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Bisisimi or the language of the wise
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Jean Pierre Nkara --- Department of Foreign Modern Languages, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, CongoSome speakers of Teke (a Bantu language spoken in the Congo) use a kind of linguistic virtuosity called Bisisimi which is entirely based on a competitive use of chanted proverbs. In this article I attempt to define the term Bisisimi,... -
Mbyi Bandzogho: ridicule among Teke youngsters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Jean Pierre Nkara --- Department of Foreign Modern Languages, CongoThis article deals with a speech event among Teke youngsters. The participants meet in the evening and play a game that entails a decision to refrain from speaking. Whoever breaks the silence becomes the target of unpleasant jokes in the... -
Verbal suffixes of derivation in Fang-Ntumu
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Pierre Ondo-Mebiame --- Département des Sciences du Langage,Verbal suffixes have been the subject of a protracted debate. Suffixes are diachronically defined as the elements of formation that are added at the end of a root or a radical (cf. Marouzeau, 1969:216; Phélizon, 1976:209; Mounin, 1995:311). This definition... -
Provincial road condition and round wood timber transport in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: StephenJ. Nicholls ReinoE. Pulkki PierreA. AckermanThe context of the study is the concern over declining provincial road conditions due to insufficient government funding for road maintenance. The roads are used by a wide variety of commercial and private interests that contribute a broad range of... -
Biogeochemistry of Marine Systems
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Controlling the flood in the Senegal Delta: do waterfowl populations adapt to their new environment?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Patrick Triplet --- , France Pierre Yésou --- , FranceTriplet, P. & Yésou, P. 2000. Controlling the flood in the Senegal Delta: do waterfowl populations adapt to their new environment? Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 106–111. -
Living on the bare edge: fitness consequences for Cape Gannets Morus capensis at Bird Island, Algoa Bay
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: David Green --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology, South Africa Pierre Pistorius --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology, South AfricaAvian breeding colonies often suffer high levels of predation along their margins. Nest predation is a major fitness concern for parents and therefore nests inside of the colony edge might be at a premium. This was tested through studying the... -
The vulnerable Osprey breeding population of the Al Hoceima National Park, Morocco: present status and threats
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Flavio Monti --- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS UMR5175), France Houssine Nibani --- Association de Gestion Intégrée des Ressources (AGIR), Morocco Jean-Marie Dominici --- Rèserve Naturelle Scandola, Parc Naturel Règional de Corse, France Hamid Rguibi Idrissi --- University Chouaib Doukkali, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Mathieu Thévenet --- , France Pierre-Christian Beaubrun --- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS UMR5175), France Olivier Duriez --- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS UMR5175), FranceIn the Mediterranean, most areas belonging to the initial distribution range of the Osprey Pandion haliaetus have been lost and local populations have disappeared in recent decades because of persecution. Even though direct management actions have allowed local partial recovery,... -
“Shorthaul” pulpwood transport in South Africa. A network analysis case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: Pierre A. Ackerman --- Forest Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, South Africa Reino E. Pulkki --- Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, CanadaShorthaul transport, also known as secondary intermediate transport (SIT), is a feature of pulpwood transport in South Africa. SIT is an additional transport phase within traditional secondary transport. It originates at roadside landing or depot and terminates at another depot,... -
On-board computing in forest machinery as a tool to improve skidding operations in South African softwood sawtimber operations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Marco Pellegrini --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Raffaele Cavalli --- Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, ItalyOn-board computing (OBC) systems in South African timber-harvesting operations are currently limited because of the lack of local expertise and experience. In this study three trials were conducted, monitoring three skidder extraction operations at three sites in South African softwood... -
Effects of irregular stand structure on tree growth, crown extension and branchiness of plantation-grown Pinus patula
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Simon A Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre A Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Thomas Seifert --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaThe practice of combining row and selective thinning in commercial pine plantation silviculture carries the risk of unwanted irregularities in tree distribution, a situation that is aggravated when tree selection during marking is poor. The potential consequences of poor tree... -
Declining catch per unit effort of an estuarine-dependent fish, Rhabdosargus sarba (Teleostei: Sparidae), in the marine environment following closure of the St Lucia Estuarine System, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: BruceQ Mann Pierre PradervandMonitoring of catch per unit effort of the tropical stumpnose Rhabdosargus sarba in the St Lucia Marine Reserve between 2001 and 2005 revealed a significant decline. A similar decline was evident from shore patrol data collected by Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife... -
