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An Evaluation of the Use of “Gentan” Probabilities in Forestry Planning
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: JohnH. Randall --- Department of Biometry, South Africa Klaus von Gadow --- Department of Forest Science, South AfricaAn evaluation of Suzuki's concept of Gentan probabilities is presented. Model fitting is discussed in some detail. It is shown that the Gentan method is suitable only for forests that are at least close to normality. -
Site Evaluation in Black Wattle with Special Reference to Soil Factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: A. P.G. Schönau --- Silviculture Section, Institute for Commercial Forestry Research, South Africa W. J.K. Aldworth --- Silviculture Section, Institute for Commercial Forestry Research, South AfricaTogether with climate, soil characteristics are the most important factors affecting tree growth. However, the attempts in many site evaluation studies to establish a direct relationship between soil factors and tree growth have not been very successful, the exception being... -
Droë massaproduksie van vyf eenjarige Medicago‐genotipes in die sentrale oranje‐vrystaat, soos beinvloed deur planttyd
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: L. Viljoen --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), V.D. Wassermann --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), H.J. Fouché --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), P.A. Human --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek),Bogrondse droë massa‐opbrengste (DM) van Medicago truncatula, cvv. Cyprus en Jemalong, M. aculeata var. inermis, cv. SA 4438, M. orbicularis, cv. SA 2552 en M. rugosa, cv. Paragosa wat op ses verskillende datums gevestig is, is in ‘n veldproef onder... -
Long term nitrogen and phosphorus application to veld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: C.H. Donaldson --- , G. Rootman --- , D. Grossman --- Department of Agriculture,The long term effects of a 5N x 3P factorial fertilizer application trial on hay yields, botanical composition and soil properties of veld are presented. Significant increases in hay yields were recorded during most years. There was a strong correlation... -
‘n Studie van ruproteïeninhoud en verteerbaarheid van vyf eenjarige medicago‐genotipes in die sentrale oranje‐vrystaat
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: L. Viljoen --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), V.D. Wassermann --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), H.J. Fouché --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek), P.A. Human --- Departement van Landbou (Vrystaatstreek),Die bogrondse groei van Medicago truncatula, cvv. Cyprus en Jemalong, M. aculeata var. inermis, cv. SA 4438, M. orbicularis, pv. SA 2552 en M. rugosa, cv. Paragosa, afkomstig van ‘n besproeide veldproef, is vir ruproteïen en vir in vitro‐ verteerbaarheid... -
Ordination of land types in the karoo region into reasonably homogeneous farming areas based on vegetation and environmental factors1
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: M. Vorster --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply (Karoo Region), H.R. Becker --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply (Karoo Region), J.S. Greyling --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply (Karoo Region), O.J.H. Bosch --- Department of Botany,The 291 preliminary land types in the Karoo Region formed the basis for the demarcation of the 144 Reasonably Homogeneous Farming Areas (RHFAs). The land types were firstly reduced to 23 Floristic Climatic Regions (FCRs) according to character species for... -
The effect of seeding rate and weed control on the establishment of Rhodes grass in the Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: R. A. Ingpen --- , C. J. G. LeRoux --- , T. Daines --- , E. Oosthuysen --- ,The effect of four seeding rates (3; 6; 12 and 24 kg/ha), four methods of weed control (nil, mowing, 4 l/ha of 2,4‐D amine and hand weeding) and two times of cutting (late boot stage and end of season) on... -
Variation in important pasture grasses. II. Cytogenetic and reproductive variation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: J.J. Spies --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, G.E. Gibbs Russell --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply,The chromosome numbers and reproductive variation of seven important pasture grasses from South Africa are compared. This comparison indicates that all these species form polyploid complexes, all reproduce both sexually and either apomictically or vegetatively, and some form of hybridization... -
The effect of fire on germination in five common veld grasses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: P.J.K. Zacharias --- Department of Grassland Science, N.M. Tainton --- Department of Grassland Science, C. Oberholster --- Department of Grassland Science,The effect of fire on the germination of Themeda triandra, Heteropogon contortus, Panicum maximum, Aristida junciformis and Spowbolus africanus was investigated. Seeds exposed directly to the fire were destroyed in all species. The germination of seeds buried (7 to 9... -
Climatic and edaphic conditions at eragrostis lehmanniana nees sites in Arizona, USA and the cape province, RSA and potential seeding sites in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: JerryR. Cox --- U.S. Department of Agriculture, USA J.L. Stroehlein --- Soil and Water Department, USA J.H. Fourie --- , Republic of South AfricaClimatic and edaphic conditions at Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees sites in southeastern Arizona, USA were compared with those in the Cape Province, RSA to determine a range of conditions under which the species might be expected to establish and persist in... -
Floristiese verskille tussen ekotope in die Potchefstroom distrik1
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: AnnelieS. de Beer --- Departement Landbou en Watervoorsiening, Republiek van Suid‐Afrika G.K. Theron --- Departement Plantkunde, Republiek van Suid‐Afrika G.J. Bredenkamp --- Departement Plantkunde, Republiek van Suid‐AfrikaFloristic differences between eeotopes in the Potchefstroom area. Eeotopes are generally used, in the Highveld Region, as a basis for the division of camps when planning a farm. The possible floristic differences which support this ecological approach, as well as... -
Evaluation of three techniques for measuring grass leaf area1
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: C.W. Daphne --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa P.J.K. Zacharias --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa A.C. Hansen --- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Republic of South AfricaThree leaf area measuring techniques were compared. Although statistical considerations received priority, practical issues such as economy of time, labour and finance, were also evaluated. The electronic light interception planimeter and the squared grid method (SGM) are already in common... -
The value of subtropical grass pastures for use as foggage on the eastern Transvaal Highveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: N.F.G. Rethman --- , Republic of South Africa C.C. de Witt --- , Republic of South AfricaThe utilization of frosted herbage of Pennisetwn clandestinwn, Paspalum notation, Digitaria eriantha, Cynodon sp. and Chloris gayana by Merino wethers during the winter confirmed the potential of this practice as an alternative winter feeding strategy under Highveld conditions. P. clandestinwn... -
Remote sensing applications for monitoring rangeland vegetation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: P.T. Tueller --- Department of Range, Wildlife and Forestry, United States of AmericaRemote sensing techniques hold considerable promise for the inventory and monitoring of natural resources on range‐lands. A significant lack of information concerning basic spectral characteristics of range vegetation and soils has resulted in a lack of rangeland applications. To use... -
A comparison of continuous and rotational grazing on veld at two stocking rates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: D.L. Barnes --- Department of Agricultural Development (Transvaal Region), Republic of South Africa R.P. Denny --- , Republic of South AfricaTwo rotational grazing procedures, a four‐paddock system with a 10‐day period of stay and an eight‐paddock system with a 5‐day period of stay, were compared with continuous grazing on veld. The trial was conducted 40 km south of Bulawayo in... -
Soil factors affecting tree growth and root development in a citrus orchard
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: D.J. Nel --- , A. T.P. Bennie --- ,Tree- and root-growth parameters correlated well with a number of soil properties Useful relationships were established between unconfined penetrometer resistance, air capacity (at FWC), tree growth and root development. -
Intercropping of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and sugar-cane: The effect of inter-specific competition on the growth of plant cane
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M. F.A. Leclezio --- Department of Crop Science, J.D. Lea --- Department of Crop Science, P.K. Moberly --- ,The competitive effects of intercropped beans (maturation period: three months) on the growth, tiller development and yield of plant sugar-cane (maturation period: 18 months) in the subhumid coast-hinterland of Natal were investigated over two seasons. In the first season rainfall... -
Genotypic tolerance of selected dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivar s to soluble Al and to acid, low P soil conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A.D. Noble --- Department of Crop Science, J.D. Lea --- Department of Crop Science, M.V. Fey --- Department of Soil Science and Agrometeorology,Twelve dry bean cultivare were grown for seven days on filter paper soaked with nutrient solution containing a range of up to 10 mmol Al dm−3. Differential response to Al toxicity, measured as taproot elongation, occurred at Al concentrations of... -
Risk analysis of wheat production in the central Orange Free State using a growth model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A. Singels --- Department of Agrometeorology, Republic of South Africa J.M. de Jager --- Department of Agrometeorology, Republic of South AfricaA wheat crop growth model (Singels, 1983) was refined and used to calculate annual grain yield from weather data for 45 seasons in the Bloemfontein area. Five different levels of profile-available water capacity were used as soil input parameter. Other... -
Watervlakke in sekere gronde van die Noordwestelike Oranje-Vrystaat
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J. A.G. Henning --- , Republiek van Suid-Afrika D.J. Nel --- Departement Bodemkunde, P.U. vir C.H.O., Republiek van Suid-AfrikaDie akkumulasie van vrywater in sekere gronde in die Noordwestelike Oranje-Vrystaat word geassosieer met verskillende tipes stadig-deurlaatbare lae (keerlae). Voorlopige ondersoeke het aangetoon dat die langtermyn-storing van water verskil tussen twee tipes keerlaag, naamlik 'n kleilaag en 'n harde plintiese... -
Invloed van nitraat:ammoniumverhoudings op die ontwikkeling van Zea mays L.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: F.G. Adriaanse --- , Republiek van Suid-Afrika J.J. Human --- Departement Agronomie en Hortologie, Republiek van Suid-AfrikaDie invloed van drie nitraat:ammoniumverhoudings by twee stikstofkonsentrasies op planteienskappe is met blomtyd en na fisiologiese volwassenheid vir suiwerlyne gemeet. 'n Kwartssandkultuur is as groeimedium in 'n glashuis gebruik. Toenemende NH4 +-verhoudings het planthoogtes, blaaroppervlaktes en droëmateriaalproduksie van verskillende plantkomponente... -
Abnormalities of the growth point and ear of barley caused by 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.W. Loubser --- Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Republic of South Africa A. L.P. Cairns --- , Republic of South AfricaTreatment of barley plants with 2,4-D, when the main tiller apical meristem was in the late vegetative or double ridge stage, resulted in the production of various abnormalities including missing spikes, branched spikes, whorls of spikelets and paired spikelets instead... -
Evaluating different wheat production strategies for the Orange Free State using stochastic dominance techniques and a crop growth model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A. Singels --- Department of Agrometeorology, Republic of South Africa J.M. de Jager --- Department of Agrometeorology, Republic of South AfricaA wheat crop growth model and stochastic dominance techniques were used to evaluate several wheat production strategies for the Orange Free State. Fifty seasonal grain yields and corresponding gross margins were calculated from daily weather data and soil data for... -
Residual effect of atrazine on field-grown dry beans and sunflower
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: C.F. Reinhardt --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Republic of South AfricaThe applicability of fixed recropping intervals for crops that are sensitive to atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-striazine) was assessed. Atrazine carry-over was monitored 12 and 24 months after its application at six different rates to maize (Zea mays L.) grown in eight trials... -
Genotype × environment interaction and principal factor analysis of seed characteristics related to canning quality of small white beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A.F. de Lange --- Department of Plant Breeding, Republic of South Africa M.T. Labuschagne --- Department of Plant Breeding, Republic of South AfricaAnalysis of variance, correlation analysis and principal factor analysis were applied to data for 23 sensory and physico-chemical traits measured on five cultivars of small white canning beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) planted at five localities in the 1995–96 season. Trait... -
Yield components of samples of two wild Mexican common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) populations grown under cultivation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.S. Bayuelo-Jiménez --- Botánica, Instituto de Recursos Naturales, México C.B. Peña-Valdivia --- Botánica, Instituto de Recursos Naturales, México J. Rogelio Aguirre R. --- Instituto de Investigación en Zonas Desérticas, México.The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an annual crop legume with wild ancestors distributed from Mexico to northern Argentina. In Mexico, wild populations occur throughout this physiographically and climatically diverse country. Such a wide distribution of common bean populations... -
Sources of variation in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars of the Western and Southern Cape. I. Milling and dough development characteristics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.M. Nel --- Department of Agronomy and Pastures, Republic of South Africa G.A. Agenbag --- Department of Agronomy and Pastures, Republic of South Africa J.L. Purchase --- , Republic of South AfricaApproximately 90% of the annual wheat crop produced in the Republic of South Africa is milled into flour for bread-baking purposes. The percentage of flour extracted, as well as the dough development properties, determine the milling and dough mixing characteristics... -
Sources of variation in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars of the Western and Southern Cape. II. Baking characteristics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.M. Nel --- Department of Agronomy and Pastures, Republic of South Africa G.A. Agenbag --- Department of Agronomy and Pastures, Republic of South Africa J.L. Purchase --- , Republic of South AfricaProtein content and quality determine flour quality, as well as the success of bread-baking. The stability of wheat quality characteristics is of great importance to the milling and baking industry, who have to produce an end product of acceptable and... -
Resistance of little seeded canary grass (Phalaris minor Retz.) to ACC-ase inhibitors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.J. Smit --- , Republic of South Africa A. L.P. Cairns --- Department of Agronomy, Republic of South AfricaSince 1996, several incidents of poor weed control regarding little seeded canary grass (Phalaris minor Retz.) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production have been reported from the Western Cape. Little seeded canary grass showed indications of resistance towards ACC-ase inhibitors... -
A drought assessment model for Karoo rangeland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.C. Venter --- , Republic of South AfricaThe KAROO drought assessment model simplifies veld growth responses to rainfall variability by simulation of the growth and dieback of a hypothetical plant species. Soil water content is treated as a simple weighting factor which determines the plant's growth rate... -
Effect of leaf-section position and physiological stage of the donor plant on Lachenalia leaf-cutting performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A.M. Ndou --- , South Africa J.G. Niederwieser --- , South Africa P.J. Robbertse --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, South AfricaThe effect of leaf-section position and physiological stage of the donor plant on leaf cutting performance was determined on three Lachenalia cultivars, viz ‘Romelia’, ‘Rupert’ and ‘Robyn’. Performance was evaluated in terms of leaf cutting survival, number of bulblets formed,... -
Development and validation of relationships between sunflower seed quality and easily measurable seed characteristics for grading purposes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: A.A. Nel --- , Republic of South Africa H.L. Loubser --- , Republic of South Africa P.S. Hammes --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Republic of South AfricaSunflower seed delivered by farmers is usually traded without taking seed quality into account, owing to the lack of a quick and inexpensive method for quality assessment at delivery points. Seed quality parameters (oil content, protein content, hullability and amount... -
Inheritance of resistance to Uromyces appendiculatus in the South African dry bean cultivar Kranskop
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.M. Liebenberg --- , South Africa Z.A. Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South AfricaThe inheritance of resistance to race RSA-Ua7 of the rust pathogen Uromyces appendiculatus in the South African dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) cultivar Kranskop, as well as the relationship of rust resistance between Kranskop and the international rust differential cultivars Redlands... -
Breeding for rust resistance increases dry bean productivity in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.M. Liebenberg --- , South Africa A.J. Liebenberg --- , South Africa Z.A. Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South AfricaInfection of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by rust, caused by Uromyces appendiculatus Pers.: Pers. (Unger), results in regular yield and quality losses in South Africa. The growing of resistant varieties is generally considered the most cost effective control measure... -
A settling tower for quantitative deposition of urediniospores of Uromyces viciae-fabae
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: T. Negussie --- Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centre, Ethiopia Z.A. Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South AfricaAn inoculation technique resulting in uniform spore deposition for obtaining reproducible and accurate data on host responses is required for quantitative studies of resistance expression. The feasibility of obtaining uniform spore deposition on Lens culinaris, a plant with compound leaves,... -
Evaluation of soilless production systems for small scale production of two Amaranthus species and Swiss chard, Beta vulgaris
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.M. Sedibe --- Dept. of Agronomy, RSA N. J.J. Combrink --- Dept. of Agronomy, RSA E.Y. Reinten --- , South AfricaTo improve the diet of rural families, small scale production of leafy vegetables, as a source of vitamin A and other nutrients should be encouraged. In this study, conducted under controlled environmental conditions (day temperatures in the greenhouse varied between... -
Variation of agronomic traits of potato somaclones produced by meristem culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Viive Rosenberg --- Plant Biotechnological Research Centre EVIKA Saku, Estonia Marje Särekanno --- Plant Biotechnological Research Centre EVIKA Saku, Estonia Katrin Kotkas --- Plant Biotechnological Research Centre EVIKA Saku, Estonia Virge Vasar --- Plant Biotechnological Research Centre EVIKA Saku, Estonia Ann Ojarand --- Plant Biotechnological Research Centre EVIKA Saku, EstoniaFollowing a thermotherapy virus eradication procedure potato plantlets were multiplied as meristem clones in vitro. The agronomic traits of meristem clones were compared in field trials over three years. A total of 16 meristem clones of cultivar Agric dzeltenie and... -
Yield loss of lentil caused by Uromyces viciae-fabae
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: T.G. Negussie --- , Ethiopia Z.A. Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South AfricaYield loss in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) due to rust (Uromyces viciae-fabae [Pers.] J. Schröt) was determined by assessing crop and disease parameters at different growth stages and leaf canopy layers in field epidemics at Akaki, Ethiopia. The epidemics were... -
Frodo and Darius: South African potato cultivars with good processing quality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J.M. Steyn --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, South Africa E.B. Geremew --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, South Africa J.G. Annandale --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, South Africa P.J. Steyn --- , South AfricaTwo newly released South African potato cultivars, Frodo and Darius, were compared with two foreign processing cultivars, Pentland Dell and Shepody. The cultivars were grown under sprinkler irrigation and evaluated for external and internal tuber characteristics and processing quality. The... -
The effect of the adjuvant, Break-Thru S240, on whorl penetration and efficacy of foliar insecticide applications against Chilo partellus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: O. Slabbert --- , South Africa J. Van den Berg --- , South AfricaInsecticide sprays registered for the control of maize stem borers are all intended for whorl application. Chemical control of these pests is complicated by their cryptic feeding habit inside plant whorls. The aim of this study was to investigate whether... -
Hypersensitivity of rust resistance in lentil
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: TG Negussie --- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia CM Bender --- Department of Plant Sciences, South Africa PWJ van Wyk --- Centre for Microscopy, South Africa ZA Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South AfricaCharacterising resistance at different levels of expression is important in understanding host defence mechanisms and the improvement of durable disease resistance in crop plants. Histological reactions of the lentil cultivars EL-142 (susceptible) and Gudo (resistant) to infection by Uromyces viciae-fabae,... -
Control measures for the encroacher shrub Seriphium plumosum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: HA Snyman --- Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, South AfricaSeriphium plumosum encroachment in South Africa has converted extensive areas of grassland into less productive shrubland–grassland, but its control is not being seriously addressed at present. Therefore, the short-term response of S. plumosum to different applications of nitrogen (N), phosphate... -
Effect of shallow tillage and straw mulching on soil water conservation and grapevine response
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Philip A Myburgh --- ARC–Infruitec/Nietvoorbij, South AfricaEffects of shallow tillage and straw mulch thickness on water conservation and grapevine responses were compared to bare, untilled soil in a Sauvignon blanc/99R vineyard near Stellenbosch from 1995 to 1997. Shallow tillage to a depth of 6 cm did... -
Identification and classification of vertical chlorophyll patterns in the Benguela upwelling system and Angola-Benguela front using an artificial neural network
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: N. F. Silulwane A. J. Richardson F. A. Shillington B. A. Mitchell-InnesInformation on the vertical chlorophyll structure in the ocean is important for estimating integrated chlorophyll a and primary production from satellite. For this study, vertical chlorophyll profiles from the Benguela upwelling system and the Angola-Benguela front were collected in winter... -
Entanglement of pinnipeds at Marion Island
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: G. J. G. Hofmeyr M. N. BesterDuring the period April 1991–March 1996, 10 entangled Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella, 28 entangled Subantarctic fur seals A. tropicalis and one entangled southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina were observed at Marion Island, Southern Ocean. Entanglement of fur seals was... -
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... -
Population dynamics and potential yield of three species of giant winkles in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A. Pulfrich T. A. BranchOf the southern African intertidal and shallow subtidal trochid and turbinid gastropods, Turbo sarmaticus, T. cidaris and Oxystele sinensis, are the most abundant large species, and therefore obvious targets for a winkle fishery. T. sarmaticus is harvested by recreational snorkel... -
OBSERVATIONS ON THE THREE ALLOPATRIC POPULATIONS OF THE MALUTI MINNOW,
OREODAIMON QUATHLAMBAE (BARNARD) WITH NOTES ON ITS EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY, SPAWNING, AND CONSERVATIONItem type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: S.R. Gephard --- , LesothoMeristics and pigmentation of specimens of Oreodaimon quathlambae from the three known populations were compared to determine whether the species has experienced divergent evolution. Pigmentation was found to vary substantially but meristics counts did not. A proposal is made-to recognise... -
A LIMNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF LAKE LIAMBEZI, CAPRIVI
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: M.T. Seaman --- , South Africa W.E. Scott --- , South Africa R.D. Walmsley --- , South Africa B. C.W. van der Waal --- , South Africa D.F. Toerien --- , South AfricaA general investigation was carried out on Lake Liambezi to characterize the limnological features of the lake. The lake, 101 km2 in area and situated within the tropics, was found to be shallow and bordered by reed swamps, particularly on... -
AGE, GROWTH, REPRODUCTION AND MORTALITY OF THE BUTTER-CATFISH EUTROPIUS DEPRESSIROSTRIS (SCHILBEIDAE: PISCES) IN THE LUPHEPHE NWANEDZI IMPOUNDHENT, VENDA (SOUTH AFRICA)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: T. Hecht --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaAspects of the biology of Eutropius depressirostris in the Luphephe-Nwanedzi impoundment in north-east Venda (South Africa 30° 25' E, 23° 14' S) have been investigated. The Von Bertalanffy equation -
THE ENERGY BASE OF AQUATIC SYSTEMS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: B.R. Allanson --- Institute for Freshwater Studies, Department of Zoology, and Entomology, South AfricaThe energy base of reservoirs and lakes is examined. There is considerable variation in specific productivity and photosynthetic capacity depending on trophic condition and whether algae or suspensoids reduced transparency. While limnetic production is important in freshwater, it is not... -
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIGERFISH AND SARDINES IN LAKE KARIBA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: B.E. Marshall --- Department of Biological Sciences, ZimbabweThere was a clear relationship in Lake Kariba between the abundance of young-of-the-year (0+) tigerfish and the sardines on which they prey. The abundant sardine population that existed before commercial fishing began accounted for the increase in tiger-fish which occurred... -
CATCH AND EFFORT IN THE LAKE KARIBA SARDINE FISHERY
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: B.E. Marshall --- Department of Biological Sciences, ZimbabweThe fishery for Limnothrissa on Lake Kariba, which produced nearly 25 000 t in 1985, is backed by a comprehensive statistical system which increases the chance of using catch and effort models to manage it. The way in which effort... -
ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATES OF PLANT SPECIES DISTRIBUTION ON THE NYL RIVER FLOODPLAIN
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: M. A.S. Coetzee --- Botany Department, South Africa K.H. Rogers --- Botany Department, South AfricaThe envisaged construction of a dam on a major tributary of the Nyl River will alter the hydrological regime with consequent effects on the structure and functioning of the downstream floodplain ecosystem (Nylsvley). Attempts to minimise this impact will be... -
A CHARACTERIZATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN ESTUARINE SYSTEMS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: A.K. Whitfield --- , South AfricaModifications to the structure and functioning of southern African estuarine systems can be placed into two major categories; those changes that have been driven by global forces such as climatic and sea-level fluctuations, and those that have resulted from direct... -
DIET AND REPRODUCTIVE ACTIVITY OF THE ESTUARINE ROUNDHERRING GILCHRISTELLA AESTUARIA IN CUBHU, A FRESHWATER COASTAL LAKE IN NORTHERN NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: D.P. Cyrus --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa E.C. Wellmann --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa T.J. Martin --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South AfricaA study of the diet and reproductive activity of Gilchristella aestuaria revealed that active gonads were present throughout the year. The main breeding season appeared to be from spring through to autumn with two distinct peaks occurring from August to... -
GOBIID FISHES OF THE GENUS GLOSSOGOBIUS IN THE LIMPOPO SYSTEM: A FIRST RECORD AND A RANGE EXTENSION OF G. CALLIDUS (SMITH, 1937)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: P.H. Greenwood --- , South AfricaRecently, a specimen of Glossogobius callidus was collected in the Marico Oog, a major source of the Limpopo River in the western Transvaal. This locality is some 1500 km from the river mouth. Earlier taxonomic confusion of Glossogobius giuris and... -
MANAGING THE ST. LUCIA ESTUARY—MESSAGES FROM THE MUD
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: R. K. Owen --- , , South Africa A. T. Forbes --- , , South AfricaThe infaunal macrobenthic community of the St Lucia estuary has been exposed to natural disturbance in the form of salinity fluctuations arising from floods and hypersaline conditions, and human-induced interference arising from dredging and beam trawling. The responses of the... -
A REVIEW OF THE MACROBENTHIC FAUNA OF THE MHLATHUZE ESTUARY: SETTING THE ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: C. F. Mackay --- , , South Africa D. P. Cyrus --- , , South AfricaThis paper reviews historical and current ecological information on macrobenthos from the Mhlathuze Estuary before and after development of the Richards Bay Harbour. The fauna is described in terms of the potential influence of a change in freshwater inflow to... -
Monitoring to detect change on rangelands: physical, social and economic/policy drivers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: J.R. Brown K.M. HavstadAgents that can cause important changes in properties of biological communities are referred to as drivers. Drivers may be classed as physical, social and economic/policy, referring to their origin and mode of action. Physical drivers include environmental (weather, climate) and... -
Retraction and expansion of flock mobility in Central Asia: costs and consequences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Carol Kerven Ilya Ilych Alimaev Roy Behnke Grant Davidson Leen Franchois Nurlan Malmakov Erik Mathijs Aidos Smailov Sayat Temirbekov Iain WrightSeasonal and spatial fluctuations in forage quality, accessibility and output provide strong incentives for migratory stock keeping in Central Asia. Over the past century, mobile livestock husbandry has either been suppressed or collapsed and a fragmented pattern of rangeland use... -
The logistic model-generated carrying capacities, maximum sustained off-take rates and optimal stocking rates for Kenya's commercial ranches
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: JT Njoka PID KinyuaThis paper deals with the derivation of logistic models for cattle, sheep and goats in a commercial ranching system in Machakos District, Kenya, a savannah ecosystem with average annual rainfall of 589.3 ± 159.3mm and an area of 10 117ha... -
Dry matter yield and water use efficiency of five perennial subtropical grasses at four levels of water availability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: D Marais N Rethman J AnnandaleThe effect of four levels of water availability on the yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of five subtropical perennial grasses was evaluated in a small plot trial under a rain shelter. The soil profiles were brought to 100% (W4... -
Allelopathic potential, seed ecology and germination of the encroacher shrub Seriphium plumosum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: HA Snyman --- Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, South AfricaSeriphium plumosum encroachment in South Africa has converted extensive areas of grassland into less productive shrubland-grassland. In addition to its competitive ability, it is hypothesised that the encroachment of S. plumosum is linked to the allelopathic potential of the plant... -
Defoliation patterns of three grass species in sourveld grazed by cattle and sheep
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: M.B. Hardy --- , Republic of South Africa N.M. Tainton --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa C.D. Morris --- , Republic of South AfricaA point‐based technique was used to determine the effects of grazing, due to stocking rate and cattle‐to‐sheep ratio, on the defoliation pattern of three grass species. At each of 100 systematically located points per grazing treatment the nearest plant of... -
An evaluation of dryland legume and legume‐grass pastures based on lucerne and red clover, with sheep, using a put‐and‐take system in the outeniqua area of the Southern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: J.M. van Heerden --- Department of Agriculture, Republic of South Africa P.R. Botha --- Department of Agriculture, Republic of South AfricaThe production of a pure lucerne (Medicago sativa) pasture, two lucerne‐grass pastures and two red clover (Trifolium pratense)‐grass pastures was compared at two grazing pressures (3.5 and 4.0 kg DM per small stock unit d‐1) in the Outeniqua area, using... -
The influence of stocking rate, range condition and rainfall on residual herbage mass in the semiarid savanna of KwaZulu/Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: G.P. Hatch --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa N.M. Tainton --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South AfricaGrazing trials at two sites in the semiarid savanna of KwaZulu‐Natal were stocked with cattle at light (0.17 LSU ha‐1), intermediate (0.23 LSU ha‐1) and heavy (0.30 LSU ha‐1) stocking. Pasture disc meter data collected over 116 three‐week periods were... -
Long‐term effects of different rotational grazing schedules on the productivity and floristic composition of Tall Grassveld in KwaZulu‐Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: C.D. Morris --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa N.M. Tainton --- Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South AfricaNine simulated rotational grazing systems, comprising combinations of three different periods of occupation (2, 10 and 20 days) and three periods of absence (20, 40 and 60 days), were applied to Tall Grassveld for 24 years (1967–1991), using sheep. All... -
Short-term response of the encroacher shrub Seriphium plumosum to fire
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: HA Snyman --- Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, South AfricaQuantification of the short-term impact of burning in terms of the encroacher shrub Seriphium plumosum and grass tuft mortality, seed germination of the shrub (field and seed bank), aboveground phytomass production, plant density and basal cover of the grass sward... -
Host plants of Osyris lanceolata (African Sandalwood) and their influence on its early growth performance in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: P.L. Mwang'ingo Z. Teklehaimanot L.L. Lulandala S.T. MwihomekeIdentification of the host plants of the hemi-parasitic African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) and the influence of some on its early growth performance was investigated at Image, Nundu, Sao Hill and Iringa in the southern highlands of Tanzania. The aim was... -
Propagating Osyris lanceolata (African sandalwood) through air layering: Its potential and limitation in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: P.L. Mwang'ingo Z. Teklehaimanot L.L. Lulandala S.M. MaliondoPropagation of African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) by air layering (marcotting) was investigated at Sao Hill, Tanzania, aiming at providing an alternative propagation technique to the use of seeds or cuttings that germinate or root poorly. Air layers were initiated on... -
A root-bound index for evaluating planting stock quality of container-grown pines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: D.B. South R. G. MitchellPot-binding can adversely affect the performance of container-grown stock. One factor that affects pot-binding is the size of the root system in relation to the size of the container. The aim of this study was to determine if an objective... -
Growth modelling of Pinus roxburghii in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: E.R. Falkenhagen --- , South AfricaThe growth in diameter at breast height, height and tree volume and plot density were studied in an unreplicated spacing trial of Pinus roxburghii at Weza, South Africa. -
Optimising Nursery Operation Schedules with Multiperiod Linear Programming
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: RudolfJanse van Rensburg --- Department of Forest Science, South Africa BrianV. Bredenkamp --- Department of Forest Science, South AfricaA dynamic multiperiod linear programming model which addresses nursery scheduling is presented. Due to its dynamic nature, it provides a means to manage risks and uncertainties such as disease, rootstrike, germination and fluctuating demands. By optimising the whole production process,... -
Actuarial Criminology: Meeting Current Challenges in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- University of South Africa, Anastasios Ladikos --- University of South Africa,South African prisons were overcrowded by more than sixty-three percent in 2005. Overcrowding and poor prison conditions have enormous implications for rehabilitation efforts made by the South African Department of Correctional Services. The South African White Paper on Corrections (2005)... -
Still Photography Provides Data for Community-Based Initiatives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences, Loni Baadjies Ashley van Niekerk Thoko MdakaWe use community psychology's accent on methodological pluralism and giving voice to the marginalised as a platform to critically examine the utility and outcome of photography as a data collection and community engagement method. Accordingly we focus on two community... -
Exploring the Application of Actuarial Criminology in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- University of South Africa, Anastasios Ladikos --- University of South Africa,In response to the declared intent of the White Paper on Corrections (Department of Corrections, 2005) to transform prisons into needs-based centers of reform, the Self-appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) was used to explore its potential as a reliable and valid prediction... -
Relationships among Leisure, Social Self-Image, Peer Pressure and At-Risk Behaviours of Adolescents in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Alfred A. Adegoke --- University of Ilorin, Nigeria Christiana A. Ayoade --- University of Ilorin, NigeriaThis study investigated the relationships among leisure, social self image, peer pressure and at-risk behaviours of adolescents in Nigeria. It also examined the moderating roles of gender, age, and locale and school type on measured relationships. A total of 1,141... -
The Role of Schools in Building the Resilience of Youth Faced with Adversity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bridget Johnson --- University of Western Cape, South Africa Sandy Lazarus --- University of Western Cape, South AfricaThis study explored factors related to risk, resilience and health amongst South African teenagers. Grade nine students (N = 472; males = 210, females = 262, age range = 12 to 18 years) at seven schools in the Western Cape... -
Dimensions of Social Well-Being in a Motor Manufacturing Organisation in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melanie de Jager --- University of South Africa, Sanet Coetzee --- University of South Africa, Deléne Visser --- University of South Africa,The study examined the psychometric properties of the 15-item version of the Social Well-being Scale (SWBS-15: Keyes, 1998) for a South African sample with diversity in culture. The SWBS-15 and a biographical questionnaire were administered to employees in a motor... -
Bullying at Rural High Schools in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: Prevalence, and Risk and Protective Factors at School and in the Family
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: L. Nomfundo Mlisa --- University of Fort Hare, South Africa Catherine L. Ward --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Alan J. Flisher --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Carl J. Lombard --- Medical Research Council, South AfricaThis study examined bullying and risk and protective factors in school and family domains, in a sample of 1,565 Grade 11 students in 41 high schools in two rural school districts in South Africa. The questionnaire included two questions to... -
The Value of Social Representations Theory in Understanding Perceptions Regarding HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lynlee Howard-Paynea --- University of the Witwatersrand, Peace Kiguwa --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study investigated the extent to which individuals experience ideologic strain from identifying with members in their in-group and its shared representation of HIV. 200 students from a large South African University completed a HIV Knowledge, Perceptions & Practices survey... -
Perceptions of High-risk Sex Among Men and Women Attending an STI Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kelvin Mwaba --- University of the Western Cape, Leickness C. Simbayi --- Human Sciences Research Council, Seth C. Kalichman --- University of Connecticut,The widespread occurrence of sexually transmitted infections (STI's) among young adults in South Africa suggests that there is a need to increase safe sex practices among those who are sexually active. Given the high rate of HIV infection in the... -
Screening and Brief Advice for Risky Substance Users among Charismatic and Main Stream Churches in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council & University of the Free State,The aim of the study was to investigate screening and brief advice for risky substance users among charismatic and main stream churches in South Africa. The sample included 117 clergy (63 from charismatic and 54 from mainstream churches) chosen randomly... -
A Prospective Model for HIV and AIDS Prevention in an African Setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Clvin Gwandure --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Thokozile Mayekiso --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Diane Elkonin --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South AfricaThe study conceptualizes locus of control as a behavioural mechanism for HIV and AIDS prevention. The locus of control variables that could build the model are: social systems control, self-control, fatalism, achievement-oriented behaviour, willingness to delay gratification, personal values and... -
Self-reported Diabetes Prevalence and Risk factors in South Africa: Results from the World Health Survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaUsing the data from the South African World Health Survey (WHS), the current study aims to assess the self-reported prevalence of diabetes and associated risk factors by socio-economic characteristics in South Africa. A population-based survey of 2314 participants (1116 men... -
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Risk among Women in Primary Health Care Delivery Services in a South African Setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council University of Free State, South Africa Adlai Davids --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThe aim of the study is to investigate intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV risk among antenatal care attendees at primary care health care facilities in a South African setting. A convenient sample of 984 pregnant women (mean age of... -
Lay Counsellor-Based Risk Reduction Intervention with HIV Negative Diagnosed Patients at HIV Counselling and Testing Sites in a Rural South African Setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa Cily Tabane --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Gladys Matseke --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Leickness Simbayi --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThe study evaluated the feasibility, fidelity, and effectiveness of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention delivered to HIV-uninfected patients by lay counsellors during routine HIV counselling and testing (HCT) service in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Participants were 543 HIV negative... -
Sexual Behaviour of High School Students in Two Rural South African Communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lauren G. Wild --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Alan J. Flisher --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Carl F. Lombard --- Medical Research Council, South AfricaThis study investigated the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviour among high school students in two rural settings in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, using a cross-sectional survey design. One thousand six hundred and thirteen randomly-selected adolescents (58% female)... -
Psychosocial Well-being in a Group of South African Adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Izanette van Schalkwyk --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThe aim of this study was to explore the psychosocial well-being of a group of South African adolescents. Participants (N=665, ages 15–17 years; males = 214, females = 451) from three high schools completed questionnaires on psychosocial well-being. Structured interviews... -
Longitudinal Predictive Validity of a Learning Potential Test
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marié de Beer --- University of South Africa,The aim of this article is to provide empirical psychometric evidence of the (longitudinal) predictive validity of a learning potential measure—the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT)—in comparison with standard static tests with school aggregate results as the criterion measure... -
A Modern Assessment Psychometric Approach to Dynamic Assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marié de Beer --- University of South Africa,Although dynamic assessment (DA) has been hailed as a positive move towards fair assessment, it has generally not been used in educational or industry settings to the same extent that standard (static) tests have been. The present article attempts to... -
Forgivingness: An Angolan-Portuguese Comparison
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Félix Neto --- University of Oporto, Portugal Maria da Conceição Pinto --- University of Oporto, PortugalForgiveness can be considered on multiple levels, from those interpersonal incidents that are contextualized to a dispositional trait form that transcends individual injustices. Three distinct aspects of forgivingness (dispositional forgiveness) have been recently put forward: (a) Lasting resentment; that is,... -
Resilience and Career Counseling: Describing the Utility of Quadrant Mapping
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liesel Ebersöhn --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the manner in which educational psychology students (n = 11 females) used quadrant mapping when doing career counseling with Grade 9 youths (n=88, 47 = male, 41 = female) in a rural secondary school in South Africa... -
Using a Personal Portfolio for Identity Development with an Adolescent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Suzanne Bester --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mugsy Quinn --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article reports on the findings of an instrumental case study that was exploratory and descriptive in nature. An open and flexible investigation was conducted with the purpose of gaining insight into the potential value of using a personal portfolio... -
Perceptions of Staffriding in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Lethal Thrill of Speed or the Masculine Performance of a Painful Past?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dimakatso Sedite --- University of South Africa, Brett Bowman --- University of the Witwatersrand, Lindsay Clowes --- University of the Western Cape,Staffriding, or train surfing, involves taking life threatening physical risks by moving around the outside of moving trains. In aiming to better understand this risky practice, this small scale qualitative study used three semi-structured interviews and three focus discussions to... -
Exploring the Intersecting Health Risks of Substance Abuse, Sexual Risk, and Violence for Female South African Teen Dropouts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kyla Marie Sawyer-Kurian --- North Carolina Central University, USA Felicia A. Browne --- RTI International, USA Tara Carney --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Petal Petersen --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Wendee M. Wechsberg --- RTI International, USAThe study sought to better understand the cultural contexts of the risks for adolescent females who have dropped out of school. Focus groups were conducted with 37 Black and Coloured females aged 13 to 17 in Cape Town, South Africa... -
Experiences of Father Absence Adolescents from a South African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Toni Sylvester --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe study adopted interpretive/constructivist approach to examine father absence experience in teenage South African boys. Ten adolescent boys (with mean age of 15 years) from an impoverish suburb of Cape Town participated in the study. Mixed method data collection techniques... -
The Influence of Mode of Test Administration on Test Performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anisha Bhoola-Patel --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis study examined the influence of mode of test administration (paper based or computer-based) on anxiety levels and test performance. Participants were 44 learners (males = 22, females = 22) from three schools in Johannesburg, South Africa who completed both... -
An Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) in South African Context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- University of South Africa, Ann-Mari Hesselink --- University of South Africa,The Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ: Loza, 2005) is a self-report questionnaire designed to assist with the prediction of violent and nonviolent recidivism among correctional populations. Use of scale could help in the assessment of risk and the identification of factors that... -
Well-Being in the Batswana Cultural Context: Constructs and Measures
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 AfricaThe study investigated wellbeing in a Setswana-speaking sample. Participants (n=459, males =141 females =318; 22% = aged between 30 and 40 years) completed the General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS: Khumalo, Temane & Wissing, 2010) and the Mental Health Continuum Short-Form... -
Initial Review of the Psychometric Properties of a Computerised Career Preference Test for Career Guidance Assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marié de Beer --- University of South Africa,Psychometric proprties of the Career Preference Computerised Adaptive Test (CPCAT) (De Beer & Marais, 2010; De Beer, Marais, Maree, & Skrzypczak, 2008) are reported. Participants were high school students (n=343; males=279, females=164)at Grade 9 and Grade 11 level from a... -
The Meanings of an Animal Wristband (isiphandla) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nomahlubi Makunga --- University of Zululand, Jabulani Thwala --- University of Zululand, Steve Edwards --- University of Zululand,This study investigated indigenous meanings attributed to the use of an animal skin wristband (isiphandla) in persons in KwaZulu-Natal. The study was motivated by the need for indigenous psychological knowledge in the South African context where western-based treatment approaches, ideologies... -
Sex Offender Assessment Procedures: A South African Comparison
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anni Hesselink --- University of South Africa, Johan Prinsloo --- University of South Africa,This study reports on the results of a reflective case analysis of a first generation assessment procedure of a chronic offender. The assessment focused on offender's experiential world and his pathway to crime, including precipitating crime risk factors as well... -
Childhood Exposure to Community and Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Outcomes in a South African Student Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Steven J. Collings --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe effects of exposure to direct and vicarious community and domestic violence on the posttraumatic adjustment of 323 South African students were examined. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires, with the relationship between exposure to violence and posttraumatic outcomes being... -
Prevalence of Alcohol Use and Associated Factors in Pregnant Antenatal Care Attendees in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Julia Louw --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Gladys Matseke --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaWe sought to identify the prevalence of alcohol use and associated factors among pregnant women who were patients at antenatal primary care clinics in a South Africa health district. A cross-sectional study using systematic sampling was conducted among 1497 pregnant... -
Risk Factors for Educator-Targeted Bullying: A Social-Ecological Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Corene de Wet --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study investigated educator-targeted bullying (ETB) in a South African school setting from a social-ecological perspective. Seven survivors of ETB were interviewed using open ended questions. The data were content analysed for themes. The main findings of the study were:... -
A Case of Tragic Optimism: Volunteer Counsellors' Experience of Meaning
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Henry D. Mason --- Tshwane University of Technology, Juan A. Nel --- University of South Africa,This study applied concepts from logotherapy to construct the meaning that volunteer crisis counsellors experienced by working with victims of crime. Data were collected from seven participants who delivered services at community-driven crisis centre using a qualitative approach. The data... -
Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Caregivers and Households of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) from a Low-Income South African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mambwe Kasese-Hara --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Mzikazi Nduna --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Misheck Ndebele --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Noleen Pillay --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis study reports on the health and psychosocial wellbeing of caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and members of their households in a low-income South African community. Participants were 54 guardians of OVC registered to receive support at the... -
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)... -
Offenders with Mental Disorders in a South African Prison Population: Profiling the Behavioural Characteristics on Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- University of South Africa,This study validates a protocol to identify inmates with institutional adjustment difficulty from mental disorder, and who might have a need for therapeutic programming of a cognitive nature. The Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) was administered to a total of 236 South... -
Flourishing of Information Technology Professionals: The Role of Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elsabé Diedericks --- North-West University, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study investigated the relationship between work role fit, the availability of personal resources, supervisor relations, work engagement, job satisfaction and employee flourishing. A convenience sample (N = 205) was taken of employees in information technology organizations. The results showed... -
Job Characteristics That Influence the Career Success of Soldiers in the South African National Defence Force: An Analytical Review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nondlela Ditsela --- Stellenbosch Univerity, South Africa Gideon Van Dyk --- Stellenbosch Univerity, South AfricaCareer success for solders is influenced by objective and subjective job qualities including their antecedents and mediators. This article considers the objective and subjective indicators of career success in the context of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF): achievement,... -
Psychological Well-Being Among Tanzanian University Students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Janvier Rugira --- North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Alida W. Nienaber --- North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Marié P. Wissing --- North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaThis study explored the prevalence of levels of psychological well-being in a group of Tanzanian university students. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was implemented for data-gathering. A convenience sample of 279 undergraduate students (19 to 40 years, mean age 29... -
Depression and Associated Factors Among University Students in Western Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Supa Pengpid --- University of Limpopo, South Africa Sola Olowu --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Matthew Olasupo --- Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaThe aim of this study was to determine the associations between depression, sociodemographic, social and health variables among undergraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with undergraduate students that were recruited randomly from classes... -
Categories of Human Risk Factors Which Impact on the Psychological Fitness of Construction Workers: A Review of the Evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Larisa Alet Louw --- University of South Africa, Pieter Schaap --- University of Pretoria,This systematic review sought to identify and examine the evidence on human factors which impact on the psychological fitness of construction workers. Studies were reviewed spanning the period from 1966 to 2012. Database searches included 135 ScienceDirect and EBSCOHost sources,... -
Compactification and Closure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: David HolgateA topological space X is compact iff for any other space Y, the projection map π Y : X × Y → Y is closed. Previous authors have used this characterisation, and the theory of categorical closure operators, to... -
The Borsuk-Ulam theorem for surfaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: DacibergL. GonçalvesGiven a pair (S, T) whereS is a closed surface and T is a free Z 2 action on S, we classify which pairs have the property that the Borsuk-Ulam theorem holds with respect to R 2. In particular if... -
Sex during genital bleeding and risks for HIV infection: preliminary study of sexually transmitted infection clinic patients in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: SethC Kalichman LeicknessC SimbayiPracticing sexual intercourse in the presence of blood is a potentially important factor in facilitating HIV transmission. In the current study 149 men and 78 women receiving diagnostic and treatment services for repeated sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Cape Town,... -
AIDS, order and 'best practice' in the South African workplace: managers, peer educators, traditional healers and folk theories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David DickinsonThis article examines the response of three medium-sized South African manufacturing companies to HIV/AIDS. It is argued that the response is heavily influenced by managerial conceptions of workplace order — sometimes divergent from industrial realities — which results in the... -
