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   Invloed van bewerking en besproeiing op die verwering van gneis in die Augrabies-gebied

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.F. Eloff --- Departement van Landbou en Watervoorsiening, W. F.A. Kirsten --- Departement van Landbou en Watervoorsiening, B.L. Plath --- Departement van Landbou en Watervoorsiening,

   Fisiese, chemiese en mineralogiese kriteria is gebruik om te bepaal of veranderinge in eienskappe van gronde op gneise, in die Augrabies-gebied, as gevolg van bewerking en besproeiing plaasgevind het. Bewerking en besproeiing van die halfverweerde gneise het die verweringsproses versnel...

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   Effect of pre- and post-harvest water stress on the potential for fruit quality defects in avocado (Persea americana Mill.)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.P. Bower --- , Republic of South Africa J. G.M. Cutting --- , Republic of South Africa B.N. Wolstenholme --- , Republic of South Africa

   Physiological and pathological disorders of avocado fruit are a limitation to export sales. The influence of pre-harvest water stress on post-harvest quality was studied using a long-term irrigation trial, i.e., re-wetting in the root zone when soil water tensions reached...

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   The mineralogy of five weathering profiles developed from Archaean granite in the eastern Transvaal, Republic of South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C. Bühmann --- , Republic of South Africa W. F.A. Kirsten --- , Republic of South Africa

   Mineralogical, chemical and electron microscopy studies were carried out on five weathering profiles developed on Archaean granites from the Nelspruit area to study changes in the distribution of primary minerals and their weathering products with profile development. The pedons differ...

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   Pedogenic differences between two adjacent basalt-derived soil profiles 1. Textural and chemical characteristics

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C. Bühmann --- , Republic of South Africa W. F.A. Kirsten --- , Republic of South Africa D.G. Paterson --- , Republic of South Africa M.E. Sobczyk --- , Republic of South Africa

   Eleven soil samples derived from a black vertisol (Arcadia form) and a red alfisol (Shortlands form) were investigated by means of X-ray fluorescence as well as standard soil chemical and physical analyses. The profiles developed from Jurassic basalt under identical...

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   Pedogenic differences between two adjacent basalt-derived soil profiles 2. Mineralogical characteristics

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C. Bühmann --- , Republic of South Africa D.G. Paterson --- , Republic of South Africa W. F.A. Kirsten --- , Republic of South Africa

   The mineralogical composition of a black vertisol (Arcadia form) and a red alfisol (Shortlands form) profile, derived from Jurassic basalt and situated 35 m apart, has been determined by means of X-ray diffraction analysis. The non-clay fractions of the least-weathered...

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   Anthocyanidin separation in exocarps of ‘Mauritius’ litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) following methods to improve rind colour

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C. Kaiser --- Department of Horticultural Science, South Africa J. Levin --- Department of Biostatistics, South Africa B.N. Wolstenholme --- Department of Horticultural Science, South Africa

   Litchi or lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) fruit rinds are red due to the presence of water-soluble, vacuole-bound anthocyanin pigments. After harvest, these pigments decompose rapidly unless treated. Treatment with steam (95°C) for two seconds, followed by subsequent immersion in a...

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   Effects of postharvest sulphur fumigation, steam and low pH treatments on polyphenol oxidase activity in litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) fruit

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C. Kaiser --- Department of Horticultural Science, South Africa B.N. Wolstenholme --- Department of Horticultural Science, South Africa

   The effects of postharvest sulphur fumigation (0.6 kg elemental sulphur. 1000 kg−1 of fruit), steam (95°C) for two seconds, or steam (95°C) for two seconds followed by subsequent immersion in a zero pH solution for four minutes, on polyphenol oxidase...

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   Language endangerment in Tanzania: identifying and maintaining endangered languages

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Karsten Legère --- , Sweden

   This article summarizes the linguistic situation in Tanzania with regard to languages spoken by small ethnic groups of approximately 20,000 people (as last indicated in the 1967 population census). Based on on-going fieldwork and library research, approximately 20 up-country languages...

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   Influence of buoyancy and vertical distribution of sardine Sardinops sagax eggs and larvae on their transport in the northern Benguela ecosystem

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: E. K. Stenevik S. Sundby R. Cloete

   In recent years, sardine Sardinops sagax spawning has been recorded inshore off central Namibia. Field observations on eggs and laboratory measurements show that spawning, demonstrated by the distribution of newly spawned eggs, takes place just below the upper mixed layer...

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10. Anaforiese eilande in Afrikaans

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Taalfasette • Authors: W. A.M. CARSTENS --- ,

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11. Slap identiteit: 'N Identiteitsprobleem

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Taalfasette • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- ,

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    Pragmaties beheerde anafore ?1

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. CARSTENS --- ,

    In hierdie artikel word kortliks gewys op die verwysingsfunksie wat bepaalde voornaamwoorde kan hê. Die uitgangspunt is dat die konteks (verbaal of pragmaties) die kardinale rol speel in die werklike gebruik van 'n betrokke bepaalde voornaamwoord: deikties of anafories. Daar...

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    BOEKRESENSIE

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. CARSTENS --- , L.A. SZAPIRO --- ,

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    DE BEAUGRANDE EN DRESSLER (1981) SE “STANDAARDE VAN TEKSTUALITEIT”

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- ,

    In hierdie artikel word die algemene geldigheid van De Beaugrande en Dressler (1981) se stelling dat 'n “teks” 'n kommunikatiewe gebeurtenis is wat aan sewe standaarde van tekstualiteit moet voldoen (anders is dit nie 'n teks nie), betwis. Daar is...

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    VOORWOORD

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W A M CARSTENS --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, H WAHER --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands,

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    Komposisionaliteitsbeginselen die beskrywing van geleentheidskomposita

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: A. Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Die Komposisionaliteitsbeginsel(KB) is gebaseer op die empiriese feit dat die betekenis van'n komplekse uit-drukking 'n funksie is van die betekenisse van die dele en die wyse waarop hulle sintakties/morfologiesgekom-bineer word. Weens die groot hoeveelheid pragmatiese inligting wat nodig is vir...

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    ‘Teks’—'n begrip op soek na 'n funksionele tekslinguistiese definisie

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Dit blyk nie so duidelik uit die literatuur oor tekslinguistiek wat die begrip ‘teks’ werklik inhou nie. Die grootste rede hier-voor kan gevind word in die interdissiplinêre oorsprong van die tekslinguistiek wat letterlik aanleiding gee tot 'n definisie per oorspronklike...

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    Kollokasies: vrye verbindings of lekseme?

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Die term ‘kollokasie’ word algemeen gebruik om na die kohesie tussen naasmekaarliggende leksikale items in 'n sintagma te verwys. Binne 'n streng interpretasie verwys die term spesifiek na kombinasies van twee of meer woorde wat elk in een van hulle...

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    DIE VERTALER EN SY KENNIS VAN TAALNORME: TEORIE EN PRAKTYK

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Hierdie artikel het hoofsaaklik ten doel om die gedagte uit te lig dat vertalers nie werklik ejfektiewe vertalings sal kan lewer as hulle nie die (taal-)norme ken van die taal waarin hulle vertaal nie. Tale verskil t.o.v. veral vier aspekie,...

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    Metonimie, polisemie en die leksikografie

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Binne die kognitiewe wetenskappe word metonimie as een van die mees produktiewe struktuurgewende meganismes van taal beskou. In hierdie artikel word nie alleen gepoog om die gemelde aanname te verifieer nie, maar ook om die sistematiek van metonimiese uitbreiding in...

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    'n Funksionele benadering tot metonimie

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    In tradisionele objektiwistiese beskrywings van metonimie is die klem veral op referensiële aspekte van die verskynsel geplaas, en metonimiese reëlmaat is ondervang deur die ponering van relasies en reëls. Sedert die sewentigerjare oefen die pragmatiek 'n toenemende invloed op taalbeskrywings...

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    PREFACE / VOORWORD

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Dept. of Afrikaans en Nederlands, E.H. Hubbard --- Dept. of Linguistics,

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    DIE STUDIETERREIN VAN DIE TEKSLINGUISTIEK

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    In hierdie artikel word probeer om 'n oorsig te bied van wat 'n studie van die tekslinguistiek behels. Daar word o.m. gewys op 'n paar van die vernaamste probleme wat 'n wetenskaplike studie van die tekslinguistiek beïnvloed, wat volgens die...

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    KOMPOSISIONALITEIT, MOTIVERING EN DIE GRAMMATIKA VAN AFRIKAANS

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Dept. Afrikaans, P.H. Swanepoel --- Dept. Afrikaans,

    Die onderwerp van hierdie artikel is die empiriese bereik en geldigheid van die komposisionaliteitsbeginsel van Frege. Hierdie beginsel dien dikwels as uitgangspunt vir die verrekening van die interpretasie van komplekse morfologiese en sintakliese konstruksies. Die ontoereikendheid van hierdie beginsel om...

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    VOORWOORD / INTRODUCTION

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Wannie Carstens --- Dept. Afrikaans en Nederlands, Hilton Hubbard --- Dept. of Linguistics,

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    DIE STAND VAN TEKS-/DISKOERSSTUDIE IN SUID-AFRIKA: ORGANISASIE OF DISORGANISASIE?

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Dept. Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    Die hoofdoel van hierdie artikel is om 'n oorsig te bied van die werk wat al gedoen is oor teks/diskoers in Suid-Afrika ten einde te probeer bepaal wat is die tendense en teikenareas wat uit hierdie navorsing na vore kom...

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    DIE STANDAARDE VAN TEKSTUALITEIT EN BREYTEN BREYTENBACH SE “DIE BOENK”

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W. A.M. Carstens --- Dept. Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika P.L. van Schalkwyk --- p/a Dept. Afrikaans en Nederlands, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    De Beaugrande en Dressier (1981) onderskei sewe standaarde van tekstualiteit waarmee 'n stuk taalgebruik se aanvaarbaarheid as geldige teks bepaal kan word. Hierdie standaarde is internasionaal teoreties verfyn en ontwikkel, en in Suid-Afrika het onder andere Carstens (1987, 1992, 1993)...

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    Verregse Afrikaanse weekblaaie—'n krities-linguistiese perspektief

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    In hierdie artikel word aangetoon dat 'n ekstreme vorm van etniese nasionalisme die hoof ideologiese domein is waarteen diskoerse in die verregse Afrikaanse pers geïnterpreteer moet word. Insigte uit sowel die Kritiese Linguistiek as die Kognitiewe Semantiek dien as teoretiese...

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    KONJUNKSIEVERHOUDINGS IN AFRIKAANS—'N VERKENNING

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: WAM Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands,

    In hierdie artikel word kortliks gefokus op enkele aspekte wat te doen het met die begrip “konjunksie”: wat met konjunksie as konsep bedoel word, waarom konjunksieverhoudings in die taal gebruik word, watter rol dit speel by die totstandkoming van kohesie...

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    Motivering vir die saamstel van 'n veeltalige verklarende chemiewoordeboek

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Department of Afrikaans, Republic of South Africa

    Die ontwikkeling van menslike potensiaal en die aktiewe bevordering van wetenskap en tegnologie tel onder die prioriteite van die huidige Suid-Afrikaanse regering. Die hoë druipsyfer in wetenskap aan die einde van die twaalfde skooljaar bied egter rede tot kommer. Die...

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    Die Afrikaanse medewerkwoorde, familieverwantskappe en grammatikalisering

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

    In hierdie artikel word beweer dat Afrikaanse medewerkwoorde nie bevredigend deur die Klassieke teorie van katego-risering verantwoord word nie. In aansluiting by nondiskrete benaderings deur Afrikaanse sintaktici en beskouings oor grammatikalisering binne die Kognitiewe Linguistiek word die hipotese gestel dat...

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    VOORWOORD / INTRODUCTION

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W AM Carstens --- , EH Hubbard --- Dept. of Linguistics,

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    TEKSLINGUISTIEK EN TEKSVERSORGING

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: W AM Carstens --- , Suid-Afrika

    In hierdie artikel word gepoog om aan te toon dat dit moontlik is dat teorie en praktyk versoen kan word, en in wese interafhanklik is. Die tekslinguistiek as teoretiese dissipline word eerstens kortliks uiteengesit. Teksversorging word daarna as praktyksterrein van...

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    PARADOKSE VAN KOHERENSIE

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: PL van Schalkwyk --- , W AM Carstens --- ,

    In die tekslinguistiek (en ander dissiplines) word daar die afgelope twee dekades algemeen aanvaar dat koherensie 'n omvattende, relatiewe en interdissiplinere konsep en verskynsel is. Hierdie positiewe tendens gee ongelukkig soms aanleiding tot oorinklusiewe definisies van koherensie. Terselfdertyd word die...

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    Lived Experiences of Subclinical Eating Disorder: Female Students' Perceptions

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Doret K. Kirsten --- North-West University, Wynand F. du Plessis --- North-West University,

    The aim of this study was to obtain an “insiders' perspective” on the lived experience of Subclinical Eating Disorder (SED) in female university students. Participants were 30 white, undergraduate females from the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University in South...

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    Exploring Mindfulness in Self-Injuring Adolescents in a Psychiatric Setting

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rümando Kok --- North-West University, South Africa Doret K. Kirsten --- North-West University, South Africa Karel F.H. Botha --- North-West University, South Africa

    This study explored mindfulness amongst eight self-injuring psychiatric adolescents. A mixed-method design was used. Interviews and clinical records comprised the qualitative data, while quantitative data was gathered using the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ: Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer & Toney, 2006)...

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    Tomatis Method Stimulation: Effects on Student Educational Interpreters

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ina-Marí du Toit --- North-West University, South Africa Wynand F. du Plessis --- North-West University, South Africa Doret K. Kirsten --- North-West University, South Africa

    This study explored the impact of the Tomatis Method of sound stimulation on student interpreters at a merged higher education institution in South Africa. Interpreters were randomly allocated to a pre-post, experimental (n=9) and non-intervention control group (n=9) (age range...

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    Community as Outsider Witness: Utilising Community Members in the Reconstitution of Problem-Saturated Identities

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Trudy Meehan --- Rhodes University, South Africa Kirsten Farquharson --- Rhodes University, South Africa

    This study explored community members' ability to enlist discourses affirming of psychiatric patients' quest for generative identities. The participants were members of the public who attended an exhibition of psychiatric patients' artwork (n = 7, age range 18–55). A Foucauldian...

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    Étale covers of a punctured p-adic disc

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Werner Lütkebohmert Thorsten Schmechta

    The aim of this paper is to report on recent work on éetale covers of the punctured disc. The paper surveys basic results on curves over p-adic fields and explains ideas of Riemann's existence problem for a p-adic field giving...

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    PRELOCALIZATIONS AND NATURAL NUMBERS

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mareli Korostenski --- Department of Mathematics, South Africa Walter Tholen --- Department of Mathematics York, Canada

    A natural concept of pointed endofunctors which are close to localizations with respect to both, the reflection property and the preservation of finite limits, is introduced and characterized in terms of factorization systems. These results are applied to two categories...

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    OPEN LOCALIZATIONS AND FACTORIZATION SYSTEMS

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: C. Getz --- Department of Mathematics, South Africa M. Korostenski --- Department of Mathematics, South Africa

    The properties of the factorization system corresponding to an open localization of a finitely complete and finitely cocomplete category are described.

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    Ramsey Functions for Symmetric Subsets in Compact Abelian Groups

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mareli Korostenski --- , South Africa Yuliya Zelenyuk --- , South Africa

    Given a compact group G and r ∈ N, let sr(G) denote the least upper bound of real ϵ > 0 such that for every measurable r-coloring of G, there exists a monochrome symmetric subset of measure ≥ ϵ. A...

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    Speech act theory in support of idealised warning models

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Adelia Carstens

    In applied communication studies warnings (as components of instructional texts) are often characterised in terms of criteria for effectiveness. An idealised model for warnings include the following elements: a signal word or label appropriate to the level of hazard; a...

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    The discourse of the male gaze: a critical analysis of the feature section 'The beauty of sport' in SA Sports Illustrated

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Mandie Brandt Adelia Carstens

    This article demonstrates, through critical analysis, how words and pictures are manipulated in 'The beauty of sport', a regular feature section in SA Sports Illustrated (hereafter SASI), to construe images of sportswomen that resonate with female stereotypes shaped by the...

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    Generic versus discipline-specific writing interventions: Report on a quasi-experiment

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Department of Humanities Education, Faculty of Education, South Africa

    Departing from a socio-constructivist perspective, the main purpose of the research on which this article reports was to indicate the effectiveness of both discipline-specific and generic approaches in teaching academic writing to undergraduate university students. A quasi-experimental design was followed,...

