Planning for the future: mapping anticipated environmental and social impacts in a nascent tourism destination
- Aswani, Shankar, Diedrich, Amy, Currier, Kitty
- Authors: Aswani, Shankar , Diedrich, Amy , Currier, Kitty
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145415 , vital:38436 , DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1020582
- Description: Tourism is a significant driver of social and ecological change in developing countries, particularly in small-island states, which are susceptible to tourism impacts due to their particular social and environmental characteristics. In this article we present a participatory mapping approach to obtaining spatially explicit local perceptions of future environmental and social change resulting from tourism development, as well as addressing the different community conflicts that may arise through the introduction of tourism in the future in a Solomon Islands community. The results show that spatial conflicts within a community over territory and associated resources are likely to occur when designing natural resource management and tourism development plans. This knowledge can help us increase the future sustainability of tourism in nascent small-islands destinations, particularly in vulnerable regions such as Roviana, which have experienced very little tourism development and will likely experience more in the near future.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Aswani, Shankar , Diedrich, Amy , Currier, Kitty
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145415 , vital:38436 , DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1020582
- Description: Tourism is a significant driver of social and ecological change in developing countries, particularly in small-island states, which are susceptible to tourism impacts due to their particular social and environmental characteristics. In this article we present a participatory mapping approach to obtaining spatially explicit local perceptions of future environmental and social change resulting from tourism development, as well as addressing the different community conflicts that may arise through the introduction of tourism in the future in a Solomon Islands community. The results show that spatial conflicts within a community over territory and associated resources are likely to occur when designing natural resource management and tourism development plans. This knowledge can help us increase the future sustainability of tourism in nascent small-islands destinations, particularly in vulnerable regions such as Roviana, which have experienced very little tourism development and will likely experience more in the near future.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Politics, latent and overt, in Hill of Fools
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7064 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007430
- Description: [From the text]: R. L. Peteni’s novel Hill of Fools (1976) is a work that benefits greatly when Collingwood’s maxim is observed. The author’s family history and the circumstances surrounding the book’s publication add a dimension of political and social meaning which its surface deliberately occludes. Perhaps more importantly, while the story can readily be enjoyed, the quality of sensibility behind the work is not readily accessed without understanding some of the socio-political background.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2004
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7064 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007430
- Description: [From the text]: R. L. Peteni’s novel Hill of Fools (1976) is a work that benefits greatly when Collingwood’s maxim is observed. The author’s family history and the circumstances surrounding the book’s publication add a dimension of political and social meaning which its surface deliberately occludes. Perhaps more importantly, while the story can readily be enjoyed, the quality of sensibility behind the work is not readily accessed without understanding some of the socio-political background.
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- Date Issued: 2004
Presidential Address
- Date: 1962-04
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33978 , vital:33171 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is a Presidential Address given by the notable IB Tabata at APDUSA's first National Conference.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962-04
- Date: 1962-04
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33978 , vital:33171 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is a Presidential Address given by the notable IB Tabata at APDUSA's first National Conference.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962-04
Pretopological and topological lattice-valued convergence spaces
- Authors: Jäger, Gunter
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6827 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012337
- Description: We show that the classical axiom which characterizes pretopological convergence spaces splits into two axioms in the general Heyting algebra-valued case. Furthermore we present a generalization of Kowalski’s diagonal condition to the lattice-valued case.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Jäger, Gunter
