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Leaf characters of various tea clones in relation to quality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: P.J. Robbertse --- , Republic of South Africa Elsie M.A. Steyn --- , Republic of South AfricaThe leaves of ten different tea clones were investigated to explore the possibility that structural differences exist between clones and that morphological characters relate to the quality of the infusion. Our results revealed a significant negative correlation between TF-values and... -
Morphology and ultrastructure of glandular and nonglandular trichomes on the leaves of Athrixia phylicoides (Asteraceae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A. Möller --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, E.S. du Toit --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, P. Soundy --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, J. Olivier --- Department of Environmental Sciences,Athrixia phylicoides is one of many plants from the Asteraceae family used as a traditional herbal medicine. Pharmacological evaluation of leaf extracts confirmed that the plant has anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, narcotic and analgesic properties. The medicinal properties of plants are often... -
Effect of soil fertility management strategies and resource-endowment on spatial soil fertility gradients, plant nutrient uptake and maize growth at two smallholder areas, north-western Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J. Nyamangara --- Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Zimbabwe E. Makarimayi --- Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Zimbabwe E.N. Masvaya --- Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Zimbabwe S. Zingore --- , Malawi R.J. Delve --- , ZimbabweWe investigate the effects of smallholder farmer resource—endowment and soil nutrient management strategies on plant nutrient uptake and growth across soil fertility gradients under semi-arid conditions. Soil fertility gradients as influenced by farmers’ resource availability may affect the response of... -
Aspects of the population biology of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: C. D. Smith C. L. GriffithsThe population biology of the octopus Octopus vulgaris was studied from specimens collected by SCUBA in False Bay, South Africa, between 1997 and 1998. In all, 83% of the specimens collected were found in shelter. Small octopuses were more active... -
Traditional knowledge transfer of activities practised by Zulu women to manage medicinal and food plant gardens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: AM Zobolo QN MkabelaA survey of plants grown in home gardens was conducted through questionnaires among 80 homesteads in rural areas of northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The areas surveyed were located at Mbonambi, Kwadlangezwa, Ntambanana and Eshowe. Elderly women (≥ 55 years)... -
Home Brewed Alcohol use Among High School Students in a Rural South African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Hans Onya --- University of Limpopo, Alan Flisher --- University of Cape Town,This study investigates the use of home brewed alcoholic beverages among adolescents in high schools in a rural community in South Africa. There is much concern about alcohol misuse among young people and very little information exists on alcohol produced... -
Validation of a Coping Scale in an African Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Carelyn van der Walt --- North-West University, South Africa Johan C. Potgieter --- North-West University, South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University, South Africa Michael Q. Temane --- North-West University, South AfricaThe research aims were to compile and validate a multi-dimensional coping measure, taking African-centred coping behaviour into consideration. In a pilot study the Setswana-COPE (S-COPE) and the Africultural Coping Systems Inventory (ACSI) were administered to Setswana-speaking participants (N = 274)... -
Validation of a Community Collective Efficacy Scale in an African Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Wilmien van Straten --- North-West University, South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University, South Africa Marie P. Wissing --- North-West University, South Africa Johan Potgieter --- North-West University, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to validate a community collective efficacy scale in an African context. An abridged version of the Community Collective Efficacy Scale was validated in a cross-sectional survey design. Participants (N = 1050) from urban (n... -
Parental Involvement and Children's Academic Achievement in a South Africa Setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of the Western Cape, Mageshni Narain --- University of Kwazulu Natal,The study ascertained the association between parental involvement and academic achievement of high school students. Structured questionnaire was the main instrument employed to gather information from 115 parents (men = 25; women = 90; age range = 28–45 years) and... -
Psychometric Properties of Various Scales Measuring Psychological Well-Being in a South African Context: The FORT 1 Project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jan A. B. Wissing --- North-West University, Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University, Marietjie M. du Toit --- North-West University, Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University,The aim of this study was to do a first phase screening of psychometric properties of various scales measuring facets of psychological well-being so as to address further questions in the FORT 1 project (FORT 1 = Clarifying the nature... -
Development and Initial Validation of a General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS) in an African Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Itumeleng P. Khumalo --- North-West University, South Africa Q. Michael Temane --- North-West University, South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study aimed to develop and validate the General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS) in an African sample, based on the empirical overlap between hedonic and eudaimonic facets of well-being as found in previous research. The quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted... -
Home Characteristics, Nonwork-Work Role Demands Effects on the Well-Being of Dual-Earner Parents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jolene Nel --- North-West University, South Africa Eileen Koekemoer --- North-West University, South Africa Jan Alewyn Nel --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study investigated home demands, home resources, nonwork roles interference with-work roles and the welfare of dual-earner parents. A cross-sectional survey design was used in this research, where a convenience sample of dual-earner parents (N=207) were taken from a metropolitan... -
Flourishing of Students in a Tertiary Education Institution in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl --- North-West University (VTC), South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- North-West University (VTC), South AfricaThe aims of this study were to examine the relationship between flourishing and academic performance (AP), life satisfaction (SWT), and positive affect (PA). A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was used on a convenience sample of university students (n = 845)... -
Psychometric Evaluation of The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) and Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) within a Cement Factory
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Martin Lekutle --- North-West University, Jan Alewyn Nel --- North-West University,This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) and the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) within a cement factory. Respondents were 187 employees (males =168, females =19) from a cement factory in the North West province... -
Career Counselling: The Usefulness of the Career Interest Profile (CIP)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annamaria Di Fabio --- University of Florence, Jacobus Gideon Maree --- University of Pretoria,This study reports the findings from exploratory career counselling with Italian undergraduate university students using the Career Interest Profile (CIP). The participants (n = 178, females = 51.69%; mean age 22.28, SD = 1.59 years) received elective career counselling on... -
South African Eastern Cape Contexts Influencing the Quality of Community Home-Based Care
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David Morton --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Thoko Mayekiso --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Peter Cunningham --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,This study explored the perceptions of the quality of community home-based care (CHBC) as provided by volunteer caregivers in a South African Eastern Cape district. Data on perceptions regarding quality of care were collected from 76 community informants (32 volunteer... -
AIDS as chronic illness: epidemiological transition and health care in south-eastern Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Julie LivingstonThis paper suggests that people in south-eastern Botswana experience the AIDS epidemic as part of a recent epidemiological transition in which rates of chronic debilitating illness have risen, even as the degree of acute infectious disease has fallen (HIV/AIDS aside)... -
Gendered home-based care in South Africa: more trouble for the troubled
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Olagoke AkintolaThis study investigates the experiences of informal caregivers of people living with HIV in two semi-rural communities in South Africa. Ethnographic methods were used to collect and analyse data on the gendered nature and consequences of home-based care from 21... -
Community-based care of children with HIV in Potchefstroom, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Anneke Van Graan Engela Van der Walt Mada WatsonChildren contract HIV infection largely through vertical transmission and are vulnerable to AIDS illness due to an immature immune system. In South Africa, hospitals are often overburdened and thus children with HIV may be directed to the community for care... -
Children as caregivers of older relatives living with HIV and AIDS in Nyang'oma division of western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: CharlesO Olang'o --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya IsaacK Nyamongo --- Gender and African Studies, Kenya ErickO Nyambedha --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, KenyaThere is growing debate about the situations of children who care for a relative with HIV-related illness, especially in developing countries with high HIV prevalence. In particular, there is inadequate information on the long-term consequences of children taking on this... -
Children's caregiving of HIV-infected parents accessing treatment in western Kenya: challenges and coping strategies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Louise Buhl Andersen --- London School of Economics and Political Science, United KingdomThis article describes qualitative research carried out in rural western Kenya in a setting characterised by poverty and high HIV prevalence. It discusses the responsibilities and challenges that children face when becoming the primary caregiver to an HIV-infected parent enrolled... -
HIV/AIDS, the erosion of social capital and the collapse of rural livelihoods in the Nkomazi district of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Hannah Dawson --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaHIV/AIDS is a major driver of livelihood insecurity. The AIDS epidemic, through the death or disability of economically productive adults, destabilises and erodes the social networks which sustain the livelihoods of vulnerable households. This paper draws upon research with home-based... -