Sex, disease and stigma in South Africa: historical perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Peter Delius Clive GlaserThis paper attempts to analyse historically why stigma and denial around HIV/AIDS is so powerful in South Africa, so powerful that ailing family members can be shunned and evicted. For many observers, the answer lies simply in its being a... -
Knowing but not knowing: providing maternity care in the context of HIV/AIDS in rural Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Thubelihle Mathole Gunilla Lindmark Beth Maina AhlbergIndividual interviews with 25 nurses and midwives revealed their experiences with providing maternity care in rural Zimbabwe. These first-hand accounts especially illuminate the complexities of providing maternity care in the context of HIV/AIDS. The caregivers described feeling troubled by knowing... -
Intrapartum practices to limit vertical transmission of HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Antoinette du Preez Engela du Plessis Abel PienaarThe need to improve health services to HIV-positive women requires a specific focus on limiting mother-to-child transmission. Vertical transmission most often takes place during the intrapartum period; hence, it is essential to alert midwives to what constitutes safe or risky... -
Zambian male adolescents' perceptions about premarital sexual relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elisabeth Dahlbäck Patrick Makelele C Bawa Yamba Staffan Bergström Anna-Berit Ransjö-ArvidsonThe role adolescent boys play in premarital sexual activities, gender power relations, and the reproductive health risks they are exposed to, has received little attention in research. This qualitative study has aimed to explore Zambian male adolescents' perceptions and expectations... -
Youth's perceptions of HIV infection risk: a sex-specific test of two risk models
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Yetunde ShoboThe study examines the associations between the cumulative and additive risk models and Nigerian youth's likelihood of perceiving vulnerability to HIV infection. Both models of risk seem to provide unique contributions to such understanding. The analysis is based on data... -
Sustainable income-generating projects for HIV-affected households in Zimbabwe: evidence from two high-density suburbs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: MunyaradziJ Mutenje InnocentW Nyakudya Constance Katsinde TichaedzaJ ChikuvireAn estimated 25% of the adults in urban areas of Zimbabwe are living as HIV-positive. In HIV-affected households the need for income increases with the demand for medicines, food and funeral costs. One way to mitigate this effect of the... -
Modelling the relationship between antiretroviral treatment and HIV prevention: limitations of the Spectrum AIDS Impact Model in a changing policy environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicoli NattrassThis paper shows how two publicly available epidemiological modelling packages, namely the Spectrum AIDS Impact Model and the ASSA2003 AIDS and Demographic Model, predict very different impacts from rolling out highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) on new HIV infections. Using... -
Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, sexual behaviour and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among female students of the University of Buea, Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Theresa Nkuo-Akenji Armand Nkwesheu Raymond Nyasa Esther Tallah Roland Ndip Fru Angwafo IiiThe study investigates the cognitive effect of knowledge and protective practices on the prevalence of HIV and some sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female students of the University of Buea, Cameroon. A cross-sectional study involving the analysis of a questionnaire... -
Misconceptions about HIV prevention and transmission in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gobopamang LetamoMisconceptions about how HIV can be transmitted or prevented often prevent individuals from making informed choices and taking appropriate action. The purpose of the research was to explore the socio-demographic and behavioural factors in Botswana that are associated with misconceptions... -
Competing or co-existing? Representations of HIV/AIDS by white women teachers in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lauren de Kock Jane WillsThis study explores the social representations of HIV and AIDS that circulate among white women teachers in South Africa, a group whose personal risk of the disease is low but who have a major role to play in shaping attitudes... -
Kissing the cobra: Sexuality and high risk in a generalised epidemic—a case study of White university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Tessa Marcus --- , South AfricaThis paper explores the social factors that may account for the way the HIV-AIDS epidemic is unfolding in a racially segmented and socially differentiated society. As a sexually transmitted infectious disease that particularly infects adolescents and decimates young adults, there... -
HIV/AIDS policies, practices and conditions in South African prisons: Criticisms and alternatives. Towards a research agenda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: KC Goyer --- Department of Political Science, South Africa J Gow --- , South AfricaThe level of HIV infection in South African prisoners is unknown. However, given that 4.2 million citizens or 20% of the adult population are infected by HIV then the problem of infection within the prison system would seem to be... -
Understanding self-appraisal of HIV-infection risk among young adults in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Samson Babatunde Adebayo --- , Nigeria Jennifer Anyanti --- , Nigeria Augustine Ankomah --- , Kenya Godpower Omoregie --- , Nigeria Fatima Mamman-Daura --- , NigeriaA major component of HIV prevention is to encourage individuals to appreciate their personal risk of contracting the virus with the aim of encouraging them to take steps to reduce the risks. This article addresses the accuracy of an individual's... -
Understanding the experiences of doctors who undertake elective surgery on HIV/AIDS patients in an area of high incidence in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jacqueline Gwala-Ngozo --- Department of Public Health Medicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Myra Taylor --- Department of Public Health Medicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Colleen Aldous --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South AfricaThis study investigates the experiences of doctors who perform elective surgical procedures in an area of South Africa with a high incidence of HIV and AIDS. A qualitative study approach was adopted. Interviews were individually conducted with 15 doctors. The... -
South Africa youths’ higher-risk sexual behaviour: an eco-developmental analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Monde Makiwane --- Child, Youth, Family and Social Development, South Africa Zitha Mokomane --- Child, Youth, Family and Social Development, South AfricaDespite their high levels of knowledge about HIV and AIDS, young people ages 15–24 years in South Africa remain disproportionately affected by the epidemic. Young people's continued susceptibility to HIV infection has been consistently linked to intractable higher-risk sexual behaviours... -
HIV and AIDS vulnerability in fishing communities in Mangochi district, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joseph Nagoli --- , Katrien Holvoet --- , Michelle Remme --- ,The fisheries sector contributes significantly to Malawi's national economy and to the livelihoods of the poor as certain activities in the sector have relatively low barriers to entry. Various studies have shown that the fisheries sector suffers from high HIV... -
Deafness and HIV/AIDS: a systematic review of the literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jill Hanass-Hancock --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Loveness Satande --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaA systematic review of the literature focused on empirical work on deafness and HIV/AIDS published during the past decade. The review reveals that deaf people are vulnerable to contracting HIV and might lack access to HIV/ AIDS information, testing and... -
Community and ecotourist perceptions of forest conservation benefits:a case study of Mabira Central Forest Reserve, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: I Kiyingi --- , Uganda M Bukenya --- Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, UgandaThe different interests in forest resources by various stakeholders may result in differences in perceived value of forest conservation. In order to test this hypothesis, we compared the valuation by international ecotourists and local respondents of the perceived benefits of... -
Determinants of age at sexual debut and associated risks among South African youths
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Khangelani Zuma --- , South Africa Thembile Mzolo --- , South Africa Elias Makonko --- , South AfricaThe research uses data from a representative national survey to explore the determinants of age at sexual debut among South African youths in the age group 15–24 years. A random sample of 5 708 youths were interviewed and 92% responded... -
Sexual-risk behaviour among sexually active first-year students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Melissa D Abels --- Department of Statistics, South Africa Renette J Blignaut --- Department of Statistics, South AfricaIn South Africa, new HIV infections are concentrated among persons aged 15–24 years. The university population falls within this age group and are prone to higher-risk behaviours that place them at risk of acquiring HIV. In a study to assess... -
Kenyan pastors’ perspectives on communicating about sexual behaviour and HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- , United States MaryN Kizito --- , United States Jesica Kinya Mwithia --- , United States Lucy Njoroge --- , United States Kyalo wa Ngula --- , United States Kristin Davis --- , United StatesThe article presents an analysis of in-depth interviews with 18 leaders of Christian churches in Nairobi, Kenya, regarding the content and context of messages they disseminate to their congregations about sexual behaviour and HIV. The content of messages was nearly... -
An exploratory study of HIV-prevention advocacy by persons in HIV care in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Christopher Tumwine --- , Uganda Annet Nannungi --- , Uganda Eric Ssegujja --- , Uganda Nicolate Nekesa --- , Uganda Sarah Ssali --- , Uganda Lynn Atuyambe --- , Uganda Gery Ryan --- , United States Glenn Wagner --- , United StatesTo explore how people living with HIV (PLHIV) and in care encourage others to adopt HIV-protective behaviours, we conducted in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of 40 HIV clinic patients in Kampala, Uganda. Content analysis was used to examine the... -
Adolescents’ perceptions of sexual coercion in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ruth Birungi --- , Uganda Dennis Nabembezi --- , Uganda Julius Kiwanuka --- , Uganda Michele Ybarra --- , United States Sheana Bull --- Department of Community and Behavioral Health, United StatesIn Uganda, HIV prevalence remains high with young people at higher risk of infection than adults. Much is known about the sexual risk factors for HIV transmission among youths, including sexual encounters that are coerced. On the other hand, relatively... -
Predictors of sexual behaviour among church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-denominational study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States Kyalo wa Ngula --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States George Musambira --- Nicholson School of Communication, United StatesWe surveyed church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya, to investigate denominational differences in their sexual behaviour and to identify factors related to those differences. In comparison with youths attending mainline churches, the youths surveyed at Pentecostal/evangelical churches were less likely to... -
AIDS fatigue and university students’ talk about HIV risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Tamara Shefer --- Women's and Gender Studies, South Africa Anna Strebel --- Women's and Gender Studies, South Africa Joachim Jacobs --- HIV/AIDS Programme, South AfricaDrawing on a qualitative study that included 20 focus group discussions with male and female students at an urban-based university in South Africa, this article reports on perceptions, attitudes and reported behaviour with respect to HIV and AIDS and safer... -
Perceptions of educators of Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents of HIV-risk factors for these youths
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sumaya Mall --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Leslie Swartz --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaLike the general population in South Africa, adolescents with deafness or who are hard-of-hearing may be vulnerable to HIV infection. They are exposed to all known risk factors for HIV infection. Educators who work in schools for Deaf (meaning culturally... -
An exploratory study of the individual determinants of students’ sexual risk behaviour at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Given Mutinta --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Kaymarlin Govender --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Jeff Gow --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaThe prevalence of sexual risk behaviour is high on campuses at South African universities, putting many students at risk of HIV infection. This study explores individual influences on students’ sexual risk-taking behaviour at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The study collected... -
Myths or theories? Alternative beliefs about HIV and AIDS in South African working class communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David Dickinson --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaDespite three decades of public health promotion based on the scientific explanation of HIV/AIDS, alternative explanations of the disease continue to circulate. While these are seen as counter-productive to health education efforts, what is rarely analysed is their plurality and... -
HIV testing is associated with increased knowledge and reductions in sexual risk behaviours among men in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lori AJ Scott-Sheldon --- Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, USA Michael P Carey --- Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, USA Kate B Carey --- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, USA Demetria Cain --- Department of Psychology, USA Leickness C Simbayi --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Vuyelwa Mehlomakhulu --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Seth C Kalichman --- Department of Psychology, USAHIV testing benefits those who test positive, allowing them to receive treatment, but the benefits for those who test negative remain controversial. We evaluated the impact of testing on HIV knowledge and sexual risk among men in South Africa. Men... -
‘Something for something’: The importance of talking about transactional sex with youth in South Africa using a resilience-based approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ingrid van der Heijden --- Gender and Health Research Unit, South Africa Sharlene Swartz --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaTransactional sex is a common feature of sexual relationships in South Africa but has severe health implications for those who engage in it. This paper presents perspectives on transactional sex based on interviews and focus group discussions with young people... -
Correlates of sexual activity versus non-activity of incoming first-year students at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Renette J Blignaut --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies, Tania Vergnani --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies, Joachim J Jacobs --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies,In order to contribute to the design of more effective programmes to curb the spread of HIV at tertiary institutions, this study compares the profile of students who are sexually active versus those who are not yet sexually active when... -
Physical determinants of the distribution and abundance of the burrowing ocypodid crab Paratylodiplax blephariskios Stebbing in the St. Lucia and Mhlathuze estuaries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RK Owen AT Forbes DP Cyrus SE PiperThe burrowing ocypodid crab, Paratylodiplax blephariskios, is endemic to the southeast coast of southern Africa where it forms an important component of the estuarine benthic fauna in muddy substrata. Two estuaries in KwaZulu-Natal, namely St. Lucia and the Mhlathuze, were... -
Ecological Risk Assessment in Water Resource Management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: M Claassen PW WadeThe US EPA published guidelines for the application of ecological risk assessment (ERA) in the USA in 1998 (US EPA 1998). The process diagram derived by Murray and Claassen (1999) in an evaluation of the US EPA framework is discussed... -
Schistosomiasis transmission in Lake Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: HR Madsen JR Stauffer P Bloch A Konings KR McKaye JS LikongweSchistosomiasis (bilharziasis) transmission due to Schistosoma haematobium has for many years been known to occur along protected shorelines in Lake Malawi, but the recent finding that transmission also can also occur along open shorelines with sandy sediment has had a... -
The predatory impact of invasive alien smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu (Teleostei: Centrarchidae), on indigenous fishes in a Cape Floristic Region mountain stream
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: DarraghJ Woodford N Dean Impson JennyA Day I Roger BillsFish populations in the Rondegat River, a mountain stream in the Olifants-Doring system in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa were surveyed to assess the impact of predatory alien invasive smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu (Lacepède) on the indigenous fishes. This... -
Extreme levels of intra-specific divergence among Cape Peninsula populations of the Cape galaxias, Galaxias zebratus Castelnau 1861, reveals a possible species complex
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Marcus Wishart Jane Hughes Barbara Stewart Dean ImpsonThe Cape galaxias, Galaxias zebratus, is part of the paleao-endemic fauna characteristic of the south-western Cape, South Africa, and is the only galaxiid found in continental Africa. A 284-bp fragment of the cytochrome b region of the mtDNA was sequenced... -
Salinity tolerance of the burrowing ocypodid crab, Paratylodiplax blephariskios, in the St. Lucia and Mhlathuze estuaries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RK Owen --- Department of Zoology, South Africa AT Forbes --- , South AfricaThe ocypodid crab, Paratylodiplax blephariskios, is endemic to the southeast coast of southern Africa where it forms an important component of the estuarine benthic fauna in muddy substrata. The St. Lucia and Mhlathuze estuaries are two of the largest estuaries... -
Predation impact of juvenile Gilchristella aestuaria (Clupeidae) and Atherina breviceps (Atherinidae) on the zooplankton in the temperate Kariega estuary, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PW Froneman --- Coastal Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa P Vorwerk --- , South AfricaSeasonal changes in the predation impact of juvenile (SL 18–25mm) Atherina breviceps and Gilchristella aestuaria on zooplankton was investigated at three stations in the middle reaches of the permanently open Kariega estuary during 1999 and 2000. Daily rations were estimated... -
A short note on factors affecting the geographic distribution of the burrowing ocypodid crab, Paratylodiplax blephariskios: temperature, habitat and competition
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RK Owen --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe known distribution of Paratylodiplax blephariskios extends from the Morrumbene estuary in Mozambique to the Mngazana estuary in the Eastern Cape. Laboratory data on the temperature tolerance of P. blephariskios indicated that the crab could survive temperatures between 12.5°C and... -
Copper, zinc and iron concentrations in water, sediment and Cynothrissa mento (Regan 1917) from Ologe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria: a preliminary survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CA Kumolu-Johnson --- Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Science, Nigeria PE Ndimele --- Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Science, Nigeria SL Akintola --- Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Science, Nigeria CC Jibuike --- Department of Microbiology and Botany, Faculty of Science, NigeriaThe levels of Cu, Fe and Zn in water, sediment and Cynothrissa mento, a commercially important fish species, were investigated from April 2007 to March 2008 at three sites in Ologe Lagoon. Metal levels in the water column and C... -
Spatial and temporal patterns of phytoplankton abundance and composition in three ecological zones in the Tanzanian waters of Lake Victoria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: GW Ngupula --- , Tanzania ASE Mbonde --- , Tanzania CN Ezekiel --- , TanzaniaPhytoplankton abundance and composition in relation to physico-chemical parameters were investigated from September 2005 to October 2007 at 51 stations of various depths in the nearshore, intermediate and deep offshore waters of Lake Victoria. Shallow nearshore waters had the highest... -
Pesticides in South African fresh waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TM Ansara-Ross --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Department of Zoology, South Africa V Wepener --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Department of Zoology, South Africa PJ van den Brink --- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, The Netherlands MJ Ross --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Department of Zoology, South AfricaPublic concern has recently escalated over pesticide contamination of South African aquatic ecosystems. This review of published literature on the occurrence of pesticides within South African freshwater systems indicates that fewer than 50 studies of selected pesticides have been undertaken,... -
Response of mangroves to drought and non-tidal conditions in St Lucia Estuary, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: SCL Hoppe-Speer --- Botany Department, South Africa JB Adams --- Botany Department, South Africa A Rajkaran --- Botany Department, South AfricaThe effect of a prolonged closed-mouth state on the condition of mangrove habitats was studied in May 2010 at St Lucia Estuary, KwaZulu-Natal. The mouth had been closed to the sea since 2002 as a result of artificial mouth closure... -
Characterisation of potential aquaculture pond effluents, and physico-chemical and microbial assessment of effluent-receiving waters in central Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: YB Ansah --- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, USA EA Frimpong --- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, USA S Amisah --- Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, GhanaAn understanding of specific aquaculture systems and the impacts of their management practices leads to sound and cost-effective policies to protect the aquatic environment. Water samples were collected in 2009 from fish ponds, streams that receive effluents directly from ponds... -
Nest characteristics of Yellow-billed Kites Milvus aegyptius in the Manambolomaty Lakes Complex, western Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tolojanahary Andriamalala --- , Madagascar Lily-Arison Rene de Roland --- , Madagascar Marius Rakotondratsima --- , Madagascar Gilbert Razafimanjato --- , Madagascar Russell Thorstrom --- , USAWe studied the nesting biology of Yellow-billed Kites Milvus aegyptius in the Manambolomaty Lakes Complex of western Madagascar during 2002 and 2003. We recorded 64 nesting attempts. In 2003, 33% (n = 39 nests) of the occupied nests were from... -
Sunbirds hover at flowers of Salvia and Lycium
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Petra Wester --- Department of Botany and Zoology, South AfricaSunbirds usually perch when visiting flowers for nectar and only rarely hover. Except for three studies of sunbirds visiting introduced plants in South Africa and India as well as a native plant in Cameroon, there have been no quantitative studies... -
6. Foliar Diagnosis and Fertiliser Prescription in Forestry—The DRIS System and its Potential
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: C.J. Schutz --- D.R. de Wet Forestry Research Centre, Dept. of Environment Affairs, J.M. de Villiers --- ,Problems associated with current foliar diagnosis techniques are reviewed. Many of these problems have been overcome in agricultural crops by use of the Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (ORIS). The foundation of DRIS is the concept of nutrient balance, the... -
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIGERFISH AND SARDINES IN LAKE KARIBA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: B.E. Marshall --- Department of Biological Sciences, ZimbabweThere was a clear relationship in Lake Kariba between the abundance of young-of-the-year (0+) tigerfish and the sardines on which they prey. The abundant sardine population that existed before commercial fishing began accounted for the increase in tiger-fish which occurred... -
Under-reporting of Catches of South Coast Rock Lobster Palinurus Gilchristi, with Implications for the Assessment and Management of the Fishery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J. C. GroeneveldUnder-reporting of fishery catches can severely affect the precision of stock assessment estimates, which require accurate information on catch and catch rate. Under-reporting of catches of South Coast rock lobster Palinurus gilchristi over the past decade was estimated from verified... -
Limits to the use of environmental indices to reduce risk and/or increase yield in the South African anchovy fishery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JAA De Oliveira DS ButterworthEnvironmental indices that provide short-term predictions of recruitment have the potential to improve the average yield from highly productive resources that sustain recruit fisheries without an associated increase in risk (of resource 'collapse'). This is particularly true for cases where... -
Comparison of fish-community size spectra based on length frequencies and mean lengths: a note
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Yemane MH Griffiths JG FieldEstimates of fish-community size spectra are promising indicators of the impact of fishing on fish assemblages. Size spectra consist of logarithmic graphs of abundance plotted against fish body size. Size spectra may either be constructed from length frequency data or... -
Interpreting behavioural data from Radio-Acoustic Positioning Telemetry (RAPT) systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PR Rigby Y Andrade RK O'DorTo detect behavioural patterns of individually tagged squid Loligo vulgaris reynaudii in a Radio-Acoustic Positioning Telemetry (RAPT) buoy array, trajectories reflecting the four dimensions of latitude, longitude, depth and time were plotted from data collected during field experiments in South... -
Sightings of beaked whales (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) including first confirmed Cuvier's beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris from Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CR WeirThe distribution of beaked whales off the west coast of Africa in the South-East Atlantic Ocean is poorly known. A total of eight beaked whale (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) sightings was recorded off Angola between March 2004 and September 2005. At least... -
Isolation and characterisation of photoactive haemolytic toxin from Heterocapsa circularisquama
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: Y Miyazaki T Iwashita K Yamaguchi T Oda Y Matsuyama T HonjoRed tides of Heterocapsa circularisquama, identified as a new species of dinoflagellate a few years ago, have frequently caused mass mortality of several species of bivalve in Japan, whereas no harmful effects on fish have been reported so far. We... -
Toxicological requirements for risk assessment of shellfish contaminants: a review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: R MundayThere is increasing concern by consumers with regard to the health aspects and safety of foodstuffs. Most food additives and contaminants are controlled by regulatory authorities, with Acceptable Daily Intakes (ADIs) having been set on the basis of detailed acute... -
The life history of the giant octopus Octopus magnificus in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD Smith JC Groeneveld G MaharajOctopus magnificus is a regular bycatch of traps set for spiny lobsters and bottom trawls for Cape hakes Merluccius spp. on the continental shelf of South Africa. Octopuses were collected from rocky substrata (traps) and soft sediments (research trawls) during... -
A near mass stranding of cetaceans in St Helena Bay, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PB Best --- , South Africa D Reeb --- , South AfricaA group of 70 false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens and 124 bottlenose dolphins Tursiops sp., and a separate group of 13 Risso's dolphins Grampus griseus, assembled close inshore off a known mass-stranding site in St Helena Bay, South Africa, in... -
Biological characteristics of sardine caught by the beach-seine fishery during the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD van der Lingen --- Branch Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South Africa M Hendricks --- Branch Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South Africa MD Durholtz --- Branch Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South Africa G Wessels --- Marine Research Institute and Zoology Department, South Africa C Mtengwane --- Branch Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South AfricaCatches of sardine Sardinops sagax made by the beach-seine fishery off the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coast during the annual winter sardine run have been sampled intermittently since 1951, and a substantial amount of data on various biological characteristics of sardine caught... -
Socio-economic aspects of boat-based ecotourism during the sardine run within the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ML Dicken --- Department of Development Studies, School of Economics, Development and Tourism, South AfricaUnderstanding recreational aspects of the tourism industry developing around the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run is important for the protection and sustainability of the Pondoland Marine Protected Area (MPA), on the south-east coast of South Africa. Between June and July 2007, a... -
Socio-economic implications of the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run for local indigenous communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J Myeza --- , South Africa RB Mason --- Department of Marketing, VM Peddemors --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, South AfricaThe economic and social effects of the annual sardine run on the indigenous community on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were assessed using data gathered from questionnaires and personal interviews with 329 members of the community. Their knowledge,... -
Are African penguins worth saving? The ecotourism value of the Boulders Beach colony
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SEF Lewis --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa JK Turpie --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa PG Ryan --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, South AfricaPopulations of the African penguin Spheniscus demersus have decreased dramatically over the past century, due in part to competition for food with commercial fisheries, and the species is now endangered as a result. Economic arguments are used to favour fisheries... -
Reduced seabird night strikes and mortality in the Tristan rock lobster fishery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JP Glass --- Tristan Fisheries Department, Central South Atlantic Ocean PG Ryan --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, South AfricaThe main impact of the fishery for Tristan rock lobster Jasus tristani on seabirds at the Tristan archipelago and Gough Island is through night strikes, when petrels collide with a ship after being disorientated by its lights. Tristan fishery observers... -
African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata): Resource assessment and quality variation among populations in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: P.L. Mwang'ingo --- Silviculture Research Centre, Tanzania Z. Teklehaimanot --- School ofAgricultural and Forest Sciences, United Kingdom J.B Hall --- School ofAgricultural and Forest Sciences, United Kingdom L.L.L. Lulandala --- Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, TanzaniaAfrican sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) populations occurring in Tanzania were assessed to determine the current resource status and ascertain variation in quality existing among them. This will provide a guide inthe selection ofpopulations where conservation efforts and improvement programmes can be... -
Influence of the origin of stem cutting, season of collection and auxin application on the vegetative propagation af African Sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: Z. Teklehaimanot --- School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, UK P.L. Mwang'ingo --- Tanzania Forestry Research Institute, Tanzania A.G. Mugasha --- Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conversation, Tanzania C.K. Ruffo --- Tanzania Tree Seed Agency, TanzaniaAn investigation into the possibility of propagating O.lanceolata through stem cutting was carried out at Tanzania Tree Seed Agency, Iringa Zone, Tanzania. The aim was to test the potential of stem cuttings in providing an alternative/supplement to the use of... -
Tree species composition, structure and utilisation in Maruzi Hills Forest Reserve in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: I Kiyingi --- , Uganda JM Kidiya --- , Uganda S Gwali --- , Uganda P Okullo --- , Uganda DM Byabashaija --- , UgandaThe study investigated the tree species composition, vegetation structure and harvesting pattern to guide management of the Maruzi Hills Forest Reserve. Stratified random sampling was used to site six (100 m × 100 m) permanent sample plots in the woodland,... -
A financial evaluation of two contrasting silvicultural systems applicable to Pinus taeda grown in north-east Uruguay
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: A Bussoni --- Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Facultad de Agronomía, Uruguay J Cabris --- Departamento de Producción Forestal y Tecnología de la Madera, Facultad de Agronomía, UruguayThe Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation area in north-east Uruguay was 108 000 ha in 2008. Recent industrial capacity developments have resulted in major structural changes. Silvicultural system selection depends on site productivity, costs, timber prices and public policies... -
The potential of remote sensing technology for the detection and mapping of Thaumastocoris peregrinus in plantation forests
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Z Oumar --- School of Environmental Sciences, South Africa O Mutanga --- School of Environmental Sciences, South AfricaThaumastocoris peregrinus is a sap-sucking insect that feeds on eucalyptus leaves. It poses a major threat to the forest sector by reducing the photosynthetic ability of the tree, resulting in stunted growth and even death of severely infested trees. The... -
Cant sawing log positioning in a sawmill: searching for an optimal solution
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: CB Wessels --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa J de V du Plessis --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa NH Smit --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South AfricaAutomated three-dimensional log scanning and positioning systems in a sawmill have a limited time available to reach an optimal positioning solution before primary breakdown sawing starts. In this study a search algorithm (tentacle algorithm) was developed for this task and... -
HIV- and AIDS-related (mis)perceptions and (non)responses of school principals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lesley Wood Paul WebbDespite various HIV and AIDS training programmes offered for educators by the South African Department of Education, little has been achieved at the level of management in terms of creating a wider understanding of the social and cultural complexities of... -
Reasons for multiple sexual partnerships: perspectives of young people in Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Chama Nshindano Pranitha MaharajEpidemiological evidence so far suggests that multiple sexual partnerships are an important factor driving the HIV epidemic. Recently, there has been renewed emphasis on fidelity and partner-reduction in preventing HIV infections. Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia is facing... -
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,... -
Conceptions of mental health among Ugandan youth orphaned by AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sheila Harms Ruth Kizza Joshua Sebunnya Susan JackThe AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected developing or low-income sub-Saharan African countries. Within the context of the epidemic, children and youth are at risk of losing their parents at an early age. The experience of orphanhood due to AIDS has... -
Exploring the relationship between HIV and alcohol use in a remote Namibian mining community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth Lightfoot --- School of Social Work, United States Maretha Maree --- Department of Human Science, Namibia Janet Ananias --- Department of Human Science, NamibiaIn southern Africa, the use of alcohol is increasingly seen as creating a context of risk for HIV transmission. This qualitative study investigates the links between alcohol use and higher-risk sexual behaviours in a remote southern Namibian mining-town community. Using... -
Sexual networks and social capital: multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships as a rational response to unstable social networks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robert Thornton --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaMultiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) are prevalent in southern Africa and have been identified as a primary cause of high HIV prevalence in this region. Sexual liaisons with multiple partners serve to increase the size and diversity of an... -
Rural black women's agency within intimate partnerships amid the South African HIV epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Britta Thege --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaIn a particular way, the HIV pandemic exposes the prevailing gender relations and the definitions of male and female gender roles, both in intimate relationships and in the wider society. The HIV pandemic reveals the contradictions between women's legal rights... -
Conservation biology and management of a critically endangered cyprinid, the Twee River redfin, Barbus erubescens (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: ND Impson MS Marriott IR Bills PH SkeltonThe Twee River redfin Barbus erubescens is a critically endangered small cyprinid endemic to the Twee River System, a subcatchment of the Olifants-Doring River System of South Africa. It is currently the most threatened freshwater fish in both the Cape... -
Algal communities associated with aquatic macrophytes in some artificial ponds in Nyando District, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Balthazar Mpawenayo Christine CocquytThis study describes the algal communities of six ponds colonised by aquatic macrophytes in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Plankton samples were collected from the water column and epiphytic samples from macrophytes such as Azolla, Pistia, Nymphaea, Ipomoea and Ludwigia. Pond pH,... -
Influence of environmental factors on seasonal changes in clupeid catches in the Kigoma area of Lake Tanganyika
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: IA Kimirei YD MgayaAn investigation into the relationship between the fluctuating physico-chemical environment and variability in fish catches in the Kigoma, Tanzania, area of Lake Tanganyika was conducted from January to December 2003. Catch per unit effort (kg fishing unit–1 night–1) showed two... -
Growth of market-size abalone (Haliotis midae) fed kelp (Ecklonia maxima) versus a low-protein commercial feed
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TL Francis GW Maneveldt J VenterThe growth of grow-out abalone fed on kelp, with c. 10 % dry weight protein content, was compared with that of those fed on 'Feed A' (a new low-protein commercial feed of c. 26 % protein), in a flow-through system... -
Composition and abundance of the zooplankton community in the Bitter Lakes, Egypt, in relation to environmental factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RA El-BassatThe taxonomic composition of the zooplankton community of the Bitter Lakes, Egypt, was examined in 2003–2004 in relation to the spatial and temporal distribution of environmental factors. Copepoda were dominant, forming 49% of the zooplankton, followed by Protista at 37%... -
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... -
Conserving the fishes of the Twee River, Western Cape, South Africa: revisiting the issues
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: SM Marr LME Sutcliffe JA Day CL Griffiths PH SkeltonThe Twee River catchment contains two endemic fish species — the Twee River redfin and the Twee River galaxias — which are threatened by water abstraction, habitat degradation, and the presence of introduced fishes. Fyke nets were used to determine... -
Long current to nowhere? — Genetic connectivity of Jasus tristani populations in the southern Atlantic Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S von der Heyden JC Groeneveld CA MattheeThe commercially exploited spiny lobster Jasus tristani has a disjunct distribution in the southern Atlantic Ocean, with populations occurring at the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago, Gough Island and on Vema Seamount. A distance of 2 000km separates Vema and the... -
Southern African sea levels: corrections, influences and trends
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AA Mather --- Coastal and Catchment Policy, Co-ordination and Management, Engineering Unit, South Africa GG Garland --- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, UAE DD Stretch --- School of Civil Engineering, South AfricaThe tidal records of existing South African and Namibian tide gauges are examined and corrected. Regional sea level trends vary, with the West Coast rising by +1.87 mm y−1 (1959-2006), the southern coast by +1.48 mm y−1 (1957-2006) and the... -
Qualitative evaluation of four subtropical grasses as standing hay: diet selection, rumen fermentation and partial digestibility by sheep
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: WA van Niekerk --- Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, South Africa Abubeker Hassen --- Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, South AfricaThe nutritive value of four subtropical grasses (Panicum maximum, Anthephora pubescens, Digitaria eriantha and Chloris gayana) standing hay were compared in terms of qualitative intake and partial digestibility by sheep. The species differed significantly in terms of diet quality selected... -
On a Constant Arising in the Analysis of Bit Comparisons in Quickselect
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: PeterJ. Grabner Helmut ProdingerA (real) constant that appears as the factor of the leading term of the average number of bit comparisons required by quickselect, and was originally given in terms of complex numbers, is expressed using real numbers alone. A further representation... -
Notes on Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorems and C*-algebras of labelled graphs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Bernhard BurgstallerIn this note we deal with Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorems and extend the class of algebras introduced in [3]. We use this analysis to show two Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorems for C*-algebras of labelled graphs. -
Regional vegetation management standards for commercial pine plantations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: CA Rolando --- , New Zealand KM Little --- , South AfricaDuring the 1990s a number of trials were implemented in the summer rainfall region of South Africa to determine both the short- and long-term impacts of competing vegetation on pine growth. Trial sites were selected across different physiographic regions such... -
Comparative growth performance of different Australian provenances and local land races of Grevillea robusta at Lushoto and Ubiri in the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: LM Madadi --- Lushoto Silviculture Research Centre, Tanzania SC Mathias --- Lushoto Silviculture Research Centre, Tanzania WA Mugasha --- , Tanzania L Nshubemuki --- , Tanzania ST Mwihomeke --- Department of Forestry, South AfricaGrowth of seven Grevillea robusta provenances from its natural habitat in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia, and five local land races were studied at two trial sites established in November 1998 at Lushoto and Ubiri in the... -
Regional vegetation management standards for commercial Eucalyptus plantations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: KM Little CA RolandoDuring the 1990s a number of trials were implemented in the summer-rainfall region of South Africa to determine both the short- and long-term impacts of competing vegetation on eucalypt growth. Trial sites were selected across different physiographic regions such that... -
Breeding ecology of the Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark Eremopterix leucotis in an agroecosystem in the Limpopo province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Derek Engelbrecht --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa Lucket Dikgale --- Department of Biodiversity, South AfricaWe studied the breeding ecology of the Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark Eremopterix leucotis over three years between 2008 and 2010. The breeding season was bimodal with a main peak in laying in autumn (March–April) and another smaller peak in spring (September–October). Nest... -
Growth rates of alien Oreochromis niloticus and indigenous Oreochromis mortimeri in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PC Chifamba --- Department of Biological Sciences, Zimbabwe JJ Videler --- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, The NetherlandsGrowth rates of indigenous Oreochromis mortimeri and alien Oreochromis niloticus from Lake Kariba were estimated from samples collected in 1997–2000, 2003–2005 and 2010–2011. Growth zones on scales and otoliths of O. niloticus and on the otoliths and opercula of O... -
Obesity in women—a life cycle of medical risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: M-T Van der Merwe --- Netcare Bariatric Centers of Excellence,Obesity can have an impact on health at each stage of a woman's life cycle. In young women, obesity has an impact on psychosocial health and, as they grow older, on their reproductive health. Obesity also imposes a number of... -
Enzymatic and genetic polymorphisms of paraoxonase-1 in the Gabonese population: the relation to lipid parameters in patients with diabetes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: FA Abessolo --- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Gabon MJ Bruno --- Department of Cardiology, Hospital Centre of Libreville, Gabon MA N'negue --- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Gabon M Yangou --- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Gabon E Ngou-Milama --- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, GabonBackground: The objective was to study the relationship between the paraoxonase-1 activity, genetic polymorphisms and lipid parameters in a black patient population. -
Preventative foot care in people with diabetes: Quality patient education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Janse G van Rensburg --- Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology,Foot ulceration and amputation cause extensive burden on individuals and health care systems. One of the reasons for the poor outcome of foot complications in developing countries is the lack of patient education. Due to the multi-factorial pathology of diabetic... -
The implementation of guidelines in a South African population with type 2 diabetes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Y Pinchevsky --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, N Butkow --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, FJ Raal --- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Health Sciences, T Chirwa --- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the treatment gaps that pertain to risk factors in South African patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using national treatment guidelines. -
A modern look at hypertension and anaesthesia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: MFM James --- Department of Anaesthesia, RA Dyer --- Department of Anaesthesia, BL Rayner --- Departments of Anaesthesia and Medicine,Hypertension is common among patients presenting for surgery, and is frequently untreated or inadequately treated. While the approach to the patient with hypertension presenting for anaesthesia is controversial, and the evidence base for appropriate clinical decisions is weak, this is... -
Case study: Anaesthesia implications and considerations in a case of pemphigus vulgaris for orthopaedic bipolar prosthesis implant surgery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: SJ Bajwa --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, J Kaur --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, SK Bajwa --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, G Bakshi --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care,A 60-year-old patient suffering from pemphigus vulgaris for the past year was admitted to the emergency ward for fracture neck of femur. She also presented with lesions involving oral mucosa, back, inframammary and genital areas which were in partial remission... -
Airway management in an infant with congenital trismus: the role of retrograde intubation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: R Krishna --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, India TV Shenoy --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, India U Goneppanavar --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, IndiaCongenital trismus is a serious anomaly, and establishment of an airway for surgical correction is a challenge. In the case of limited mouth opening, the nasal route is the only available option to secure the airway via the supraglottic route... -
The role of biomarkers and B-type natriuretic peptide in diagnosis and perioperative risk prediction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: N Afshani --- Department of Anaesthesia, BM Biccard --- Department of Anaesthetics, RA Dyer --- Department of Anaesthesia,Biomarkers are important in diagnosis, assessment of disease severity, risk stratification and therapeutic decision-making. Recent studies strongly suggest that there is a role for B-type natriuretic peptide (BtNP) as a powerful prognostic predictor in both the preoperative and postoperative setting... -
The benefits and risks of vasoactive agents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: RP Von Rahden --- Clinical Unit; Department of Anaesthesia,Current shock resuscitation strategies require titration of fluid in combination with inotropes and vasopressors to counteract the actual pattern of circulatory abnormality in the patient, and to restore the circulation to a level that is adequate to prevent organ ischaemia... -
Intraoperative point-of-care testing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: RP Von Rahden --- Clinical Unit; Department of Anaesthesia,Point-of-care devices offer an increasing number of analytical tests more quickly than laboratory analysis, but clinicians must be aware of the limitations of these devices, especially for critical threshold-level decisions. Glucometers are susceptible to a wide range of errors, and... -
A comparison of non-invasive versus invasive methods of haemoglobin estimation in patients undergoing intracranial surgery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Puneet Khanna --- Department of Anaesthesiology, India Vanitha Rajagopalan --- Department of Anaesthesiology, India Gyaninder Singh --- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology, India Hemanshu Prabhakar --- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology, IndiaBackground: Until recently, invasive monitoring techniques were the only ones available for the estimation of haemoglobin (Hb) in the blood. However, following the introduction of a new non-invasive monitor, Hb concentration could be non-invasively and continuously monitored. It allows immediate... -
Preoperative B-type natriuretic peptide risk stratification: do postoperative indices add value?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: RN Rodseth --- Perioperative Research Group, Department of Anaesthetics, K Vasconcellos --- Department of Anaesthetics and Critical Care, P Naidoo --- National Health Laboratory Services; Department of Chemical Pathology, BM Biccard --- Perioperative Research Group, Department of Anaesthetics,Objectives: It is unclear if there is value in measuring postoperative B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients risk-stratified using preoperative BNP. -
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... -
Burnout—a personal journey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: B Gaede --- Emmaus Hospital,In this personal reflection on burnout, the context of work and its related stress is explored, particularly in a rural public health care setting. However, beyond the work-related challenges, the wider experience of stress in a person's life and developmental... -
Strategies for the Prevention and Containment of Antibiotic Resistance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SY Essack --- School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Kwazulu-Natal,Antibiotic resistance may emerge by antibiotic selection pressure but is perpetuated by diverse risk factors and maintained within environments as a result of poor infection control. Population-specific drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics also play a role. The WHO, US, UK and... -
Community perception of traditional circumcision in a sub-region of the Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: BL Meel --- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,The ritual of traditional male circumcisions (initiation) of young adults goes back generations among Xhosa people of South Africa. Xhosa tribe is committed to preserving the old cultural traditions. Recently, this ritual has been tarnished by serious complications that have... -
Smokeless tobacco: is it really safe?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OB Omole --- Department of Family Medicine, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC,Antismoking campaigns and government legislation have resulted in a decline in smoking. However, the use of smokeless tobacco (SLT) is on the increase. Smokeless tobacco is non-smoked tobacco used either intranasally or intraorally. The increase in its use is possibly... -
Health risk behaviours of high school learners and their perceptions of preventive services offered by general practitioners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Thomas --- Private Practice and Department of Family Medicine,Background: Adolescence spans nearly a decade in which young people may initiate health risk behaviours such as unsafe sexual practices and the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD use). Most adolescent mortality and morbidity, attributable to such health... -
Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the rural southern Free State
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AJ Groenewald --- Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, HJ van Wyk --- Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, CM Walsh --- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, S van Zyl --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, LJ van der Merwe --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences,Background: A worldwide increase in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has been reported and an even further increase is expected as a result of lifestyle changes. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of DM in... -
Current approach to diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Ickinger --- Division of Rheumatology, M Tikly --- Division of Rheumatology,Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic degenerative joint disorder and a major cause of pain and disability, especially in the elderly. The prevalence is steadily rising due to an increase in life expectancy and certain lifestyle factors. OA is a... -
Cardiovascular risk assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DJ Blom --- Division of Lipidology, Department of Medicine, South AfricaCardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality in the Westernised world. Lifestyle changes and drug therapy can reduce cardiovascular risk. Many interventions such as lipid-lowering therapy reduce relative risk to the same extent irrespective of baseline risk, but the... -
Hypertensive crisis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: JA Ker --- Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences, -
A risk-factor profile for chronic lifestyle diseases in three rural Free State towns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S van Zyl --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa LJ van der Merwe --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa CM Walsh --- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa FC van Rooyen --- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa HJ van Wyk --- Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa AJ Groenewald --- Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Chronic diseases of lifestyle account for millions of deaths each year globally. These diseases share similar modifiable risk factors, including hypertension, tobacco smoking, diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidaemia and physical inactivity. In South Africa the burden of noncommunicable disease risk factors... -
Management of mild to moderate acne vulgaris
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: P Malahlela --- Department of Dermatology, MH Motswaledi --- Department of Dermatology,Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease of the pilosebaceous units. It is the most common diagnosis in dermatology and regularly affects adolescents and young adults. Acne can be mild, moderate or severe. Treatment includes topical keratolytics, topical retinoids, antibiotics, hormonal... -
Respiratory risk assessment prior to extrathoracic surgery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: PF Aucamp --- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, M Prins --- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,Physicians are often asked to evaluate a patient prior to elective surgery for the purpose of risk identification and modification. Postoperative pulmonary complications are the most costly of the major postoperative medical complications, including cardiac, thromboembolic and infectious, and result... -
Uptake of genetic counselling services by patients with cystic fibrosis and their families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Macaulay --- Division of Human Genetics, N Gregersen --- Division of Human Genetics, A Krause --- Division of Human Genetics,Background: Although cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common genetic condition, genetic counselling services appear to be underutilised by affected families. The aim of this study was to determine the uptake of genetic counselling and mutation testing for CF by relatives... -
Cardiovascular risk calculation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: James A. Ker --- Department of Internal Medicine,Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of global mortality and morbidity. Atherosclerosis is the main underlying cause in the majority of cardiovascular disease events. Traditional independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease include age, abnormal lipid levels, elevated blood pressure, smoking... -
Prevalence of chronic pain in patients attending primary healthcare facilities in south-west Tshwane
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: WN Rauf --- Department of Family Medicine, HP Meyer --- Department of Family Medicine, TS Marcus --- Department of Family Medicine, PJ Becker --- Biostatistics Unit,Objectives: Despite the significant biopsychosocial impact of chronic pain on the health and quality of life of an individual, as well as on healthcare utilisation, no published data are available on the prevalence of chronic pain in the South African... -
Current approach to diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Ickinger --- Division of Rheumatology, M Tikly --- Division of Rheumatology,Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic degenerative joint disorder and a major cause of pain and disability, especially in the elderly. The prevalence is steadily rising due to an increase in life expectancy and certain lifestyle factors. OA is a... -
