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    Uncovering the journey of building a community : a story of a global network for early-and mid-career women researchers
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024-08-06) Zheng, Gaoming; Kim, Mee Joo; Qi, Jing; Aarnikoivu, Melina; Bekova, Saule; Meki-Kombe, Charity; Shabdan, Baktygul; Tsephe, Lifutso
    In this chapter, we delve into our journey of establishing and nurturing a global network comprising early-and mid-career women researchers in the realm of doctoral education. Formed and sustained amid the backdrop of the pandemic since 2020, our endeavours of community building have acquired unique attributes, rewards and trials. We begin by tracing the evolution of our collective journey and the collaborative process that has shaped this network. This, in turn, will spotlight the driving forces and expectations that underpinned the birth of this international alliance tailored for aspiring mid-career women researchers. We also delve into the fundamental characteristics of the network and consider the benefits it offers to its members. Lastly, we will address the challenges the network faces, particularly regarding its sustainable development in the context of competitive, academic work environments
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    Integrating strategic human resource management practices for effective knowledge risk management in public enterprises
    (IGI Global, 2024-02-23) Phaladi, Malefetjane Phineas; Mhlongo, Patrick Mbongwa; Omarsaib, Mousin; Mpungose, Bongekile
    Knowledge loss risk is a serious and complex issue facing public enterprises around the world. The purpose of the chapter was to explore and present a global picture integrating strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices into knowledge management (KM) for the effective management of knowledge loss risk in public enterprises. In order to explore strategic human resource management practices and knowledge risk management in the extant literature, the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method was selected as a methodology to guide the data collection and analysis of the study. The research findings infer and point to very limited research in the global literature linking SHRM practices to KM for effective knowledge risk management. Such a relationship in research and practice remains blurry, despite the fact that the role of HRM in tacit knowledge risk management is inevitable. The findings of this chapter provide a valuable framework indicating distinct areas of interest that require further exploration in the current literature.
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    Challenges facing women in the mining area of Bojanala district of South Africa
    (IGI Global, 2021) Mafora, Gaontebale Audrey; Rena, Ravinder
    This chapter examined the Marikana Massacre and its effects on women of the deceased and those who sustained injuries. It also covers the challenges of the women in the Bojanala District of South Africa. The chapter also addresses the disparities and inequalities experienced by women in the mining industry. Forty women participants were part of the study. The data was gathered through questionnaires, oral interviews, and observations. The analysis revealed that more women were affected by the massacre and has deepened their level of poverty. The government provided interventions, but the findings revealed that the incident has left participants with scars, loss of income, and dissatisfaction. The chapter recommended some possible measures to improve the situation of women because of the Marikana Massacre and poverty in the area.
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    Investigating relationship between Accounting students’ learning style preferences and their academic performance at a University of Technology in South Africa
    (Taylor and Fancis Online, 2017-10-11) Cekiso, Madoda; Arends, Jeffery; Mkabile, Bulelwa; Meyiwa, Thenjiwe
    The purpose of this study was to explore the association between accounting students’ learning style preferences and their academic performance at an institution of higher learning in South Africa. Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI) was used to identify the learning style preferences of the first, second and third year accounting students. The students’ academic performance for accounting was based on the scores obtained in the final examination assessment component. A purposeful sample of first, second and third year students registered for a Bachelor of Education degree were used in this study. The findings indicated that the majority of the first-year students were the convergers whereas the results for the second and third year students revealed that the majority were divergers. The results further revealed that the relationship between first year students’ learning styles and academic performance was significant whereas there was no significant relationship between second and third year students’ learning styles and their academic performance.
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    Exploring the potential reservoirs of non specific TEM beta lactamase (blaTEM) gene in the Indo-Gangetic region : a risk assessment approach to predict health hazards
    (Elsevier, 2016) Singh, Gulshan; Vajpayee, Poornima; Rani, Neetika; Amoah, Isaac Dennis; Stenström, Thor-Axel; Shanker, Rishi
    The emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria is an important public health and environ-mental contamination issue. Antimicrobials of -lactam group accounts for approximately two thirds, by weight, of all antimicrobials administered to humans due to high clinical efficacy and low toxicity. This study explores -lactam resistance determinant gene (blaTEM) as emerging con-taminant in Indo-Gangetic region using qPCR in molecular beacon format. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) approach was adopted to predict risk to human health associated with consumption/exposure of surface water, potable water and street foods contaminated with bac-teria having blaTEM gene. It was observed that surface water and sediments of the river Ganga and Gomti showed high numbers of blaTEM gene copies and varied significantly (p < 0.05) among the sampling locations. The potable water collected from drinking water facility and clinical set-tings exhibit significant number of blaTEM gene copies (13 ± 0.44–10200 ± 316 gene copies/100 mL).