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6827 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012337
- Description: We show that the classical axiom which characterizes pretopological convergence spaces splits into two axioms in the general Heyting algebra-valued case. Furthermore we present a generalization of Kowalski’s diagonal condition to the lattice-valued case.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Quality by Design Optimization of Cold Sonochemical Synthesis of Zidovudine-Lamivudine Nanosuspensions:
- Witika, Bwalya A, Smith, Vincent J, Walker, Roderick B
- Authors: Witika, Bwalya A , Smith, Vincent J , Walker, Roderick B
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148424 , vital:38738 , https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12040367
- Description: Lamivudine (3TC) and zidovudine (AZT) are antiviral agents used to manage HIV/AIDS infection. The compounds require frequent dosing, exhibit unpredictable bioavailability and a side effect profile that includes hepato- and haema-toxicity. A novel pseudo one-solvent bottom-up approach and Design of Experiments using sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate 1000 (TPGS 1000) to electrosterically stablize the nano co-crystals was used to develop, produce and optimize 3TC and AZT nano co-crystals. Equimolar solutions of 3TC in surfactant dissolved in de-ionised water and AZT in methanol were rapidly injected into a vessel and sonicated at 4 °C.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Witika, Bwalya A , Smith, Vincent J , Walker, Roderick B
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148424 , vital:38738 , https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12040367
- Description: Lamivudine (3TC) and zidovudine (AZT) are antiviral agents used to manage HIV/AIDS infection. The compounds require frequent dosing, exhibit unpredictable bioavailability and a side effect profile that includes hepato- and haema-toxicity. A novel pseudo one-solvent bottom-up approach and Design of Experiments using sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate 1000 (TPGS 1000) to electrosterically stablize the nano co-crystals was used to develop, produce and optimize 3TC and AZT nano co-crystals. Equimolar solutions of 3TC in surfactant dissolved in de-ionised water and AZT in methanol were rapidly injected into a vessel and sonicated at 4 °C.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
Quality of life in Grahamstown, East London and Mdantsane: preliminary result
- Helliker, Kirk D, Bekker, Simon, Lambie, Eileen
- Authors: Helliker, Kirk D , Bekker, Simon , Lambie, Eileen
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144756 , vital:38376 , DOI: 10.1080/02580144.1981.10428933
- Description: A quality of life survey amongst residents of three Eastern Cape towns, viz. Grahamstown, East London, and Mdantsane, shows that the attitudes to home and neighbourhood which urban residents in the Eastern Cape develop, are fashioned in large part by both the residential “group area” in which these urban dwellers live, and by their socio-economic status. White residents, overwhelmingly, are satisfied with their diets, their municipality, their homes. They feel safe in their homes and are satisfied that police protection is available if needed. For black residents fear of poverty and unemployment, of physical violence, and dissatisfaction with an inadequate diet is widespread. Indian and coloured urban residents who are generally perceived as minorities in Grahamstown and East London, occupy an intermediate position. Their residential areas are sited close to predominantly low income black residential areas. Higher income Indian and coloured households show lower rates of dissatisfaction with diet, housing, and municipal services than the black community.
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Helliker, Kirk D , Bekker, Simon , Lambie, Eileen
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144756 , vital:38376 , DOI: 10.1080/02580144.1981.10428933
- Description: A quality of life survey amongst residents of three Eastern Cape towns, viz. Grahamstown, East London, and Mdantsane, shows that the attitudes to home and neighbourhood which urban residents in the Eastern Cape develop, are fashioned in large part by both the residential “group area” in which these urban dwellers live, and by their socio-economic status. White residents, overwhelmingly, are satisfied with their diets, their municipality, their homes. They feel safe in their homes and are satisfied that police protection is available if needed. For black residents fear of poverty and unemployment, of physical violence, and dissatisfaction with an inadequate diet is widespread. Indian and coloured urban residents who are generally perceived as minorities in Grahamstown and East London, occupy an intermediate position. Their residential areas are sited close to predominantly low income black residential areas. Higher income Indian and coloured households show lower rates of dissatisfaction with diet, housing, and municipal services than the black community.