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    Understanding visuals in HIV/AIDS education in South Africa: differences between literate and low-literate audiences

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Adelia Carstens Alfons Maes Lilian Gangla-Birir

    This article reports on a research project aimed at determining the scope and nature of differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews were held with 30 low-literate and 24...

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    Poor-quality health services and lack of programme support leads to low uptake of HIV testing in rural Mozambique

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: CarolynM Audet --- Department of Preventive Medicine, United States Kate Groh --- Department of Medicine, United States TroyD Moon --- Department of Pediatrics, United States StenH Vermund --- , United States Mohsin Sidat --- , Mozambique

    Mozambique has one of the world's highest burdens of HIV infection. Despite the increase in HIV-testing services throughout the country, the uptake has been low. To identify barriers to HIV testing we conducted a study in six rural districts in...

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    Gastropod distribution in Lakes George and Edward, Uganda, relative to copper and cobalt levels

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RD Holmberg --- Chemicals Division, Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Denmark H Madsen --- DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Denmark TK Kristensen --- DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Denmark A Jørgensen --- DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Denmark

    Published data show that Lake George, Uganda, has a poorer gastropod fauna than Lake Edward, to which it is connected through the Kazinga Channel. We conducted a study in 2001 to test whether this could be linked to copper (Cu)...

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    Gastropod diversity, distribution and abundance in habitats with and without anthropogenic disturbances in Lake Victoria, Kenya

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CN Lange --- Invertebrate Zoology Section, Kenya TK Kristensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity and Health in Developing Countries, DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Denmark H Madsen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity and Health in Developing Countries, DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Denmark

    We investigated freshwater gastropod diversity, abundance and distribution in habitats with and without anthropogenic disturbance in two localities, Ndere in the Winam Gulf and Mbita Point, Lake Victoria, Kenya, from May 2002 to January 2004. A total of 133 984...

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    PALM-NUT VULTURES Gypohierax angolensis IN RAPHIA PALMS AT MTUNZINI, ZULULAND

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: W.M. Austen

    Little has been recorded in South Africa of these remarkable birds alld the notes that follow were submitted at my request. The author is a Ranger of the Natal Parks, Game and Fish Preservation Board, and his keen observations reveal...

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    A preliminary assessment of congruence between biodiversity patterns in Afrotropical forest birds and forest mammals

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Neil Burgess --- The Centre for Tropical Biodiversity, Zoological Museum, Denmark Helen de Klerk --- The Percy FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa Jon Fjeldså --- The Centre for Tropical Biodiversity, Zoological Museum, Denmark Timothy Crowe --- The Percy FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa Carsten Rahbek --- The Centre for Tropical Biodiversity, Zoological Museum, Denmark

    Burgess, N., de Klerk, H., Fjeldsá, J., Crowe, T. & Rahbek, R. 2000. A preliminary assessment of congruence between biodiversity patterns in Afrotropical forest birds and forest mammals. Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 286–291.

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    Seasonal comparisons of Barn Owl diets in an agricultural and natural area in central South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ute Stenkewitz --- , Germany Beryl Wilson --- , South Africa JanF Kamler --- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, UK

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    WORKING WITH CHILDREN EFFECTED BY VIOLENCE—A REFLECTION OF THE WORK OF THE TRAUMA CENTRE FOR SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE AND TORTURE

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Motefi Mokutu --- , Kirsten Thomson --- ,

    This paper explores the way in which child trauma survivors are responded to at the Trauma Centre for the Survivors of Violence and Torture.1 A background into the conditions and the context under which these children live is briefly discussed...

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    Modelling stock dynamics in the southern Benguela ecosystem for the period 1978–2002

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L. J. Shannon V. Christensen C. J. Walters

    An ecosystem model of the southern Benguela was fitted to available time-series data for the period 1978–2002, to explore how changes in target fish populations in this ecosystem can be attributed to feeding interaction terms and population control patterns, the...

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    Spawning strategies and transport of early stages of the two Cape hake species, Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis, in the southern Benguela upwelling system

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: B Grote --- , Germany EK Stenevik --- , Norway W Ekau --- , Germany HM Verheye --- Oceans and Coasts Research, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa MR Lipiński --- Branch: Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South Africa W Hagen --- Marine Zoology, Germany

    Seasonal and short-term variability of environmental parameters influence the spawning strategies of fish species. In this study, the spawning strategies and the transport of early stages of the two Cape hake species off South Africa were investigated. Distribution of eggs...

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    Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: M Sowman --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa D Scott --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Howard College Campus, South Africa L J F Green --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa M M Hara --- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa M Hauck --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa K Kirsten --- Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, South Africa B Paterson --- Marine Research Institute, South Africa S Raemaekers --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa K Jones --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa J Sunde --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa J K Turpie --- Anchor Environmental, South Africa

    This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under the SEAChange programme of the...

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57. 

    Dynamic base-age invariant site index models for Tectona grandis in peninsular India

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Vindhya P Tewari --- Institute of Wood Science and Technology, India Juan G Álvarez-González --- Unidad de Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Departamento de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Spain Klaus von Gadow --- Burckhardt Institute, Germany

    Data from 27 remeasured sample plots were used to evaluate dynamic base-age invariant site index models for teak (Tectona grandis) forests in Karnataka, India. The data were obtained in observational field studies covering a wide range of sites in Karnataka...

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58. 

    Habitual physical activity levels are positively correlated with CD4 counts in an HIV-positive South African population

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kirsten Kinsey Joanne McVeigh Ingrid Chantler

    In order to assess the relationship between CD4 cell count, habitual physical activity levels and functional independence in a South African adult population positive for HIV, we administered a questionnaire concerning lifestyle and physical activity. Data collection took place at...

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59. 

    Diel vertical migration of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus larvae in the northern Benguela

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: EK Stenevik S Sundby R Cloete

    The diel vertical migration of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus larvae was studied in the northern Benguela during a survey in April 2001. The diel pattern is described in relation to the degree of swimbladder inflation and the vertical structure of temperature...

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60. 

    Birds feeding in association with bat-eared foxes on Benfontein Game Farm, South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ute Stenkewitz JanF Kamler

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61. 

    Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii in Niger: population size, breeding ecology and home range

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kim Diget Christensen Knud Falk Flemming Pagh Jensen Bo Svenning Petersen

    Abdim's Stork is a common breeding bird in most human settlements across the Sahel. However, very few studies have surveyed the population and described its breeding and feeding ecology during the breeding season. We identified the breeding range in Niger,...

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62. 

    A note on regular martingales in Riesz spaces

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mareli Korostenski CoenraadC.A. Labuschagne

    We consider regular martingales (i.e., martingales which can be written as differences of two positive martingales) in the measure-free setting of Riesz spaces. The aim of this note is to show that the space of such martingales is a Riesz...

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63. 

    Quantitative evaluation of a subject-specific essay-writing intervention

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Adelia Carstens --- Unit for Academic Literacy, South Africa Lizelle Fletcher --- Department of Statistics, South Africa

    Discipline- and genre-specific approaches in language teaching have gained much support in recent years. However, few studies have thus far evaluated the effect of courses resulting from narrow-angled approaches. This article reports on the evaluation of a 14-week essay-writing module...

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64. 

    7. GENERAL NOTES FROM MEMBERS

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Curth Edelsten --- , CecilD. Priest --- , RalphH. Lees --- , Olive Porter --- ,

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65. 

    NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN BUSTARDS

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Gurth Edelsten --- ,

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66. 

    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], France

    In 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...

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67. 

    Egg-capping in the Southern Ground-Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kathleen F Carstens --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa

    ‘Egg-capping’ describes occurrences of the empty shell from a hatched egg slipping over an unhatched egg from the same clutch. It is a rare phenomenon, occurring typically in <2% of nests monitored. Here I report the first two observed cases...

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68. 

    Mobile health for early retention in HIV care: a qualitative study in Kenya (WelTel Retain)

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kirsten Smillie --- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada Natasha Van Borek --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Mia L van der Kop --- Department of Medicine, Canada Abigael Lukhwaro --- AMREF Health Africa, Kenya Neville Li --- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada Sarah Karanja --- AMREF Health Africa, Kenya Anik R Patel --- Department of Medicine, Canada David Ojakaa --- D&eacute;partement de D&eacute;mographie, Canada Richard T Lester --- Department of Medicine, Canada

    Many people newly diagnosed with HIV are lost to follow-up before timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). A randomised controlled trial (RCT), WelTel Kenya1, demonstrated the effectiveness of the WelTel text messaging intervention to improve clinical outcomes among patients initiating...

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69. 

    Practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo and implications for HIV transmission in western Kenya

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Omondi Olang&#039;o --- Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya Erick Nyambedha --- Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya Jens Aagaard-Hansen --- Steno Health Promotion Center, Denmark

    This paper discusses the practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo ethnic group and its implications for spread of HIV in western Kenya. Sumo kodhi is a practice in which a woman arranges to have sex with a man other...

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70. 

    Language and youth identity in a multilingual setting: A multimodal repertoire approach

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Anthea Bristowe --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Marcelyn Oostendorp --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Christine Anthonissen --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa

    This article is based on a study of a community of multilingual adolescents in Johannesburg which examines participants’ linguistic repertoires and how they use their linguistic resources as a basis for identity construction, integration and performance. This kind of linguistic...

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71. 

    Population dynamics and ecology of freshwater gastropods in the highveld and lowveld regions of Zimbabwe, with emphasis on schistosome and amphistome intermediate hosts

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: G. Chingwena --- Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Zimbabwe S. Mukaratirwa --- Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Zimbabwe M. Chimbari --- University of Zimbabwe Lake Kariba Research Station, Zimbabwe T. K. Kristensen --- Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Denmark H. Madsen --- Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Denmark

    From November 1998 to October 2000, patterns of distribution and seasonal population fluctuations of snails and factors influencing them were investigated in six dams and six streams in the highveld region, and in nine dams in the lowveld region of...

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72. 

    Molecular diversity and phylogenetic relationships of the gastropod genus Melanoides in Lake Malawi

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Louise Von Gersdorff S&oslash;rensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL &mdash; Institute for Health Research and Development, Denmark Aslak J&oslash;rgensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL &mdash; Institute for Health Research and Development, Denmark Thomas K. Kristensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL &mdash; Institute for Health Research and Development, Denmark

    The freshwater snails belonging to the genus Melanoides Olivier, 1804 are widespread across tropical regions of the world and endemic species have evolved in the African Lakes Malawi, Mweru and Tanganyika. The endemic Melanoides species of Lake Malawi have been...

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73. 

    Sympatric Biomphalaria species (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Lake Albert, Uganda, show homoplasies in shell morphology

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Maria Plam --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity in Developing Countries, DBL &ndash; Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Aslak J&oslash;rgensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity in Developing Countries, DBL &ndash; Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Thomas K. Kristensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity in Developing Countries, DBL &ndash; Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Henry Madsen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity in Developing Countries, DBL &ndash; Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen

    The three known sympatric Biomphalaria species that occur in Lake Albert; B. choanomphala, B. stanleyi and B. sudanica, were studied using both molecular (COI, 16S and ITS) and shell morphometric data. An unidentified sample of 18 Biomphalaria specimens from Lake...

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74. 

    Spatial and temporal population dynamics of rodents in three geographically different regions in Africa: Implication for ecologically-based rodent management

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Apia W. Massawe --- Pest Management Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Loth S. Mulungu --- Pest Management Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Rhodes H. Makundi --- Pest Management Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Nomfundo Dlamini --- Department of Biological Sciences, Swaziland Seth J. Eiseb --- National Museum of Namibia, Namibia Frikkie Kirsten --- Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa Themb&rsquo;alilahlwa Mahlaba --- Department of Biological Sciences, Swaziland Phanuel Malebane --- Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa Emil Von Maltitz --- Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa Ara Monadjem --- Department of Biological Sciences, Swaziland Peter Taylor --- Durban Natural Science Museum, Heritage and Libraries Department, South Africa Vassana Tutjavi --- National Museum of Namibia, Namibia Steven R. Belmain --- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, U.K.

    As part of a three-year study to develop ecologically-based rodent management (EBRM) in southern Africa, a capture–mark–recapture study was carried out in Tanzania, Namibia and Swaziland to establish the demographic patterns and population dynamics of rodents. Two study grids were...

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75. 

    Dynamics of recruitment of larval and juvenile Cape stumpnose Rhabdosargus holubi (Teleostei: Sparidae) into the Swartkops and Sundays estuaries, South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: Y Kisten --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, South Africa P Pattrick --- Department of Zoology, South Africa NA Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa R Perissinotto --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, South Africa

    Recruitment of early life stages into estuaries is an integral part of the life cycle of many marine fish species. Although estuaries are naturally environmentally dynamic, they also are subject to anthropogenic disturbances, including land use and climate change, which...

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76. 

    Population metrics for fynbos birds, South Africa: densities, and detection and capture rates from a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa Phoebe Barnard --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa Philip AR Hockey --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST&ndash;NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa

    Estimates of bird numbers through quantification of density and range sizes are necessary for decisions regarding conservation status, yet counts of birds are often confounded by uncertainty of detection. The status of the endemic birds of the Fynbos biome is...

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77. Editorial: The developing field

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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78. Hospitality and hospitableness

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Not long after the word hospitality emerged as a collective noun to describe the commercial provision of services associated with accommodation, drinking and eating, some academics began to investigate the meanings of hospitality and hospitableness. Whilst most academic programme provision related to...

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79. Future directions for international education and research on hospitality

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Innovations in Hospitality, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This paper presents considerations about future directions for international education and research in the field of hospitality management. The ideas are presented to provide a closer connection for the hospitality industry on an intellectual basis for doing joint research. Furthermore,...

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80. A visual analysis of a cultural tourism destination

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Klaes Eringa and Shenghan Zhou --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This research investigates how a relatively unknown town that is elected as cultural capital of Europe can use visual materials to attract visitors from totally different areas in the world, particularly China. The study uses visual cues for two purposes:...

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81. Can a luxury hotel compete without a spa facility? – Opinions from senior managers of London’s luxury hotels

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Andy Heyes --- Hospitality Management, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom Colin Beard --- Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom Sjoerd Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    The development of the wellness facility within the luxury hotel sector around the world has been evident, with many professionals believing that spas are an expected element within luxury hotels. This paper has been written to provide further consideration for...

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82. 

    The cost efficiency of small farm inclusion in agribusiness supply chains

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: K Sartorius --- School of Accountancy, J Kirsten --- Department of Agricultural Economics,

    The inclusion of small-scale commercial farmers in South African agribusiness supply chains is a national priority and there is an urgent need for managerial accounting (MAS) inputs to successfully accomplish this objective. This paper explores ways that small farmers can...

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83. 

    Fatherhood as Taking the Child to Oneself: A Phenomenological Observation Study after Caesarean Birth

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Kerstin Erlandsson [B0001] Kyllike Christensson [B0002] Ingegerd Fagerberg [B0003]

    This paper describes the meaning of a father’s presence with a full-term healthy child delivered by caesarean section, as observed during the routine post-operative separation of mother and child. Videotaped observations recorded at a maternity clinic located in the metropolitan...

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84. Hospitableness: the new service metaphor? Developing an instrument for measuring hosting

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Matthew Blain --- Compass Group UK &amp; Ireland, Compass House, Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom Conrad Lashley --- School of International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Over the last couple of decades the word hospitality has emerged from the shadow of being used to describe a cluster of commercial activities providing accommodation, food and drink experiences to guests for a fee. Hospitality describes a ubiquitous aspect of human...

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85. Connecting entrepreneurship and education

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    The aim of this research is to explore the contextual characteristics of a particular group of Dutch restaurant owners, the successful culinary entrepreneurs (SCEs), to examine how these contextual characteristics might be used in a hospitality education. This very small segment of...

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86. Increasing students’ safety awareness in a teaching hotel

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan Bossema --- Stenden Hotel, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    During the past years the attention for safety and health at work has increased, partly through the influence of European law and labour agreements and by acknowledging the huge economic impact of accidents and calamities. It is notable that companies...

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87. Game consumption and attitudes to hunting in the Netherlands

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- School of International Hospitality Management (IHM), Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Fabian Pettinga --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Pepijn Meester --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    In the Netherlands, per capita game consumption is low, but during autumn and Christmas, many consumers eat game, once or twice. Restaurants supply a big share of this game. Anti-hunting activism is a potential threat for the supply of game and therefore,...