Proportional growth and maturation in Penaeus indicus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: HFB ChampionA least squares estimation of inflected linear regression is used to interpret the relationships between carapace length (CL) and total length, abdominal length and abdominal width respectively, in Penaeus indicus and Metapenaeus monoceros. In both species well-defined inflection points with... -
The influence of pool size on species diversity and water chemistry in temporary rock pools on Domboshawa Mountain, northern Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: A Anusa --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, Zimbabwe HGT Ndagurwa --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, Zimbabwe CHD Magadza --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, ZimbabweThe effect of pool size (area and depth) on species diversity and physicochemical characteristics of rock pool habitats on Domboshawa Mountain, northern Zimbabwe, was studied from December 2006 to May 2007. Pools were categorised based on maximum depth. Pool duration... -
Phenotypic characterisation in interspecific and intergeneric hybrids of the clariid catfishes Heterobranchus longifilis, Clarias gariepinus and Clarias anguillaris in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AA Akinwande --- Department of Fisheries Technology, Nigeria OA Fagbenro --- Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Nigeria OT Adebayo --- Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, NigeriaThirty-nine morphometric and five meristic comparisons were carried out on 12-month-old interspecific and intergeneric hybrids of the African clariid catfishes Heterobranchus longifilis, Clarias gariepinus and Clarias anguillaris from experimental earthen ponds in Nigeria. Canonical discriminant analysis accounted for 89.4% of... -
Variations and changes in habitat, productivity, composition of aquatic biota and fisheries of the Kyoga lake system: lessons for management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: R Ogutu-Ohwayo --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda K Odongkara --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda W Okello --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda D Mbabazi --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda SB Wandera --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda LM Ndawula --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Uganda V Natugonza --- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, UgandaThe Kyoga lake system, which is c. 4 m deep, originally had a diverse fish fauna, extensive macrophytes and wetlands. Most (82%) of its water comes from Lake Victoria, is controlled through three dams and has a short residence time... -
Morphometric sexing of Mediterranean Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis michahellis breeding in the Gulf of Gabès, southern Tunisia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdessalem Hammouda --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences de Gabès, Tunisia Slaheddine Selmi --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences de Gabès, TunisiaDiscriminant analysis functions have previously been determined for sexing Mediterranean Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis michahellis from the western Mediterranean basin. However, data from eastern Mediterranean populations are lacking. In this work, we used morphometric data from a sample of 81... -
Identity and distribution of southern African sciaenid fish species of the genus Umbrina
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: K Hutchings MH GriffithsTwo Umbrina species, U. canariensis Valenciennes 1843 and U. robinsoni Gilchrist and Thompson 1908, are recognised from southern Africa. The latter species was hitherto believed to be a synonym of Umbrina ronchus Valenciennes 1843 (type locality Canary Islands). U. canariensis... -
Alternate explanations of the dispersal pattern of galjoen Dichistius capensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CG Attwood PD CowleyThe movement behaviour of galjoen Dichistius capensis (>250mm total length) was studied by using a tag and recapture technique. A total of 25 191 galjoen was tagged at four sites in South Africa. Three of the sites were in fully... -
Killer whales in South African waters—a review of their biology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PB Best --- Mammal Research Institute, South Africa MA Meÿer --- Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa C Lockyer --- , DenmarkThe distribution, seasonality and schooling behaviour of killer whales Orcinus orca in South African waters have been investigated from 785 records compiled between 1963 and 2009, and their size, morphometrics, growth, reproduction, food and feeding behaviour described from the examination... -
Area-use patterns and diel movements of white steenbras Lithognathus lithognathus in a temporarily open/closed South African estuary, inferred from acoustic telemetry and long-term seine-netting data
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RH Bennett --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa PD Cowley --- , South Africa A-R Childs --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa AK Whitfield --- , South AfricaAcoustic telemetry and long-term seine-netting data were used to assess distribution, area use, home range dynamics and movement patterns of estuarine-dependent juvenile white steenbras Lithognathus lithognathus in the temporarily open/closed East Kleinemonde Estuary. Using 15 years of biannual seine-netting data,... -
Reef fish display station-keeping and ranging behaviour in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area on the east coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JQ Maggs --- , South Africa BQ Mann --- , South Africa PD Cowley --- , South AfricaThis study assessed the role of the Pondoland Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa by evaluating retention versus ‘spillover’ of exploited fishery species that were tagged in a 400 km2 no-take zone of the... -
Clinical waste management in the context of the Kanye community home-based care programme, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: SimonM Kang'etheThis study examines clinical waste disposal and handling in the context of a community home-based care (CHBC) programme in Kanye, southern Botswana. This qualitative study involved 10 focus group discussions with a total of 82 HIV/AIDS primary caregivers in Kanye,... -
The phenomenology of bodily care: caregivers' experiences with AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: MokhantšoG MakoaeThis study provides an account of caregivers' experiences with the bodily care of AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies were available in the public health sector in Lesotho. It describes the mechanisms through which the body may become a stressor in... -
Home-based care for people living with AIDS in Zimbabwe: voluntary caregivers' motivations and concerns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alexander Rödlach --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, United StatesSimilar to the healthcare systems of other resource-constrained countries with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS, Zimbabwe's healthcare system encourages communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to support the public healthcare sector by initiating home-based care activities and training volunteers... -
Does Serranochromis altus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) exist in the Okavango Delta, Botswana?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: FH van der Bank M Wink M Soekoe N SmitTwo possibly synonymous fish species in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Serranochromis altus and S. angusticeps, were compared. Ecological data, morphometrics, meristics, allozymes, and genomic fingerprints — generated with six Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) analyses, and DNA barcoding primers — were... -
Area utilisation and activity patterns of roman Chrysoblephus laticeps (Sparidae) in a small marine protected area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SE Kerwath A Götz CG Attwood WHH Sauer CG WilkeInformation on the movement of fish is vital to determine the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) for fish conservation and fisheries management. This study investigates area utilisation and activity patterns of 13 adult roman Chrysoblephus laticeps (Sparidae) using telemetry... -
Morphological identification of primary settlers and post-larvae of three mussel species from the coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S Bownes NP Barker CD McQuaidThe study of mussel settlement and recruitment requires the ability to identify the larvae of co-existing species. On the south coast of South Africa, an introduced (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and two indigenous (Choromytilus meridionalis and Perna perna) mussel species co-exist and... -
Confirmation of the occurrence of a second killer whale morphotype in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PB Best --- Mammal Research Institute, Whale Unit, South Africa MA Meÿer --- Branch: Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa M Thornton --- Mammal Research Institute, Whale Unit, South Africa PGH Kotze --- Branch: Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa SM Seakamela --- Branch: Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa GJG Hofmeyr --- Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld, Port Elizabeth, and Department of Zoology, South Africa S Wintner --- KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, Umhlanga Rocks, and Biomedical Resource Unit, South Africa CD Weland --- Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canada D Steinke --- Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, CanadaKiller whales Orcinus orca occur worldwide in a number of morphotypes that differ in size, pigmentation, acoustic behaviour, food type and genetics – some may indeed warrant subspecific or even specific status. Until recently, all killer whales in South African... -
The old wave
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: R Dickerson --- Department of Emergency Medicine, -
What helps volunteers to continue with their work?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: G Marincowitz --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Limpopo Province Unit, C Jackson --- CHoiCe (NGO doing home based care in the Tzaneen Municipal Area.), S Fehrsen --- Department of Family Medicine,Aim The aim of the study was to understand what volunteers perceived to be the factors helping them to continue working as volunteers, thereby assisting project leaders to improve the recruitment procedures, as well as quality of service, in the... -
Physical activity knowledge, attitudes and practices of the elderly in Bloemfontein old age homes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: PE Pienaar --- School of Medicine, South Africa M De Swardt --- School of Medicine, South Africa M De Vries --- School of Medicine, South Africa H Roos --- School of Medicine, South Africa G Joubert --- School of Medicine, South AfricaBackground: The aim of this study was to describe physical activity knowledge, attitudes and practices of the elderly in Bloemfontein old age homes. -
Who are good home-based care volunteers?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: G Marincowitz --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Limpopo Province Unit, C Jackson --- CHoiCe (NGO doing home-based care in the Tzaneen municipal area), GS Fehrsen --- Department of Family Medicine,Aim The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of volunteers who remained active in the home-based care project located in Tzaneen (Limpopo Province) and thereby assist the project leaders to improve the recruitment and quality of the... -