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- Date Issued: 2012
Quantifying commercial catch and effort of monkfish Lophius vomerinus and L. vaillanti off Namibia
- Maartens, Lima, Booth, Anthony J
- Authors: Maartens, Lima , Booth, Anthony J
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125786 , vital:35817 , https://doi.10.2989/025776101784528999
- Description: Mark-recapture models do not distinguish how ‘‘deaths’’ accrue to marked animals in the population. If animals lose their tags, then recaptures will be fewer than expected and estimates of survival will be underestimated (Arnason and Mills, 1981; McDonald et al., 2003). Similarly, if the non-reporting rate is unknown and assumed to be negligible, as is the case in some tagging studies (e.g. Cliff et al., 1996, for white sharks Carcharodon carcharias), the probability of capture can be underestimated. The effects of both these problems, inherent in cooperative tagging programmes, lead to too few tagged fish being recovered, with a positive bias on the estimation of population size. These effects are most pronounced when capture probability is low and fewer tags are available for recapture (McDonald et al., 2003).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Maartens, Lima , Booth, Anthony J
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125786 , vital:35817 , https://doi.10.2989/025776101784528999
- Description: Mark-recapture models do not distinguish how ‘‘deaths’’ accrue to marked animals in the population. If animals lose their tags, then recaptures will be fewer than expected and estimates of survival will be underestimated (Arnason and Mills, 1981; McDonald et al., 2003). Similarly, if the non-reporting rate is unknown and assumed to be negligible, as is the case in some tagging studies (e.g. Cliff et al., 1996, for white sharks Carcharodon carcharias), the probability of capture can be underestimated. The effects of both these problems, inherent in cooperative tagging programmes, lead to too few tagged fish being recovered, with a positive bias on the estimation of population size. These effects are most pronounced when capture probability is low and fewer tags are available for recapture (McDonald et al., 2003).
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- Date Issued: 2010
Questions on wage policy
- Authors: Labour Research Services
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: Labour Research Services
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139460 , vital:37740
- Description: The question here is: should skill and training be rewarded with higher wages? If the answer is yes, how much extra should a worker get if he moves from a lower-skilled job to a higher- skilled job? How can divisions between workers be avoided? If the answer is no, how will the union be able to prevent employers from paying higher wages to skilled workers who are in short supply? Let us take the grade continuum as running from unskilled labourer to artisan. How many grades should there be in between? If there are many grades, confusion is likely as it will be difficult to tell the difference between one job and another. If there are too few grades, low-skilled workers will never move out of the bottom grade. In the iron and steel industrial agreement, there are twelve grades. In the clothing industry in Cape Town, twenty five different jobs are listed. Under the Paterson grading system, there are only nine grades between labourer and artisan. NUMSA has demanded that the number of grades in the auto industry be reduced from as many as eleven to only five.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1990
- Authors: Labour Research Services
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: Labour Research Services
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139460 , vital:37740
- Description: The question here is: should skill and training be rewarded with higher wages? If the answer is yes, how much extra should a worker get if he moves from a lower-skilled job to a higher- skilled job? How can divisions between workers be avoided? If the answer is no, how will the union be able to prevent employers from paying higher wages to skilled workers who are in short supply? Let us take the grade continuum as running from unskilled labourer to artisan. How many grades should there be in between? If there are many grades, confusion is likely as it will be difficult to tell the difference between one job and another. If there are too few grades, low-skilled workers will never move out of the bottom grade. In the iron and steel industrial agreement, there are twelve grades. In the clothing industry in Cape Town, twenty five different jobs are listed. Under the Paterson grading system, there are only nine grades between labourer and artisan. NUMSA has demanded that the number of grades in the auto industry be reduced from as many as eleven to only five.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1990
Radiocarbon dates and the Late Quaternary palaeogeography of the Province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6693 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006728
- Description: A total of 193 dates are listed from the Eastern Cape. Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers existed in the Drakensberg prior to the rigours of cold climatic conditions after ca. 22,000 BP. These uplands were reoccupied under more favourable climatic conditions after ca. 12,600 BP but were apparently abandoned between ca. 6000 BP and 3000 BP. Hunter-gatherer occupation throughout the Holocene is indicated at lower altitudes, with in-migration of pastoralists ca. 1800 BP in the Fish River area, and with Iron Age farmers entering coastal districts and adjacent river valleys from ca. 1400 BP. Sand dunes accumulated in the Holocene adjacent to the Indian Ocean. Flood plain development in the early Holocene was succeeded by incision of rivers in the later Holocene. Flood plain deposition began again in the Southern Drakensberg ca. 1000 BP. Palynological studies evidence marked climatic oscillations around the Late Glacial/Holocene boundary, with apparent stability at high altitude subsequent to 2700 BP.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2002
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6693 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006728
- Description: A total of 193 dates are listed from the Eastern Cape. Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers existed in the Drakensberg prior to the rigours of cold climatic conditions after ca. 22,000 BP. These uplands were reoccupied under more favourable climatic conditions after ca. 12,600 BP but were apparently abandoned between ca. 6000 BP and 3000 BP. Hunter-gatherer occupation throughout the Holocene is indicated at lower altitudes, with in-migration of pastoralists ca. 1800 BP in the Fish River area, and with Iron Age farmers entering coastal districts and adjacent river valleys from ca. 1400 BP. Sand dunes accumulated in the Holocene adjacent to the Indian Ocean. Flood plain development in the early Holocene was succeeded by incision of rivers in the later Holocene. Flood plain deposition began again in the Southern Drakensberg ca. 1000 BP. Palynological studies evidence marked climatic oscillations around the Late Glacial/Holocene boundary, with apparent stability at high altitude subsequent to 2700 BP.
