Browsing Research Articles (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship) by Title

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  • Affective capital : Lagos and Nigerian music videos 
    Eromosele, Femi (Cambridge University Press, 2023-03)
    Lagos is a recurrent theme in Nigerian music videos. Eromosele examines this phenomenon in relation to the objectives of the music video and the musician’s star image. Various studies involving emotion and forms of capital ...
  • Africa alive corridors : transdisciplinary research based on African footprints 
    Linol, B.; Doucouré, M.; Anderson, J.; Toteu, F.; Miller, W.; Vale, Peter Christopher Julius; Hoffman, P.; Kerley, G.I.H.; Auerbach, R.; Thiart, C.; Meghraoui, M.; Dhliwayo, N.; Master, J.; Genin, F.; Dembaremba, T.; Van Heerden, Bertus; Unite, J.; May, A.; Mathias, P.; Minguzzi, M.; De Wit, T. (Springer, 2024-05)
    The idea of Africa Alive Corridors (AAC) evolved from Gondwana geological mapping to a comprehensive, more inclusive and dynamic approach to transdisciplinary research known as Earth Stewardship Science. Twenty designated ...
  • 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 ...
  • Anti-politics and free maternal health services in Kilifi County, Kenya 
    Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (Routledge, 2023)
    Maternal healthcare is a global agenda. Kenya introduced free maternity services (FMS) in 2013 to allow women to give birth for free in all government public health facilities. The introduction of FMS was timely due to the ...
  • Beilharz in South Africa – jottings 
    Vale, Peter Christopher Julius (Sage, 2023-12)
    No abstract available.
  • 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.
  • Bio-functional prospects of Moringa oleifera lam on meat quality : a review 
    Lungu, Nobuhle Sharon; Idamokoro, E.M. (Science Publications, 2024)
    Research done by scholars on the utilization of the different parts of Moringa oleifera Lam. in improving livestock performance and boosting meat quality has increased over the years in many nations across the globe. Moringa ...
  • Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems 
    Barrett, Christopher B.; Benton, Tim G.; Cooper, Karen A.; Fanzo, Jessica; Gandhi, Rikin; Herrero, Mario; James, Steven; Kahn, Mark; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Mathys, Alexander; Nelson, Rebecca J.; Shen, Jianbo; Thornton, Philip; Bageant, Elizabeth; Fan, Shenggen; Mude, Andrew G.; Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele; Wood, Stephen (Nature Research, 2020-12)
    Coupling technological advances with sociocultural and policy changes can transform agri-food systems to address pressing climate, economic, environmental, health and social challenges. An international expert panel reports ...
  • 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 ...
  • Can “the expanded free maternity services” enable Kenya to achieve universal health coverage by 2030 : qualitative study on experiences of mothers and healthcare providers 
    Ombere, Stephen O. (Frontiers Media, 2024-09)
    INTRODUCTION: Universal health coverage is a global agenda within the sustainable development goals. While nations are attempting to pursue this agenda, the pathways to its realization vary across countries in relation ...
  • Cancelling apocalypse by risking to envision 
    Valiani, Salimah (University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, 2023)
    No abstract available.
  • Chapter 26 - #RhodesMustFall and the reform of the literature curriculum from Part IV - Canon Revisions 
    Ogude, James (Cambridge University Press, 2023-11)
    This chapter uses the #RhodesMust Fall movement as a point of entry into the debate on decolonization of English in South African universities. The chapter reads striking similarities in the workings of monuments like ...
  • 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 ...
  • Constitutional environmental rights and state violence : implications for environmental justice in protected forests 
    Mushonga, Tafadzwa (Mary Ann Liebert, 2023-06)
    In this article, I examine environmental justice in a context where environmental rights legalize the subjection of people to harm resulting from conservation, first because the environment is privileged with constitutional ...
  • 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 ...
  • COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation 
    Barrett, Christopher B.; Fanzo, Jessica; Herrero, Mario; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Mathys, Alexander; Thornton, Philip; Wood, Stephen; Benton, Tim G.; Fan, Shenggen; Lawson-Lartego, Late; Nelson, Rebecca; Shen, Jianbo; Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele (IOP Publishing, 2021-09-21)
    The COVID-19 pandemic provides both a warning about agri-food systems’ (AFS) functioning and an accelerator for AFS innovation. It revealed both the increasing frequency of extreme events and structural shortcomings ...
  • Credit information sharing and credit access in Kenya : impact, perspectives and challenges 
    Magale, Eric Gwandega (Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2024-03)
    Credit bears great significance to people‘s financial lives. However, access to affordable, unsecured and formally provided credit remains constrained, particularly in the developing world, due to multiple factors. Sharing ...
  • The debt-austerity crutch : African elite agency in the fourth (US) cycle of accumulation of historical capitalism 
    Valiani, Salimah (Pluto Journals, 2023-10)
    For decades, African governments have cited debt servicing and international credit ratings as the reasons for continued policies of austerity. It is demonstrated here that though unjust and anti-developmental, as critics ...
  • Developing a green bond market in Kenya : perspectives from practitioners and lessons from developing markets 
    Magale, Eric Gwandega (Taylor and Francis, 2022)
    Green bonds have recently emerged as a financing instrument with significant potential for funding green projects. However, Kenyan issuers have been slow in issuing green bonds despite there being multiplicity of bankable ...
  • Dimensions and corollaries of violence in Zimbabwe’s protected forests 
    Mushonga, Tafadzwa; Matose, Frank (Elsevier, 2020-12)
    The militarisation of conservation is intensifying with increasing need to protect wildlife from poaching. Conservation violence is concomitantly escalating, so is the impetus to understand it. This article engages with ...