Implementing an Operational Risk Management Framework: Psycho-Social Factors in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annelize van Niekerk --- University of South Africa, South Africa Dirk J Geldenhuys --- University of South Africa, South Africa Madia M Levin --- University of South Africa, South Africa Michelle May --- University of South Africa, South Africa K.P. Moalusi --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis qualitative study explored the psychosocial factors that affect the implementation of an operational risk management framework in a financial institution in Tanzania. A purposive sample of 39 participants from three financial institutions was interviewed using semistructured interviews. The data... -
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... -
Sociodemographic and clinical profiles of suicidal patients requiring admission to hospitals south of Durban
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SS Naidoo --- Department of Family Medicine, L Schlebusch --- Department of Behavioural Medicine,Background: Suicidal behaviour has become a major public health concern worldwide. Non-fatal suicidal attempts outnumber fatal episodes by wide-ranging figures across, and within, many countries. Approximately 6 500 suicides and 130 000 suicide attempts occur annually in South Africa, with... -
Sources of life meaning among South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Werner Nell --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaThis study explored the sources of meaning in life among a group of 243 South African university students, using a sequential exploratory mixed methods design. First, data from semi-structured questionnaires (n=40) were subjected to qualitative content analysis; next, from the... -
Re-use of seedling containers and Fusarium circinatum association with asymptomatic Pinus patula planting stock
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Andrew R Morris --- Institute for Commercial Forestry Research, South Africa Gerda Fourie --- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, South Africa Izette Greyling --- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, South Africa Emma T Steenkamp --- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, South Africa Nicoletta B Jones --- Sappi Forests, Shaw Research Centre, South AfricaFusarium circinatum is a pathogen causing serious post-planting mortality of Pinus patula seedlings in southern Africa. Containerised planting stock that is asymptomatic but associated with F. circinatum in the nursery is thought to be the cause of this problem. The... -
Beyond ethical imperatives in South African anthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ilana van Wyk --- Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), Upper Campus, Humanities Graduate Building, 4 Floor, University of Cape Town, South AfricaIn this article, I argue that anthropologists' dislike of their subjects in the field poses both epistemological and ethical questions that go beyond concerns about harming or exploiting those we study, about maintaining human relationships, or about the self-reflexivity and... -
Responding to the crisis: food co-operatives and the solidarity economy in Greece
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Theodoros Rakopoulos --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThis article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the antimiddleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current Greek crisis, explaining how participants... -
The implementation of guidelines in a South African population with type 2 diabetes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Y Pinchevsky --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, N Butkow --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, FJ Raal --- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Health Sciences, T Chirwa --- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the treatment gaps that pertain to risk factors in South African patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using national treatment guidelines. -
Green economy and innovation: compressive strength potential of blended cement cassava peels ash and laterised concrete
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: EE Agbenyeku --- Department of Civil Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, South Africa FN Okonta --- Department of Civil Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, South AfricaThis work highlights the incorporation of two locally available materials, cassava peels ash (CPA) and laterite, in concrete production for construction purposes. The abundance of these materials in West Africa paved the way for this study. The effect of partial... -
HIV risk after release from prison: a pilot case-control study in Canada, France, Ivory Coast and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Evelyne Vallières --- LICEF, Canada Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Rémi Dongo Kouabenan --- Université Pierre Mendès France, France Denis Dagou Koménan --- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cocody, Ivory Coast Sid Abdellaoui --- Université de Paris, France François Joseph Azoh --- École normale supérieure, Ivory Coast Pierre McDuff --- Université de Montréal, Canada Jacques Bergeron --- Université de Montréal, Canada Safiétou MBaye --- Électricité de France (EDF), FranceThis study aimed to assess HIV knowledge, risk perception and risk behaviour of ex-offenders at risk of new infection and to compare them with the general population. A case-control interview study was conducted with conveniently sampled ex-offenders and persons with... -
Exploring risk and protective mechanisms associated with HIV infection among adolescents in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Pamela Naidoo --- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Geri Donenberg --- Department of Medicine, United States Alicia Davids --- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Kim Jonas --- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Redwaan Vermaak --- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Leickness Simbayi --- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Ashraf Kagee --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Catherine Ward --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Erin Emersen --- Department of Medicine, United StatesThis study explored South African adolescents’ perceived risk and protection for HIV infection. Adolescents (N=28) with a mean age of 14.6 years receiving mental health care participated in Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to engage in an in-depth exploration of their... -
Sexual orientation and HIV risk among youth in South Africa: a brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThis study investigated the prevalence of homosexual orientation and HIV risk in a population-based survey among youth in South Africa. A cross-sectional population-based household survey was conducted using a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling approach. The total sample included 1859 sexually... -
Social comparison influences on disciplinary panels: a brief qualitative study in Kenyan secondary schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Peter J.O. Aloka --- Department of Psychology & Educational Foundations, Kenya Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- Department of Educational Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the influences of social comparisons on group polarization in decision making among members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels. Ten participants from 10 selected secondary school disciplinary panels were involved. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect... -
Repeat photography as a tool for detecting and monitoring historical changes in South African coastal habitats
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: B Reimers --- Centre for Invasion Biology and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa CL Griffiths --- Centre for Invasion Biology and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa MT Hoffman --- Plant Conservation Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaRepeat photography was used to illustrate long-term changes occurring in coastal habitats in the Western Cape, South Africa. Historic images were sourced from books and theses, the public and subject specialists, and repeat photographs were then taken from the same... -
Nutritional condition of fish larvae in South African estuaries: an appraisal of three biochemical methods
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Costalago --- Department of Zoology, South Africa N Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa C Frost --- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, South AfricaEstuaries are exposed to a number of threats and many South African estuarine systems are functionally and structurally altered. The extent to which fish are affected by these alterations is not fully understood. The estuarine round herring Gilchristella aestuaria is... -
The HIV/AIDS caregiver identity as a double-edged sword: a discourse analysis on HIV/AIDS caregiving in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Vania Ranjbar --- Angered Hospital, SwedenThis article discusses the identity of HIV/AIDS caregivers as constructed by a group of HIV/AIDS caregivers at a non-profit organisation in South Africa. During a 12-month period data were collected through interviews with the organisation's staff and volunteers. Using discourse... -
Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kgabo Hector Ramoroka --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa Peter Jacobs --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa Hlokoma Mangqalaza --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South AfricaRural localities are often viewed as too remote, sparsely populated and poor in critical resources needed for them to be innovation hubs. This study contributes new evidence on how actor networks improve innovation performance among rural enterprises that are privately... -
Aspects of the breeding ecology of the Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio in the wetland complex of Guerbes-Sanhadja, north-east Algeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Bara Mouslim --- Laboratoire Ecologie des Systèmes terrestres et aquatiques, Algeria Merzoug Seyf Eddine --- Laboratoire Biologie, Eau et Environnement, Algeria Khelifa Rassim --- Laboratoire Biologie, Eau et Environnement, Algeria Bouslama Zihad --- Laboratoire Ecologie des Systèmes terrestres et aquatiques, Algeria Houhamdi Moussa --- Laboratoire Biologie, Eau et Environnement, AlgeriaThe Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio is a common rail that previously was little investigated in North Africa. From 2011 to 2013, its breeding ecology was studied at two natural wetlands in north-east Algeria, namely Garaet Hadj Tahar and Garaet Messaoussa... -
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%... -
Towards happiness interventions: construct clarification and intervention methodologies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to investigate the main streams of research on happiness, the approaches/models flowing from these philosophies and the methodology of happiness interventions. A systematic review was performed outlining the authors, the purpose of the research,... -
Perceptions of alcohol risk among people on antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: a qualitative study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, South AfricaThis study explored perceptions of alcohol abuse risk among people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) who self-identified as alcohol users. Twenty six people receiving ART from an out-patient setting were interviewed on their alcohol abuse risk perception. Data were thematically analysed... -
A critical engagement with the DSM-5 and psychiatric diagnosis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Susan Kriegler --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Suzanne E Bester --- Department of Educational Psychology, South AfricaClassifications in psychiatry can result in the reification of hypothetical approaches, arbitrary categorisation and social injustice. This article applies a social constructivist approach to critique the DSM-5 as a neurobiological model of psychiatric diagnosis which ignores psychosocial factors such as... -
A modern look at hypertension and anaesthesia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: MFM James --- Department of Anaesthesia, RA Dyer --- Department of Anaesthesia, BL Rayner --- Departments of Anaesthesia and Medicine,Hypertension is common among patients presenting for surgery, and is frequently untreated or inadequately treated. While the approach to the patient with hypertension presenting for anaesthesia is controversial, and the evidence base for appropriate clinical decisions is weak, this is... -
Fever in children: how to minimise risk and provide appropriate therapy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Robin J Green --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, South Africa Adéle Pentz --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, South AfricaThe management of fever in children is a subject that garners many different opinions and interventions. Various approaches seem to be acceptable, from the physician who never uses antipyretic medication, to the use of multiple combination therapies. Following the recent... -
“It’s just de Quervain’s tenosynovitis”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Vipin Asopa --- Sportsmed SA, South Australia Anthony Nguyen --- Sportsmed SA, South Australia Robert Douglas --- Sportsmed SA, South Australia Andrew Saies --- Sportsmed SA, South Australia -
The influence of biological factors on students’ sexual behaviour at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Given Mutinta --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Kaymarlin Govender --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Jeff Gow --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaStudies in South African universities reveal that the prevalence of sexual risk behaviour is very high, putting many students at high risk of HIV infection. This study explored the biological influences on students’ sexual taking behaviour at the University of... -
Generational inversions: ‘working’ for social reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Casey Golomski --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaHow do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and dependency that produce mutuality... -
Practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo and implications for HIV transmission in western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Omondi Olang'o --- Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya Erick Nyambedha --- Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya Jens Aagaard-Hansen --- Steno Health Promotion Center, DenmarkThis paper discusses the practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo ethnic group and its implications for spread of HIV in western Kenya. Sumo kodhi is a practice in which a woman arranges to have sex with a man other... -
Mutuality from above: urban crisis, the state and the work of Comissões de Moradores in Luanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: António Tomás --- African Centre for Cities, South AfricaMy paper discusses the emergence of new regimes of mutuality in the context of a crisis in the built environment of Luanda. By 1991, Luanda's city centre had suffered years of neglect and talk of an urban crisis abounded. The... -
Yvette Christiansë's Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive: Castaways and Generations from Eastern Africa to the South Atlantic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Samuelson --- Department of English, South AfricaThis article traces tropes of dispersal and continuity in Yvette Christiansë oeuvre as it performs a genealogical enquiry through oceanic spaces and in and out of the colonial archive. Revolving respectively around St Helena and the Cape, both the poetry... -
The Female Condition as Double Incarceration in Wambui Otieno's Mau Mau's Daughter
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Walibora Waliaula --- Nation Media Group (NMG), KenyaFocusing on Kenyan freedom fighter Wambui Otieno's narrative Mau Mau's Daughter 1998), this article discusses the interplay between incarceration and the female condition. It bears clarifying that Otieno's narrative of confinement was written and published forty years after the fact... -
Behavioural characteristics of offenders with mental health disorders in a South African prison population
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- Department of Criminology & Security Science, South Africa Anni Hesselink --- Department of Criminology & Security Science, South AfricaThis exploratory study profiled behavioural characteristics of a non-random sample of 91 offenders with mental illness in a South African correctional facility. The sample is directly related to diagnosed cases from the correctional psychiatrist's case load. The most prevalent mental... -
Multiple health risk behaviours and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among university students from 22 countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Thailand Supa Pengpida --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, ThailandThe goal of the study was to investigate multiple health risk behaviours in relation to PTSD symptoms in a sample of university students from 22 countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 16804 undergraduate university students (mean age 20.8,... -
Acacia plantations in Vietnam: research and knowledge application to secure a sustainable future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: EK Sadanandan Nambiar --- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Black Mountain Laboratories, Australia Christopher E Harwood --- CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Australia Nguyen Duc Kien --- Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, VietnamVietnam has established 1.1 million ha of acacia plantations for wood production, managed on 5- to 10-year rotation cycles. Nearly 50% of the resource is managed by small growers holding 1–5 ha woodlots. Acacia plantations have emerged as an important... -
Water quality monitoring in sub-Saharan African lakes: a review of remote sensing applications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: T Dube --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa O Mutanga --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa K Seutloali --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa S Adelabu --- Department of Geography, South Africa C Shoko --- School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, South AfricaWater quality deterioration in sub-Saharan Africa has attained a scale that requires scientific intervention. It is therefore important to devise appropriate and reliable techniques to investigate the water quality of lakes and reservoirs for the development of water resource management... -
Preliminary examination of hatching season and growth of Engraulicypris sardella (Pisces: Cyprinidae) larvae and juveniles in Lake Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Shinsuke Morioka --- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi Emmanuel Kaunda --- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, Bunda College of Agriculture, MalawiThe hatching period and the growth of Malawian cyprinid Engraulicypris sardella larvae and juveniles collected from two sites along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Malawi were investigated using otolith increment information. The lapillus was used to determine the age in... -
Effect of location and season on the arthropod prey of Nycteris grandis (Chiroptera: Nycteridae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Sarah Bayefsky-Anand --- Abraham Joshua Heschel School, U.S.A.Analysis of culled arthropod prey parts collected from beneath four feeding perches was used to assess prey taken by Nycteris grandis from November 1987 to May 1988. The perches were located along the Zambezi River in Mana Pools National Park... -
Genetic variability of South African fiscal shrikes (Lanius collaris) across an altitudinal gradient
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: S. Soobramoney --- School of Biological & Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa G.K. Campbell --- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa C.T. Downs --- School of Biological & Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa N.J. Adams --- School of Biological & Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaAn electrophoretic allozyme study of the fiscal shrike Lanius collaris, a widely distributed sub-Saharan passerine, was undertaken to investigate altitudinal variation in genetic structure within this species. It is a sedentary bird with limited dispersal so that subpopulations may be... -
Waterfowl abundance and diversity in relation to season, wetland characteristics and land-use in semi-arid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Ashley A. Raeside --- Department of Biology, Canada Scott A. Petrie --- Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund, Bird Studies Canada, Canada Thomas D. Nudds --- Department of Integrative Biology, Ecology Group, CanadaWe studied waterfowl abundance and diversity in relation to season (wet vs dry), wetland characteristics (vegetation and morphometrics) and land-use in a semi-arid agricultural region of South Africa to determine how waterfowl respond to various wetland characteristics, particularly those of... -
Breeding ecology of the pink-billed lark, Spizocorys conirostris, in an agricultural landscape in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: D. Engelbrecht --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa M.H.T. Mathonsi --- Department of Biodiversity, South AfricaWe studied the breeding ecology, parental care and nesting success of the pink-billed lark, Spizocorys conirostris, in an agricultural landscape in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, from October 2008 to October 2010. The results are compared with data in... -
Otoliths versus scales: evaluating the most suitable structure for ageing largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: G.C. Taylor --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa O.L.F. Weyl --- Centre for Invasion Biology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaThe suitability of scales for ageing Micropterus salmoides was determined by comparing the precision of growth zone counts on scales with those obtained from sectioned sagittal otoliths from a sample of 496 fish collected from Wriggleswade and Mankazana Impoundments in... -
Determining the most suitable method of otolith preparation for estimating the age of tigerfish, Hydrocynus vittatus in the Pongolapoort Dam, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: M. Soekoe --- Department of Zoology, South Africa F. H. van der Bank --- Department of Zoology, South Africa N. J. Smit --- North-West University, PotchefstroomThis study compares sectioned and whole lapillus and asterisci otoliths as suitable structures for ageing tigerfish, Hydrocynus vittatus. Fifty tigerfish were collected from the Pongolapoort Dam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Growth zone counts on sectioned lapilli showed the greatest percentage agreement... -
Characteristics of the alarm calls of buff-streaked chat groups and African stonechat pairs in response to increased distances from surrogate raptors and snakes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: N. Seoraj-Pillai --- Department of Nature Conservation, South Africa G. Malan --- Department of Nature Conservation, South AfricaMany animals emit alarm calls in response to a potential predator. These calls may transmit information about predator type and response urgency. This study compared the alarm calls of the social buff-streaked chat, Oenanthe bifasciata, to the asocial African stonechat,... -
Confinement lowers fertility rate of helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) eggs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Dennis M. Kimata --- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya Richard W. Mwangi --- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya Peter M. Mathiu --- Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, KenyaGuinea fowl is a common game bird in Africa and there have been efforts to domesticate it for use as a source of human food. An important obstacle in successful domestication of guinea fowl is their low fertility rate.We studied... -
White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Stasja P. Koot --- International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The NetherlandsNamibian Bushmen, such as the Hai//om and the Ju/’hoansi, are increasingly involved in the growing, white-dominated tourism industry. In this, white Namibians tend to position Bushmen and themselves as people of nature and conservationists. Elsewhere, whites from southern Africa have... -
Ecosystem modelling in the southern Benguela: comparisons of Atlantis, Ecopath with Ecosim, and OSMOSE under fishing scenarios
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MD Smith --- Department of Zoology, Australia EA Fulton --- CSIRO [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation], Australia RW Day --- Department of Zoology, Australia LJ Shannon --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Y-J Shin --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaEcosystem-based management of marine fisheries requires the use of simulation modelling to investigate the system-level impact of candidate fisheries management strategies. However, testing of fundamental assumptions such as system structure or process formulations is rarely done. In this study, we... -
Gender and HIV infection in the context of alcoholism in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nancy Muturi --- AQ Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, USAWomen in sub-Saharan Africa account for more than half (58%) of people living with the HIV and it is the only continent where HIV prevalence is higher for women than for men. Studies have attributed alcoholism with the high rates... -
Mental health correlates of HIV risk behaviour and STIs/HIV infection among university students from 22 low, middle and high income countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Thailand Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, ThailandThe aim of this study was to determine mental health correlates of HIV risk behaviour and self-reported STIs/HIV infection among university students in 22 low, middle and high income countries. Data on mental health and HIV risk were collected from... -
Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Susan J Cunningham --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Rowan O Martin --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Philip AR Hockey --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South AfricaBehavioural thermoregulation, particularly the use of cool microclimates, is one method by which organisms could avoid the worst effects of climate warming. However, retreat into cool microsites, e.g. shady vegetation or burrows, may carry important lost-opportunity costs. These could include... -
Characteristics of agriculture technology and application of an agricultural innovation system in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Athman H. Mgumia --- Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Amon Z. Mattee --- Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Tanzania Beatus A.T Kundi --- Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering & Technology (COeT), TanzaniaThe globalisation of the world economy and advancements in science, including the use of biotechnology for agricultural production has subjected agricultural technologies to market forces for their generation and dissemination. It is evident, however, that while some technologies are more... -
Some evidence on the stability of beta coefficients on the JSE
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: D C Bowie --- Quantitative Consultant at The WM Company, Scotland D J Bradfield --- Department of Statistical Sciences,Knowledge of beta stability is crucial for projections involving the use of beta coefficients, in particular, in the areas of project evaluation and portfolio design. This paper investigates the issue of beta stability on the JSE. The investigation reveals how... -
Price earnings ratios on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange - Are they a guide to value?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: G D I Barr --- Department of Statistical Science and Economics, B S Kantor --- Department of Economics,This paper tests whether there is an equilibrium relationship between prices and earnings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Such a relationship would hold if the JSE Index and index earnings were cointegrated, A full explanation of the technique of... -
Extraordinary items: Accounting and market risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: J A Miller --- Emeritus Professor in Accounting and Finance,The market reaction to the recurrent reporting of extraordinary items was tested by calculating and comparing the betas for a portfolio of shares that reported extraordinary items in each of the five years 1990 through 1994 and a control portfolio... -
Factors influencing credit assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: M Ward --- Wits Business School, Graduate School of Business Administration,This study examines the perceptions of credit analysts on which factors determine credit risk. A sample drawn from the major international credit underwriters was used to rank a previously derived set of micro-economic variables in terms of their importance as... -
Uncertainty, cost of capital and financial disclosure: A review of the theory and some evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: M Negash --- University of the Witwatersrand,This paper contains a critical review of the uncertainty research, and reports on the relationship between corporate disclosure and the adverse selection component of the buy-sell (bid-ask) spread of stock prices. Order processing and holding costs will be decoupled from... -
Market segmentation and the cost of equity of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: C Correia --- Department of Accounting, E Uliana --- Department of Accounting,The segmentation between the Resources/Mining and the Financial and Industrial sectors on the Johannesburg stock exchange and the relative historical dominance of the Mining sector in relation to other international markets poses questions about whether the All share data or... -
Characteristics of companies with a higher risk of financial statement fraud: A survey of the literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: E. du Toit --- Department of Financial Management,Fraud and corruption in companies is a serious problem in this day and age. One only needs to think of Enron, Parmalat and Macmed. Companies are constantly identifying new and ingenious ways to defraud their customers, investors, the government and... -
An investigation into the impact of continuous auditing on the external auditors of the four largest banks in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: G Charlton --- Department of Accountancy, B Marx --- Department of Accountancy,With the increasing demands on technology and the increase in the number of transactions processed by organisations, users of financial information require information that is accurate, valid and reliable, but, most importantly, relevant – which means having the information available... -
The corporate use of derivatives: a survey of South Africa’s large listed non-financial firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: C Correia --- College of Accounting, G Holman --- Department of Finance and Tax, A Jahreskog --- College of Accounting,This paper presents the results of a comparative questionnaire survey of derivative use by South African companies. The objective was to determine the extent of derivative use and to examine how and why companies use derivatives. Derivative use by South... -
The impact of a quality, technology-enhanced teaching support medium on student success in a first-year financial accounting module at an open distance learning institute
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: H Muller --- Department of Interdisciplinary Research, A du Plessis --- Department of Financial Accounting,In South Africa, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET) has expressed grave concerns about the poor pass rate of first-year accounting students. In an attempt to improve performance, the University of South Africa (Unisa), an open distance learning... -
Value and size investment strategies during the global financial crisis: evidence from the South African equity market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: K. J. Barnard --- Department of Accounting, South Africa M. B. Bunting --- Department of Accounting, South AfricaValue/growth and size investment strategies involve the creation of equity portfolios on the bases, respectively, of intrinsic value relative to market value and market capitalisation. The propositions that a portfolio of high relative intrinsic value shares anomalously outperforms a low... -
On pricing kernels, information and risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Diane L. Wilcox --- School of Computational & Applied Mathematics, South Africa Tim J. Gebbie --- School of Computational & Applied Mathematics, South AfricaThis paper compares out-of-sample, ex-ante risk and returns of arbitrage pricing theory (APT) risk-factor based, zero-cost portfolios with characteristic-based, zero-cost portfolios. In particular the Haugen and Baker characteristic-based model framework is used in a comparison with the capital asset pricing... -
Effect of the subprime mortgage crisis on a leading emerging market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Jun Sik Kim --- Division of International Trade, Korea Doojin Ryu --- College of Economics, KoreaThis study examines how the US subprime mortgage crisis affects the behaviour of the Korean stock and futures market and how the futures traders react to the shocks related to the crisis. Analysing a unique and high-quality daily data set... -
Fund manager characteristics and performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Yi Fang --- Center for Quantitative Economics, China Haiping Wang --- School of Administrative Studies, CanadaThis study establishes a multitier framework to evaluate how fund manager characteristics systematically affect mutual fund performance. The framework includes three tiers of performance elements: comprehensive performance; return and risk; and timing skill and picking ability. Using performance decomposition, our... -
The influence of the NYSE of the risk of JSE stocks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: D.J. Bradfield --- University of Cape Town,In this article the influence of the NYSE on the risk of securities on the JSE is investigated. A technique for obtainine. Risk coefficients which capture the sensitivity of securities on the JSE to movements on the NYSE is demonstrated... -
Estimating the Return Parameters of the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Colin Firer --- University of the Witwatersrand,The cost of equity capital is a fundamental concept In the field of finance. Its estimation often relies on the application of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Very little help is offered to the practitioner in the selection of appropriate... -
A review of the efficiency of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Narendra Bhana --- Graduate School of Business University of Durban-Westville Private Bag,In recent years there has been considerable evidence which contradicts the efficient market hypothesis. This evidence is reviewed with particular attention to the JSE, The efficiency of the JSE is evaluated by using an efficiency scale which ranges from perfect... -
Risk on The Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Mike Ward --- Lecturer in Finance and Quantitative Methods Faculty of Management,The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) provides a parsimonious method for estimating security returns. However, the strong influence of mining shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has complicated the use of the CAPM in South Africa and some researchers... -
Connecting entrepreneurship and education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsThe aim of this research is to explore the contextual characteristics of a particular group of Dutch restaurant owners, the successful culinary entrepreneurs (SCEs), to examine how these contextual characteristics might be used in a hospitality education. This very small segment of... -
How economic crisis affects revenue management: the case of the Prague Hilton hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Oleksandra Blanar --- Hilton Prague Hotel, Prague, Czech RepublicThis study explores revenue management practices in two Prague hotels throughout the past years of economic crisis. The purpose of the research was to inform hospitality managers and educators about revenue management practices in central Europe’s emerging and challenging hospitality... -
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... -
The place branding of Qatar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Maaike de Jong --- European Tourism Futures Institute, Stenden University, the NetherlandsDestination branding has become popular. Countries brand themselves to draw visitors and competent expatriates and to create economic diversification. The brand emphasises the uniqueness of the place; it frames the culture and sells its way of life. In the perspective... -
A case study of Caribbean chartered airline services for possible application in the Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Radu Mihailescu --- Department of Economics, Free University of Bolzano, ItalyTourism is becoming a vital component of economic development in South Africa. In the light of South Africa having hosted the 2010 Football World Cup, it is important to identify sustainable tourism that continues to benefit the economy long after... -
An evaluation of factors underlying suicide attempts in patients presenting at George Hospital emergency centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Raubenheimer --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa LS Jenkins --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaBackground: Roughly 130 patients are seen daily in the emergency centre (EC) at George Provincial Hospital (GPH), of whom one or two will have attempted suicide. GPH serves the population of Eden and Central Karoo Districts. Little is known about... -
An assessment of the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis among adult patients suffering from human immunodeficiency virus attending the Wellness Clinic at Themba Hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Felix Alberto Herrera Rodriguez --- Medical Department, South Africa Samuel Onoja Agbo --- Family Medicine department, South AfricaBackground: In South Africa, the data about risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is limited. Therefore, the assessment of risk factors for PTB is an important step to identify which risk factors are unique in every specific population context and... -
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in males: a review of pathophysiology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Suhani Maharajh --- Department of Urology, South Africa Ehab H Abdel Goad --- Department of Urology, South Africa Serela S Ramklass --- School of Medicine, South Africa Marius C Conradie --- Netcare Waterfall City Hospital, South AfricaLower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) refer to the symptom complex that is the common pathway for diseases affecting the lower urinary tract. It manifests as either irritative or obstructive symptoms. LUTS have long been recognised as a significant cause of... -
Household Enterprise in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: the Influence of Institutions and Family Embeddedness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Justin W. Webb --- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Christopher G. Pryor --- High Point University, USA Franz W. Kellermanns --- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USANearly half of the population in Africa lives on less than $1.25 per day in what scholars refer to as base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets. More broadly, BOP markets account for two billion of the world's population living in extreme poverty. Household... -
Predictors of peri-operative risk acceptance by South African vascular surgery patients at a tertiary level hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: P Govender --- Department of Anaesthesia, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa D Spurrett --- College of Humanities, Howard College Campus, South Africa BM Biccard --- Peri-Operative Research Group, Department of Anaesthesia, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South AfricaBackground: Vascular surgical patients have an elevated cardiac risk following non-cardiac surgery. The decision whether to proceed with surgery is multidimensional. Patients must balance the considerations in favour of surgery with those favouring conservative treatment, which requires weighing peri-operative risk... -
The achievement of glycaemic, blood pressure and LDL cholesterol targets in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a South African tertiary hospital outpatient clinic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Y Pinchevsky --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa V Shukla --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa N Butkow --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa FJ Raal --- Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa T Chirwa --- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaObjectives: To determine differences in the control of multiple diabetes control parameters in a select group of subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) after a four-year follow-up period. -
Performance and design optimisation of an apparatus for distilling palm wine (Elaeis guineensis) by controlling thermal operations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Clément Ahouannou --- Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Energy, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Fidèle Tchobo --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Emile A. Sanya --- Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Energy, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Christa Lokossou --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Mohamed Soumanou --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, BeninMastery of thermal control in the craft distillation processing operations of fermented wine from Elaeis guineensis is needed to improve and enhance the resulting Beninese alcoholic drink, sodabi. In this study, craft distillation of palm-wines from three municipalities of southern... -
An analysis of problems encountered by auditors of small, medium and micro enterprises in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: EG Kitindi --- Department of Accounting and Finance, DS Iwisi --- Technikon SA, KV Mgaya --- Department of Accounting and Finance,Auditing is acclaimed as lending credibility to financial statements of enterprises. However, small enterprises see little importance in maintaining proper books of accounts and preparing financial statements. The Republic of Botswana has committed itself to the promotion of small enterprises... -
Uncertainty, cost of capital and financial disclosure: A review of the theory and some evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: M Negash --- University of the Witwatersrand,This paper contains a critical review of the uncertainty research, and reports on the relationship between corporate disclosure and the adverse selection component of the buy-sell (bid-ask) spread of stock prices. Order processing and holding costs will be decoupled from... -
A survey of risk factors associated with hypertension in the adult population of Kang, Kgalagadi North, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Tshitenge --- Department of Family Medicine, Botswana LH Mabuza --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South AfricaBackground: Sustainable and aggressive population-based programmes on hypertension awareness, prevention, treatment and control are key to the successful control of this epidemic. The objective of the study was to determine to what extent hypertension and risk factors for its development... -
Risk taking behaviour among urban and rural adolescents in two selected districts in Malaysia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Mohd Nawi Azmawati --- Department of Community Health, Malaysia Abdul Hamid Siti Hazariah --- Kulliyyah of Nursing, Malaysia Azhar Shah Shamsul --- Department of Community Health, Malaysia Ahmad Norfazilah --- Department of Community Health, Malaysia Noor Aizuddin Azimatun --- Department of Community Health, Malaysia Hod Rozita --- Department of Community Health, MalaysiaBackground: Risk taking behaviour refers to the tendency to engage in behaviours that have the potential to be harmful or dangerous, which has become a major concern and is rated as one of the public health issues that need special... -
The impact of the global economic crisis on HIV and AIDS programmes directed at women and children in Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: John Serieux --- Department of Economics, Mwansa Njelesani --- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) at UNESCO, South Africa Abson Chompolola --- Department of Economics, Zambia Ardeshir Sepehri --- Department of Economics, Harminder Guliani --- University of Regina, CanadaThis investigation sought to ascertain the extent to which the global economic crisis of 2008–2009 affected the delivery of HIV/AIDS-related services directed at pregnant and lactating mothers, children living with HIV and children orphaned through HIV in Zambia. Using a... -
Attracting female sex workers to HIV testing and counselling in Ethiopia: a qualitative study with sex workers in Addis Ababa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Wole Ameyan --- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK Caroline Jeffery --- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK Kassahun Negash --- Amref Health Africa, Ethiopia Etsegenet Biruk --- Amref Health Africa, Ethiopia Miriam Taegtmeyer --- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UKDespite growing efforts to increase HIV testing and counselling (HTC) services for most at risk populations in Ethiopia, the use of these services by female sex workers (FSWs) remains low. With rising numbers of FSWs in Addis Ketema and concerns... -
On the road again: concurrency and condom use among Uganda truck drivers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth C Costenbader --- FHI 360 Headquarters, Kathryn Lancaster --- FHI 360 Headquarters, Leonard Bufumbo --- FHI 360 Uganda Country Office, Uganda Angela Akol --- FHI 360 Uganda Country Office, Uganda Greg Guest --- FHI 360 Headquarters,Long-distance truck drivers have been shown to be a critical population in the spread of HIV in Africa. In 2009, surveys with 385 Ugandan long-distance truck drivers measured concurrency point prevalence with two methods; it ranged from 37.4% (calendar-method) to... -
Sexual HIV risk among substance-using female commercial sex workers in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Tara Carney --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South Africa Petal M Petersen Williams --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South Africa Andreas Plüddemann --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South Africa Charles DH Parry --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South AfricaThis study examined data collected from a sample of female sex workers (FSWs) during the first two years of a brief risk-reduction intervention for vulnerable populations that focused on substance use and HIV risk-related behaviours (2007–2009) as part of a... -
Prostate cancer profile and risk stratification of patients treated at Universitas Annex Department of Oncology, Bloemfontein, Free State, during 2008 to 2010
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Sherriff --- Department of Oncology, South Africa N Da Costa --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, South Africa A Engelbrecht --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, South Africa A Li --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, South Africa N Price --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, South Africa G Joubert --- Faculty of Health Science, Department of Biostatistics, South AfricaBackground: Prostate cancer commonly occurs in older men. Since TNM staging excludes prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level and Gleason score, patients with prostate cancer are divided into risk groups when deciding on treatment options. This study determined the profile and risk... -
Flexibility as risk factor for stress-fracture development in South African male soldiers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: PS Wood --- Department of Physiology, Division Biokinetics and Sport Science, South Africa PE Krüger --- Department of Physiology, Division Biokinetics and Sport Science, South AfricaBackground: Stress fractures are a common military training injury. Flexibility of muscles and joints may directly influence stress-fracture risk by way of altering the forces applied to bone. Hip external rotation and ankle plantar- and dorsiflexion have been inconsistently reported... -
“Ba pi ai?”—Rethinking the relationship between secularism and professionalism in anthropological fieldwork
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Lesley J F Green --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaEpistemological commitments shape notions of what constitutes an ethical presence in the field. The article examines the assumption of secularism, linked to objectivity, implicit in codes of ethics. It argues that in fieldwork, the secular position neither guarantees ethical behaviour... -
The roots and complexity of the land issue and of land claims in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: FC de Beer --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Land reform and land restitution are current and emotional issues in South Africa and a scrutiny of the antecedent events and processes is crucial for an understanding of the complexities involved. Comprehending the land issue requires a reflection on the... -
‘Racism and ethnicity’: Reflections on the debatable permanence of terminology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: R. D. Coertze --- School of Law, University of South Africa,The concepts of biological and social race currently have debatable value. The first has lost much of its former validity through the increase in our knowledge of the genetic characteristics of humankind. This new knowledge does not support the older... -
The politics of the liminal and the liminoid in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Marja Spierenburg --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The NetherlandsNature conservation in South(ern) Africa was for a long time dominated by white males and funded by a white elite. In postapartheid South Africa, government and conservation organisations have attempted to transform the sector by promoting the idea that local... -
Revisiting ‘township tourism’: multiple mobilities and the re-territorialisation of township spaces in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jessica L. Dickson --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis article explores themes of social space and mobility significant to tourism within the townships near Cape Town, South Africa. Research on the emergence of ‘township tourism’ has produced contrasting interpretations. Some authors describe essentialised notions of ‘Africanness’, ‘culture’, and... -
Community perceptions of tourism in the Tshivhase area of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.C. Boonzaaier --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, J.H.F. Grobler --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,In the past, Third World places and peoples have been promoted largely by First World tourism agents who relied heavily on stereotyped images from a colonial past, consequently depriving local communities of opportunities and the right to define their own... -
Beyond ethical imperatives in South African anthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ilana van Wyk --- Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), South AfricaIn this article, I argue that anthropologists' dislike of their subjects in the field poses both epistemological and ethical questions that go beyond concerns about harming or exploiting those we study, about maintaining human relationships, or about the self-reflexivity and... -
Responding to the crisis: food co-operatives and the solidarity economy in Greece
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Theodoros Rakopoulos --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThis article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the anti-middleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current Greek crisis, explaining how participants... -
Determining optimal primary sawing and ripping machine settings in the wood manufacturing chain
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Berndt G Lindner --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa PJ Vlok --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa C Brand Wessels --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africafor wood manufacturers around the world, the single biggest cost factor is known to be its raw material. Maximum volume recovery of this raw material is, therefore, of key importance for the industry. The wood products industry consists of several... -
Factors affecting nesting success in the Great-crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus at Lake Tonga, north-east Algeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Sarra Cheriet --- Department of Ecology, FSNV-STR, Algeria Farrah Samraoui --- Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Zones Humides, Algeria Ahmed H Alfarhan --- Center of Excellence for Research in Biodiversity, Saudi Arabia Boudjéma Samraoui --- Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Zones Humides, AlgeriaThe breeding ecology of the Great-crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus was investigated over four consecutive years (2009-2012) at Lake Tonga, north-east Algeria. In all four years, the egg-laying period was relatively short, spanning two months (end of March to end of... -
A rapid assessment of species-specific bird strike risk at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Lars H Holbech --- Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, Ghana Augustus Asamoah --- Ghana Wildlife Society, Ghana Erasmus H Owusu --- Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, GhanaThe Kotoka International Airport in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, has in recent years been confronted with increased presence of birds posing great challenges to aviation safety due to a high risk of bird strikes. As part of measures... -
Temporal distribution of baseline characteristics and association with early mortality among HIV-positive patients at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joshua.O. Akinyemi --- Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Olubukola A. Adesina --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, Nigeria Modupe.O. Kuti --- Department of Chemical Pathology, College of Medicine, Nigeria Babatunde.O. Ogunbosi --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Achiaka E. Irabor --- Department of Family Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Georgina N. Odaibo --- Department of Virology, College of Medicine, Nigeria David O. Olaleye --- Department of Virology, College of Medicine, Nigeria Isaac F. Adewole --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, NigeriaThe first six months of HIV care and treatment are very important for long-term outcome. Early mortality (within 6 months of care initiation) undermines care and treatment goals. This study assessed the temporal distribution in baseline characteristics and early mortality... -
Exploring the Health Belief Model and first-year students’ responses to HIV/AIDS and VCT at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Priya Buldeo --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Leah Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaThe Health Belief Model (HBM) is a psychosocial framework that attempts to explain health behaviour. It is determined by an individual's personal beliefs or perceptions about a disease and the options available to decrease its occurrence. In the context of... -
Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Liesel Ebersöhn --- Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Irma Eloff --- Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Michelle Finestone --- Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Adri Grobler --- Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Melanie Moen --- Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa“Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS”, demonstrates how a concurrent mixed method design assisted cross-cultural comparison and ecological descriptions of resilience in young South African children, as well as validated... -
Incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy within a private diabetes mellitus clinic in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: RL Thomas --- Diabetes Research Unit, Wales L Distiller --- Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, South Africa SD Luzio --- Diabetes Research Unit, Wales VJ Melville --- Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, South Africa S Roy Chowdhury --- Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales B Kramer --- Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, South Africa DR Owens --- Diabetes Research Unit, WalesObjective: The study objective was to examine the influence of glycaemic control and ethnic variations on the incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). -
Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi --- Department of English, CanadaThis article explores three Kenyan political prison narratives, J. M. Kariuki's Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), and Maina wa Kĩnyatti's Kenya: A Prison Notebook (2009), as archives of anxious disputes over alternative... -
High-risk human papillomavirus screening and testing with immunohistochemical surrogate biomarkers: an alternative to polymerase chain reaction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Gynaecological Oncology • Authors: L J Van Bogaert --- Pathologist National Health Laboratory Service and University of Limpopo, -
An original risk of ovarian malignancy index and its predictive value in evaluating the nature of ovarian tumour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Gynaecological Oncology • Authors: Vesna Antovska --- Department of Urogynecology, Macedonia Milka Trajanova --- Department of Urogynecology, MacedoniaBackground: We carried out this study to evaluate the predictive value of an original risk of ovarian malignancy index (ROMI) devised by us. -
Intramedullary conus medullaris tuberculoma in an HIV-infected child: an unusual immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome response
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: M. Lawler --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, S. Zulu --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, M. Archary --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, V. Govender --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, L. Mubaiwa --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, R. Bobat --- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine,A human immunodeficiency virus-infected girl with previous cerebral tuberculosis presented with paraparesis and sphincter dysfunction after improvement in her CD4 count, following antiretroviral therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging of her spinal cord revealed a conus medullaris lesion, in keeping with a... -
Using reusable containers for hospital waste: is there an infection risk?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: T.R. Grimmond --- Director, Grimmond and Associates, Microbiology Consultancy, New ZealandReusable waste containers are used to transport healthcare risk waste (sharps and non-sharps) in many countries, and are becoming increasingly common in South Africa. Initially, there may be a perception of risk of pathogen or disease transmission with their introduction... -
Predictors of tuberculosis treatment defaulting in informal dwellers within the eThekwini municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: A Rajagopaul --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences, E J Kistnasamy --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences, P Reddy --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences,Globally, tuberculosis causes more than 2-million deaths annually. Despite the implementation of the directly observed treatment strategy (DOTS) in South Africa, cure and defaulter rates have not reached World Health Organization (WHO) target rates. This causes concern as it may... -
Factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis outcomes among inmates in Potchefstroom Prison in North West province
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: T Mnisi --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, J Tumbo --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, I Govender --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care,Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among the world's prison populations. Prisons are reservoirs of tuberculosis and threaten inmates, prison staff, visitors and the surrounding community. This study was carried out to explore the associated factors with pulmonary tuberculosis... -
