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Review of script displays of African languages by current software

, 2005
All recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web ...
Gee, Quintin
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Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa.

, 2007
PhDWhile not essential, the link between language and national identity is nevertheless often a highly important and salient one, a fact illustrated by the centrality of linguistic concerns in many nationalist discourses throughout the world.
Orman, J, Orman, Jon., Orman, Jon
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Stakeholder Perspectives on the Integration of African Languages in Higher Education Learning: A South African Case Study

Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa (1994), higher education has ex- perienced substantial demographic changes. Despite South Africa’s status as a multilingual country with linguistic diversity recognised by the Constitution, higher education ...
Wanga Gambushe
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Definitions of community‐level approaches to address substance‐related harms and lessons learned: A systematic overview of reviews

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community action focused on sociocultural and environmental influences to prevent alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and related harms is a global priority. Despite this recognition, understanding of effective community‐level approaches is limited.
Peter Gates, Andrea Zocco, Sara Farnbach
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Language rights, intercultural communication and the law in South Africa

, 2004
This article seeks to explore the present language scenario in courts of law. The article makes use of section 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), as a point of departure.
Ralarala, Monwabisi K, Kaschula, Russell H   +1 more
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Exploring the Burden on Patients Living With and Receiving Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Patient and Physician Perceptions From the ITP World Impact Survey (I‐WISh) 2.0

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited data exist on how patients and physicians perceive immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) symptoms and treatment‐related burden. I‐WISh (ITP World Impact Survey) 2.0 surveyed 1018 patients and 431 physicians in 15 countries to characterize the impact of ITP and its treatments on patients.
Nichola Cooper, James Bussel, Waleed Ghanima, Drew Provan, Yoshiaki Tomiyama, Ming Hou, Donald M. Arnold, Cristina Santoro, Francesco Zaja, Barbara Lovrencic, Mervyn Morgan, Michal Winograd, Jennifer DiRaimo, Danielle Boyle, Olivera Rajkovic‐Hooley, Meritxell Vendranas, Susan Frade, Caroline Kruse   +17 more
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The compilation of bilingual dictionaries between African languages in south Africa: the case of northern Sotho and Tshivenda

, 2010
Bilingual dictionaries between South African languages have existed for more than three centuries (Smit 1996: 232). These dictionaries have English or Afrikaans as the source language and an African language as the target language. There has never been a
K Mashamaite, Mashamaite, K
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Concerns for the Language Skills of South African Learners and Their Teachers

International Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
The language of instruction and learner achievement is directly linked. In South Africa many English teachers lack the necessary English language skills to teach English effectively.
Krugel, Rhelda, Fourie, Elsa
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A Global Prospective Harmonization Framework for Suicidality, Anhedonia, and Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms in Psychiatric Genetic Studies: A Cross‐Continental Study Within the Ancestral Population Network

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to prospectively collect harmonized, quantitative, and dimensional psychiatric phenotypes (suicidality, anhedonia, and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms) and information on discrimination, stigma, and unfair treatment in up to 27,500 individuals across diverse ancestries and clinical populations for genetic analysis within the NIMH
Ana M. Diaz‐Zuluaga, Jacey L. Anderberg, Ana M. Ramirez‐Diaz, Andrea Horvath Marques, Catherine E. Rast, Daniel Bustamante, Deborah Jonker, Johanna Valencia‐Echeverry, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Josselyn S. Muñoz, Kristien van der Walt, Mauricio Castaño Ramirez, Olivia Wootton, Renee M. Frederick, Rocky E. Stroud II, Ruben Gur, Sang Jin Rhee, Shaili C. Jha, Stella Gichuru, Susan Service, Victor I. Reus, Akena Dickens, Carlos Lopez‐Jaramillo, Carrie E. Bearden, Dan J. Stein, Ezra S. Susser, James J. Crowley, Jonathan Flint, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lukoye Atwoli, Michele T. Pato, Nelson B. Freimer, Roel A. Ophoff, Yong Min Ahn, Loes Olde Loohuis, Eric A. Storch, Bizu Gelaye   +36 more
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Issues in Scientific Terminology in African / Bantu Languages

, 2007
In 2006, the South African Department of Education initiated a pilot project in which the Matric or Senior Certificate papers for Science, Maths, Biology and History were translated into the nine official African/Bantu languages of the country.
Taljard, Elsabé
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