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- Date Issued: 2002
Re-imagining Ourselves: Odyssey and Anthropology in the southwest Indian Ocean Islands
- Authors: Boswell, Rosabelle
- Date: 2013-07-24
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:570 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004363
- Description: How is identity reconstructed in places where oppression still lingers? This question has intrigued me for the past 15 years and I have sought to answer it by undertaking a voyage back to the Southwest Indian Ocean region, the place of my birth and space of incredible diversity and early globalisations. My proposed lecture discusses the politics of identity, as well as the influence of contemporary social phenomena on the islands, specifically international tourism and heritage management. I argue that the islanders are keen to re-imagine self and community so as to produce alternative identities, networks and sources of power in a still oppressive context – and that this process is vital to care, solidarity and the pursuit of social justice. Doing research in Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles and Zanzibar also revealed to me that anthropology is perplexing and rewarding, since it involves difficult ‘returns’, learning with others and seeing power where the apparently powerless reside. I conclude that being in the Indian Ocean region positively changed the way I perceive and experience fieldwork, and that my findings thus far, underscore the relevance of anthropology to contemporary Africans and their ‘cousins’ in the African Diaspora.
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- Date Issued: 2013-07-24
- Authors: Boswell, Rosabelle
- Date: 2013-07-24
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:570 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004363
- Description: How is identity reconstructed in places where oppression still lingers? This question has intrigued me for the past 15 years and I have sought to answer it by undertaking a voyage back to the Southwest Indian Ocean region, the place of my birth and space of incredible diversity and early globalisations. My proposed lecture discusses the politics of identity, as well as the influence of contemporary social phenomena on the islands, specifically international tourism and heritage management. I argue that the islanders are keen to re-imagine self and community so as to produce alternative identities, networks and sources of power in a still oppressive context – and that this process is vital to care, solidarity and the pursuit of social justice. Doing research in Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles and Zanzibar also revealed to me that anthropology is perplexing and rewarding, since it involves difficult ‘returns’, learning with others and seeing power where the apparently powerless reside. I conclude that being in the Indian Ocean region positively changed the way I perceive and experience fieldwork, and that my findings thus far, underscore the relevance of anthropology to contemporary Africans and their ‘cousins’ in the African Diaspora.