Home-based care: caring for people in the community—challenges and opportunities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: E Jack --- Department of Family Medicine (George Complex), South Africa L Jenkins --- Department of Family Medicine (George Complex), South Africa D Enslin --- Elective period at George Complex, -
Validating that palliative care giving is a stressful occupation: the case of the Kanye community home-based care programme, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SM Kang'ethe --- Bachelor of Business Administration Programme, Department of Distance Education, Centre for Continuous Education, BotswanaBackground: It remains an incontrovertible fact that the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS has not only posed major health and development challenges, but is also a stressor experienced at local, regional and global levels. This article explores the stress-related challenges facing volunteer... -
Gender discrepancies in the HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care Programme in Kanye, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SM Kang'ethe --- Social Work Department, RSAThe aim and objective of this paper is to discuss the gender discrepancies associated with caregiving based on empirical findings from the Kanye HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) Programme. The research study was explorative and descriptive in nature and qualitative... -
An Evaluation of a Helping Skills Training Program for Intern Psychometrists
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jani du Preez --- WorkWell, Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, South Africa Lené I. Jorgensen --- WorkWell, Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, South AfricaThis study reports on the effectiveness of a helping skills training program for intern psychometrists. A randomized pretest–posttest comparison group design was used to evaluate the training program. Participants (N = 22; 82% = female, and Afrikaans-speaking = 95%) were... -
Validation of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire in a South African context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lesego Temane --- School for Psychosocial Behavioural Sciences, South Africa Itumeleng P. Khumalo --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in a South African sample. A multi-cultural group of undergraduate students (N = 326) completed the MLQ and other measures. Descriptive statistics, reliability, inter-item... -
Measuring resilience among homeless youth: psychometric assessment of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kwaku Oppong Asante --- School of Applied Human Sciences, South Africa Anna Meyer-Weitz --- School of Applied Human Sciences, South AfricaThis study validated the psychometric structure of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC; Connor & Davidson, 2003) in a sample of 227 homeless youth in Ghana. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation was used to extract factor structures. About 62%... -
Contextual analysis of home environment factors influencing the acquisition of early reading skills in Zambian families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tamara Chansa-Kabali --- Department of Psychology, Zambia Robert Serpell --- Department of Psychology, Zambia Heikki Lyytinen --- University of Jyväskylä, FinlandThis study examined the effect of home environment factors in the acquisition of early reading skills (orthographic awareness and decoding competence). To assess these factors, a sample of seventy-two (72) first grade learners (females = 55%; age range = 7–8 years) and their maternal... -
Four fatal flaws of brain injury assessment in the cross-cultural context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis analytical review serves to highlight pitfalls clinicians in multicultural contexts may encounter when using normed ability tests for the assessment of cognitive dysfunction due to brain injury. Four sources of erroneous practice are: (i) Failure to recognize within-race group... -
The psychometric properties of the Recovery Experiences Questionnaire of employees in a higher education institution
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karina Mostert --- WorkWell: Research Unit for Economic and Management Sciences, South Africa Crizelle Els --- WorkWell: Research Unit for Economic and Management Sciences, South AfricaThe objective of this study was to investigate the factorial validity and reliability of scores from the Recovery Experience Questionnaire (REQ) in a higher education institution. As part of the measure validation, the relationships of the four recovery dimensions (psychological... -
Psychometric evaluation of the Basic Traits Inventory in the multilingual South African environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sonja Grobler --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology Department, College of Economic and Management Sciences, South Africa Marié de Beer --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology Department, College of Economic and Management Sciences, South AfricaThe objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the BTI for all the official language groups in South Africa. Item bias analysis was performed by means of Rasch analysis for a sample of 105 342 respondents... -
Movements and habitat utilization of nembwe, Serranochromis robustus (Günther, 1864), in the Upper Zambezi River
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Eva B. Thorstad --- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Clinton J. Hay --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia Tor F. Næsje --- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Ben Chanda --- Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Department of Research and Specialised Services, Zambia Finn Økland --- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), NorwayFifteen adult nembwe Serranochromis robustus (Günther, 1864) were tagged with radio transmitters in the Zambezi River, Namibia, from 4–15 November 2000 to record behaviour and outline the implications for fisheries management. The fish were tracked on average every 3.7 days... -
Home range and seasonal movement of elephants in the Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Keith E.A. Leggett --- Namibian Elephant and Giraffe Trust, NamibiaThis paper examines the home ranges and seasonal movements of eight GPS-collared elephants (two females and six males) in the northwestern Kunene region of Namibia. Minimum convex polygon (MCP) and the fixed kernel density estimation (FKDE) methods were used to... -
Home ranges of sympatric grey rhebok and mountain reedbuck in a South African highveld grassland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: W. A. Taylor --- University of Pretoria, South Africa J. D. Skinner --- University of Pretoria, South Africa R. C. Krecek --- Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, West IndiesWe investigated home ranges of grey rhebok and mountain reedbuck at Sterkfontein Dam Nature Reserve in South Africa. Minimum convex polygon (MCP) and adaptive kernel methods were used to estimate home ranges and core areas for six grey rhebok herds... -
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 – Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Aslak Jørgensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity in Developing Countries, DBL – 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 – 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 – Centre for Health Research and Development, Institute for Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, CopenhagenThe 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... -
Cryptic lineages of little free-tailed bats, Chaerephon pumilus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southern Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Peter John Taylor --- Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa Jennifer Lamb --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Devendran Reddy --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Theshnie Naidoo --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Fanja Ratrimomanarivo --- Vahatra, Madagascar Steven M. Goodman --- Vahatra, MadagascarWe investigate mitochondrial DNA and craniometric variation in southern African and Malagasy populations of the small and morphologically variable, house-roosting molossid bat, Chaerephon pumilus in relation to Malagasy populations of the related, smaller-sized species, C. leucogaster. Both cytochrome b and... -
Morphometric variation in the Tunisian green frog, Rana saharica Anura: Ranidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Nabil Amor --- Research Unit: Genetics, Biodiversity and Bio-Resources Development, Biotechnology Institute of Monastir, Tunisia Sarra Farjallah --- Research Unit: Genetics, Biodiversity and Bio-Resources Development, Biotechnology Institute of Monastir, Tunisia Khaled Said --- Research Unit: Genetics, Biodiversity and Bio-Resources Development, Biotechnology Institute of Monastir, TunisiaRana saharica is the most widely distributed anuran in Tunisia. We examined morphological variation in 124 specimens as a function of their geographical origin, using univariate and multivariate statistics with traditional morphometrics. Our results supported the existence of three morphotypes... -
Yellow-bellied or white-bellied? Identity of Arabian house bats (Vespertilionidae: Scotophilus) revealed from mitochondrial DNA and morphology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Peter Vallo --- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Petr Benda --- Department of Zoology, Czech Republic Antonín Reiter --- South Moravian Museum in Znojmo, Czech RepublicThe yellow-bellied Scotophilus dinganii is the only African house bat species reported to occur in the Arabian Peninsula. Formerly, the Arabian house bats were referred to similar-looking white-bellied S. leucogaster, which differs from S. dinganii mainly by the colour of... -
New status for two African giant forest shrews, Crocidura goliath goliath and C. goliath nimbasilvanus (Mammalia: Soricomorpha), based on molecular and geometic morphometric analyses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: F. Jacquet --- Département de Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France R. Hutterer --- Section of Mammals, Zoologisches Forschungmuseum A. Koenig, Germany V. Nicolas --- Département de Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France J. Decher --- Department of Biology, U.S.A. M. Colyn --- Université de Rennes 1, CNRS, France A. Couloux --- Génoscope, Centre National de Séquenç age, France C. Denys --- Département de Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, FranceCrocidura goliath nimbasilvanus Hutterer, 2003 (replacement name for C. odorata guineensis Heim de Balsac, 1968) from West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast) and Crocidura goliath goliath Thomas, 1906 from Central Africa (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic... -
Seasonal differences in foraging dynamics, habitat use and home range size of Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat in an urban environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Dominic P. Rollinson --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Joy C. Coleman --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Colleen T. Downs --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaUrbanization through the process of habitat loss and fragmentation affects ecosystems. Many species are no longer able to survive in these urban areas; however, there are some that have been able to persist and even thrive in these habitats. One... -
