Transformation in South African rugby: ensuring financial sustainability by Coetzee, Eduard

“…The second thrust of the research shifted to the development and testing of a hypothesis for a more inclusive and sustainable model than that tested above, utilising an inductive approach, underpinned by qualitative data derived from interviews, empirical observations and relevant textual material. …”
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Advanced water metering and its application in low income communities by Malunga, Masoabi

“…These advanced water meters have capability of processing, storing and communicating data without the need of human intervention. …”
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Narrative discourse characteristics of South African Afrikaans speaking Cape Coloureds with aphasia by Venter, Analou

“…For the purpose of investigating the higher cognitive and linguistic processes, the formulation of main ideas, providing the lessons for the stories as well as proverb interpretation tasks were included and analysed. …”
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The role of Iron Regulated 2 and Iron Regulated Transporter 1 in nickel hyperaccumulation traits in Senecio coronatus by Mackay, Angus

“…Scientific investigation has sought to understand the mechanisms underpinning hyperaccumulation in order to apply them in the phyto-technological processes of phytoremediation (removal of metal pollutants from the environment) and phytomining. …”
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Development of a synchronisation and video conversion unit for Denel Overberg Test Range's tracking radar by Uprety, Kushal

“…The SVCU performs the task of baseband video processing, generation of all synchronisation triggers, and timing within the TR. …”
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Medicine stock Management at primary health care facilities in one South African province by Munedzimwe, Fadzai Eunice

“…We anticipate that our findings will inform policy makers on how the availability of medicines at PHC facilities may be improved by focusing on improving the processes in medicine stock management at this level.…”
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Mechanisms for funding youth businesses in South Africa: The role of DFIs by Mabasa, Nhlamulo Collins

“…The three institutions have sound and functional credit committees that ensure that prejudice is eliminated from the appraisal processes. Lastly the NYDA spends majority of its budget on salaries compared to the mandate which it exists for. …”
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From fable to court: tracing the curation of indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case by Kapepiso, Fabian S

“…Using a grounded theory methodology, data was collected through an unstructured interview, reviews of literature and theoretical sampling to extract relevant concepts and themes. …”
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Key factors influencing the outcome of Energy Projects procured using Public Private Partnerships in South Africa by Wimbush Justin

“…Processes required for the procurement of construction projects by the public and private sectors must comply with many requirements and incentives, not least of which is usually the requirement to provide value for money. …”
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Systems Development of a Two-Axis Stabilised Platform to Facilitate Astronomical Observations by Hepworth, James Haydn

“…The associated electrical systems were specified and configured. An image processing script capable of detecting and locating the centre of the Moon in the camera field of view was written in Python and implemented on a Raspberry Pi Computer. …”
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Condition monitoring of induction motors in the nuclear power station environment by Rylands, Naasef

“…The test loads as well as fault severity were varied where possible to investigate its effect on the fault detection scheme. The data was processed using an FFT based algorithm programed in MATLAB. …”
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Electronic countermeasures applied to passive radar by Paine, Stephen Thomas

“…Basic ECCM is also presented to counter potential pilot attacks on DVB-T2 based PR. Using measured data from a PR demonstrator, the application and effectiveness of each jamming technique is clearly demonstrated, evaluated and quantified.…”
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Leakage Characterisation in Bulk Pipes using Pressure Tests by Niebuhr, Dietmar Eckart

“…It causes minimal interference to the pipe operation, requires little downtime and the data can be processed in minimal time.…”
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Mapping the multiple intersectoral spaces for civil society participation and responsiveness strengthening in the South African health system – focusing on the Western Cape by Whiting, Amy

“…Feedback from civil society back into national or provincial policy-making processes is sporadic due to fragmented tiered governance. …”
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Health and disease in two villages in South-Eastern Lesotho : a social anthropological perspective by Heap, Marion

“…Macro morbidity and mortality data identify major disease and health trends for large populations. …”
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Enhancing participation through rural self-help structures in KwaZulu - the case of a bureaucratic public institution by Ndlovu, Baby E C

“…There is also a general lack of consistency between the mission of the agency and the contents of the personnel appraisal and evaluation tools and processes and hence – lack of commitment to goals and/or goals' displacement. …”
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Analyzing the influence of financing and governance on cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) value creation. A key focus on CSSPs involved in water sustainability in South Afric... by Makombore, Lizah

“…Furthermore, relevant governance mechanisms and processes that align to this phase have to be analysed and made provision for in the distribution of the value created by the partnership, including the mutual rights and obligations of different partners, or for any future contingencies that may affect the operation of the partnerships. …”
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We should be given a chance: identifying barriers and enablers from disabled people's employment in the office of the Premier of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, South Afric... by Loyilane, Ndileka Eumera Portia

“…Disabled people have not been part of the employment processes, especially within government. They have always been encouraged to pursue income-generating projects like sewing, knitting or carpentry. …”
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The effects of strikes on the share returns of gold and platinum mining companies by Tsotetsi, Oupa Jacob

“…South Africa is one of the world's leading mining and minerals-processing countries, accounting for 8.2% of gross domestic product (GDP). …”
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Characterising user engagement of parents with the Aurora chatbot by Liebetrau, Diana Rangel Lopes de Campos

“…The methodology used to achieve this objective encompassed text pre-processing, engagement metric extraction, topic analysis, content analysis, and sentiment analysis. …”
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