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- Date Issued: 2013-07-24
Recent progress in electrochemical oxidation of saccharides at gold and copper electrodes in alkaline solutions
- Torto, N
- Authors: Torto, N
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6599 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004348
- Description: This article reviews the progress made in the past 10 years, on electrochemical oxidation of saccharides in alkaline media for gold and copper electrodes. The mechanism and processes associated with the electrochemical oxidation of saccharides at native and surface coated electrodes continues to be of great interest. Despite the effort and various mechanisms proposed, still the need for an electrochemically active material that understands the complexity associated with saccharides continues to increase as their detection poses a challenge for bioanalytical chemistry and liquid chromatography.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Torto, N
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6599 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004348
- Description: This article reviews the progress made in the past 10 years, on electrochemical oxidation of saccharides in alkaline media for gold and copper electrodes. The mechanism and processes associated with the electrochemical oxidation of saccharides at native and surface coated electrodes continues to be of great interest. Despite the effort and various mechanisms proposed, still the need for an electrochemically active material that understands the complexity associated with saccharides continues to increase as their detection poses a challenge for bioanalytical chemistry and liquid chromatography.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Reform in defence of sovereignty: South Africa in the UN Security Council, 2007–2008
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161431 , vital:40626 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1177/000203970904400205
- Description: After 1994, South Africa became the sine qua non of an internationalist state, willing to promote cooperation amongst a plurality of actors, believing common interests to be more important than their differences. This raised the hopes of constitutionalists, and those who believed in the expansion of a liberal democratic peace. South Africa has acted out two seemingly contradictory roles: those of a reformer and those of a conserver. By 2007–2008 she had shifted towards the latter, conservative-reformist position. Thus, South Africa's voting record at the General Assembly expressed her overriding concern to regionalise African issues and minimise the US and the West shaping political events. This brought her foreign policy into sharper relief. But while in some sense successful, it came at a price: a controversy about her surrendering her internationalism and principles on human rights for African unity and traditional sovereignty. But it also marked the arrival of South Africa in the world of international Realpolitik.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161431 , vital:40626 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1177/000203970904400205
- Description: After 1994, South Africa became the sine qua non of an internationalist state, willing to promote cooperation amongst a plurality of actors, believing common interests to be more important than their differences. This raised the hopes of constitutionalists, and those who believed in the expansion of a liberal democratic peace. South Africa has acted out two seemingly contradictory roles: those of a reformer and those of a conserver. By 2007–2008 she had shifted towards the latter, conservative-reformist position. Thus, South Africa's voting record at the General Assembly expressed her overriding concern to regionalise African issues and minimise the US and the West shaping political events. This brought her foreign policy into sharper relief. But while in some sense successful, it came at a price: a controversy about her surrendering her internationalism and principles on human rights for African unity and traditional sovereignty. But it also marked the arrival of South Africa in the world of international Realpolitik.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Relationship marketing in retail banks: superannuated concept?
- Authors: Tait, Madele
- Subjects: Relationship marketing , Banks and banking , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20923 , vital:29418
- Description: All business is based on relationships. The firm only has to make them meaningful for its customers – provided that the customers want this (Grönroos 1994). Relationship marketing concerns the facilitation and managing of the relationships between the business and its customers and was developed as a response to the realisation that businesses were spending vast resources in time and money to attract new customers but very little on retaining existing ones. Relationship marketing is particularly relevant when a customer has alternative service providers to choose from, when the customer makes the selection decision and when there is an ongoing desire or need for a product or service, such as in the banking industry (Morgan & Hunt 1999).
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- Authors: Tait, Madele
- Subjects: Relationship marketing , Banks and banking , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20923 , vital:29418
- Description: All business is based on relationships. The firm only has to make them meaningful for its customers – provided that the customers want this (Grönroos 1994). Relationship marketing concerns the facilitation and managing of the relationships between the business and its customers and was developed as a response to the realisation that businesses were spending vast resources in time and money to attract new customers but very little on retaining existing ones. Relationship marketing is particularly relevant when a customer has alternative service providers to choose from, when the customer makes the selection decision and when there is an ongoing desire or need for a product or service, such as in the banking industry (Morgan & Hunt 1999).
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Researching mobile phones in the everyday life of the “less connected”: the development of a New Diary Method
- de Lanerolle, Indra, Schoon, Alette, Walton, Marion
- Authors: de Lanerolle, Indra , Schoon, Alette , Walton, Marion
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160413 , vital:40443 , DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1813785
- Description: This article introduces our mobile diary method, a qualitative method for the study of mobile phone practices. Adapted from the diary methods of psychology and media studies audience research, it is designed to foreground tacit and mundane data about everyday mobile phone practices. The diary interview reconstructs details of the social practices of everyday life that make up each participant’s “yesterday” and situates mobile practices within this account. To illustrate the method, we provide examples from our study, Izolo, that spanned three distinct South African neighbourhoods in different parts of the country and focused on less-connected people.
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- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: de Lanerolle, Indra , Schoon, Alette , Walton, Marion
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160413 , vital:40443 , DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1813785
- Description: This article introduces our mobile diary method, a qualitative method for the study of mobile phone practices. Adapted from the diary methods of psychology and media studies audience research, it is designed to foreground tacit and mundane data about everyday mobile phone practices. The diary interview reconstructs details of the social practices of everyday life that make up each participant’s “yesterday” and situates mobile practices within this account. To illustrate the method, we provide examples from our study, Izolo, that spanned three distinct South African neighbourhoods in different parts of the country and focused on less-connected people.
