Multimodal neuroimaging signatures of early cART-treated paediatric HIV - Distinguishing perinatally HIV-infected 7-year-old children from uninfected controls by Khobo, Isaac Lebogang

“…Elastic net (EN) regularisation uses penalised regression to perform variable selection, shrinking the weighting of unimportant variables to zero. …”
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Communication and its impact on enterprise financial sustainability by Kapepula, Annie

“…Interviews were also conducted with various financiers and donors of the selected not for profit enterprises. Responses to research statements were scaled and converted to quantitative data via Likert scale developed for the study to enable segmentation of the data responses into dependent and independent variables based on communication and financial sustainability variables. …”
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Parametric Yield and Tolerance Optimisation of Electromagnetic Devices using Feature-based Non-Linear Partial Least Squares Polynomial Chaos Expansion Surrogates by Nfanyana, Ketshabile

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Price Prediction Models of Metals Considering International Crises by Ghali, Haidy

“…So, prior to developing the LSTM models, the collected input variables are analyzed with respect to the output variable using correlation, granger-causality and multicollinearity tests in R software; then, the input variables are further filtered to select the significantly statistical input variables that impact the output variable. …”
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Biogeography, biodiversity, and barcodes: accounting for seagrass associated biodiversity along the South African coastline by Fagg, Courtney

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TOWARDS ENHANCED INDEPENDENCE: INVESTIGATING SHAREHOLDER VOTING ON DIRECTOR ELECTION PROPOSALS by Janse van Vuuren, Michael Ross

“…Shareholder opposition to director re/election resolutions (the dependent variable) increased significantly over the research period. …”
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Optomechanical Design of a Space Telescope Primary Mirror by Rehman, Saeed Ur

“…The impact of different design variables for pocketing material will be analyzed. …”
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From cost-effectiveness to economic-efficiency in conservation planning: the importance of considering the economic benefits of conservation by Palframan, Louise Moira

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Sex and gender differences in job attribute preferences: Exploring the role of gender self-schemas by Southey, Olivia Cara

“…Finally, JAPs found to be significantly different between males and females increased when gender self-identification was used as the variable to measure sex. These findings are useful for recruitment and selection as they reveal that job attributes could be more gender specific than found in past studies. …”
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A microcomputer controller for a nylon spinning machine by Kirk, Terence Enfield

“…The controller is a component in a loosely coupled feedback system which reads two tachometer pulse trains and various plant interlocks and produces two pulse trains which are used to control two solid state variable frequency variable voltage inverters and their AC motors. …”
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Aspekte rakende die toepassing van komplekse steekproefnemingsontwerpe in die praktyk

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Determinants of supplementary feeding use among commercially oriented smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

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Impact of the global financial crisis and its implications for the Zambian banking sector: an econometric study by Sichula, Mwembe

“…The selected variables include, Return on Assets (ROA); Non-Performing Loans (NPL); Foreign Assets (FA); Interbank Lending Rate (IBLR); Liquidity (LQD); Credit to Private Sector (PRV); Foreign Exchange Rate (FOREX); Inflation (INFL); Copper Price (CU); and a ‘dummy’ variable (CRISIS). …”
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Key performance indicators and predictors in Varsity Cup rugby by Sewry, Nicola

“…Coaches rated players every practice on three variables and the matches were recorded and video analysis performed to determine key performance variables. …”
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