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88. Women entrepreneurship in developing countries: A European example

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Ina Beqo --- Graduate Stenden MA in International Service Management Sjoerd A Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This research investigates women small business entrepreneurship in Albania. The purpose is to provide contextual information to potential future (women) entrepreneurs about how to get into business and overcome challenges. The 11 interviewed Albanian women entrepreneurs explain how they survive a difficult...

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89. Editorial: Studying hospitality – an agenda

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Senior Researcher, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

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90. Student employment in hospitality and tourism: insights from a recent study

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Senior Researcher, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Postbus 1298, 8900 CG Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Students’ motives for working are primarily economic, though the proportion of the student body engaged in paid employment in this study is less than 50%. There is also evidence that this varies between students. Students in the final year of...

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91. The hospitality of Nepali tea houses: redefining the boundaries of empowerment

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Andrew C MacLaren --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Carolyn L McMillan --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Kevin D O&rsquo;Gorman --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    The paper reports on research which shows that in an environment where women traditionally represent the marginalised population, the female tea house owners/managers display higher levels of economic, social and psychological empowerment. It illustrates how commercial hospitality has catalysed social...

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92. Grounded theory application in doctorate research

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    In this paper a case of doctorate research methodology is presented, which can serve as contemplation for fellow researchers who are preparing their study. An interaction of reflective narrating and grounded theory methodology is applied. This approach incorporates personal and...

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93. The Strategic Employment Experience (SEE) Matrix

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Michael Njingu Chibili --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    A new tool was developed and tested for the assessment and evaluation of job satisfaction within organisations. The tool is based on Herzberg’s two-factor theory, and measures the performance and the importance of motivators and hygiene factors within the work...

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94. Hospitality management students’ cognitive style

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This paper reports on the cognitive style of students in a problem-based hospitality management curriculum at a university of applied sciences. A cognitive style is a student’s preference of perceiving, processing, and evaluating information (Hayes and Allinson 1998). The cognitive...

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95. How to develop student-centred management cases

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Perry Yi Jin --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Case studies are very popular in management education. Many case studies, however, are written at a level that is beyond the understanding of their target audience and therefore fail to do what they are intended for. The present study examines...

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96. The evaluation of career-oriented dialogues in a social constructivist learning environment

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Hanneke Assen --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This study explored career-oriented dialogues between study career coaches (SCCs) and first-year students in a social constructivist learning environment. Four types of orientation in career-oriented dialogues were identified: action, evaluation, analysis and design. Additionally, the type of dialogue, the topics...

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97. Encouraging normative smoking behaviour

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Matilde Tchinda Tsayem --- International Service Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Research Group in Service Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Why do people smoke in non-smoking areas? What interventions could be used to make a change in observed smoking behaviour? This research builds on Lindenberg and Steg’s goal-framing theory to identify the motivations of norm-breaching behaviour and to suggest intervention...

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98. The impact of transactional versus transformational leadership on job satisfaction in the hotel industry

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Irene Spitzbart --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    This study examines the impact of transactional versus transformational leadership on job satisfaction. Data was collected through a 69-item questionnaire for employees and a 70-item questionnaire for leaders to investigate their perceptions of their own leadership style and those of...

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99. Organisational routines versus individual agency and personality

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Elsbeth A de Boer --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Although rules and routines are recognised as important factors in decision-making, many people frequently deviate from rules. In a previous exploratory case study, research focused on how a combination of human agency and personality traits affects rule-following behaviour. In this...

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100. How economic crisis affects revenue management: the case of the Prague Hilton hotels

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Oleksandra Blanar --- Hilton Prague Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic

     This study explores revenue management practices in two Prague hotels throughout the past years of economic crisis. The purpose of the research was to inform hospitality managers and educators about revenue management practices in central Europe’s emerging and challenging hospitality...

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101. Embodied houses and the initiation of hospitality experiences in the Zuiderzee Museum

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     It can be argued that many potentialities within society are left unused by organising hospitality venues according to modern planning practices. These planning practices regard the setting as a rational space which is predictable and manageable. By applying modern management...

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102. Umami in wine

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Peter Klosse --- Academy for International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, PO Box 1298, 8900 CG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Academy for Gastronomy, Amersfoortseweg 86, 7346 AA Hoog Soeren, The Netherlands

     The positive effects of umami on flavour are widely documented, but as far as the author is aware, wines are not mentioned in umami-related literature; vice versa, in wine-related scientific publications, references to umami were not found. In the fermentation...

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103. A traditional versus a constructivist conception of assessment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This paper reports a study on conceptions of assessment held by students and instructors. The conceptions of assessment are considered to be one of the four interrelated sets of conceptions which together constitute the conception of education.The three other sets...

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104. Mind the gap: researching ‘sustainability in hospitality’ at the edge of academic and industry interests

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This paper describes the development of the research line ‘sustainability in hospitality’ for Stenden University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). To comply with the official requirements for a Dutch university of applied sciences (UAS),a research line should be based on...

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105. Tutor performance in a problem-based Hospitality Management curriculum

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Marte-Rinck de Boer --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Tutors are of crucial importance for student learning in problem-based learning (PBL). They facilitate the development of students’ self-directed and collaborative learning skills, and support students during their learning processes. The tutor’s ability to understand students’ learning needs and to...

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106. Music as an environmental factor in hospitality: what is the impact of background music on perceived atmosphere and sales in a school cafeteria?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Theresa Vitera --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Rebeka Barbara Keresztes --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Extending the research of North and Hargreaves (1998)1, this study investigates the influence of three different musical styles, namely lounge, pop and jazz on perceived atmosphere and sales in a school cafeteria. Interviews and questionnaires were conducted to acquire information...

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107. To what extent are restaurants prepared to respond to the needs of guests with food allergies and intolerances?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Maxine van Dam --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Lysbet Wiersma --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     The purpose of this research is to examine the knowledge of restaurants regarding food allergies and intolerances. The main research question is this: to what extent are restaurants prepared to respond to the needs of guests with food allergies and...

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108. Assessment practises in a teaching hotel

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Josee Dekker --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     The main goal of the current study was to gain a better understanding of assessment practises in a teaching hotel. Data were collected in three different ways: (1) a critical-incidents interview; (2) analysis of all assessments in the practise modules,...

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109. Reading the guest by means of facial expressions

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jannick Boelens --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     ‘Reading the guest’ refers to the ability to detect and interpret the body language and facial expressions of a guest. A battery of tests was developed to test whether it is possible to accurately read and assess the needs and...

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110. The effects of education and income on consumers’ motivation to read online hotel reviews

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Anna Engelbertink --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Schevaa Van Hullebusch --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     An increasing number of consumers are using the Internet for online advice and recommendations. Consumers read these electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) comments for various reasons. The current study is an extension to that of Kim, Mattila, and Baloglu (2011)1, with the...

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111. The moving finger: Asian international hotel school students developing English language writing skills

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Peter Graham --- Stenden Rangsit University, Rattanakunakorn Building, 52/347 Muang Ake, Phaholyothin Road, Lak-Hok, Pathumthani, Bangkok, Thailand

     The number of international English as a Second Language hospitality students completing their degree programs in Australasia has risen dramatically in the past decade. One factor that may be motivating students to undertake tertiary studies in Australasia is the expectation...

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112. Key values of Chinese consumers buying sustainable goods: the case of Green Food in Fuzhou

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan Arend Schulp --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rengerslaan 8, 8917 DD Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rengerslaan 8, 8917 DD Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Hanqing Lin --- Fujian Communication Technology College, China

     This research identifies the key individual values guiding the choice of Chinese customers for Green Food. The work builds on literature on sustainable consumption and the role of values in explaining consumers’ buying behaviour. A questionnaire on values and buying...

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113. Quality assessment in small businesses: the case of Dutch culinary restaurants

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rengerslaan 8, 8917 DD Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Berry Dumont --- Fletcher Hotel and Restaurant Kasteel Ehrenstein, Oud-Erensteinerweg 10, 6468 PC Kerkrade, The Netherlands

     Research material on quality definitions in the specific small business segment of culinary restaurants is scarce. Defining quality in culinary restaurant small businesses deserves increased attention in order to further develop professionalism within this segment. For this research nine Dutch...

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114. High Impact Hospitality
     By Chase L LeBlanc (2010)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Kathy Ord --- Stenden South Africa, PO Box 2821, Port Alfred 6170, South Africa

     Thundersnow Publishing, 14405 West Colfax Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80401, USA 156 pages, softcover ISBN 0984381821. Price US$13

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115. Do social media display correct conventional hotel ratings?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Wouter Hensens --- Stenden University (South African campus), PO Box 2821, Port Alfred 6170, South Africa Miemie Struwig --- School of Management Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 6001, South Africa Oren Dayan --- Department of Business Management, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 6001, South Africa

     This study investigates conventional ratings as they are presented on TripAdvisor. Conventional ratings are ratings, commonly using stars as a symbol, allocated by government or private bodies that work with hotel inspectors. The data from guest ratings on TripAdvisor was...

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116. An analysis of the development of home exchange organisations

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University, Qatar Paul Lynch --- Strathclyde University, Glasgow

     This paper contributes to a better understanding of the home exchange phenomenon by considering the historical development of the home exchange intermediation processes, membership profiles and the role of the media. The Internet has enabled a more interactive process and...

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117. To what extent are students as middle managers at a training hotel involved in strategic decision making?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University, the Netherlands

     Research has shown that middle managers can exert major upward or downward influence on their organisation’s strategy. In the practice department of our hotel school, senior students act as managers to train managerial competences. To analyse if this reflects reality,...

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118. The place branding of Qatar

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Maaike de Jong --- European Tourism Futures Institute, Stenden University, the Netherlands

     Destination branding has become popular. Countries brand themselves to draw visitors and competent expatriates and to create economic diversification. The brand emphasises the uniqueness of the place; it frames the culture and sells its way of life. In the perspective...

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119. Employer branding: A new approach for the hospitality industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd A Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

     The Western hospitality industry experiences a shortage of skilled professionals due to a poor image and competition from other sectors. Employer branding, which is used as a human resources strategy to differentiate brands, has the potential to deal with some...

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120. 

     The development of a scoring tool for the measurement of performance in managing hypotension and intra-operative cardiac arrest during spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Garth Horsten --- Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Robert Wise --- Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, South Africa Shaun Ramroop --- Department of Statistics and Biometry, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, South Africa Reitze Rodseth --- Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, South Africa

     Background: At level one hospitals in South Africa a high annual number of maternal deaths occur due to the unrecognised/untreated complications of spinal anaesthesia. The authors developed a clinical scenario and scoring system to measure intern performance in managing hypotension...

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121. 

     On the road again: concurrency and condom use among Uganda truck drivers

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth C Costenbader --- FHI 360 Headquarters, Kathryn Lancaster --- FHI 360 Headquarters, Leonard Bufumbo --- FHI 360 Uganda Country Office, Uganda Angela Akol --- FHI 360 Uganda Country Office, Uganda Greg Guest --- FHI 360 Headquarters,

     Long-distance truck drivers have been shown to be a critical population in the spread of HIV in Africa. In 2009, surveys with 385 Ugandan long-distance truck drivers measured concurrency point prevalence with two methods; it ranged from 37.4% (calendar-method) to...

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122. 

     The use of was in Afrikaans passive constructions: a diachronic corpus study

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Johanita Kirsten --- School of Languages, South Africa

     Afrikaans passive constructions have received significant attention in the literature for almost a century. The matter of using was instead of is in past tense passives is regularly attended to, and usually condemned in certain contexts of use. This article...

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123. 

     Caesarean section and anaesthetic mortality

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Garth Horsten --- Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, South Africa Robert Wise --- Clinical Unit, Critical Care, South Africa

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124. 

     Understanding and healing emotional trauma: conversations with pioneering clinicians and researchers

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Kirsten M Talbot --- Clinical Psychologist, South Africa

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125. 

     Emergence of reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides in a Staphylococcus aureus strain causing infection in a neonate

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: H. Orth --- Division of Medical Microbiology, Z. Salaam-Dreyer --- Division of Medical Microbiology, G. Kirsten --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, A. Bekker --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Z. Gqada --- Division of Medical Microbiology, E. Wasserman --- Division of Medical Microbiology,

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126. Studies on the Psammolittoral Meiofauna of Algoa Bay

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: A. Mclachlan --- Zoology Department, J. P. Furstenberg --- Zoology Department,

     The meiofauna communities at three tide levels on a sheltered and an exposed beach have been analysed and compared. Twenty-nine nematode, eight harpacticoid and two mystacocarid species and species groups have been used. A similarity analysis indicated three distinct communities,...

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127. Migrations of Sandy Beach Meiofauna

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: A. McLachlan --- Zoology Department, T. Erasmus --- Zoology Department, J. P. Furstenberg --- Zoology Department,

     The meiofauna at higher tide levels on a sheltered beach has been found to undergo vertical migrations correlated with the alternate drying and wetting of the sand during the tidal cycle. This movement may be modified by temperature differences between...

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128. An Ecophysiological Study of the Meiofauna of the Swartkops Estuary

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: A H Dye --- Zoology Department, J P Furstenberg --- Zoology Department,

     Environmental correlations with mean, as well as seasonal, distribution and abundance of the meiofauna in two exposed beaches in the Swartkops Estuary, near Port Elizabeth, were elucidated. Population densities showed a direct relationship with particle size. Consequent on this, oxygen...

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129. The Standardization of an Apparatus for the Mixing of Soil Samples for Nematode Extractions

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: J P Furstenberg --- Department of Zoology,

     Quantitative determination of nematode populations in soils frequently necessitates the mixing of representative soil samples to form a homogeneous, compound sample from which the nematodes are extracted. A mixing apparatus was developed and standardized with the aid of a spectrophotometric...

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130. Quantitative Extraction of Meiofauna: A Comparison of Two Methods

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: J P Furstenberg --- Department of Zoology, A H Dye --- Department of Zoology, A G De Wet --- Department of Mathematical Statistics,

     Two methods for the quantitative extraction of meiofauna from natural sandy sediments were investigated and compared: Cobb's decanting and sieving technique and the Oostenbrink elutriator. Both techniques were more efficient with pre-fixed samples than with fresh samples. The results indicated...

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131. An Ecophysiological Study of the Meiofauna of the Swartkops Estuary

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Zoologica Africana • Authors: A H Dye --- Department of Zoology, T. Erasmus --- Department of Zoology, J P Furstenberg --- Department of Zoology,

     Benthic oxygen demand was measured by dark and light bottle technique at two beaches in the Swartkops estuary, near Port Elizabeth. Respiration of nematodes was measured by polarographic micro-rcspirometer technique. Secondary production was 82 g C/m2/y in sandy areas and...

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132. Growth, Consumption and Respiration by Larvae of the Kelp-Fly Fucellia Capensis (Diptera:Anthomyiidae)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: Jeanette Stenton-Dozey --- Department of Zoology, C.L. Griffiths --- Department of Zoology,

     At 18 °C the eggs of the kelp-fly, Fucellia capensis, hatch in 24 – 32 h and the larval and pupal stages last 10 – 12 and 9 – 14 days respectively. The growth curve is discontinuous, with declining relative...

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133. A correction factor for, and its application to, visual censuses of littoral fish

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: M.S. Christensen --- Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Canada R. Winterbottom --- Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Canada

     Visual estimation techniques were used between October 1976 and May 1977 on the fish fauna of an enclosed mid-intertidal pool in the eastern Cape, South Africa, to test the usefulness and accuracy of this non-consumptive census method. In January, 1977,...

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134. A comparison of two extractors for separating meiobenthic nematodes from fine-grained sediments

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: J.P. Furstenberg --- Department of Zoology, Republic of South Africa A.G. de Wet --- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Republic of South Africa

     Two methods for the quantitative extraction of meiobenthic nematodes from fine-grained sediments were investigated and compared: (i) Oostenbrink-sugar flotation and (ii) Ludox flotation. The results show that Ludox flotation yielded between approximately 200 and 700% morenematodes. A conversion graph for...

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135. 

     Subsistence utilization of the crab Neosarmatium meinerti in the Kosi Lakes ecosystem, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Carsten Pedersen --- Andreas Bjorns gade 14, Denmark Bernadine I. Everett --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa Peter J. Fielding --- FieldWork, South Africa Wendy D. Robertson --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa Robert Kyle --- , South Africa

     Members of the rural communities living around the edges of the Kosi Lake system in northern KwaZulu Natal have been subsistence users of the resources of the lakes, estuary and surrounding swamp forest for many generations. Women and children dig...

