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Evaluation of selected herbicides for the control of European gorse (Ulex europaeus L) by cut-stump and foliar treatment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: B.D. Viljoen --- Agricultural Research Council, South Africa C.W. Stoltsz --- Agricultural Research Council, South AfricaEuropean gorse (Ulex europaeus L) is a persistent, declared weed (Category 1) of South Africa. Current distribution is limited to the moist, high altitude regions of the Drakensberg (KwaZulu Natal Province) and Amatola (Eastern Cape Province) mountains. Gorse poses a... -
The Use of EUROPEP in South Africa: An Internationally Standardised Instrument to Evaluate General Practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Adlai Davids --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThe study examined the psychometric properties of the South African (isiXhosa) version of the European Task Force for Patient Evaluation of General Practice (EUROPEP) instrument. A total of 19,136 patients who visited 266 primary care practices in three districts in... -
European basket option pricing by maximizing over a subset of lower bounds
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: W. Mudzimbabwe --- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, South Africa K.C. Patidar --- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, South Africa P.J. Witbooi --- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, South AfricaIn this paper we derive a lower bound for the price of a European basket option under the Black and Scholes framework. The bound is based on the conditioning method of [L.C.G. Rogers and Z. Shi, The value of an... -
Science and Fisheries Management in Southern Africa and Europe©
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A. I. L. Payne R. C. A. BannisterCase studies on southern African sardine and anchovy, Cape hake and West Coast rock lobster off southern Africa are described and compared with North Sea herring and cod, and Nephrops in European waters. The comparison shows that, in Europe, despite... -
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 NetherlandsThis 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:... -
Living off the Stony Farm: Address and Diasporic Consciousness in “Shamba la Mawe” by Awilo Mike
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: T. Michael Mboya --- Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, KenyaThis article reads diasporic consciousness in the song “Shamba la Mawe” by the Kenyan artiste, Awilo Mike. It takes as its entry point for the reading the fact that Peter, the speaker in the song's lyrics, a Kenyan migrant in... -
Translation and validation of the EORTC QLQ-CX24 questionnaire into the indigenous African languages of
isiXhosa and AfrikaansItem type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Gynaecological Oncology • Authors: G C Du Toit --- Unit of Gynaecological Oncology, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, D G Nel --- Centre for Statistical Consultation, University of Stellenbosch,Objectives: Quality of life (QOL) assessment plays an important role in oncological clinical practice and research settings when evaluating treatment outcome. Cervical cancer remains a prevalent disease in South African women. The current study translated the European Organisation for Research... -
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 NetherlandsThis 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... -
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 NetherlandsThis 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:... -
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 NetherlandsThis 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... -
Performance effects of international knowledge transfer: A panel analysis of human mobility between knowledge environments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Sebastian G.M. Händschke --- Department of Business Administration and Economics, Chair of Organization, Leadership and HRM, Germany Raluca Kerekes --- Department of Business Administration and Economics, Chair of Organization, Leadership and HRM, Germany Peter Walgenbach --- Department of Business Administration and Economics, Chair of Organization, Leadership and HRM, GermanyIn this paper, we build on the argument that knowledge transfer is a source for competitive advantage. We test the proposition whether knowledge transfer from knowledge-rich to knowledge-indigent environments leads to better performance. Empirically, we test the performance effects of... -
Discrimination of the phenotypic sardine Sardina pilchardus stocks off the Moroccan Atlantic coast using a morphometric analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A Mounir --- Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco A Ewague --- Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco M Znari --- Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco H Elmghazli --- Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, MoroccoMorphometric variation can be very useful for discriminating ‘phenotypic stocks’ as groups with similar life-history traits. Such groups are of great importance for accurate population-dynamics modelling for purposes of fishery stock assessment and management, independent of their genetic differences or... -
An annotated checklist of the leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) species of the Moulouya River basin, Morocco, with several new distribution records and a historical overview
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Younes Mabrouki --- Université Mohamed Premier, Morocco Raja Ben Ahmed --- Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Ecologie, Biologie et Physiologie des organismes aquatiques, Tunisia Abdelkhaleq Fouzi Taybi --- Université Mohamed Premier, Morocco Juan Rueda --- Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva (ICBiBE-UV), SpainA historical overview of the leech fauna of Morocco, based on both literature data, museum collections and new material, sampled in more than 100 sites in the Moulouya River basin (eastern region of Morocco), is provided. Twenty species from five... -
Perspectives on hospitality industry trade unionism in the UK and beyond
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Roy C. Wood --- , UKThe study of traditional industrial relations institutions in the hospitality industry (such as trade unions) is somewhat in the doldrums. This is, perhaps, unsurprising, given that the sector has historically never had high union membership. This article briefly explores the... -
The value of volunteers in tourism and events: A leadership perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Henrik Sølvbjerg Pahus --- , Denmark Simon Lind Fischer --- , Denmark Bianca Bradescu --- , DenmarkThis article is part of a three-year research project on volunteerism and the value for organisations employing volunteers, volunteers themselves and finally the tourists who meet the volunteers in various settings. Employing a mixed methods approach, we conducted a mutual... -
‘The Happy Valley’: Temporalized Spatiality in Michael Radford’s White Mischief (1987)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Boneace Chagara --- Institute for Asian and African Studies, GermanyContemporary times mark a fundamental shift in our sense and experience of the world. The postmodern condition — as remarked by Fredric Jameson (1991) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1979), among others — calls for new conceptions of lived reality. Nevertheless, profound... -
Performance of Green vis-à-vis Red EU securities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Ferdinantos Kottas --- National University of Ireland Maynooth, IrelandThis research compares the performance of Green (eco-friendly) versus Red (eco-enemy) returns for EU securities. Green securities are the stocks of companies whose primary business activities focus on being relatively beneficial to the environment, while Red stocks are associated with...