Biomechanical features of the bill and and jaw apparatus of cuckoos, turacos and the hoatzin in relation to food acquisition an
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: LeonidP Korzun Christian Erard Jean-Pierre Gasc FelixJ DzerzhinskyA morphofunctional analysis of the feeding apparatus was conducted from an evolutionary perspective on the hoatzin (Opisthocomidae), some cuckoos (Cuculidae) and some turacos (Musophagidae). These goups share a common ancestral adaptation of the bill apparatus linked to starting food processing... -
Causes for the recent increase in sea surface salinity in the north-eastern Gulf of Guinea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CY Da-Allada --- International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications [ICMPA – UNESCO Chair], Bénin G Alory --- Université de Toulouse; Université Paul Sabatier [UPS]; Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales [LEGOS], France Y du Penhoat --- International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications [ICMPA – UNESCO Chair], Bénin J Jouanno --- Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace [IPSL], France MN Hounkonnou --- Université de Toulouse; Université Paul Sabatier [UPS]; Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales [LEGOS], France E Kestenare --- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement [IRD], FranceIn situ sea surface salinity (SSS) observations showed an increase >0.5 over the period 2002–2009 in the Gulf of Guinea, off the Niger Delta. Observed changes in the Niger River runoff were not consistent with this increase in SSS, but... -
Modelling of wander ratios, travel speeds and productivity of cable and grapple skidders in softwood sawtimber operations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Elizabeth Gleasure --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaThe objective of this study was to develop predictive models for cable and grapple skidder wander ratios, travel speeds (loaded and unloaded), and productivity in softwood roundwood sawtimber harvesting operations. For field data collection, the study utilised on-board computing systems... -
Family Medicine as a New Speciality in South Africa
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Veeltaligheid in die wetenskap Multilingualism in science
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To be indexed
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South African Family Practice goes online
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The power of googling
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Letters to the Editor
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The Colonel
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Transforming the Academy
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Alas our research and its carbon footprint!
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“The times are a-changin”
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A Tale of Two Conferences
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Becoming a family medicine specialist
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New beginnings
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Hope
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Family Medicine for Africa
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Striking Doctors
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What is wrong with us men?
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It's denial, that's the crisis
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National Health Insurance—threat or opportunity for family doctors?
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Can you also feel it?
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To care, or not to care: is that not the question?
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A new Council for a new Academy
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Maternal Deaths
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Are you ready for genomic medicine?
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Testing, treating, and preventing
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Media freedom: on the slippery slope to repression
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Advertising in medical journals: are we missing the point?
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Is anyone out there listening?
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Open Access Week 2011
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The Academy in 2011: a time of difficulty and opportunity
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The journal: a change at the helm
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The Family Medicine specialty: buyer's remorse or reluctant seller?
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Cardiovascular risk factors in a treatment-naïve, human immunodeficiency virus-infected rural population in Dikgale, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Felistas Mashinya --- Department of Medical Science, Public Health and Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences, Marianne Alberts --- Department of Medical Science, Public Health and Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences, Robert Colebunders --- International Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Belgium Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden --- International Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, BelgiumObjective: The objective was to determine lipid levels and cardiovascular risk factors in treatment-naïve, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected rural African people in Limpopo province. -
