A comparative evaluation of data mining classification techniques on medical trauma data by Ramaboa, Kutlwano K K M

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MHC Class I diversity influences haematozoon infection intensity in the polymorphic black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) by Le Roux, Liezl

“…The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a multigene family known to be the most variable gene group in vertebrates in terms of allelic diversity and gene number. …”
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Incremental validity of assessment centre exercise ratings over and above general mental ability and personality traits in predicting financial intermediaries regulatory examinatio... by Hesqua, Rene

“…The present study explored the optimal selection of financial intermediaries in the South African insurance services industry. …”
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The relationship between measures of ability, personality and academic performance : a concurrent validity study

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Migrant labour in contemporary South Africa by Schiel, Reinhard

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An artificial intelligence model to predict financial distress in companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

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Cape Town road traffic accident analysis: Utilising supervised learning techniques and discussing their effectiveness by Du Toit, Christo

“…There is limited South African literature on modelling RTA injury-severity using supervised learning (SL) methods that fit a model that relates a target variable to a set of predictor variables. In this thesis, multinomial logistic regression, classification trees (CT), random forests (RF), gradient boosted machines (GBM) and artificial neural networks (ANN) are used to model the potentially non-linear relationships between accident-related factors and injury-severity. …”
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Emotional intelligence as a predictor of work performance: An investigation using the situation-specific model by Mageba, Bongani

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in South Africa by Mkhwanazi, Thulile

“…This study used the unrestricted ARDL statistical technique in variables selection. This method kept 3 variables out of 8 initially in the model, eliminating issues of multicollinearity and unreliable coefficients with large variance and standard errors. …”
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Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban by Wileman, Bruce

“…The research is socio-phonetic in its focus and therefore three variables, the PRICE, NURSE and KIT vowels of Wells’ (1982) lexical sets, were selected for acoustic analysis, a selection which was guided partly by the researcher’s own intuitions and partly by observed correlations in the impressionistic literature between certain realisations of these vowels and the Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal as regions.…”
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UNCAGING CICADAS: Lover, Beloved, and Reader in Contemporary Love Poetry by Murie, Alexander

“…Additionally, I argue that the lover-poet integrates the reader into the circuit of desire, as subtly as the variable pronoun ‘you' and as brazenly as overt gestures that construe her as an actor in the text and in the affair between the lover and the beloved of the text. …”
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Determinants of climate smart agriculture technology adoption in the Norther Province of Zambia

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The decline of the globally threatened Rudd's Lark in one of its last remaining core sites, the Wakkerstroom grasslands by Gush, Wesley Gurney

“…Second, to determine what habitat variables predict Rudd's Lark incidence, whether there has been a change in its available habitat and in farm management practices, and whether the species has changed in its habitat selection since the previous survey. …”
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The development and empirical evaluation of an extended learning potential structural model by Mahembe, Bright

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