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Health and Environmental Risks of Residents Living Close to a Landfill: A Case Study of Thohoyandou Landfill, Limpopo Province, South Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
The by-products of solid waste deposited in a landfill has adverse effects on the surrounding environment and humans living closer to landfill sites. This study sought to test the hypothesis that the deposition of waste on landfill has an impact on the ...
P. O. Njoku, J. Edokpayi, J. Odiyo
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The implementation of the progression policy in secondary schools of the Limpopo province in South Africa

, 2021
Globally, policy implementation in the education system has been found to be a challenging area of development. The South African education system is no exception to the ineffective implementation of policies.
M. Mogale, Mpho Modipane
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Employee’s psychological experiences with bank’s pay for performance system in South Africa

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
Orientation: Pay-for-performance (P4P) system is a crucial organisational strategy to retain and reward employees. However, it is not always well implemented.
Mautswa E. Nkoana, Mokgata A. Matjie
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The psychoanalytic exploration of the dangerous obsession with the Matric Results in South African High schools [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study is to argue that the obsession of teachers with obtaining good matric results is dangerous. The danger of this obsession is twofold, (i) as teachers ignore other school grades while focussing only on grade 12, they perpetrate a ...
Ramasela Phuti Mokgotho, Mohammed Xolile Ntshangase, Nkarhi Excellent Mathebula   +2 more
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Butanol Fraction Inhibits MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Migration, Adhesion, and Invasiveness

Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2021
In this study, the potential of an n-butanol fraction from Ricinus communis to prevent metastasis in MCF-7 breast cancer cells was investigated. The effect of the fraction on BUD-8 and MCF-7 cell viability was assessed using the MTT assay. Apoptotic cell
Rixile Mabasa MSc, Kholofelo Malemela MSc, Karabo Serala MSc, Mante Kgakishe BSc (Hons.), Thabe Matsebatlela PhD, Matlou Mokgotho PhD, Vusi Mbazima PhD   +6 more
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Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry, Jai K. Clifford‐Holmes, Carolyn G. Palmer   +2 more
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Original Research Parental experiences of stillbirth rituals in Limpopo, South Africa

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Background: Stillbirth remains a significant global health issue. Although extensive literature exists on burial practices for live births, there is a notable gap in evidence regarding the specific cultural practices related to the burial of stillborn ...
Lunghile Shivambo, Dumile Gumede
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Strategies to improve historically disadvantaged university staff’s wellbeing and administration of academic programmes during COVID-19: A descriptive survey study

South African Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought the world to a standstill, impacting negatively on human mortality and morbidity. Currently, most countries are on a national lockdown as a way of curbing the rapid spread of the virus.
Makgahlela, M. , Mothiba, T. , Mphekgwana, P. M. , Makhado, L. , Selepe, M. , Mokwena, J. P.   +5 more
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Factors associated with mortality in children under five years old hospitalized for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Limpopo province, South Africa, 2014-2018: A cross-sectional analytic study

PLoS ONE, 2020
Background In South Africa, 30.9% of children under five years with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) died in 2018. We aimed to identify factors associated with mortality among children under five years hospitalized with SAM in Limpopo province, South ...
Fhatuwani Gavhi, L. Kuonza, A. Musekiwa, N. V. Motaze   +3 more
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Evaluating machine learning models for multi‐species wildlife detection and identification on remote sensed nadir imagery in South African savanna

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
This research paper investigates the efficacy of leading machine learning (ML) models for detecting and identifying ungulate species in African savanna using nadir imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional aerial counting methods, while widely used, suffer from significant limitations in accuracy and precision, in part due to human ...
Paul Allin, Fadel Seydou, Radloff Frans, Andrew Davies, Alison Leslie   +4 more
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