Home range, habitat selection and activity patterns of an arid-zone population of Temminck’s ground pangolins, Smutsia temminckii
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Darren W. Pietersen --- Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa Andrew E. McKechnie --- Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa Raymond Jansen --- Department of Environmental, South AfricaAll previous behavioural studies of Temminck’s ground pangolins (Smutsia temminckii) have focused on populations in mesic regions. We examined home range size, activity periods, habitat selectivity and refuge site selection of 13 individuals over three years in the Kalahari Desert... -
Movement patterns of surf-zone fish species in a subtropical marine protected area on the east coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BQ Mann --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa PD Cowley --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa ST Fennessy --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South AfricaA long-term mark-recapture study was used to assess the movement patterns of surf-zone fishes in the St Lucia Marine Reserve, a marine protected area within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site on the east coast of South Africa... -
Support for volunteer caregivers and its influence on the quality of community home-based care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David Morton --- Department of Nursing Science, South Africa Thoko Mayekiso --- Vice Chancellor's Office, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa Peter Cunningham --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThe factors influencing the quality of community home-based care (CHBC) were explored from the perspective of volunteer caregivers, their clients and key informants in a South African Eastern Cape district. Focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were used to collect... -
A portfolio selection framework for the houseowner
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: D J Bradfield --- University of Cape Town,In this paper the portfolio selection decision of the houseowner is considered in the usual two-parameter framework. It is assumed that houseownership may not be a consequence of wealth maximization alone and that houseowners may therefore subject themselves to certain... -
An analysis of the development of home exchange organisations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Alexander Grit --- Stenden University, Qatar Paul Lynch --- Strathclyde University, GlasgowThis 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... -
Analysis of responses to work-home interaction as measured by the SWING
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Carin Hill --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South AfricaThe primary objective of this study was to analyse the responses of the Survey Work-home Interaction-Nijmegen – (SWING) using the Rasch measurement model. A quantitative, cross-sectional research design was used. Paper-and-pencil copies of the SWING were distributed to heterosexual working... -
Sexual dimorphism based on body proportions and ontogenetic changes in the Brazilian electric ray Narcine brasiliensis (von Olfers, 1831) (Chondrichthyes: Narcinidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: FA Rolim --- Fisheries Institute of São Paulo, Brazil FP Caltabellotta --- Oceanography Department, Brazil MM Rotundo --- Zoological Collection of University of Santa Cecília – UNISANTA, Brazil T Vaske-Júnior --- Elasmobranch Laboratory, BrazilSexual dimorphism in the Brazilian electric ray Narcine brasiliensis from the south‑western Atlantic coast was evaluated based on body proportions and ontogenetic changes. All regions of the body were found to have differences in body proportions between the sexes, except... -
Capitalising on privilege: home-based businesses and informal settlements as a post-apartheid phenomenon in Indian dominated residential areas in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Anand Singh --- School of Sciences and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThis paper is an ethnographic account of fieldwork that began in 1999 when African squatter camps in the Greater Durban metropolitan area accommodated people almost equal in number to the settled tax-paying Indian residents in the vicinity. While their numbers... -
De-provincialising South African anthropology: on relevance, public culture & the citizen anthropologist
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology,This paper examines a range of challenges to anthropology in post-apartheid South Africa in the hope of stimulating a much needed debate on ‘doing anthropology’ from the perspective of South African anthropologists who research and teach within their own complex... -
‘Anthropological futures’? Thoughts on social research and the ethics of engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shannon Morreira --- Department of Social Anthropology,This article was presented as the keynote address at the 2012 Anthropology Southern Africa Conference. The theme of the conference was Southern African Anthropological Futures: Opportunities and Constraints, and as such in this piece I consider some of the themes... -
Reckoning HIV/AIDS care: A longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology & Anthropology, USA Arnau Van Wyngaard --- Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, South Africa Alan Whiteside --- CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy, CanadaThe article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care supporters who tend to 3 839 clients in... -
Temporal changes in cranial size in South African vlei rats (Otomys): evidence for the ‘third universal response to warming’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Aluwani Nengovhela --- Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, South Africa Roderick M Baxter --- Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, South Africa Peter J Taylor --- South African Research Chair on Biodiversity Value and Change in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, South AfricaUsing museum collections and recently collected specimens we studied geographical and temporal (from 1906 to 2013) changes in skull size of two sibling species of rodents, Otomys auratus and O. angoniensis, in northern South Africa occupying distinct temperate grassland (O... -
Spatial utilization by black-backed jackals in southeastern Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: S.K.K. Kaunda --- Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, South AfricaSpace use by black-backed jackals was investigated between November 1995 and February 1997 in the Mokolodi Nature Reserve (MNR) in southeastern Botswana. Mean aggregate home-range size for the three radio-collared jackals was 15.9 km2. Mean home-range size varied between seasons... -
Does home range of the black-tailed tree rat (Thallomys nigricauda Thomas 1882) change with season along an aridity gradient?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Joy C. Coleman --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, South Africa Colleen T. Downs --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, South AfricaHome-range size may reflect the physiological state and energetic requirements of an individual. In the black-tailed tree rat (Thallomys nigricauda) we expected differences in the home-range size of populations in habitats of differing productivity, as measured along an aridity gradient,... -
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 NetherlandsMost 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... -
The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of two subjective career success instruments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Eileen Koekemoer --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa Jan Alewyn Nel --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa Audine du Toit --- WorkWell Research Unit, South AfricaThis study investigated the psychometric properties of two subjective career success instruments within the South African context: Perceived Career Success (PCSS: Gattiker & Larwood, 1986) and Life Success Measures Scale (LSMS: Parker & Chusmir, 1992). Data were collected via a... -
Oral histories of HIV/AIDS support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Philippe Denis --- School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, South AfricaThe purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation... -
Home-based rehabilitation interventions for adults living with HIV: a scoping review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Saul Cobbing --- Department of Physiotherapy, South Africa Jill Hanass-Hancock --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Hellen Myezwa --- Department of Physiotherapy, South AfricaHome-based rehabilitation (HBR) has been shown to improve the lives of people living with a wide range of chronic diseases in resource-rich settings. This may also be a particularly effective strategy in resource-poor settings, where access to institution-based rehabilitation is... -
(Dis)empowered whiteness: un-whitely spaces and the production of the good white home
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Christi Kruger --- Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South AfricaThis paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a white informal settlement in South Africa, to explore the ways in which poorer whites with perceived notions of whiteness and blackness negotiate living in informal settlements. In doing this, I argue, they... -
Habitat use and home range of black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) on farmlands in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Bruce D Humphries --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa Tharmalingam Ramesh --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa Trevor R Hill --- School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, South Africa Colleen T Downs --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaBlack-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) are an abundant mesopredator on farmlands (croplands and rangelands) across South Africa. Given their adaptability in a changing anthropogenic landscape, knowledge of spatial movements can provide important ecological information on the species. We captured, collared and... -
Morphometric variation in the cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus on the Kenyan coast: implications for stock identification and management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SM Mwakiti --- University of Eldoret, Kenya B Kaunda-Arara --- University of Eldoret, Kenya CM Mlewa --- Pwani University, Kenya R Ruwa --- Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute, KenyaMorphometric variation was used to study population structure of the cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus on the Kenyan coast. In all, 16 morphometric measurements taken from 193 individuals from six sites were subjected to multivariate statistical analysis in order to determine possible... -
Intestinal failure in childhood
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: O. Goulet --- Integrated program of Intestinal Failure, Home Parenteral Nutrition and Liver-Intestinal Transplantation, FranceIntestinal failure (IF) requires the use of parenteral nutrition (PN) for as long as it persists and in case of irreversible IF may be an indication for intestinal transplantation (ITx). Biological evaluation of IF is becoming possible with the use... -
