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  • Germany and reparations : the reconciliation agreement with Namibia 
    Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2022)
    In 2015 Germany admitted that the warfare in its colony South West Africa was tantamount to genocide. Bilateral negotiations with the Namibian government resulted in May 2021 in a so-called reconciliation agreement. This ...
  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands 
    Maestre, Fernando T.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Eldridge, David J.; Saiz, Hugo; Berdugo, Miguel; Gozalo, Beatriz; Ochoa, Victoria; Guirado, Emilio; Garcia-Gomez, Miguel; Valencia, Enrique; Gaitan, Juan J.; Asensio, Sergio; Mendoza, Betty J.; Plaza, Cesar; Diaz-Martinez, Paloma; Rey, Ana; Hu, Hang-Wei; He, Ji-Zheng; Wang, Jun-Tao; Lehmann, Anika; Rillig, Matthias C.; Cesarz, Simone; Eisenhauer, Nico; Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime; Moreno-Jimenez, Eduardo; Sala, Osvaldo; Abedi, Mehdi; Ahmadian, Negar; Alados, Concepcion L.; Aramayo, Valeria; Amghar, Fateh; Arredondo, Tulio; Ahumada, Rodrigo J.; Bahalkeh, Khadijeh; Ben Salem, Farah; Blaum, Niels; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Bowker, Matthew A.; Bran, Donaldo; Bu, Chongfeng; Canessa, Rafaella; Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P.; Castro, Helena; Castro, Ignacio; Castro-Quezada, Patricio; Chibani, Roukaya; Conceicao, Abel A.; Currier, Courtney M.; Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony; Deak, Balazs; Donoso, David A.; Dougill, Andrew J.; Duran, Jorge; Erdenetsetseg, Batdelger; Espinosa, Carlos I.; Fajardo, Alex; Farzam, Mohammad; Ferrante, Daniela; Frank, Anke S.K.; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Gherardi, Laureano A.; Greenville, Aaron C.; Guerra, Carlos A.; Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth; Hernandez-Hernandez, Rosa M.; Holzel, Norbert; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Hughes, Frederic M.; Jadan-Maza, Oswaldo; Jeltsch, Florian; Jentsch, Anke; Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Kobel, Melanie; Koopman, Jessica E.; Leder, Cintia V.; Linstadter, Anja; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Li, Xinkai; Liancourt, Pierre; Liu, Jushan; Louw, Michelle Anne; Maggs‑Kolling, Gillian; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Issa, Oumarou Malam; Manzaneda, Antonio J.; Marais, Eugene; Mora, Juan P.; Moreno, Gerardo; Munson, Seth M.; Nunes, Alice; Oliva, Gabriel; Onatibia, Gaston R.; Peter, Guadalupe; Pivari, Marco O.D.; Pueyo, Yolanda; Quiroga, R. Emiliano; Rahmanian, Soroor; Reed, Sasha C.; Rey, Pedro J.; Richard, Benoit; Rodriguez, Alexandra; Rolo, Victor; Rubalcaba, Juan G.; Ruppert, Jan C.; Salah, Ayman; Schuchardt, Max A.; Spann, Sedona; Stavi, Ilan; Stephens, Colton R.A.; Swemmer, Anthony M.; Teixido, Alberto L.; Thomas, Andrew D.; Throop, Heather L.; Tielborger, Katja; Travers, Samantha; Val, James; Valko, Orsolya; Van den Brink, Liesbeth; Ayuso, Sergio Velasco; Velbert, Frederike; Wamiti, Wanyoike; Wang, Deli; Wang, Lixin; Wardle, Glenda M.; Yahdjian, Laura; Zaady, Eli; Zhang, Yuanming; Zhou, Xiaobing; Singh, Brajesh K.; Gross, Nicolas (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022-11)
    Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may ...
  • Analysing the impact of Brexit on global uncertainty using functional linear regression with point of impact: the role of currency and equity markets 
    Mangisa, Siphumlile; Das, Sonali; Gupta, Rangan (World Scientific Publishing, 2022-06)
    This paper studies the relationship between monthly economic uncertainty of 20 advanced and emerging markets, and two daily covariates, i.e., exchange rate and stock index, with particular emphasis on the relationship ...
  • Resource allocation for the realisation of women’s rights : building on previous gender budgeting initiatives in South Africa 
    Budoo, Ashwanee (Taylor and Francis, 2023)
    South Africa has ratified several international instruments that impose an obligation on the country to allocate sufficient budgetary resources to realise women’s rights. Gender budgeting has been recognised as a means ...
  • In vitro fecal fermentation of indigestible residues from heat-moisture treated maize meal and maize starch with stearic acid 
    Asare, Isaac Kwabena; Palaniappan, Ayyappan; Jungles, Thaisa Moro Cantu; Hamaker, Bruce R.; Emmambux, Mohammad Naushad (Wiley, 2022-07)
    The effect of resistant starch type 5 (amylose-lipid complex, ALC) from maize starch and maize meal on short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) production by in-vitro human faecal fermentation are determined. The maize starch and ...
  • A multiphased cultural and contextual adaptation of the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status tools for a low-income community : a South African case study 
    Botes, Mignon; Van der Linde, Jeannie; Swanepoel, De Wet (Wiley, 2023-07)
    INTRODUCTION : Culturally relevant developmental screening is one of the best ways to appropriately identify developmental delays and disabilities in children as early as possible across diverse cultural backgrounds. This ...