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136. Editorial 5(2)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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137. Researching snails on holiday: An agenda for caravanning and caravanners?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Vacations spent in caravans account for a significant strand of the UK leisure market. The potential mobility, yet homelike structures, can be said to offer a base of security when staying away. Like snails, caravanners travel taking their domestic space with them,...

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138. Looking from a local lens: Inbound tour operators and sustainable tourism in Kenya

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Department of Social and Environmental Statistics, Rome, Italy Fiona Ngesa --- Kenya Tourist Board, Nairobi, Kenya

     Few empirical studies on sustainable tourism take into account the perspective of developing countries’ actors. This is even the case in debates about the need to adapt sustainability’s definitions to the context of developing countries. The present study aims at giving a...

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139. Hotel quality in the European Capital of Culture: Leeuwarden 2018

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Thomas Landen --- Revinate, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

     This research looks into the experience as perceived in 2014 by hotel guests in 15 bigger Dutch cities. The hotel reviews of Leeuwarden (Capital of Culture 2018) are compared to those of hotels in the other cities to provide an initial...

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140. Culinary and hospitality teaching as a research-based profession

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Joseph Hegarty --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This is not just an academic paper, it is a resource. It addresses the topic of how hospitality and tourism education is likely to change in 5, 10 and 15 years’ time. The principal function of a hospitality academy is to...

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141. How relevant are Hofstede’s dimensions for inter-cultural studies? A replication of Hofstede’s research among current international business students

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Laura N. Caudron --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Kathrin Rieck --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Fei Xie --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tobias Gerhardt --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     In the present study the cultural dimensions of the well known Dutch researcher Geert Hofstede were tested on a sample of international business students. The sample consisted of 1 033 students from the Netherlands, Germany, China, South Africa and Qatar. The findings...

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142. All at sea: Insights into crew work experiences on a cruise liner

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Ester Ellen Trees Bolt --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- International Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This research explores employee experiences of working on board a cruise ship. Cruise liners have been described as floating hotels; but increasingly they are more like floating resorts, embracing passenger and crew populations as big as small towns. In addition to the...

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143. Pining for home: Studying crew homesickness aboard a cruise liner

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Carolina Bardelle --- International Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Most people can experience homesickness at some time, when they move away from their home base. The experience of working onboard a cruise liner can intensify these feelings, because of the enclosed and controlled nature of work and living space. This study...

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144. The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, I: Practices and opinions of restaurant professionals

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Anne K&uuml;pers --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Jaap-Peter Nijboer --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Elske Rozendal --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Christel Westerhuis --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     The difficulties in serving a cheeseboard are explored in this paper. From literature 1940–2010, for accompanying cheeses, a shift was found from red to white wines and from dry to sweeter wines. There is also a tendency to more and sweeter...

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145. The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, II: Integration of the cheese course into the menu

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Suzanne Gerritsen --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Jorieke de Leeuw --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     In Dutch fine dining restaurants, the customer who orders a cheeseboard as part of the dessert is served an assortment of cheeses without regard to the dishes that preceded the cheese. The present paper tries to contribute to a more logical...

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146. The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, III: Using the FSC model in finding good cheese-wine combinations: A pilot study with red bacteria cheeses

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Rebecca Rive --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Melissa Leeman --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     The authors selected four wines that, according to their restaurant experience, matched well with red bacteria cheeses. Subsequently, an expert panel created flavour profiles of these four wines and of four red bacteria cheeses, using the FSC model by Klosse (2004, 2014)...

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147. 

     Grazing Behaviour of Exotic Dairy Cattle in Uganda

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: J. S. Mugerwa --- Makerere University, Uganda D. A. Christensen --- Makerere University, Uganda S. Ochetim --- Makerere University, Uganda

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148. 

     The Effect of the Level of Cottonseed Meal in the Dairy Concentrate on Milk Yield and Composition and on Estimated Pasture Consumption in the Lake Crescent Area of Uganda

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: D. A. Christensen [AN0001] E. J. Ipsen [AN0002] S. V. Soneji [AN0003]

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149. 

     Utilization of Urea and Molasses for Dairy Cattle Feeding

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: J. S. Mugerwa --- Department of Animal Science, Uganda Mary P. Lawrence --- Department of Animal Science, Uganda D. A. Christensen --- Department of Animal Science, Uganda

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150. 

     Ethical quandaries in social research

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kirsten Bell --- Department of Anthropology, Canada

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151. 

     First survey of fishes in the Betty's Bay Marine Protected Area along South Africa's temperate south-west coast

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Roberson --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa H Winker --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa C Attwood --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa L De Vos --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa C Sanguinetti --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa A G&ouml;tz --- Elwandle Node, South Africa

     This first survey of fish in the Betty's Bay Marine Protected Area (MPA), on the south coast of South Africa, was conducted using baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVs). A total of 58 deployments recorded 42 species in 20 km2, including...

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152. Business ethics and sustainability

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Business ethics provides a potential analytical framework through which to evaluate management practice in general and sustainability in particular. Management actions can be examined to the extent that they are good or bad, or legal or illegal, suggesting a four-quadrant...

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153. The integration of environmental management standards in contemporary hotel classification systems

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Wouter Hensens --- Hotel Management School, Stenden South Africa Campus, Stenden University, Port Alfred, South Africa

     This study investigates how hotel classification systems integrate environmental management practices in hotels. There is a growing awareness that hotel classification should be based on an integrated approach to quality, including environmental management practices. A content analysis of eight recently...

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154. Creating tangible and intangible hospitality products with a sustainable value – The case of the Altes Land apples

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sofie-Charlotte Depke --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Christina L&uuml;ck --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Jennifer Peters --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Lara Wellmer --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Sarah Seidel --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This paper focuses on a specific sub-part of hospitality, namely sustainable product creation via regional integration. According to the research question “To what extent does the integration of local apple products contribute to regional sustainable value creation in Altes Land...

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155. Sustainable tourism development and the world heritage status of the Wadden Sea: The case of Terschelling

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Akke Folmer --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Hans Revier --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tamara Cupido --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     National governments and regions make great efforts to obtain international recognition for their natural heritage, for instance through UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list. Since June 2009, the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the World Heritage List. Our study investigates...

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156. Diversity and inclusion as indicators of sustainable human resources management in the international hospitality industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Innovation in Hospitality, Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This research paper discusses the notion of sustainable human resources management (SHRM). In order to deal with current and expected talent deficiencies for the international hospitality industry, innovating approaches to HRM are highly needed. An important focus within SHRM in...

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157. Employees, sustainability and motivation: Increasing employee engagement by addressing sustainability and corporate social responsibility

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: David Casey --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Sebastian Sieber --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     An increasing number of academic studies indicate that we as humans are exploiting the planet earth to an extent that is no longer bearable. Put differently, we are actively destroying our very own basis of existence, especially considering the generations...

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158. Food waste reduction at Restaurant De Pleats: Small steps for mankind

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Geesje Duursma --- Restaurant De Pleats, Burgum, The Netherlands Femke Vrenegoor --- Stenden Research Group Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism, Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Sytze Kobus --- Restaurant De Pleats, Burgum, The Netherlands

     Every year, large quantities of food are thrown away in the catering industry. Restaurant De Pleats therefore started a pilot study for twelve days to weigh all discarded carrots, chips and bread in order to determine food waste within the...

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159. Taking care: Creating a non-alcoholic cocktail for Generation X

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Shirley Verkade --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Jonathan van Driel --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Femke Vrenegoor --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     This paper reports on a Hospitality Research Project, a third-year project at Stenden Hotel Management School, dedicated to the design, creation and testing of three different non-alcoholic cocktail recipes for restaurant De Pleats in Burgum, the Netherlands. On the basis...

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160. Editorial 6(1)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Willy Legrand --- IUBH School of Business and Management, Germany Frans Melissen --- NHTV, The Netherlands Philip Sloan --- IUBH School of Business and Management, Germany

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161. 

     Enhanced microbiological safety of acidified infant formulas tested in vitro

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: H.M.L. Joosten --- Nestl&eacute; Research Centre, Switzerland A. Lardeau --- Nestl&eacute; Research Centre, Switzerland

     Objectives. To determine growth behaviour of pathogens and spoilage micro-organisms in infant formulas after reconstitution, and comparison of the bacteriostatic effect of acidified formulas obtained through fermentation or by direct addition of lactic acid.

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162. 

     The influence of socio-demographic factors on the nutritional status of children in the Stellenbosch area, Western Cape

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Ap Kirsten --- Division of Human Nutrition, D Marais --- Division of Applied Health Sciences, C Sch&uuml;bl --- Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,

     Objectives: To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity, as well as socio-demographic risk factors associated with childhood overweight and obesity in the Stellenbosch area, Western Cape province.

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163. 

     The role of human milk oligosaccharides in preventing necrotising enterocolitis and human immunodeficiency virus transmission

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: E. Van Niekerk --- Division Human Nutrition, R. Blaauw --- Division Human Nutrition, Gf Kirsten --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Division of Neonatology,

     The heavy burden of maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has resulted in a high prevalence of premature births, with an associated increase in the incidence of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is a life-threatening inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract...

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164. 

     Comparison of distance sampling estimates to a known population size of Ant-eating Chats Myrmecocichla formicivora

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ute Stenkewitz --- Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Iceland Eric Herrmann --- 48 Van Riebeeck Street, South Africa

     Line-transect sampling was used to obtain abundance estimates of an Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora population to compare these with the true size of the population. The population size was determined by a long-term banding study, and abundance estimates were obtained...

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165. 

     True height and variability in estimates thereof across race and gender

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen Lahner --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Susanna Kassier --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture,

     Although standing height is the ideal indicator of a subject’s true height, numerous internal and external factors can have an effect on its accuracy. These factors include measurement error, the clinical environment, growth and a secular change in growth, and...

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166. 

     Arm-associated measurements as estimates of true height in black and white young adults of both genders: an exploratory study, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen R Lahner --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Susanna M Kassier --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Frederick J Veldman --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa

     Objective: To determine the accuracy of arm-associated anthropometric measurements as estimates of true height.

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167. 

     Effectiveness of electro-fencing for restricting the ranging behaviour of wildlife: a case study in the degazetted parts of Akagera National Park

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jean D Bariyanga --- College of Science and Technology, School of Science, Department of Biology, Rwanda Torsten Wronski --- College of Science and Technology, School of Science, Department of Biology, Rwanda Martin Plath --- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Ann Apio --- College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Department of Wildlife and Aquatic Resources Management, Rwanda

     Several national parks on the African continent have been fenced to mitigate human–wildlife conflict, but the effectiveness of different fencing strategies seems to vary between regions. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of electro-fencing for restricting movement patterns of several wild...

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168. Studies on Haliplectus Cobb, 1913. Description of Haliplectus algoensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Haliplectidae, Suborder Leptolaimina)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: Antoinette Swart --- Department of Zoology, Republic of South Africa J. Heyns --- Department of Zoology, Republic of South Africa J.P. Furstenberg --- Department of Zoology, Republic of South Africa

     Specimens of the genus Haliplectus Cobb, 1913 which exhibited remarkable morphological detail were collected from coastal dune slacks in the Alexandria dune field east of the Sundays River, near Port Elizabeth, on the shore of Algoa Bay. These specimens differ...

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169. 

     Do social media display correct conventional hotel ratings?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Wouter Hensens --- Stenden University (South African campus), South Africa Miemie Struwig --- School of Management Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Oren Dayan --- Department of Business Management, South Africa

     This study investigates conventional ratings as they are presented on TripAdvisor. Conventional ratings are ratings, commonly using stars as a symbol, allocated by government or private bodies that work with hotel inspectors. The data from guest ratings on TripAdvisor was...

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170. 

     An analysis of the development of home exchange organisations

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University, Qatar Paul Lynch --- Strathclyde University,

     This paper contributes to a better understanding of the home exchange phenomenon by considering the historical development of the home exchange intermediation processes, membership profiles and the role of the media. The Internet has enabled a more interactive process and...

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171. 

     To what extent are students as middle managers at a training hotel involved in strategic decision making?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University, the Netherlands

     Research has shown that middle managers can exert major upward or downward influence on their organisation's strategy. In the practice department of our hotel school, senior students act as managers to train managerial competences. To analyse if this reflects reality,...

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172. 

     The place branding of Qatar

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Maaike de Jong --- European Tourism Futures Institute, Stenden University, the Netherlands

     Destination branding has become popular. Countries brand themselves to draw visitors and competent expatriates and to create economic diversification. The brand emphasises the uniqueness of the place; it frames the culture and sells its way of life. In the perspective...

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173. 

     Employer branding: A new approach for the hospitality industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd A Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands Joachim de Looij --- Hotel Mercure Arthur Frommer, The Netherlands

     The Western hospitality industry experiences a shortage of skilled professionals due to a poor image and competition from other sectors. Employer branding, which is used as a human resources strategy to differentiate brands, has the potential to deal with some...

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174. 

     RETRACTED ARTICLE: The moving finger: Asian international hotel school students developing English language writing skills

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter Graham --- Stenden Rangsit University, Thailand

     A thorough investigation has determined that the article “The moving finger: Asian international hotel school students developing English language writing skills” by Peter Graham published in Research in Hospitality Management (2012) Volume 1 Issue 2, pp. 53-63, is substantially similar...

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175. 

     Key values of Chinese consumers buying sustainable goods: the case of Green Food in Fuzhou

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan Arend Schulp --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Hanqing Lin --- Fujian Communication Technology College, China

     This research identifies the key individual values guiding the choice of Chinese customers for Green Food. The work builds on literature on sustainable consumption and the role of values in explaining consumers' buying behaviour. A questionnaire on values and buying...

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176. 

     Quality assessment in small businesses: the case of Dutch culinary restaurants

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Berry Dumont --- Fletcher Hotel and Restaurant Kasteel Ehrenstein, The Netherlands

     Research material on quality definitions in the specific small business segment of culinary restaurants is scarce. Defining quality in culinary restaurant small businesses deserves increased attention in order to further develop professionalism within this segment. For this research nine Dutch...

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177. 

     Book Review

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Kathy Ord --- Stenden South Africa, South Africa

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178. 

     Organisational routines versus individual agency and personality

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elsbeth A de Boer --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Although rules and routines are recognised as important factors in decision-making, many people frequently deviate from rules. In a previous exploratory case study, research focused on how a combination of human agency and personality traits affects rule-following behaviour. In this...

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179. 

     How economic crisis affects revenue management: the case of the Prague Hilton hotels

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Oleksandra Blanar --- Hilton Prague Hotel, Czech Republic

     This study explores revenue management practices in two Prague hotels throughout the past years of economic crisis. The purpose of the research was to inform hospitality managers and educators about revenue management practices in central Europe's emerging and challenging hospitality...

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180. 

     Embodied houses and the initiation of hospitality experiences in the Zuiderzee Museum

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     It can be argued that many potentialities within society are left unused by organising hospitality venues according to modern planning practices. These planning practices regard the setting as a rational space which is predictable and manageable. By applying modern management...

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181. 

     Umami in wine

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter Klosse --- Academy for International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, The Netherlands

     The positive effects of umami on flavour are widely documented, but as far as the author is aware, wines are not mentioned in umami-related literature; vice versa, in wine-related scientific publications, references to umami were not found. In the fermentation...

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182. 

     A traditional versus a constructivist conception of assessment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This paper reports a study on conceptions of assessment held by students and instructors. The conceptions of assessment are considered to be one of the four interrelated sets of conceptions which together constitute the conception of education. The three other...

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183. 

     Mind the gap: researching ‘sustainability in hospitality’ at the edge of academic and industry interests

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This paper describes the development of the research line ‘sustainability in hospitality’ for Stenden University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). To comply with the official requirements for a Dutch university of applied sciences (UAS), a research line should be based...

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184. 

     Tutor performance in a problem-based Hospitality Management curriculum

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Marte-Rinck de Boer --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Tutors are of crucial importance for student learning in problem-based learning (PBL). They facilitate the development of students' self-directed and collaborative learning skills, and support students during their learning processes. The tutor's ability to understand students' learning needs and to...

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185. 

     Music as an environmental factor in hospitality: what is the impact of background music on perceived atmosphere and sales in a school cafeteria?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Theresa Vitera --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Rebeka Barbara Keresztes --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Extending the research of North and Hargreaves (1998)1, this study investigates the influence of three different musical styles, namely lounge, pop and jazz on perceived atmosphere and sales in a school cafeteria. Interviews and questionnaires were conducted to acquire information...

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186. 

     The effects of education and income on consumers' motivation to read online hotel reviews

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Anna Engelbertink --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Schevaa van Hullebusch --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     An increasing number of consumers are using the Internet for online advice and recommendations. Consumers read these electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) comments for various reasons. The current study is an extension to that of Kim, Mattila, and Baloglu (2011)1, with the...