Sexual size dimorphism and morphometric sexing in a North African population of Laughing Doves Spilopelia senegalensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tasnim Ayadi --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, Tunisia Abdessalem Hammouda --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, Tunisia Samia Kididi --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Mohamed Habib Yahyaoui --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Slaheddine Selmi --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, TunisiaLike the majority of Columbiformes, the Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis is sexually monomorphic in plumage, but seems to be slightly dimorphic in size. However, due to the lack of studies little is known about the sexual size dimorphism in this... -
Consumption and wastage of home-fortified maize flour products in northern Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: G Mphwanthe --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, Malawi AA Kalimbira --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, Malawi NC Geresomo --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, MalawiObjective: The objective of the study was to determine the amount of home-fortified maize flour products consumed and wasted by women aged 15–49 years, and children aged ≤ 5 years. -
Rural hometown construction among the youth in Nigeria: Agencies of significant others and media
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olayinka Akanle --- College of Graduate Studies, South Africa Jimi O. Adesina --- College of Graduate Studies, South Africa Uchendu Stella Chiamaka --- Department of Sociology, NigeriaYouths as a critical socio-demographic cohort represent the gauge of societies relative to the present and future. Youths’ construction(s) of the rural thus present(s) a veritable corridor through which powerful socioeconomic and ideological contestations emergent in the rural-urban divide debates... -
Skull size and shape variation in Psammomys spp. (Rodentia, Gerbillinae) from Tunisia, with emphasis on the impact of allometric variation on species recognition
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Hanene Khemiri --- Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Tunisia Paolo Colangelo --- CNR, Italy M’barek Chétoui --- Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Tunisia Saïd Nouira --- Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Sciences Faculty of Tunis, TunisiaIn Tunisia both Psammomys obesus and P. vexillaris are found. These taxa have been the subject of taxonomic controversy for some time, due to variability in the classical morphological characters used for taxonomic recognition. In this study we investigated skull... -
Traditions of kinship, marriage and bridewealth in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Adam Kuper --- Anthropology, United KingdomIn the pre-colonial period, and in most parts of Southern Africa throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century, marriage, the family and the homestead were embedded in economic, political and religious institutions. The household was the hub of... -
Otolith shape as a valuable tool to evaluate the stock structure of swordfish Xiphias gladius in the Indian Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: K Mahé --- Ifremer, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques, France H Evano --- Ifremer, Délégation Océan Indien, France T Mille --- Ifremer, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques, France D Muths --- Université Européenne de Bretagne, France J Bourjea --- , FranceSwordfish Xiphias gladius is an oceanic-pelagic species. Its population structure in the Western Indian Ocean was studied from the shape of the sagittal otoliths of 391 individuals collected from 2009 to 2014. Normalised elliptical Fourier descriptors (EFDs) were extracted automatically... -
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... -
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 NetherlandsMost 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... -
Sexual size dimorphism in a Tunisian population of Bosk's fringe-toed lizards Acanthodactylus boskianus asper
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Intissar Nasri --- , , Tunisia Abdessalem Hammouda --- , , Tunisia Foued Hamza --- , , Tunisia Slaheddine Selmi --- , , TunisiaInvestigating how patterns of sexual size dimorphism vary among local populations may be useful for understanding size evolution in lizards. We investigated patterns of sexual size dimorphism in a Tunisian population of Bosk's fringe-toed lizards Acanthodactylus boskianus asper, in relation... -
Variation in body size and morphometric traits of males and females of the wall gecko, Tarentola delalandii (Phyllodactylidae) from different environments on Tenerife
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: María de Fuentes-Fernández --- , Spain María Mercedes Suárez-Rancel --- , , Spain Miguel Molina-Borja --- , SpainWe analysed sexual dimorphism in body size and several other morphological traits of two populations of Tarentola delalandii on the island of Tenerife (San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the North, and Granadilla de Abona in the South), whose habitats... -
Spatial behaviour and food choice of the Garden Warbler Sylvia borin during the non-breeding season
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Soladoye B Iwajomo --- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Nigeria Ulf Ottosson --- Centre for Macroecology Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark Kasper Thorup --- Centre for Macroecology Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, DenmarkInformation regarding the spatial behaviour of migratory bird species on their wintering ground is important in understanding the factors that can influence breeding success and population size. The Garden Warbler Sylvia borin is a migratory species that has been well... -
Antecedents of flourishing at work in a fast-moving consumer goods company
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cindy Rautenbach --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThe aims of this study were to investigate antecedents of flourishing in the workplace. A cross-sectional survey design was used with a stratified random sample of 779 employees in a fast-moving consumer goods company in South Africa (females = 40.4%,... -
Psychometric validation of the Flourishing-at-Work Scale – Short Form (FWS-SF): Results and implications of a South African study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cindy Rautenbach --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to validate the Flourishing-at-Work Scale Short Form (FWS-SF) in a South African fast-moving consumable goods industry. Participants were a stratified random sample of 779 employees of an alcoholic beverage company (female = 40.4%, black... -
Reliability of measures of work engagement and psychological well-being among South African state security forces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nondumiso Mlangeni --- Department of Industrial Psychology, Faculty of Military Science, South Africa Gideon Van Dyk --- Department of Industrial Psychology, Faculty of Military Science, South AfricaThis study reports on the psychometric properties of measures of work engagement and psychological well-being in the South African state security forces. The research sample consisted of a combined sample of 178 soldiers and 57 police officers (34% females). They... -
Relationship between somatic growth and otolith growth: a case study of the ornate jobfish Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus from the coast of Réunion (SW Indian Ocean)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: K Mahé --- Ifremer, Fisheries Laboratory, Sclerochronology Centre, France Y Aumond --- Ifremer, Le Port, France K Rabhi --- Ifremer, Fisheries Laboratory, Sclerochronology Centre, France R Elleboode --- Ifremer, Fisheries Laboratory, Sclerochronology Centre, France E Bellamy --- Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Languedoc Roussillon, France J Huet --- Ifremer, Le Port, France M Gault --- FRS Marine Laboratory, Scotland D Roos --- Ifremer, Le Port, FranceThe ornate jobfish Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus Valenciennes 1832 occurs in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, where it is harvested by small-scale coastal fisheries. Management of this species is hindered by lack of adequate biological data. We sampled a total of 113 individuals... -
Structural barriers to South African volunteer home-based caregivers providing quality care: the need for a policy for caregivers not affiliated to primary healthcare clinics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David Morton --- Department of Nursing Science, South Africa Thoko Mayekiso --- Vice Chancellor’s Office, South Africa Peter Cunningham --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaCommunity home-based care (CHBC) is a critical component of non-formal care in communities in Africa that have a high prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Community carers consisting primarily of volunteers are critical role players in African healthcare systems and... -
Sexing Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres based on head morphometrics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Margaret T Hirschauer --- VulPro NPC, Skeerpoort, South Africa Tapiwa Zimunya --- VulPro NPC, Skeerpoort, South Africa Kerri Wolter --- VulPro NPC, Skeerpoort, South Africa Ara Monadjem --- All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, SwazilandThe Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres is considered sexually monomorphic in the literature, but visual differences in head shape between the sexes have been observed. Furthermore, head morphometrics of other Gyps species show statistically significant variation between the sexes. We show... -
Rural medicine and ‘home stay’: a medical student’s experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Reabetswe Ntshabele --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Rubeshan Perumal --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Nesri Padayatchi --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)—MRC TB HIV Pathogenesis Unit, South AfricaMedical education is evolving from a heavily hierarchical and paternalistic approach to a more developmental and student-centred paradigm. In addition, there has been a greater focus on decentralised medical education, taking medical students closer to the lowest tiers of the... -
Review of the leaf-litter skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands, with the description of a new species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Leonor B. Soares --- , , Portugal Luis M. P. Ceríaco --- , , Portugal Mariana P. Marques --- , , Portugal Cristiane Bastos-Silveira --- , , Portugal Lauren A. Scheinberg --- , USA D. James Harris --- , Portugal António Brehm --- , , Portugal José Jesus --- , PortugalLeaf-litter skinks of the genus Panaspis are currently represented in the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea by two species, Panaspis africana and P. annobonensis. Here we describe a third species, Panaspis thomensis sp. nov., endemic to São Tomé... -
Personality and work-home interaction among dual-earner couples in South Africa: Testing an actor-partner interdependence model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Carin Hill --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South Africa Lynne Blunn --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate the effect of personality on work-home interaction crossover effects among dual-earner couples in South Africa. The participants were dual-earner couples (n = 264; 132 couples) with young children. They completed measures on work-home interaction and... -
Morphological differentiation among populations of Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron Rüppell 1852 across the West African Lagoon systems (Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MO Popoola --- Department of Zoology, Nigeria FDB Schedel --- SNSB-Bavarian State Collection Zoology, Germany MA Akintoye --- Department of Zoology, NigeriaMorphometric variation among populations of Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron across its natural range (Mahin, epe, Lekki, Apese, Kuramo, Lagos, Iyagbe, Ologe, Badagry, Yewa – Nigeria; Be Lagoon – Togo; Idenau – Cameroon, Aheme – Benin; Portonovo – Benin) were studied to... -