  • Groups with a given number of nonpower subgroups 
    Anabanti, C.S. (Chimere); Hart, S.B. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-10)
    No group has exactly one or two nonpower subgroups. We classify groups containing exactly three nonpower subgroups and show that there is a unique finite group with exactly four nonpower subgroups. Finally, we show that ...
  • Reliability and concurrent validity of a cultural adaptation and Northern Sotho translation of the M-CHAT-R/F 
    Vorster, Carlien; Kritzinger, Alta; Coetser, Lovina E.; Van der Linde, Jeannie (Sage, 2023)
    Currently, no culturally and linguistically adapted autism screening tools are available in South Africa. The aim was to determine the reliability and concurrent validity of the adapted English and Northern Sotho–translated ...
  • Nonlinear model predictive control for improved water recovery and throughput stability for tailings reprocessing 
    Burchell, J.J.; Le Roux, Johan Derik; Craig, Ian Keith (Elsevier, 2023-02)
    The reprocessing of tailings aims to recover residual wealth, reclaim or rehabilitate valuable land, or mitigate safety and environmental risks. These aims all support environmental, social, and governance measures that ...
  • Symmetric and asymmetric effects of financial deepening on income inequality in South Africa 
    Biyase, Mduduzi; Chisadza, Carolyn (Routledge, 2023)
    The aim of this study is to examine the financial development-inequality nexus in South Africa from 1980 to 2017, specifically if financial deepening reduces income inequality. The initial results indicate a positive ...
  • Disentangled oil shocks and stock market volatility in Nigeria and South Africa : a GARCH-MIDAS approach 
    Tumala, Mohammed M.; Salisu, Afees A.; Gambo, Ali I. (Elsevier, 2023-06)
    In this study, we investigate the effects of disentangled oil shocks on the volatility of the stock markets of Nigeria and South Africa using the Mixed Data Sampling variant of the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional ...
  • The role of incentive structure in eliciting willingness to donate 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Elsevier, 2023-03)
    The monetary incentives provided to participants lie at the heart of controversies in experimental economics. In the literature, opinions differ about the required structure and importance of incentives. This study compares ...
  • Do community perceptions of forest management and conservation vary across wealth groups? The case of the Kilosa REDD + initiative in Tanzania 
    Uisso, Amani J.; Chirwa, Paxie W.; Ackerman, Pierre A.; Bakengesa, Siima S. (Springer, 2023-04)
    Various community groups tend to interact with their environments differently. Understanding how forest dwelling communities interact with their environment provides important insights for promoting sustainable forest ...
  • Conservation of evolutionary patterns and processes in the Maloti minnow, Pseudobarbus quathlambae (Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrini), a narrow-range stream fish imperiled by water transfer scheme developments in the Lesotho Highlands 
    Swartz, Ernst R.; Braganca, Pedro H.N.; Rall, Johannes L.; Kubheka, Skhumbuzo P.; Bloomer, Paulette; Skelton, Paul H.; Chakona, Albert (Springer, 2023-01)
    Pseudobarbus quathlambae (Barnard, 1938) is a cyprinid minnow with a disjunct distribution divided into tributaries of the Upper Orange River system in the Lesotho Highlands and the Mzimkhulu River system in KwaZulu Natal ...
  • Forecasting national recessions of the United States with state-level climate risks : evidence from model averaging in Markov-switching models 
    Cepni, Oguzhan; Christou, Christina; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2023-06)
    This paper utilizes Bayesian (static) model averaging (BMA) and dynamic model averaging (DMA) incorporated into Markov-switching (MS) models to forecast business cycle turning points of the United States (US) with state-level ...
  • Prosocial motives of solar entrepreneurs combating energy poverty in South Africa 
    Akinboade, Oludele Akinloye; Taft, Trevor; Weber, Johann Friedrich; Ngoepe-Ntsoane, Mokgadi; Molobi, Victor Sannyboy (Wiley, 2023-09)
    his study seeks to examine the prosocial motives of solar energy entrepreneurs as they generate energy to combat energy poverty in South Africa. Using a qualitative research method, data, in words of survey participants, ...
  • Codegrees and element orders of almost simple groups 
    Madanha, Sesuai Yasha (Taylor and Francis, 2023)
    G. Qian proposed a conjecture which states that if an element of a finite group G has order a, then there exists an irreducible character of codegree b of G such that a divides b. He showed that the conjecture holds for ...
  • Developing and utilizing coopetitive relationships : evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Zulu-Chisanga, Stella; Oghazi, Pejvak; Hultman, Magnus; Leonidou, Constantinos N.; Boso, Nathaniel (Elsevier, 2023-11)
    The study proposes the notion of coopetition capability as an ability to cooperate and compete with rival firms simultaneously. We draw on the tenets of the resource-based and dynamic capability theories as well as insights ...
  • Public infrastructure provision and ethnic favouritism : evidence from South Africa 
    Walters, Leone; Bittencourt, Manoel; Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2023-01)
    Does coethnicity with the President affect public infrastructure provision in South Africa? Using municipal-level data for 52 district municipalities from 1996 to 2016, we find that municipalities coethnic with the President ...
  • Forms of capital and the creation of jobs by immigrant-owned businesses in southern Africa 
    Eresia-Eke, Chukuakadibia E.; Okerue, Chijioke (World Scientific Publishing, 2022-04)
    This study explores the relationships that human, economic and social capital may have with the creation of employment in small businesses that belong to African immigrants. Based on a cross-country approach, the study ...