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Astronaissance: Communicating astronomy & space to the African imagination
(2013)Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics. Story-telling, painting, engraving, ... -
Astronomy for Development – A story from South Africa
(UWC, 2021)In this article we describe the recent history of astronomy in South Africa from the perspective of development. We describe how all major astronomy initiatives have carried a component of development with them, be it ... -
Asynchronous video telephony for the Deaf
(Telkom, 2007)The South African Deaf community has very limited telephony options. They prefer to communicate in sign language, a visual medium. Realtime video over Internet Protocol is a promising option, but in reality, the quality ... -
At the crossroads: Land and agrarian reform in South Africa into the 21st century
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 1999)The land sector has always been characterised by lively and public arguments over policy, and some of the central and recurring themes of the previous five years of debate were expected to surface at the conference. ... -
At the crossroads: Land and agrarian reform in South Africa into the 21st century
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), and National Land Committee (NLC), 2000)These conference proceedings are published at a time of extraordinary fluidity and uncertainty as to the future of the ambitious programmes of land and agrarian reform1 initiated by the first democratic government in 1994. ... -
At the crossroads: linking strategic frameworks to address gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in Southern Africa
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2007)In recent years, southern African governments have made a number of important commitments on international and regional levels to combat HIV/ AIDS. The subregion has also seen a number of strategic developments such ... -
At the limits of spatial governmentality: A message from the tip of Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2002)Urban studies scholars drawing on Foucault’s analysis of govern-mentality have investigated how urban social orders are increasingly moreconcerned with the management of space rather than on the discipline ofoffenders ... -
At-risk student teachers’ attitudes and aspirations as learners and teachers of mathematics
(AOSIS, 2015)This study explored foundation phase first year student teachers’ perceptions about mathematics. The focus on their attitudes towards mathematics in two roles – (1) as learners of mathematics, based on their prior ... -
Atmospheric bromoform at Cape Point, South Africa: an initial fixed-point data set on the African continent
(EGU, 2018)Bromoform mixing ratios in marine air were measured at Cape Point Global Atmospheric Watch Station, South Africa. This represents the first such bromoform data set recorded at this location. Manual daily measurements were ... -
Attending to the affective: exploring first year students’ emotional experiences at university
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)This study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research ... -
Attenuation of hyperglycemia-associated dyslipidemic, oxidative, cognitive, and inflammatory crises via modulation of neuronal ChEs/NF-κB/COX-2/NOx, and hepatorenal functional deficits by the Tridax procumbens extract
(Elsevier, 2023)Tridax procumbens (cotton buttons) is a flowering plant with a medicinal reputation for treating infections, wounds, diabetes, and liver and kidney diseases. The present research was conducted to evaluate the possible ... -
Attitudes of undergraduate nursing students towards E-learning at the University of the Western Cape
(African Association for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, 2015)The development of the Internet has provided an opportunity for offering e-learning as a new addition to modern education. Substantial evidence indicates that many universities across the world are offering study programmes ... -
Attrition of dental therapists in South Africa—A 42-year review
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022)Introduction: Dental therapists are mid-level oral healthcare providers introduced in 1977 to the South African health system to improve access to oral health services. There has, however, been anecdotal evidence of their ... -
attrition of dental therapists in South Africa—A 42-year review
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)Introduction: Dental therapists are mid-level oral healthcare providers introduced in 1977 to the South African health system to improve access to oral health services. There has, however, been anecdotal evidence of their ... -
Audit report: University of the Western Cape Research Output 2014
(2015)This audited list documents the accredited research output published by researchers at the University of the Western Cape for the year 2014. The list is provided by the Research Office at the University. -
Auditing and the unconscious: Managerialism’s memory traces
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This paper takes J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid” as a point of departure in thinking about audits in universities. Using the psychoanalytic framing of apartheid that Coetzee puts in place, audit is likened here ... -
Augmenting machine learning photometric redshifts with Gaussian mixture models
(Oxford University Press, 2020-09-11)Wide-area imaging surveys are one of the key ways of advancing our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation physics, and the large-scale structure of the Universe in the coming years. These surveys typically require ... -
Austerity measures, infrastructure and economic development in South Africa (1996–2019)
(Vilnius University Press, 2023)The paper aims to establish whether austerity measures promote economic development, improve infrastructure development, and whether they exacerbate infrastructure backlogs. The methodology used is a quantitative research ... -
Austral winter marine epilithic diatoms: Community composition and distribution on intertidal rocky substrate around the coast of South Africa
(Elsevier, 2020)The knowledge on the composition and spatial distribution of marine benthic diatoms around the coast of South Africa remains limited. Epilithic diatom assemblages from natural intertidal rocky substrate and physico-chemical ... -
Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence
(Routledge, 2024)This article situates Austria in wider discussions around the repercussions of colonial violence on a global scale. It focusses on the ways in which anthropological disciplines fashioned specific ideas of racial and ...