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The Career Exploration of a Previously Disadvantaged Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Daleen Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe case study explores the perceptions of a middle-aged, previously disadvantaged South African woman regarding her career aspirations and her promotability. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was used. Narrative inquiry was used to interview the client. The... -
Final Findings on the Response of Eucalyptus grandis to Fertilising at De Kaap, Eastern Transvaal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: M.A. Herbert --- , South Africa D.A. Jackson --- , South Africa R.Verloren van Themaat --- , South AfricaThe final results are presented of a pair of fertiliser experiments with a seedling crop of Ecucalyptus grandis on fully cultivated sites, one of which incorporated the application of dolomitic lime. Liming had a strong effect on the response of... -
Constipation in children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: RA Brown --- Department of Paediatric Surgery, RJ Wood --- Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital,Constipation in children is a universal problem, occurring in 0.7–28% of the population. The exact aetiology is unknown, but the majority of children have a functional, rather than organic, aetiology. Symptoms associated with constipation include abdominal pain, a poor appetite... -
Modelling of product demand as a pointer tool for choice of maintenance strategy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Michael Kanisuru Adeyeri --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa Khumbulani Mpofu --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa Buliaminu Kareem --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, NigeriaThe purpose of this paper is to use product demand or sales turnout of products in a competitive environment as an indicator to suggest maintenance strategies for machinery. The model takes account of singular products from several companies or industries,... -
Territoriality and breeding success in Gurney’s sugarbird, Promerops gurneyi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: K.M. Calf --- Department of Zoology, South Africa C.T Downs --- School of Botany and Zoology, South Africa M.I. Cherry --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaTerritory size and quality were determined for Gurney’s sugarbirds in Qwaqwa National Park, northeastern Free State, South Africa. Changes in territory size of Gurney’s sugarbirds during the six-month season reflect increases in numbers of territorial birds and inflorescences at mid... -
The factors affecting functionality and sustainability of mechanized elements of water supply systems in Mbeere South Sub-County, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Job Kitetu --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya Kinyua Ngige --- Clean Air Energy Solutions, KenyaThis paper focuses on the functionality and sustainability of mechanized elements of water supply systems. Despite the huge sums of money spent by development agencies in developing water supply systems, once the projects are handed over to communities they start... -
Heparin flush vs. saline flush for use in the maintenance of adult central venous and intra-arterial catheters: potential harm, too little gain?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: GD Nethathe --- Intensive Care Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, South Africa M Mbeki --- Department of Anaesthesia, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South AfricaHeparin saline use for the maintenance of invasive arterial and central lines may be associated with significant risks and has not been conclusively shown to confer additional benefits over saline flushing alone. The routine use of heparin saline flush instead... -
Multi-criteria performance evaluation of an airline maintenance programme – A case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kazeem A Adebiyi --- Mechanical Engineering Department, Nigeria Olasunkanmi O Akinyemi --- Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering Department, Nigeria Egunleti O Adeleye --- Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering Department, NigeriaIt has always been a concern to most airline operators why their aircraft are on the ground despite all the resources being incurred on maintenance. It is the main goal of this study to evaluate the performance of an airline... -
The Pareto principle and a hazard model as tools for appropriate scheduled maintenance in a manufacturing firm
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Johnson A. Fadeyi --- Industrial and Systems Engineering, USA Modestus O. Okwu --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nigeria Chinedum O. Mgbemena --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nigeria Kingsley C. Ezekiel --- Department of Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management, School of Mechanical, United KingdomThis study relates to a manufacturing firm that produces sanitary towels in Nigeria. The firm was confronted with operational challenge of high production downtime occasioned by frequent breakdown of the subsystems of the production system. This situation thus threatened its... -
A machine survival time-based maintenance workforce allocation model for production systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: D.E. Ighravwe --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nigeria S.A. Oke --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, NigeriaToday’s maintenance workforce operates in a complex business environment and relies on metrics that indirectly link equipment breakdown, fluctuating production rate, demand uncertainties and fluctuating raw material requirements. This has triggered a change in the scope as well as the... -
Operation and maintenance of back-up photovoltaic systems: An analysis based on a field study in Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kodji Deli --- Department of Renewable Energy, Higher Institute of the Sahel, Cameroon Etienne Tchoffo Houdji --- Department of Renewable Energy, Higher Institute of the Sahel, Cameroon Noel Djongyang --- Department of Renewable Energy, Higher Institute of the Sahel, Cameroon Donatien Njomo --- Environmental Energy Technologies Laboratory (EETL), Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, CameroonThis work is an analysis of the data collected from 20 photovoltaic installations all over Cameroon. The objectives are to study the causes of the breakdown of the different installations and propose maintenance strategies to solve them and to evaluate... -
A STEEP-cum-SWOT approach for maintenance strategy evaluation for an off-grid PV-powered street lighting system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe --- , Nigeria Moses Olubayo Babatunde --- , Nigeria Iheanacho Henry Denwigwe --- , Nigeria Daniel Osezua Aikhuele --- , NigeriaRecently, the installation of street light systems in remote communities has experienced significant improvement. This improvement has a direct relationship with the innovations in off-grid standalone energy sources. However, there exists sparse information on standalone PV-powered street light system maintenance... -
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. -
Hotel facilities’ management practices and employee performance in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Simon O Were --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya Vincent N Maranga --- Kenyatta University, KenyaThis study investigated the efficacy of hotel facilities’ management practices on employee performance. A descriptive research survey was applied, while the study area was Nairobi County. The sampling techniques applied were a census, stratified, purposive and simple random sampling which... -
Ethnic community languages in contemporary social media advertisements in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Emmanuel Ilonga --- Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), TanzaniaA speech community’s expectation is to see its language develop. However, such an imaginative prospect may not materialise due to the asymmetrical power dynamics between influential and less influential speech communities. Consequently, less influential societies are forced to depend on...