• Sustainable vector/pest control using the permanent sterile insect technique 

  Anguelov, Roumen; Dumont, Yves; Yatat Djeumen, Ivric Valaire (Wiley, 2020-12)

  Vector/pest control is essential to reduce the risk of vector‐borne diseases or losses in crops. Among all biological control tools, the sterile insect technique (SIT), which consists of massive releases of sterile insects ...
• Modified annealing approach for preparing multi-layered hematite thin films for photoelectrochemical water splitting 

  Kyesmen, P.I. (Pannan); Nombona, Nolwazi; Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche) (Elsevier, 2020-11)

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• Assessment of renewable energy technologies in a standalone microgrid system 

  Adefarati, Temitope; Obikoya, G.D. (Trans Tech Publications, 2020-01)

  The rapid growth of the global economy has led to a high demand of electric energy and utilization of fossil fuels to meet the power demand. This has motivated the utilities or independent power providers to incorporate ...
• How team helping influences abusive and empowering leadership : the roles of team affective tone and performance 

  Smallfield, Jarvis; Hoobler, Jenny M.; Kluemper, Donald H. (Wiley, 2020-10)

  Leaders' perceptions of their teams are critical sources of contextual social information influencing leadership behaviors. In this paper, we extend affect‐as‐social‐information theory to understand how and why team helping ...
• Repositioning a country for global manufacturing competitiveness : a case of South Africa 

  Gates, Gareth Earle; Adetunji, Olufemi (Emerald, 2020-01)

  PURPOSE : This study aims to develop an artifact to measure the level of manufacturing competitiveness of a country in the global context and provide a suitable interpretation mechanism for the measured values, and to ...
• Only the largest terrestrial carnivores increase their dietary breadth with increasing prey richness 

  Ferretti, Francesco; Lovari, Sandro; Lucherini, Mauro; Hayward, Matt W.; Stephens, Philip A. (Wiley, 2020-07)

  Animals should adapt their foraging habits, changing their dietary breadth in response to variation in the richness and availability of food resources. Understanding how species modify their dietary breadth according to ...
• Serological evidence of chikungunya virus infection among suspected measles cases in selected regions of Kenya : 2008-2014 

  Kimata, Yvonne; Borus, Peter; Nzunza, Rosemary; Ofula, Victor; Chepkorir, Edith; Waihenya, Rebecca; Sang, Rosemary (Mary Ann Liebert, 2020-12)

  Chikungunya virus (family Togavirdae and genus Alphavirus) is an emerging and reemerging virus of public health importance both regionally and globally. In Kenya, about 50-60% of the suspected measles cases remain undiagnosed ...
• On the characters of Sylow p-subgroups of finite Chevalley groups G(pf) for arbitrary primes 

  Le, Tung; Magaard, Kay; Paolini, Alessandro (American Mathematical Society, 2020-05)

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• Stabilization of wholegrain sorghum flour and consequent potential improvement of food product sensory quality by microwave treatment of the kernels 

  Adebowale, Olalekan J.; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall); De Kock, Henrietta Letitia (Elsevier, 2020-10)

  Wholegrain sorghum flour (WGF) is sensitive to rancid off-flavour development during storage. Microwave treatment of whole grain kernels (WGK) at 36 and 90 kJ/100 g using a pilot-scale commercial microwave oven was ...
• Zoonotic tuberculosis—a call for an open One Health debate 

  Zumla, Alimuddin; Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy; Michel, Anita Luise; Azhar, Esam I.; Torrelles, Jordi B.; Cadmus, Simeon I.; Kendall, Sharon L.; Chakaya, Jeremiah M.; Marais, Ben; Kock, Richard (Elsevier, 2020-06)

  Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and affects both human and animal populations. Animal-adapted MTBC threatens the wellbeing of humans, animals, and their livelihoods. The ...
• Reframing personal and professional values: a substantive theory of facilitating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex youth-inclusive primary health care by nurses 

  Sefolosha, Annah; Van Wyk, Neltjie C.; Van der Wath, Anna Elizabeth (Routledge, 2020)

  LGBTI youth are prone to health-care inequalities and experience poorer health outcomes than the general population. Nurses are not always equipped to effectively respond to LGBTI healthcare needs. The aim of the study was ...
• Heat dissipation behaviour of birds in seasonally hot arid-zones : are there global patterns? 

  Pattinson, N.B. (Nicholas); Thompson, Michelle L.; Griego, Michael; Russell, Grace; Mitchell, Nicola J.; Martin, Rowan O.; Wolf, Blair O.; Smit, Ben; Cunningham, Susan J.; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Hockey, Philip A.R. (Wiley, 2020-02)

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• An augmented macroeconomic linear factor model of South African industrial sector returns 

  Szczygielski, Jan Jakub; Brummer, L.M., 1940-; Wolmarans, Hendrik Petrus (Emerald, 2020-11)

  PURPOSE : This study aims to investigate the impact of the macroeconomic environment on South African industrial sector returns. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : Using standardized coefficients derived from time-series factor ...
• Underspecification of the empirical return-factor model and a factor analytic augmentation as a solution to factor omission 

  Szczygielski, Jan Jakub; Brummer, L.M., 1940-; Wolmarans, Hendrik Petrus (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  This empirical paper comprehensively sets out the impact of underspecification on a key foundational concept in empirical finance, the linear factor model. It places emphasis on the extensive consequences of factor omission ...
• Migration in sub-Saharan Africa : the Somali refugee and migrant experience 

  Ibrahim, Ahmed; Malik, Aditi; Wielenga, Cori (Cambridge University Press, 2020-03)

  This forum contributes to debates on migration, displacement, and place-making in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. We bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to move the existing literature beyond the dominant ...
• Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from carcass swabs and carcass drips of chickens slaughtered in the informal market in Gauteng Province, South Africa 

  Adigun, Oluwatola; Gcebe, Nomakorinte; Jambwa, Kudakwashe; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale (Wiley, 2020-08)

  The study was conducted to characterize Staphylococcus aureus strains from swabs and drips of dressed chicken carcasses sold at outlets in six townships in the informal market in Gauteng province, South Africa, using ...
• Measuring learners’ perceptions of a team-taught learning environment: development and validation of the Learners’ Team Teaching Perceptions Questionnaire (LTTPQ) 

  Simons, Mathea; Coetzee, Stephen; Baeten, Marlies; Schmulian, Astrid (Springer, 2020-04)

  Team teaching is a teaching model in which teachers work collaboratively in the preparation, teaching and evaluation of a course. Literature suggests that team teaching potentially provides rich and varied lessons, increased ...
• Resilience and mental health : how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes 

  Ungar, Michael; Theron, Linda C. (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  More is known about the factors that predict mental disorder than about the factors and processes that promote positive development among individuals exposed to atypically high levels of stress or adversity. In this brief ...
• Listening effort in native and nonnative English-speaking children using low linguistic single-and dual-task paradigms 

  Oosthuizen, Ilze; Picou, Erin M.; Pottas, Lidia; Myburgh, Hermanus Carel; Swanepoel, De Wet (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2020-06)

  PURPOSE : It is not clear if behavioral indices of listening effort are sensitive to changes in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for young children (7-12 years old) from multilingual backgrounds. The purpose of this study was ...
• The South African government's response to COVID-19 

  De Villiers, Charl Johannes; Cerbone, Dannielle; Van Zijl, Wayne (Emerald, 2020-09)

  PURPOSE : This paper provides a critical analysis of the South African government's response to the COVID-19 crisis and its effect on state finances and budgets. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : The paper critically analyses ...

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