hammanskraal, Gauteng

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Developing a tool for setting priorities in the maternal health planning process at district level in Cameroon

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Methodological considerations related to the epidemiologic study of birth outcomes: maternal ART use and adverse birth outcomes by Malaba, Thokozile Rosemary

“…In parallel, routine electronic data, linked across clinics and data sources were obtained for all pregnant women at the GMOU (pregnancy exposure registry (PER)) and across the Western Cape province (PHDC). …”
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Feasibility, validity and utility of HIV testing data as key components of HIV case-based surveillance by Jacob, Nisha

“…Temporal trends in HIV prevalence, HIV testing, linkage to care, ART coverage and vertical transmission estimates were evaluated and where relevant, triangulated with other key data sources historically used as sources for these estimates. …”
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A control system framework for building energy retrofitting and maintenance planning

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Evaluating the decision criteria for the prioritisation of South African dams for rehabilitation in terms of risk to human lives by Reynolds, Sonel

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Establishment of enhanced protein purification strategies for recombinant immunotherapeutics by Shangase, Valentine

“…The data analysis showed that optimizing running conditions for each purification technique enhanced protein purity. …”
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Sustainable extension support to land reform beneficiaries in Zimbabwe (Mashonaland West)

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The blood supply of the human spinal cord at birth: a report on a micro-dissection study of 27 foetal and neonate cadavers by Dommisse, George Frederick

“…The number of feeder vessels, their ;.., sources of origin .and their approximate size~ have been determined. …”
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Complex interventions in complex health systems: Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination programs in the African region by Rakiep, Tasneem

“…We further demonstrate how these complex interactions contribute to the sub-optimal performance of hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination programs in the African region. …”
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Predicting water quality in bulk distribution systems by Rust, Tertius

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Government and community efforts in upgrading infrastructure in informal areas- the case of Izbit ElHaggana by Wahby, Noura Medhat

“…Realizing the magnitude of informality as a façon-de-vie in Cairo as in other megacities, this research focuses on the urban poor in their attempts to provide a decent standard of living using their own efforts, within the context of the lack of government engagement and limited resources. The purpose was to answer the research question how community organizations and state actors interact in providing key infrastructure in informal areas, taking Izbit ElHaggana as an area of study. …”
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Exploiting feedback information in cognitive radio systems by Attlla, Sara Abozeid

“…The secondary access decisions are optimized to maximize the SUs service rate while maintaining the PUs queues' stability. …”
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Developing a patient-centred care pathway for paediatric critical care in the Western Cape by Hodkinson, Peter William

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Home range use by Southern Ground-Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) - quantifying seasonal habitat selection and vegetation characteristics by Wyness, William

“…The habitat of an animal is extremely important as it provides that animal with the necessary resources for fulfilling its life-history requirements (Brennan & Block, 1993; Beyer et al. 2010). …”
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Assessing the impacts of assimilating satellite SST in addition to along-track SLA into a HYCOM of the Agulhas System by Rapeti, Tharone

“…In this study, we compare two assimilation experiments using the Ensemble Optimal Interpolation (EnOI) data assimilation scheme in a regional implementation of the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). …”
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Enterprise architecture driven design of an artefact to support strategic Information Technology decision-making of Small Enterprises in Nigeria and South Africa by Alhassan, Mohammed

“…The characteristics of small enterprises limit the successful implementation of the enterprise architecture-driven framework as a theoretical guideline for making optimal IT decisions in small enterprises. This study further developed an online IT decision-assistive tool informed by the framework. …”
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Testing the appetite of potential players in the housing microfinance field to develop niche loans for backyard shack formalization by Rousseau, Eloise

“…Government interventions such as the provision of grants and subsidies have resulted in sub-optimal allocation of resources and unintended negative consequences. …”
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Optimising the Optimiser: Meta NeuroEvolution for Artificial Intelligence Problems by Hayes, Max Nieuwoudt

“…Many widely used reinforcement learning architectures originate from scientific papers which include optimal hyperparameter values in the publications themselves, but do not indicate how the hyperparameter values were found. …”
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The Development of Post-Soviet Health Systems: A Mixed Methods Historical Case Study by Hotchner, Blaser Rebecca

“…Such knowledge can be leveraged to benefit other post-Soviet states, towards optimal health system development along the post-Soviet historical pathway.…”
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