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(Ubiquity Press, 2023-07-27)Data are vital for and creating knowledge-based solutions to development challenges facing Africa. As a result of gaps in government-funded data collection, and in the interest of promoting community engagement, there ...
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The experience of using virtual reality for interactive spatial visualisation of environmental data (CEUR-WS, 2023)Virtual reality possesses various properties that have the potential to be beneficial for the visualisation of spatial data, including intuitive gestural affordances for looking around and interacting with data and the ...
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(North American Business Press, 2023-02)Over the past decades, reported research have continuously alluded to the impact of “digital natives,” “millennials,” and a range of reported “generations,” and warned about the need to adapt across all spheres, including ...
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(Halmstad University, 2023)The field of competitive intelligence is growing as organisations are looking to increase their competitive advantage in a global society. As this field grows, so does the research and academic literature on this practice. ...
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(Wiley, 2023-10)Information horizons is a theory and method that embraces behavioral, cognitive and social aspects of information seeking, sharing, and use. As the first method originating in information science that uses a graphical data ...
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(Wiley, 2023-10)Many universities are now developing inclusive curricula with the intention that all students have an equal opportunity to achieve learning outcomes. But what in practice is an inclusive curriculum? This panel organized ...
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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : Needs for information literacy, disparities in society, bridging digital divides, richness of information sources in electronic (e-)environments and the value of dictionaries have often been propagated. To improve ...
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(Emerald, 2023-10)PURPOSE : This paper aims to examine the ways becoming information literate relates to the material objects in the Kente-weaving landscape. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An ethnographic research design was adopted wherein ...
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A comparative knowledge map of priority environmental issues and doctoral research in South Africa (Routledge, 2023)Researchers not only respond to a strategic direction; their discovery of emerging issues also make them accountable to guide policy reform. The alignment of environmental doctoral research with environmental-related ...
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(Association for Computing Machinery, 2023)Flipped classroom teaching approaches have increased in popularity in recent years. A common problem in these models is that students do not prepare properly for class. This study seeks to address this problem from the ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)The use of virtual reality (VR) has seen significant recent growth and presents opportunities for usein many domain areas. The use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) also presents uniqueopportunities for the implementation ...
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(Sage, 2023-10)Crisis-driven innovation is needed to manage a scarcity in resources. The recent COVID-19 crisis exacerbated the prevailing digital exclusion in the education sector in particular. Sudden changes in otherwise stable higher ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-02-15)There is an abundance of literature that informs menu system design, specifically for the context of a two-dimensional flat monitor display. These guidelines that are used to inform menu system design used in two-dimensional ...
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(Universita di Firenze, Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo, 2023-01-15)Peer review is an integral part of contemporary scholarly publishing, especially journal publishing. Work submitted by scholars from all parts of the world is subjected to it. This includes submissions by ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2022)This article focuses on various aspects regarding contextualization when e-texts are linked to integrated dictionaries. The article responds to a twofold problem statement: (1) Dictionaries linked to e-texts do not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study, comprising a case study at a selected South African research institute, focused on the creation of a workflow model for data rescue indicating the roles and responsibilities of the research library. Additional ...
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(University of Borås, 2021-06)INTRODUCTION. Pregnant women rely on information during pregnancy for better health outcomes. This paper investigates pregnant women's interests in services that can offer health literacy and health information through ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is quickly changing the world we work in, affecting not only what we do, but how we do it. One of several resulting problems is that actors across academia, business and government ...
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(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2021-07-12)Virtual reality has the potential to enhance a variety of real-world training and entertainment applications by creating the illusion that a user of virtual reality is physically present inside the digitally created ...
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(De Gruyter, 2021-02)The COVID-19 pandemic is an international public health crisis without precedent in the last century. The novelty and rapid spread of the virus have added a new urgency to the availability and distribution of reliable ...