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Research Articles (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship): Recent submissions

  • Between Pretoria and George Goch Hostel : God in South Africa in 2015 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), 2015)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Land, indigenisation and empowerment : narratives that made a difference in Zimbabwe's 2013 elections 
    Magure, Booker (EISA, 2014)
    The 2013 harmonised elections held in Zimbabwe after the termination of the SADC- facilitated Government of National Unity elicited unprecedented comment following another resounding ‘win’ by the Zimbabwe African National ...
  • All is Number 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie; Levendis, Demetrius C. (Springer, 2013)
    Rational numbers, which correctly describe many recognizable patterns in the physical world, are often seen to converge in the process to irrational limits or even singularities. As a common example, atomic numbers are ...
  • Calculation of atomic structure 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    The Thomas–Fermi and Hartree–Fock calculations of non-hydrogen atomic structure rely on complicated numerical computations without a simple visualizable physical model. A new approach, based on a spherical wave structure ...
  • Covalent interaction 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    Reviewed in historical context, bond order emerges as a vaguely defined concept without a clear theoretical basis. As an alternative, the spherical standingwave model of the extranuclear electronic distribution on an ...
  • Molecular shape 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie; Comba, Peter (Springer, 2013)
    Molecular shape is recognized as an emergent property that complements the projection fromfour-dimensional space-time to tangent Euclidean space. Projection from hypercomplex algebra to real algebra necessitates the ...
  • Chemistry in four dimensions 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    Some chemical phenomena, awkward to rationalize, are argued to originate in the four-dimensional nature of matter in curved space-time. The problem is traced back to the separation of space and time variables in the ...
  • On becoming a psychologist in apartheid South Africa 
    Manganyi, N. Chabani (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2013)
    Clinical Psychology training is an arduous journey wherever in the world one pursues it. However, in apartheid South Africa, the experience of becoming a psychologist held its own unique challenges, especially if you were ...