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    Optimal control intervention strategies using an n-patch waterborne disease model
    (Wiley, 2016-11) Collins, Obiora Cornelius; Duffy, Kevin Jan
    Waterborne diseases are an important concern in public health, especially in communities with limited access to clean water. Differ-ent community subpopulations can require different copping strategies for the same diseases. Modeling is one method to assist understanding and the development of effective strategies. To this end, we investigated the use of meta-population models with three types of control interventions: vaccination, treatment, and water purification. Important mathematical features of the model are determined and examined. Optimal control, applied to the model, is also formulated to determine the effective strategies to reduce the spread of the disease. For example, using optimal control, a four-fold reduc-tion in infected individuals is possible. The value of such an improvement to the communities involved would be significant.
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    Complete group classification of systems of two nonlinear second-Order ordinary differential equations of the form y′′=F(y)
    (Elsevier, 2017-03) Oguis, Giovanna Fae Ruiz; Moyo, Sibusiso; Meleshko, S. V.
    Extensive work has been done on the group classification of systems of equations in the literature. This paper identifies the gap in the literature which concerns the group classification of systems of two nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations. We provide a complete group classification of systems of two ordinary differential equations of the form, which occur in many physical applications using two approaches which form the essence of this paper.
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    Towards a comprehensive model of community-based tourism development
    (Taylor and Francis, 2016) Mtapuri, Oliver; Giampiccoli, Andrea
    Community-based tourism (CBT) offers both opportunities and challenges in the quest for holistic community development. The evolution and development of CBT projects can follow different trajectories. This conceptual paper’s main contribution is the formulation of a comprehensive model of the development of CBT. The model suggests that CBT projects can be initiated from within and outside the community by the private, public and non-governmental sectors or a combination of these using a top-down or bottom-up approach. It also posits that CBT projects can take a formal or informal character depending on the conditions leading to their initiation. The paper highlights the benefits and constraints to the scaling up or down of operations linked to informality. It supports further research in analyzing the various aspects associated with the shift from formality to the informality of CBT projects and vice versa and the relationship with CBT development and holistic community development.
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    Are ‘Albergo Diffuso’ and community-based tourism the answers to community development in South Africa?
    (Taylor and Fancis Online, 2016-05-26) Giampiccoli, Andrea; Saayman, Melville; Jugmohan, Sean
    Conventional mass tourism shortcomings have facilitated the origin of alternative forms of tourism such as community-based tourism (CBT). Lately, another form of tourism known as ‘Albergo Diffuso’ (AD) has also been mentioned as a possible strategy to revive depressed specific local contexts, such as townships, villages and small towns. This article’s aim is twofold: first to contextualise the concept of AD in the South African milieu and secondly to investigate the possible relationship and role that CBT and AD could have. In this context, specific characteristics and similarities between CBT and AD are explored. The article’s main contribution concerns the exploration of the AD concept as an alternative form of tourism related to local community development. This is the first time that this concept has been presented in a South African context.
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    Lost in transition: the lives of African lifeguards
    (Taylor and Francis Online, 2015-08-20) Hemson, Crispin
    A study of 11 African surf lifeguards in Durban in 1997, as they were entering employment on the beachfront, revealed their aspirations for a confident and respectable masculinity. A study of the remaining 10 in 2012 instead demonstrated the extent to which their transition into employment was caught up in violence. It is argued that three key elements contributing to this have been the racist hostility that undermined the sense of possibility, the strength and nature of peer-group relationships and a masculinity focused on the display of women and possessions. Thus, some lifeguards replicated the same patterns of violence that they had hoped to leave behind in the township, while others severed connections and left. Following Walkerdine, this underlines the significance of the relationship between space and affect and the role of safety in developing imaginative possibilities. In a context of continued structural violence, spaces need to be developed within which people can reflect on their lives and the transitions they are making.