Waveform design and processing techniques in OFDM radar by Lellouch, Gabriel

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Firm growth, survival and productivity in South Africa by Masenyetse, Rethabile Francis

“…Using leverage and liquidity are the indicators of finance, the results from panel data estimation indicates that low leverage firms are more productive compared to the high leverage, while the low liquid firms are less productive compared to high liquid firms. …”
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Risk preferences and the poverty trap : a look at technology uptake amongst small-scale farmers in the Western Cape by Jumare, Hafsah

“…The poverty trap hypothesis postulates that very low income individuals may be trapped in poverty because severe constraints give rise to behaviour that limits their ability to take up and benefit from new investments. …”
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Detecting and quantifying plasmodium falciparum in blood and tonsils: towards an understanding of malaria-related oncogenesis by Kusi, Stephen

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An online learning algorithm for technical trading by Murphy, Nicholas John

“…In addition, the algorithms generalisation error is analysed by recovering a probability of back-test overfitting estimate using a nonparametric procedure introduced by Bailey et al. [19]. …”
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Systematic asset allocation using flexible views for South African markets by Sebastian, Ponni

“…The framework displays low probability of backtest overfitting and the out-of-sample net returns and Sharpe ratio point estimates of the HS-FP model outperforms the benchmark models. …”
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Evaluating automated and hybrid neural disambiguation for African historical named entities by Dunn, Jarryd

“…The multilingual language model-based system substantially improved on a probability-based baseline and achieved a micro F1-score of 0.726. …”
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Estimating value at risk and expected shortfall: a kalman filter approach by Van Der Lecq, Maximilian

“…Back-testing results (in which the number of times VaR or ES forecasted too low a value to cover the following day's market loss is compared with the prescribed confidence level) indicate that the Kalman filter is a reliable and robust contender in the volatility framework milieu, outperforming GARCH, EWMA and equally weighted measures of volatility in both volatile and calm market conditions.…”
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The importance of frequent flyer programmes in airline selection : a survey of corporate travel management in large-sized corporations in South Africa

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The Rationale, Design and Implementation of the African Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry by Kraus, Sarah

“…Cardiomyopathies pose a great challenge because of poor prognosis and high prevalence in low- and middle-income countries with limited access to specialised care. …”
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Land use and breeding ecology of a renosterveld endemic bird: the Agulhas Long-billed Lark Certhilauda brevirostris by Rose, Sanjo

“…Occupancy was then modelled against site variables (percentage renosterveld and riverine vegetation, and amount and type of fence line vegetation). Detection probability was estimated to be 0.67, giving an occupancy probability at sample sites of 0.91. …”
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Ground motion variability and its effect on the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis

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Moral Problems associated with Pediatric Deafness by Van Niekerk, Marthinus Gerhardus Mynhardt

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Knemidokoptic mite infections on the Cape Peninsula population of Black Sparrowhawks by Van Velden, Julia

“…The subclinical level of this infection was found to be low, with most of the population not having any mites and only a few individuals representing clinical cases. …”
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