Households’ satisfaction with the healthcare services rendered by a ward-based outreach team in Tshwane district, Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AT Masango Makgobela --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa JV Ndimande --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, South Africa G Ogunbanjo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa T Bongongo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa SN Nyalunga --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaIntroduction: Households’ satisfaction is an important and commonly used indicator for measuring quality in health care. An amelioration of primary health care services at the level of households, by utilising community health workers, has led to a good healthcare system... -
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... -
Geographic variation in West African Agama picticauda: insights from genetics, morphology and ecology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Sneha Krishnan --- , USA 80526, 4257858934 Caleb Ofori-Boateng --- , , Ghana Matthew K Fujita --- , , USA Adam D Leaché --- , USAWest Africa is a region characterised by high species diversity and endemism, making it an ideal region to study the evolution of genetic and phenotypic differentiation. Species in this region often vary in morphology and genetics; however, the specific drivers... -
Cranial variation in common dolphins Delphinus spp. off South Africa, with the inclusion of information from the holotype of Delphinus capensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SG Ngqulana --- Department of Zoology, South Africa S Plön --- Earth Stewardship Science Research Institute – Africa Earth Observatory Network, South Africa A Galatius --- Department of Bioscience, Denmark P Pistorius --- Department of Zoology, South Africa GJG Hofmeyr --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe common dolphins (genus Delphinus) are widely distributed in all temperate and tropical oceans. Over this wide geographical distribution they show considerable range in morphological variation, which has led to descriptions of several species in the genus. Until recently, only... -
Dispersal dynamics of juvenile Secretarybirds Sagittarius serpentarius in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Melissa A Whitecross --- Terrestrial Bird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South Africa Ernst F Retief --- Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South Africa Hanneline A Smit-Robinson --- Terrestrial Bird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South AfricaKnowledge of the dispersal behaviour of southern Africa’s juvenile Secretarybirds Sagittarius serpentarius was previously limited to a small number of ring recoveries (n = 4) in South Africa. From 2012 to 2015, 10 GSM-GPS solar trackers were fitted to juvenile... -
Variable phylogeographic histories of five forest birds with populations in Upper and Lower Guinea: implications for taxonomy and evolutionary conservation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Jean-Bernard Dongmo --- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Cameroon Jeffrey M DaCosta --- Biology Department, Boston College, USA Champlain Djieto-Lordon --- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Cameroon Pierre Ngassam --- Laboratory of Parasitology and Ecology, Cameroon Michael D Sorenson --- Department of Biology, USAThis study evaluates phylogeographic structure in selected forest bird species distributed on either side of the Dahomey Gap in West Africa to extend analyses of avian diversification across the Guineo-Congolean forest. Mitochondrial DNA sequence data were collected for five species,... -
The driving forces behind the home bias phenomenon: Evidence from Israel
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Sivan Riff --- University of Haifa, Israel Joseph Yagil --- University of Haifa and Western Galilee College, IsraelThe home bias phenomenon is a widely investigated puzzle that is still not completely resolved. Home bias is the tendency of investors to invest excessively in domestic assets, in contradiction to the traditional optimal portfolio theories. This research attempts to... -
The costs of home-based HIV testing and counselling in sub-Saharan Africa and its association with testing yield: a literature review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Katharina Hauck --- Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UKMore than 14.5 of the 36.7 million people living with HIV globally do not know their HIV status, making comprehensive testing interventions a critical step in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Home-based testing and counselling (HBTC) involves small teams of community... -
Parents and guardians: Their perceptions of psychometric test uses with learners in an emerging country’s school system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kayi Ntinda --- Department of Educational Foundations and Management, EswatiniThis study utilised participatory action research methods to explore Botswana parents and guardians’ (n = 162) perceptions of psychometric tests for use with school learners. The participants completed a Parent/Guardian Psychometric Survey. Wilcoxon Rank Sums Test analysis indicated the parents... -
Life history, distribution and seasonal movements of a threatened South African endemic seabream, Chrysoblephus gibbiceps
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CG Attwood --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa ME Dawson --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa SE Kerwath --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa C Wilke --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South AfricaThe red stumpnose Chrysoblephus gibbiceps (Sparidae) is a South African endemic seabream that has been severely depleted by fishing. A total of 678 C. gibbiceps were sampled by line and trawl fishing for a study of their morphology, age, growth,... -
Summarising biometrics from the SAFRING database for southern African birds
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Sanjo Rose --- , South Africa Robert L Thomson --- , South Africa Hans-Dieter Oschadleus --- , South Africa Alan TK Lee --- , South AfricaBiometrics form a key characteristic of a species. Here, we provide a summary of biometrics held by the South African Bird Ringing Scheme (SAFRING), which was initiated in 1948, including measures of mass and lengths of the tarsus, head, culmen,... -
Kissing cousins: a review of the African genus Limnophis Günther, 1865 (Colubridae: Natricinae), with the description of a new species from north-eastern Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Werner Conradie --- Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), South Africa V Deepak --- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom Chad Keates --- National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, South Africa David J Gower --- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, United KingdomThe African natricine genus Limnophis is represented by two species: Limnophis bicolor Günther, 1865 and Limnophis bangweolicus (Mertens, 1936). They are stout-bodied, semi-aquatic snakes that mostly feed on fish and amphibians, and occur from Botswana and Namibia in the south... -
Ranging behaviour of Long-crested Eagles Lophaetus occipitalis in human-modified landscapes of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Machawe I Maphalala --- , South Africa Ara Monadjem --- , Eswatini Keith L Bildstein --- , South Africa Shane McPherson --- , South Africa Ben Hoffman --- , South Africa Colleen T Downs --- , South AfricaThe ranging behaviour of raptors in human-altered environments, such as agricultural and suburban landscapes, is becoming increasingly important for conservationists in the context of unprecedented high rates of anthropogenic land use change. We studied the movement ecology of adult Long-crested... -
Clean energy transition in a developing society: Perspectives on the socioeconomic determinants of Solar Home Systems adoption among urban households in southeastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edlyne Eze Anugwom --- , Nigeria Kenechukwu Nwakego Anugwom --- , Nigeria Oliver Ifeanyi Eya --- , NigeriaThis study identifies factors that constrain the adoption of clean energy sources by urban households in southeastern Nigeria, using the Solar Home Systems (SHS) as a case study. It is premised on the assumption that adoption of innovation is affected... -
Multiple GPS fix intervals show variations in the manner African White-backed Vultures Gyps africanus utilise space
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mark Zvidzai --- , Zimbabwe Fadzai Michelle Zengeya --- , Zimbabwe Mhosisi Masocha --- , Zimbabwe Henry Ndaimani --- , Zimbabwe Amon Murwira --- , ZimbabweApplication of spatial data is becoming increasingly important as a tool for mapping and understanding space utilisation patterns especially for critically endangered species. In this study, we tested how variation in the GPS fix interval may influence space utilisation patterns... -
The normal tax consequences of home swaps for residents owning property in the Republic of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Magdel Zietsman --- , South Africa Andrea Herron --- , South Africa“Home swapping” has become more accessible due to a global phenomenon, known as the sharing economy. Technological advancement has removed the barriers to international trade and members of home swapping programmes exchange rights to provide each other with accommodation in... -
Prevalence and clinical risk factors for morphometric vertebral fractures in older subjects in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: M Esaadi --- , South Africa F Paruk --- , South Africa B Cassim --- , South Africa -
Stock separation of the shallow-water hake Merluccius capensis in the Benguela ecosystem using otolith shape analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ENG Shoopala --- , Namibia MR Wilhelm --- , Namibia SC Paulus --- , NamibiaThe fishing industry is an important economic sector in Namibia and South Africa, with the shallow-water hake Merluccius capensis being an important target species. Recent genetic studies of M. capensis found two stocks in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem,... -
Anthropogenic food availability and body mass maintenance in urban Red-winged Starlings Onychognathus morio
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Taylyn C Risi --- , South Africa Petra Sumasgutner --- , South Africa Susan J Cunningham --- , South AfricaAnthropogenic food availability is influenced by short-term fluctuations in human presence, especially in core urban areas. Few studies have explored responses to such day-to-week fluctuations, specifically on body mass and body condition of urban birds. Here, we investigated non-breeding body... -
Knowledge, attitude and practices of patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: HC Spies --- , South Africa VL van den Berg --- , South Africa M Nel --- , South AfricaIntroduction: In sub-Saharan Africa, a paucity of data exists in respect of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of patients on maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) regarding the dietary adaptations they should make. -