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187. 

     To what extent are restaurants prepared to respond to the needs of guests with food allergies and intolerances?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Maxine van Dam --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Lysbet Wiersma --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     The purpose of this research is to examine the knowledge of restaurants regarding food allergies and intolerances. The main research question is this: to what extent are restaurants prepared to respond to the needs of guests with food allergies and...

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188. 

     Assessment practises in a teaching hotel

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Josee Dekker --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     The main goal of the current study was to gain a better understanding of assessment practises in a teaching hotel. Data were collected in three different ways: (1) a critical-incidents interview; (2) analysis of all assessments in the practise modules,...

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189. 

     Reading the guest by means of facial expressions

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jannick Boelens --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     ‘Reading the guest’ refers to the ability to detect and interpret the body language and facial expressions of a guest. A battery of tests was developed to test whether it is possible to accurately read and assess the needs and...

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190. 

     Editorial: Studying hospitality—an agenda

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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191. 

     Student employment in hospitality and tourism: insights from a recent study

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Students' motives for working are primarily economic, though the proportion of the student body engaged in paid employment in this study is less than 50%. There is also evidence that this varies between students. Students in the final year of...

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192. 

     The hospitality of Nepali tea houses: redefining the boundaries of empowerment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Andrew C MacLaren --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Carolyn L McMillan --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Kevin D O&#039;Gorman --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     The paper reports on research which shows that in an environment where women traditionally represent the marginalised population, the female tea house owners/managers display higher levels of economic, social and psychological empowerment. It illustrates how commercial hospitality has catalysed social...

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193. 

     Grounded theory application in doctorate research

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     In this paper a case of doctorate research methodology is presented, which can serve as contemplation for fellow researchers who are preparing their study. An interaction of reflective narrating and grounded theory methodology is applied. This approach incorporates personal and...

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194. 

     The Strategic Employment Experience (SEE) Matrix

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Michael Njingu Chibili --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     A new tool was developed and tested for the assessment and evaluation of job satisfaction within organisations. The tool is based on Herzberg's two-factor theory, and measures the performance and the importance of motivators and hygiene factors within the work...

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195. 

     Hospitality management students' cognitive style

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Hans Otting --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This paper reports on the cognitive style of students in a problem-based hospitality management curriculum at a university of applied sciences. A cognitive style is a student's preference of perceiving, processing, and evaluating information (Hayes and Allinson 1998). The cognitive...

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196. 

     How to develop student-centred management cases

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Perry Yi Jin --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Case studies are very popular in management education. Many case studies, however, are written at a level that is beyond the understanding of their target audience and therefore fail to do what they are intended for. The present study examines...

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197. 

     The evaluation of career-oriented dialogues in a social constructivist learning environment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Hanneke Assen --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study explored career-oriented dialogues between study career coaches (SCCs) and first-year students in a social constructivist learning environment. Four types of orientation in career-oriented dialogues were identified: action, evaluation, analysis and design. Additionally, the type of dialogue, the topics...

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198. 

     The impact of transactional versus transformational leadership on job satisfaction in the hotel industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Irene Spitzbart --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     This study examines the impact of transactional versus transformational leadership on job satisfaction. Data was collected through a 69-item questionnaire for employees and a 70-item questionnaire for leaders to investigate their perceptions of their own leadership style and those of...

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199. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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200. 

     Hospitableness: the new service metaphor? Developing an instrument for measuring hosting

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Matthew Blain --- Compass Group UK &amp; Ireland, United Kingdom Conrad Lashley --- School of International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Over the last couple of decades the word hospitality has emerged from the shadow of being used to describe a cluster of commercial activities providing accommodation, food and drink experiences to guests for a fee. Hospitality describes a ubiquitous aspect...

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201. 

     Connecting entrepreneurship and education

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

     The aim of this research is to explore the contextual characteristics of a particular group of Dutch restaurant owners, the successful culinary entrepreneurs (SCEs), to examine how these contextual characteristics might be used in a hospitality education. This very small...

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202. 

     Game consumption and attitudes to hunting in the Netherlands

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- School of International Hospitality Management (IHM), Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Fabian Pettinga --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Pepijn Meester --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     In the Netherlands, per capita game consumption is low, but during autumn and Christmas, many consumers eat game, once or twice. Restaurants supply a big share of this game. Anti-hunting activism is a potential threat for the supply of game...

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203. 

     Women entrepreneurship in developing countries: A European example

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ina Beqo --- Graduate Stenden MA in International Service Management, Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University, The Netherlands

     This research investigates women small business entrepreneurship in Albania. The purpose is to provide contextual information to potential future (women) entrepreneurs about how to get into business and overcome challenges. The 11 interviewed Albanian women entrepreneurs explain how they survive...

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204. 

     Editorial: The developing field

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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205. 

     Hospitality and hospitableness

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Not long after the word hospitality emerged as a collective noun to describe the commercial provision of services associated with accommodation, drinking and eating, some academics began to investigate the meanings of hospitality and hospitableness. Whilst most academic programme provision...

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206. 

     A visual analysis of a cultural tourism destination

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Shenghan Zhou --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This research investigates how a relatively unknown town that is elected as cultural capital of Europe can use visual materials to attract visitors from totally different areas in the world, particularly China. The study uses visual cues for two purposes:...

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207. 

     Can a luxury hotel compete without a spa facility?—Opinions from senior managers of London's luxury hotels

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Andy Heyes --- Hospitality Management, University of Derby, United Kingdom Colin Beard --- Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Sjoerd Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     The development of the wellness facility within the luxury hotel sector around the world has been evident, with many professionals believing that spas are an expected element within luxury hotels. This paper has been written to provide further consideration for...

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208. 

     Generation Y's attitude towards organic wine

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Inkje Hoekstra --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Sustainability in Hospitality &amp; Tourism, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This research paper focuses on the motives behind Generation Y's wine choices. Data collection was done by reviewing relevant literature, interviewing wine experts and organising blind and open wine tastings accompanied by questionnaires and focus group discussions. Results confirm that...

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209. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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210. 

     Researching snails on holiday: An agenda for caravanning and caravanners?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Vacations spent in caravans account for a significant strand of the UK leisure market. The potential mobility, yet homelike structures, can be said to offer a base of security when staying away. Like snails, caravanners travel taking their domestic space...

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211. 

     Looking from a local lens: Inbound tour operators and sustainable tourism in Kenya

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Fiona Ngesa --- Kenya Tourist Board, Kenya

     Few empirical studies on sustainable tourism take into account the perspective of developing countries' actors. This is even the case in debates about the need to adapt sustainability's definitions to the context of developing countries. The present study aims at...

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212. 

     Hotel quality in the European Capital of Culture: Leeuwarden 2018

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Thomas Landen --- , The Netherlands

     This research looks into the experience as perceived in 2014 by hotel guests in 15 bigger Dutch cities. The hotel reviews of Leeuwarden (Capital of Culture 2018) are compared to those of hotels in the other cities to provide an...

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213. 

     Culinary and hospitality teaching as a research-based profession

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Joseph Hegarty --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

     This is not just an academic paper, it is a resource. It addresses the topic of how hospitality and tourism education is likely to change in 5, 10 and 15 years' time. The principal function of a hospitality academy is...

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214. 

     How relevant are Hofstede's dimensions for inter-cultural studies? A replication of Hofstede's research among current international business students

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Laura N. Caudron --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Kathrin Rieck --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Fei Xie --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Tobias Gerhardt --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     In the present study the cultural dimensions of the well known Dutch researcher Geert Hofstede were tested on a sample of international business students. The sample consisted of 1 033 students from the Netherlands, Germany, China, South Africa and Qatar...

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215. 

     All at sea: Insights into crew work experiences on a cruise liner

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ester Ellen Trees Bolt --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- International Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This research explores employee experiences of working on board a cruise ship. Cruise liners have been described as floating hotels; but increasingly they are more like floating resorts, embracing passenger and crew populations as big as small towns. In addition...

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216. 

     Pining for home: Studying crew homesickness aboard a cruise liner

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Carolina Bardelle --- International Hotel Management School, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Most people can experience homesickness at some time, when they move away from their home base. The experience of working onboard a cruise liner can intensify these feelings, because of the enclosed and controlled nature of work and living space...

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217. 

     The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, I: Practices and opinions of restaurant professionals

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Anne K&uuml;pers --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Jaap-Peter Nijboer --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Elske Rozendal --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Christel Westerhuis --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

     The difficulties in serving a cheeseboard are explored in this paper. From literature 1940–2010, for accompanying cheeses, a shift was found from red to white wines and from dry to sweeter wines. There is also a tendency to more and...

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218. 

     The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, II: Integration of the cheese course into the menu

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Suzanne Gerritsen --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Jorieke de Leeuw --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

     In Dutch fine dining restaurants, the customer who orders a cheeseboard as part of the dessert is served an assortment of cheeses without regard to the dishes that preceded the cheese. The present paper tries to contribute to a more...

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219. 

     The cheeseboard in Dutch fine dining restaurants, III: Using the FSC model in finding good cheese-wine combinations: A pilot study with red bacteria cheeses

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Rebecca Rive --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Melissa Leeman --- International Hospitality Management, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

     The authors selected four wines that, according to their restaurant experience, matched well with red bacteria cheeses. Subsequently, an expert panel created flavour profiles of these four wines and of four red bacteria cheeses, using the FSC model by Klosse...

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220. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Willy Legrand --- IUBH School of Business and Management, Germany Frans Melissen --- NHTV, The Netherlands Philip Sloan --- IUBH School of Business and Management, Germany

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221. 

     Business ethics and sustainability

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Business ethics provides a potential analytical framework through which to evaluate management practice in general and sustainability in particular. Management actions can be examined to the extent that they are good or bad, or legal or illegal, suggesting a four-quadrant...

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222. 

     Food waste reduction at Restaurant De Pleats: Small steps for mankind

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Geesje Duursma --- Restaurant De Pleats, The Netherlands Femke Vrenegoor --- Stenden Research Group Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism, The Netherlands Sytze Kobus --- Restaurant De Pleats, The Netherlands

     Every year, large quantities of food are thrown away in the catering industry. Restaurant De Pleats therefore started a pilot study for twelve days to weigh all discarded carrots, chips and bread in order to determine food waste within the...

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223. 

     Taking care: Creating a non-alcoholic cocktail for Generation X

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Shirley Verkade --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Jonathan van Driel --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Femke Vrenegoor --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     This paper reports on a Hospitality Research Project, a third-year project at Stenden Hotel Management School, dedicated to the design, creation and testing of three different non-alcoholic cocktail recipes for restaurant De Pleats in Burgum, the Netherlands. On the basis...

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224. 

     The integration of environmental management standards in contemporary hotel classification systems

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Wouter Hensens --- Hotel Management School, Stenden South Africa Campus, South Africa

     This study investigates how hotel classification systems integrate environmental management practices in hotels. There is a growing awareness that hotel classification should be based on an integrated approach to quality, including environmental management practices. A content analysis of eight recently...

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225. 

     Diversity and inclusion as indicators of sustainable human resources management in the international hospitality industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Innovation in Hospitality, Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This research paper discusses the notion of sustainable human resources management (SHRM). In order to deal with current and expected talent deficiencies for the international hospitality industry, innovating approaches to HRM are highly needed. An important focus within SHRM in...

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226. 

     Employees, sustainability and motivation: Increasing employee engagement by addressing sustainability and corporate social responsibility

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: David Casey --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Sebastian Sieber --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     An increasing number of academic studies indicate that we as humans are exploiting the planet earth to an extent that is no longer bearable. Put differently, we are actively destroying our very own basis of existence, especially considering the generations...

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227. 

     A tale of three cities: Insight into the impacts of holiday rentals in France

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Niki Christian Nutsch --- Tourism and Hospitality Research Consultancy, United Kingdom

     This paper reports on the impact of vacation rentals on three destinations in France – Paris, Côte d’Azur and the Haute-Savoie. The vacation rental market in France involves 9.4 million guests with an annual value of €4 359 million. Approximately...

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228. 

     Wasted millions: Revenue management in Dutch culinary restaurants

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Bill Rowson --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Wouter van Poppel --- Het Concertgebouw, The Netherlands Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

     The concept of revenue management is widely adopted in various industries including the hospitality industry. Yet, its application to the restaurant industry has been limited. Especially culinary restaurants appear to be a somewhat unexplored area of study, thus indicating a...

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229. 

     Fun, animal welfare or community development? Understanding young tourists’ preferences for a wildlife tourism package

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Tamara Huisman --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

     This paper explores the impact of young travellers’ value orientations on their choice for a wildlife tourism package. On the basis of existing literature, four different packages were designed: one mirroring the traditional offer of wildlife tourism as a hedonic...

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230. 

     Comparing hotels’ employer brand effectiveness through social media and websites

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Natascha Wienen --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Julio Mendes --- Faculty of Economics, Portugal

     This research explores hotel companies’ employer branding (EB) through the internet. Many countries in the world will face a gap between the demand for talent in the hospitality and tourism industry and the available talent pool. Previous research found that,...

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231. 

     Achieving preferred customer status in the Dutch plastics recycling industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Rink Groenveld --- School of Commerce, The Netherlands

     The aim of this research is to gain insight into the aspects and processes in the Dutch plastic recycling industry which might lead to a preferred customer status and acquiring benefits once the status has been reached. The whole process...

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232. 

     Engaging in hospitality and culinary research that makes a difference: The shape of things to come

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Joseph A. Hegarty --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Engaging in hospitality research that matters now takes a fresh approach as to how we can contribute to shaping the future of best practices in both hospitality education and management, while engaging with problems worth investigating, and publishing the results...

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233. 

     Problem-based learning in the first or second language: Does it make a difference?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Dirk Humalda --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

     Problem-based learning (PBL) is the key didactic approach in the curriculum of the Stenden Hotel Management School. Real-world problems are used to activate prior knowledge and to trigger a learning process aimed at expanding and elaborating students’ understanding and competences...

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234. 

     Luxury consumption in tourism: The case of Dubai

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sanjay Nadkarni --- Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, United Arab Emirates Andy Heyes --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Over the past 30 years, Dubai has quickly developed into what can no doubt be described as one of the pinnacle tourist and business destinations of the world. Fuelled by the vision and generosity of H.H. Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid...

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235. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

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236. 

     A Zariski-local notion of F-total acyclicity for complexes of sheaves

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Lars Winther Christensen --- Texas Tech University, U.S.A. Sergio Estrada --- Universidad de Murcia, Spain Alina Iacob --- Georgia Southern University, U.S.A.

     We study a notion of total acyclicity for complexes of flat sheaves over a scheme. It is Zariski-local—i.e. it can be verified on any open affine covering of the scheme—and for sheaves over a quasi-compact semi-separated scheme it agrees with...

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237. 

     How well do bird atlas reporting rates reflect bird densities? Correlates of detection from the Fynbos biome, South Africa, with applications for population estimation

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- Climate Change BioAdaptation, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Phoebe Barnard --- Climate Change BioAdaptation, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa

     Relationships between true population densities and reporting indices from atlas data are important for the calculation of population sizes, though these relationships are remarkably little-known and likely confounded by issues of detection. We examine issues of detection for a single-observer...

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238. 

     Incidence and hospital mortality of vascular surgery patients with perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) or myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: T Kisten --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, South Africa BM Biccard --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa

     Background: Perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) and prognostically relevant myocardial injury following non-cardiac surgery (MINS) increases perioperative mortality. Studies in vascular patients show an increased incidence and mortality from PMI. However, there remains limited data on the relative prognostic importance of...

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239. 

     Undergraduate medical students’ interest in specialising in Family Medicine at the University of the Free State, 2014

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DT Hagemeister --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa A Pal --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa N Naidoo --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa U Kristen --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa N Mokgosana --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa G Joubert --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, South Africa

     Background: There is a large demand for Family Medicine specialists, yet not enough medical students specialise in this field. This study investigated the interest of undergraduate medical students at the University of the Free State in pursuing a career in...

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240. 

     When plenty is not enough: an assessment of the white stumpnose (Rhabdosargus globiceps) fishery of Saldanha Bay, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Parker --- Fisheries Management Branch, Department of Agriculture, South Africa SE Kerwath --- Fisheries Management Branch, Department of Agriculture, South Africa TF N&aelig;sje --- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway CJ Arendse --- South African National Parks, Rondevlei Scientific Services (Garden Route National Park), South Africa FJ Keulder-Stenevik --- Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Norway K Hutchings --- Anchor Environmental Consultants, South Africa BM Clark --- Anchor Environmental Consultants, South Africa H Winker --- Fisheries Management Branch, Department of Agriculture, South Africa PD Cowley --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa CG Attwood --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa

     White stumpnose Rhabdosargus globiceps is the main target of the linefishery in Saldanha Bay. Increased fishing pressure over the last three decades, particularly by the recreational sector, has led to concerns regarding sustainability of the local white stumpnose stock. The...

