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Finding statistical models using psychometric tests, matric results, and biographical data to predict academic success at a South African university

Breytenbach, Johanna Wilhelmina (2009-04-02)

Tertiary education is expensive for the individual, the family, the institution and the country. The aim of this study was to find models that could predict academic success, which is seen in this study as the completion ...

FINDING THE MANAGEMENT BALANCE WITHIN THE SABC: CENTRALISATION

MAMPANE, THABANG CHARLOTTE (2011-05-16)

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Findings in computed Tomography brain scans of patients referred with first-episode Psychosis

Van Wyk, Matthys Johannes (2013-03-19)

Psychosis, the inability to separate subjectivity and reality, can be either functional or organic. Organic psychoses are attributed to physical brain conditions, excluded by imaging. CT scanning requires evaluation ...

Fingerprinnts: oriantation free minutiae extraction and using distances between minutiae for identification and verification

Braude, David Adam (2011-10-21)

Fingerprint recognition has become a standard in both access control and forensics. This is because fingerprints are unique to an individual. While there are many ways in which a fingerprint can be recognised one of the ...

Finite element model updating

Mthembu, Linda Simo (2013-02-13)

This thesis focuses on engineering, specifically structural, systems that are approximated by finite element models (FEMs). Initial FEMs are found to have poor accuracies and improved or updated models are sort. From the ...

Fire regimes in southern Africa - determinants, drivers and feedbacks

Archibald, Sally (2010-08-24)

The spatial and temporal patterns of fire in Africa south of the equator are described and investigated to test hypotheses on the main drivers of fire. In particular, the relative importance of climate, vegetation, and ...

Fire-mediated succession and reversion of woody vegetation in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensburg, South Africa

De Villiers, Andrew (2013-02-04)

Long term fire exclusion has been attempted in Catchment IX (CIX) at Cathedral Peak. Baseline vegetation of CIX was sampled in 1952, with follow-up surveys in 1973, 1986 and 2010. These took place at key times in terms of ...

Firm size, book-to-market and expected

Welham, Juliette Renate (2011-06-24)

Investment analysts have long been preoccupied with the idea of predicting future returns based on historic share price performance or company values. To this end, Fama and French (1992) found in their acclaimed study ...

First and Second Language English Students in Tertiary Education: Reading and Academic Performance

Andor, Karen Erica (2006-11-01)

Previous studies have examined the issue of assessing university students and relating their performance on the assessment measures to their academic performance in South Africa (Butler & Van Dyk, 2004; Nel, Dreyer, & ...

The first enantioselective synthesis of the natural pesticide, rotenone

Georgiou, Kathy Hadje (2012-01-16)

The 2-isopropenyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran moiety is found in many naturally occurring compounds including rotenone, a complex pentacyclic molecule isolated from several leguminous plants of the Derris and Lonchocarpus species. ...

FIRST LINE SUPERVISOR COMPETENCY

Eichstädt, Stephen Timothy (2011-04-06)

The alignment of first-line supervisor competencies with the company strategy is critical for the first line supervisor to assist in making South African companies globally competitive. The purpose of the report was to ...

A first order model of a variable camber wing for a civil passenger aircraft.

Martindale, Tristan. (2012-09-13)

This work presents the development, implementation and analysis of a rst order model of a variable camber wing. An aerodynamic model of a homogeneous wing employing variable camber actuation was developed based on the ...

First Telephone Exchange. 1891. Johannesburg

Unknown (2011-08-04)

First Telephone Exchange, 1891, Johannesburg.

"First win the war, then clear the slums": the Genesis of the Western Areas Removal Scheme, 1940 -1949

Van Tonder, Deon (1990-02-10)

First year students' narratives of 'race' and racism in post-apartheid South Africa.

Puttick, Kirstan (2012-02-10)

The democratic elections in 1994 marked the formal end of apartheid. During apartheid 'race' was, for the most part, a somewhat rigid construct which, despite many nuances and complexities, typically seemed to frame ...

FIRST YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' CONCEPTIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE

Small, John (2006-11-17)

This qualitative research project investigated the ideas of a small group of learners in the first year physics course at the University of the Witwatersrand in the area of atmospheric (air) pressure. These ideas constitute ...

FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY BIOLOGY STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES WITH GRAPHING SKILLS

Kali, Horatius Dumisani (2006-11-17)

Based on the perceived need for improved graphing skills of students at first-year university level, two lecturers wanted to produce a web-based computer programme to improve first-year university biology students’ ability ...

First-year university students' algebraic thinking and its relationship to geometric conceptual understanding

San, Luis Weng (2011-03-28)

This study investigated how first-year university students at Universidade Pedagógica (Pedagogical University) in Maputo-Mozambique brought their knowledge and thinking of algebra in understanding and working with geometry. ...

The “First” and “Third World” in Africa: Knowledge Access, Challenges and Current Technological Innovations in Africa

Molawa, Segametsi (2010-12-15)

This paper focuses on digitization in the African continent. It highlights the fact that some countries in Africa have both the “first” and “third” world characteristics in terms of development and access to information ...

FISCAL POLICY AND PRO POOR SPENDING IN MALAWI

Jambo, Hellen Nancy (2011-04-18)

This study carried out an analysis of the Malawi fiscal policy pro poor spending between 2004 and 2008 in relation to poverty reduction. The focus of the research was to investigate how much the three social pillars that ...

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