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- Date Issued: 2020
Resistance or tolerance: an examination of aphid (Sitobion yakini) phloem feeding on Betta and Betta-Dn wheat (Triticum aestivum)
- De Wet, L R, Botha, Christiaan E J
- Authors: De Wet, L R , Botha, Christiaan E J
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6517 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005945
- Description: Engineering pest resistance into crops is important. However, the mechanisms of resistance are not clearly understood. In this study, we examined the effects of aphid feeding on Russian wheat aphid-resistant and -susceptible cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); Betta-Dn and Betta, respectively, by the grass aphid, Sitobion yakini (Eastop). These cultivars were grown with or without aphid colonies. In each case, we examined the plants specifically for the formation of wound callose associated with the phloem, using aniline blue and fluorescence microscopy. We observed that aphid feeding stimulated the formation of wound callose in the susceptible cultivar, but that callose was comparatively reduced in the resistant cultivar of wheat. In a separate series of experiments, the xenobiotic, 5, 6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate was applied to attached sink leaves, distal to feeding aphids. When leaf segments were examined four hours after application, little evidence of phloem transport of the fluorescent cleavage product, 5, 6-carboxyfluorescein (5, 6-CF), was evident below known aphid-probed sieve tubes. Low levels or absence of 5, 6-CF indicates that either the aphids have successfully redirected sap to themselves, or that the phloem is no longer functional. In contrast, 5, 6-CF transport was evident below sites of aphid probing in Betta-Dn, suggesting that the phloem was still capable of long-distance transport. In addition, callose deposition was reduced in Betta-Dn leaf phloem and it is surmised that transport was not as affected by aphid feeding in the resistant cultivar. This indicates that the ‘resistant’ wheat cultivar may in fact be tolerant to aphid feeding by successfully overcoming the nutrient drain that feeding aphids imposed on the phloem transport system.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: De Wet, L R , Botha, Christiaan E J
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6517 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005945
- Description: Engineering pest resistance into crops is important. However, the mechanisms of resistance are not clearly understood. In this study, we examined the effects of aphid feeding on Russian wheat aphid-resistant and -susceptible cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); Betta-Dn and Betta, respectively, by the grass aphid, Sitobion yakini (Eastop). These cultivars were grown with or without aphid colonies. In each case, we examined the plants specifically for the formation of wound callose associated with the phloem, using aniline blue and fluorescence microscopy. We observed that aphid feeding stimulated the formation of wound callose in the susceptible cultivar, but that callose was comparatively reduced in the resistant cultivar of wheat. In a separate series of experiments, the xenobiotic, 5, 6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate was applied to attached sink leaves, distal to feeding aphids. When leaf segments were examined four hours after application, little evidence of phloem transport of the fluorescent cleavage product, 5, 6-carboxyfluorescein (5, 6-CF), was evident below known aphid-probed sieve tubes. Low levels or absence of 5, 6-CF indicates that either the aphids have successfully redirected sap to themselves, or that the phloem is no longer functional. In contrast, 5, 6-CF transport was evident below sites of aphid probing in Betta-Dn, suggesting that the phloem was still capable of long-distance transport. In addition, callose deposition was reduced in Betta-Dn leaf phloem and it is surmised that transport was not as affected by aphid feeding in the resistant cultivar. This indicates that the ‘resistant’ wheat cultivar may in fact be tolerant to aphid feeding by successfully overcoming the nutrient drain that feeding aphids imposed on the phloem transport system.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Rewarding tax compliance: taxpayers’ attitudes and beliefs
- Bornman, Marina, Stack, Elizabeth M
- Authors: Bornman, Marina , Stack, Elizabeth M
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61039 , vital:27931
- Description: In a society the tax climate is determined by the interaction between taxpayers and tax authorities. In a ‘service and client’ climate, taxpayers do not expect authorities to automatically suspect them of being tax evaders. Evidence suggests that recognising good tax behaviour with strategies of rewards has a positive effect on voluntary tax compliance. Principles derived from the cognitive evaluation theory predict that when feelings of competence are affirmed and this is accompanied by a sense of autonomy it can enhance the intrinsic motivation for an action. The present research surveyed the attitudes and beliefs of taxpayers involved in small business on being rewarded for tax compliance. Results were corroborated with the principles of the cognitive evaluation theory and it was found that that the principles of the theory are applicable to rewarding tax compliance behaviour.
