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Shifting the priority from giving voice to listening: journalism new

- Garman, Anthea, Malila, Vanessa

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:38355 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC175773
Description: If, as the critics have argued, the South African media prioritise the voices of elite, middleclass South Africans, then the majority of South Africans are certainly invisible in the mainstream media. Kate Lacey argues that "listening is at the heart of what it means to be in the world, to be active, to be political" (2013: 163), and as such more than just providing a 'voice' for citizens, the media needs to be engaged in active listening to allow audiences to feel 'heard'. Servaes and Malikhao argue that people are 'voiceless' not because they have nothing to say, but because "nobody cares to listen to them" (2005: 91).
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Date Issued: 2015

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Land Use Planning: ALP 418 / ALP 419

- Monde, N, Meikle, G, Trollip, I R F, Brutsch, M O, Muchaonyerwa, P, Owusu-Aduomi, O K, Laker, M C

Authors: Monde, N , Meikle, G , Trollip, I R F , Brutsch, M O , Muchaonyerwa, P , Owusu-Aduomi, O K , Laker, M C
Date: 2010-07
Language: English
Type: Examination paper
Identifier: vital:17694 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010095
Description: Land Use Planning: ALP 418 / ALP 419, Supplementary examination July 2010.
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Date Issued: 2010-07

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How general-purpose can a GPU be?

- Machanick, Philip

Authors: Machanick, Philip
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61180 , vital:27988 , http://dx.doi.org/10.18489/sacj.v0i57.347
Description: The use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in general-purpose computation (GPGPU) is a growing field. GPU instruction sets, while implementing a graphics pipeline, draw from a range of single instruction multiple datastream (SIMD) architectures characteristic of the heyday of supercomputers. Yet only one of these SIMD instruction sets has been of application on a wide enough range of problems to survive the era when the full range of supercomputer design variants was being explored: vector instructions. Supercomputers covered a range of exotic designs such as hypercubes and the Connection Machine (Fox, 1989). The latter is likely the source of the snide comment by Cray: it had thousands of relatively low-speed CPUs (Tucker & Robertson, 1988). Since Cray won, why are we not basing our ideas on his designs (Cray Inc., 2004), rather than those of the losers? The Top 500 supercomputer list is dominated by general-purpose CPUs, and nothing like the Connection Machine that headed the list in 1993 still exists.
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Date Issued: 2015

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Subjective well-being in Africa

- Botha, Ferdi, Snowball, Jeanette D

Authors: Botha, Ferdi , Snowball, Jeanette D
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61084 , vital:27946
Description: Research on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB) has witnessed a remarkable growth over the past four decades or so. Since Easterlin’s (1974) seminal contribution on the relationship between happiness and income, thousands of studies have followed that examine the intricacies of subjective well-being (for reviews, see Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Dolan et al., 2008; MacKerron, 2012). These studies have uncovered some very important aspects of individual well-being and have pointed to the fact that money or income is not always (as is often assumed) the most important determinant of SWB.
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Date Issued: 2015

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Thermoluminescence of the persistent-luminescence phosphor, BaAl2O4: a stuffed tridymite

- Pandey, A, Chithambo, Makaiko L

Authors: Pandey, A , Chithambo, Makaiko L
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113048 , vital:33693 , hhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.01.004
Description: BaAl2O4 is a stuffed tridymite used as a long-lasting phosphor. The thermoluminescence of BaAl2O4 prepared by solution-combustion is reported. Analysis of the sample using X-ray diffraction shows that it formed as a single phase compound with a hexagonal structure following annealing at 1200 °C. A broad photoluminescence emission band between 300 and 650 nm was detected due to excitation at 248 nm. The phosphor showed a natural TL peak at 102 °C for measurement at 1 oCs−1 and, when beta irradiated to 100 Gy, two broad peaks at 123 and 318 °C also for heating at 1 oCs−1. The analysis of the main glow peak at 123 °C suggests that it is a combination of several collocated peaks, that is, peaks embedded within each other. We resolved four such components labelled peaks 1 to 4. The thermoluminescence decreases with heating rate in a way consistent with thermal quenching whose activation energy was determined as ∼0.65eV using peak 3. Interestingly, this value of the activation energy for thermal quenching for BaAl2O4, a stuffed derivative of silica, is similar to literature values for quartz (a silica), suggesting that the recombination centre in the two cases may be similar.
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Date Issued: 2018

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UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030: what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems?

- Waltham, Nathan J, Elliott, Michael, Lee, Shing Yip, Lovelock, Catherine, Duarte, Carlos M, Buelow, Christina, Simenstad, Charles, Nagelkerken, Ivan, Claassens, Louw, Wen, Colin K-C, Barletta, Mario, Connolly, Rod M, Gillies, Chris, Mitsch, William J, Ogburn, Matthew B, Purandare, Jemma, Possingham, Hugh, Sheaves, Marcus

Authors: Waltham, Nathan J , Elliott, Michael , Lee, Shing Yip , Lovelock, Catherine , Duarte, Carlos M , Buelow, Christina , Simenstad, Charles , Nagelkerken, Ivan , Claassens, Louw , Wen, Colin K-C , Barletta, Mario , Connolly, Rod M , Gillies, Chris , Mitsch, William J , Ogburn, Matthew B , Purandare, Jemma , Possingham, Hugh , Sheaves, Marcus
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149836 , vital:38887 , https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00071
Description: On 1 March 2019, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (New York) declared 2021–2030 the “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.” This call to action has the purpose of recognizing the need to massively accelerate global restoration of degraded ecosystems, to fight the climate heating crisis, enhance food security, provide clean water and protect biodiversity on the planet. The scale of restoration will be key; for example, the Bonn Challenge has the goal to restore 350 million km2 (almost the size of India) of degraded terrestrial ecosystems by 2030. However, international support for restoration of “blue” coastal ecosystems, which provide an impressive array of benefits to people, has lagged. Only the Global Mangrove Alliance (https://mangrovealliance.org/) comes close to the Bonn Challenge, with the aim of increasing the global area of mangroves by 20% by 2030. However, mangrove scientists have reservations about this target, voicing concerns that it is unrealistic and may prompt inappropriate practices in attempting to reach this target (Lee et al., 2019). The decade of ecosystem restoration declaration also coincides with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which aims to reverse deterioration in ocean health. If executed in a holistic and coordinated manner, signatory nations could stand to deliver on both these UN calls to action.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Engineering and Management

- Slinger, Jill, Stive, Marcel, Luijendijk, Arjen

Authors: Slinger, Jill , Stive, Marcel , Luijendijk, Arjen
Date: 2021
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177521 , vital:42829 , https://doi.org/10.3390/w13070976
Description: There is a growing scientific and engineering interest in exploring how natural processes can provide management solutions to resolve the degradation and vulnerability of coastal environments. Climate change and associated sea level rise together with drivers, such as subsidence, reduced sediment supply and coastal squeeze represent major risk factors for coastal systems sustainability. Using natural processes to deal with these risk factors presents a nontrivial challenge. This special issue focuses on nature-based solutions and state-of-the-art interventions in the coastal environment.
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Date Issued: 2021

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