Pedagogical Practices in Teaching SiSwati as a First Language in Diverse Linguistic Settings
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Tholakele Constance Mngometulu, Connie Makgabo
This article reports on pedagogical practices in teaching SiSwati as a first language (SL1) in diverse linguistic settings of Eswatini. In response to educational research …
Finding Authentic Counterhate Arguments: A Case Study with Public Figures
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Abdullah Albanyan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Eduardo Blanco
We explore authentic counterhate arguments for online hateful content toward individuals.Previous efforts are limited to counterhate to fight against hateful content toward groups.Thus, we present …
Qamosy at Arabic Reverse Dictionary shared task: Semi Decoder Architecture for Reverse Dictionary with SBERT Encoder
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Serry Sibaee, Samar Ahmad, Ibrahim Khurfan
A reverse dictionary takes a descriptive phrase of a particular concept and returns words with definitions that align with that phrase.While many reverse dictionaries cater …
ADOPTIVE PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF SUPPORT FROM SOCIAL WORKERS AND INFORMAL NETWORKS DURING THE ADOPTION PROCESS
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Roxanne Groger, Raisuyah Bhagwan
Prospective adoptive parents require a considerable amount of support from social workers as well as from other support systems during the adoption process. The purpose …
First record of freshwater planarian Girardia sinensis Chen & Wang, 2015 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in South Africa
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Jane Trembath, Pindiwe Ntloko, Abigail P. Kirkaldy
The occurrence of the alien freshwater planarian Girardia sinensis Chen & Wang, 2015 is reported for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa.This species is a …
A HYBRID PUSH/PULL SYSTEM IN AN SME BAKERY IN JOHANNESBURG
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F.I. Masanabo, Sabrina Chatur
Bakery X is a small business in Johannesburg, South Africa that produces baked goods and sells these directly to the end customer. Bakery X has …
Design of an Automated Admission Ranking Information System (AARISYS)
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Yamusa J Samuel, Rabi Mustapha
A Decision Support System (DSS) is a useful information systems tool that supports decision-making as it aids institutional admission committees in effective and efficient decision-making. …
RESILIENCE OF SOCIAL AUXILIARY WORKERS: DEFINED BY STRENGTHS AND COPING ABILITIES
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Anje Crocker, Lizane Wilson
Resilience has been identified as a protective factor that improves the ability to manage stress, promotes wellbeing and enables individuals to thrive in adverse circumstances. …
Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Survey Results for SMEs Across Six Developing Countries
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Yiagadeesen Samy, Adeniran Adedeji, Augustine Iraoya
Abstract In this chapter, the authors present and discuss the survey data on trade and women’s economic empowerment that was collected for this project in …
Independent Schools in South Africa: Acculturation of Zimbabwean Immigrant Teachers
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Tshatiwa Makula
Abstract South Africa, which offers relative political stability and prosperity, has always been a major destination country for a large flow of people seeking better …
FOSTER CARE: YES OR NO? THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES OF SOCIAL WORKERS RENDERING FOSTER CARE SERVICES
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Pathamavathy Naicker, Petro Botha
Decisions made by social workers play a crucial role in foster care. Despite the challenging conditions under which social workers work in South Africa, they …
Localising the Mozilla Common Voice platform for South Africa’s official languages
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Febe de Wet, Andiswa Bukula, Willem Karsten
Despite many attempts to address the situation, South Africa's official languages remain under-resourced in terms of the text and speech data required to implement state-of-the-art …
Creating electronic resources for African languages through digitisation: a technical report
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Elsabé Taljard, Danie Prinsloo, Michelle Goosen
The need for electronic resources for (under-resourced) African languages is an often stated one. These resources are needed for language research in general, and more …
A Lexical database of Malagsay adjectives
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Joro Ranaivoarison
This paper deals with an electronic resource under construction. The objective is to construct a lexical database of Malagasy adjectives. Malagasy is an agglutinative language …
Perceptions of COVID-19 among frontline health workers in Burkina Faso
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Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Kadidiatou Kadio, Télésphore Some
Introduction: In Burkina Faso, the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in March 2020. Health personnel are on the front line of COVID-19 control, and …
Impact of dry deposition flux and dust intrusion phenomena on elemental concentrations of air particulate matter
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Abdallah M. A. Dawood, Eric Akortia, Sultan J. Alsufyani
Depositions of trace elements of air particulates in the atmosphere have gained much attention in recent times due to their environmental, climatic and health impacts. …
Development of a prediction model for the behavior of bolted structure with an elastic part joint based on metamodel approach
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Mohammed Haiek, Yassine Lakhal, Said Ben
This paper aims to establish a metamodel for predicting the mechanical behavior of bolted structures with elastic parts, regardless the changes in input parameters from …
The bayesian approach of factors associated with preterm birth among mothers delivered at public hospitals in Southeast Ethiopia
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Yilkal Negesse, Gossa Fetene Abebe
Background: Preterm birth remains the commonest cause of neonatal mortality, and morbidity represents one of the principal targets of neonatal healthcare. Ethiopia is one of …
Analysing Cross-Lingual Transfer in Low-Resourced African Named Entity Recognition
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Michael Beukman, Manuel Fokam
Michael Beukman, Manuel Fokam. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the …
A reflection on critical reflection in professional education research
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Christine Winberg, James Garraway, Penelope Engel‐Hills
The roots of universities of technology can be traced back to technical colleges, which required compliance with industry standards, and the rule of labour markets. …