HIV risk after release from prison: a pilot case-control study in Canada, France, Ivory Coast and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Evelyne Vallières --- LICEF, Canada Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Rémi Dongo Kouabenan --- Université Pierre Mendès France, France Denis Dagou Koménan --- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cocody, Ivory Coast Sid Abdellaoui --- Université de Paris, France François Joseph Azoh --- École normale supérieure, Ivory Coast Pierre McDuff --- Université de Montréal, Canada Jacques Bergeron --- Université de Montréal, Canada Safiétou MBaye --- Électricité de France (EDF), FranceThis study aimed to assess HIV knowledge, risk perception and risk behaviour of ex-offenders at risk of new infection and to compare them with the general population. A case-control interview study was conducted with conveniently sampled ex-offenders and persons with... -
Lumbering the gauntlet: Cape Gannet fledglings killed by African Penguins
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alistair M McInnes --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa Nicolas Suarez --- Centro Nacional Patagonico (CONICET), Argentina Gavin M Rishworth --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, South Africa David B Green --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, South Africa Pierre A Pistorius --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, South Africa Lorien Pichegru --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, South AfricaThis account presents the first known observations of Cape Gannet Morus capensis fledgling mortalities as a result of aggressive nest defence behaviour by African Penguins Spheniscus demersus. Observations were conducted in 2013 on Bird Island, Algoa Bay, South Africa –... -
The effect of bait collectors on stocks of Callichirus kraussi and Upogebia species in Langebaan Lagoon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Pierre Nel --- West Coast National Park, South Africa George M. Branch --- Zoology Department, South AfricaThe effects of collecting prawns (Callichirus and Upogebia spp.) in Langebaan Lagoon as bait were assessed in 1999–2001 and in 2012–2013. Langebaan Lagoon (part of West Coast National Park and a Marine Protected Area) is divided into three zones. One... -
Sex differentiation based on the gular stripe in the apparently monomorphic Cape gannet
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Gavin M. Rishworth --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Maëlle Connan --- Department of Zoology, South Africa David B. Green --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Pierre A. Pistorius --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe Cape gannet, Morus capensis, has long been considered a monomorphic species despite attempts at phenotypically separating the sexes. In a further effort we here recorded morphometric measurements from genetically sexed Cape gannets. Discriminant function analysis was used to classify... -
Softwood sawlog secondary transport travel speed prediction for the South African forestry industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Pierre A Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino E Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Elizabeth Gleasure --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaThe objective of this study was to develop a predictive model for travel speed of softwood sawlog timber transport (STT) vehicles over a range of forest and provincial roads of varying condition for the South African forestry industry. Data was... -
Consumer patronage and willingness-to-pay at different levels of restaurant attributes: A study from Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: David Njite --- The Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Joyce Njoroge --- School of Accounting, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Haragopal Parsa --- School of Accounting, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Rahul Parsa --- Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Jean-Pierre van der Rest --- Department of Business Studies, Institute of Tax Law and Economics, Leiden Law School, Leiden University, Leiden, The NetherlandsThis study investigates the effect of three key restaurant attributes – food quality, service quality and ambiance – on consumers’ (i) willingness-to-pay (WTP) and (ii) intentions to patronage (ITP) for limited service and upscale restaurants in Kenya. A full-profile 2 (types of... -
Biomass equations for selected drought-tolerant eucalypts in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Darius Phiri --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Brand Wessels --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Ben du Toit --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Marie Johansson --- Department of Building Technology, Sweden Harald Säll --- Department for Forestry and Wood Technology, Sweden Sven-Olof Lundqvist --- Wood and Fibre Measurement Laboratory, Innventia AB, Sweden Thomas Seifert --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaIn the water-scarce environment of South Africa, drought-tolerant eucalypt species have the potential to contribute to the timber and biomass resource. Biomass functions are a necessary prerequisite to predict yield and carbon sequestration. In this study preliminary biomass models for... -
Fibre losses during debranching and debarking of Eucalyptus pulp logs using a single-grip harvester
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Jaco-Pierre van der Merwe --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaMechanised harvesting operations are becoming more prevalent in South Africa, with the realisation that motor- manual and manual harvesting operations pose significant health and safety risks to workers. However, the potential damage caused by single-grip harvester feed rollers and delimbing... -
Concurrent pregnancy and lactation in wild giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Francois Deacon --- Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal, Wildlife, and Grassland Sciences, South Africa Pierre J Nel --- Free State Department of Economic Development, Tourism, and Environmental Affairs, South Africa Fred B Bercovitch --- Primate Research Institute and Wildlife Research Center, JapanLactation boosts reproductive costs by depleting maternal condition and delaying subsequent conception. However, some evidence suggests that giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) have evolved a mechanism to minimise the time allocated to suckling-induced suppression of ovulation. Here, we show for the first... -