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Bornman, Marina , Stack, Elizabeth M
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61039 , vital:27931
- Description: In a society the tax climate is determined by the interaction between taxpayers and tax authorities. In a ‘service and client’ climate, taxpayers do not expect authorities to automatically suspect them of being tax evaders. Evidence suggests that recognising good tax behaviour with strategies of rewards has a positive effect on voluntary tax compliance. Principles derived from the cognitive evaluation theory predict that when feelings of competence are affirmed and this is accompanied by a sense of autonomy it can enhance the intrinsic motivation for an action. The present research surveyed the attitudes and beliefs of taxpayers involved in small business on being rewarded for tax compliance. Results were corroborated with the principles of the cognitive evaluation theory and it was found that that the principles of the theory are applicable to rewarding tax compliance behaviour.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1955
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1955
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8089 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004399
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony in the Grahamstown City Hall on Friday , 1st April, 1955, at 8 p.m. [and] Graduation Ceremony held in April 1955: University College of Fort Hare. Graduation Ceremony. April 29th ,1955.
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- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1955
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8089 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004399
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony in the Grahamstown City Hall on Friday , 1st April, 1955, at 8 p.m. [and] Graduation Ceremony held in April 1955: University College of Fort Hare. Graduation Ceremony. April 29th ,1955.
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- Date Issued: 1955
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1960
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1960
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8094 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004409
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies in the University Great Hall on Saturday, 2nd April, 1960, at 11 a.m. [and] 23rd April, 1960, at 11 a.m.
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- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1960
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8094 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004409
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies in the University Great Hall on Saturday, 2nd April, 1960, at 11 a.m. [and] 23rd April, 1960, at 11 a.m.
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- Date Issued: 1960
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1991
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Relly, Gavin Walter Hamilton
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8125 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006750 , Relly, Gavin Walter Hamilton
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies Friday, 12 April 1991 at 8 p.m. [and] Saturday, 13 April 1991 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday, 18 May 1991 at 10.00 a.m. in the Guild Theatre. , The Installation of Gavin Walter Hamilton Relly as Chancellor of Rhodes University to be followed by a Graduation Ceremony Friday, 12 April 1991 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument.
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Relly, Gavin Walter Hamilton
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8125 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006750 , Relly, Gavin Walter Hamilton
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies Friday, 12 April 1991 at 8 p.m. [and] Saturday, 13 April 1991 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday, 18 May 1991 at 10.00 a.m. in the Guild Theatre. , The Installation of Gavin Walter Hamilton Relly as Chancellor of Rhodes University to be followed by a Graduation Ceremony Friday, 12 April 1991 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument.