Exploring communication channels used by festival visitors: Traditional channels versus the Internet
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: A. van Lille --- Business Management, South Africa J.W. Strydom --- Business Management, South AfricaVarious communication channels are available to festival managers to present messages to specific target markets. Today's festival visitors live in the Information Age, and have become mostly unresponsive to traditional communication methods. Therefore this research investigated the communication channels used... -
Skull morphometrics of male Subantarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus tropicalis) from Marion and Gough Islands
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Graham I.H. Kerley --- Zoology Department, South Africa Bryce R. Allen --- Zoology Department, South Africa Marthán N. Bester --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South AfricaSkull morphometrics of two populations of Subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) were compared in order to identify possible geographic variation as an indicator of gene flow between the populations, as well as a potential tool to identify the source of... -
Evaluating herbivore extinction probabilities in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: M.H. Knight --- Scientific Services, South African National Parks, South Africa M. Kshatriya --- Conservation Planning Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, South Africa A.S. Van Jaarsveld --- Conservation Planning Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology and Centre for Environmental Studies, South Africa A.O. Nicholls --- Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Australia A.J. Hall-Martin --- Conservation Services, South AfricaPopulation extinction evaluations, based on the model developed by Dennis et al. (1991) that did not take density dependence into account and that were based on census data, suggest that many of the herbivore species in Addo Elephant National Park... -
Potential distributions of the medium- to large-sized mammals in the Cape Floristic Region, based on historical accounts and habitat requirements>
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: A.F. Boshoff --- Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit, Department of Zoology, South Africa L.J. Kerley --- Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit, Department of Zoology, South AfricaConservation planning in the Cape Floristic Region, a recognized world plant diversity hotspot, required systematic (i.e. presence/absence) information on the estimated distributions of the medium- to large-sized mammals. A pragmatic approach for obtaining distribution estimates, for the period prior to... -
What do myrmecophagous geckos eat when ants are not available?: comparative diets of three Socotran species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Miguel A. Carretero --- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal Pietro Lo Cascio --- Associazione ‘Nesos’,, ItalyThe diet of three populations of semaphore geckos (Pristurus) from Socotra archipelago is analysed based on 82 faecal pellets. Pristurus samhaensis from the small islands of Samha (n = 18) and Darsa (n = 24) and P. sokotranus from the... -
Phylogeography of the African common toad, Amietophrynus regularis, based on mitochondrial DNA sequences: inferences regarding the Cape Verde population and biogeographical patterns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: R. Vasconcelos --- CIBIO UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal E. Froufe --- CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal J.C Brito --- CIBIO UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal S. Carranza --- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC UPF), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Spain D.J. Harris --- CIBIO UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, PortugalThe amphibian Amietophrynus regularis is distributed throughout equatorial Africa, with presumed introduced populations in the Cape Verde archipelago. Portions of the 12S and 16S rRNA mitochondrial regions of 30 specimens from Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Mali, Burkina-Faso, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Cape... -
Researching snails on holiday: An agenda for caravanning and caravanners?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsVacations spent in caravans account for a significant strand of the UK leisure market. The potential mobility, yet homelike structures, can be said to offer a base of security when staying away. Like snails, caravanners travel taking their domestic space with them,... -
Looking from a local lens: Inbound tour operators and sustainable tourism in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Department of Social and Environmental Statistics, Rome, Italy Fiona Ngesa --- Kenya Tourist Board, Nairobi, KenyaFew empirical studies on sustainable tourism take into account the perspective of developing countries’ actors. This is even the case in debates about the need to adapt sustainability’s definitions to the context of developing countries. The present study aims at giving a... -
An ethnographic study of tourist psychological states: Implications for festivities and events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Prokopis Christou --- Hospitality and Tourism Department, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus Campus, Larnaca, CyprusThis is the first study that explores in such depth the emotional dimensions of visitors at numerous and various events held around the world, for almost ten years. Unexpected findings and new knowledge provide novel directions to the new millennium tourism stakeholders,... -
A review of paediatric anaesthetic-related mortality, serious adverse events and critical incidents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: L Cronjé --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, South AfricaAnaesthetists increasingly face questions from parents on the long-term outcomes of anaesthesia, and yet more immediate anaesthetic risks are not understood, nor explained to families. This review focused on paediatric anaesthetic-related mortality, cardiac arrest and anaesthetic-related serious adverse events and... -
Church rules? The lines of ordentlikheid among Stellenbosch Afrikaners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Annika Teppo --- Nordic Africa Institute, SwedenEthnographic accounts of South African moral codes have mostly focused on so-called black and coloured areas, while the ideals and practices of white people have remained largely invisible and undiscussed. In the post-apartheid era, Afrikaners’ everyday religious practices as well... -
“We are all children of God”: a Charismatic church as space of encounter between township and suburb in post-apartheid Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Barbara Heer --- Institute of Social Anthropology, SwitzerlandTwenty years after the first democratic election in South Africa, Johannesburg is still marked by the legacy of apartheid. This makes it difficult for residents of former townships and of suburban middle classes to interact in everyday life. Nevertheless, urban... -
Saldanha Bay, South Africa I: the use of ocean colour remote sensing to assess phytoplankton biomass
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ME Smith --- Marine Remote Sensing Unit, Department of Oceanography, South Africa GC Pitcher --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South AfricaThe efficacy of ocean colour remote sensing in assessing the variability of phytoplankton biomass within Saldanha Bay is examined. Satellite estimates of chlorophyll a (Chl a) were obtained using the maximum peak-height (MPH) algorithm on full-resolution (300 m) data from the... -
Perceived challenges faced by the internal audit function in the South African public sector: A case study of The National Treasury
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nebbel Motubatse --- Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Karin Barac --- Department of Auditing, South Africa Elza Odendaal --- Department of Auditing, South AfricaThis article reports on the challenges faced by the internal audit function in the South African public sector, as perceived by role players other than the internal audit function itself. This study implemented a qualitative research design, using a case... -
Classification of unregulated landfills by waste stream analysis method, a case of Chief Albert Luthuli Municipality, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fannie Machete --- Department of Environmental Health, South Africa Karabo Shale --- Department of Environmental Health, South AfricaThe characterisation of unregulated landfills as general landfills is misleading particularly because these landfills are used to dispose of a mixed stream of general and hazardous waste. Unregulated landfills are unlicensed on-land waste disposal facilities that are not designed, constructed... -
The deterioration of production schedules during unforeseen disruptions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: J.M. Ikome --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa M.G. Kanakana --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South Africa S.P. Ayodeji --- Department of Industrial Engineering, South AfricaIn most real-world environments, production scheduling is an ongoing process where the presence of a variety of unforeseen disruptions is usually inevitable, and continually forces reconsideration and revision of pre-established schedules. Many of the approaches developed to solve the problem... -
Acute postoperative pain in 1 231 patients at a developing country referral hospital: incidence and risk factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Adriaan Albertus Murray --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa Francois Wilhelm Retief --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Postoperative pain is poorly studied in developing countries. At a Western Cape referral hospital, it was aimed to determine the incidence of acute postoperative pain, to identify populations associated with a higher risk thereof (in order to guide resource... -
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... -
Gender inequality dynamics in the prevention of a heterosexual HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jane Wathuta --- School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis paper critiques the approach to the elimination of gender inequality as an HIV prevention strategy in the just ended era of the Millennium Development Goals, with the aim of contributing to the formulation of policy guidelines for sub-Saharan Africa... -
Subtidal macrozoobenthic community resilience to change following natural mouth breaching of the temporarily open/closed East Kleinemonde Estuary, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TH Wooldridge --- Department of Zoology, South Africa K Bezuidenhout --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe East Kleinemonde Estuary, on the south-east coast of South Africa, typically opens for only short periods, usually <10 days. During a nine-month study in 2006, marine influence persisted for a near-continuous period of three months. This provided an opportunity... -
Distribution and ecological risks of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in surface sediment of the Forcados River, Niger Delta, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CMA Iwegbue --- Department of Chemistry, NigeriaConcentrations of Σ15 PCBs in sediments of the Forcados River, Nigeria, were determined in 2012 to provide information on the profile, sources and ecotoxicological risks of PCBs in the sediment. The screening concentrations of PCBs were quantified using a gas... -
Pituitary apoplexy masquerading as meningitis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: BJ Merwitz --- Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences,, South Africa JM Zamparini --- Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa FJ Raal --- Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences,, South AfricaPituitary apoplexy is an uncommon condition and medical emergency that classically presents with abrupt onset of severe headache, nausea, fever, impaired level of consciousness, visual disturbances and a variable degree of ocular paresis. The constellation of signs, symptoms and cerebrospinal... -
Risk disclosures by South African listed companies post-King III
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Kim Raemaekers --- School of Accountancy, South Africa Warren Maroun --- School of Accountancy, South Africa Nirupa Padia --- School of Accountancy, South AfricaThe introduction of principles on the governance of risk in the King Code on Corporate Governance (King III), coupled with the drive for more integrated models of reporting, has highlighted the need for effective communication of risks and risk-management strategies... -
The informed consent process for anaesthesia: perspectives of elective surgical patients at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: S Naidu --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa PD Gopalan --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: Amongst state hospitals in the eThekwini municipality, obtaining informed consent for anaesthesia is often an informal interaction between the patient and anaesthetist, lacking structure and standardisation. -
Plastic ingestion by estuarine mullet Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae) in an urban harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Naidoo --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa AJ Smit --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa D Glassom --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaCoastal urban environments have high plastic pollution levels, and hence interactions between plastic debris and marine life are frequent. We report on plastic ingestion by mullet Mugil cephalus in Durban Harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Of 70 mullet (13.0–19.5 cm total length),... -
Factors influencing academic use of internet banking services: An empirical study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Theresadevi Moodley --- Information Systems & Technology, South Africa Irene Govender --- Information Systems & Technology, South AfricaThis study explores factors influencing the adoption of Internet banking. Based on the literature and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, six constructs which influence academics’ usage of and behavioural intention to adopt Internet banking... -
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... -
Sustainable tourism development and the world heritage status of the Wadden Sea: The case of Terschelling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Akke Folmer --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Hans Revier --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tamara Cupido --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsNational governments and regions make great efforts to obtain international recognition for their natural heritage, for instance through UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list. Since June 2009, the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the World Heritage List. Our study investigates... -
Idiosyncratic risk and anomaly persistence on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Daniel Page --- School of Economic & Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa James Britten --- School of Economic & Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Christo Auret --- School of Economic & Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis study examines arbitrage costs and the persistence of the size, value and momentum premiums on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Two arbitrage costs are considered: transaction and holding costs. Transaction costs refer to indirect and direct costs of engaging... -
Childhood physical and sexual abuse, and adult health risk behaviours among university students from 24 countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Thailand Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, ThailandThe goal of this study was to retrospectively estimate the prevalence of childhood physical abuse (CPA) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in relation to experience of adult violence, poor mental health, addictive behaviour and sexual risk behaviour among university students... -
An exploration of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire for assessing female recidivism in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- Department of Criminology,This study profiled incarcerated female offenders’ criminogenic-oriented self-appraisals. Respondents were 77 female offenders between the ages of 20 and 56 years, serving custodial sentences within the South African Department of Correctional Services ranging from under a year to 25 years,... -
Product diversification in South Africa’s commercial timber plantations: a way to mitigate investment risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Verena C Griess --- Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, Canada Britta Uhde --- Department of Forest and Wood Science, South Africa Cori Ham --- Institute of Forest Management, Germany Thomas Seifert --- Institute of Forest Management, GermanyWe used the portfolio method to examine how a forest company can lower investment risk by producing a mix of timber products. We derived optimum combinations of pine (Pinus patula) saw timber production and eucalypt (Eucalyptus grandis) pulpwood production at... -
Risk factors of poor anthropometric status in children under five years of age living in rural districts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Ms Lesiapeto --- Centre for Excellence in Nutrition, South Africa Cm Smuts --- Centre for Excellence in Nutrition, South Africa Sm Hanekom --- Centre for Excellence in Nutrition, South Africa J Du Plessis --- Department of Statistics, South Africa M Faber --- Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, South AfricaObjectives: Factors associated with children’s anthropometric status were determined. -
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease risk in an African population in transition: the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Pt Pisa --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, South Africa A Kruger --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, South Africa Hh Vorster --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, South Africa Bm Margetts --- Institute of Human Nutrition, United Kingdom T Loots Du --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, South AfricaObjective: There is evidence showing a cardioprotective effect of light to moderate alcohol consumption in many populations. Whether alcohol consumption reduces cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in an African population remains unclear. This study therefore assessed the associations between alcohol consumption... -
Household market participation and stunting in preschool children in Lilongwe, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Al Howard --- Department of Global and Community Health, Mk Komwa --- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, R. Yohane --- Kanengo AIDS Support Organization, Kh Jacobsen --- Department of Global and Community Health,Background: Stunting among Malawian preschool children continues to be a concern. -
Under- and overnutrition and evidence of metabolic disease risk in rural black South African children and adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Tm Pedro --- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit Department of Paediatrics, K. Kahn --- MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Jm Pettifor --- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit Department of Paediatrics, Sm Tollman --- MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Sa Norris --- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit Department of Paediatrics,Objectives: The objective was to determine the prevalence of under- and overnutrition, as well as evidence of metabolic disease risk in rural black South African children and adolescents. -
Understanding entrepreneurship in the South African context: Insights from entrepreneurial risk attitudes of four major ethnic groups
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Dennis Yao Dzansi --- Department of Business Support Studies, South Africa Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor --- Department of Adult Basic Education, South AfricaResearchers have been asking why some ethnic groups are more entrepreneurial than others. This question persists in South Africa where there are differing entrepreneurial outcomes based on ethnicity. In this study, we examine why some ethnic groups in South Africa... -
Work engagement in the mining industry in South Africa: The role of tasks and relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joe Palo --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThe platinum mining sector in South Africa presents a significant context for the study of work engagement, given the major changes and turmoil experienced by employees in this sector. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of... -
Caring and connectedness in the context of domestic worker employment in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christel Marais --- Department of Human Resource Management,This study investigated workplace relational connectedness qualities in terms of domestic worker employment in a South African setting. Twenty black female domestic workers were recruited through purposive respondent-driven self-sampling. Participants ranged in age from 27 to 59 years. Semi-structured in-depth... -
Actual and perceived collision risk for bird strikes at Namibian airports
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Morgan L Hauptfleisch --- Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences, Namibia Nico L Avenant --- Centre for Environmental Management, South AfricaAt Namibia’s two major airports, Hosea Kutako International and Eros (domestic), 117 bird strike collision incidents were recorded between 2006 and 2010. A risk assessment, which included a proposed risk weighting methodology, was conducted at Hosea Kutako and Eros airports,... -
Common-wide information flow in CDS markets: The case of earnings surprises of industry leaders
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Paulo Pereira da Silva --- CMVM-Portuguese Securities Commission, Rua Laura Alves n.° 4, Lisbon, PortugalThis paper examines the way common-wide information is disseminated in credit default swap (CDS) markets. I find strong supporting evidence that earnings announcements of CDS references with greater liquidity and higher credit risk help in predicting the subsequent CDS spread... -
Effects of rising food prices on household food security on femaleheaded households in Runnymede Village, Mopani District, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: K Mkhawani --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa SA Motadi --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa NS Mabapa --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa XG Mbhenyane --- Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, R Blaauw --- Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,Background: Rising food prices can have a devastating effect on the health of poor households by making it more difficult for them to afford basic food baskets. Although South Africa is food secure as a nation, it does not mean... -
Investigation of the coexistence of CKD and non-communicable chronic diseases in a PBM company in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: WP Meuwesen --- Medicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), South Africa JM du Plessis --- Medicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), South Africa JR Burger --- Medicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), South Africa MS Lubbe --- Medicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), South Africa M Cockeran --- Medicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), South AfricaBackground: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem, with increasing global prevalence. Several factors could influence the prognosis of CKD, including comorbid chronic conditions. This study investigated the coexistence of CKD and non-communicable chronic diseases in the private... -
Testing for the occurrence of pilchard herpesvirus (PHV) in South African sardine Sardinops sagax
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BM Macey --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South Africa KW Christison --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South Africa J de Goede --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South Africa L Hutchings --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa CD van der Lingen --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South AfricaCatches of South African sardine Sardinops sagax have declined in recent years from about 200 000 t harvested annually during the period 2002–2006 to less than 100 000 t. Consequently, some companies are now importing sardine from sources elsewhere in... -
Laboratory-scale evaluation of the potential of chemical containment for farmed abalone larval escapees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A Roux --- Department of Genetics, South Africa H Lambrechts --- Department of Animal Sciences, South Africa R Roodt-Wilding --- Department of Genetics, South AfricaThe sensitivity of abalone Haliotis midae larvae to low levels of toxicants was used to conduct a laboratoryscale experiment to determine the possibility of using chemical containment to prevent the escape of larvae from land-based culture systems, thereby reducing the... -
Learners’ perceptions and experiences of respect in educator-learner relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lucie Grimova --- Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, South Africa Izanette Van Schalkwyk --- Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, South AfricaThe aim of the study was to explore and describe secondary school learners’ perceptions and experiences of respect in educator-learner relationships within a high-risk South African neighbourhood context. A qualitative research design was used in this study. The 15 participants... -
Adolescents’ perceptions of health and well-being: Influences of urban contemporary music
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cindy Swartbooi --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Shazly Savahl --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Deborah Isobell --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Gadija Khan --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Cassandra Wagenaar --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Fadzisai Makonyonga --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Thandokazi Maseti --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Laaiqah Parker --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tshinondiwa Ramaite --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study aimed to explore adolescents’ perceptions of how urban contemporary music influences health and well-being among them. Data on health and well-being effects of music consumption were gathered from a convenience sample of 16 participants (male = 50%, females... -
Postoperative neuromuscular function following non-depolarising muscle blockade in patients at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: JRR Invernizzi --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, South Africa PD Gopalan --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: Residual neuro-muscular blockade after the end of general anaesthesia may occur when non-depolarising muscle relaxant (NDMR) drugs are used. Train-of-four (TOF) stimulation is used to quantify the degree of residual paralysis, with a TOF ratio of less than 0.9... -
Water cytotoxicity and dioxins bioaccumulation in an Egyptian delta wetland ecosystem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MM El-Shazly --- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Egypt El Elzayat --- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Egypt WA Omar --- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Egypt IIA El-Sebeay --- Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt YA Edmardash --- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Egypt MM Soliman --- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Egypt KM Abdel Rahman --- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Egypt MS Ibrahim --- Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, EgyptManzala Lake, as one of the main Egyptian wetland ecosystems, is facing risks of pollution. An in vitro cytotoxicity test using a mammalian cell line was employed to determine the toxicity of multiple pollutants in the water and Tilapia zillii... -
Multiple sexual partnerships and their correlates among Facebook users in Swaziland: an online cross-sectional study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Bhekumusa Wellington Lukhele --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan Teeranee Techasrivichien --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan Patou Masika Musumari --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan Christina El-saaidi --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan S. Pilar Suguimoto --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan Masako Ono-Kihara --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, Japan Masahiro Kihara --- Department of Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology, JapanSocial networking sites (SNSs) have been suggested to facilitate risky sexual activities. However, it is unknown and of concern how SNSs such as Facebook shape risky sexual activities in developing settings such as Swaziland, the country hardest hit by HIV... -
A qualitative study of migrant-related stressors, psychosocial outcomes and HIV risk behaviour among truck drivers in Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos --- School of Social Work, USA Nomagugu Ncube --- International Organization for Migration, Zambia Simona J. Simona --- Department of Social Development Studies, Zambia Brian Kansankala --- International Organization for Migration, Zambia Emmanuel Sinkala --- International Organization for Migration, Zambia Jasmin Raidoo --- School of Social Work, USATruck drivers are part of mobile populations which have been noted as a key population at risk of HIV in Zambia. This study was aimed at: (1) determining potentially traumatic events (PTEs), labour migrant-related stressors, psychosocial problems and HIV risk... -
Clinical correlates of suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and AIDS disease in Mbarara, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Godfrey Zari Rukundo --- Department of Psychiatry, Uganda Eugene Kinyanda --- Department of Psychiatry, Uganda Brian Mishara --- Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia and Psychology Department, CanadaThe association between suicidality and HIV/AIDS has been demonstrated for three decades, but little is know about risk factors that can help understand this association and help identify who is most at risk. Few research studies have been conducted in... -
Do long memory and asymmetries matter when assessing downside return risk?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Nico Katzke --- Economics Department, South Africa Chris Garbers --- Economics Department, South AfricaIn this paper we set out to test whether, on sector level, returns series in South Africa exhibit long memory and asymmetries and, more specifically, whether these effects should be accounted for when assessing downside risk. The purpose of this... -
Protection of marine birds and turtles at St Brandon’s Rock, Indian Ocean, requires conservation of the entire atoll
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SW Evans --- Research Unit: Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa N Cole --- Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augrès Manor, Channel Islands H Kylin --- Research Unit: Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa NS Choong Kwet Yive --- Department of Chemistry, V Tatayah --- Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Mauritius J Merven --- Raphael Fishing Co. Ltd, Mauritius H Bouwman --- Research Unit: Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaA survey of seabirds and turtles at St Brandon’s Rock, 400 km north of Mauritius, was undertaken in 2010. We estimated that 1 084 191 seabirds comprising seven breeding species and excluding non-breeders were present at the archipelago and we... -
World culture festivals: Their perceived effect on and value to domestic and international tourism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ki-tai Lee --- Department of Studies in Event Tourism and International Conferences, South Korea Joon-ho Kim --- Education Institute, Golden CATs, South KoreaThis study investigated the impact of the festival experience (sensory, cognitive, and behavioural) on the perceived value and loyalty of tourists. The participants were 450 tourists (51.1% domestic; 48.9% international) who attended the 2015 South Korean World Culture festival. Of... -
The impact of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on bond fund performance persistence: Evidence from a small market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Paulo Leite --- Applied Management Research Unit (UNIAG), Portugal Orlando Faria --- Medicavado Group – Insurance Company, Portugal Manuel Rocha Armada --- NIPE – School of Economics and Management, PortugalWe evaluate the impact of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on the performance and performance persistence of a survivorship bias-free sample of bond funds from a small market, identified as one of the most affected by this event, during the... -
Potential use of wood ash in South African forestry: a review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Gerhardus P Scheepers --- Department of Forestry and Wood Science, South Africa Ben du Toit --- Department of Forestry and Wood Science, South AfricaThe use of landfills as a disposal method for wood ash is costly, environmentally detrimental and is pitted against increasingly stern environmental regulations. Literature has shown that wood ash has the potential to be used as a forest fertiliser and... -
The Illusion of Truth in Three Kenyan Crime Novels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Larry Ndivo --- Department of Linguistics & Languages, KenyaFocusing on crime autobiography in Kenya, this article reads John Kiriamiti’s three novels, My Life in Crime (1984), My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) and My Life in Prison (2004) to argue that although the writer adopts confession... -
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... -
A criminogenic profile of a sample of South African high school learners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- Department of Criminology,This study investigated the prevalence of criminogenic risk factors among South African high school learners. A sample of 312 high school learners attending a secondary (high) school in the Gauteng province of South Africa were surveyed (55.3% = female). They... -
The number of stocks required for effective portfolio diversification: the South African case
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: David Bradfield --- Department of Statistical Sciences, South Africa Brian Munro --- Multi Asset Department, Cadiz Asset Management, South AfricaThis article considers several insights surrounding the number of stocks needed in portfolios in South Africa to achieve effective risk reduction. The majority of studies in the literature use equally-weighted portfolio construction schemes and conclude that at most 20 stocks... -
Temporal and spatial fluctuations of heavy metals in Opa Reservoir, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TA Adesakin --- Department of Zoology, Nigeria AA Adedeji --- Department of Zoology, Nigeria YF Taiwo --- Natural History Museum, NigeriaThe Opa Reservoir, established for water supply to the Obafemi Awolowo University community, over the years has received direct linkage to township drains as a result of the widening and dredging of its river channels. The current study aimed at... -
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... -
The place branding of Qatar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Maaike de Jong --- European Tourism Futures Institute, Stenden University, the NetherlandsDestination branding has become popular. Countries brand themselves to draw visitors and competent expatriates and to create economic diversification. The brand emphasises the uniqueness of the place; it frames the culture and sells its way of life. In the perspective... -
A case study of Caribbean chartered airline services for possible application in the Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Radu Mihailescu --- Department of Economics, ItalyTourism is becoming a vital component of economic development in South Africa. In the light of South Africa having hosted the 2010 Football World Cup, it is important to identify sustainable tourism that continues to benefit the economy long after... -
How economic crisis affects revenue management: the case of the Prague Hilton hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd Gehrels --- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Oleksandra Blanar --- Hilton Prague Hotel, Czech RepublicThis study explores revenue management practices in two Prague hotels throughout the past years of economic crisis. The purpose of the research was to inform hospitality managers and educators about revenue management practices in central Europe's emerging and challenging hospitality... -
Connecting entrepreneurship and education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden Academy of International Hospitality Research, The NetherlandsThe aim of this research is to explore the contextual characteristics of a particular group of Dutch restaurant owners, the successful culinary entrepreneurs (SCEs), to examine how these contextual characteristics might be used in a hospitality education. This very small... -
Researching snails on holiday: An agenda for caravanning and caravanners?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsVacations spent in caravans account for a significant strand of the UK leisure market. The potential mobility, yet homelike structures, can be said to offer a base of security when staying away. Like snails, caravanners travel taking their domestic space... -
Looking from a local lens: Inbound tour operators and sustainable tourism in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Fiona Ngesa --- Kenya Tourist Board, KenyaFew empirical studies on sustainable tourism take into account the perspective of developing countries' actors. This is even the case in debates about the need to adapt sustainability's definitions to the context of developing countries. The present study aims at... -
An ethnographic study of tourist psychological states: Implications for festivities and events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Prokopis Christou --- Hospitality and Tourism Department, CyprusThis is the first study that explores in such depth the emotional dimensions of visitors at numerous and various events held around the world, for almost ten years. Unexpected findings and new knowledge provide novel directions to the new millennium... -
Sustainable tourism development and the world heritage status of the Wadden Sea: The case of Terschelling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Akke Folmer --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The Netherlands Hans Revier --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The Netherlands Tamara Cupido --- Research Group Marine Wetlands Studies, The NetherlandsNational governments and regions make great efforts to obtain international recognition for their natural heritage, for instance through UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list. Since June 2009, the Dutch Wadden Sea has been on the World Heritage List. Our study investigates... -
A tale of three cities: Insight into the impacts of holiday rentals in France
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Conrad Lashley --- Hospitality Studies, Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Niki Christian Nutsch --- Tourism and Hospitality Research Consultancy, United KingdomThis paper reports on the impact of vacation rentals on three destinations in France – Paris, Côte d’Azur and the Haute-Savoie. The vacation rental market in France involves 9.4 million guests with an annual value of €4 359 million. Approximately... -
Fun, animal welfare or community development? Understanding young tourists’ preferences for a wildlife tourism package
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Elena Cavagnaro --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Tamara Huisman --- Stenden Hotel Management School, Academy of International Hospitality Research, The NetherlandsThis paper explores the impact of young travellers’ value orientations on their choice for a wildlife tourism package. On the basis of existing literature, four different packages were designed: one mirroring the traditional offer of wildlife tourism as a hedonic... -
Indigenous identity – Global grasp: The Road Not Taken Tours
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Patrice Pendell --- Department of Foreign Studies, Japan Imanuella R. Andilolo --- Department of Management, IndonesiaThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries benefit from the growing tourism market but there are also detrimental effects, including a large influx of tourists, the oversupply or duplication of tourism businesses, and the deterioration of local cultures. The... -
An essay on Karma Karana: A notion on restructuring the Bali hospitality and service industry by re-establishing the concepts of Tri Hita Karana and Karmaphala
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: I Made Mahendra Budhiastra --- International Hospitality Management, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom, and International Hospitality and Service Management, The NetherlandsThe island of Bali in Indonesia is well known for its tourism industry. Currently, the government of Indonesia has released a free-visa policy to many countries around the globe to increase the number of foreign arrivals and boost the tourism... -
“The other”: Persistent beliefs regarding HIV risk in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lynlee Howard-Payne --- Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, South AfricaThis study explored stereotype constructions people may impute on to others in the context of a contagious disease epidemic. Participants were 30 undergraduate students from a large university in Johannesburg, South Africa. They completed the open-ended Build-A-Character Questionnaire, which described... -
Nutritional status and metabolic risk in HIV-infected university students: challenges in their monitoring and management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Steenkamp --- HIV&AIDS Research Unit, South Africa I Truter --- Department of Pharmacy, Drug Utilization Research Unit (DURU), South Africa M Williams --- Department of Nursing, South Africa A Goosen --- Campus Health Service, South Africa I Oxley --- Department of Dietetics, South Africa E van Tonder --- Department of Dietetics, South Africa S Kock --- Department of Human Movement Science, South Africa DJL Venter --- Unit for Statistical Consultation, South AfricaObjective: This study aims to describe challenges in the management of HIV-infected university students focusing on their nutritional status and metabolic risk. -
Comparison of soil properties under tropical Acacia hybrid plantation and shifting cultivation land use in northern Vietnam
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Trieu Thai Hung --- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and School of Land and Food, Australia Richard Doyle --- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and School of Land and Food, Australia Alieta Eyles --- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and School of Land and Food, Australia Caroline Mohammed --- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and School of Land and Food, AustraliaDespite the common use of Acacia species in Vietnam, few studies have examined changes to total soil nitrogen (TN) and total soil carbon (TC) following the planting of Acacia mangium × Acacia auriculiformis (Acacia hybrid) plantations (AH) on formerly eroded... -
Sexual and reproductive health risk behaviours among South African university students: results from a representative campus-wide survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susie Hoffman --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Michael Levasseur --- Department of Epidemiology, USA Joanne E. Mantell --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Mags Beksinska --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Zonke Mabude --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Claudia Ngoloyi --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Elizabeth A. Kelvin --- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, School of Urban Public Health, Hunter College & The CUNY School of Public Health, USA Theresa Exner --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Cheng-Shiun Leu --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Lavanya Pillay --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Jennifer A. Smit --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South AfricaAmong South African university students, HIV prevalence is lower than in age-peers, but at 3.8% it is not negligible. We examined prevalence of factors potentially associated with HIV risk, focusing on partnership characteristics and consistent condom use. We hypothesised that... -
“The child can remember your voice”: parent–child communication about sexuality in the South African context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Esmeralda Vilanculos --- Centre of Excellence in Human Development, School of Human and Community Development, Department of Psychology, South Africa Mzikazi Nduna --- Centre of Excellence in Human Development, School of Human and Community Development, Department of Psychology, South AfricaThere is a wealth of research on parent–child communication about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and its influence on young people’s sexual behaviours. However, most of it is from the global North. The aim of this study was... -
How well do bird atlas reporting rates reflect bird densities? Correlates of detection from the Fynbos biome, South Africa, with applications for population estimation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- Climate Change BioAdaptation, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Phoebe Barnard --- Climate Change BioAdaptation, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South AfricaRelationships between true population densities and reporting indices from atlas data are important for the calculation of population sizes, though these relationships are remarkably little-known and likely confounded by issues of detection. We examine issues of detection for a single-observer... -
Under Five Malnutrition Crises in the Boko Haram Area of Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Samuel Nambile Cumber --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, Department of Nursing & Public Health, South Africa Shalom Jaila --- Under Privilege Children and Women Assistance (UPCAWA-SWEDEN), Researcher Cameroon Branch, Cameroon Bongkiynuy Nancy --- Under Privilege Children and Women Assistance (UPCAWA-SWEDEN), Researcher Cameroon Branch, Cameroon Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, Department of Nursing & Public Health, South AfricaBoko-Haram has increased their attacks along the Cameroon boarder in the Far North region of Cameroon since 2013. The prevalence of malnutrition in the north of Cameroon is high. Regions like the Adamawa, North and Far North regions have a... -
The Internationalization of African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A South-North Pattern
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Everlyne Misati --- Florida International University, USA Fred O. Walumbwa --- Florida International University, USA Somnath Lahiri --- Illinois State University, USA Sumit K. Kundu --- Florida International University, USADespite the growing internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Africa, related research remains limited. Adopting a qualitative approach, this study investigates three SMEs in the African coffee subsector that internationalized rapidly beyond the continent. The case studies, based... -
Political Risk and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: The Role of Foreign Aid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Jane Lu --- Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, Australia Xueli Huang [cor1] Michael Muchiri --- School of Management, RMIT University, AustraliaWe investigated the role of Chinese Aid in mitigating the political risk for Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Africa, especially in resource-abundant countries. Using panel data for 50 African countries that have received Chinese OFDI from 2002 to... -
Portfolio performance under reference-day risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Marcelo Gonzalez --- Universidad de Chile, Chile Arturo Rodriguez --- Universidad de Chile, Chile Roberto Stein --- College of Business Administration, USAReference-day risk has been previously identified as a type of sampling variation phenomenon, and its effect on the estimation of stock returns and their volatility and market betas has been documented. Using a dataset of daily equity mutual fund returns,... -
Long-run adjustment of size, value, momentum and growth premium in equity returns: Evidence from South Asian emerging markets
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Adnan Shoaib --- Management Sciences, Pakistan Muhammad Ayub Siddiqui --- FAST School of Management, PakistanThis study scrutinizes the long-run adjustment of risk premiums in equity returns of the emerging stock markets of Pakistan, China and India, the three emerging South Asian economies, by keeping in view leading contributions of the Fama and French (1992)... -
Investor sentiment, asset returns and firm characteristics: Evidence from the Korean Stock Market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Heejin Yang --- College of Economics, Republic of Korea Doojin Ryu --- College of Economics, Republic of Korea Doowon Ryu --- College of Economics, Republic of KoreaThis study investigates the effects of investor sentiment on asset returns with respect to firm characteristics. By analysing a unique stock trading dataset of the Korean Stock Market that contains rich information on investor types and sentiment, we confirm that... -
Evaluation of the sustainability of participatory management of forest plantations: the case study of Wari-Maro Forest Reserve, Republic of Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Kisito Gandji --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Valère K Salako --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Achille E Assogbadjo --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Vincent OA Orekan --- Laboratory of Biogeography and Environmental Expertise, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, Republic of Benin Romain L Glèlè Kakaï --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Brice A Sinsin --- Laboratory of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of BeninThis study assessed ecological and socio-economic impacts of a participatory forest management project in the Republic of Benin. The study focused on the Wari-Maro Forest Reserve and the ‘Projet d’Aménagement des Massifs Forestiers’ five years after its completion. A forest... -
A qualitative study of young Nigerian family physicians’ views of their specialty
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: K Yakubu --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria K Hoedebecke --- Yongsan Health Clinic, South Korea L Pinho-Costa --- Fânzeres Family Health Unit, Portugal O Popoola --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria I Okoye --- Department of Family Medicine, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, NigeriaBackground: In Nigeria, the specialty of family medicine (FM) has endured its own share of identity crises. This study was aimed at generating hypotheses about what describes a practising family physician (FP) and the specialty, according to young Nigerian FPs. -
Schistosomiasis risk factors based on the infection status among school-going children in the Ndumo area, uMkhanyakude district, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Muhubiri Kabuyaya --- School of Nursing and Public Health, Department of Public Health Medicine, South Africa Moses John Chimbari --- School of Nursing and Public Health, Department of Public Health Medicine, South Africa Tawanda Manyangadze --- School of Nursing and Public Health, Department of Public Health Medicine, South Africa Samson Mukaratirwa --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Schistosomiasis remains a public health burden in South Africa, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal. The study aimed to identify the risk factors for transmission of Schistosoma haematobium among school-going children in the Ndumo area of uMkhanyakude district, KwaZulu-Natal. -
Characterisation of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) landraces grown in two climatic zones in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Lindah L Hluyako --- Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Alfred O Odindo --- Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Paramu Mafongoya --- Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Nkanyiso J Sithole --- Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Lembe S Magwaza --- Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South AfricaPigeon pea is an important legume in arid and semi-arid areas of the Sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of adaptation characteristics of genotypes would significantly enhance its production in diverse environments of the region. Field experiments were conducted at two sites, namely... -
Diagnosing foliar nutrient dynamics of Eucalyptus grandis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, using optimal element ratios and the diagnosis and recommendation integrated system (DRIS)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal • Authors: JM Campion MC ScholesFertilisation is one of the most cost-effective methods of increasing and maintaining the productivity of Eucalyptus grandis plantations in South Africa. This silvicultural practice can be optimised by using the foliar nutrient ratios measured in plants at maximum growth as... -
Freeze injury to roots of southern pine seedlings in the USA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal • Authors: DB SouthRoots of pine seedlings can be injured by freezing temperatures and the degree of injury is affected by genotype and stage of acclimation. Local sources of Pinus echinata and P. virginiana that were acclimated by cold temperatures were relatively freeze... -
Work-role psychosocial flourishing: Its mediation role on workplace bullying and employee turnover intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Rudolf M. Oosthuizen --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study investigated the work-role of psychosocial flourishing attributes in countering workplace bullying behaviour and turnover intention. Data on participants’ perceptions of workplace bullying behaviour, turnover intentions, and psychosocial flourishing were collected from n = 373 employees in various South... -
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%,... -
Construct validation of the Zimbardo Time Perspectives Inventory
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nico Keyser --- Department of Economics, South AfricaThe aim of the present study was to validate the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the Zimbardo Time Perspectives Inventory (ZTPI) in a South African student sample. A total of 200 students completed the ZTPI. The sample comprised 58... -
Loneliness: Its correlates and associations with health risk behaviours among university students in 25 countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST), South Africa Supa Pengpid --- Department of Research & Innovation, South AfricaThe aim of this cross-national study was to assess factors associated with loneliness and to determine the degree to which loneliness affects health status and risk behaviours among university students. Data were collected from 17 886 university students in 25... -
Constructing a positive narrative for African sport consumerism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Frederick W. Stander --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaSport consumerism is a burgeoning field of practice and serves both the utilitarian and behaviouristic goals. The utilitarian aspects are aligned to derivatives of value generated through the sport consumption effort. Behaviourism in the consumer context suggests a communal narrative,... -
All drag, all the time — one night in Cape Town with Lola Fine
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Lindy-Lee Prince --- Institute for Humanities in Africa, South AfricaThis photo essay discusses the ways in which a participant in a research project on the performance of gender embodies and becomes a performance character, as well as the different instantiations this takes in different contexts and situations. The photo... -
Unearthing poison use and consequent anecdotal vulture mortalities in Namibia’s commercial farmland – implications for conservation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Andrea Santangeli --- Helsinki Laboratory of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Finland Volen Arkumarev --- Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds/BirdLife Bulgaria, Bulgaria Liz Komen --- Namibia Animal Rehabilitation Research and Education Centre, Namibia Peter Bridgeford --- Vultures Namibia, Namibia Holger Kolberg --- Directorate Scientific Services, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, NamibiaAcross Africa, the illegal use of poison is triggering a continent-wide scavenger crisis, with vultures suffering the most severe negative consequences. Vultures may die as indirect victims of the conflict between livestock farmers and predators, or they may be directly... -
Ecological correlates of multiple sexual partnerships among adolescents and young adults in urban Cape Town: a cumulative risk factor approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Evans Muchiri --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, South Africa Clifford Odimegwu --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, South Africa Pamela Banda --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, South Africa Lorreta Ntoimo --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, South Africa Sunday Adedini --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, South AfricaStudies in South Africa have reported unsafe levels of risky sexual behvaiours among adolescents and young adults, with the country reporting the highest burden of HIV/AIDS globally, as well as a high rate of teenage pregnancy. While determinants of risky... -
Professionalism in anaesthesiology practice: ethical reflection on the nature of professionalism in anaesthesiology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Malcolm de Roubaix --- Department of Philosophy, Centre for Applied Ethics, South AfricaAnaesthesiologists are well trained and equipped to practise a high standard of care and contribute significantly to positive perioperative outcomes. Professionalism is characterised first by expertise in the clinical skills, capabilities, knowledge and experience internal to the practice of anaesthesiology... -
Improvement of spatial modelling of crop suitability using a new digital soil map of Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Kristin Piikki --- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Kenya Leigh Winowiecki --- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya Tor-Gunnar Vågen --- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya Julian Ramirez-Villegas --- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia Mats Söderström --- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), KenyaClimate change is projected to have widespread impacts on the climate suitability and geographical distribution of agricultural crops. Simulations were conducted on the suitability of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Tanzania under progressive climate change, taking into account a... -
Health risk assessment of exposure to ambient concentrations of benzene, toluene and xylene in Pretoria West, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Oyewale Mayowa Morakinyo --- Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Science, South Africa Matlou Ingrid Mokgobu --- Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Science, South Africa Murembiwa Stanley Mukhola --- Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Science, South Africa Jacobus Christoffel Engelbrecht --- Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Science, South AfricaBenzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) are part of the volatile organic group of pollutants and are seen as international environmental priority air pollutants that can constitute a threat to public health. This study assessed the non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks of... -
HIV risk perception and consistency in condom use among adolescents and young adults in urban Cape Town, South Africa: a cumulative risk analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Evans Muchiri --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South Africa Clifford Odimegwu --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South Africa Nicole De Wet --- Demography and Population Studies Programme, South AfricaBackground: The relationship between HIV risk perception and consistency in the use of condoms is scarcely understood in the context of a high HIV prevalence among adolescents and young adults in urban South Africa. Methods: Using data from Cape Area... -