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241. 

     The benefit of guest loyalty programmes

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Fleur La Rose --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Bill Rowson --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     The aim of this research is to find out what kind of guest loyalty programme Apollo Hotels and Resorts should implement for their individual leisure guests in order to gain more loyal leisure guests. In the literature review of this...

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242. 

     Price, exclusivity and luxury: Exploring London’s luxury hotels

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Andy Heyes --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Luxury is commonly said to be in the eye of the beholder. It typically relies upon the comparison with the given norms, and reflects the consumption patterns of society's economic elite. Research into the luxury retail industries have grown in...

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243. 

     The influence of the importance of event factors on meeting planner satisfaction: A case study of a theme park event business

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jutta Fast --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Elsbeth de Boer --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Bill Rowson --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

     This paper presents data from a research project aimed at identifying how important the different event factors are to the visiting meeting planners and how this might influence guest satisfaction. The focus for the researchers was to get an overall...

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244. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

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245. 

     Academy of International Hospitality Research (AIHR) Conference, 11–12 April 2017: Innovation in Hospitality – an overview

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Conrad Lashley --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands

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246. 

     Increasing crop diversity increased soil microbial activity, nitrogen-sourcing and crop nitrogen, but not soil microbial diversity

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Zander S Venter --- Department of Animal Sciences, South Africa Samantha L Scott --- Plant Conservation Unit, South Africa Johann Strauss --- Directorate-Plant Sciences, Western Cape Department of Agriculture, South Africa Karin Jacobs --- Department of Microbiology, South Africa Heidi-Jayne Hawkins --- Conservation South Africa, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, South Africa

     The relationships between crop diversity, soil microbial diversity and agroecosystem functioning are not well understood. Soils under wheat monoculture, wheat–medic, and wheat–medic plus clover rotations from a 19-year-old wheat rotation trial in South Africa were measured for soil microbial functional...

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247. 

     Geostatistical modelling of the spatial life history of post-larval deepwater hake Merluccius paradoxus in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Jansen --- Benguela Current Commission, Namibia K Kristensen --- Technical University of Denmark &ndash; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Denmark TP Fairweather --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa P Kainge --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), Namibia JN Kathena --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), Namibia MD Durholtz --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa JE Beyer --- Technical University of Denmark &ndash; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Denmark UH Thygesen --- Technical University of Denmark &ndash; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Denmark

     Optimal and sustainable management of fish resources cannot be ensured without a thorough understanding of the migration patterns and population (demographic stock) structure. Recent studies suggest that these aspects of the economically and ecologically important deepwater hake Merluccius paradoxus are...

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248. 

     Outcomes 30 days after ICU admission: the 30DOS study

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Robert Wise --- Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, South Africa Kim de Vasconcellos --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa David Skinner --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Reitze Rodseth --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Dean Gopalan --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa David Muckart --- Discipline of Surgery, South Africa Zohra Banoo --- KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health District, South Africa Tashmin Bisseru --- Paediatrics, South Africa Steve Blakemore --- Aneasthesiology, South Africa Jenine de Meyer --- Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, National Health Laboratory Services, South Africa Michael Faurie --- Discipline of Surgery, South Africa Kom Govender --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Timothy Hardcastle --- Clinical Unit, South Africa Prakash Jeena --- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, South Africa Nicky Kalafatis --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Kroshlan Kistan --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Theroshnie Kisten --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Carolyn Lee --- Head Clinical Department: Internal Medicine, South Africa Colin Mitchell --- Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, South Africa Magesvaran Moodley --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Mary Morgan --- Discipline of Paediatrics, South Africa Arisha Ramkilliwana --- Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, South Africa Rajesh Ramjee --- Anaesthesiology, South Africa Darshan Reddy --- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, South Africa Afke Robroch --- Wilhemina&rsquo;s Childrens Hospital, UMC, The Netherlands Shivani Singh --- Discipline of Paediatrics, South Africa Richard von Rahden --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa Bruce Biccard --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, South Africa

     Background: The spectrum of illness and long-term outcome of critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in South Africa remains largely unknown.

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249. 

     Microfossils in surface sediments of brackish waters on the west coast of South Africa and their palaeoecological implications

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: S F&uuml;rstenberg --- Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany N Gr&uuml;ndler --- Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany S Meschner --- Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany P Frenzel --- Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

     A faunistic survey covering 25 sites in estuaries, coastal lakes and ponds along the west coast of South Africa between the Cape of Good Hope in the south and the Olifants River in the north was carried out in May...

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250. 

     Nest boxes for Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus in the Hogsback area, Eastern Cape, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kirsten Wimberger --- Cape Parrot Project, South Africa Kate F Carstens --- Cape Parrot Project, South Africa Johann C Carstens --- Cape Parrot Project, South Africa R Stephen Boyes --- Cape Parrot Project, South Africa

     Breeding propensity of tree-cavity nesting bird species are often limited by a shortage of natural nesting sites. Artificial nests can be used to provide alternative nest sites. Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus are nationally endangered and nest in existing tree-cavities in...

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251. 

     An evaluation of personality traits associated with job satisfaction among South African anaesthetists using the Big Five Inventory

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: P Kisten --- Department of Anaesthesiology, South Africa H Kluyts --- Department of Anaesthesiology, South Africa

     Background: Job satisfaction is a vital contributor to occupational well-being and may be instrumental in mitigating stress and the adverse effects thereof. This is particularly pertinent in anaesthesiology, which is an inherently stressful field. There are myriad factors, including personality...

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252. 

     HIV-1 RNA testing of pooled dried blood spots is feasible to diagnose acute HIV infection in resource limited settings

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Wentzel Dowling --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Kirsten Veldsman --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Mary Grace Katusiime --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Jean Maritz --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Peter Bock --- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, South Africa Sue-Ann Meehan --- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, South Africa Marije Van Schalkwyk --- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, South Africa Mark F Cotton --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, South Africa Wolfgang Preiser --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Gert U Van Zyl --- Division of Medical Virology, South Africa

     Objectives: Rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody tests, routinely used for diagnosis in adults and older children in resource-limited settings (RLS), do not detect early HIV infections prior to seroconversion or when antibody levels are still low. Nucleic acid amplification...

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253. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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254. 

     Monitoring Victoria’s public forests: implementation of the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Andrew Haywood --- European Forest Institute, Spain Kristen Thrum --- Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Australia Andrew Mellor --- School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, Australia Christine Stone --- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Australia

     A new strategic inventory across all publicly managed forests has been installed in Victoria. For the preceding two decades, Victoria’s forest inventory has been compiled from various data sources from across the state, an approach that doesn’t allow information about...

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255. 

     Management Education: Unique Challenges Presented by the African Continent

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Benson Honig --- McMaster University DeGroote School of Business, Canada Nico Carsten Hjorts&oslash; --- Department of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark

     Business and management education worldwide continues to be a very popular field of study. Unfortunately, much of African management education is simply repackaged material designed by professionals and scholars in advanced economies. This special issue highlights both the theoretical and...

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256. 

     Meaning without fulfilment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Kirsten Egerstrom --- Southern Methodist University, United States

     Some philosophers argue that a necessary component of a meaningful life is positive affect. The implication of this type of view is that a meaningful life necessarily feels good. I respond primarily to Susan Wolf's version of this type of...

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257. 

     Does research and development (R&D) investment lead to economic growth? Evidence from the South African peach and nectarine industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Chiedza Z. Tsvakirai --- Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, South Africa Frikkie Liebenberg --- Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, South Africa Johann F. Kirsten --- Bureau for Economic Research (BER), Stellenbosch University, South Africa

     Agricultural research programmes in Africa have experienced waning state financial allocations. Efforts to change these funding trends have been fettered by the limited evidence of research investment benefits and the long lags associated with these returns. In a bid to...

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258. 

     Understanding how millennial hospitality employees deal with emotional labour

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Hester Visser --- Stenden Hospitality Management School, The Netherlands

     Qualified employees are the most valuable assets in today’s environment and this requires that employers understand and engage their employees. One process that might influence their happiness at work is emotional labour. Emotional labour entails that an employee tries to...

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259. 

     Molecular phylogenetics reveals a complex history underlying cryptic diversity in the Bush Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis wahlbergii) in southern Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: KA Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa W Conradie --- Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa J Harvey --- Devonshire Avenue, South Africa J Measey --- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa DC Blackburn --- Florida Museum of Natural History, United States

     Throughout the Miocene, the African landscape underwent broad climatic shifts that profoundly influenced the distribution of fauna and flora. Since the late Miocene, these shifts have created a landscape in southern Africa that is strongly characterised by savanna and arid...

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260. 

     On Record: Popular Afrikaans Music & Society

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa • Authors: Kirsten Nicole Adams --- Stellenbosch University,

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261. 

     My generation: A review of marketing strategies on different age groups

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Emilie Slootweg --- Stenden Hotel School, The Netherlands Bill Rowson --- Stenden Hotel School, The Netherlands

     As the famous pop group, the Who, sang “My generation”, referring to the wants and needs of their fans and popular culture in the mid-1960s, change was in the air. In the early 21st century an ever more complex world...

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262. 

     Retention of festival volunteers: Management practices and volunteer motivation

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Diane Zievinger --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Frans Swint --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Many volunteers in different festival organisations within the hospitality industry begin with great excitement, but slowly lose interest. This might be due to poor volunteer management practices that result in decreased motivation among volunteers, and with the consequences of them...

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263. 

     Investigating the factors for achieving and encouraging environmental certification: Driving and restraining forces

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Stephanie M. E. Ching --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Environmental sustainability has increasingly become a priority for organisations. However, the public and academic attention is generally on large companies, while small and medium enterprises constitute the bulk of organisations and are arguably lagging behind. Fewer than ten per cent...

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264. 

     The development of soft skills during internships: The hospitality student’s voice

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Earney Lasten --- RMIT University, Vietnam Anne Lawson --- Auckland Institute of Studies, New Zealand Beverly Chen --- Auckland Institute of Studies, New Zealand

     This paper considers the value of industrial placements in providing an opportunity for hospitality students to develop soft skills in the workplace in addition to the technical skills learned at their educational establishments. While there are concepts such as “problem-based...

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265. 

     Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST&ndash;NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Campbell Fleming --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST&ndash;NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Dale R Wright --- BirdLife South Africa, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, South Africa

     The relationship between true population density and abundance indices derived from atlas data can be used to estimate population size, a metric that is vital for assessing the conservation status of animal species. However, this relationship remains understudied. Meanwhile, there...

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266. 

     Adult weight measurement: decoding the terminology used in literature

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen Ren&eacute;e Lahner --- Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, South Africa

     There are various types of names given to describe the adult weight measurement. The most commonly used terms (actual body weight, estimated body weight, ideal body weight and adjusted body weight) have been defined and summarized to assist in their...

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267. 

     Materials and technology solutions to tackle the challenges in daily concrete construction for housing and infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Wolfram Schmidt --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt f&uuml;r Materialforschung und -pr&uuml;fung (BAM), Germany Nsesheye Susan Msinjili --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt f&uuml;r Materialforschung und -pr&uuml;fung (BAM), Germany Hans-Carsten K&uuml;hne --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt f&uuml;r Materialforschung und -pr&uuml;fung (BAM), Germany

     Sub-Saharan Africa's economic rise has caused a high demand for housing and infrastructure. This rapid growth has resulted in urgent challenges of enormous dimensions for urban and infrastructural planners and the entire construction sector. Considering the African supply chains and...

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268. 

     Rice husk ash as a sustainable supplementary cementitious material for improved concrete properties

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nsesheye Susan Msinjili --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Wolfram Schmidt --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Andreas Rogge --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Hans-Carsten K&uuml;hne --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany

     There is a wide range of research worldwide on supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) such as fly ash, slag and silica fumes that have pozzolanic properties sufficient for substituting ordinary Portland cement (OPC). These SCMs are known to significantly improve concrete...

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269. 

     Farmers’ trade skills: exploring the local food chain in Leeuwarden, the 2018 European Capital of Culture

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marcelo de Mansoldo --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Local food chains have received increasing attention as an alternative to the mainstream, unsustainable global food model. Farmers who directly sell their products to consumers are an essential link in local food chains. Surprisingly, research on local food chains has...

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270. 

     What is the future of foreign food experiences?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands John Hornby --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     This article considers the impact foreign food experiences can have on an individual. Food can be transported across the globe and be a catalyst for understanding and integration, but it can also be used to emphasise the “otherness” that sets...

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271. 

     Local food and authenticity in Greek restaurants

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Gerasimos-Panagiotis Angelopoulos --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the Netherlands Jan Arend Schulp --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the Netherlands Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the Netherlands

     This article aims to understand the role of local food and authenticity for restaurateurs in Athens and Patras, Greece. Nine restaurant owners were interviewed about their current dishes, menu and ingredients. The results of this qualitative research indicate that, for...

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272. 

     Natal dispersal in the Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kate F Carstens --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Reshma Kassanjee --- Department of Statistical Sciences, South Africa Robin M Little --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Peter G Ryan --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Philip AR Hockey --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa

     Dispersal is of ecological and evolutionary importance for population biology because it affects a species’ ability to expand its range, to colonise new favourable habitats and to increase the likelihood of population persistence. Male birds are mostly philopatric, delaying dispersal...

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273. 

     Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST&ndash;NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Campbell Fleming --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST&ndash;NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Dale R Wright --- BirdLife South Africa, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, South Africa

     Subsequent to publication of the article by Lee et al. [Lee ATK, Fleming C, Wright DR. 2018. Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa. Ostrich 89(4): 363–372], several links to download...

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274. 

     A systematic review of short and medium-term mental health outcomes in young people following sexual assault

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Kirsten E MacGregor --- , UK Laia Villalta --- , UK Venetia Clarke --- , UK Russell Viner --- , UK Tami Kramer --- , UK Sophie N Khadr --- , UK

     Objective: Sexual assault peaks in adolescence, yet sequelae at this age are not well understood. This systematic review aimed to describe mental health outcomes following sexual assault in young people. Method: Two reviewers independently searched databases, screening publications from 1990...

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275. 

     Where Worlds Collide

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa • Authors: Kirsten Nicole Adams --- Independent researcher,

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276. 

     Assessment for problem-based learning

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     When designing a new educational unit on organisational behaviour, special attention was paid to the constructive alignment of the assessment procedure with the learning outcomes and educational concept. In order to optimise the fit with the principles and philosophy of...

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277. 

     Chatbots — an organisation’s friend or foe?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Emma Carter --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Charlotte Knol --- Stenden Hotel Management School,

     In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence has increased tremendously and the hospitality industry has not gone unaffected. Nowadays, chatbots, which simulate human conversations, are almost indispensable in the customer service branch of hospitality. Where organisations started rapidly with...

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278. 

     For better or for worse: Shaping the hospitality industry through robotics and artificial intelligence

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Nadine Drexler --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Viyella Beckman Lapr&eacute; --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     Contemporary technological applications are widely in use in the public sector; transportation, law enforcement, armed forces, and health care industries have long adopted robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Our daily lives have been shaped through the digital transformation and, as...

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279. 

     Artificial intelligence in today’s hotel revenue management: opportunities and risks

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Thomas Millauer --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Matthijs Vellekoop --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands

     The implementation of revenue management in the hospitality industry has significantly increased in the past years. It started in the rooms departments and is slowly evolving to be further used for conference and event spaces, as well as food and...

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280. 

     Animal rights/Plant rights

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jan A. Schulp --- Masters &amp; Research Unit at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article sketches the rise of the concept of animal rights, especially in the late 20th century, mainly due to the work of Peter Singer. Considering the increase in evidence of plant intelligence, the question is discussed of whether plants...

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281. 

     Global Mind Monitor — determining intercultural competencies of Stenden Hotel Management School students: setting the research agenda

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Anne Keizer-Remmers --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Anja Brandsma-Dieters --- Policy Advisor,

     Ongoing Internationalization of Higher Hotel Management Education encourages professional universities to monitor and assess intercultural competence development of students. Moreover, strategic ambitions aimed at educating alumni capable of ‘global thinking’ and ‘hostmanship’ inevitably connect intercultural competence with hostmanship, a currently...