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- Date Issued: 1991
Rhodes University Library Services Annual Report 2012 : Library Director's message
- Authors: Satgoor, Ujala
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7945 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011893
- Description: Library Director's Message: It gives me great pleasure to present the 2012 annual report of the Rhodes University Library Services. Since 2010 the staff have experienced a variety of impactful changes which included a new building, a new organisational structure, a new practice model and a change of leadership. Change refers to altering one’s approach or attitude; a process which enables transformation, becoming different or doing things differently. Peter Drucker defines innovation as “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” Therefore 2012 can be described as a year of engagement, conversations, consultations, reviews, participation, collaboration and redefinition. In addition to ensuring the delivery of professional services to the Rhodes community, strategy development, quality of service, continuing professional development, human resources management and national professional engagement defines this period. Therefore an effective organization must be prepared to grasp the opportunities, alongside the threats, by responding to the challenge of change to continue adding value to its defined audience. An innovative organization focuses on the following four significant areas: • Alignment of internal strategies to corporate/institutional goals and strategies • People, skills and roles • Defined workflows or processes • Cultural engagement and support The process towards crafting a new strategic directions and articulating an organizational culture commenced with a 2-day intervention on June 14-15 2012 which was facilitated by Dr Noel Pearse. This exercise proved to be an invaluable experience for the staff, who by taking ownership of the subsequent development of the strategic focus areas and the organisational culture statement, were able to articulate their thoughts, concerns, aspirations and expectations of their organisation. The four strategies identified will go a long way to strengthening and consolidating the RUL: • Positioning the RUL in the intellectual midst of the University community • Dynamic user services to advance the RU research, teaching and learning endeavours • Staff development • Technology and innovation The LibQual online library quality survey conducted during 13-31 August 2012 was a success, which surpassed our expectations. The comparison between the 2005 and 2012 results show a significant improvement in the perceptions of the RU community towards the quality of service, information resources and the library as place. This affirmed that the new Library building and Faculty Library liaison model are serving to locate the library positively in the academic endeavor. However while we savour these results, concerns have been raised about the lack of awareness and proper use of the wide array of electronic resources available. Therefore we will be focusing on a concerted marketing and training campaign to ensure that the subscription-based electronic resources are optimally used by the RU community, especially the academics. I wish to acknowledge the sterling and creative work of the team that led this project. We also bade farewell to Ms Jeanne Berger, who was the former Deputy Director and Acting Director in April 2012. Together with the former Director, Gwenda Thomas, Jeanne drove the reconstruction and renewal project of the RUL. I acknowledge both Gwenda and Jeanne, the University Management and all those who contributed to the realisation of the vision of a modern 21st century academic library.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Satgoor, Ujala
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7945 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011893
- Description: Library Director's Message: It gives me great pleasure to present the 2012 annual report of the Rhodes University Library Services. Since 2010 the staff have experienced a variety of impactful changes which included a new building, a new organisational structure, a new practice model and a change of leadership. Change refers to altering one’s approach or attitude; a process which enables transformation, becoming different or doing things differently. Peter Drucker defines innovation as “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” Therefore 2012 can be described as a year of engagement, conversations, consultations, reviews, participation, collaboration and redefinition. In addition to ensuring the delivery of professional services to the Rhodes community, strategy development, quality of service, continuing professional development, human resources management and national professional engagement defines this period. Therefore an effective organization must be prepared to grasp the opportunities, alongside the threats, by responding to the challenge of change to continue adding value to its defined audience. An innovative organization focuses on the following four significant areas: • Alignment of internal strategies to corporate/institutional goals and strategies • People, skills and roles • Defined workflows or processes • Cultural engagement and support The process towards crafting a new strategic directions and articulating an organizational culture commenced with a 2-day intervention on June 14-15 2012 which was facilitated by Dr Noel Pearse. This exercise proved to be an invaluable experience for the staff, who by taking ownership of the subsequent development of the strategic focus areas and the organisational culture statement, were able to articulate their thoughts, concerns, aspirations and expectations of their organisation. The four strategies identified will go a long way to strengthening and consolidating the RUL: • Positioning the RUL in the intellectual midst of the University community • Dynamic user services to advance the RU research, teaching and learning endeavours • Staff development • Technology and innovation The LibQual online library quality survey conducted during 13-31 August 2012 was a success, which surpassed our expectations. The comparison between the 2005 and 2012 results show a significant improvement in the perceptions of the RU community towards the quality of service, information resources and the library as place. This affirmed that the new Library building and Faculty Library liaison model are serving to locate the library positively in the academic endeavor. However while we savour these results, concerns have been raised about the lack of awareness and proper use of the wide array of electronic resources available. Therefore we will be focusing on a concerted marketing and training campaign to ensure that the subscription-based electronic resources are optimally used by the RU community, especially the academics. I wish to acknowledge the sterling and creative work of the team that led this project. We also bade farewell to Ms Jeanne Berger, who was the former Deputy Director and Acting Director in April 2012. Together with the former Director, Gwenda Thomas, Jeanne drove the reconstruction and renewal project of the RUL. I acknowledge both Gwenda and Jeanne, the University Management and all those who contributed to the realisation of the vision of a modern 21st century academic library.
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- Date Issued: 2013