Preconditioning for feature selection in classification by Pretorius, Jani

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Spatial variation, bias and experimental design in agronomic field trials: a case study of a farming systems trial in the Western Cape province, South Africa by Osborne, Devin Guy

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Estimation of NERICA adoption Rates and Impact on Productivity and Poverty of the Small-Scale Rice Farmers in The Gambia by Dibba, Lamin

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Modelling Multivariate Nonlinear Vaccine Induced Immune Responses by Lapham, Brendon M

“…In addition, the Tweedie multivariate generalised linear mixed effect and latent variable models have several advantages over the other models we consider and are also capable of interpretation; importantly, we are able to draw clinical conclusions about which novel TB vaccine candidates appear to be the most promising.…”
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Comparison of growth curve models for assessing height in a South African birth cohort by Niehaus, Jacqui

“…The random forest model appeared to perform similarly to the logistic regression model in terms of predictive power and variable interpretation. This dissertation contributes in investigating the possibility of using machine learning techniques to identify probable correlates of childhood malnutrition.…”
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Powered addition as modelling technique for flow processes by De Wet, Pierre

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Access to alcohol and drug treatment for people from historically disadvantaged communities in the Cape Town metropole by Myers, Bronwyn Jane

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Musculotendinous stiffness and muscle function by Viljoen, Lawrence Wayne

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Process monitoring and fault diagnosis using random forests by Auret, Lidia

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Spirometric and gas transfer measurements among normal adult South African men : an investigation into anthropoemtric, socio-economic, racial and environmental factors influencing... by Goldin, Jonathan Gerald

“…The identification of race as a confounding variable is particularly important in an evaluation of appropriateness of currently used pulmonary function reference values. …”
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Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in sub-saharan africa: a scoping review by Buxton-Tetteh, Naa Akyere

“…Although outcomes were similar to global norms, the high loss to follow-up limits interpretation.…”
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Finite element algorithms for the static and dynamic analysis of time-dependent and time-independent plastic bodies by Kaunda, Modify Andrew Elton

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Characterising the Namaqualand Mudbelt: Chronology, Palynology and Palaeoenvironments by Gray, Catherine Elizabeth Darnell

“…Results also highlight the dynamics of the Orange River, which, combined with a highly variable climate, suggest that caution should be exercised to avoid over-interpreting the level at which environmental changes can meaningfully be reconstructed in arid landscapes, particularly those which are subject to sporadic and catastrophic flooding events.…”
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Profiling medulloblastoma and juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumours in a South African paediatric cohort by Nair, Omesan

“…Brain tumours in children are one of the most challenging diseases to treat, and so outcomes are variable and often lacking. There are currently no reliable data of presentation of disease, the spectrum of tumours treated, how these are treated, and what the outcomes are for children in South Africa, and certainly no molecular biology data. …”
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Numerical methods for weather derivatives pricing by Nhangumbe, Clarinda

“…Mispricing these contracts poses a significant risk due the nature of weather variable. On rainfall derivatives pricing, the rainfall process is considered to be a stochastic, consisting of two random variables: one representing frequency, which is a two state Markov Chain, and the other representing the rainfall amount. …”
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A critical zooarchaeological examination of animal use and processing at the Early Iron Age sites Le6 and Le7 in the Kruger National Park

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Statistical modelling to determine the influence of vaccine dose and prior Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure on antigen-specific T cell responses by Williams, Kelly

“…The standard approaches where much more cumbersome to implement and interpret and resulted in significant multiple testing concerns.…”
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The measurement and analysis of flux variations in Seyfert galaxy nuclei by Winkler, Hartmut

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The gas chromatography of ammonia : heterogeneous systems containing silver ammines by Rutenberg, Aaron Louis

“…Kinetic considerations and phase rule interpretation of the plateau portion of the chromatogram, yielded quantitative information about the complexes, while the investigation of temperature effects I gave a measure of the bond strength between the ammonia and silver. …”
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Pursuing fit: a grounded theory of e-recruitment in Namibia – an integrated jobseeker and agency perspective by Abia, Mike

“…Two sub-categories constituting Pursuing Fit are Interpreting Fit and Positioning for Fit and they explain how stakeholders interpret e-recruitment concepts and position themselves and other Objects of Concern based on interpretation. …”
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