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282. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- Stenden Hotel Management School, NHLStenden University of Applied Sciences here in Leeuwarden in The Netherlands,

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283. 

     Review of fish life history strategies associated with warm temperate South African estuaries and a call for effective integrated management

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: NA Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Y Kisten --- Department of Zoology, South Africa

     Refuge and feeding areas for young fish in estuaries are important for the survival of fish and replenishment of coastal fish stocks, particularly in the temperate south east coast of southern Africa. Larvae and juveniles of important fishery species recruit...

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284. 

     “I’m doing this test so I can benefit from PrEP”: exploring HIV testing barriers/facilitators and implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis among South African adolescents

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Emily Yoshioka --- , USA Danielle Giovenco --- , USA Caroline Kuo --- , USA Kristen Underhill --- , USA Jackie Hoare --- , South Africa Don Operario --- , USA

     In South Africa, adolescents are a key population in the HIV epidemic that can benefit from increased access to oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). HIV testing is an integral component of the PrEP care continuum but adolescents in South Africa have...

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285. 

     Rediscovery, range extension, habitat and phylogenetic relation of the endemic Scaled Sandveld Lizard Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the central Angolan plateau

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ninda L Baptista --- Instituto Superior de Ci&ecirc;ncias da Educa&ccedil;&atilde;o da Hu&iacute;la (ISCED-Hu&iacute;la), Angola Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Marc Bluhm --- Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Plants, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany Manfred Finckh --- Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Plants, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany William R Branch --- Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), South Africa

     The Scaled Sandveld Lizard Nucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 is a poorly known lacertid endemic to north-eastern Angola and is only known from the type series collected more than half a century ago. The original description provided a comprehensive morphological description,...

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286. 

     A dwarf among giants: phylogenetic position of the elusive Angolan Adder (Bitis heraldica) and biogeographic affinities of Angolan Afromontane regions

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Luis MP Cer&iacute;aco --- Museu de Hist&oacute;ria Natural e da Ci&ecirc;ncia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Mariana P Marques --- Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO), University of Porto, Portugal Matthew P Heinicke --- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Aaron M Bauer --- Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, USA

     The Angolan Adder, Bitis heraldica (Bocage, 1889), is endemic to the Angolan central plateau and is one of the most poorly known and rarely observed species of African snakes. The phylogenetic placement of B. heraldica within the four subgenera of...

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287. 

     Profiling the community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi at endemic pine (Pinus greggii) stands of northeastern Mexico

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Rebeca Casique Vald&eacute;s --- , M&eacute;xico Fernando Galindo Garc&iacute;a --- , M&eacute;xico Leho Tedersoo --- , Estonia Sten Anslan --- , Estonia Eladio H Cornejo Oviedo --- , M&eacute;xico Sergio R S&aacute;nchez-Pe&ntilde;a --- , M&eacute;xico

     The biological communities of endemic, relictual ecosystems are poorly known and the rate of destruction of these ecosystems is high worldwide. Pinus greggii is a near-threatened Mexican pine endemic species with a highly restricted distribution. In healthy tree stands, the...

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288. 

     Structural validity and reliability of the Danish self-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire among male and female students in vocational education and training

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child &amp; Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Siddhartha Baviskar --- , Denmark Anna Diop-Christensen --- , Denmark Frank C Ebsen --- , Denmark Karoline J From --- , Denmark Thomas Mackrill --- , Denmark

     Objective: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used mental health screening instrument among children and adolescents and increasingly used by welfare professionals in Denmark. However, the psychometric properties of the SDQ-self report (SDQ-S) among vocational education and...

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289. 

     Diel and tidal periodicity in the responses of early life stages of marine fishes to an estuary opening event in temperate South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Y Kisten --- , South Africa NA Strydom --- , South Africa

     Early life stages of fish were monitored in a breach channel during an opening event of the temporarily open/closed East Kleinemonde Estuary. For comparison, early life stages were also collected in the surf zone and estuary mouth region before, during...

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290. 

     The effects of tree canopies on invasive Lantana camara: a follow-up study 18 years later

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range &amp; Forage Science • Authors: Kiersten McMahon --- , United States David Ward --- , United States

     Lantana camara is primarily a bird-dispersed invasive plant species that has spread quickly across South Africa in disturbed areas. We re-examined the distribution of Lantana at Rodger and Twine’s (2002) study site (R&T) in a highly grazed communal area and...

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291. 

     Sustainable person-environment fit and subjective career success: The moderating role of resilience

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Zilmarie Carstens --- , South Africa Eileen Koekemoer --- , South Africa Andries Masenge --- , South Africa

     This study examined the relationship between person-environment fit and subjective career success (SCS), as well as the role of personal resilience in that relationship. A convenience sample of 742 employees from various sectors in South Africa (female = 55.3%; Afrikaans...

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292. 

     Measuring transactional sex in different contexts: How do tools to measure this practice perform in rural South Africa?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nambusi Kyegombe --- , United Kingdom Kirsten Stoebenau --- , USA Natsayi Chimbindi --- , South Africa Thembelihle Zuma --- , South Africa Maryam Shahmanesh --- , United Kingdom Janet Seeley --- , United Kingdom Joyce Wamoyi --- , Tanzania

     Background: Adolescent girls and young women across sub-Saharan Africa are at disproportionate risk of HIV infection compared to their male counterparts. Transactional sex has been identified as an important proximate risk for infection in this population. Definitions and measures of...

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293. 

     Out on a limb: female chameleons (Bradypodion pumilum) position themselves to minimise detection, whereas males maximise mating opportunity

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Alexander D Rebelo --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Claremont, South Africa Res Altwegg --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Eric M Katz --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Claremont, South Africa Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Claremont, South Africa

     Although reproductive strategies are poorly documented in chameleons, sperm storage has been confirmed among some species for which male reproductive success may be maximised by increasing the number of females inseminated and/or preventing subsequent female copulation with rival males. Behaviour,...

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294. 

     Monitoring an isolated population of Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus in the Limpopo province, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kate F Carstens --- , South Africa Kirsten Wimberger --- , South Africa Rowan Martin --- , United Kingdom David Letsoalo --- , South Africa Craig T Symes --- , South Africa

     Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus inhabit forest patches in South Africa with <1 800 individuals remain in the wild. A small, genetically isolated population occurs in the northern part of its range in the Limpopo province. There, annual counts indicated ∼100...

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295. 

     Mistaken identity: challenges with specimen identification for morphologically conservative skinks (Trachylepis) leads to taxonomic error

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Kirstin Stephens --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Buyisile G Makhubo --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Nicolas S Telford --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa

     It is commonly recognised that natural history datasets contain locality errors that can compromise the utility of those datasets. However, another source of error in these datasets is taxonomic misidentifications, and this type of error is potentially common, particularly with...

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296. 

     Factors influencing eco-industrial development in Africa: A SWOT analysis of a Tanzanian industrial park

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Amani G. Rweyendela --- , Tanzania Godlisten G. Kombe --- , Tanzania

     Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have been proposed as a transformative model for assisting developing countries in upgrading their industrial systems to meet higher global environmental standards while boosting economic competitiveness. However, for many industrial settings, the requisite contextual requirements have yet...

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297. 

     Monilinia fructicola is not the causal agent of stone fruit rot in Zimbabwe

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M Mabika --- , Zimbabwe N Mapope --- , Zimbabwe CC Chinheya --- , Zimbabwe E Ngadze --- , Zimbabwe E Carstens --- , South Africa

     Pests associated with the fruit pathway are the determining factor in market access negotiations. Unconfirmed records of the occurrence and distribution of a pest in a country can lead to disputes. A report published in 1980 indicated that Monilinia fructicola...

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298. 

     Dynamic pricing and perceived fairness: a case study at a hotel on the West Frisian island of Vlieland, The Netherlands

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Stephanie Kool --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     The use of dynamic pricing strategies can have a tremendous impact on the hospitality industry. Understanding the variety in the type of customers and the perceptions of customers concerning the fairness of dynamic pricing is essential. This study aimed to...

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299. 

     Predicting hospitality management students’ intention to enter employment in the hospitality industry on graduation: a person–environment fit perspective

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ran Zhang --- Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands Klaes Eringa --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands

     This study investigates factors predicting hospitality management students’ intention to enter employment in the hospitality industry upon graduation. Survey data were collected from 591 hospitality management students in a hotel management school in the Netherlands. Results of multiple regression analyses...

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300. 

     Employee psychological well-being, transformational leadership and the future of hospitality jobs

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Laurens Alexander Walbeek --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Employee psychological well-being is a central concern for hospitality establishments as it impacts talent retention. This empirical research explores the relationship between transformational leadership and employee psychological well-being. This relationship is tested through a mediation model where transformational leadership is...

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301. 

     The impact of sustainability at the workplace on the employee’s motivation and satisfaction

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Gabriel Tschelisnig --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article focuses on the impact of sustainable efforts at the workplace on employees’ motivation and satisfaction. The focus is on the hospitality industry, represented in this case study by the Novotel Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. As sustainability...

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302. 

     Can I bring my pet? The space for companion animals in hospitality and tourism

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Lucia Tomassini --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Companion animals play an important role in our lives as pets, as emotional support animals, as guide dogs, or through different forms of pet therapy. The sociological, emotional and physical space that companion animals have been gaining in our lives...

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303. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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304. 

     Nutrition and vasoactive substances in the critically ill patient

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: HC Spies --- University of the Free State, South Africa MA Frey --- Universitas Tertiary Academic Hospital, South Africa B Karstens --- School of Nursing, University of the Free State, South Africa

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305. 

     HIV knowledge and health-seeking behavior in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Carolyn M. Audet [d209e19] Mohsin Sidat Meridith Blevins Troy D. Moon Alfredo Vergara Sten H. Vermund

     HIV prevalence rates in Zambézia Province were estimated to be 12.6% in 2009. A number of educational campaigns have been aimed at improving HIV transmission and prevention knowledge among community members in an effort to reduce infection rates. These campaigns...

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306. 

     Pre-exposure prophylaxis as an opportunity for engagement in HIV prevention among South African adolescents

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ashleigh LoVette --- Brown University School of Public Health, USA Caroline Kuo --- Brown University School of Public Health, USA Danielle Giovenco --- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jacqueline Hoare --- University of Cape Town, USA Kristen Underhill --- Columbia Law School, USA Don Operario --- Brown University School of Public Health, USA

     Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers a potential biomedical strategy to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent populations disproportionately affected by HIV. There is limited evidence on the social and clinical implications, including engagement in HIV prevention efforts, of PrEP for South African...

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307. SNAKES AND SNAKEBITE IN SOUTH AFRICA

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Herpetological Association of Rhodesia • Authors: P. Agerholm Christensen

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308. 

     A new species of chameleon (Sanria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Michele Menegon --- Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Italy KrystalA. Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Trevor Jones --- c/o Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania Francesco Rovero --- Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Italy AndrewR. Marshall --- University of York, UK ColinR. Tilbury --- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

     A new species of chameleon Kinyongia magomberae sp. nov. (the Magombera chameleon), is described from Magombera forest and the Vdzungwa Mountains National Park, south-central Tanzania. The species status is supported by phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. The new...

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309. 

     Rediscovery of Boulengerula fischeri, with notes on its morphology and habitat

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: G. John Measey --- Applied Biodiversity Research, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa HaraldH. Hinkel --- The World Bank Country Office Kigali, Rwanda Bonny Dumbo --- University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Eberhard Fischer --- University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

     Caecilians remain an enigmatic component of the tropical terrestrial fauna due in part to their cryptic life-history but also to a lack of directed effort towards their study. Many species are known from single specimens associated with poor collection data,...

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310. 

     Configuring blended education

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Javed Suleri --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study investigated the role of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, software, competencies and values in blended education. A 28-item survey was administered to a sample of 102 respondents from several institutes of higher education. Results show that infrastructure...

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311. 

     How can event locations exceed the expectations of visually-impaired theatre guests for accessibility and service?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Maud Blok --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands

     This research focuses on identifying barriers for and needs of visually impaired theatre guests (VITG). The focus lies on exceeding expectations by offering services before and during an event, ensuring an accessible venue, and providing excellent service for VITGs. A...

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312. 

     Impact of tourism on residents’ well-being amid the CoVID-19 pandemic in Bali

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Larissa Huser --- Universitas Triatma Mulya International, Indonesia Erna Wiles --- Universitas Triatma Mulya International, Indonesia Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     By being dependent on one of the most impacted industries, the travel industry, Balinese residents experienced a considerable downturn in their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research aims to examine the extent to which sociocultural, economic and environmental aspects...

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313. 

     Sensory marketing and gastronomy: the case of Ecuadorian haute cuisine restaurants

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Klaes Eringa --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Viviana Carolina Proa&ntilde;o Paredes --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     A visit to a haute cuisine restaurant is a feast for all the senses. This study investigates sensory aspects of Ecuadorian haute cuisine which has recently grown in popularity. A key reason for this popularity is the diversity and availability...

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314. 

     What can hotels learn content wise from online travel agency websites?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marit de Vries --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This research focuses on the specific information present on a hotel website and an online travel agency (OTA) hotel page, and to identify what information relates to which customer value. A checklist, based on the combination of OTA consumption values...

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315. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Klaes Eringa --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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316. 

     An allele-specific PCR assay for detection of mutations that confer benzimidazole resistance and zoxamide sensitivity in Phyllosticta citricarpa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Beatrix Coetzee --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Elma Carstens --- Citrus Research International (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Gerhardus C Schutte --- Avima (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Elaine Basson --- Citrus Research International (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Mia J Groeneveld --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Tankiso Mpholo --- Land Reform and Rural Development, South Africa Providence Moyo --- Citrus Research International (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Jessica C Winn --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Paul H Fourie --- Citrus Research International (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Aletta E Bester van der Merwe --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa

     Phyllosticta citricarpa is the causative agent of citrus black spot (CBS), a cosmetic fungal disease that has been reported in most of the citrus-growing regions of the world. The occurrence of CBS in orchards is predominantly controlled by the application...

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317. 

     Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus diet in a nutshell: use of indigenous and exotic plants in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Kirsten Wimberger --- , South Africa Kate F Carstens --- , South Africa Johann C Carstens --- , South Africa Francis R Brooke --- , South Africa Fanie Rautenbach --- Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

     The success of conservation action for a threatened species can be improved by knowledge of its feeding and breeding requirements. The Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus is a threatened endemic restricted to patches of mistbelt forest in South Africa. Cape Parrots...

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318. 

     ChatGPT and its impact on education

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Shabbir Pokkakillath --- NHLStenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- NHLStenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     In understanding the role and potential of ChatGPT in education, this article suggests that ChatGPT has the potential to enhance the education system by providing instant feedback, personalised learning experiences and 24/7 availability. Furthermore, it aims to analyse the different...

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319. 

     Beyond the 90 minutes: football, tourism and hospitality

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: David Proctor --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Prantik Bordoloi --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study is the first in a series looking at professional sports franchises and their forays into the realms of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It focuses on the city of Leeuwarden in the north of The Netherlands and its professional...

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320. 

     A literature review of implementing virtual reality in hospitality education

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Frederik Jan van der Meulen --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Marit de Vries --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article provides a systematic view of the published research topics relevant to an understanding of using virtual reality (VR) in hospitality education. The structure of the literature review is based on the PRISMA reporting guidance and reviews two main...

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321. 

     Generation Z consumer behaviour and hotel branding: exploring the role of values, corporate identity and trust

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Eleni Tata --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Megan Sharrock --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article explores the evolving role of hotels as spaces for social interaction and meaningful engagement, extending beyond their traditional function of accommodation. Specifically focusing on Generation Z, it investigates how the values, beliefs and responsible corporate identity of hotel...

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322. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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323. 

     The influence of cross-cultural adjustment on job performance

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Irena Mihaela Stan --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Ilse Jongboom --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Given the international nature of teams and guests in the hospitality industry, cross-cultural adjustment and awareness are crucial at both personal and organisational levels. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors underlying cross-cultural adjustment and how it...

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324. 

     Beyond gender bias: Factors affecting female employee retention and advancement in the Dutch hotel sector

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marrit Lijster --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     In The Netherlands, gender roles have evolved remarkably, marked by feminist activism and legislative strides. Nevertheless, persistent gender biases and disparities continue to impact many industries, including the Dutch hotel sector. This quantitative research explores the factors affecting female employee...

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325. 