The impact of mechanical log surface damage on chip size uniformity during debranching and debarking Eucalyptus pulpwood logs using a single-grip harvester
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Jaco-Pierre van der Merwe --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Dirk Längin --- , South AfricaMechanised harvesting operations are becoming more prevalent in South Africa with the realisation that motormanual and manual harvesting operations pose significant health and safety risks to workers. The damage inflicted by single-grip harvester feed rollers and delimbing knives on log... -
Cost-productivity analysis of South African pine sawtimber mechanised cut-to-length harvesting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Chloe Williams --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaThe South African forestry industry is experiencing an increase in the number of fully mechanised timber-harvesting systems. Understanding the productivity of these systems, for which data is currently limited for South Africa, is an important step to maximise the utilisation... -
Financial innovation and economic growth in the SADC
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Alex Bara --- Department of Economics, South Africa Gift Mugano --- Department of Economics, South Africa Pierre Le Roux --- Department of Economics, South AfricaThis study empirically establishes the causal relationship between financial innovation and economic growth in the SADC. Using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model, estimated by Pooled Mean Group and Dynamic Fixed Effects, the study finds that financial innovation generally has... -
Consumer patronage and willingness-to-pay at different levels of restaurant attributes: A study from Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: David Njite --- The Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration, University of New Orleans, USA Joyce Njoroge --- School of Accounting, Drake University, USA Haragopal Parsa --- Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, University of Denver, USA Rahul Parsa --- Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, USA Jean-Pierre van der Rest --- Department of Business Studies, The NetherlandsThis study investigates the effect of three key restaurant attributes—food quality, service quality and ambiance—on consumers' (i) willingness-to-pay (WTP) and (ii) intentions to patronage (ITP) for limited service and upscale restaurants in Kenya. A full-profile 2 (types of restaurants) x... -
Differences in nitrogen cycling and soil mineralisation between a eucalypt plantation and a mixed eucalypt and Acacia mangium plantation on a sandy tropical soil
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Sogni Viviane Tchichelle --- Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles, Republic of the Congo Daniel Epron --- Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles, Republic of the Congo Fidèle Mialoundama --- Université Marien NGouabi, Republic of the Congo Lydie Stella Koutika --- Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles, Republic of the Congo Jean-Michel Harmand --- CIRAD, France Jean-Pierre Bouillet --- CIRAD, France Louis Mareschal --- Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles, Republic of the CongoSustainable wood production requires appropriate management of commercial forest plantations. Establishment of industrial eucalypt plantations on poor sandy soils leads to a high loss of nutrients including nitrogen (N) after wood harvesting. An ecological intensification of eucalypt plantations was tested... -
Migration flyway of the Mediterranean breeding Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis emigratus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdulmaula Hamza --- School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Malaysia Nicola Baccetti --- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy Joe Sultana --- BirdLife Malta, Malta Jaber Yahia --- Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Libya Marco Zantello --- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy Adriano de Faveri --- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy Nick Cutts --- Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, UK John Borg --- BirdLife Malta, Malta Hichem Azafzaf --- Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas, Tunisia Pierre Defos du Rau --- Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, France Esam Bourass --- Nature Conservation Department, Libya Khaled Etayeb --- Zoology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Libya Michael Elliott --- Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, UKThe Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis emigratus breeding population in the Mediterranean is found exclusively in Libya, on the two coastal islands of Gara and Elba and one wetland on the mainland coast at Benghazi. In order to improve knowledge... -
The decline of an urban Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus population in Dakar, Senegal, over 50 years
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Wim C Mullié --- , Senegal François-Xavier Couzi --- Société d’Etudes Ornithologiques de la Réunion, France Moussa Sega Diop --- AfriWet Consultants, Senegal Bram Piot --- Cité Ndiatte Almadies, Senegal Theo Peters --- Royal Netherlands Embassy, Senegal Pierre A Reynaud --- 275 Rue Robert Schuman, France Jean-Marc Thiollay --- 2 Rue de la Rivière, FranceAs in many West African cities, in Dakar Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus have always been characteristic urban scavengers. The recent decline of Hooded Vultures in other parts of Africa, mainly eastern Africa, has been the reason in 2015 for up-listing... -
