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A persuasive educational technology-based tool for motivating junior secondary school female students in Nigeria to enrol in STEM

Abdullahi, Aisha Muhammad (2024-05)

Background: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields have made significant contributions to our modern world's advancements. However, the number of women in STEM professions in Nigeria is overwhelmingly ...

A contextualized model for a persuasive technology mobile health self-monitoring system for diabetic patients in South African communities

Kgasi, Mmamolefe Rosina (2024)

Self-care for health is essential as a way to reduce the health inequality gap that manifests itself in a variety of ways. These include the lack of access to medical and food resources and other unmet daily needs. In ...

Modelling the critical success factors for evidence-based healthcare practice at a South African public hospital

Motsi, Lovemore (2023-07)

This study aimed to investigate the critical success factors for the adoption of evidence-based healthcare practice at a Dr George Mukhari Academic hospital (DGMAH). The updated DeLone & McLean's updated information systems ...

Assessment of the impact of renewable energy supply, carbon dioxide emissions, trade, and economic growth nexus on maize production from 1979-2021

Nevhutalu, Vhugala Charity (2024)

The economy most susceptible to climate change is the agriculture sector. Agricultural production is negatively affected by weather patterns and temperature which ultimately impacts the sector’s economy. Food insecurity ...

Assessment of the effects of climate change, renewable energy consumption, economic and population growth on sugarcane productivity in South Africa from 1972-2021

Ndaba, Nonkululeko (2024-01)

Sugarcane production in South Africa is influenced by several factors, including environmental dynamics (climate change, carbon dioxide emissions), consumption of renewable energy, population expansion, and economic growth. ...

Smallholder sugarcane producers’ perceptions and practices in bioenergy production in Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Mabila, Delisile Priscilla (2024-09-29)

Smallholder sugarcane production has an important role in promoting the participation of smallholder farmers in the bioenergy sector. There is not much which is known about smallholder farmers’ potential and willingness ...

A study of the advantages of teaching and learning in IsiZulu for early literacy development of mother-tongue speakers

Khumalo, Marcia Zamantungwa (2023-11)

This study explores the benefits of using isiZulu as the language of instruction for young children in South Africa’s Foundation Phase. The main objective was to understand how learning in their mother tongue enhances ...

The impact of renewable energy consumption, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and carbon dioxide emissions on soybean production in South Africa

Baloyi, Shiluva Faith (2024-03-07)

Soybean is one of the most significant global crops due to its high protein content and high-quality essential oils, therefore, it is used for food, energy, and animal feed, however, climate change threatens its productivity. ...

An investigation into the morphosemantic properties of derivation and inflection in Xitsonga

Shirindzi, Lebogang Steven (2024-09-19)

Tindzimi ta misava ti vumba marito ma tona hi ku tirhisa tindlela to hambanahambana. Yin’wana ya tindlela ta kona yi katsa ku tshula, mbuyelelo, vunembeleti, mpfelelo, ku lomba na tindlela tin’wana. Ndzavisiso lowu wu ...

Information literacy competencies and proficiencies of undergraduate students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Borteye, Edward Mensah (2024-01)

This study investigated undergraduate students’ information literacy competencies and proficiencies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The study set out to ascertain the different understanding ...

A framework for bridging the information services chasm in a rural setting without public library facilities

Boloka, Mamotshabo Johanna (2022-01)

Although people in rural communities require information on a variety of issues, there is a gap in access to information due to the lack of libraries in these outlying or peripheral areas. The inaccessibility of information ...

How to structure an essay

Diko, Andisiwe (2024)

The Open Educational Resource (OER) was created to support undergraduate students in Art History who struggle with academic writing. It is designed to teach them the basics of academic writing and what is expected when ...

Creating space(s) for voice in English academic writing through memoir writing : a case study of first-year students at an ODL university in South Africa

Maluleke, Sydney Fetsie (2024-11-16)

Expressing and developing their own voice in academic writing remains a challenge for first-year university students, particularly in Open Distance e-Learning (ODeL) contexts. Students’ limited linguistic repertoires and ...

Exploring South African high school learners problem-solving skills in Euclidean Geometry

Matsho, Stephens Kgalushi (2024-07)

This study investigated the effects of South African mathematics learners’ problem-solving errors in Euclidean geometry on their performance in matric mathematics paper 2 of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination. ...

"For whose pleasure is it anyway?": an ethnographic exposition on the gendered dynamics that shape the vaginal practices of women in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe

Dube, Linderrose (2024-11)

The treatment and care of the vagina and genital areas by women can potentially expose them to the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexual and reproductive ...

Shifting the geography of reason : psychology in black

Simango, Julia (2024-11-28)

This study deploys a theoretical intervention in liberation psychology, from a black point of view, by proposing a different mode of engaging psychology. The intervention is called psychology in black, and its methodological ...

Science teachers’ perspectives and prior practices for science centre visit: strategies development

Gumede, Lungile P.; Photo, Patricia (2024-12-19)

Abstract In ongoing science education, utilising informal learning environments such as science centres has emerged as a crucial strategy to enhance learners’ engagement and understanding of complex scientific concepts. ...

Predictive modelling of linear growth faltering among pediatric patients with Diarrhea in Rural Western Kenya: an explainable machine learning approach

Ogwel, Billy; Mzazi, Vincent H.; Awuor, Alex O. Okonji, Caleb; Anyango, Raphael O.; Oreso, Caren; Ochieng, John B.; Munga, Stephen; Nasrin, Dilruba et al. (2024-12-02)

Abstract Introduction Stunting affects one-fifth of children globally with diarrhea accounting for an estimated 13.5% of stunting. Identifying risk factors for its precursor, linear growth faltering (LGF), is critical to ...

Using pile-up collisions as an abundant source of low-energy hadronic physics processes in ATLAS and an extraction of the jet energy resolution

Aad, G.; Aakvaag, E.; Abbott, B. Abdelhameed, S.; Abeling, K.; Abicht, N. J.; Abidi, S. H.; Aboelela, M.; Aboulhorma, A. et al. (2024-12-04)

Abstract During the 2015–2018 data-taking period, the Large Hadron Collider delivered proton-proton bunch crossings at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV to the ATLAS experiment at a rate of roughly 30 MHz, where each bunch ...

Underlying-event studies with strange hadrons in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

(2024-12-29)

Abstract Properties of the underlying-event in pp interactions are investigated primarily via the strange hadrons K S 0 , Λ and Λ ¯ , as reconstructed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC in minimum-bias pp collision data ...

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