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... -
Psychometric properties of the Psychological Flourishing Scale in an Egyptian setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marei Salama-Younes --- Department of Psychology, Sociology and Evaluation in Sport Field, EgyptThe specific goals of the present research were twofold: i) to test the structure validity, and internal reliability of scores from the Psychological Flourishing Scale (PFS) with Egyptian college students; and ii) to test the PFS’s temporal stability and convergent... -
Value expectation confirmation and word-of-mouth intention among international tourists of a cultural festival experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South Korea Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South KoreaWe examined expectation conformation and word-of-mouth marketing intention among international tourists (177 white; 138 black; and 98 Asian) who experienced a tourism promotion cultural festival event; taking into account their personal, artistic, and societal cultural values. We applied multiple regression... -
Tuberculosis risk factors in Lephalale local municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: T.M. Ramaliba --- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, South Africa T.G. Tshitangano --- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, South Africa H.A. Akinsola --- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, South Africa M. Thendele --- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, South AfricaLephalale local municipality is the leading sub-district in Limpopo province with 9.8% of deaths caused by tuberculosis. This study aimed to describe the risk factors for TB in Lephalale local municipality. A quantitative descriptive, cross-sectional survey design was used to... -
The disposition effect, price performance and fundamentals of IPOs: Evidence from Taiwan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Chien-Feng Huang --- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Taiwan, ROC Chih-Hsiang Chang --- Department of Finance, Taiwan, ROC Li-Min Kuo --- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Taiwan, ROC Tsung-Nan Hsieh --- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Taiwan, ROCThis study investigates whether the difference of the IPO issuing companies’ fundamentals impacts their price performance after listing and the significance of the disposition effect. Empirical results show that the IPO issuing companies’ fundamentals drive their first-day post-listing returns, one-year... -
Education without borders: Internationalisation of the tourism business curriculum in the central Baltic area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sanna-Mari Renfors --- Tourism Business Research Group, Faculty of Service Business, FinlandIn the case of tourism, it is important to consider the geographical location of the destination and its part in a larger entity. In the Baltic Sea area, destination products covering the highlights of the seashore have growing importance and... -
Market-oriented innovations in tourism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ruhet Genç --- Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Turkey Eda Aylin Genç --- Department of Sociology, UKInnovations are the key elements that boost the economy in a given sector. Particularly, the tourism sector requires different types of innovations, as it is one of the most competitive ones. This paper discusses the role of innovations in the... -
Foreign R&D units in India and China: An empirical exploration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Swapan Kumar Patra --- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Republic of South AfricaAmong the many corporate functions of multinational enterprises (MNEs), their foreign R&D is considered to be the least mobilized. Firms usually keep their crucial R&D activities close to their home base. However, since the 1990s MNEs from developing countries are... -
Community service for misdemeanours in Accra: Preferences of offenders, victims, judiciary, and community members
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Feikoab Parimah --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Joseph Osafo --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Kingsley Nyarko --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Nkansah Anakwah --- Department of Psychology, GhanaTaking religiosity into account, the study explored preferences for community service sentencing by victims, offenders, judiciary, and community members from Accra, Ghana. One hundred and ninety respondents were sampled (females = 38.42%, offenders = 5.26%, victims = 58.95%, law enforcement... -
Supervisor support, flourishing, and intention to leave in a higher education setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christine Janse van Rensburg --- Human Resource Department, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia, North-West University, South Africa Elsabé Diedericks --- Optentia, North-West University, South AfricaThis study investigated the relationship between supervisor support, flourishing at work, and intention to leave in a South African higher education setting. Participants comprised a convenience sample of 339 academic employees from three universities of technology. They completed the Supervisor... -
Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish parasitic isopod Norileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) with a key to the genus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Serita van der Wal --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Nico J Smit --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Kerry A Hadfield --- Water Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaNorileca indica (Milne Edwards, 1840) is fully redescribed based on ovigerous females collected from Maputo Bay, Mozambique, from the branchial cavity of the fish host Selar crumenophthalmus Bloch, 1793. An identification key to the species of Norileca Bruce, 1990 is... -
HIV prevention needs for men who have sex with men in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Bhekie Sithole --- Health Communication Capacity Collaborative, SwazilandMen who have sex with men (MSM) have a high HIV burden and also often face multiple other challenges accessing HIV services, including legal and social issues. Although Swaziland recently started responding with interventions for MSM, significant gaps still exist... -
Environmental health risks associated with e-waste exposure in Badplaas, Carolina and Elukwatini landfills, Republic of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fannie Machete --- Department of Environmental Science, South AfricaA recent study identified a mixed stream of waste in Badplaas, Carolina and Elukwatini landfills. However, the risks associated with the situation in the three selected towns remains unknown. Thus, this paper fills this gap of qualitatively assessing the potential... -
Different Orders of Pleasure: Good Life and Human Flourishing in the City in Dambudzo Marechera’s Scrapiron Blues
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Edwin Mhandu --- English Department, South AfricaIn this article, I argue that Dambudzo Marechera’s Scrapiron Blues demonstrates different and varied orders of enjoyment and well-being in the city that challenge the authenticity and truthfulness of the narration of the enjoyment space(s) sanctioned by the ZANU PF... -
Adverse developmental experiences and risky health behaviours among black South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Solomon Mashegoane --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Malose Makhubela --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study examined the relationship between adverse developmental experiences (ADEs) and risky health behaviours among a cross-sectional sample of black South African students (n = 393; females = 58%, Mage = 20.5 years, SD = 2.9). Binary logistic regression was... -
Daily life with early orphanhood from HIV/AIDS: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Asamenew Demessie Bireda --- Faculty of Education, South Africa Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair: Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis study explored the everyday lived life by South African early adolescents orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Informants were ten early adolescents (age range 12 to 14 years; females = 6; males = 4) from a low socioeconomic status neighbourhood of Johannesburg. The adolescents completed autobiographical... -
Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maxim Bolt --- Department of African Studies and Anthropology, United KingdomMore than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past. Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting casualisation as much as plantation-style racialised hierarchies. Legacies of farmer paternalism, themselves shaped by workers’... -
Game fence presence and permeability influences the local movement and distribution of South African mammals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Tara J Pirie --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UK Rebecca L Thomas --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UK Mark DE Fellowes --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UKFences are utilised throughout the world to restrict the movements of wildlife, protecting them from threats and reducing human–wildlife conflict. In South Africa the number of privately-owned fenced game reserves has greatly increased in recent years, but little is known... -
Habitat variables associated with encounters of Hottentot Buttonquail Turnix hottentottus during flush surveys across the Fynbos biome
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Alan TK Lee --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Dale R Wright --- BirdLife South Africa, South Africa Brian Reeves --- Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency, South AfricaThe Hottentot Buttonquail Turnix hottentotus is an endangered terrestrial turnicid and is endemic to the Fynbos biome, South Africa. Due to its secretive nature and apparent rarity almost nothing is known about the species, but its range has been subject... -
Habitat characteristics of wintering Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix in the Centre Region of Cameroon: conservation implications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Taku Awa --- Laboratory of Applied Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Cameroon Tsi A Evaristus --- Department of Fundamental Science, Higher Technical Teacher Training College, Cameroon Robin C Whytock --- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, UK Tsetagho Guilain --- Laboratory of Applied Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Cameroon John Mallord --- Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UKPopulations of many Afro-Palearctic birds have declined, with those wintering in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix, particularly affected. In this study we investigated the relationship between habitat characteristics and Wood Warbler presence/absence in the Centre Region of... -
Nest-site characteristics and aspects of the breeding biology of the endangered Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh in Guinea-Bissau
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Daniel C Lopes --- Faculty of Sciences, Portugal Rowan O Martin --- World Parrot Trust, UK Mohamed Henriques --- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Portugal Hamilton Monteiro --- Coastal Planning Office, Guinea-Bissau Aissa Regalla --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Quintino Tchantchalam --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Bucar Indjai --- INEP – National Institute for Study and Research, Guinea-Bissau Seco Cardoso --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Celestino Manuel --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Manjaco Cunha --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Domingos Cunha --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Paulo Catry --- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, PortugalTimneh Parrots Psittacus timneh are endemic to the moist forests of West Africa. Concerns over rapid declines in populations due to overharvesting for the pet trade and forest loss prompted the species’ categorisation as Endangered on the IUCN Red List... -
The role of community health workers in supporting South Africa’s HIV/ AIDS treatment programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Shauna Mottiar --- Development Studies, South Africa Tom Lodge --- Development Studies, South AfricaCommunity health workers deployed around South Africa’s primary health care clinics, supply indispensable support for the world’s largest HIV/AIDS treatment programme. Interviews with these workers illuminated the contribution they make to anti-retroviral treatment (ART) of HIV/AIDS patients and the motivations... -
Jail duration, demographic characteristics of offenders, and acquired suicide capability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ajiboye Isaac Oyeleke1 --- Department of Social Work / Social Development, South Africa Pius TangweTanga --- Department of Social Work / Social Development, South Africa Ajibola Abdulrahamon Ishola --- Department of Psychology, NigeriaThe study sought to predict the acquired capability for suicide from length of sentence and socio-demographic characteristics of offenders in a Nigerian prison population. Participants were 139 inmates (mean age = 33.67, SD = 9.24years; mean length of stay = 6.25 years, SD = 5.02years), males (95.7%), They... -
Pathways to violence propensity: Results from a two-wave study of young males in urban South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ian Edelstein --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to model pathways to violence propensity and violent behaviour among boys and young men in a high-violence community in South Africa. To that end, 284 young males (11 to 23 years old) from Khayelitsha,... -
Change as a travel benefit: Exploring the impact of travel experiences on Italian youth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Simona Staffieri --- Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, The Netherlands Bill Rowson --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, The NetherlandsThis paper aims, firstly, at identifying the main dimensions of perceived change induced in young people by a travel experience and, secondly, at understanding which dimensions of the tourism experience have the greatest influence on this change. A survey was... -
Metal accumulation in two contiguous eutrophic peri-urban lakes, Chivero and Manyame, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: B Utete --- Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe C Phiri --- Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe SS Mlambo --- Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe N Maringapasi --- Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe N Muboko --- Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe TB Fregene --- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, Nigeria B Kavhu --- University of Zimbabwe, ZimbabweConcentrations of aluminium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, nickel and zinc were determined in surface water, benthic sediments, and the gills, liver and stomach muscle tissues of Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias gariepinus in peri-urban lakes Chivero and Manyame, Zimbabwe... -
Influences of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae on morphophysiological traits and biochemical compounds of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) under drought stress
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Ali Ganjeali --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Iran Elham Ashiani --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Iran Maryam Zare --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Iran Elahe Tabasi --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, IranThe symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) with plant roots can enhance plant responses, especially to drought stress. An experiment was conducted in a growth chamber to examine the impacts of arbuscular mycorrhizae on improving the drought tolerance of common bean... -
Catalyzing Social Entrepreneurship in Africa: Roles for Western Universities, NGOs and Corporations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Philip Mirvis --- Global Network on Corporate Citizenship, USA Bradley Googins --- Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, USAThis article reviews research on promoting social entrepreneurship and enterprise in Africa. It also presents brief case studies on how select Western universities, NGOs and corporations are partnering with African institutions to help train and launch social entrepreneurs, to open... -
Conceptions of love in Ghana: An exploration among Ghanaian Christians
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annabella Osei-Tutu --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Vivian A. Dzokoto --- Department of African American Studies, USA Katja Hanke --- Survey Design and Methodology, Germany Glenn Adams --- Department of Psychology, USA Faye Z. Belgrave --- Department of Health Psychology, USAWe explored conceptions of love from the perspective of Ghanaian Christians. Using an ethnographic approach, we interviewed 61 participants (males = 39; females = 22; age range 20 to 70) on their understanding and experiences of love in the context... -
Difference equations of a memristor higher order hyperchaotic oscillator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Karthikeyan Rajagopal --- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Ethiopia Anitha Karthikeyan --- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Ethiopia Prakash Duraisamy --- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, EthiopiaA fifth-order chaotic circuit with two memristors is designed with reference to the Chua chaotic oscillation circuit and its corresponding dynamics model is established. The designed memristor hyperchaotic system (Bao, et al. 2011, 2180–2187) is analyzed with its spice model... -
Weed density and biomass are reduced and plant growth and seed yield increased in common bean after solarisation with clear and black plastic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Elizabeth Ngadze --- Department of Crop Science, Zimbabwe Arnold B Mashingaidze --- Department of Crop Science, Zimbabwe Julia Sibiya --- Department of Crop Science, ZimbabweCommon bean is highly sensitive to early weed competition, which severely reduces growth and yield. An experiment was carried out in Zimbabwe in the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons to assess the effectiveness of solarisation in controlling weeds in beans. Four... -
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the setting of HIV hyperendemicity at a tertiary hospital in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: S Gounden --- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, South Africa R Perumal --- Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, South Africa NP Magula --- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, South AfricaBackground: South Africa has the highest burden of tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus (TB/HIV) co-infection in the world, with the province of KwaZulu-Natal representing the global epicentre of TB/HIV. While significant progress has been made to improve the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis,... -
Does relative efficiency matter? An analysis of market uncertainty
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Hyoung-joo Lim --- Division of Accounting/Tax and Management Information Systems, South Korea Dafydd Mali --- Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UKIn this paper, we examine whether relative efficiency provides useful information for investment decisions. We find that efficient firms have lower levels of stock price volatility compared to inefficient firms. The results suggest that market participants consider relative efficiency when... -
Factors influencing the implementation of e-commerce innovations: The case of the Nigerian informal sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: B. F. Ajao --- National Centre for Technology Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria T. O. Oyebisi --- African Institute for Science Policy and Innovation, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria H. O. Aderemi --- Department of Management and Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaThis paper investigated the factors influencing e-commerce adoption amongst small enterprises in Southwestern Nigeria with a view to contributing to debates on technological adoption in the informal sector. -
Parental involvement and health risk behaviours among school-going adolescents in six African countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Thailand Karl Peltzer --- Department of Research Development and Innovation, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to assess the association between parental involvement (support and monitoring) and health risk behaviours among adolescents in six African countries. Data were from the cross-sectional Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) which sampled a... -
Soul searching on the wings of my wheels: Motorcyclists’ happiness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stefan Kruger --- WorkWell Research Unit, South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate how personal characteristics of motorcyclists influenced their affect and sense of happiness with their motorcycles. Data on personal characteristics, motorcycle characteristics, feelings about owning a motorcycle, discreet emotions, and overall happiness were collected from 367... -
The age and growth of hottentot seabream Pachymetopon blochii before and after the South African linefish state of emergency in 2000
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MW Farthing --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa AC Winkler --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa K Anderson --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa S Kerwath --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa C Wilke --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa WM Potts --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaThe hottentot seabream Pachymetopon blochii is a small-sized (maximum 2.67 kg) sparid endemic to southern Africa. It is an important target in South Africa's Western Cape traditional linefishery, particularly in the absence of more valuable pelagic species (such as Thyrsites... -
Psychosocial characteristics of primary care-seeking long-distance truck drivers in Kenya and associations with HIV testing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Matthew L Romo --- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics & Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, USA Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, South Africa Joanne E Mantell --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, USA Eva Mwai --- North Star Alliance, Kenya Eston Nyaga --- North Star Alliance, Kenya Jacob O Odhiambo --- North Star Alliance, Kenya Kaymarlin Govender --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, South Africa Elizabeth A Kelvin --- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics & Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, USAThe 90-90-90 strategy from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to end the AIDS epidemic by 2020 includes, as its first goal, to have 90% of all people living with HIV to know their status. Achieving this goal... -
Record of Blue tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) in the Eerste River catchment, Western Cape province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: SM Marr --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa G Gouws --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa S Avlijas --- Redpath Museum, Canada D Khosa --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa ND Impson --- Scientific Services, South Africa M van der Westhuizen --- Conservation Services, South Africa OLF Weyl --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaOreochromis aureus was imported from Israel into South Africa in 1959 but data on its current status in South Africa are lacking. Genomic DNA was extracted and the COI gene amplified at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. The... -
The investment return puzzle on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Pravin Semnarayan --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa Michael Ward --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa Chris Muller --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South AfricaFirms that invest into positive net present value projects should outperform firms that do not invest. Surprisingly, several studies on United States data have found a negative relationship between capital investment and subsequent shareholder return. There are conflicting explanations for... -
Body mass index and associated lifestyle and eating behaviours of female students at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Philippe Jean-Luc Gradidge --- Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, South Africa Emmanuel Cohen --- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, South AfricaObjective: To determine the prevalence of obesity and the physical activity, sitting time, and eating behaviours associated with BMI in a group of undergraduate female students at a South African university. -
Together we stand stronger
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marco Bevolo --- Academy for Leisure, The Netherlands Anique Gerrits --- Academy for Leisure, The NetherlandsThis is an action research case study investigating social participation roadblocks and opportunities through leisure-related factors for Eritrean refugee status holders in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The intent of this paper is to report on challenges and opportunities... -
Sustainable tourism development in Amsterdam Oud-West
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Thea Noordeloos --- International Hospitality & Service Management, The NetherlandsIn many popular tourism destinations in the world, rapid tourism growth is occurring. The Netherlands has also experienced tourism growth, with an expected increase of almost 6 million international tourists in 10 years. Amsterdam is the main destination in this... -
Prevalence of healthcare-associated infection at a tertiary hospital in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Nair --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa WJ Steinberg --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa T Habib --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa H Saeed --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa JE Raubenheimer --- Department of Biostatistics, South AfricaBackground: Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) are a well-known public health threat; however, published data on the endemic burden of HCAIs in sub-Saharan Africa are limited. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of primary bloodstream infection (PBSI), surgical site infection (SSI),... -
Sexual risk behaviour among HIV-infected women in the first twelve months after delivery in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST) Research Programme, South Africa Geoffrey Setswe --- HIV/AIDS Management, South Africa Gladys Matseke --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST) Research Programme, South Africa Shandir Ramlagan --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST) Research Programme, South Africa Stephen M. Weiss --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, USA Violeta J. Rodriguez --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, USA Sibusiso Sifunda --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST) Research Programme, South Africa Ryan Cook --- Department of Epidemiology, USA Tae Kyoung Lee --- Department of Public Health Sciences, USA Deborah Jones --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, USAThis study aimed to assess sexual risk behaviour and its social correlates in HIV-infected women living in rural South Africa at six and twelve months post-partum. Participants were 699 HIV-positive women recruited prenatally by systematic sampling from twelve community health... -
Job demands and resources: Flourishing and job performance in South African universities of technology settings
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christine Janse van Rensburg --- Human Resource Management, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia, North-West University, South Africa Elsabé Diedericks --- Optentia, North-West University, South AfricaWe investigated the extent to which perceived job demands and resources influenced work-related flourishing and job performance among academic staff in South African universities of technology. Participants were 339 lecturers from three universities of technology (female = 53.8%; junior lecturers... -
Personal and socio-ecological resilience resources among school-going teenage mothers: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Macalane Junel Malindi --- School of Education Studies, South AfricaThis qualitative study explored the self-perceived personal and socio-ecological resilience resources that enabled teenage mothers to cope with early parenthood and school in a South African school. Participants were a convenient sample of ten school-going teenage mothers in the Gauteng... -
Concurrent tobacco use and risky drinking in South Africa: Results from the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya --- Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Office, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Office, South Africa Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, ThailandThe aim of this study was to examine socio-demographic and psychosocial correlates of concurrent tobacco use and risky drinking. We analysed data from the cross-sectional South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1) 2011–2012. The sample included 14 764... -
Prevalence and determinants of congenital cytomegalovirus infection at a rural South African central hospital in the Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Donald Tshabalala --- Department of Paediatrics, South Africa Howard Newman --- National Health Laboratory Service, Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Virology, South Africa Charles Businge --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, South Africa Sikhumbuzo A Mabunda --- Department of Public Health, South Africa Waldette Kemp --- National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa Pakama Beja --- Department of Paediatrics, South AfricaBackground: The Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital (NMAH) in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, is a rural central hospital, serving one of the poorest districts in South Africa. The prevalence of and risk factors for congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) in this area are not... -
The global currency tango — The relationship between the carry trade, emerging/commodity currencies and risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Steven Smit --- Department of Statistical Sciences, South Africa Daniel Polakow --- School of Actuarial Science, South AfricaThis study has foci on the global drivers of currencies and their relationship to economic jurisdiction in the presence of global risk appetite. We focus on a comprehensive basket of global currencies, deriving three statistically motivated currency market factors. We... -
The impact of reference-day risk on beta estimation and a proposed solution
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Keshav Sahadev --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa Michael Ward --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa Chris Muller --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, South AfricaThe ability to accurately estimate systematic risk (or beta) when reference-day risk is considered, is an ineluctable requirement for all applications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). -
Environmental responses of jellyfish polyps as drivers of medusa populations off the coast of Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Ziegler --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa MJ Gibbons --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South AfricaJellyfish populations in the southeastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia have increased subsequent to the decline of small pelagic fisheries at the end of the 1960s, although the environment there has also become warmer and the waters off Walvis... -
Perceived tourist values of the Museum of African Art
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Hai-yang Meng --- School of Economics and Management, China Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Jong-pil Yu --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Ki-hyung Bae --- Department of Economics & Trade, South Korea Byong-ju An --- School of Dance, South Korea Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South KoreaThis study investigated the effects of perceived values (personal, artistic, and sociocultural) of tourists’ attitude and behavioural intention to visit Africa. Participants were tourists (176 men and 124 women) who visited the Museum of African Art based on Jeju Island... -
Antecedents of risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marizé de Jager --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Luzelle Naudé --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate contextual predisposition to risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents. Participants included 194 black adolescents from central South Africa (female = 50.5% between the ages of 16 and 19 years). The adolescents completed a youth risk... -
Offender interviewing in custodial settings: Understanding validity, value and veracity issues
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Friedo JW Herbig --- Department of Criminology and Security Science, South Africa Cecili Doorewaard --- Department of Criminology and Security Science, South AfricaThe purpose of this scoping literature review was to identify trends regarding validity, value and veracity issues when conducting (qualitative) interviews with offenders in custodial settings. We selected for review works from electronic databases in SAGE, Springer, and Taylor and... -
Prevalence of HIV and other infections and injection behaviours among people who inject drugs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Minilik Demissie --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Lisa G. Johnston --- United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, USA Mekonnen Muleta --- United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, USA Dires Desyebelew --- United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, USA Wudinesh Belete --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Atsbeha G/Egxiabehre --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Nigussie Gezahegn --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Desta Kassa --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Yibeltal Aseffa --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, EthiopiaBackground: Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries most affected by HIV/AIDS. However, the country lacks data describing the extent of the epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID). Thus, a bio-behavioural study was conducted in 2015 to generate... -
South African community-based tourism operational guidelines: Analysis and critical review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Andrea Giampiccoli --- Department of Hospitality and Tourism, South Africa Melville Saayman --- Tourism Research in Economics, Environs and Society (TREES), North-West University, South AfricaCommunity-based tourism (CBT), similar to tourism in general, is growing in relevance and importance as a field of research. The growing interest in CBT has led to the production of various handbooks, manuals and/or guidelines on CBT development. The tourism... -
Deployment factors for mobile business intelligence in developing countries small and medium enterprises
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tope Samuel Adeyelure --- Department of Informatics, South Africa Billy Mathias Kalema --- Department of Informatics, South Africa Kelvin J. Bwalya --- School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, South AfricaData are more rapidly generated than they can be digested and consumed in real time due to the increased mobility and automation of activities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These challenges could be avoided if SMEs in developing countries... -
Chemical characteristics of woods from several Chilean native forest species and their relationship with nanomechanical cell properties
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: María Graciela Aguayo --- Centro de Biomateriales y Nanotecnología, Chile William Gacitúa --- Centro de Biomateriales y Nanotecnología, Chile Paulina Valenzuela --- Centro de Biomateriales y Nanotecnología, Chile Regis Teixeira Mendonça --- Laboratorio de Recursos Renovables, Centro de Biotecnología, Chile Pablo Reyes --- Centro de Excelencia en Nanotecnología, Fundación Leitat Chile, ChileThe objective of this research was to study the chemical and nanomechanical characteristics of native woods grown in southern Chile region. The species analysed were Drimys winteri, Laureliopsis philippiana, Aextoxicon puctatum, Nothofagus alpina, Nothofagus dombeyi, Laurelia sempervirens, Austrocedrus chilensis and... -
An automated framework for business enterprise performance evaluation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: C. O. Anyaeche --- Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Nigeria D. E. Ighravwe --- Department of Mechanical Engineering, NigeriaThe evaluation of the performance of business enterprises has continued to pose challenges to business managers. Many approaches have been developed to address this problem, but most have been either input or output oriented, while some focus on specific tasks... -
Institutional Risk and Firm Performance in Africa: The Moderating Role of Corruption Control
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David B. Zoogah --- Williams College of Business, USAHow does institutional risk influence firm performance in Africa? While most studies focus on formal institutional risk, I argue that informal institutional risks are equally influential. Consistent with that view I use informal institutions theory and multilevel techniques to analyze... -
Understanding memorable tourism experiences: A case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Miranda Cornelisse --- Tourism, The NetherlandsThe desire for new experiences that are truly authentic has become an important mainstream in the tourism industry. The main goal of this empirical case study was twofold: 1) To determine which concept of authenticity in tourism literature is most... -
A conceptual model of heritage dimensions and agrotourism: Perspective of Nandi County in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Belsoy Josphat Sawe --- Departmentof Hotel and Hospitality Management, School of Tourism Hospitality and Events Management, Kenya Damiannah Kieti --- Departmentof Hotel and Hospitality Management, School of Tourism Hospitality and Events Management, Kenya Bob Wishitemi --- Departmentof Hotel and Hospitality Management, School of Tourism Hospitality and Events Management, KenyaConceptual frameworks have previously been used to give a structure to research that essentially simplifies thinking and clarifies issues, while at the same time providing a common reference point. Agrotourism is fast emerging as a key player in the activation... -
Sustainable tourism development in Amsterdam Oud-West
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Thea Noordeloos --- International Hospitality and Service Management, The NetherlandsThe Netherlands is currently experiencing rapid tourism growth, with Amsterdam being the main destination. Academics widely discuss the impact of tourism on the environment, the economy and society, and stress the need for sustainable tourism development. Eight semi-structured interviews were... -
Long-term physico-chemical and faunal changes in a small, rural South African estuary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: M Kajee --- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa CL Griffiths --- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa SJ Lamberth --- Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South AfricaThe Palmiet Estuary is a small, rural estuary in the Western Cape that only closes briefly during dry summers. The system was previously surveyed during 1979 to 1980 and we repeated the survey in April 2015 (mouth closed) and September... -
Modifiable factors within the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme associated with failure to prevent HIV transmission in the Onandjokwe district of Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Flavia Strato Shayo --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Bob Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa -
Roosting requirements of Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris on Highveld grain and livestock farms with alien tree groves, Gauteng province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Johann H van Niekerk --- Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, South AfricaThis study describes the relationship between Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris and invasive alien trees on livestock and maize farms south-east of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa. The dependence of the birds on alien trees affects strategies for the removal of... -
The relation between low self-esteem and depressive mood in a non-clinical sample: The role of gender and negative life events
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Makhubela --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe suggestion that self-esteem is both a protective and a risk factor for depression is well documented. However, this association is not consistently observed by empirical research. The current study investigated the main and interactive effects of low self-esteem and... -
Hypogonadism and associated risk factors in male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending the diabetic clinic of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Sisay Teka --- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ethiopia Samuel Kinde --- College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Gobena Dedefo --- College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Kissi Mudi --- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Getahun Tarekegn --- Tikur Anbesa Specialized Teaching Hospital, EthiopiaBackground: A high prevalence of hypogonadism among men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been reported worldwide. This in turn creates a substantial public health burden in terms of inadequate sexual function and potential infertility. However, the status of... -
HIV prevalence and related behaviours of older people in Botswana — secondary analysis of the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS) IV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kabo Matlho --- School of Public Health, Australia Madeleine Randell --- School of Public Health, Australia Refelwetswe Lebelonyane --- Ministry of Health, Botswana Joseph Kefas --- National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Botswana Tim Driscoll --- School of Public Health, Australia Joel Negin --- School of Public Health, AustraliaThe focus of HIV interventions in Botswana, a country with the second highest prevalence of HIV in the world, remains targeted at those aged 15–49 years despite a growing cohort of older people living with the disease — driven largely... -
Determinants of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents in Central African Republic, Eswatini and Ghana: evidence from multi-indicator cluster surveys
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joseph Kangmennaang --- Department of Geography and Environment, Canada Paul Mkandawire --- Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Human Rights Program, Carleton University, Canada Isaac Luginaah --- Department of Geography, CanadaDespite the declining HIV/AIDS prevalence globally, nearly half of all new HIV infections still occur among youth, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While determinants of risky sexual behaviour have received copious attention in the literature, we still lack multi-country studies that... -
The feasibility of the draw-and-write technique in exploring the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nyika Machenjedze --- Save the Children South Africa, South Africa Macalane J Malindi --- School of Psychosocial Education, South Africa Fungai Mbengo --- School of Nursing and Midwifery,Worldwide, researchers routinely study children indirectly through adults who act as proxies for such children. The call for researchers to rather study children directly and adopt less intrusive child-friendly methodologies has become louder. The draw-and-write technique is regarded as a... -
Quantifying the impact of foliar insects on two Eucalyptus hybrids in Zululand, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Lindokuhle S Dlamini --- School of Natural Resource Management, South Africa Keith M Little --- School of Natural Resource Management, South Africa Benice Sivparsad --- Institute for Commercial Forestry Research, South Africa Ryan Nadel --- School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, USAThe effects of defoliation by insect pests on Eucalyptus growth in South Africa is poorly understood, with the need for negative impacts to be quantified. In 2010, two long-term insect exclusion trials were established at Palm Ridge and Teza plantations... -
Can non-momentum factor premiums explain the momentum anomaly on the JSE? An in-depth portfolio attribution analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Daniel Page --- Finance Division, School of Economic & Business Sciences, South Africa Christo Auret --- Finance Division, School of Economic & Business Sciences, South AfricaSouth African literature related to the momentum anomaly is generally limited to the exploration of momentum on a univariate and at most a bivariate basis, such as in combination with value (Fraser & Page, 2000) or liquidity (Page, Britten, &... -
The absorption and usage of cloud accounting technology by accounting firms in Cape Town for services provided to their clients
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sharon Rudansky-Kloppers --- Department of Business Management, South Africa Kobus Van den Bergh --- Sable International, South AfricaCloud computing is one of the latest technological innovations and offers organizations of all sizes new and unique opportunities and challenges. Many firms worldwide have, however, become used to running their businesses in the traditional way and seem to be... -
Exploring technological adaptation in the informal economy: A case study of innovations in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tarisai Kudakwashe Manyati --- College of Economic and Management Sciences, South Africa Morgen Mutsau --- Centre for Applied Social Sciences, ZimbabweLittle attention has been given to the processes and factors that facilitate technological adaptation by informal innovators operating in small and medium enterprises in Zimbabwe. This article sought to establish how and why technological adaptation occurs in the informal economy... -
Bathymetry, substrate and fishing areas of Southeast Atlantic high-seas seamounts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: OA Bergstad --- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway ÅS Høines --- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway R Sarralde --- Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Canarias, Spain G Campanis --- South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO), Namibia M Gil --- Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Edificio de Ciencias Experimentales, Spain F Ramil --- Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Edificio de Ciencias Experimentales, Spain E Maletzky --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia E Mostarda --- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy L Singh --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa MA António --- Secretary of State of Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, AngolaMost of the Southeast Atlantic Ocean is abyssal, and global bathymetries suggest that only ∼3.2% of the areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ; also known as the high seas, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... -
Spatial considerations when monitoring reef fishes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Parker --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa H Winker --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa ATF Bernard --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa MKS Smith --- South African National Parks, Rondevlei Scientific Services, South Africa A Götz --- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South AfricaSpatial dependence can obscure relationships between response and explanatory variables because of structuring within the residuals reducing variance and biasing coefficient estimates. Here, we highlight the influence of the spatial component, in the presence of spatial dependence, on abundance trends... -
Seasonal occurrence and ecological aspects of Afrodiplozoon polycotyleus (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) from the gills of three cyprinids from the Nwanedi-Luphephe dams, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: EM Mbokane --- Aquaculture Research and Development, South Africa J Theron --- Aquaculture Research Unit, University of Limpopo, South Africa WJ Luus-Powell --- Department of Biodiversity, South AfricaThe effect of seasonal changes and ecological aspects of Afrodiplozoon polycotyleus (Paperna, 1973) collected on Labeobarbus marequensis (Smith, 1841), Enteromius trimaculatus (Peters, 1852) and Enteromius radiatus (Peters, 1853) was investigated from January to October 2008. Fish were collected at the... -
Modelling the effects of exposure to risk on junior faculty productivity incentives under the academic tenure system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ibrahim Niankara --- College of Business Administration, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis paper relies on modelling tools from probability theory and the economics of risk to analyze the ex-ante incentive properties of tenure from the perspective of junior faculty members. The theoretical results show that under publication value uncertainty and risk... -
A mammal survey of the Serra Jeci Mountain Range, Mozambique, with a review of records from northern Mozambique’s inselbergs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Tim van Berkel --- Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO), Belgium Emidio Sumbane --- Natural History Museum, Praca Travessia do Zambeze, Mozambique Samuel EI Jones --- Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO), Belgium Merlijn Jocque --- Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO), BelgiumThe mountains of northern Mozambique have remained poorly studied biologically until recent years with surveys covering a variety of taxonomic groups highlighting their biological and conservation value. Even so, the medium and large mammal fauna remains poorly known and to... -
The isimodeni style: traditional beadwork, Zulu trinket or South African sartorial tradition on Durban’s Golden Mile?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rowan C. Gatfield --- Department of Graphic Design, United KingdomBeadwork is a well-documented aspect of the socio-political culture of isiZulu-speaking groupings in Southern Africa. Whilst scholarship on beadwork deals largely with the denotative and connotative value it offers wearers, this article’s contribution relates both to its commodification and apolitical... -
Determination of Factors Influencing Cultivation and Utilisation of Pumpkins Among Smallholders in Kakamega and Nyeri Counties, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: J.K. Kiramana --- Chuka University, Kenya D.K. Isutsa --- Egerton University, KenyaPumpkin is becoming an important fruit-vegetable, although its potential remains unexploited in Kenya. This study aimed at enhancing conservation, preservation and production of naturalized pumpkins through the cataloguing of accessions and documentation of indigenous traditional knowledge influencing cultivation and utilization... -
Constructions of sexuality and HIV risk among young people in Venda, South Africa: implications for HIV prevention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Veronica Sivhabu --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Maretha Visser --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study explored constructions of sexuality among young people of Venda in Limpopo, South Africa, and cultural practices that can be used to develop context-specific HIV prevention programmes. HIV prevention can be promoted by including some cultural practices in prevention... -
Seasonal variation of livestock feed resources in semi-arid and humid environments of Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: Mupenzi Mutimura --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Cyprian Ebong --- Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB), Rwanda Idupulapati M Rao --- International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia Ignatius V Nsahlai --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaIn most of sub-Saharan African countries, including Rwanda, the predominant agricultural production is from a mixed-crop-livestock farming system, because of small size land holding. The objective of this study was to assess the seasonal availability of livestock feed resources in... -
Delayed disclosure of disability related needs: Experiences of “at-risk” students in a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Samukelisiwe Mngomezulu --- School of Education, South AfricaThe present study explored disability disclosure influences on university students, and specifically the types of supports the students perceive to need. Informants were three differently abled students (female = 1 and males = 2). They participated in semi-structured and focus... -
Korean dance performance influences on prospective tourist cultural products consumption and behaviour intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Hye-eun Kwak --- Contents Business MBA, South Korea Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Sun-young Kim --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South Korea Ju-eee Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural and Arts Management, South KoreaWe examined to what extent viewing the Korean dance performance by Beyond The Scene (BTS) at the 2018 Melon Music Awards influenced global viewers’ purchase of Korean cultural products and tourism behaviour intention. We surveyed 230 prospective tourists from the... -
Taxonomic challenges associated with identification guides of benthic macroinvertebrates for biomonitoring freshwater bodies in East Africa: A review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: H Ochieng --- Department of Biology, Uganda J Okot-Okumu --- Department of Environmental Management, Uganda R Odong --- Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences, UgandaAlthough biomonitoring of freshwater bodies is important in East Africa as a result of increasing environmental threats, the identification guides of benthic macroinvertebrates used to generate data for developing metrics for this purpose are mainly not regionally specific. This casts... -
Sustainable indicators for adventure tourism destinations: A case of Waterval Boven
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ndivhuwo Tshipala --- Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Department of Tourism Management, South Africa Willem Johannes Coetzee --- Department of Tourism, New Zealand Marius Potgieter --- Department of Marketing, South AfricaIn South Africa and around the world, the development of sustainable tourism indicators has been advocated by many authors and has resulted in a number of indicators. Indicators are distinguished by factors such as social, environmental as well as economic... -
Effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on corporate social responsibility and firm value in Korea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Doowon Ryu --- Business School, Republic of KoreaThis study examines the effect of the 2008 global financial crisis on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) by analysing Korean CSR and market data from 2004 to 2016 (excluding 2007). We focus on the role of the 2008 global financial... -
Homicide–suicide: practical implications for risk reduction and support services at primary care level
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Kotzé --- Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital/Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, South Africa JL Roos --- Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital/Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, South AfricaHomicide–suicide (HS) has been defined as homicide committed by a person who subsequently commits suicide within one week of the homicide. In most cases it occurs within 24 hours. HS is a public health problem, victimising not only those directly... -
In situ leaf litter production, decomposition and nutrient release of dry Afromontane trees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: Emiru Birhane --- Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Ethiopia Tekleab Desalegn --- Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Ethiopia Fassil Kebede --- Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Ethiopia Kidane Giday --- Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Ethiopia Hadgu Hishe --- Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Ethiopia Kiros Meles Hadgu --- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), EthiopiaThe litter fall production, decomposition and subsequent nutrient release of Carrisa edulis, Juniperus procera, Maytenus obscura and Olea europaea was monitored in the dry Afromontane forest of Northern Ethiopia by collecting abscised leaves using litter trap with a 192 litter... -
Does partial concealment influence predation attempts on small model snakes in South Africa?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Gareth Coombs --- , South AfricaPredation risk may be high in small snakes and most small snakes are thought to avoid certain behaviours, such as basking in open areas to reduce predation risk. The extent to which this concealment limits predation during basking is not... -
On the financial interpretation of risk contributions: An analysis using Quantile Simulation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Simon du Plooy --- Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, South AfricaThis paper tests whether the financial interpretation of risk contributions (Qian, 2006), as measured by marginal change in volatility, holds when accounting for fat tails in the asset return distributions. This important result is the theoretical foundation of risk-based portfolios,... -
A comparative analysis of risk measures: A portfolio optimisation approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Evan Gilbert --- University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa Luke Meiklejohn --- Department of Actuarial Science, South AfricaInvestment portfolios are typically created to minimise the level of risk for a required level of return. This paper highlights the importance of the choice of risk metric in this process. The theoretical nature of volatility as a risk measure... -
Gratitude, well-being and psychological distress among South African university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Henry D. Mason --- Directorate of Student Development and Support, South AfricaThis study investigated the associations between gratitude, measures of well-being, and indicators of psychological distress (depression and negative emotion) among South African university students. Data were collected from 198 first-year university students (female = 69.70%; mean age = 20.55 years,... -
Profiling work-related signature strengths of “Born Free” South Africans: A gender perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ita Geyser --- Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (STH), South Africa Madelyn Geldenhuys --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management (IPPM), South AfricaThis study investigated the importance of signature strengths of South African trainees in the hospitality industry who are the “Born Free” generation, who have only lived in a democracy, and were given equal opportunities. Utilising a cross-sectional research design, we... -
Pathways to flourishing among pharmacy students: The role of study demands and lecturer support
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mariëtta J Basson --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study investigated possible pathways to flourishing among pharmacy students attending a South African university (N = 799; females = 81.6%; Afrikaans-speakers = 84.7%, mean age = 20.42 years, SD = 2.25 years). The students completed the Mental Health Continuum... -
