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The Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics 2009
(UWC, 2010-01)
The IMBM Brochure (2009) provides a summary of the staffing, activities and outputs of the Institute for the 2009 academic year
The political-administrative interface in South African municipalities assessing the quality of local democracies
(UTS Centre for Local Government, 2010)
South African municipalities experience serious challenges in dealing with the interface
between politicians and officials. Inappropriate political interference in administrative
matters as well as strained relations ...
A common law hydra emerges from the forum-shopping swamp
(Juta Law, 2010)
Relocation decisions: do culture, language and religion matter in the rainbow nation?
(Centre for Family Law and Practice, London Metropolitan University, 2010)
This article turns to culture, language
and religion as constitutional constructs in South Africa,
in an attempt to clarify their importance generally. The
position prior to the Children’s Act is discussed. The article ...
An exploration into the determinants of noncommunicable diseases among rural-to-urban migrants in periurban South Africa
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010)
Introduction
Noncommunicable diseases are increasing in developing
countries, exacerbated by growing urbanization. We examined
the experiences and perceptions about noncommunicable
diseases of people who migrated from ...
Staff development strategies for publication in Faculty of Community and Health Science at UWC: a short report
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
INTRODUCTION:
Strategies for improving the publication output of academics are an essential component of research directives at
tertiary institutions. The aim of this report was to highlight the effects of a writing ...
Call capacity for voice over Internet Protocol on wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2010)
This paper describes work in progress on call capacity optimization for voice over Internet Protocol on wireless mesh networks. In a developing country such as South Africa, evidence has shown that rural inhabitants find ...
Abstractions for designing and evaluating communication bridges for people in developing regions
(ACM, 2010)
This paper describes two novel abstractions that help soft- ware engineers work in developing regions to align social and technical factors when building communication systems. The abstractions extend two concepts familiar ...
ICT and information security perspectives in E-Health Systems
(Medwell Journals, 2010)
This study examines issues pertinent to the rapidly evolving use of information as a currency of modern economies. Access to information has important benefits that can be achieved in many areas including, social-economic ...
A novel approach integrating ranking functions discovery, optimization and infernce to improve retrieval performance
(Medwell Journals, 2010)
The significant roles play by ranking function in the performance and success of Information Retrieval (IR) systems and search engines cannot be underestimated. Diverse ranking functions are available in IR literature. ...