A South African softwood sawtimber supply chain case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Pierre A Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Elizabeth A van der Merwe --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino E Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaSupply chain management principles were analysed by investigating the effects of smaller-scale and incremental interventions in a forest-to-mill value chain on financial returns and forest resource use in an Eastern Cape case study area. Three previous studies provided input by... -
The impact of log surface damage caused by harvester Eucalyptus debarking on pulp value recovery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Jaco-Pierre van der Merwe --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Reino Pulkki --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Pierre Ackerman --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Dirk Längin --- Mondi Ltd, South AfricaMechanised harvesting operations are growing in popularity in South Africa, as motor-manual and manual harvesting operations pose significant health and safety risks to workers. Potential damage inflicted by single-grip harvester feed rollers and delimbing knives on the log surface during... -
Effect of tree spacing on growth and wood density of 38-year-old Cariniana legalis trees in Brazil
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Ivanka Rosada de Oliveira --- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Brazil Matheus Peres Chagas --- Setor de Engenharia Florestal, Brazil Jean-Pierre Bouillet --- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Brazil Eduardo Luiz Longui --- Divisão de Dasonomia, Brazil Israel Luiz de Lima --- Divisão de Dasonomia, Brazil Bruno Bordron --- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Brazil Angel Boschiero Ferreira --- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Brazil Mario Tommasiello Filho --- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, BrazilAverage wood density of 38-year-old Cariniana legalis (Mart.) Kuntze, a Brazilian native forest species, was found to increase with faster growth and lower stocking, while decreasing from pith to bark. A complete randomised block design was planted with five blocks... -
Intraspecific morphological divergence in two Cichlid species from Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Luke M Bower --- Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, USA Laith A Jawad --- Freelance Fish Biodiversity Consultant, New Zealand Pierre M Gnohossou --- Département d’Aménagement et Gestion de Ressources Naturelles, Republic of Benin Ayoko Géraldine Tossou --- Département d’Aménagement et Gestion de Ressources Naturelles, Republic of BeninSelection on morphological traits can vary across the range of species, inducing a mosaic of phenotypes across populations. Intraspecific morphological divergence had been demonstrated for many fish groups inhabiting environments with varying abiotic or biotic selective pressures. Such intraspecific phenotypic... -
Inheritance of fruit neck, rind and seed coat hardness, and seed coat colour in bottle gourd
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Nogbou F Amangoua --- UFR des Sciences de la Nature, Breeding and Crop Husbandry Unit, Côte d’Ivoire Kouamé K Koffi --- UFR des Sciences de la Nature, Breeding and Crop Husbandry Unit, Côte d’Ivoire Jean-Pierre Baudoin --- Unité de Phytotechnie Tropicale et d’Horticulture, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgium Irié A Zoro Bi --- UFR des Sciences de la Nature, Breeding and Crop Husbandry Unit, Côte d’IvoireBottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.) is an edible, medicinal and decorative plant exhibiting wide genetic variation for fruit and seed characters, but it remains under-researched. This study assessed inheritance of fruit neck, fruit rind hardness, seed coat hardness and... -
Trauma awareness and preparedness: Their influence on posttraumatic stress disorder development related to armed conflict experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yvonne Duagani Masika --- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d’Addictologie, Belgium Christophe Leys --- Faculty of Psychology, Belgium Pierre Fossion --- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d’Addictologie, Belgium Paul Verbanck --- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d’Addictologie, Belgium Maurice Tingu Yaba Nzolameso --- Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, Samuel Mampunza Ma Miezi --- Département de Psychiatrie, RDC Charles Kornreich --- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d’Addictologie, BelgiumThis study examined influences of trauma awareness and preparedness on the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian and military personnel with exposure to the civil war. Participants were 302 people with exposure to civil war in the Democratic... -
Variable phylogeographic histories of five forest birds with populations in Upper and Lower Guinea: implications for taxonomy and evolutionary conservation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Jean-Bernard Dongmo --- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Cameroon Jeffrey M DaCosta --- Biology Department, Boston College, USA Champlain Djieto-Lordon --- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Cameroon Pierre Ngassam --- Laboratory of Parasitology and Ecology, Cameroon Michael D Sorenson --- Department of Biology, USAThis study evaluates phylogeographic structure in selected forest bird species distributed on either side of the Dahomey Gap in West Africa to extend analyses of avian diversification across the Guineo-Congolean forest. Mitochondrial DNA sequence data were collected for five species,... -