Farmers’ trade skills: exploring the local food chain in Leeuwarden, the 2018 European Capital of Culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marcelo de Mansoldo --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, The NetherlandsLocal food chains have received increasing attention as an alternative to the mainstream, unsustainable global food model. Farmers who directly sell their products to consumers are an essential link in local food chains. Surprisingly, research on local food chains has... -
Theoretical turns through tourism taste-scapes: the evolution of food tourism research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sally Everett --- King’s Business School, United KingdomThis article reflects on the evolution of food tourism research by tracing its conceptual, theoretical and empirical twists and turns over the past few decades. Prompted by some recent systematic reviews of food tourism studies, I draw on literature to... -
Local food and tourism in the Global South
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Gabriel CM Laeis --- Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management, GermanyMany countries in the Global South import a significant share of the food served to tourists. For decades, closer linkages of local food producer and the resort industry have been heralded as an antidote to this unsustainable circumstance, further encouraged... -
Zooming out — Local food at the border: the case of the Emsland and Veenland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sarah Seidel --- School of Leisure and Tourism Management, The NetherlandsStraddling the Dutch-German border, the regions Veenland and Emsland are geographically and partially historically the same, but have undergone a different kind of tourism development. While tourism tends to be small scale on both sides, the German Emsland welcomes significantly... -
Social networks, gender and HIV within marriages in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Roseanne Njiru --- Department of Sociology and Social Work, KenyaGender inequalities drive the HIV risk within marriages in Kenya, yet strategies to combat the spread of HIV are limited by their emphasis on the individual or dyadic relationship rather than the wider social-cultural relations that shape gender relations within... -
The prevalence and risk factors for diabetes mellitus in healthcare workers at Tygerberg hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: a retrospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Ankia Coetzee --- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, South Africa Amanda Beukes --- Department of Medicine, South Africa Reinhardt Dreyer --- Department of Medicine, South Africa Salaamah Solomon --- Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa Lourentia van Wyk --- Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa Roshni Mistry --- Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa Magda Conradie --- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, South Africa Mari van de Vyver --- Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South AfricaObjectives: To assess the contribution of traditional and modifiable risk factors to the overall risk and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) amongst health workers (HWs) in the public sector. -
Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in South African women living with HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Hanley --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Umlazi Clinical Research Site, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South AfricaThe colliding epidemics of HIV and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are of great public health concern. People living with HIV (PLHIV) are more predisposed to CVD development as a result of a multitude of contributors. Women living with HIV (WLHIV) appear... -
Structure and diversity of the Araucaria forest in southern Brazil: biotic homogenisation hinders the recognition of floristic assemblages related to altitude
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Lucia Sevegnani --- Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Brazil André L de Gasper --- Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Brazil Arthur V Rodrigues --- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Florestal, Brazil Débora V Lingner --- Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Brazil Leila Meyer --- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Brazil Alexandre Uhlmann --- Embrapa Florestas, Brazil Laio Z Oliveira --- Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Brazil Alexander C Vibrans --- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Florestal, BrazilForest structure and species abundance may respond to environmental features triggered by geomorphology, altitude gradients and human impacts. In this study we investigated if data from a large-area inventory would support the segregation of floristic assemblages related to altitude-oriented forest... -
Job security and workaholism among non-permanent workers: The moderating influences of corporate culture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South Korea Soo-yun Yang --- Department of Cultural Contents, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South KoreaThe present study examined aspects of job security, leadership risk (corporate-centric management style, short-term performance-orientedness, and subordinate authoritarianism), emotional exhaustion, and workaholism among 1 009 casual foreign workers from multicultural families living in South Korea. The nationalities of the casual... -
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... -
Market orientation and poverty reduction: A study of rural microentrepreneurs in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Charles Blankson --- Department of Marketing, Logistics and Operations Management, G. Brint Ryan College of Business, USA Julius A. Nukpezah --- Department of Political Science and Public Administration, USAWe draw on the quality of life theory and government economic development policies that focus on entrepreneurship for a theoretical backdrop to investigate the consequences of market orientation among microentrepreneurs in Ghana. We use qualitative data from 28 microentrepreneurs involving... -
The Role of Mrisho Mpoto’s Songs in Developing Oral Literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Evans Makhulo --- Department of Linguistics and Languages, KenyaThis paper investigates the contribution of Mrisho Mpoto’s songs in developing oral literature. It does so by examining the role of oral literature and evaluating the extent to which his songs advance the said role. Furthermore, we propose to show... -
Are we poles apart? Stakeholders’ cooperation and decision-making in on-land cruise tourism in Iceland and New Zealand
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Tracy Harkison --- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Þórný Barðadóttir --- Icelandic Tourism Research Centre, IcelandThe rapid growth of the global cruise ship industry in tourism has been evident in New Zealand in the southern hemisphere and Iceland in the northern hemisphere, where both countries have experienced a substantial increase in cruise ship arrivals at... -
Artificial intelligence in today’s hotel revenue management: opportunities and risks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Thomas Millauer --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The Netherlands Matthijs Vellekoop --- Stenden Hotel Management School, The NetherlandsThe implementation of revenue management in the hospitality industry has significantly increased in the past years. It started in the rooms departments and is slowly evolving to be further used for conference and event spaces, as well as food and... -
Validation of the periodicity of growth zone deposition in otoliths of two large endemic Labeobarbus species in Lake Tana, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Shewit Gebremedhin --- Department of Animal Science and Aquatic Ecology, Belgium Karen Bekaert --- Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (ILVO), Belgium Abebe Getahun --- Department of Zoological Sciences, Ethiopia Stijn Bruneel --- Department of Animal Science and Aquatic Ecology, Belgium Wassie Anteneh --- Department of Biology, Ethiopia Els Torreele --- Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (ILVO), Belgium Peter Goethals --- Department of Animal Science and Aquatic Ecology, BelgiumAlthough validation of the rate of growth zone deposition is a prerequisite for accurate age estimation, such studies are non-existent for the endemic Labeobarbus species in Lake Tana. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to validate the periodicity... -
Oxygen and temperature influence the distribution of deepwater Cape hake Merluccius paradoxus in the southern Benguela: a GAM analysis of a 10-year time-series
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: FL Mbatha --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa D Yemane --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa M Ostrowski --- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway CL Moloney --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa MR Lipiński --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaGeneralised additive models (GAMs) were applied to survey data to assess the influence of dissolved oxygen, water temperature and year of sampling upon the presence/absence of small (≤15 cm TL), medium (16–34 cm TL) and large (≥35 cm TL) size... -
Morphological and genetic variation of Leptopelis brevirostris encompasses the little-known treefrogs Leptopelis crystallinoron from Gabon and Leptopelis brevipes from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Rayna C Bell --- , , USA Patrick J McLaughlin --- , , USA Gregory FM Jongsma --- , , USA David C Blackburn --- , , USA Bryan L Stuart --- , USAThe Central African treefrog Leptopelis brevirostris has a characteristically short and vertically truncated snout, a tooth-like process at the centre of the mandible, and unlike most species of Leptopelis, eats terrestrial gastropods. Two morphologically similar species (L. crystallinoron and L... -
Optimising the dosage of ethyl methanesulphonate mutagenesis in selected wheat genotypes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Boluwatife M Olaolorun --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Hussein A Shimelis --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Isack Mathew --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Mark D Laing --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South AfricaNarrow genetic variation limits the success of crop improvement programs. Mutagenesis using ethyl methane- sulphonate (EMS) provides an opportunity to increase genetic variation to enhance selection in wheat improvement. This study aimed at establishing the optimum dosage and treatment conditions... -
Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii on the southeast coast of South Africa: information on moult and migratory status
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Anthony J Tree --- Port Alfred, South Africa Maëlle Connan --- Department of Zoology, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa Philip A Whittington --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaDetermining the migratory status of seabird populations is crucial for addressing conservation concerns. The Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii is considered endangered in South Africa in view of its small breeding population and the threats to eggs and chicks. Earlier works... -
Prevalence of bullying victimisation and associated factors among in-school adolescents in Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Department of Research & Innovation, South Africa Supa Pengpid --- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhonpathom, Thailand; Department of Research & Innovation, South AfricaThe study aimed to assess the prevalence of bullying victimisation and its correlates among middle school students in Mozambique. We analysed cross-sectional survey data from the 2015 Mozambique Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS). The sample consisted of 1 918 participants... -
Does the choice of fund performance measure matter?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Christopher Adcock --- School of Finance and Management, UK Nelson Areal --- NIPE Research Centre, School of Economics and Management, Portugal Maria Céu Cortez --- NIPE Research Centre, School of Economics and Management, Portugal Benilde Oliveira --- School of Economics and Management, Portugal Florinda Silva --- NIPE Research Centre, School of Economics and Management, PortugalThis paper investigates whether investment strategies using rankings based on different portfolio performance measures lead to different future abnormal returns. A set of 13 commonly used risk-adjusted performance measures is applied to a dataset of US equity mutual funds over... -
Maternal HIV status disclosure to young uninfected children: psychological variables of the mother
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Maretha Visser --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Amukelani Jennifer Hlungwani --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaMothers living with HIV are faced with the dilemma of when and how to disclose their HIV-positive status to their young uninfected children. In this study, a South African sample of mothers living with HIV, with young uninfected children (6–10... -
Biomass partitioning in an endemic southern African salt marsh species Salicornia tegetaria (Chenopodiaceae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CE Brown --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa A Rajkaran --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South AfricaThe below ground biomass of salt marsh species accounts for more than half of the total plant biomass in salt marsh systems, yet no biomass data exist for salt marsh species in South Africa. The aims of the current study... -
Brominated flame retardants in wild bird eggs from the industrialised heartland of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: LP Quinn --- National Metrology Institute of South Africa, South Africa C Roos --- Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa R Pieters --- Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa A Polder --- Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa H Bouwman --- Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaBrominated flame-retardants (BFRs), including polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), were analysed in 77 eggs of 13 wild bird species from Gauteng and northern Free State (the industrial heartland of South Africa). BFRs were in all eggs, but not... -
Spatial patterns and environmental risks of ringnet fishing along the Kenyan coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: P Thoya --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya S Pérez-Jorge --- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) and Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal GM Okemwa --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya H Mwamlavya --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya A Tuda --- Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya N Wambiji --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya JM Maina --- Department of Environmental Sciences, AustraliaRingnet fishing began in the early 20th century and is practised worldwide, mainly to target nearshore pelagic species. The method was introduced to Kenya’s coastal waters by migrant fishers from Tanzania. However, the impacts of this fishing gear remain poorly... -
Local ecological knowledge demonstrates shifting baselines and the large-scale decline of sawfishes (Pristidae) in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: G Braulik --- University of St Andrews, United Kingdom M Kasuga --- Wildlife Conservation Society Tanzania Program, Tanzania G Majubwa --- Ambakofi, TanzaniaSawfishes are coastally distributed rays that grow to very large sizes. All five species are assessed as Endangered or Critically Endangered as a result of population declines caused mainly by entanglements in fishing gear and by habitat degradation. Three species... -
SMEs in sustainable development: Their role in poverty reduction and employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Oluwayemisi Adebola Abisuga-Oyekunle --- , South Africa Swapan Kumar Patra --- , South Africa Mammo Muchie --- , South AfricaPoverty alleviation has been positioned high on the international development agenda following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. African countries initiated various missions to establish sustained economic growth by increasing productivity with an ultimate... -
Expected option returns during the post-GFC era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Cheng Yan --- , PRC Xiaoli Wu --- , UKWe investigate whether the option implied volatility predicts the future realised volatility of the underlying securities and whether volatility risk factors exploited from options are pricing factors. Our sample includes six popular stock indices such as the S&P 500 and... -
Volunteerism influences on student resilience and gratitude
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ian I. Llenares --- , Philippines Jay A. Sario --- , Philippines Daisy Bialba --- , Philippines Joey M. Dela Cruz --- , PhilippinesWe assessed the relative impact of volunteerism on the resilience and gratitude of students based on participation. A convenience sample of 80 students (female = 53.75%; age range = 18-25 years) participated in the study, of which 38 (47.50%) had... -
Carbon stock in the community managed Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Dadeldhura district, western Nepal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Suresh Prashad Bhatta --- , Nepal Anjana Devkota --- , NepalFour community-managed Sal forests in Dadeldhura district of Nepal were selected for the assessment of carbon stock. The stratified random sampling method was applied to measure the field data from 105 sample plots of 100 m2. The carbon stock of... -
Tourism resources and carrying capacity of scenic tourism areas based on forest ecological environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Qiong Sun --- , China Naicong Zhang --- , China Zheng Liu --- , China Bin Liao --- , ChinaThe development of society promotes the development of forest scenic tourism areas. In order to further realise the scientific and rational development of forest scenic tourism areas, it is necessary to analyse their tourism resources and carrying capacity. This paper... -
Potential release sites and strategies for a Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus reintroduction in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Christiaan W Brink --- , South Africa Sonja Krüger --- , South Africa Arjun Amar --- , South AfricaThe southern African population of Bearded Vultures Gypaetus barbatus has declined rapidly and it is threatened with extinction. In response to this decline and the additional threats of wind farm developments in the core of the species’ range, it has... -
Prevalence and correlates of interpersonal violence among in-school adolescents in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , VietnamThe study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of interpersonal violence (physical attacks and physical fighting) among school-going adolescents in Tanzania. We analysed an existing data set of 3 765 adolescent learners (mean age = 14 years, SD =... -
Large characteristic subgroups and abstract group classes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Francesco de Giovanni --- , Italy Marco Trombetti --- , ItalyIt is well-known that every virtually abelian group contains an abelian characteristic subgroup of finite index. We shall say that a group class is F-characteristic if any group containing an -subgroup of finite index has also a characteristic subgroup of... -
Utilization of collapsible fish tank innovation among homestead fish farmers in Osun State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Idris Olabode Badiru --- , Nigeria Theophilus Opeyemi Amure --- , NigeriaThis study ascertained the utilization of collapsible fish tanks among homestead fish farmers in Osun State of Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit data on fish farmers’ awareness, disposition, influencing/limiting factors and utilization of the fish tank innovation... -
Interactive effects of prescribed fire and livestock grazing on Seriphium plumosum in South African sour bushveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Michele D Clark --- , United States Carissa L Wonkka --- , United States Urs P Kreuter --- , United States William E Rogers --- , United StatesDocumented increases in woody plant abundance worldwide can reduce land value and grazing capacity. Throughout many grasslands and savannas in South Africa, Seriphium plumosum, an encroaching woody plant, has been rapidly displacing desirable native species. Cost-effective management techniques are required,... -
Risk factors associated with youth gang involvement: An exploratory criminological case study analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anni Hesselink --- , South Africa Nigel Bradley Bougard --- , South AfricaThis study explored risk factors for youth gang involvement in the South African setting. Participants were five youth male gang members (between 21 to 24 years) from Gauteng province, South Africa. We interviewed them on childhood experiences they perceived to... -
The Sasol Oil case – Would the present South African GAAR stand up to the rigours of the court?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Teresa M. Pidduck --- , South AfricaSouth Africa finds itself vulnerable to exploitation by the measures taken by multinational enterprises (MNEs) who seek to enter into tax avoidance schemes that artificially shift profits to low- or no-tax jurisdictions. While common law, specific and general anti-avoidance measures... -
Assessment of an HIV-prevention intervention for couples in peri-urban Uganda: pervasive challenges to relationship quality also challenge intervention effectiveness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Phoebe Kajubi --- , Uganda Allison Ruark --- , USA Norman Hearst --- , USA Sam Ruteikara --- , Uganda Edward C Green --- , USAReducing multiple and concurrent partnerships has been identified as a priority in generalised HIV epidemics, yet developing successful interventions to bring about such behaviour change has proven challenging. We offered a three-session intervention aimed to improve couple relationship quality and... -
Open development and scaling-up of clustered enterprises in Nigeria’s informal sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Oluseye Oladayo Jegede --- , South AfricaThis study outlined how the microenterprises overcome numerous challenges common to start-up through ‘open development’ characterized by collective sharing of knowledge, tools, equipment and workforce amongst competing microenterprises, and belonging to trade/professional associations that ensure that knowledge becomes a public... -
Risk-based portfolio sensitivity to covariance estimation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Hannes du Plessis --- , Paul van Rensburg --- ,Risk-based portfolio construction methods focus on optimally extracting information from the covariance matrix of asset returns, as opposed to utilising forecasts of expected returns, in determining the portfolio allocation. This improves their robustness to estimation error in means, but this... -
Diving into the Slave Wreck: The São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Charne Lavery --- , South AfricaThe first slave wreck to be definitively identified is the São José-Paquete de Africa, a slave ship from Mozambique Island wrecked off the coast of Cape Town. This paper takes that wreck as case study and context for the southern... -
New insights into the taxonomic status, distribution and natural history of De Witte’s Clicking Frog (Kassinula wittei Laurent, 1940)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Werner Conradie --- , South Africa Chad Keates --- , South Africa Javier Lobón-Rovira --- , Portugal Pedro Vaz Pinto --- , Portugal Luke Verburgt --- , South Africa Ninda L Baptista --- , South Africa James Harvey --- , South Africa Timóteo Júlio --- , South AfricaKassinula is a monotypic genus of small frog in the family Hyperoliidae, only represented by Kassinula wittei. This species morphologically resembles both Kassina Girard, 1853 and Afrixalus Laurent, 1944, and its taxonomic status has been debated for decades. It has... -
Application of metaheuristic algorithms in DC-optimal power flow
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Oluwafemi Ajayi --- , South Africa Nnamdi Nwulu --- , South Africa Uyikumhe Damisa --- , South AfricaThis paper presents the application of two metaheuristic algorithms (Exchange Market Algorithm and Ant Lion Optimizer) in solving the DC optimal power flow problem. The objective of this study is to minimize fuel costs associated with electricity generation. Advanced Interactive... -
Prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep disturbance and associated factors among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , South AfricaThe goal of the study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of anxiety-induced sleep disturbance (AISD) among adolescent school children in Benin. Nationally representative cross-sectional data were analysed from 2 536 adolescents (median age = 17 years) that participated... -
Crises containment management in South African schools: A critical review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Monique de Klerk --- , South Africa Werner de Klerk --- , South AfricaVarious accidents and incidents occur daily in schools, which can have a lifelong impact on both school learners and their family’s life. These events at schools might lead to physical and psychological symptoms which would affect school learner and educator... -
Supply chain management and organizational performance: Evidence from SMEs in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Welby V. Loury Okoumba --- , South Africa Chengedzai Mafini --- , South Africa Joyendu Bhadury --- , USAThe salutary impact of adopting supply chain management best practices (SCMBPs) on organizations is well documented. However, similar studies on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially in underdeveloped/developing economies are relatively scant in the extant literature. This is despite the... -
Social capital and performance of SMEs: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and managerial capability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Suzzie Owiredua Aidoo --- , Ghana Ahmed Agyapong --- , Ghana Henry Kofi Mensah --- , GhanaThis study proposes and investigates the argument that social capital–performance link is mediated by entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and that this mediated relationship is dependent upon the level of managerial capability (MC) present in a firm. The study uses a sample... -
Loss to follow-up among female sex workers in Zambia: findings from a five-year HIV-incidence cohort
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kalonde Malama --- , France Luis Sagaon-Teyssier --- , France Andréa Gosset --- , France Rachel Parker --- , USA Kristin M Wall --- , USA Amanda Tichacek --- , USA Tyronza Sharkey --- , Zambia William Kilembe --- , Zambia Mubiana Inambao --- , Zambia Matt A Price --- , USA Bruno Spire --- , France Susan Allen --- , USAHIV-incidence studies are used to identify at-risk populations for HIV-prevention trials and interventions, but loss to follow-up (LTFU) can bias results if participants who remain differ from those who drop out. We investigated the incidence of and factors associated with... -
Presenting a PhD research proposal: A guide for commerce students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Richard Shambare --- , South AfricaThis paper provides commerce PhD students with advice on how to structure research proposals. In particular, the paper addresses the question: How should a PhD candidate in entrepreneurship (or another commerce discipline) present a research proposal? The paper guides students... -
Environmental health risks associated with indiscriminate dumping in Lekwa Local Municipality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Isaiah Dladla --- , South Africa Machete Machete --- , South Africa Karabo Shale --- , South AfricaThis paper presents the environmental health risks associated with indiscriminate dumping of solid waste in Lekwa Local Municipality. Structured observations were used to collect data from the identified waste dumping spots. The primary data collected involved the characterization of waste... -
Creative leadership and employee work wellness: Supervisor support as a mediator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marita M. Heyns --- , South Africa Sean McCallaghan --- , South Africa Charlene E. Roos --- , South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate creative leadership, perceived supervisor support, and flourishing and burnout amongst agricultural employees. Participants were employees of a South African agricultural organisation (n = 253; male = 51.8%; 40–49 years old = 33.0%; white = 80%)... -
The changing career of luxury: From moral threat to material well-being
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Christopher J. Berry --- , United KingdomThe elusive nature of luxury and its history have been discussed for thousands of years. Previously known to be for the rich and famous, it could be argued that luxury is a moral threat to society, bringing about social divides... -
Developing a satellite-based frost risk model for the Southern African commercial forestry landscape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Riyad Ismail --- , South Africa Jacob Crous --- , South Africa Giovanni Sale --- , South Africa Andrew Morris --- , South Africa Kabir Peerbhay --- , South AfricaFrost is a sporadic meteorological event affecting the productivity of commercial forests in South Africa. Severe frost occurrences may cause irreversible damage to forest stands, slowing down tree growth or leading to tree mortality. Using the Moderate Imaging Spectrometer (spatial... -
Prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Liberia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , South AfricaThis study aimed to estimate the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among adolescent school children in Liberia. We analysed data from a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of 2 744 school adolescents (median: 18 years) gathered by the Liberia Global... -
Public perception of risk and coping response to COVID-19 in China: The moderating role of negative emotion
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yongtao Gan --- , China Jing Zhang --- , China Zhiyue Quan --- , ChinaThis study investigated the moderating role of negative emotion on risk perception and risk response during the COVID-19 pandemic. We administered a survey to 1 452 participants from six provinces in China (female = 72. 4%; mean age = 33... -
Subjective knowledge and health consciousness influences on health tourism intention after the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bo Pu --- , China Fei Du --- , China Lu Zhang --- , China Yanjun Qiu --- , ChinaWe aimed to predict health tourism intention after the COVID-19 pandemic, which has made people more cautious about their health status. Our study participants comprised 369 people from Chengdu, China, who completed an online survey on health consciousness, subjective knowledge,... -
Nutrition risk and validation of an HIV disease-specific nutrition screening tool in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Lauri Wright --- , Maxwell Bisala Konlan --- , Laurene Boateng --- , James B Epps --- , -
Risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediments of the Ekulu River in Enugu State in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Uzochukwu C Ugochukwu --- , Nigeria Onyechi H Onuora --- , Nigeria Leonard Kurumeh --- , Nigeria Uchenna I Mbakwe --- , Nigeria Obiageli J Okolo --- , Nigeria Amaka L Onuorah --- , NigeriaThe human health and ecological risks resulting from exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Ekulu River sediments were estimated in this study. The Ekulu River receives pollutants potentially containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from runoff from automotive workshops... -
Calibration and validation of APSIM–Maize, DSSAT CERES–Maize and AquaCrop models for Ethiopian tropical environments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Hirut Getachew Feleke --- , South Africa MJ Savage --- , South Africa Kindie Tesfaye --- , EthiopiaProcess-based crop models are popular tools to quantify the impact of changes due to climate or crop management. Accurate simulation of crop production for different agro-ecological conditions using an individual crop model remains challenging due to different sources of uncertainty... -
The pricing of skewness: Evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Johannes Petrus Steyn --- , South Africa Lomari Theart --- , South AfricaThe historical skewness of stock return distributions could potentially affect future stock returns. Previous studies in developed markets have shown that investors prefer shares exhibiting positively skewed or ‘lottery-like’ payoff profiles. The higher demand for these shares results in a... -
The impact of orphanage tourism on Bali
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- , the NetherlandsThis article deals with the phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Bali, Indonesia. Context is given based on a recent published report by the Dutch government on the impact of orphanage tourism. Findings are derived from larger-scale qualitative research based on... -
A preliminary evaluation of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic could have on female employability in the tourism and hospitality sectors in Italy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Radu Mihailescu --- , the Netherlands Azzurra Rinaldi --- , ItalyThe article focuses on the analysis of preliminary data regarding the challenges that female employability in the tourism and hospitality sectors in Italy has faced and will continue to experience as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19... -
Crisis management: The response of a small Dutch hospitality company during the COVID-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Nanda van Leeuwen Boomkamp --- , The Netherlands Nicole Vermolen --- , The NetherlandsThe purpose of this study was to explore how a small Dutch hospitality company responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and hence create an understanding of how hospitality businesses can potentially use this knowledge when facing similar crises in the future... -
What is luxury hospitality? A need to move towards a scientific understanding
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Andy Heyes --- , The NetherlandsThe world of luxury and that of luxury hospitality has been growing for numerous years. From hotels such as the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, The Torch in Doha and The Savoy in London, luxury hospitality and the variety which... -
Correctional officers’ perceptions of resilience of at-risk youth in a correctional centre in Eswatini
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sifiso B. Shabangu --- , South Africa Vicki Koen --- , South AfricaThis study aimed to explore and describe correctional officers’ perceptions of resilience of at-risk youth in a correctional centre in Eswatini. Applying a qualitative explorative-descriptive research design, we conducted a World Café with 15 purposively sampled correctional officers at an... -
Prevalence and associated factors of loneliness among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , South AfricaThe goal of the study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of loneliness among adolescents in Morocco. Data were analysed from 6 745 school adolescents (median age = 15 years) that participated in the 2016 Morocco cross-sectional Global School-Based... -
Innovation activities of informal micro-enterprises in Gauteng, South Africa: A systematic review of the literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Lavhelesani Mulibana --- , Republic of South Africa Ravinder Rena --- , Republic of South AfricaThe literature revealed that 70–80% of South African small businesses, including informal micro-enterprises, fail in the first year of their existence. Innovation has been recognized as a catalyst that can enhance informal micro-enterprises’ probabilities to survive and transform them from... -
From suppliers to nodes in global value chains: An upgradation of the ICT cluster of Pakistan through regional and national innovation systems.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Iffat B. Naqvi --- , Pakistan Zahid Ali Memon --- , Pakistan Wahid Bux Mangrio --- , PakistanThe bottom-level weaker position of developing countries industrial clusters in GVCs make them prone to the threats of non-compliance of international standards and power dominance by lead firm in GVCs as empirically evident from the traditional industrial clusters of Pakistan... -
Structural equation modelling of risk indicators for suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Nigerian Yorùbá youth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kehinde Clement Lawrence --- , South AfricaIn the past, suicide was considered as an abomination among the Yorùbás, yet it was also perceived as an acceptable and honourable way to escape dishonour, indignity, or shame. This study investigated psychosocial and personal risk indicators for suicidal thoughts... -
Auto insurance premiums in Ghana: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag model approach to risk exposure variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacob Azaare --- , China Zhao Wu --- , China Bernard Gumah --- , China Enock Mintah Ampaw --- , Ghana Socrates Modzi Kwadwo --- , GermanyThis study examined risk exposure and auto insurance premium determinants in Ghana. We analysed an existing data set of 23 434 policies (without claims = 84.1%, policies with claims = 15.9%; comprehensive policies = 48.0%, third-party policies = 52.0%) applying... -
Psychosocial variables of the interactive mobile interface for geriatric persons in a Kenyan setting: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Njeri Ngaruiya --- , Kenya Daniel Orwa Ochieng --- , Kenya Peter Waiganjo --- , KenyaWe aimed to identify and explore the priority psychosocial considerations for the gerontechnology design for Kenyan geriatrics. Our informants were a convenience sample of eight older adults (female = 4, age range 65 years to 78 years; and males =... -
Popular culture influences on national image and tourism behavioural intention: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joon-ho Kim --- , Republic of Korea Myung-hun Jung --- , Republic of Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- , Republic of KoreaThis study aimed to examine the relationships between popular culture (success factors of K-pop) and international tourist behavioural intention, and the role of national image in that relationship. We analysed an existing data base on popular culture success attributes of... -
The distribution of dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in recent sediments of the Oualidia Lagoon, Morocco, with a focus on toxic species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: K Chaira --- , Morocco H Rhinane --- , Morocco B Ennaffah --- , Morocco S Maimouni --- , Morocco R Sagou --- , Morocco S Loulad --- , Morocco A BenMhamed --- , Morocco A Agouzouk --- , Morocco S BenBrahim --- , Morocco E Masseret --- , France M Laabir --- , FranceHarmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming widely distributed and more frequent, threatening socioecosystems and human health. We determined species composition, abundance and spatial distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the upper sediment of the Oualidia Lagoon located on the Atlantic coast... -
Barriers to condom use in casual sexual relationships known as ukujola in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mbongeleni Thembalihle Mgwaba --- , South Africa Pranitha Maharaj --- , South AfricaSouth Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. Of the nine provinces in South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal is the worst affected. HIV is largely transmitted through unprotected penetrative sexual intercourse. Male latex condoms are central... -
Structure, growth and growing space efficiency of Pinus radiata (D. Don) trees as affected by their social position
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Hans Pretzsch --- , Germany Andreas Rais --- , Germany Deon Malherbe --- , South Africa Antonio Ruano --- , Spain Hugo Lambrechts --- , The Netherlands Enno Uhl --- , Germany Ben du Toit --- , South AfricaCurrently, silvicultural prescriptions such as thinning monospecific stands from above and transitioning from monospecific to mixed-species stands are scrutinised regarding their ability to reduce stress and damage. That the quantity and quality of the trees harvested by intermediate and final... -
Adherence to safety practices and risks associated with toxic chemicals in the research and postgraduate laboratories at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Liziwe Lizbeth Mugivhisa --- , South Africa Khanyi Baloyi --- , South Africa Joshua Oluwole Olowoyo --- , South AfricaThe study investigated the knowledge of postgraduate students in the Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry departments regarding safety practices, protective measures and risks associated with toxic chemicals in the postgraduate and research laboratories. The study was exploratory and was conducted through... -
Is happiness based on psychological harmony? Exploring the mediating role of psychological harmony in the relationship between personality characteristics and occupational well-being
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yuzhu Zhang --- , China Leigang Zhang --- , China Yunlong Wu --- , ChinaThis study proposed and tested a theoretical model for specifying the structural relationship between personality characteristics (including core self-evaluation, social comparison, philosophies of human nature, psychological capital), psychological harmony, and occupational well-being in a higher education setting. We analysed data... -
Sustainable early literacy outcomes for young children of poverty: Influences of attendance, social competence, and problem behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karen C. Stoiber --- , United States of America Maribeth Gettinger --- , United States of AmericaThis study examined the role of children’s early school attendance and social competency skills in their early literacy development. Participants were 286 African American pre-schoolers from low-income homes enrolled in Head Start classrooms in the Unites States of America (mean... -
Problem drinking among a cross-sectional national sample of adolescents in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , South AfricaThe goal of this investigation was to assess the prevalence and correlates of problem drinking among adolescents in South Africa. Data were from a national cross-sectional survey of 2 290 adolescents that participated in the 2012 South African National Health... -
Population Viability Analysis for a vulnerable ground-nesting species, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus: assessing juvenile mortality as a potential area for conservation management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Krista N Oswald --- , South Africa Alan TK Lee --- , South AfricaAs an endemic bird to the Fynbos biome, prominently featured in literature and marketing material for the avifauna of the continent, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus is an iconic species of South Africa. Building on studies from the past decade,... -
Dazzled by the light: the impact of light pollution from ships on seabirds at Tristan da Cunha
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Peter G Ryan --- , South Africa E Molly Ryan --- , South Africa James P Glass --- ,Most of the millions of burrow-nesting petrels that breed at Tristan da Cunha are susceptible to light pollution. On dark, misty nights, petrels become disoriented by artificial lights, mainly from ships. From 2013 to 2021 at least 1 823 petrels... -
Comparative biotolerance of water spinach, Ipomoea aquatica, to heavy metal pollution in the Agodi Reservoir and the Ogunpa River, Oyo State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PO Ogungbile --- , Nigeria PO Ayeku --- , Nigeria AO Ajibare --- , NigeriaThe biotolerance of water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) to heavy metals was investigated in the Agodi Reservoir and its supplying source, the Ogunpa River, to examine the impact of aquatic pollution. I. aquatica was collected monthly from the Ogunpa River and... -
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sara Marzagora --- , UK Tom Boylston --- , UKThe Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between... -
Biogeographical patterns of grasses (Poaceae) indigenous to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Marike Trytsman --- , South Africa Francuois L Muller --- , South Africa Craig D Morris --- , South Africa Abraham E van Wyk --- , South AfricaThe ecological and economical importance of African grasses in sustaining animal production prompted studies to quantify the wealth of grass genetic resources indigenous to southern Africa. Plant collection and occurrence data were extracted from two southern African datasets, BODATSA and... -
Examining the dominant models and theories of international staffing policies and practices through the lenses of the African context and Chinese multinational construction enterprises in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Aminu Mamman --- , Qian Wen --- ,International staffing policies and practices of Chinese enterprises in Africa have given rise to a number of observations, critical comments, empirical support and rebuttals. One of the areas of research and critique has been the implications of the staffing policies... -
The relationship between tax transparency and tax avoidance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Madeleine Stiglingh --- , South Africa Anna-Retha Smit --- , South Africa Anri Smit --- , South AfricaAll over the world, the tax avoidance practices of large multinational firms have received much media attention over the last few years, which has become a prominent reputational risk for many firms. In addition to the possible reputational risk stemming... -
Cumulative risk and school bullying experiences: Effects of moral disengagement and gender
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Huai-Bin Jiang --- , China Hui-Ling Zhou --- , China Bin Zhang --- , China Han-Yu Liang --- , China Jing-Jing Lian --- , China Yang-Yu Zhang --- , ChinaWe examined the mediation effect of moral disengagement in the association between children’s cumulative risk and high experience of school bullying. Additionally, we determined whether this mediating process was moderated by gender. A sample of 509 Chinese adolescent school students... -
Institutional and technological innovation for the bamboo sector as an instrument for development and climate change resilience in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tefera Belay Endalamaw --- , Ethiopia Dietrich Darr --- , GermanyGiven a huge resource base, numerous product and service functions, bamboo can top many of the species recommended for integrated rural development in the context of climate change. Despite this potential, there is gap in knowledge and innovation to make... -
A behavioural and HIV serological survey among detainees of Ankazondrano jail in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jocia Fenomanana --- , Madagascar Fidiniaina Mamy Randriatsarafara --- , Madagascar Fabien Florian Ranampy --- , Madagascar Zely Arivelo Randriamanantany --- , MadagascarAims: The prevalence of HIV in the general population of Madagascar is 0.3%. Some population groups, especially detainees are vulnerable to this infection. Our study was the first combined HIV survey of the detainees of Ankazondrano jail in Fianarantsoa. The... -
The value of volunteers in tourism and events: A leadership perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Henrik Sølvbjerg Pahus --- , Denmark Simon Lind Fischer --- , Denmark Bianca Bradescu --- , DenmarkThis article is part of a three-year research project on volunteerism and the value for organisations employing volunteers, volunteers themselves and finally the tourists who meet the volunteers in various settings. Employing a mixed methods approach, we conducted a mutual... -
Distribution, ecology, and conservation of Philochortus zolii in Mauritania: implications for the long-term persistence of an endangered lizard
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Marisa Naia --- , Portugal Andack S Sow --- , Mauritania João Campos --- , Portugal Zeine El Abidine Sidatt --- , Mauritania José C Brito --- , PortugalPhilochortus zolii is a globally endangered lizard known only from five localities scattered across North Africa. The population is thought to be decreasing, but there are almost no data about this Sahara-Sahel endemic lizard. Recently, a sixth population was found... -
Predicting corporate defaults using machine learning with geometric-lag variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Hyeongjun Kim --- , Korea Hoon Cho --- , Korea Doojin Ryu --- , KoreaThis study examines whether corporate default prediction techniques based on machine learning can achieve better performance by using geometrically declining weighted average values of the time series variables, that is, geometric-lag variables. We test four machine learning algorithms: logistic regression,... -
CFOs versus CEOs: Risk-taking incentives and decisions of corporate policies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Han-Ching Huang --- , Taiwan Pei-Shan Tung --- ,We undertake a broad-based study of the effect of the equity incentives of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) on decisions relating to corporate policies and find that the risk-taking incentives of acquirer CEOs have a greater... -
Diffusion of innovations: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Bibhunandini Das --- , IndiaThis paper attempts to review the theoretical and empirical perspectives of innovation-diffusion literature. The objective of this paper is to develop a heuristic framework by reviewing the existing studies for analyzing the diffusion of innovation and its outcome in different... -
“I prefer to take pills when I plan to have sex”: Perceptions of on-demand versus daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis among adolescents in Kampala, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rachel Kawuma --- , Uganda Zam Nabalwanyi --- , Uganda Janet Seeley --- , Uganda Yunia Mayanja --- , UgandaThere is limited information about the use of on-demand and daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among adolescents and young people (AYP) in sub-Saharan Africa. We explored perceptions of both regimens among 14- to 19-year-olds perceived to be at high risk of... -
Perspectives on academic mentorship, research collaborations, career advice and work–life balance: a masterclass conversation with Professor Salim Abdool Karim
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Faheema Kimmie-Dhansay --- , South Africa Jawaya Shea --- , Seyi Amosun --- , South Africa Xan Swart --- , South Africa Lehana Thabane --- , CanadaMentorship and collaboration are fundamental to ensure success in research, particularly health research. In this article, we summarise a conversation between the Master’s in Biostatistics students at Stellenbosch University and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, the head of the Centre for... -
Innovation in the informal sector: The case of plastic recycling firms in Mexico
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: René Rivera-Huerta --- , Mexico Nidia López-Lira --- , MexicoBeyond job creation, informal economic activities have received little recognition for their contribution to economic systems. However, in recent years, new research trends have suggested that enterprises in the informal sector have productivity potential that can be encouraged through technological... -
Estimation of pesticide mixture interaction in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) using survival analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: KC Kanu --- , Nigeria NH Amaeze --- , Nigeria AA Otitoloju --- , NigeriaThe acute toxicity of the pesticides atrazine, mancozeb, chlorpyrifos and lambda-cyhalothrin, acting singly and jointly, was assessed on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings. Median lethal concentration (LC50), median lethal time (LT50), and mixture interaction were estimated, whereas survival analysis was... -
Exploring educators’ and support staffs’ experiences regarding crises containment management in South African schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Monique de Klerk --- , South Africa Werner de Klerk --- , South AfricaThis qualitative interpretive description research study aimed to explore, interpret, and describe educators’ and support staffs’ experiences regarding the management of crises in their schools in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Informant educators (n = 7) and support staff... -
Building markets between institutional discontinuities: Intermediation between formal and informal sectors in developing countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: John M. Luiz --- , UK Baldwin Guchu --- , South AfricaWe explore the role of an intermediary, Palladium, in Zimbabwe as it bridges the divide between formal and informal sectors and the process through which it connects these sectors. We conduct in-depth, qualitative interviews structured around our case study of... -
Technological characterisation of wood from Australian red cedar after first thinning of a plantation at five years
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Kelvin Techera Barbosa --- , Brazil Andrey Pereira Acosta --- , Brazil Marília Lazarotto --- , Brazil Rafael Beltrame --- , Brazil Claudia Fernanda Lemons e Silva --- , Brazil Claudimar Sidnei Fior --- , BrazilAustralian red cedar (Toona ciliata M. Roem.) is a forest species planted in Brazil especially for lumber production. This study aimed to evaluate technological properties of the wood after selective first thinning of a plantation 5 years after planting. The... -
Introducing a nutritional risk screening tool in a South African hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Lesego Ndhlovu --- , Tim De Maayer --- , -
The case of Lovina, Bali: how dolphin-watching procedures put village hospitality revenue at risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- , the Netherlands I Gede Hendrawan --- , Indonesia Luh Putu Eswaryanti Kusuma Yuni --- , IndonesiaThis article focuses on the current practice of dolphin watching in Lovina, Bali. The current approach, in which tourists can hire a traditional boat with a captain, has been evaluated. The results show that the anthropogenic disturbance caused by dolphin... -
Fear at the top: killer whale predation drives white shark absence at South Africa’s largest aggregation site
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AV Towner --- , South Africa RGA Watson --- , South Africa AA Kock --- , South Africa Y Papastamatiou --- , United States M Sturup --- , South Africa E Gennari --- , South Africa K Baker --- , South Africa T Booth --- , South Africa M Dicken --- , South Africa W Chivell --- , South Africa S Elwen --- , South Africa T Kaschke --- , South Africa D Edwards --- , South Africa MJ Smale --- , South AfricaRisk-induced fear effects exerted by top predators are pervasive in terrestrial and marine systems, with lasting impacts on ecosystem structure and function. The loss of top predators can disrupt ecosystems and trigger trophic cascades, but the introduction of novel apex... -
Negative social interactions and the persistence of depression: Evidence from the women of Westbury, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cyril Dalene Rathnum --- , South Africa Jacqueline Moodley --- , South AfricaWe explored women’s experiences of depression from the perspective of negative social interactions at the personal, family, and community levels. Informants were seven coloured women from Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa (aged 28 – 56 years old). The participants answered open-ended... -
Tourism graduate students’ employability skills: Results and implications of a Zimbabwean study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Beaula Moyo --- , Turkey Hale Özgit --- , TurkeyThe study investigated perceptions of employability skills of Tourism and Hospitality Management (THM) graduates in the Zimbabwean sector. The participants included 15 THM university graduates and 15 tourism sector managers. The participants completed semi-structured interviews regarding the perceived employability skills... -
The asymmetric relationship between volatility index and volatility-of-volatility index
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Adian McFarlane --- , Ontario Canada Anupam Das --- , Canada Young Cheol Jung --- , CanadaWe use the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model to assess the asymmetric relationship between the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s volatility index (VIX) and volatility-of-volatility index (VVIX) over the period January 2007 to March 2020. To control for potentially confounding factors,... -
A pandemic triad: HIV, COVID-19 and debt in low- and middle-income countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Birungi --- , Switzerland Jaime Atienza Azcona --- , Switzerland Daniel Munevar --- , SwitzerlandThis article assesses the impact of the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics and debt dynamics on health, HIV and pandemic preparedness and response-related financing in developing countries. Using a novel dataset, we did a cross-national systematic analysis of all data sources... -
Agro-morphological diversity of Bambara groundnut lines evaluated under field conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Nokuthula Hlanga --- , South Africa Albert Modi --- , South Africa Isack Mathew --- , South AfricaAssessing agro-morphological variation is important for crop improvement strategies in cultivated species. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) is a neglected crop that requires extensive agro-morphological characterisation to design suitable agronomic and crop improvement strategies. Nineteen Bambara groundnut lines were... -
Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Bible as an African Knowledge: Eco-spirituality, Christianity, and Decolonial Thought
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Adriaan van Klinken --- , UKRecent scholarship has acknowledged the contribution of the environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), to African ecological and decolonial thinking. As far as Maathai’s engagement with religion is concerned, scholarship emphasises her critique of Christianity for... -
A typology of social entrepreneuring models continued: Empirical evidence from South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Alex Bignotti --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Kerrin Myres --- Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria, South AfricaThere have been calls in social entrepreneurship research to move beyond conceptual arguments and to ground definitions and conceptualizations of this field in empirical research, especially pertaining to the developing world. Owing to the socially embedded nature of social enterprises,... -
Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christine Janse van Rensburg --- , South Africa Christel Marais --- , South AfricaWe investigated the lived workplace flourishing of South African female academics applying an interpretative phenomenological approach. Informants were female academic employees, ranging in ages from 32 to 58 years, within a university of technology. Most of the participants (60%) were... -
Prevalence study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Ashanti region of Ghana: a systematic review of risk factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Daniel Katey --- , Ghana Abigail Akua Addo --- , Ghana Kabila Abass --- , Ghana Anthony Kwame Morgan --- , Ghana -
Determination of foliar nutrient sufficiency ranges in cultivated rooibos tea using the boundary-line approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Jacobus FN Smith --- , South Africa Ailsa G Hardie --- , South AfricaDespite the global importance of rooibos tea (Aspalathus linearis (Burm.f.) R.Dahlgren) as a health-promoting crop, foliar nutrient sufficiency ranges have not yet been determined for commercially cultivated rooibos. Determination of these ranges is critical for assessing plant nutrient status and... -
Assessment of rice threshing technology characteristics for enhanced rice sector development in Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Philomena Chioma-Akalugo Ogwuike --- Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria Aminou Arouna --- Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), Cote d’Ivoire Clinton Obinna Ogwuike --- Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), NigeriaUnderstanding the technology characteristics desirable to farmers to increase the adoption of improved technologies remains a high-priority research issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study aimed to quantify farmers’ demand and assessment of the characteristics of rice threshing technologies to... -
A literature- and senior stakeholder-informed model of southern African programme risk management challenges
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Emmanuel Mulambya --- North-West University, Republic of South Africa Hermien Zaaiman --- North-West University, Republic of South AfricaStrategic capital infrastructure programmes are risky endeavours due to the complexity inherent in implementing and managing such large project-based programmes. Successful programmes demand well-developed skills in the under-researched and underdeveloped discipline of programme risk management. The purpose of this qualitative... -
