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Psychology in Society, 2015 News headlines today scream of abuse, violence, intolerance, inequality, and moral bankruptcy. In South Africa, our violent history of apartheid and post-apartheid strife – including the recent xenophobic attacks that have gripped KwaZulu-Natal – highlight issues of physical and emotional anguish, fractured and displaced families, acting out around ...
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Conducting fit‐for‐purpose food safety risk assessments
EFSA Journal, 2019 The interplay between science, risk assessment and risk management has always been complex, and even more so in a world increasingly characterised by rapid technical innovation, new modes of communication, suspicion about authorities and experts, and ...
Yann Devos +8 more
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Fit for Purpose Community Mapping in South Africa
Architecture_MPS, 2020 Communal areas in South Africa invariably lack cadastre and other information needed for sustainable planning. Usually land ownership is unclear and only limited state capacity exists in providing basic services infrastructure.
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 In this paper, we present and discuss the principles, approach and provisions for a country implementation strategy for Fit for Purpose Land Administration in Uganda.
Moses Musinguzi +4 more
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Energy efficiency in shared buildings: Quantification of the potential at multiple scales
Energy Reports, 2023 The field of non-residential buildings is very heterogeneous. This results in a compartmentalized approach that prevents desired energy efficiency improvements from being achieved at a large scale.
Alessandro Franco +2 more
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Potential of rainfall data hybridization in a data-scarce region
Scientific African, 2020 Many impact assessment studies have been using reanalysis precipitation data as an alternative to observed rainfall data even where few rainfall records are available.
Frank Joseph Wambura
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Are Plant Functional Types Fit for Purpose?
Geophysical Research LettersFor over 40 years, Plant Functional Types (PFTs) have been used to discretize the ∼400,000 species of terrestrial plants into “similar” classes. Within Earth System Models (ESMs), PFTs simplify terrestrial biosphere modeling in combination with soil ...
Jon Cranko Page +3 more
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Fit for purpose? Clarifying the critical role of profit for sustainability
Journal of Political Ecology, 2020 This conceptual article contributes to the post-growth strand of political ecology literature, which seeks to find sustainable ways of organizing the economy that do not require economic growth.
Jennifer B. Hinton
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A “fit for purpose” framework for medical education accreditation system design
BMC Medical Education, 2020 Background Accreditation is a key feature of many medical education systems, helping to ensure that programs teach and assess learners according to applicable standards, provide optimal learning environments, and produce professionals who are competent ...
Sarah Taber +4 more
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Identifying fit-for purpose methods for monitoring fish communities
Frontiers in Marine ScienceScientific monitoring is a fundamental basis of scientific advice. Among others, monitoring aims at contributing towards understanding the influence of anthropogenic use (e.g.
Constanze Hammerl +2 more
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