The status and conservation of the Cape Gannet Morus capensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Richard B Sherley --- Environment and Sustainability Institute/Centre for Ecology and Conservation, United Kingdom Robert JM Crawford --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South Africa Bruce M Dyer --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South Africa Jessica Kemper --- African Penguin Conservation Project, Namibia Azwianewi B Makhado --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South Africa Makhudu Masotla --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South Africa Lorien Pichegru --- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Pierre A Pistorius --- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Jean-Paul Roux --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia Peter G Ryan --- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Desmond Tom --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia Leshia Upfold --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South Africa Henning Winker --- Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), South AfricaThe Cape Gannet Morus capensis is one of several seabird species endemic to the Benguela upwelling ecosystem (BUS) but whose population has recently decreased, leading to an unfavourable IUCN Red List assessment. Application of ‘JARA’ (‘Just Another Red-List Assessment,’ a... -
Identification of land predators of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus through post-mortem examination
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ralph ET Vanstreels --- Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa Nola J Parsons --- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, South Africa Cuan McGeorge --- Stony Point Nature Reserve, South Africa Renata Hurtado --- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, South Africa Katrin Ludynia --- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, South Africa Lauren Waller --- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, South Africa Monique Ruthenberg --- Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve, South Africa Arne Purves --- Environmental Management Department, Transport and Urban Development Authority, South Africa Lorien Pichegru --- Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa Pierre A Pistorius --- Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South AfricaThe African Penguin Spheniscus demersus is an endangered seabird endemic to southern Africa, and killing sprees by terrestrial predators have been one of the main threats for its mainland colonies. The methods employed to manage predators may differ depending on... -
Extension of projection mappings
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Pierre de Jager --- , South Africa Jurie Conradie --- , South AfricaWe provide sufficient conditions for a map between projection lattices of semi-finite von Neumann algebras to be extended to a Jordan *-homomorphism. These conditions are sufficiently general for the procedures developed herein to have numerous fundamental applications in the study... -
Sexual and individual signatures are encoded in the temporal rate of Cape Gannet Morus capensis display calls
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kezia Bowmaker-Falconer --- , South Africa Andréa Thiebault --- , South Africa Maëlle Connan --- , South Africa Thierry Aubin --- , France Isabelle Charrier --- , France Pierre Pistorius --- , South AfricaVocalisations play a vital role in animal communication, as they are involved in many biological functions such as mate selection, individual recognition and care of young. Seabirds often breed in large and dense colonies, making successful recognition between mates or... -
Concurrent sexual and substance-use risk behaviours among female sex workers in Kenya's Coast Province: Findings from a behavioural monitoring survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Simon-Pierre Tegang --- People's Friendship University of Moscow, Russia S. Abdallah G. Emukule S. Luchters N. Kingola M. Barasa S. Mucheke P. MwarogoWhile many studies confirm the association between HIV, alcohol and injecting drug use by female sex workers (FSWs), little is known about their use of marijuana, khat and other substances and the association of these substances with HIV, risky sexual... -
Morphometrics, sexual dimorphism, and growth in the angonoka tortoise (Geochelone yniphora) of western Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: LoraL. Smith --- University of Florida, USA Miguel Pedrono --- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France RobertM. Dorazio --- U.S. Geological Survey, USA Jack Bishko --- University of Florida, USAThe most recent description of the morphology of the rare endemic Madagascar tortoise, Geochelone yniphora was based on fewer than 20 specimens. We collected morphological data for 200 free‐ranging tortoises from five populations over a four‐year period. Tortoises ranged in... -
On binary matrix properties
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Michael Hoefnagel --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Pierre-Alain Jacqmin --- Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Zurab Janelidze --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Emil van der Walt --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThe so-called matrix properties of finitely complete categories are a special type of exactness properties that can be encoded as extended matrices of integers. The relation of entailment of matrix properties gives an interesting preorder on the set of such... -
Personalised pricing under the current European legal framework: a call for ethics, sustainability and responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jean-Pierre van der Rest --- Leiden University, The Netherlands Kimia Heidary --- Leiden University, The NetherlandsAs pricing in hospitality and tourism evolves due to the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI), so do the concerns that come with technological advancements. There is a fine line between what is possible, what is profitable, and what is... -
From willingness to pay to willingness to believe: the role of storytelling in driving true pricing in hospitality and tourism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Henri Kuokkanen --- Institut Lyfe, France Jean-Pierre van der Rest --- Leiden University, The NetherlandsResearch indicates that consumers are willing to pay for socially responsible and green attributes. Yet studies on the relationship between environment, society and governance (ESG) and financial performance report mixed findings regarding the impact of sustainability initiatives on risk and...