Exploring the impacts of and reactions to HIV diagnosis in older adults: narratives from Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mathew Nyashanu --- , United Kingdom Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele --- , South AfricaThere is an increase in prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among older adults. This new emerging social group is being overlooked, owing to the focus on groups that have traditionally been regarded as “high risk”. This article set... -
An analysis of the relationship between HIV risk self-perception with sexual behaviour and HIV status in South African older adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Makandwe Nyirenda --- , South Africa Nonzwakazi Mnqonywa --- , South Africa Bomkazi Tutshana --- , South Africa Jayganthie Naidoo --- , South Africa Paul Kowal --- , Australia Joel Negin --- , AustraliaObjective: To examine how older adults perceive their own risk of acquiring HIV; and how this perception correlates with their sexual behaviour and HIV status. -
The application of Bayesian networks to evaluate risks from multiple stressors to water quality of freshwater ecosystems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: V Wepener --- , South Africa GC O’Brien --- , South AfricaIt is difficult to predict and manage the ecological consequences of multiple water quality stressors on our freshwater systems. This is due to the dynamism of the source-stressor-response relationships and multiple factors including lack of data, complex impact pathways and... -
Effects of award incentives and competition on entrepreneurship development of women farmers in North West province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Enioluwa Jonathan Ijatuyi --- , South Africa Oladimeji Idowu Oladele --- , Nigeria Abiodun Olusola Omotayo --- , South AfricaFemale agricultural workers play an important role in feeding the world; hence, there is a need to encourage females in agricultural enterprises of developing countries. This study specifically identified the socioeconomic characteristics of the participants, their degree of participation, the... -
Linking disruptive innovation to sustainable entrepreneurship within the context of small and medium firms: A focus on Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni --- , Nigeria Daniel E. Ufua --- , Nigeria Abdullah Promise Opute --- , United KingdomThis study illuminates the linkages between disruptive innovation (DI) and sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) within the context of small and medium firms (SMFs). By adopting a systematic review of the literature, we thematized the possible connections between DI and SE practices... -
Social capital and firm performance nexus: The role of new product development capability and environmental dynamism in an emerging economy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Patrick Awusak Akanpaaba --- , Ghana Ahmed Agyapong --- , Ghana Henry Kofi Mensah --- , Ghana Samuel Yaw Akomea --- , GhanaThis paper seeks to examine the argument that the social capital and market performance link is more pronounced when it is channelled through the new product development capability of the firm. The study further argues that the indirect effect of... -
Consumer acceptability of fried chips made from South African sweet potato cultivars
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: SM Laurie --- , South Africa WM Mphela --- , South AfricaIn South Africa, the processing of sweet potatoes has a high potential for economic gain, therefore, chips were prepared from six sweet potato cultivars with varying flesh colours for consumer preference evaluation. Scoring was based on colour, crispness, taste and... -
Long-term effects of micro-fine and class A calcitic lime application rates on soil acidity and rooibos tea yields under Clanwilliam field conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Jacobus FN Smith --- , South Africa Ailsa G Hardie --- , South AfricaPrevious research on the effect of soil liming on rooibos tea growth was limited to short-term greenhouse trials. This is the first long-term field study to investigate the effect of lime application on rooibos tea production. Micro-fine and class A... -
Crested Guineafowl and samango monkey associations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jacco J Leemans --- , The Netherlands Birthe Linden --- , South Africa Frank van Langevelde --- , The NetherlandsAssociations between animals of different species have been observed for a large variety of taxa. These polyspecific groups are thought to provide advantages to at least one of the species involved, especially foraging benefits or reduced predation risk. In the... -
Sustainable development through the tourism sector: to what extent can sustainable tourism contribute to social justice for the local communities? A case study of the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Julia Brune --- University of Groningen, The NetherlandsThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goals promote global sustainable development. One significant part of the socially focused goals for sustainable development is social justice. Regarding this, the tourism sector has been heavily criticised for not adequately contributing to sustainable development,... -
The effect of vitamins B12, B6 and folate supplementation on homocysteine metabolism in a low-income, urbanised, black elderly community in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: CJ Grobler --- Vaal University of Technology, South Africa WH Oldewage-Theron --- Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America JM Chalwe --- Vaal University of Technology, South Africa -
A typology of challenges facing township micro-tour operators in Soweto, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Pulane Letuka --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Marcia Lebambo --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaPost-apartheid South Africa created opportunities for black and marginalized entrepreneurs to venture into township tourism and to contribute towards the growth of the mainstream economy. However, a number of challenges threaten the long-term survival, profitability and growth of businesses, due... -
Learning and innovation in informal settings: The case of automobile workshops in Lagos metropolitan area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ayodele Ibrahim Shittu --- University of Lagos, Nigeria Oluyemi Theophilus Adeosun --- University of Lagos, NigeriaThis paper broadly examines learning in informal settings and seeks explicitly to determine the modes of learning among automobile mechanics in the Lagos Metropolitan Area (LMA). The study relies on qualitative data extracted from the responses of 28 interviewees. The... -
Product-harm crisis and perceived betrayal: The moderating effect of cognitive bias
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Li Yalin --- Suqian University, China Zhao Min --- Hubei University of Economics, ChinaThis study utilised an experimental design to examine the moderating effect of cognitive biases (availability of information and herd effect) on the relationship between product-harm crisis and perceived betrayal. In a series of three studies involving 596 young adults (college... -
Nearly para-Kähler geometry on Lie groups
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Leila Nourmohammadifar --- Arak University, Iran Esmaeil Peyghan --- Arak University, IranIn this paper, we introduce left-invariant (strict) nearly para-Kaähler structures on Lie groups (nearly para-Kähler Lie algebras) and present some properties of them. We prove the existence of a unique connection in terms of the characteristic connection on these Lie... -
Patterns of fish distribution in tropical rock pools at Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J Azevedo e Silva --- University of Lisbon, Portugal AJ Almeida --- University of Lisbon, Portugal M Cravo --- University of Lisbon, Portugal MP Pais --- University of Lisbon, Portugal Y Santos --- , São Tomé e Príncipe J Paula --- University of Lisbon, PortugalLittle is known about the ichthyofauna from intertidal rock pools of the west coast of Africa, especially in the Gulf of Guinea. Rock pools are characteristic habitats of the intertidal zone of structurally complex rocky shores, adding important niche space... -
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Matthew Wingfield --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaTracing the history of activism in post-apartheid South Africa from the Treatment Action Campaign to the Social Justice Coalition, amongst others, one is able to develop an account of various practices and strategies that have been utilised to leverage state... -
Factors associated with single and multiple suicide attempts in adolescent school children in Morocco: A national cross-sectional survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- University of the Free State, South Africa Supa Pengpid --- Mahidol University, ThailandThe study aimed to assess factors associated with multiple suicide attempts (MSA) in adolescents with a history of suicide attempts in Morocco. National cross-sectional data from the Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) in Morocco in 2016 were analysed. Students... -
Servant leadership and employee attitudes within a South African state-owned enterprise: Mediation by employee motivation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Leone Jackson --- North-West University, South Africa Roslyn Belinda Lodewyk-Raliphada --- North-West University, South Africa Marissa Brouwers --- North-West University, South Africa Leon TB Jackson --- North-West University, South AfricaWe sought to investigate employee motivation mediation of the relationship between servant leadership, employee motivation, job satisfaction, and affective organisation commitment in a public sector enterprise. Participants (n = 128; male = 73; female = 55; age range = 31–40... -
Effect of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance of young women agribusiness owners in Benin: Do social and business environments matter?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Smith A. R. Dossou --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Razack Adeoti --- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria Augustin K. N. Aoudji --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Mignouna Djana --- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), NigeriaThis research examined how key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions influence business performance of young women agribusiness owners, as well as the moderating effects of social and business environments on these relationships. Data were collected from a sample of 365 young... -
Impact of long-term civil disorders and wars on the trajectory of HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: David Gisselquist --- , USAFrom the mid-1970s, seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced civil disorders and wars lasting for at least 10 years. In two — Sierra Leone during 1991–2002, and Somalia from 1988 and continuing — adult HIV prevalence remained below 1%... -
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV and its prevention: awareness and knowledge in Uganda and Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Gundel Harms --- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Katja Schulze [B0002] Ilaria Moneta --- International Health, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Chris Baryomunsi [B0004] Paulina Mbezi [B0005] Gabriele Poggensee --- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute in Berlin,Awareness and knowledge about HIV mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) and preventive measures in different population groups and health personnel were analysed in future intervention areas in western Uganda and south-western Tanzania. In Uganda, a total of 751 persons (440 clients of... -
Development of an HIV risk reduction counselling intervention for use in South African sexually transmitted infection clinics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Vuyisile Mathiti --- University of the Western Cape, Leickness C. Simbayi --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Sean Jooste --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Queen Kekana --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Xolani P. Nibe --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Luvuyo Shasha --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Philasande Bidla --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Pamela Magubane --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Demetria Cain --- Psychology Department, University of Connecticut, Charsey Cherry --- Psychology Department, University of Connecticut, Seth C. Kalichman --- Psychology Department, University of Connecticut,South Africa urgently needs HIV prevention interventions that can be disseminated for use in clinical and community settings. A brief theory-based HIV risk reduction counselling intervention originally developed in the USA has recently been adapted for use in a South... -
A comparative analysis of perceived stigma among HIV-positive Ghanaian and African American males
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Kwabena A Poku --- Health Services Management Department, University of Ghana Business School, J Gary Linn --- School of Nursing, Tennessee State University, Betsy L Fife --- School of Nursing, University of Indiana-Indianapolis, Sherry Azar --- School of Nursing, Tennessee State University, Lorna Kendrick --- School of Nursing, Tennessee State University,The purpose of this paper was to address two questions: (i) Do Ghanaian and African American males with HIV/AIDS experience different types and degrees of stigma? and (ii) Is the impact of stigma associated with HIV/AIDS on the self different... -
The use of culturally themed HIV messages and their implications for future behaviour change communication campaigns: the case of Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Oleosi Ntshebe --- Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana, Joseph M.N. Pitso --- Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana, Alinah Kelo Segobye --- University of Botswana,The ‘ABC’ approach promoted at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana has failed to yield significant behaviour change. Formative research was conducted in urban, semi-urban and rural areas to explore how the use of sociocultural messages depicted in... -
Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sebalda Charles Leshabari --- Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Astrid Blystad --- University of Bergen, Karen Marie Moland --- Bergen University College,Infant feeding represents a great challenge in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (pMTCT). The international guidelines informing infant feeding counselling suggest feeding methods that reduce the risk of HIV transmission, and discourage mixed feeding (combining breastfeeding with other... -
HIV/AIDS through the lens of Christianity: Perspectives from a South African urban support group
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Khumbulani Hlongwana --- South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Malaria Research Programme, Sibongile Sylvia Mkhize --- Research Programme of Health Systems Trust (HST),HIV is one of the most obscure viruses that humankind has had to face in recent times. Compounding this obscurity are often contesting perspectives on what it means to be HIV infected, and these perspectives are largely constituted by people's... -
HIV/AIDS prevention through peer education and support in secondary schools in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maretha Visser --- Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria,The implementation and evaluation of a peer education and support programme in secondary schools to prevent and reduce high-risk sexual behaviour amongst adolescents is discussed. The aims of the programme were to provide accurate information about HIV/AIDS, discuss and reconsider... -
The role of HIV/AIDS committees in effective workplace governance of HIV/AIDS in South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Jocelyn R Vass --- Human Science Research Council,The primary purpose of this study was to assess the role, status and scope of workplace HIV/AIDS committees as a means of effective workplace governance of the HIV/AIDS impact, and their role in extending social protective HIV/AIDS-related rights to employees... -
Rapid assessment of drug use and sexual HIV risk patterns among vulnerable drugusing populations in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Charles Parry --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit (ADARU), South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Petal Petersen --- ADARU/MRC, Tara Carney --- ADARU/MRC, Sarah Dewing [B0004] Richard Needle --- Vulnerable Populations Project of the Global AIDS Program (GAP), Centers of Disease Control,This exploratory study examines the links between drug use and high-risk sexual practices and HIV in vulnerable drug-using populations in South Africa, including commercial sex workers (CSWs), men who have sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDUs) and non-injecting... -
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... -
SISTA South Africa: The adaptation of an efficacious HIV prevention trial conducted with African-American women for isiXhosa-speaking South African women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Dorina Saleh-Onoya [CXX0001] Nikia Danette Braxton --- Rollins School of Public Health Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University , Sibusiso Sifunda --- Health Promotion R & D Unit, Medical Research Council (MRC), Priscilla Reddy --- Health Promotion R & D Unit, Medical Research Council (MRC), Robert Ruiter --- Maastricht University, Bart van den Borne [B0006] Tiffany Pennick Walters --- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Delia Lang --- Rollins School of Public Health Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University , Gina M Wingood --- Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health,Although new HIV treatments continue to offer hope for individuals living with HIV, behavioural interventions shown to reduce HIV risk behaviour remain one of the most powerful tools in curbing the HIV epidemic. Unfortunately, the development of evidencebased HIV interventions... -
Military men and sexual practices: Discourses of ‘othering’ in safer sex in the light of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Nyameka Mankayi --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaDespite recent reports that there is increasing condom use, generally resistance to condom use is still high. This paper focuses on factors inhibiting condom use and explores issues of responsibility for safe sex practices to prevent infection among a group... -
Sexual risk reduction among Zambian couples
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ndashi Chitalu --- Department of Medicine, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Phillimon Ndubani --- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Zambia, Miriam Mumbi --- University of Zambia School of Medicine, Deborah L Jones --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Stephen M Weiss --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Olga Villar-Loubet --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Szonja Vamos --- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Drenna Waldrop-Valverde --- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,Zambia has over 1 million HIV infections nationwide and an urban prevalence rate of 23%. This study compared the impact of male involvement in multiple and single session risk reduction interventions among inconsistent condom users in Zambia and the role... -
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... -
Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices of infant feeding in the context of HIV: A case study from western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Juddy Wachira --- Moi University School of Public Health, Kenya Boaz Otieno-Nyunya --- GAP/CDC, Kenya Joyce Beatrice Ballidawa --- Department of Behavioural Sciences, Moi University School of Medicine, Paula Braitstein --- University of British Columbia, CanadaGuidelines for infant feeding options among HIV-positive mothers are changing with informative research. Cultural factors, socialisation processes, gender dimensions and socio-economic status within communities should be considered in recommending feasible and sustainable options. The objective of this study was to... -
Descriptive systematic review of sub-Saharan African studies on the association between alcohol use and HIV infection
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Anne Pithey --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit (ADARU), South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Charles Parry --- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit (ADARU), South African Medical Research Council (MRC),The purpose of this review was to identify and assess studies that have quantified the association between alcohol consumption and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. PubMed, CAB Abstracts and article references were searched to identify studies published in English between... -
The quality of material care provided by grandparents for their orphaned grandchildren in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty: a study of Kopanong municipality, Free State
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Tsiliso Tamasane --- Human and Social Development Research Programmes, Human Sciences Research Council, Judith Head --- Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town,A pervasive argument in the literature on AIDS orphans in South Africa is that grandparents, who often care for their orphaned grandchildren, lack the material means to provide adequate care. This study investigated that claim in an area of ubiquitous... -
Perception of risk of HIV and sexual risk behaviours among students in the United States, Turkey and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Adedeji Adefuye --- HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Tititlayo C Abiona --- HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Joseph A Balogun --- College of Health Sciences, Chicago State University, USA Seyi Ladele Amosun --- Division of Physiotherapy at the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Jose Frantz --- Department of Physiotherapy, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Yavuz Yakut --- Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation of Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, TurkeyThe aim of this study was to examine HIV sexual risk behaviours and perception of HIV risk among 1 095 students from the United States of America (US), Turkey and South Africa. Randomly selected students who were enrolled in general... -
HIV/AIDS prisoners: a case study on quality of life in Roumieh, Lebanon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Diala F Ammar --- Lebanese American University, Lebanon Heyam L El Zein --- Lebanese American University, Lebanon Neal El Jor --- Lebanese American University,Prisons often lack the basic health services required by HIV/AIDS patients. As with many other chronic illnesses, the treatment of HIV is expensive in terms of medication, hygiene, testing and staff training. Strategies to combat the disease have been thoroughly... -
HIV counselling and testing utilisation and attitudes of male inmates in a South African prison
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Lelaka C Motshabi [B0001] Supa Pengpid --- Department of Health System Management and Policy, University of Limpopo, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThe Department of Correctional Services Policy on the management of HIV and AIDS for offenders include voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV as one of the priorities in the rehabilitation of inmates. The aim of this study was to... -
Patients-to-healthcare workers HIV transmission risk from sharp injuries, Southern Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Biruck Desalegn [d204e18] Hunachew Beyene Ryo YamadaBackground: Accidental needlestick injury rate among healthcare workers in Hawassa is extremely high. Epidemiological findings proved the infectious potential of this injury contaminated with a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected patient's blood. -
Social and cultural aspects of HIV and AIDS in West Africa: A narrative review of qualitative research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Helle Samuelsen [d133e18] Ole Norgaard Lise Rosendal OstergaardWith the increasing focus on the role of social aspects of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the need for an overview of existing research dealing with such issues has become more urgent. The objective of this article is to... -
Drug trafficking, use, and HIV risk: The need for comprehensive interventions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Jessie Mbwambo [d186e18] Sheryl A. McCurdy Bronwyn Myers Barrot Lambdin Gad Paul Kilonzo Pamela KaduriThe rapid increase in communication and transportation between Africa and other continents as well as the erosion of social fabric attended by poverty, ethnic conflicts, and civil wars has led to increased trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs. Cannabis dominates... -
Stigma as ‘othering’ among Christian theology students in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Adrian D. Van Breda [d74e19]HIV is a health and developmental crisis that has profoundly challenged the Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa. Responding to stigma and prejudice against HIV and people living with HIV and AIDS has been a major concern of theologians and Christian... -
Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: Male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Cheryl Potgieter [d53e18] Anna Strebel Tamara Shefer Claire WagnerMedia reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might... -
Application of the information, motivation and behavioural skills model for targeting HIV risk behaviour amongst adolescent learners in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Misheck Ndebele [d94e14] Mambwe Kasese-Hara Michael GreylingThis paper discusses the application of an information, motivation and behavioural skills (IMB) model in a school-based programme for the reduction of HIV risk behaviour among 259 Grade 11 learners in two high schools in Alexandra township, Johannesburg. School 1... -
‘Every teacher is a researcher!’: Creating indigenous epistemologies and practices for HIV prevention through values-based action research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Lesley Wood [d88e14]Since gender is an undisputed driver of HIV infection, teachers concerned with HIV prevention education should ideally encourage critical awareness of and culturally sensitive practices around gender inequalities. Many interventions and programmes have been developed for teachers to enable them... -
Understanding culture and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Steven Sovran [d378e18]Early in the study of HIV/AIDS, culture was invoked to explain differences in the disease patterns between sub-Saharan Africa and Western countries. Unfortunately, in an attempt to explain the statistics, many of the presumed risk factors were impugned in the... -
HIV knowledge, disclosure and sexual risk among pregnant women and their partners in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Molatelo Elisa Shikwane --- , South Africa Olga M. Villar-Loubet --- , USA Stephen M. Weiss --- , USA Karl Peltzer --- , South Africa Deborah L. Jones --- , USAPartner involvement has been deemed fundamental for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, although it remains difficult to achieve. This study aimed to explore the attitudes and behaviours of pregnant women and their partners who participated in a... -
The association between social networks and self-rated risk of HIV infection among secondary school students in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Elizabeth J. Lyimo --- , Tanzania Jim Todd --- , UK Lisa Ann Richey --- , , Denmark Bernard Njau --- , TanzaniaThis study describes the social networks of secondary school students in Moshi Municipality, and their association with self-rated risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among 300 students aged 15–24 years in 5 secondary... -
Perception of risk of HIV infections and sexual behaviour of the sexually active university students in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Njabulo Nkomazana --- , , Republic of South Africa Pranitha Maharaj --- , , Republic of South AfricaThe study sought to establish university students' perceptions of risk of HIV infections. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 345 sexually active students at two universities in Zimbabwe (one state and one private). Results revealed that above a quarter of... -
Is HIV/AIDS a consequence or divine judgment? Implications for faith-based social services. A Nigerian faith-based university's study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Israel B. Olaore --- , , Nigeria Augusta Y. Olaore --- , , NigeriaA contemporary reading of Romans 1:27 was disguised as a saying by Paul Benjamin, AD 58 and administered to 275 randomly selected members of a private Christian university community in south western Nigeria in West Africa. Participants were asked to... -
Prevalence and mitigation strategies of HIV/AIDS infection risks in Namibian tertiary education institutional hostels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Roderick F. Zimba --- , Namibia Gilbert N. Likando --- , NamibiaThe purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors that could promote HIV infection amongst adolescents and young adults living in tertiary educational institutional hostels in Namibia. Employing structured questionnaires and focus group discussions, we sought to answer questions... -
Understanding of the risk of HIV infection among the elderly in Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele --- , , South AfricaThe literature pertaining to the elderly shows that HIV infection among this population is on the increase, suggesting that the elderly population engages in activities risky for HIV infection. Reports on such behaviour include frequent sexual relations with much younger... -
A lottery incentive system to facilitate dialogue and social support for workplace HIV counselling and testing: A qualitative inquiry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Martin Weihs --- , South Africa Anna Meyer-Weitz --- , , South AfricaDespite South African mid-sized companies' efforts to offer HIV counselling and testing (HCT) in the workplace, companies report relatively poor uptake rates. An urgent need for a range of different interventions aimed at increasing participation in workplace HCT has been... -
Acceptabilité du test VIH proposé aux nourrissons dans les services pédiatriques, en Côte d'Ivoire, Significations pour la couverture du diagnostic pédiatrique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maxime Oga --- , Côte d'Ivoire Hermann Brou --- , , Côte d'Ivoire Hortense Dago-Akribi --- , , Abidjan-Cocody Patrick Coffie --- , , Côte d'Ivoire Clarisse Amani-Bossé --- , Côte d'Ivoire Didier Ékouévi --- , , Côte d'Ivoire Vincent Yapo --- , , Côte d'Ivoire Hervé Menan --- , , Côte d'Ivoire Camille Ndondoki --- , , France M. Timité-Konan --- , Côte d'Ivoire Valériane Leroy --- , , FranceProblème: Le dépistage VIH chez les enfants a rarement été au centre des préoccupations des chercheurs. Quand le dépistage pédiatrique a retenu l'attention, cela a été pour éclairer seulement sur les performances diagnostiques en ignorant même que le test pédiatrique... -
HIV in (and out of) the clinic: Biomedicine, traditional medicine and spiritual healing in Harare
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Stephen O'Brien --- , , Australia Alex Broom --- , , AustraliaContemporary lived experiences of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are shaped by clinical and cultural encounters with illness. In sub-Saharan countries such as Zimbabwe, HIV is treated in very different ways in various therapeutic contexts including by biomedical experts, traditional... -
High-risk behaviors among adult men and women in Botswana: Implications for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Mpho Keetile --- , , BotswanaThe government of Botswana has been spending a lot of money in the prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV/AIDS patient for decades. This paper uses data from the third Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS III) to explore high-risk behaviors... -
The constraints of antiretroviral uptake in rural areas: the case of Thamaga and surrounding villages, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Matlhogonolo Bene --- , , Botswana Michael B.K. Darkoh --- , , BotswanaThis article examines the constraints of antiretroviral (ARV) uptake in the villages of Thamaga, Kumakwane, Mankgodi and Gakgatla which are in the Kweneng District of Botswana. The social interactionist approach and theories of health behaviour provided the theoretical basis of... -
Trends in HIV risk behaviour of incoming first-year students at a South African university: 2007–2012
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Rénette J. Blignaut --- , , South Africa Joachim Jacobs --- , South Africa Tania Vergnani --- , South AfricaThe aim of the research on which this article is based was to understand the behavioural changes of the target student population over time to ensure that future prevention programmes are more effective in changing behaviour. This study reports on... -
Is higher risk sex common among male or female youths?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Yifru Berhan --- , Ethiopia Asres Berhan --- , EthiopiaThere are several studies that showed the high prevalence of high-risk sexual behaviors among youths, but little is known how significant the proportion of higher risk sex is when the male and female youths are compared. A meta-analysis was done... -
Qualitative evaluation of selected social factors that impact sexual risk-taking behaviour among African students in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi --- , , South Africa Sibusiso Moyo --- , South Africa Thobile Zulu --- , , South Africa Jamila Khatoon Adam --- , South Africa Suresh Babu Naidu Krishna --- , South AfricaBackground: The incidence of HIV and AIDS continues to be a source of great concern within universities in South Africa. Furthermore, university students constitute an important community in the intervention against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Students in the age group of... -
Third-world realities in a first-world setting: A study of the HIV/AIDS-related conditions and risk behaviors of sex trade workers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Yelena Bird --- at the , Canada Mark Lemstra --- at the , Canada Marla Rogers --- at the , Canada John Moraros --- at the , CanadaThe transmission and prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among those employed as sex trade workers (STW) is a major public health concern. The present study describes the self-reported responses of 340 STW, at-risk for contracting HIV. The participants were... -
Addressing adolescents’ risk and protective factors related to risky behaviours: Findings from a school-based peer-education evaluation in the Western Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Furzana Timol --- , South Africa Mohammed Yacoob Vawda --- , South Africa Arvin Bhana --- , South Africa Benita Moolman --- , South Africa Mokhantso Makoae --- , South Africa Sharlene Swartz --- , South AfricaBackground: Peer-education programmes aim to bring about attitudinal and behavioural changes in their target audience. In the South African educational context, peer education is a favoured approach in dealing with issues such as HIV and AIDS, sexual decision-making and substance... -
Rethinking HIV-prevention for school-going young people based on current behaviour patterns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maretha Visser --- , , South AfricaThe aim of the research was to gain increased knowledge regarding the sexual risk behaviour of school-going young people in South Africa after two decades of HIV-education in schools, to contribute to the development of improved HIV prevention strategies. In... -
Reducing substance use and risky sexual behaviour among drug users in Durban, South Africa: Assessing the impact of community-level risk-reduction interventions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: C.D.H. Parry --- , South Africa T. Carney --- , South Africa P. Petersen Williams --- , South AfricaAlcohol and other drug (AOD) use is increasingly recognised as having a direct and indirect effect on the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, there is evidence to suggest that drug- and sex-related HIV risk-reduction interventions targeted at drug... -
Modelling self-assessed vulnerability to HIV and its associated factors in a HIV-burdened country
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: A. F. Fagbamigbe --- , , South Africa A. M. Lawal --- , , South Africa E. S. Idemudia --- , , South AfricaBackground: Globally, individuals’ self-assessment of vulnerability to HIV infection is important to maintain safer sexual behaviour and reduce risky behaviours. However, determinants of self-perceived risk of HIV infection are not well documented and differ. We assessed the level of self-perceived... -
Spectrum of female commercial sex work in Bangui, Central African Republic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Jean De Dieu Longo --- , Central African Republic Marcel Mbéko Simaléko --- , Central African Republic Richard Ngbale --- , Central African Republic Gérard Grésenguet --- , Central African Republic Gilles Brücker --- , , France Laurent Bélec --- , , FranceClassification of professional and non-professional female sex workers (FSWs) into different categories, never previously reported in the Central African Republic (CAR), may be useful to assess the dynamics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, design operational intervention programmes to... -
Psychosocial factors predicting risky sexual behaviour among long distance truck drivers in Lagos, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Abiodun Musbau Lawal --- , , Nigeria Benjamin Oladapo Olley --- , , NigeriaLong distance truck drivers (LDTDs) have been identified as one of the groups at higher risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Understanding how certain social and psychological variables that have a strong theoretical basis contribute to sexual risk behaviour... -
Longitudinal analysis of HIV risk behaviour patterns and their predictors among public primary care patients with tuberculosis in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- , , South AfricaThe goal of this study was to identify various HIV risk behaviours among tuberculosis (TB) patients in a longitudinal study design in South Africa. In 42 public primary healthcare facilities in three districts in three provinces, adult new TB and... -
Social and behavioural factors associated with risky sexual behaviours among university students in nine ASEAN countries: a multi-country cross-sectional study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Siyan Yi --- , , Singapore Vannarath Te --- , , Cambodia Supa Pengpid --- , , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , , South AfricaWhile university students are potential human resources, this population group is particularly involved in health risk behaviours. Preventing risky sexual behaviours among them would contribute to prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and unwanted pregnancies, which have posed a... -
Health-related quality of life and associated factors in adults living with HIV in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Juvenal Biraguma --- , , Rwanda Eugene Mutimura --- , , Rwanda José M Frantz --- , , South AfricaIn Rwanda, as in other sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, life expectancy of people living with HIV (PLWH) has increased dramatically as a result of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). People living with HIV can now live longer but with increasing rates... -
Factors associated with knowledge and awareness of HIV/AIDS among married women in Bangladesh: evidence from a nationally representative survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Md. Ashiqul Haque --- , , Bangladesh Md. Sha Newaj Hossain --- , , Bangladesh Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury --- , , USA Md. Jamal Uddin --- , , BangladeshWomen in Bangladesh share a greater risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) infection compared to men. Levels of knowledge and awareness largely contribute to the prevalence of the HIV epidemic and its consequences. So, it is... -
Effects of adolescent exposure to behaviour change interventions on their HIV risk reduction in Northern Malawi: a situation analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: M. Mwale --- , , Malawi A. S. Muula --- , , MalawiUnderstanding adolescents’ translation of HIV and AIDS-related behaviour change interventions (BCI) knowledge and skills into expected behavioural outcomes helps us appreciate behaviour change dynamics among young people and informs evidence-based programming. We explored the effects of adolescents’ exposure to BCI... -
HIV fatalism and engagement in transactional sex among Ugandan fisherfolk living with HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Katelyn M. Sileo --- , , USA Laura M. Bogart --- , USA Glenn J. Wagner --- , USA William Musoke --- , Uganda Rose Naigino --- , , Uganda Barbara Mukasa --- , Uganda Rhoda K. Wanyenze --- , , UgandaHIV fatalism, or the belief that HIV acquisition and mortality is out of one's control, is thought to contribute to HIV risk in fishing populations in East Africa. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between... -
A weighted bootstrap approach to logistic regression modelling in identifying risk behaviours associated with sexual activity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Humphrey Brydon --- , , South Africa Rénette Blignaut --- , , South Africa Joachim Jacobs --- , , South AfricaThe latest population estimates released by Statistics South Africa indicate that 25.03% of all deaths in 2017 in South Africa were AIDS-related. Along with these results, it is also reported that 7.06% of the population were living with HIV, with... -
Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Elvis Tarkang --- , , Ghana Lilian Pencille --- , Cameroon Hubert Amu --- , , Ghana Joyce Komesour --- , , Ghana Prosper Lutala --- , , MalawiDespite progress made in the treatment of HIV and AIDS by making available the antiretroviral treatment in Africa, youth are still struggling with inadequate knowledge, a negative attitude towards AIDS and high-risk sexual behaviour. All of these are compounded by... -
Sexual risk behaviour and its correlates among adolescents in Mozambique: results from a national school survey in 2015
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Supa Pengpid --- Mahidol University, Thailand Karl Peltzer --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in Mozambique. In the cross-sectional ‘Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS)’, 1918 students aged 11–18 years from Mozambique responded to a questionnaire in 2015. More than... -
Challenges with couples HIV counselling and testing among black MSM students: perspectives of university students in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Geogina Charity Gumindega --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Pranitha Maharaj --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaResearch suggests that HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) are acquired from primary partners, yet MSM continually fail to take part in couples HIV counselling and testing (CHCT). To identify factors that inhibit MSM in universities... -
Comments on the types and type localities of South African reptiles collected by Heinrich Bergius and Ludwig Krebs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USAKarl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818) and Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844) were German apothecaries living in South Africa who collected zoological material, including reptiles, for Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein, director of the Zoological Museum of the Wilhelm-Friedrichs-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB). Although... -
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... -
Long‐term variation in reproductive traits of Bibron's agama, agama impalearis, in Western Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: M. Znari --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco E. El Mouden --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco H. Francillon‐Vieillot --- Université Denis Diderot Paris 7, Laboratoire d'Anatomie Comparée, FranceFemale reproductive characteristics (clutch size [CS], egg volume [EV] and egg mass [EM]) of Agama impalearis and their annual variation were studied over a six‐year period (1993–1998) in the central Jbilet mountains, Western Morocco. Females produced one to two clutches... -
Cardioglossa liberiensis Barbour & Loveridge 1927 is a junior synonym of Phrynobatrachus fraterculus (Chabanaud 1921)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DavidC. Blackburn --- Harvard University, U.S.A.In 1927, Barbour & Loveridge described two species of Cardioglossa based on seven specimens from Liberia: C. decorata (six specimens) and C. liberiensis. Cardioglossa decorata has long been recognized as a junior synonym of Phrynobatrachus fraterculus (Chabanaud 1921), which is... -
Revalidation of Phrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé & Lamotte, 1958 and description of its aposematic coloured tadpole
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark‐Oliver Rödel --- Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Laura Sandberger --- Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Néma‐Soua Loua --- Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée, Republic of Guinea Joseph Doumbia --- Université de Conakry, Annika Hillers --- Humboldt University Berlin, GermanyPhrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé & Lamotte, 1958 is a valid species. Herein we clarify its taxonomic status, re‐describe it, and provide the first description of its tadpole. The tadpoles’ specific identity was assessed through DNA barcoding. Phrynobatrachus maculiventris adults differ from... -
The Madagascan spiny-tailed iguana alters the sequence of anti-predator responses depending on predator types
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ryo Ito --- Kyoto University, Japan Akira Mori --- Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, JapanSome prey are able to avoid specific predators by altering defensive behaviours depending on predator type. In the Ampijoroa forest of Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar, Madagascan spiny-tailed iguanas (Oplurus cuvieri cuvieri) inhabit a species rich vertebrate community and are... -
Evaluation of the quality constructs of a tax management system based on DeLone and McLean IS success model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Godwin Banafo Akrong --- School of Management and Economics (UESTC), University of Electronic Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China Yunfei Shao --- School of Management and Economics (UESTC), University of Electronic Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China Ebenezer Owusu --- University of Ghana, GhanaWe presented a novel method to analyze the impact tax management systems have on users (individual impact) in this study. The interrelationship among the three information system (IS) quality constructs is examined. The study is based on the evaluation undertaken... -
Perception of government employees on the use of biometric technology in determining a person’s ethnic group in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Martins E. Irhebhude --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Adeola O. Kolawole --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Agwi C. Uche --- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria Adeleye V. Dupe --- Nigerian Defence Academy, NigeriaSelected biometric technologies such as iris, face, gait, voice, etc. are widely used for the recognition of individuals. This paper presents a biometric technology perception by members of staff from government agencies in Nigeria, namely: the National Identity Management Commission... -
Southern mullets (Chelon richardsonii) as a potential biological indicator for mercury pollution in the Walvis Bay lagoon, Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Veronica Kaleinasho Kapula --- University of Namibia, Namibia Hilkka Opolili Ndahafa Ndjaula --- University of Namibia, Namibia Stephanus Hamutenya --- , Namibia Johannes Angala Iitembu --- University of Namibia, NamibiaSouthern mullet Chelon richardsonii is one of the important fish species found in the Walvis Bay lagoon (WBL) that is commercially exploited for local consumption. The southern mullet is, however, exposed to mercury (Hg) found in sediments, which forms part... -
A comparison of the water quality and plankton diversity of the Okamini Stream to the freshwater systems within the New Calabar River catchment, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: BB Otene --- Rivers State University, Nigeria I Thornhill --- University of Manchester, United Kingdom J Amadi --- Rivers State University, NigeriaThe water quality and phytoplankton diversity of the Okamini Stream, Port Harcourt, Nigeria was studied between April and June 2018 at three stations. The data was used to assess the health of the system for supporting local communities. Compared to... -
Factors associated with buying sex and the knowledge that condoms prevent HIV among long-distance truck drivers at Kazungula weighbridge terminal, Chobe District, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Wada Gaolaolwe --- Lobatse Institute of Health Sciences, Botswana Mathildah Mokgatle --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaBackground: Long-distance truck drivers (LDTDs) have a higher rate of HIV infection compared to the general population. This is due to their living and working conditions which predispose them to riskier sexual behaviours. Inadequate knowledge of HIV and AIDS, coupled... -
Who does better on life satisfaction and meaning in life? A Mixed-methods exploration of demographic characteristics and well-being in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Angelina Wilson Fadiji --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Shingairai Chigeza --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Bontle Kgopa --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThe present study examined the relationship between the demographic characteristics of age, sex, religious practice, and standard of living with life satisfaction and meaning in life in a Ghanaian setting. Participants were 394 Ghanaian urban adults (female = 43.90; mean... -
Impact of tourism on residents’ well-being amid the CoVID-19 pandemic in Bali
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Larissa Huser --- Universitas Triatma Mulya International, Indonesia Erna Wiles --- Universitas Triatma Mulya International, Indonesia Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsBy being dependent on one of the most impacted industries, the travel industry, Balinese residents experienced a considerable downturn in their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research aims to examine the extent to which sociocultural, economic and environmental aspects... -
Folkloristic perspectives on food as tourism souvenir: a reflection on stereotypes, meanings and messages in Irish soda bread
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Lucy M Long --- , USAFood has always been a pragmatic part of tourism and hospitality, but it is now being recognised as a souvenir — a reminder of a travel experience. Along with the usual functions of souvenirs as status symbol, proof of travel,... -
A natural terminal Pleistocene decline of African penguin populations enhances their anthropogenic extinction risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: H Beckett --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa OK Hansen --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa S von der Heyden --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa GF Midgley --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThe African penguin Spheniscus demersus, endemic to the coast of southern Africa, has suffered anthropogenic-driven population declines since 1900 and is now listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Conservation efforts currently underway are informed by the species’ adaptive... -
Ekeland, Takahashi and Caristi principles in preordered quasi-metric spaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: S. Cobzaş --- Babeş-Bolyai University, RomaniaWe prove versions of Ekeland, Takahashi and Caristi principles in pre-ordered quasi-metric spaces, the equivalence between these principles, as well as their equivalence to some completeness results for the underlying quasi-metric space. These extend the results proved in S. Cobzaş,... -
Tracking error volatility and relative risk budgets
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Aron Gottesman --- Pace University,This paper uses a pooled cross-sectional sample of actively managed US equity mutual funds from 1991–2022 to show that tracking error volatility (TEV) is characterised by reversion. Mutual funds with relatively high (low) TEV tend to reduce (increase) their TEV... -
Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hana Horáková --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Josefína Kufová --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Nicola Raúl --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicThis article examines the recent rise of living museums in postcolonial Namibia, one of the most rapidly increasing forms of cultural tourism. Living museums are designed and executed by minority communities that seek to reach socio-economic emancipation by making use... -
Reproduction of the Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus at the El Maleh Dam reservoir in north-western Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdeslam Rihane --- , Morocco Abdelmottalib Nahli --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, Morocco Rhimou El Hamoumi --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, Morocco Mohamed Chlaida --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, MoroccoThe reproduction of the Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus in submerged and dried up thickets of French tamarisk Tamarix gallica at El Maleh Dam reservoir, Benslimane Province, Morocco, was studied through monitoring nests in three successive years (2017–2019). Systematic field... -
The determinants of the adoption of mobile money by small enterprises (SEs) in Douala, Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Grégory Mvogo --- University of Douala, Cameroon Martin Ndzana --- University of Douala, Cameroon Honoré Bidiasse --- University of Douala, CameroonThe purpose of this article is to analyze the factors that determine the decision to adopt mobile money by small Cameroonian enterprises, focusing on the profile of the manager and the sector of activity. From a random sample of 276... -
Patterns of rural innovation processes along agro-processing value chains: The case of Mopani district, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kgabo Hector Ramoroka --- , South AfricaInnovation is recognized as a critical driver and component of economic growth and development. While innovation is considered crucial to solve societal problems and create opportunities in rural areas, insufficient effort has gone into examining the nature of innovation processes... -
Establishing an understanding of the innovation process of informal micro-enterprises
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Lavhelesani Mulibana --- Gauteng Provincial Government, Republic of South Africa Ravinder Rena --- Durban University of Technology, Republic of South AfricaInnovation has been discerned as a catalyst that enables firms to remain relevant and sustainable. In recent years, the innovation discipline has been extended to the informal sector. Nonetheless, to date little is known about the process that is followed... -
Exploring the prevalence of multiple forms of malnutrition in children 6–18 years living in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Gugulethu T Moyo --- Texas Tech University, United States Abdulkadir A Egal --- Somali National University, Somalia Wilna Oldewage-Theron --- Texas Tech University, United States -
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 -
Dietary niche breadth and overlap of four sympatric southern African myrmecophagous mammal species, as inferred from the literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Darren W Pietersen --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mark P Robertson --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaFive myrmecophagous mammal species occur sympatrically over large parts of southern Africa. Of these, the diets of four species have been studied in sufficient detail to facilitate interspecific comparisons. The diets of the aardvark Orycteropus afer, aardwolf Proteles cristatus, bat-eared... -
Towards the digitalization of poultry industry in Nigeria: An investigation of farmers’ knowledge and practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Khadijat O. Olanrewaju --- Osun State University, Nigeria Olaide K. Akintunde --- Osun State University, Nigeria Moshood A. Popoola --- Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria Ahmed O. Busari --- Osun State University, Nigeria Moses O. Omotosho --- Osun State University, NigeriaThe array of digital technologies portends huge significance for up-scaling poultry enterprises for optimized efficiency and productivity. The study investigated poultry farmers’ knowledge and the technicality of their practices concerning digital technologies. Members of the Poultry Farmers Association of Nigeria... -
DNA barcoding of five economically important freshwater fish species from the Nile River, Sudan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Asma Mahmoud Hamza --- University of Kassala, Sudan Amna Taj Elsir Mahjoub Mohammed --- University of Kassala, SudanThe study was conducted to barcode five freshwater fish species obtained from Nile River tributaries (the Atbara River and the Blue Nile), in March 2019, using analysis of partial CO1 gene sequences. Fish samples were identified morphologically as Nile perch... -
Examining swap butterfly risk premia in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Sanveer Hariparsad --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Eben Maré --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis paper studies a long butterfly strategy (which is immune to parallel curve shifts but exposed to non-parallel curve shifts) on the South African interest rate swap curve. Ten swap butterfly risk factors are identified using monthly South African swap... -
Leveraging defence into offence: Enhancing absolute and risk-adjusted equity returns with tail risk management overlays
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Bruno Schwalbach --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Christo Auret --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaResearch has shown that tail risk hedging using explicit option purchases and trend-following effectively mitigate equity tail risk. This paper demonstrates that these defensive qualities can be leveraged into offence: overlaying a two-pronged tail risk management strategy that employs both... -
Sector exposures in factor portfolios: Why neutralise when you can optimise?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Andrew Paskaramoorthy --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Emlyn Flint --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaManaging sector risk within factor portfolios has traditionally been viewed as a binary decision problem: to neutralise sector risk or not. Challenging this view, we introduce a novel conceptual framework that allows a continuum of choices, thus reframing the problem... -
Reflecting on moving forward: luxury hospitality in New Zealand post-COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Tracy Harkison --- Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandDue to border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospitality and tourism industry was given a chance to re-imagine and re-invent itself. New Zealand’s borders were shut to international tourists for 28 months, giving it a considerable amount of time... -
Slow tourism motivations: a factor/cluster segmentation approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Wagnew Eshetie Tsegaw --- Bahir Dar University, EthiopiaMarket segmentation has become a valuable instrument in planning appropriate marketing strategies. Therefore, the overall purpose of this study is to explore slow tourists’ characteristics, revealing the differences in their motivations using a factor/cluster market segmentation approach. The sample population... -
Moderating role of organizational culture in the relationship between total quality management and organizational innovation among manufacturing SMEs in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kabir Musa Shuaib --- Tianjin University, People’s Republic of China Zhen He --- Tianjin University, People’s Republic of ChinaPrevious studies on the total quality management and innovation relationship have had mixed findings. We predict that organizational culture could moderate the relationship between total quality management and organizational innovation. The study collected empirical data from 433 small and medium-sized... -