Effects of atrazine on the endocrinology and histoarchitecture of the testes in African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PA Opute --- , Nigeria IP Oboh --- , Nigeria JE Asouzu --- , South Africa N Pilani --- , South Africa EF Mbajiorgu --- , South AfricaAquatic ecosystems often receive a wide spectrum of pollutants introduced directly or indirectly. The herbicide atrazine, an endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC), frequently contaminates potable water supplies and aquatic ecosystems. Studies suggest atrazine induced alterations in the neuroendocrine system along the... -
The spatial ecology of black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) in a protected mountainous grassland area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Alexander Edward Botha --- , South Africa Angela Caren Bruns --- , South Africa Aliza le Roux --- , South AfricaAn animal’s ability to traverse a landscape and utilise available resources is vital for its survival. The movement patterns of an animal provide insight into space use, activity patterns and ecological requirements that are imperative for successful farming and wildlife... -
Testing the efficacy of bat monitoring methods for identification and species surveys in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Alexandra Howard --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Ara Monadjem --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Duncan MacFadyen --- , South Africa Christian T Chimimba --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaMulti-method sampling approaches are becoming increasingly popular for investigating species occurrence at specific sites, as there is a need to accurately monitor species with limited time and resources. In this study, a multi-method comparative approach was used to survey bat... -
Psychosocial coping mechanisms among uncircumcised Pokot women in North-Eastern Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Noah Kalengo --- Makerere University, Uganda Alone Isabirye --- Kyambogo University, Uganda John Bukusuba --- Makerere University, Uganda Laban K Musinguzi --- Makerere University, Uganda Janestic Mwende Twikirize --- Makerere University, UgandaUncircumcised women continue to be stigmatised with their rights and social status contested in communities where the practice is cherished. This study explored the circumcision refusal coping skills of women from the Pokot community, North-Eastern Uganda. Informants were 25 uncircumcised... -
Primary health care–family partnership for better diabetes outcomes of patients: a systematic review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: MH Mphasha --- University of Limpopo, South Africa L Skaal --- University of Limpopo, South Africa TM Mothiba --- University of Limpopo, South Africa C Ngoatle --- University of Limpopo, South Africa LS Hlahla --- University of Limpopo, South Africa -
A study of local government HIV/AIDS projects in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Leon Swartz --- Population and Development Research, Niel Roux --- Directorate: Population and Development Research,The primary goal of this study was to survey local government HIV/AIDS projects in South Africa. A total of 240 questionnaires were sent to local municipalities nationally between May and July 2002. A total of 44 municipalities returned their questionnaires,... -
Hearing community voices: grassroots perceptions of an intervention to support health volunteers in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Catherine Campbell --- London School of Economics, Yugi Nair --- Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Sbongile Maimane --- HIVAN, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Andy Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal,With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those with AIDS – as part... -
Challenges impacting on the quality of care to persons living with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses with reference to Kanye community home-based care programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Simon M Kang'ethe --- Skill Share International,HIV/AIDS has been found to be a challenging disease to humanity, its challenge spin-offs falling especially on to the caregivers of those infected and affected by the virus. This paper aims to discuss the challenges influencing the state of caregiving... -
Traditional healers as caregivers to HIV/AIDS clients and other terminally challenged persons in Kanye community home-based care programme (CHBC), Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: S. M. Kang'ethe --- Centre for Continuous Education (CCE), University of Botswana,The research study done at the Kanye village of Botswana was qualitative in design and exploratory in nature. While the broad goal aimed at assessing the contributions of caregivers in the Kanye CHBC programme, this article aims at evaluating the... -
Perceptions of door-to-door HIV counselling and testing in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Karen Kroeger --- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Allan W Taylor --- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Heather M Marlow --- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Douglas T Fleming --- Bristol-Myers Squib Company, USA Vanessa Beyleveld --- Premiere Personnel, Botswana Mary Grace Alwano --- CTS Global Inc., Mabel Tebogo Kejelepula --- Ministry of Health, Botswana Kentsenao Busang Chilume --- Botswana National AIDS Coordination Agency, Botswana Dawn K Smith --- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thierry Roels --- CDC's Division of Global HIV/Aids Programme, Peter Kilmarx --- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ZimbabwePrevalence of HIV infection in Botswana is among the highest in the world, at 23.9% of 15 – 49-year-olds. Most HIV testing is conducted in voluntary counselling and testing centres or medical settings. Improved access to testing is urgently needed... -
An assessment of quality of home-based HIV counseling and testing performed by lay counselors in a rural sub-district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Vuyolwethu Magasana --- , South Africa Wanga Zembe --- , South Africa Hanani Tabana --- , South Africa Reshma Naik --- , South Africa Debra Jackson --- , South Africa Sonja Swanevelder --- , South Africa Tanya Doherty --- , South AfricaHIV counseling and testing (HCT) has been prioritized as one of the prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS, and promoted as an essential tool in scaling up and improving access to treatment, care and support especially in community settings. Home-based HCT (HBHCT)... -
Fighting against HIV and AIDS within a resource constrained rural setting: a case study of the Ruvheneko Programme in Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Christina Tafadzwa Dzimiri --- , , South Africa Patrick Dzimiri --- , , South Africa Kezia Batisai --- , , South AfricaSince reports of the first incidence of the HIV virus in Zimbabwe in 1985, the epidemic has negatively impacted on every facet of human security. Rural areas, by virtue of being the periphery and constrained in terms of resources and... -
A qualitative evaluation of a stress management programme for HIV and AIDS home-based care workers in Tshwane, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: P. M. Kupa --- Department of Social Work & Criminology, University of Pretoria, South Africa L. S. Geyer --- Department of Social Work & Criminology, University of Pretoria, South AfricaThe HIV and AIDS pandemic resulted in increased demands on the South African healthcare system and contributed to elevated stress levels among healthcare workers, including home-based care workers. The goal of the study was to evaluate a stress management programme... -
Morphometrics and sexual dimorphism of the hinge‐back tortoises Kinixys erosa and Kinixys homeana (Reptilia: Testudinidae) in southwestern Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DwightP. Lawson --- The University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A.Morphometric data on a series of forest‐dwelling hingeback tortoises, 138 Kinixys erosa and 74 Kinixys homeana, from the Southwest Province of Cameroon, Africa, where they are sympatric, are presented. The two species exhibited opposite trends in sexual size dimorphism. Unique... -
Activity area, movement patterns, and habitat use of the desert monitor, varanus griseus, in the zaranik protected area, north Sinai, Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: AdelA. Ibrahim --- Faculty of Education at Al‐Arish, EgyptA radio telemetry study of the desert monitor, Varanus griseus was conducted from July 1997 to June 1998 in the Zaranik Protected Area, North Sinai, Egypt. Five monitor lizards (SVL range 302 ‐ 360 mm) were equipped with SI‐2T temperature... -
A review of the southern African ‘non‐spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DonaldG. Broadley --- Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Wolfgang Wüster --- University of Wales, Wales, U.K.We analysed the systematics of the ‘non‐spitting’ cobras of southern Africa, paying particular attention to the Naja annulifera complex. Multivariate morphometric analyses demonstrate that the taxa annulifera and anchietae are consistently distinct and homogenous over their respective ranges, and their... -
Feasibility study on the use of the modified Finnish Diabetes Risk Score in South African context: a case of home-based carers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: TM Mothiba --- University of Limpopo, South Africa MH Mphasha --- University of Limpopo, South Africa TT Molepo --- University of Limpopo, South Africa H Bastiaens --- University of Antwerp, Belgium J Wens --- University of Antwerp, Belgium -
Moving the Margins: Gender Inequality and Homelessness in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa, South Africa Theresah Patrine Ennin --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMany African women writers have engaged with issues of social justice, development and the need to pay attention to the persistent inequalities that eat away the fabric of many societies. To this day, they continue to be at the coalface... -
Anuran diversity in a West African Valley
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Houénafa Chrysostome Aimé Gansa --- Unit of Aquaculture Research and Fisheries Management (URAGeP), Laboratory of Fisheries and Animal Sciences (LaSAH), National University of Agriculture (UNA), Republic of Benin Hyppolite Agadjihouèdé --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin Mahugnon Benjamin Hounkanrin --- Unit of Aquaculture Research and Fisheries Management (URAGeP), Laboratory of Fisheries and Animal Sciences (LaSAH), National University of Agriculture (UNA), Republic of BeninAnurans are subject to strong anthropic pressures in Benin, as in most of the West African countries, due to their socio-economic and environmental importance. To protect these organisms and to gather basic knowledge, an anuran biodiversity study was conducted in... -
Feasibility and acceptability of continuous at-home glucose monitoring during pregnancy: a mixed-methods pilot study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Alastair van Heerden --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Şefki Kolozali --- University of Essex, United Kingom Shane A Norris --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa -
Spatial use of non-breeding sites by adult GPS-tracked Ospreys Pandion haliaetus from Germany
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg --- , Germany Daniel Holte --- , GermanyRecent analyses of telemetry data on Ospreys Pandion haliaetus predominantly address migratory movements, whereas studies focusing on spatial use are rare, especially concerning the African non-breeding areas. We analysed GPS telemetry data of 15 adult Ospreys breeding in northeast Germany,... -
