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  1. On Touchard's continued fraction and extensions: combinatorics-free, self-contained proofs

    On Touchard's continued fraction and extensions: combinatorics-free, self-contained proofs

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Helmut Prodinger --- Department of Mathematics, South Africa
    We give a direct and simple proof of Touchard's continued fraction, provide an extension of it, and transform it into similar expansions related to Motzkin and Schröder numbers. Another proof is then given that uses only induction. We use this...
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  2. Exploring the concept of hostmanship through “50 cups of coffee”

    Exploring the concept of hostmanship through “50 cups of coffee”

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Monique Medema --- , The Netherlands Brenda de Zwaan --- , The Netherlands
    This article explores how hospitality academics and students understand, interpret and experience hostmanship. Building on a literature review which outlines and discusses the development and definition of hospitality, this exploratory study is framed by an interpretivist approach. Semi-structured interviews were...
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  3. Embodied resilience: A phenomenological perspective

    Embodied resilience: A phenomenological perspective

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Eric Elbers --- , the Netherlands Vivianne Baur --- , the Netherlands Babet te Winkel --- , the Netherlands Joachim Duyndam --- , the Netherlands
    Background: From a phenomenological perspective, our body is the “from-which” we face the world. Vice versa, our body is affected by occurrences in our surroundings. Embodied resilience is understood as a quality of the dynamic relationships between our affected body...
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  4. A case study of school support and the psychological, emotional and behavioural consequences of HIV and AIDS on adolescents

    A case study of school support and the psychological, emotional and behavioural consequences of HIV and AIDS on adolescents

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Olubusayo Aduke Asikhia --- , , South Africa Kesh Mohangi --- , , South Africa
    Various studies have reported a huge increase in the numbers of orphaned adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa and its effects on their psychological, emotional and behavioural development. Yet, their needs are seldom recognised or adequately addressed in policy and programmes.This article...
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  5. Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene

    Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alice Aterianus-Owanga --- Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Drawing on ethnographic research within the salsa, bachata and kizomba (SBK) scene of Cape Town, this article examines the values and narratives of personal development that Cape Town’s adepts of Afro-Latin dance elaborate around the emic notion of “connection.” I...
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