Analysing the socioeconomic characteristics of fisheries-dependent communities in the context of the blue economy in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel Karakara --- University of Cape Coast, Ghana James Atta Peprah --- University of Cape Coast, Ghana Isaac Dasmani --- University of Cape Coast, GhanaFor centuries resource economists have persistently debated and discussed the potential of the green economy and how it should be protected and used sustainably. Most studies to date on the economic value of natural resources have thus concentrated on the... -
Prevalence and predictors of comorbid current alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use among school adolescents in Liberia and Mauritius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study aimed to provide estimates on current comorbid alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use among school adolescents in Liberia and Mauritius. Secondary data were analysed from the 2017 national and cross-sectional school health surveys in Liberia and Mauritius which sampled... -
Prevalence and psychological correlates of anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive adolescents with a high level of rumination response style
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xingzhi Mao --- Capital Normal University, China Qi Li --- Capital Normal University, China Fangfang Shangguan --- Capital Normal University, China Jing Xiao --- Capital Normal University, ChinaThis study examined between anxiety symptoms in subthreshold depressive (SD) adolescents with rumination and their personal predispositions. A total of 371 SD adolescents were enrolled in the study (females 55.26%, mean age = 16.34, SD = 0.96). The adolescents completed... -
Population size, habitat use and foraging habits of wild Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris in southwestern Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Yihenew Aynalem --- Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Afework Bekele --- Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Bezawork Afework Bogale --- Addis Ababa University, EthiopiaThe Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris is a widespread and abundant resident gamebird species in sub-Saharan Africa. It is hunted throughout the region, including in Ethiopia. However, knowledge of the species’ ecology and behaviour in many parts of the country is... -
Diversity and abundance of avifauna in the Suba Forest area, central Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Gemechis B Mosisa --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Nega Tassie --- Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Sintayehu W Dejene --- Haramaya University, EthiopiaBirds are one of the best-described taxa, but detailed knowledge about most bird species in Ethiopia remains rare, which hinders the development and evaluation of conservation strategies in the region. In this study, we estimated bird species diversity and abundance... -
“A spade was called a spade … ”: Youth and intervention implementers’ perceptions of a resilience-based HIV-prevention intervention for youth in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Fungai Mbengo --- Edith Cowan University, Australia Esther Adama --- Edith Cowan University, Australia Amanda Towell-Barnard --- Edith Cowan University, Australia Maggie Zgambo --- Edith Cowan University, AustraliaThe youth (15–24 years old) in South Africa remain at high risk of HIV infection despite varied efforts to control the disease. An understanding of the perspectives of relevant stakeholders of HIV-prevention interventions targeting the youth is important to guide... -
PrEP retention predictors among key populations in urban areas of Zimbabwe — a machine learning approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Bridgette Bero --- National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe Chipo Zidana --- Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana Sarudzai Portia Showa --- National University of Science and Technology, ZimbabwePre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) success depends on adherence and hence retention in care. It is vital to find factors that affect PrEP retention to make this HIV-prevention method successful. The main objectives of this study were to identify the major determinants... -
The role of Nigerian medical students in the HIV response: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Daniel Asogun --- Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Mahmud A. Mahmud --- Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Akhaine Jesu-Oboh Precious --- Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Ighodaro Osazuwa --- , United KingdomBackground: With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study seeks to understand how medical students’ involvement in the HIV response during the COVID-19 pandemic – as well as before and after it – has influenced their decision to specialise... -
Job insecurity and employee commitment during COVID-19: mediating the role of quitting intention in family-owned hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Esther Theresa Appaw-Agbola --- Ho Technical University, Ghana Jennifer Eyram Nkrow --- Ho Technical University, Ghana Elikem Krampa --- Ho Technical University, GhanaUsing the social exchange theory, this article explores how quitting intention mediates job insecurity and organisational commitment in family-owned hotels during the COVID-19 period in Ghana. A conceptual model was developed to give a clear perspective of the study. Literature... -
The use of dolphins at Melka Excelsior Dolphin and Wildlife Resort in Lovina, Bali, Indonesia: a study of visitor experiences and ethical implications through netnographic research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThe closure of Melka Excelsior Dolphin and Wildlife Resort in Lovina, Bali, in Indonesia was prompted by the confiscation of its dolphins and mounting pressure from animal welfare advocates, marking a pivotal moment in the discourse surrounding the use of... -
Soil nutrient deficiency assessment under soybean cropping systems using the DRIS system in northern and central Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: --- Integrated Soil and Crop Management Research Unit, Benin --- Agricultural Research Centre (CRA) of Agonkanmey, Benin --- Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin --- Agricultural Research Centre (CRA) of Agonkanmey, Benin --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin --- Integrated Soil and Crop Management Research Unit, Benin --- Integrated Soil and Crop Management Research Unit, BeninSoybean is one of the promising crops in the Benin agro-industrial sector, but its production is carried out at the expense of the inherent soil fertility. The present study aims to apply the DRIS (Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System) for... -
Factors influencing the adoption of HIV prevention measures in low socio-economic communities of inner-city Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Firoza Haffejee --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Jennifer Ducray --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Jyotika Basdav --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Colette Kell --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaSouth Africa is the epicentre of the HIV pandemic. Although there have been health promotion education campaigns to reduce HIV incidence, these have not achieved the desired outcomes. When exploring the effectiveness of these campaigns, it is useful not only... -
Marine macroalgae of the Agulhas Marine Province of South Africa: biodiversity, exploitation and potential for aquaculture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JJ Bolton --- University of Cape Town, South Africa CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe Agulhas Marine Province (AMP) extends along most of the south coast of South Africa, from Cape Agulhas to the vicinity of the Mbashe River mouth in the Eastern Cape Province, and has its own distinctive warm-temperate seaweed flora, with... -
“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Douglas Bafford --- , United StatesScholars of contemporary Christianity have long noted the importance of sacred music in constructing faith communities and distinguishing religious actors from one another. Drawing on historical and ethnographic evidence gathered over 16 months in Johannesburg, South Africa, I examine the... -
Determination of optimal soil pH and nutrient concentrations for cultivated rooibos tea using the boundary line approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Jacobus FN Smith --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Ailsa G Hardie --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaOptimal soil pH and nutrient conditions for rooibos cultivation in South Africa have not yet been established as limited field research has been conducted. Soil chemical (0–300 mm) and yield data were collected from 120 commercial rooibos plantations in the main... -
The influence of crises on the financial position of multinationals in emerging markets
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Peter Vaz da Fonseca --- Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil Michele Nascimento Jucá --- Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil João Paulo da Torre Vieito --- Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, PortugalThis investigation is one of the first to analyse the relationships between leverage and bankruptcy costs, interest expenses, tax benefits and firm value, in multinational and domestic companies, during periods of crisis and financial stability. The analysed data are related... -
Hospitality in volunteer engagement: navigating complexities in residential care facilities for children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThis study investigates the multifaceted realm of volunteer engagement in orphanages and residential care facilities for children, as places of hospitality towards volunteers, in low- and middle-income countries. While the positive outcomes of such engagements, including assistance, economic contributions and... -
Motivating Generation Z — the volunteers of the future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Henrik Pahus --- , Denmark Tina Knuth --- , DenmarkIn this article, we present the results of an ongoing research project from 2020 to 2023 on volunteerism and Generation Z. The purpose of the overall project is to examine which elements are motivating or demotivating to volunteers from Generation... -
Technology adoption meets green tourism supply chain management for sustainability of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises: A lesson from Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Option Takunda Chiwaridzo --- , People’s Republic of China Reason Masengu --- , OmanIn the global pursuit of achieving sustainability within the tourism sector, technology adoption and green tourism supply chain management (GTSCM) have garnered dominant attention. This research examines how small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) in Zimbabwe can achieve sustainability by... -
Distribution, habitat and vulnerability to climate change of the Endangered Leptopelis xenodactylus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Kirsty J. Kyle --- North-West University, South Africa Louis H. Du Preez --- North-West University, South Africa James Harvey --- 41 Devonshire Avenue, South Africa Adrian J. Armstrong --- Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaLeptopelis xenodactylus is a little-known, Endangered species of frog that is thought to be endemic to the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. In an effort to determine the distribution of this species more accurately, a working species distribution model was... -
Silence, the Unsaid and the Unsayable in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Nicklas Hållén --- Karlstad University and Uppsala University,The primary aim of this article is to think through how silence can be considered as generating meaning in literary prose. For this purpose, the article focuses on Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera’s last novel, The Stone Virgins (2002a), which has... -
Trends in the burden of type 2 diabetes and its risk factors in Saudi Arabia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Jinchao Hua --- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China Binfang Huang --- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China ShanShan Liu --- School of Health Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China Zhonghe Sun --- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China -
Difference in acoustic responses to urbanisation in two African passerines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Dickson Anobie Matthew --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI), Nigeria Samuel Tertse Ivande --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI), Nigeria Ulf Ottosson --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI), Nigeria Samuel Temidayo Osinubi --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaModification of ecosystems as a consequence of urbanisation alters natural habitat structures and soundscapes, creating constraints for vocal communication in animals. Birds are able to adjust their vocalisation to the prevailing acoustic features of their habitat. As such, their sounds... -
New data on the clupeoids of lakes Mai-Ndombe and Tumba, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, using an integrated approach combining morphology and barcoding
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Bo Delling --- , Sweden Norbert Lingopa Zanga --- Institut Supérieur de Pêche (ISPê), Congo Michael Norén --- , SwedenMorphological and molecular comparisons of clupeoid fishes in lakes Tumba and Mai-Ndombe in the Congo Basin revealed that a large-sized form of a common species in Lake Mai-Ndombe had not been distinguished from the small-sized endemic Mai-Ndombe dwarf sprat Nannothrissa... -
Assessment of water quality and associated human health risk of a tropical freshwater body in Edo State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Ekene Biose --- University of Benin, Nigeria Nkonyeasua Kingsley Egun --- University of Benin, Nigeria Nkolika Uzoh --- University of Benin, Nigeria Michael Osasele Omoigberale --- University of Benin, NigeriaThe quality of freshwater sources is a key factor in sustainable development. This study investigated the water quality suitability of Ossiomo River for human consumption and the implications for public health. Water samples were collected and analysed from October 2021... -
Experiences of a fine dining event held inside a working prison
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alison McIntosh --- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Tracy Harkison --- Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandFine dining experiences offered inside working prisons are one type of hospitality initiative attempting to support prisoner rehabilitation and offer a memorable dining experience for the paying public. Previous hospitality research has not explored how fine dining delivered in a... -
Volunteering dynamics in leisure, tourism and hospitality: developing sustainable practices for well-being and social impact
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Bertine Bargeman --- Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Licia Calvi --- Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Geesje Duursma --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThis article explores the multifaceted landscape of volunteering in leisure, tourism and hospitality (LTH) organisations, acknowledging its fundamental role in civil society, and serves as the inception point for an in-depth research project. Volunteerism is explored in diverse forms, ranging... -
Investigating stimulating factors for customer booking intentions on brand websites
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marit de Vries --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Niels Klein Poelhuis --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsCustomers have ample opportunities regarding channels to use to book a hotel room: offline and online. In the online world, the options are using the hotel’s website, referred to as the brand website, or third party internet sites like online... -
Personalised pricing under the current European legal framework: a call for ethics, sustainability and responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Jean-Pierre van der Rest --- Leiden University, The Netherlands Kimia Heidary --- Leiden University, The NetherlandsAs pricing in hospitality and tourism evolves due to the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI), so do the concerns that come with technological advancements. There is a fine line between what is possible, what is profitable, and what is... -
A taxonomic revision of Arnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti (family Muscicapidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Robert J Dowsett --- , France Sylke Frahnert --- Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire --- , FranceArnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti in the family Muscicapidae is largely confined to the woodlands of the Zambezian biome of south-central Africa. This work assesses its taxonomic status, including comments on the so-called Ruaha Chat M. [a.] collaris (also named M... -
Conditional indicators
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Dorsaf Cherif --- , Tunisia Emmanuel Lepinette --- Paris Dauphine University, FranceIn this paper, we introduce a large class of (so-called) conditional indicators, on a complete probability space with respect to a sub σ-algebra. A conditional indicator is a positive mapping, which is not necessary linear, but may share common features... -
The potential predators of pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri) in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jacob Mueti Ngwava --- Hainan Normal University, China Fanrong Xiao --- Hainan Normal University, China Patrick Kinyatta Malonza --- , Kenya Beryl Akoth Bwong --- , Kenya Hai-Tao Shi --- Hainan Normal University, ChinaStudying the interactions between prey and predators is crucial for understanding the intricacies of predator-prey dynamics and for formulating effective conservation strategies. Yet there is almost no systematic analysis of pancake tortoise predation, and its consequences on the tortoise populations... -
Risk factor profile for non-communicable diseases: findings of a STEPS survey among the support staff at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Sithabile Nombulelo Mathunjwa --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa Tshegofatso Betty Mohlala --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Heather Modiehi Legodi --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa -
Prevalence of hyperglycaemic crisis among diabetes mellitus patients in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: A Getie --- Debre Markos University, Ethiopia T Ayenew --- Debre Markos University, Ethiopia G Yilak --- Woldia University, Ethiopia M Gedfew --- Debre Markos University, Ethiopia BT Amlak --- Debre Markos University, Ethiopia A Wondmieneh --- Injibara University, Ethiopia M Bimerew --- Injibara University, Ethiopia -
The impact of printing industry effluent on the growth and antioxidant response of the freshwater green microalga Chlorella sorokiniana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: IY Okpanachi --- Nigerian Army University Biu, Nigeria U Aminu --- Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria AO Jolaoso --- University of Lagos, Nigeria WN Yusufu --- Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria E Abdulmalik --- Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria MA Chia --- Ahmadu Bello University, NigeriaContamination of aquatic ecosystems with printing industry wastewater is a serious concern because of the toxicity associated with the effluent components and a tendency to create cascading ecological effects. The influence of printing-press effluent on the freshwater microalga Chlorella sorokiniana... -
The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus should be considered Critically Endangered
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Richard B Sherley --- Environment and Sustainability Institute/Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Azwianewi B Makhado --- , South Africa Robert JM Crawford --- , South Africa Christina Hagen --- , South Africa Jessica Kemper --- , Namibia Katrin Ludynia --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Makhudu J Masotla --- , South Africa Alistair McInnes --- , South Africa Lorien Pichegru --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Desmond Tom --- , Namibia Leshia Upfold --- , South Africa Lauren J Waller --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe African Penguin Spheniscus demersus has been considered a threatened species since 1984 and, aside from a short period around 2000, its population has been in constant decline since at least the 1950s. By combining counts of the numbers of... -
The low-volatility effect in African frontier equity markets
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Johannes Petrus Steyn --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Evan Gilbert --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Suzette Viviers --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThis study investigated the extent to which the low-risk anomaly is present in a pooled sample of nine African frontier equity markets from March 2004 to July 2023. Portfolio-level analysis was used to investigate the total stock returns of equally... -
Integration among the BRICS stock markets: Filtering out global factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Ayesha Sayed --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Ailie Charteris --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaDespite the prominence of the BRICS bloc, little attention has been given to their stock market co-movement. This study investigates the time- and frequency-varying integration of the BRICS stock markets including new BRICS + members with active markets. We explore whether market... -
The interconnectedness and spillover effects among economic uncertainty, energy-related risks and sovereign risk in BRICS economies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Pascal Xavier Gnagne --- School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne --- School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mathias Mandla Manguzvane --- School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaEmerging economies experiencing energy-intensive growth face increased energy price volatility, which could fuel macroeconomic instability with possible implications on their debt repayment capacity. This study implements a quantile vector autoregressive model on a dataset collected between April 2011 and July... -
Sustainability practices, sustainable development goals and the hospitality sector: perspectives from Sri Lankan chain hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janith Iddawala --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Binuri Mehara Welengoda --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Banudee Thisali Rathnayaka --- NSBM Green University, Sri LankaDespite being an industry at the forefront of adopting sustainable practices, there has been a continued paucity of hospitality research focusing on the extent of adoption of sustainability practices and their contribution towards achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) from... -
Travelling together: exploring the impact of support and service animals on travel experiences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marianna Moraes --- University of California, USAThe phenomenon of multi-species families is increasingly linked to the growing awareness of the benefits of emotional support and service animals. As more people adopt various animals into their homes, it becomes crucial to understand how these family arrangements influence... -
Data utilisation among employees in SMEs in Destination Limfjorden, Denmark
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Henrik S. Pahus --- Dania Academy, Denmark Lars Falk --- International Sales and Marketing, University College of Northern Denmark, DenmarkThis article explores the efforts of Destination Limfjorden in Denmark to enhance employees’ competencies and skills in small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMEs) through the strategic use of data. The study employs a mixed-method approach, integrating digital questionnaires and semi-structured... -
“We mostly focus on preventing pregnancy, we don’t really focus on preventing HIV … ”: Young people’s perceptions and priorities when preventing unplanned pregnancy and HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jewelle JS Methazia --- , South Africa Tshegofatso P Bessenaar --- , South Africa Sarah E Baum --- , USAIn South Africa, the high rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among young people and unplanned pregnancies remains a concern. Using a qualitative approach, this study aimed to explore how young people between 18 and 24 years old perceive... -
A review of the reported and future potential ecological impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera in South Africa.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: JJ Pearson --- North-West University, South Africa R Gerber --- North-West University, South Africa W Malherbe --- North-West University, South Africa NJ Smit --- North-West University, South Africa L de Necker --- North-West University, South AfricaThe Southeast Asian gastropod Tarebia granifera is an invasive freshwater snail across several continents. Our review summarises the impacts of this invasive snail on invaded aquatic ecosystems. The most important impacts are those related to their ability to reproduce quickly... -
Firm size and enterprise productivity in Nigeria: Evidence from firm-level data
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ambrose Nnaemeka Omeje --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Augustine Jideofor Mba --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Ravinder Rena --- Durban University of Technology, Republic of South AfricaAnchored on the economies of scale of production theory, this study utilized Nigeria’s firm-level enterprise survey data of the World Bank collected through stratified random sampling of 2 676 firms and face-to-face interviews with the application of the multinomial logit... -
Learning and capability building in firms of a developing economy: A study of Ludhiana machine tools manufacturing cluster
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Manpreet Kaur --- Guru Nanak Dev University, India Swati Mehta --- Guru Nanak Dev University, IndiaFrontier and laggard firms are always engaged in the process of building capabilities through continuous ‘learning’ to compete in the technologically driven world. Firms focus on ‘learning by Doing, Using and Interacting’ (DUI) and/ or ‘learning by Science, Technology, and... -
Technology adoption, competitiveness and new market access among SMEs in Ghana: What are the limiting factors?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Wilhelmina Quaye --- CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana Gordon Akon-Yamga --- CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana Mavis Akuffobea-Essilfie --- CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana Justina Adwoa Onumah --- CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, GhanaA total of 300 SMEs including beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Presidential Business Development Support initiative were surveyed in Ghana using structured interview questionnaires. The survey objectives were to (i) investigate the extent of adoption of emerging technologies including the... -
“Feeling their way through their cultural roots”: theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rafael Verbuyst --- University of Gent, BelgiumAuthenticity is a longstanding concern in Khoisan Studies. Most scholarship has examined how stereotypical, essentialist and static notions of “authentic” Khoisan identity and culture are habitually reproduced and demanded of the Khoisan for economic or political gain. Recent work instead... -
Prevalence and treatment-related outcome of hospitalised type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with comorbidities at an academic hospital in Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: T Makhabane --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa G Gabriels --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa S Chetty --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa -
Biological suppression of sugarcane smut through native Trichoderma isolates increased sugarcane yield at Wonji, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Samuel Tegene --- Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, Ethiopia Habtamu Terefe --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Esayas Tena --- Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, Ethiopia Mashilla Dejene --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Girma Tegegn --- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia Amare Ayalew --- Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA), EthiopiaSmut disease is identified as the main constraint in the cultivation of sugarcane in Ethiopia. Although the country has employed a range of management strategies, none of them have resulted in ecologically safe and sustainable control. The use of Trichoderma... -
Offsetting the void of overboarding risk: The role of financial expertise in an emerging market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Sulaiman Ademola Oreshile --- Universiti Malaya, Malaysia Rozaimah Zainudin --- Universiti Malaya, Malaysia Nurul Shahnaz Mahdzan --- Universiti Malaya, MalaysiaTo contribute to the growing literature on the implications of board busyness for firm outcomes, this study investigates the relationship between overboarding risk (OBRisk) and firm value (FV) in an emerging market setting and whether financial expertise matters for this... -
Do changes in star selection criteria affect analyst behaviour?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Karam Kim --- Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Doojin Ryu --- Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Jinyoung Yu --- Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ChinaThis study examines whether the star analyst selection criteria affect analysts’ coverage decisions and the informativeness of their reports. We focus on a change to the star evaluation criteria that increased the importance of quantitative standards. After the reform, analysts... -
The highest-lowest price range and the cross-sectional returns predictability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Xiaojun Chu --- , China Shuang Song --- , ChinaMotivated by literature on heterogeneous investors, we use the difference between the highest and lowest prices to proxy the intensity of competition among bullish-bearish investors and investigate its significance in the cross-sectional pricing of stocks. Portfolio-level analyses and cross-sectional regressions... -
Does board diversity influence idiosyncratic risk: Empirical evidence from Chinese listed firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Furman Ali --- School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China Muhammad Awais Khan --- Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China Zohaib Zahid --- Jiangsu University, China Khadim Hussain --- College of Economics, Shenzhen University, ChinaThis study examines the relationship between board diversity, measured as cognitive (tenure, expertise, and education) and demographic (age, gender, and nationality) diversities, and idiosyncratic risk for 2000 Chinese non-financial firms from 2008 to 2020. This study highlights that cognitive board... -
Determinants of accounting information systems technologies adoption by SMEs in Ethiopia: A sub-Saharan country perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abera Aynekulu Abate --- Debark University, EthiopiaThis study sought to pinpoint determinants of AISs technologies adoption among SMEs in Ethiopia. Two dominant diffusion of innovation theories, namely Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) and Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) were contextualized to predict SMEs’ AISs adoption. A quantitative research approach with... -
Factors affect the technical efficiency of micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Adamu Mulu Ketema --- Former lecturer at Salale University at the Department of Economics, and Research and Development Officer at the Cooperative Bank of Oromia, EthiopiaMicro and small enterprises (MSEs) play a crucial role in Ethiopia's economy. Measuring the technical efficiency of enterprises is thus of interest to various stakeholders. This study measured and estimated technical efficiency using a stochastic frontier and a maximum-likelihood approach... -
Considering risk associated with leisure time physical activity (LTPA) at craft breweries: overlooking dangers in the name of fun
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Alana N Seaman --- Tourism, Recreation, & Sport, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA Lindsey Schroeder --- Athletic Training, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA Madison Peace --- Athletic Training, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA Michele Abee --- Bellarmine University, USA Laura Morris --- Tourism, Recreation, & Sport, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USAMany breweries in the US have become popular settings for leisure time physical activity (LTPA). While risk is widely accepted as an inherent part of sport and physical activity (PA), breweries are places of increased risk due to the nature... -
The digital transformation of tourism: a study of tourist behaviour and preferences in the age of technology in Bangladesh
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Md Istiaq Mohhamad Shuvo --- Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh Md Jamsedul Islam --- Noakhali Science and Technology University, BangladeshThe rapid development of technology has profoundly altered tourist behaviour and trends, yet there is a notable gap in understanding how these changes affect tourists in Bangladesh. Existing research focuses on developed markets, overlooking Bangladesh’s unique sociocultural and economic factors... -
Accessibility information and rhetoric: an evaluation of the website communications of three New Zealand hotels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Eshwar Atul Shetty --- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Alison McIntosh --- Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandPrevious scholarship highlights the physical, social and informational barriers to participation in tourism and hospitality for people with disabilities. The provision of reliable and up-to-date information, especially via websites, is crucial to ensuring accessibility and inclusion in hospitality services and... -
Risk spillovers among global oil & gas firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Oluwasegun B. Adekoya --- University of Maine, USA Johnson A. Oliyide --- University of Maine, USA Ademola B. Akinseye --- Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan --- University of Portsmouth, UKThis study examines the risk spillovers among the world’s top oil & gas firms, accounting for the role of environmental fiscal policies, economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and regulatory quality. We find evidence of high risk spillovers among the oil &... -
The future of higher education in the age of GenAI — are we all doomed?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Erwin Losekoot --- School of Business & Law, Edith Cowan University, AustraliaThis viewpoint addresses the concern expressed by some academics that GenAI is turning the works of higher education upside down and that our roles as educators will soon become redundant. It considers the academic literature on student academic misconduct and... -
Impact of short-term let regulations on mental health in Scotland’s self-catering sector: a policy-oriented framework for future resilience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Fiona Campbell --- , United Kingdom Masood Khodadadi --- University of the West of Scotland, United KingdomScotland’s self-catering sector faces significant challenges from recent regulatory changes, especially new short-term let (STL) licensing and planning requirements. These measures have intensified mental health pressures on operators, as shown by a pulse survey from the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers... -
The impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality sector and the growing demand for health-conscious services, with a focus on India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Geetanjali Sageena --- Indian Council of Medical Research, India Suneel Kumar --- Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, IndiaThe COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the global hospitality sector, with travel restrictions and lockdowns causing severe declines in tourism. In 2020, international tourist arrivals fell by 74%, leading to an estimated $1 trillion revenue loss. India’s hospitality sector, contributing 9%... -
Performance of some quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) genotypes in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: M.E. Oyoo --- Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Food Crops Section, Kenya S.M. Githiri --- University of Nairobi, Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, Kenya P.O. Ayiecho --- University of Nairobi, Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, KenyaQuinoa (Chenopdium quinoa Willd.) has been cultivated for thousands of years in South America for its nutritious grain and leaves. Demand for the crop has risen in the recent past. In order to satisfy the demand, there is need to... -
Upward social comparisons on social networking sites (SNSs) and subjective well-being: The mediating role of envy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yongzhan Li --- Xuchang University, ChinaThis study examined the mediating role of envy in the relationship between upward social comparison on social networking sites (SNSs) and subjective well-being. Participants were 1 078 college students (male = 46.01%, female = 53.99%; freshmen = 27.18%, sophomores =... -
Short-video usage and female college students’ restricted diets: a chain mediation model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tingting Fu --- Normal University, China Xiong Li --- Guangzhou Huashang Vocational College, China Xuesong Wei --- Guangxi Technology and Business Vocational College, China Jun Qin --- Normal University, ChinaWith the popularity of short-video platforms, people’s self-concept and body views are everyday concerns, including their dieting. How short-video platforms impact people’s dieting especially for female college students, remain unclear. This study examines the mediating paths between short-video usage and... -
Aspirations and meanings of lighter skin tone in the African context: A rapid review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sikelelwa Ntsokota --- North-West University, South Africa Lelanie Malan --- North-West University, South Africa Esmé van Rensburg --- North-West University, South Africa Werner de Klerk --- North-West University, South AfricaAcross cultures, skin tone is associated with social impressions and outcomes, but the meanings and implications of these associations has not garnered clear research evidence. This rapid review aimed to aggregate the evidence regarding the ascribed meanings and implications of... -
Trends and psychosocial factors associated with health-risk behaviours among university students in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marizanne Lu-Visser --- Asia University, Taiwan Laurencia Sylvano --- Asia University, Taiwan Earl Francis Infante Mallari --- Asia University, Taiwan Karl Peltzer --- Asia University, TaiwanSignificant urbanisation and increased tertiary enrolment shifted lifestyle and health behaviours among young adults in South Africa. Therefore, we investigated the trends and psychosocial determinants associated with health-risk behaviours among university students in South Africa. Cross-sectional survey data collected during... -
Untangling the Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of southern Africa, including the description of a new species
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Kate Mortimer --- Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales, United Kingdom Dylan T Clarke --- Iziko Museums of South Africa, South Africa‘A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa’ by J. H. Day, published in 1967 and covering over 700 species, was considered an essential reference text for marine biologists. Nonetheless, despite the major contribution it has made, we now know... -
Lumbrineris magalhaensis Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Lumbrineridae) revealed as two indigenous species in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Adri van Niekerk --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Jyothi Kara --- Iziko South African Museum, South Africa Arturo Alvarez-Aguilar --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Carol A Simon --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaLumbrineris magalhaensis Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Lumbrineridae) is a marine polychaete worm that was first described from the Magellan Strait, Chile; thereafter it was also reported in sub-Antarctic, temperate and tropical regions, where it was likely misidentified. In South African waters,... -
Assessing the socio-economic value of shark diving in the Protea Banks Marine Protected Area, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ML Dicken --- , South Africa AV Towner --- Rhodes University, South Africa B Mauz --- , South Africa R Mauz --- , South AfricaProtea Banks, a reef off the east coast of South Africa and a renowned dive destination, attained marine protected area (MPA) status in 2019. This study investigates the economic significance of the shark diving industry at this MPA and examines... -
Breeding ecology of the Madagascar Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii in Bemanevika Protected Area in the northern highlands of Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Delphin Rasolonjatovo --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Lily-Arison Rene De Roland --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Tolojanahary Andriamalala --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Marius Rakotondratsima --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Séraphin Fabrice --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Stéphanie Razakaratrimo --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Yverlin ZM Pruvot --- The Peregrine Fund Madagascar Project, Madagascar Russell Thorstrom --- The Peregrine Fund, United StatesWe studied the breeding ecology of the endangered Madagascar Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii (family Podicipedidae) at Bemanevika Protected Area, during two consecutive years (October 2020–September 2022). Two breeding units were observed: pairs and trios made up of one male and two... -
Amplifying success in SMEs: Harnessing the joint power of social capital and new product development capability in developing economies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ahmed Agyapong --- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Patrick A. Akanpaaba --- Accra Business School, Ghana Tesfalidet Tukue --- Southern University, USA Amo Sarpong --- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GhanaThis study examines the ongoing debate in scholarly literature regarding the role of firm-specific resources and capabilities – namely, social capital (SC) and new product development capability (NPDC) – in influencing firm performance. Addressing a critical gap, the research explores... -
Unlocking Northern Cyprus: innovations in destination management for enhanced tourism experiences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sima Rahimizhian --- Eastern Mediterranean University, Türkiye Foad Irani --- Final International University, TürkiyeThe tourist sector is currently one of those that has paved the way in the application of intelligent communication and information technology. Intelligent information systems can significantly contribute to the continued growth of the tourist business, particularly virtual tourism, given... -
Ethical considerations in flamingo tourism: insights from a Dutch Caribbean resort study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Chiara Niehorster Rheinboldt --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Joost IJsselmuiden --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsThis study investigates the impact of flamingo encounters on guest satisfaction and ethical considerations at a 5-star resort in the Dutch Caribbean. Using a quantitative approach, the researchers surveyed 50 resort guests to explore perceptions of animal tourism, flamingo experiences,... -
Tourism resilience in Iran: navigating sanctions, diplomacy and emerging opportunities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Masood Khodadadi --- University of the West of Scotland, United KingdomThe re-election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in 2024 marks a significant shift in US-Iran relations, with far-reaching consequences for Iran’s tourism sector. This brief report examines the potential impact of Trump’s foreign policy,... -
The economics of cowpea seed contracting in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edward Martey --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Prince M. Etwire --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Emmanuel Y. Owusu --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Desmond S. Adogoba --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Bashiru Haruna --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Mustapha M. Suraj --- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Lucky Omoigui --- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, NigeriaThe economic impact of agricultural contracting in developing economies has been widely studied. However, limited attention has been given to the specific dynamics of seed contracting among seed producers, despite their crucial role in seed delivery systems. Price volatility remains... -
Quality characteristics of forage in the sowing year of a standard perennial pasture established with annual ryegrass, barley, and berseem clover as companion crops
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Hasan Beytullah Dönmez --- Çukurova University, Turkey Rustu Hatipoglu --- Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, TurkeyThis study was conducted to determine the effect of different seed sowing rates (25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of the recommended pure stand of the species) and harvesting stages (early harvest, late harvest) of annual ryegrass, barley, and berseem clover used... -
Cash holding, risk-taking behavior and financial performance of non-financial firms listed in sub-Saharan Africa Securities Exchanges
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Brian Ochieng Aluora --- University of Embu, Kenya Samuel Nduati Kariuki --- University of Embu, Kenya Peter Njagi Kirimi --- University of Embu, KenyaThe study examined the linkage between cash holding, risk-taking and financial performance of listed non-financial corporations using the two-step system GMM method. GMM's outcome was then compared across the agricultural, manufacturing and construction industries. Cash holding and risk-taking had a... -
A shelf-scale assessment of GLORYS and BRAN ocean reanalysis model outputs for the southern Benguela Upwelling System
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AM Kupczyk --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa T Lamont --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa I Halo --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa CS Russo --- Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), South Africa T Rixen --- Institute for Geology, Universität Hamburg, Germany N Lahajnar --- Institute for Geology, Universität Hamburg, GermanyThe Benguela Upwelling System, with its high variability and productivity, is challenging to monitor owing to limited in situ ocean observations. Researchers therefore often use ocean reanalysis products to simulate oceanographic conditions. We evaluated the performance of the GLORYS and... -
HIV incidence and prevalence projections for Zimbabwe: Findings from five mathematical models
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Isaac Taramusi --- UNAIDS UCO Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe John Stover --- , United States of America Robert Glaubius --- , United States of America Tsitsi Apollo --- Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe Getrude Ncube --- Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe Owen Mugurungi --- Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe Ngwarai Sithole --- Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe Loveleen Bansi-Matharu --- Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom Jenny Smith --- Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom Andrew Phillips --- Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom Valentina Cambiano --- Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom Daniel T Citron --- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States of America Anna Bershteyn --- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States of America Debra ten Brink --- Burnet Institute, Australia Rowan Martin-Hughes --- Burnet Institute, Australia Michael Pickles --- Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Paul Revill --- University of York, United Kingdom Amon Mpofu --- National AIDS Council of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Jeffrey Imai-Eaton --- Chan School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Diseases Dynamics, Harvard University, United States of America Richard Makurumidze --- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Simbarashe Rusakaniko --- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, ZimbabweIntroduction: Understanding how HIV epidemics are likely to behave in the future is key to informing HIV response strategies in low-income countries. Up-to-date HIV epidemiological estimates are important for policy decision- making, but surveillance data can be out of date... -
Characterisation of women through actions in a Tshivenḓa drama Ḽa ḓa hafha ḽi a kovhela by NE Sigogo: the contemporary democratic era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau --- University of South Africa (UNISA), South AfricaCharacters’ actions often reveal their true nature more accurately than their words or beliefs. Authors use character actions to depict personality traits, physical appearance and relationships in literary works, employing indirect characterisation. This article aims to explore how character actions... -
The effect of eucalypt slash burning and repeated disc harrowing on fuel load reduction, soil properties, and stand productivity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Angel A Goldsmith --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Ben du Toit --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaIn plantation forestry systems, disc harrowing is sometimes used as a fuel load reduction measure to minimise wildfire risk. This study reports the long-term effects of repeated disking on fuel loading, soil properties and tree growth in two eucalypt stands... -
Building an ethical artificial intelligence corporate governance framework for the integration of emerging technologies into business processes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Husain Coovadia --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Ben Marx --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Ilse Botha --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Nusirat O. Gold --- University of Johannesburg, -
Developing and validating a training package for the provision of telephone crisis intervention services to children and adolescents at risk of suicide
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Maedeh Parvizi --- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Zahra Shahrivar --- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Nasrin Dodangi --- Psychosis Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran Salman Ghaderi --- Social Emergency Center of the Welfare Organization, Iran Saeid Norouzi --- Iranian Research Center on Aging, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran Elham Salari --- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Mojgan Khademi --- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran Fariba Arabgol --- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran Javad Mahmoudi-Gharaei --- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, IranBackground: Telephone crisis intervention is a readily available and discreet method through which troubled youths can seek assistance. -
Enhancing global equity returns with trend-following and tail risk hedging overlays
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Bruno Schwalbach --- University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa Christo Auret --- University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South AfricaThis paper demonstrates that overlaying a combination of trend-following and tail risk hedging strategies onto a global equity portfolio significantly enhances performance. These strategies are complementary. Tail risk hedging mitigates equity risk effectively during sudden market crashes, while trend-following supports... -
Can good ESG performance help companies resist external shocks?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Xin Yang --- Nanfang College, China Ahmad Fahmi Sheikh Hassan --- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Yusuf Karbhari --- Cardiff University, UKIn order to validate the varied conclusions regarding the integration of corporate ESG practices by investors during external shocks, this study utilises the COVID-19 crisis as a specific external shock. The findings from our difference-in-differences methodology suggest that companies demonstrating... -
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... -
Bridging cultural gaps in health communication: Indigenous language as a catalyst for combatting monkeypox in Lagos, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Evaristus Adesina --- Northwest University, South Africa Abiodun Salawu --- Northwest University, South Africa Babatunde Adeyeye --- Northwest University, South AfricaInfectious diseases such as monkeypox have continued to pose significant threats to global health, demanding effective strategies for prevention and control. Existing studies have primarily focused on monkeypox clinical analysis, with less attention given to adopting indigenous languages as a... -
Modelling users’ intention to migrate from free to premium personal cloud storage in freemium business models: A machine learning approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: John Oredo --- Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nairobi,Extant technology post-adoption studies focus on effective and continued use. The current study models the features that explain and predict users’ intention to migrate from free to premium cloud storage services. Data were collected from 122 postgraduate students on perceived... -
Assessing the systemic risk in Rwandan banking sector using clustering approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Patrick Mugenzi --- University of Rwanda, Rwanda Annie Uwimana --- University of Rwanda, RwandaThis article assessed the dynamics of homogeneity (similarities) among banks in Rwanda from 2017 to 2021 by utilizing agglomerative clustering techniques on a detailed breakdown of the banking system’s balance sheet structure. Specifically, we analyzed homogeneity in the banks’ portfolios,... -
The integration of physical and digital experiences in ecotourism
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: I Nengah Subadra --- University of Triatma Mulya, IndonesiaThe integration of physical and digital experiences in ecotourism is reshaping ecotourism by enhancing visitor engagement and advancing sustainability practices. This study employs a grounded theory approach to investigate the impact of technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality and... -
“A is for Aircháelán”: the case for compiling a compendium of food in Ireland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: John D. Mulcahy --- , IrelandSimilar to any geography, food and beverages have been an integral part of Ireland’s cultural fabric. Yet, in Ireland, despite a growing body of publications, a lacuna exists. Until now, no one has undertaken the compilation of an overarching reference... -
Do higher education institutes lay a foundation for sustainability education? Perspectives from tourism and hospitality undergraduates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janith Iddawala --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Mohamed Shaja Mohamed Musthaffa --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Chandima Gayan Yapa --- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) Business School, Sri LankaEducation for sustainable development has transformed from a discretionary to an essential element of consideration in higher education institutes. Nonetheless, limited attempts have been made to uncover the effectiveness and importance of such efforts in research scholarship, particularly in the... -
Catch trends and population status of the leopard whipray Himantura leoparda (family Dasyatidae) off the east coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BQ Mann --- Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI), South Africa R Daly --- Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI), South Africa D Parker --- University of Queensland, Australia GL Jordaan --- Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI), South Africa G Cliff --- KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, South Africa N Nkabi --- KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, South Africa R Kyle --- South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR), South Africa R Bennett --- Wildlife Conservation Society, South AfricaThe leopard whipray Himantura leoparda (family Dasyatidae) is globally assessed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species owing to the species’ inherent vulnerability and declining population trends. In this study we assessed the population found off the... -
Simulated rangeland conditions and seasonal variations influence soil quality in semi-arid central South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: JDJ Marx --- University of the Free State, South Africa E Kotzé --- University of the Free State, South Africa JJ van Tol --- University of the Free State, South Africa PF Loke --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe study examined long-term effects of rangeland conditions and seasonal variations on soil quality without confounding grazing effects. Samples were collected seasonally from good, moderate, poor, bare and cultivated rangeland conditions at soil depths of 0–10 cm and analysed for... -
Changing midlife tropes: A transcendence into epiphany
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Louisa Niehaus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMidlife is often stereotyped as a time of turbulence, angst and chaos, marked by inappropriate behaviours, broken marriages, infidelity and destructive changes. However, this article aims to challenge these stereotypes and present a different perspective. It argues that midlife is... -
Management entrenchment: Determinants and impact on firm performance of French listed companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Mounir Jaouadi --- Arab Open University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Amira Feidi --- University of Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia -
The association between fracture risk and bone mineral density in black postmenopausal women living with human immunodeficiency virus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: C van der Merwe --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, South Africa PO Ukegbu --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, South Africa HS Kruger --- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, South Africa -
Breeding population status and nesting preferences of the White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus in western Serengeti, northern Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Vainess Laizer --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Peter S Goodman --- Grumeti Fund, Tanzania Noel Mbise --- Grumeti Fund, Tanzania Claire Bracebridge --- The Peregrine Fund, The World Center for Birds of Prey, United States Kate Tiedeman --- Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Germany Corrine J Kendall --- The Peregrine Fund, The World Center for Birds of Prey, United States Robert Byamungu --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Shombe N Hassan --- Department of Wildlife Management, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Kristen D Snyder --- Grumeti Fund, TanzaniaThe White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus is Critically Endangered because of its decline across its range in Africa, largely due to poisoning. The western corridor of the Serengeti ecosystem in northern Tanzania hosts a significant number of individuals of this species... -
Seasonal consumption of Thamnochortus spicigerus (Restionaceae) by eland is associated with plant sex and nutrient status
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Petro Botha --- Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Bruce Anderson --- Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaHistoric distributions of large herbivores in the Fynbos Biome remain poorly described and, despite ongoing reintroductions, their dietary strategies and forage selection in the Fynbos Biome are understudied. We monitored an introduction of eland into Cape Flats Dune Strandveld vegetation,...