Movement patterns of Natal seacatfish Galeichthys troworum (Ariidae) tagged in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BQ Mann --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa K Cox --- , South Africa GL Jordaan --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa R Daly --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South AfricaA tag-recapture study was undertaken on the Natal seacatfish Galeichthys troworum in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area (PMPA) on the east coast of South Africa. A total of 473 fish were tagged over a period of 8 years, and 136... -
Population status of the range-restricted Red Lark Calendulauda burra in a conservation area stronghold
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ryno Kemp --- DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa Robin Colyn --- BirdLife South Africa, Science and Innovation Programme, South Africa Marc T Freeman --- DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa Andrew E McKechnie --- DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute, South AfricaMany desert birds are vulnerable to anthropogenic global warming and landscape transformation, particularly in the case of range-restricted species. We quantified suitable habitat and the current population of Red Larks Calendulauda burra (family Alaudidae), a range-restricted southern African species, in... -
Morphological variations in the African palm weevil, Rhynchophorus phoenicis (F) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in Kenya and Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: James P Egonyu --- International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya Alfonce Leonard --- Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Ukiriguru Centre, Tanzania Chrysantus Mbi Tanga --- International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya Sevgan Subramanian --- International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, KenyaWe investigated morphological differences in the African palm weevil (Rhynchophorus phoenicis) from Kenya (Busia and Kwale) and Uganda using a LEICA EZ4HD stereo microscope and an absolute digimatic caliper. Ten pronotal colour patterns were recorded, of which two (brown with... -
‘Back Home in the States’: The African’s Quest for Home in Postcolonial Africa in Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tom Michael Mboya --- Moi University,This paper is a reading of the Kenyan psychological drama, Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti as an artistic contribution to a long-running debate on the definition of home in postcolonial Kenya. The two major positions in the debate... -
Validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index in the Arab context: Results and implications of a Moroccan study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Manal Lamouine --- University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco Jennifer A. Bugos --- University of South Florida, United States of America Khadija Ouadi --- University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, MoroccoThe Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) is an extensively used self-report measure of musical skills and behaviours; however, to-date, no validated Arabic translation of the Gold MCI exists. This study reports on the Gold-MSI validation in the Moroccan setting. Our... -
Travelling and the well-being of the elderly: expectations and risks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Adalberto Dias de Carvalho --- Higher Institute of Business Sciences and Tourism, Portugal José L Gonçalves --- , Portugal Florbela S Gandra --- , PortugalThe aim of this article is to highlight the importance of tourist travel for the well-being of older people by identifying some of the psycho-sociological components of their decision-making processes in the context of nursing homes and the family, with... -
Validity and reliability of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among nursing interns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Li-Juan Yi --- Hunan Traditional Chinese Medical College, China Ting Shuai --- Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & National Engineering Laboratory for Digital and Material Technology of Stomatology & Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Stomatology, China Ya Li --- Hunan Traditional Chinese Medical College, China Guo-Hao Wang --- Tangshan Polytechnic University, China Hai-Yan Long --- Hunan Traditional Chinese Medical College, China Hang Lin --- Hunan Traditional Chinese Medical College, China Xu Tian --- Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, China Maria F. Jiménez-Herrera --- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, SpainWe aimed to determine the reliability and validity of scores from the Chinese Compassion Fatigue Short Scale (CFSS) for nursing interns (n = 229; female = 88.2%, mean age = 20.34 years, SD = 0.968 years). The nursing interns completed... -
How can work improve family life quality? The influence of thriving at work on family role performance and work–family balance satisfaction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shaoqing Su --- Northwest Normal University, People’s Republic of China Baoyan Yang --- Northwest Normal University, People’s Republic of China Zhaobiao Zong --- East China Normal University, People’s Republic of China Zhao Zhang --- Lanzhou Modern Vocational College, People’s Republic of ChinaThis study examined how career success related to employees’ family life quality, with interpersonal capitalisation between employees’ work and family life, controlling for employees’ proactive personality. We sampled married employees from Northwest China (n = 154, females = 53.2%, mean... -
Evolution, population structure and morphology of the African Black Duck Anas sparsa and Yellow-billed Duck A. undulata
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Philip Lavretsky --- University of Texas at El Paso, United States Ramsey Russell --- , United States Sara Gonzalez --- University of Texas at El Paso, United States Vergie M Musni --- University of Texas at El Paso, United States Alexis Díaz --- Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Peru Joshua I Brown --- University of Texas at El Paso, United StatesBiological conservation requires a fundamental understanding of evolutionary history and established contemporary population genetics. Here, we sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and thousands of nuclear loci across individuals of the African Black Duck Anas sparsa and Yellow-billed Duck A. undulata to... -
Movement patterns of grey grunter Pomadasys furcatus (Pisces: Haemulidae) in the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Bruce Q Mann --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South African Association for Marine Biological Research, South Africa Stuart Dunlop --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South African Association for Marine Biological Research, South Africa Robert Kyle --- South African Association for Marine Biological Research, South Africa Gareth L Jordaan --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South African Association for Marine Biological Research, South Africa Ryan Daly --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South African Association for Marine Biological Research, South AfricaPomadasys furcatus is a relatively common inshore fish species caught in the shore-based linefishery in northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, yet relatively little is known about the biology and ecology of this species. Movement patterns of this species were studied... -
Behavioural responses to air temperature change in helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Johann H van Niekerk --- University of South Africa, South Africa Marta Rodríguez-Rey --- Universidad de Alcalá, Forest Ecology and Restoration Research Group (FORECO), Spain Fabián Casas --- Universidad de Granada, Spain Giovanni Forcina --- Global Change Ecology and Evolution Research Group (GloCEE)/Soil Biology and Subterranean Ecosystems Research Group (GIBSES), SpainDeciphering the behavioural responses of helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758) to temperature variation is key to understanding its eco-ethology and implementing sound management strategies. Here, we tested the ‘warmer together’ hypothesis, which states that thermoregulatory cost reduction (i.e. body... -
Nairobi’s Marginal Postcolonial Homes: The House Signifier in Meja Mwangi’s Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaThis paper uses Meja Mwangi’s novels Cockroach Dance and Going Down River Road to assess the author’s portrayal of ‘house’ as a versatile signifier for the alienation of Nairobi’s postcolonial urban space. In other words, the paper examines how far... -
Constructions of Home in the Unhomely: Home-making in Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturist Narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Joseph Kwanya --- Rhodes University, South AfricaIn this essay, I examine the representation of home in African speculative fiction, focusing on three works by Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death (2010), The Book of Phoenix (2015), and the short story “Mother of Invention” (2018). I argue that... -
Divergent Housing Spatialities and Gender Subjectivities in Transition: Women's Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication Discourse in Dakar, Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elettra Griesi --- Collaborative Research Centre 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyThis article examines the dynamic relationship between spaces and subjectivity, demonstrating how they mutually influence each other to produce distinctive housing spatialities. Through ethnographic research in Thiaroye sur Mer, Dakar (Senegal), I analyze how women's subjectivities, responding to historical processes... -
Stereotypical Home Making: Producing Subjects through Spatial Stories in Afronovelas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Daddy Dibinga Kalamba --- Techniche Universität, Germany Séverine Marguin --- Techniche Universität, GermanyIn recent decades, television series in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire have emerged as influential mass media forms with broad audiences, driven by a dynamic and rapidly evolving industry in these countries. In this paper, we study series belonging to the... -
Growth patterns and condition index of rock oysters Saccostrea cucullata in relation to river influence in southeastern Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: M Masimana --- Institut d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Anôsy, Université de Toliara, Madagascar A Andrisoa --- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, CEREGE, FranceSaccostrea cucullata is the dominant species of rock oyster (family Ostreidae) in southeastern Madagascar. Despite its economic and ecological importance, information on its biology and ecology is scarce. This study investigated the growth, shell length–weight relationship, and condition index (tissue... -
Investigating gene expression patterns involved in salinity tolerance mechanisms in Thinopyrum distichum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Isabel M van der Watt --- , South Africa Nicholas C Le Maitre --- , South Africa Kishalya Haridass --- , South Africa Cecile Bester --- , South Africa Willem C Botes --- , South AfricaThinopyrum distichum (Thunb.) Á. Löve is a salt-tolerant, wheat wild relative native to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape coastal regions of South Africa; however, the mechanisms governing this species’ halophytic nature remain underexplored. RNA was extracted from root and... -
Smartphone-based dietary assessment of food away from home and the risk of non-communicable diseases among young working adults in Johannesburg, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Swapnil Godbharle --- School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Hema Kesa --- School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Angeline Jeyakumar --- School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