     The use of dolphins at Melka Excelsior Dolphin and Wildlife Resort in Lovina, Bali, Indonesia: a study of visitor experiences and ethical implications through netnographic research

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     The closure of Melka Excelsior Dolphin and Wildlife Resort in Lovina, Bali, in Indonesia was prompted by the confiscation of its dolphins and mounting pressure from animal welfare advocates, marking a pivotal moment in the discourse surrounding the use of...

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326. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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327. 

     Fine-scale drivers of extinction risk: tadpole occupancy dynamics of the Table Mountain Ghost Frog (Heleophryne rosei)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa --- University of Cape Town, South Africa --- , South Africa --- , South Africa

     Over the last four decades much progress has been made towards recognising causes of global amphibian declines, but knowledge of fine scale drivers, particularly for specialised species, remains poor, inhibiting conservation effectiveness. The case of the Table Mountain Ghost frog...

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328. 

     Hospitality in volunteer engagement: navigating complexities in residential care facilities for children

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study investigates the multifaceted realm of volunteer engagement in orphanages and residential care facilities for children, as places of hospitality towards volunteers, in low- and middle-income countries. While the positive outcomes of such engagements, including assistance, economic contributions and...

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329. 

     Philoxenia — the DNA of hospitality: hype or cure?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter A. Singleton --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Philoxenia is the ancient Greek custom or tradition of treating a stranger as a friend, but it goes much deeper in terms of its reality and consequences. This custom sits deep in Greek culture and mythology, where its layers of...

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330. 

     What is not known is not aimed for — Understanding staff knowledge and readiness to embrace sustainable and healthy food

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Michel Altan --- Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Ernst Jonker --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Machiel Reinders --- Wageningen University &amp; Research, The Netherlands

     To mitigate the adverse effects of excessive consumption of animal proteins on both the environment and human well-being, a transition is needed toward plant-based proteins. Such a shift requires a change in eating behaviours, both at home and elsewhere. Focusing...

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331. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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332. 

     New distribution records and population density of the Critically Endangered Tarzan Chameleon (Calumma tarzan), eastern Madagascar

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Alain JV Rakotondrina --- Madagasikara Voakajy, Madagascar Raphali R Andriantsimanarilafy --- Madagasikara Voakajy, Madagascar Hanta J Razafimanahaka --- Madagasikara Voakajy, Madagascar Achille P Raselimanana --- , Madagascar Rikki Gumbs --- Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom Caleb Ofori-Boateng --- Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom Jody M Taft --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Fanomezana M Ratsoavina --- Universit&eacute; d&rsquo;Antananarivo, Madagascar

     The distribution and population density of the Critically Endangered Tarzan Chameleon (Calumma tarzan) in eastern humid forests of Madagascar was studied using line transect-distance sampling. Based on the results from species distribution models, eight sites were visited over a four-month...

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333. 

     Science in decline: Is quality sacrificed for quantity and ease of access?

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Krystal A. Tolley --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Graham J. Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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334. 

     Volunteering dynamics in leisure, tourism and hospitality: developing sustainable practices for well-being and social impact

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Bertine Bargeman --- Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Licia Calvi --- Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Geesje Duursma --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article explores the multifaceted landscape of volunteering in leisure, tourism and hospitality (LTH) organisations, acknowledging its fundamental role in civil society, and serves as the inception point for an in-depth research project. Volunteerism is explored in diverse forms, ranging...

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335. 

     Investigating stimulating factors for customer booking intentions on brand websites

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marit de Vries --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Niels Klein Poelhuis --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Customers have ample opportunities regarding channels to use to book a hotel room: offline and online. In the online world, the options are using the hotel’s website, referred to as the brand website, or third party internet sites like online...

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336. 

     Synergies of research, design-based education and industry collaboration: a dialogue with Marco ten Hoor, Academy Director of the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This edited transcript documents a dialogue between Rodney Westerlaken, Editor-in-Chief of Research in Hospitality Management, serving as host, and Marco Ten Hoor, Academy Director of the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden. The conversation explores multifaceted dimensions of the hospitality sector, encompassing...

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337. 

     Synergies of scenario planning, innovation, and hospitality education: a dialogue with Ian Yeoman, Professor at the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden at NHL Stenden

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This edited transcript documents a dialogue between Rodney Westerlaken, Editor-in-Chief of Research in Hospitality Management, and Ian Yeoman, Professor of Disruption, Innovation and New Phenomena at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. The conversation explores Professor Yeoman’s extensive background, his...

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338. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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339. 

     Carbon storage in a dry Miombo woodland area in Tanzania

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Ezekiel Edward Mwakalukwa --- Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Henrik Meilby --- Copenhagen University, Denmark Thorsten Treue --- Copenhagen University, Denmark

     A persistent need exists, both politically and academically, for knowledge on carbon storage and sequestration potentials of forest ecosystems and their contributions to the global carbon balance. This study assessed carbon stocks of a 6 065 ha dry Miombo woodland...

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340. 

     Identification of main variables in forest management for recovery of endemic species habitat in burned areas of southern Chile

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Roberto Moreno --- Instituto de Investigaci&oacute;n Sistema Tierra (IISTA), Universidad de C&oacute;rdoba, Espa&ntilde;a Ricardo Zamora --- Universidad de C&oacute;rdoba, Espa&ntilde;a Norman Moreno-Garc&iacute;a --- Universidad Mayor, Chile Carlos Esse --- Instituto Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Sostenible (IIDS), Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Chile, Chile Carmen Gal&aacute;n --- Instituto de Investigaci&oacute;n Sistema Tierra (IISTA), Universidad de C&oacute;rdoba, Espa&ntilde;a Juan Ram&oacute;n Molina --- Universidad de C&oacute;rdoba, Espa&ntilde;a

     Wildfires are among the most serious disturbances that affect forest biodiversity, damaging both flora and fauna. In some burned areas, vegetation recovery is a long and complex process that requires the support of restorative actions. This study evaluated changes in...

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341. 

     A generalization of Riesz* homomorphisms on order unit spaces

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Florian Boisen --- Institut f&uuml;r Analysis, TU Dresden, Germany Valentin G. H&ouml;lker --- Institut f&uuml;r Analysis, TU Dresden, Germany Anke Kalauch --- Institut f&uuml;r Analysis, TU Dresden, Germany Janko Stennder --- Institut f&uuml;r Analysis, TU Dresden, Germany Onno van Gaans --- Leiden University, The Netherlands

     Riesz homomorphisms on vector lattices have been generalized to Riesz* homomorphisms on ordered vector spaces by van Haandel using a condition on sets of finitely many elements. Van Haandel attempted to prove that it suffices to take sets of two...

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342. 

     Signals of change: eating trends shaping the future of food service

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ian Yeoman --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Una McMahon-Beattie --- Ulster University Business School, Ulster University, United Kingdom

     Food security is a problem across the world, as prices rise under pressure from climate change, geopolitics, demographics and de-globalisation. These factors, when combined, will impact on the food service sector. In this trends article, the authors identify ten trends...

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343. 

     The future of AI: hospitality and tourism perspectives

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     The Hotel Management School Leeuwarden and the European Tourism Futures Institute organised a webinar to discuss and explore how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the hospitality and tourism industry in the future. The webinar brought together a panel of academics,...

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344. 

     AI service robots in a 4-star hotel: enhancing guest and employee experiences

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Frederik Jan van der Meulen --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Daniek Verhoeven --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Juliet Chipumuro --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Wilson Majee --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently become a vital technology affecting several sectors, including hospitality. The expanding use of AI robots in functions previously performed by humans raises important issues — which are currently unknown — regarding how AI robotics may...

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345. 

     The impact of onboarding practices on employee retention in the cruise industry

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marijn Zuiker --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study investigates effective onboarding practices in the cruise industry, examining the interplay between onboarding, hospitality and seafaring occupations due to limited existing research. Using an exploratory mixed-method approach, the researchers employed insider and outsider perspectives to critically analyse employee...

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346. 

     Assessment of regenerative hospitality

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jannah Kreb --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This article addresses the lack of practical tools for assessing regenerative hospitality in hotels. The study provides a systematic approach to developing a practical tool to assess and promote regenerative practices in the hospitality industry. The literature review identified seven...

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347. 

     Synergies of future-oriented research, sustainable tourism and adaptive governance: a dialogue with Dr Stefan Hartman, Head of department at the European Tourism Futures Institute

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Stefan Hartman --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This edited transcript documents a dialogue between Rodney Westerlaken, editor-in-chief of Research in Hospitality Management, and Dr. Stefan Hartman, Head of Department at the European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. The conversation explores multifaceted...

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348. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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349. 

     Population trends of the Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus in the Amatholes, Eastern Cape: trialling ground-based flock photography for demographic and health assessment

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Clare J Padfield --- , South Africa Kate F Carstens --- , South Africa Johann C Carstens --- , South Africa Francis R Brooke --- , South Africa Kirsten Wimberger --- , South Africa

     Globally, 60% of species in the order Psittaciformes are experiencing population declines. Understanding demographic and health trends in populations is vital for the prioritisation of limited conservation resources. The Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus is a South African endemic forest species...

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350. 

     Big cities, big bodies: urbanisation correlates with large body sizes and enhanced body condition in African dwarf chameleons (Genus: Bradypodion)

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jody M Barends --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa

     Urbanisation is a major driver of habitat transformation that alters the environmental conditions and selective regimes of the habitats where it occurs. For species inhabiting urban habitats, such alterations can facilitate adaptive responses in their phenotypes, including their morphology. Quantifying...

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351. 

     Synergies of dark tourism, future trends and tourism education: a dialogue with Professors John Lennon and Ian Yeoman

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands John Lennon --- Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom Ian Yeoman --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This edited transcript documents a dialogue between Rodney Westerlaken, Editor-in-Chief of Research in Hospitality Management, and Professors John Lennon and Ian Yeoman, which took place as part of the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden’s celebration of World Tourism Day. The conversation...

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352. 

     International tourism futures: the drivers and impacts of change

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Georges El Hajal --- NHL Stenden University, The Netherlands

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353. 

     Research in Hospitality Management — a year of insight and innovation

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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354. 

     Shaping the future of hospitality management: a dynamic AI-driven dialogue between a Hotel Management School Leeuwarden lecturer and a hotel general manager

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Frederik Jan van der Meulen --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     Through the prism of technology innovation and its effects on education, this article offers a dialogue, via ChatGPT, between two AI-generated characters, a hotel general manager and a lecturer from the Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, in an attempt to illuminate...

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355. 

     Transitions into the futures: AI disruption and resilience in hospitality graduates

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Georges El Hajal --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This viewpoint article explores the impact of fast-paced advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the hospitality industry’s workforce, focusing on the employability and career sustainability of today’s hospitality education graduates. AI technologies reshape traditional job roles and introduce new...

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356. 

     Building bridges: how hospitality can foster positive peace

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Latifa Benhadda --- NHLStenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rainer Prasetya --- NHLStenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This opinion piece explores the relationship between hospitality and positive peace from a social and ethical perspective, focusing on human dignity, justice and care. It argues that hospitality, beyond its commercial lens, should be viewed through the interaction between host...

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357. 

     Reconceptualising success in hospitality internships: a new perspective on students’ achievement factors

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Nicole Vermolen --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This viewpoint article examines the challenges and factors influencing student success during hospitality internships, particularly those organised by a hotel management school in collaboration with international host companies. A previous study on the topic highlights that only 21% of students...

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358. 

     Enhancing assessment quality and reducing workload in hospitality higher education: a comprehensive strategy

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This viewpoint article proposes a comprehensive assessment strategy to address two critical challenges in hospitality higher education: enhancing the quality of student work, while reducing educator workload. Drawing from programmatic assessment literature and practical experience in hospitality education, we present...

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359. 

     Research in Hospitality Management: a retrospective and future views, and the case of padel sport

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden University Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

     Hospitality is a phenomenon in society that has attracted a lot of attention in research over the past few decades. The Hotel Management School Leeuwarden (HMSL) is one of the colleges of the Dutch University of Applied Sciences (UAS) NHL-Stenden...

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360. 

     Celebrating 15 years of scholarly excellence

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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361. 

     Over half of South African beverages will require warning labels for high sugar and/or artificial sweeteners

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Wantonda Mukhovha --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Naledi Sibiya --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Thanujj Kisten --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Molatela K Mamabolo --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Siphiwe N Dlamini --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

     Objective: To determine the proportion of commercially available beverages that may require warning labels for high sugar content and the presence of artificial sweeteners in South Africa.

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362. 

     Cross-realm biodiversity profile of the South African coastal zone

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: LR Harris --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa JB Adams --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa A Dayaram --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa LV Dunga --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa N Job --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa SP Kirkman --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa SJ Lamberth --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa MC Pfaff --- University of Cape Town, South Africa JL Raw --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa GM Rishworth --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa A Robbins --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa KJ Sink --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa AL Skowno --- Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa H van Deventer --- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa L van Niekerk --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

     South Africa’s coast is 3 113 km long and includes microtidal shores that experience semi-diurnal tides and mostly high wave energy. From west to east, the cool Benguela Current and the warm Agulhas Current drive steep gradients in climate and...

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363. 

     The future of hospitality management: adapting to Generation Z’s values and preferences

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janneke Lensen --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Joost IJsselmuiden --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences,

     This viewpoint article explores the evolving landscape of hospitality management in light of Generation Z emerging as a dominant consumer force and being a significant percentage of the workforce. The workforce is rapidly changing in this field, since the hospitality...

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364. 

     Enhancing hospitality skills with VR: adapting to learning styles

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Frederik Jan van der Meulen --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Marit de Vries --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study examines the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) training in improving hospitality skills, as well as the effects of various learning styles, as measured by the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, on VR education. As the hotel business advances, creative...

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365. 

     Synergies of sustainability, leadership and ethics in leisure, tourism and hospitality research: a dialogue with Professor Dr Elena Cavagnaro

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Hotel Management School, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This dialogue between Professor Dr Elena Cavagnaro and Dr Rodney Westerlaken explores the evolving landscape of leisure, tourism and hospitality (LTH) research, highlighting critical shifts in sustainability, leadership, ethics, and technology. Cavagnaro reflects on the progression from early sustainability discussions...

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366. 

     From reflection to responsibility: leisure, tourism and hospitality research in times of transformation

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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367. 

     Establishing a basis for recognising marine ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) in South Africa

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SP Kirkman --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa P Kowalski --- , South Africa SD Holness --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa LJ Atkinson --- , South Africa R Brand --- Western Cape Government, South Africa L Dunga --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa TP Fairweather --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa T Goldman --- Rhodes University, South Africa D Marnewick --- Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, South Africa J Nhleko --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa R Peter --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa C Smith --- World Wide Fund for Nature &ndash; South Africa (WWF-SA), South Africa MG van der Bank --- South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa G van der Heever --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa L van Niekerk --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa KA Wright --- Wildlands Conservation Trust (WILDTRUST), South Africa KJ Sink --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

     The concept of ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) and its technical guidance provide opportunities for recognising a broader range of area-based management measures that contribute to biodiversity conservation outside of protected areas. However, progress towards the recognition of OECMs...

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368. 

     Seasonality in the events industry: A case study of two event venues in Amsterdam

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Cathelijne de Jong --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

     This study aims to expand academic understanding of seasonality by establishing if previous scholarly work on the subject is also applicable to the novel context of the urban event industry. A mixed-method approach combining qualitative and quantitative research was applied,...

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369. 

     Editorial

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

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370. 

     Bantu languages in focus

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Johanita Kirsten --- UPSET Research Focus Area, North-West University - Vaal Triangle Campus, South Africa

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371. 

     Nutritional management of a patient with a small bowel neuroendocrine tumour and obstruction: a South African case study

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Kirsten E Drake --- Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa

     Small bowel neuroendocrine tumours (SBNETs) arise from enterochromaffin cells, most commonly in the terminal ileum. Functional tumours may secrete hormones, which can lead to carcinoid syndrome, whereas non-functional tumours often present later with symptoms of mechanical obstruction. Malnutrition is common...

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372. 

     Breeding population status and nesting preferences of the White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus in western Serengeti, northern Tanzania

     Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Vainess Laizer --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Peter S Goodman --- Grumeti Fund, Tanzania Noel Mbise --- Grumeti Fund, Tanzania Claire Bracebridge --- The Peregrine Fund, The World Center for Birds of Prey, United States Kate Tiedeman --- Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Germany Corrine J Kendall --- The Peregrine Fund, The World Center for Birds of Prey, United States Robert Byamungu --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Shombe N Hassan --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Kristen D Snyder --- Grumeti Fund, Tanzania

     The White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus is Critically Endangered because of its decline across its range in Africa, largely due to poisoning. The western corridor of the Serengeti ecosystem in northern Tanzania hosts a significant number of individuals of this species...

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