Academic performance of first year university students in the international arena as well as
locally, has been a point of concern for all stakeholders because of high dropout rates and failure.
Although many explanations ...
The study examines the relationship between the costs of initial public offerings (IPOs) and IPO underpricing within the South African IPO market. The sample consists of 59 firms which listed on the Main Board of the JSE ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between
knee integrity and function in patients who have had a total knee replacement.
Twenty-two patients were selected at the arthroplasty ...
Alcohol is a major public health problem globally. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO) report, alcohol accounts for 2.5 million deaths (4% of total) and
69.4 million (4.5% of total) of Disability-Adjusted ...
This article reports on a preliminary investigation into the impact of non-attendance at lectures on the performance of students in a second-year psychology class. Results suggest that the frequency of lecture attendance ...
The project research investigated the inhibitors and facilitators of the relationship
that exists among the marketing and the manufacturing departments in a South
African manufacturing company. The increase in volume of ...
This research explored the relationship between gender identity, body image and ego
strength in men. A questionnaire consisting of a demographic section, the Bem Sex
Role Inventory, the Adonis Complex Questionnaire- ...
Over 50,000 children under age five die in South Africa every year due to acute
respiratory infections, diarrhea, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. Many of these deaths are
preventable with timely immunization and better domestic ...
Health care funders are seeking managed health care interventions to contain medical inflation. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between three health risk factors (smoking status, physical activity ...
Background: This study examined the relationship between mothers’ age at first birth and infant mortality in Zimbabwe. Childbearing at a significantly young age has been noted to be a predictor of infant mortality, as ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem worldwide, and particularly in South Africa. Micronutrient deficiency (malnutrition) is caused by insufficient supply of vitamins and minerals for normal cell function in ...
The aim of this research is explore the possible relationship between personality and turnover.
This relationship is framed within the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) Model, a model that
describes the process through ...
This report examines the influence of parent’s migration status on childhood
mortality in sending households in the South African rural sub-district of
Agincourt. A survival analysis of a cohort of children born in ...
The relationship between the planning and environmental management fields is
examined at various government levels, but in more detail for Gauteng province
and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. This study examines ...
Parenting is inherently stressful at times and several studies have shown that
being a caregiver of a child who is disabled is even more stressful. A number of
studies have tried to identify demographic and psychosocial ...
The volatility of a share or market is used as a proxy for risk in a number of
financial calculations. Volatility measures the deviation from the average value, and
is therefore an estimate of how much a share or market ...
Style indices can be created for any investment style by calculating the
weighted average performance of the shares that form part of a particular style,
be these value, growth, large, small, etcetera. This study ...
Police officers are exposed to stress outside the range of usual human experience. The
operational duties of police work, by their very nature, may at any time place officers
in life threatening situations (McCraty, ...
The Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality is one of the prominent models in
contemporary psychology and defines personality in terms of five broad factors, namely,
Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, ...