Limitations of savanna trees in the highveld grasslands of South Africa by Wakeling, Julia

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Testing alternative stable state theory at Afromontane and Milkwood forest-fynbos ecotones by Fouche, Bianke

“…ASS theory is more suited for explaining ecosystems that exist within the same abiotic conditions. …”
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Board independence and dividend distributions in listed family firms in South Africa by Dos Santos, Gabriela

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Continuous flow microwave sterilisation focussing on aqueous media by Burcher-Jones, Jordan

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Design optimisation of cageless flux barrier rotor reluctance synchronous machine by Kamper, Maarten J.

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An investigation into the co-producers of preferred strategic behaviour in small, micro and medium tourism enterprises in South Africa by Tassiopoulos, Dimitri

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An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa by Nwosu, Chijioke Osinachi

“…Descriptive analysis and different econometric techniques like instrumental variables, censored quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition were used for estimation. …”
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Using biological traits analysis to investigate ecological functioning of cold-water coral reefs by de Haast, James Andrew

“…The species assemblages were significantly influenced by the longitude and latitude of the site, in addition to other environmental variables. The result of the RDA performed on community-weighted means indicated that longitude and latitude explained a significant proportion of the variance in biological traits. …”
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Sludge symphony: an analysis of the microbial diversity dynamics at play in the activated sludge process and the impacts thereof on wastewater treatment performance by Gouws, Francois

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Factors influencing the success of small-scale irrigation farmers in Nkomazi (Mpumalanga)

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Western-imperialism in South African foreign policy (1999 – 2008) through constructivist language theory by Louw, Niel Ramsay

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Bee diversity in Angola and community change along an altitudinal gradient at Serra da Chela (Bruco) by Figueira Fernandes Elizalde, Sara Raquel

“…The results from this study are possibly explained by a combination of factors where the exceptional geomorphology and landscape shape the (direct) influence of environmental variables such as temperature and precipitation on the vegetation communities along the gradient therefore (indirectly) affecting bee community assemblages, particularly for the more specialized bee genera and species. …”
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Intention to quit amongst Generation Y academics at Higher Education Institutions by Robyn, Anecia Meghan

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Comparison of growth curve models for assessing height in a South African birth cohort by Niehaus, Jacqui

“…The results were compared to a random forest model. Methods for variable importance in classification problems using tree-based methods were explored. …”
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Cross-domain online vigilance and boundary management effects on stress among knowledge workers by Conradie, Liezel

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Climate change adaptation and sustainable agricultural intensification in developing countries by Mulwa, Chalmers Kyalo

“…Interventions along the value chain like teaming up with large market actors in a private-public engagement is shown to be a potential pathway towards enhancing uptake of sustainable intensification inputs. Other policy variables like credit provision, high education and access to off-farm incomes are also key in explaining uptake of risk management strategies by smallholder farmers in Namibia and Kenya.…”
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis by Chisha, Zunda

“…Next, the displacement of household expenditures is estimated using instrumental variables within a system-of-equations. Confidence intervals for the point estimates are then estimated using a method proposed by Nevo & Rosen (2012). …”
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Which resistance training method best improves running economy in elite marathon runners: a 16-week randomised controlled study by Behardien, Muhammed

“…A linear mixed model analysis assessed the group-by-time interaction for each variable. Post-hoc pairwise analyses were run when applicable. …”
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