THE ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGER COMPETENCE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS: THE CASE OF A UTILITY COMPANY
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Theuns Blom, Herman Steyn, Taryn Jane Bond-Barnard
A project manager’s competency depends on the project’s complexity and includes a unique set of personal attributes and the ability to apply appropriate leadership styles. …
PTcomp: Post-Training Compression Technique for Generative Adversarial Networks
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Dina Tantawy, Mohamed Zahran, Amr G. Wassal
In a time of virtual spaces, the usage of generative adversarial networks is inevitable. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are generative deep-learning models that can generate …
Alternating Aerobic and Anoxic Conditions to Eliminate Sludge Accumulation in the Oxidation Ditch System
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Ahmed El-Morsy, Mohamed Ayoub
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the performance of an upgraded oxidation ditch (OD) system, which was designed and implemented to solve …
The Relationship between Organisational Culture and Job Satisfaction among Employees of Colleges of Education: The Ghanaian perspective
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George Kankam, Clement Afriyie Oppong
The association between organizational culture and job satisfaction among employees of Colleges of Education was the focus of this paper. The study’s main objective was …
Community health workers' involvement in mother–child care during the 1st year after birth, in Kaya health district, Burkina Faso: A contribution analysis
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Halima Tougri, Rachidatou Compaoré, Adja Mariam Ouédraogo
Introduction: Maternal and infant morbidity and mortality remain high in sub-Saharan Africa. However, actions to strengthen postpartum care are still weak and mainly limited to …
Pathogenicity and pathogenesis of a recent highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N8 in mule ducklings in Egypt
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Mahmoud M. Abotaleb, Ahlam Mourad, Esraa Fouad
Background and Aim: In late 2017, an H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, clade 2.3.4.4, was isolated from domestic ducks in Egypt, which was …
Spatio-temporal characteristics of Tuberculosis in Ghana
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Abdul‐Karim Iddrisu, Emmanuel A. Amikiya, Francis Kwame Bukari
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a key contributor to global mortality; ranks second as the most fatal infectious disease and seventh among the top ten causes …
Evaluating effect modification by HIV testing history to understand the mechanisms behind the impact of announcing HIV self-testing availability in a clinic system in Kenya
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Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Matthew L. Romo, Gavin George
Background In sub-Saharan Africa, truckers and female sex workers (FSWs) have high HIV risk and face challenges accessing HIV testing. Adding HIV self-testing (HIVST) to …
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
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Vivienne Bozalek, Nike Romano
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers,and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning(CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the …
An octo-aesthetic figuration for learning in times of crisis
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Delphi Carstens
This theoretical paper mobilises a multi-modal figuration – octo-aesthetics – to argue for a transversal approach to HE (higher education) pedagogies appropriate to times of …
Decolonising management education: An empirical study
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Conversations in South Africa around decolonising higher education since the 2015/2016 #RhodesMustFall movements have remained largely theoretical. Recently, much of the attention in many higher …
ASSESSING THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN SERVICE DELIVERY: THE CASE OF EKURHULENI METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY
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Calvin Naidoo
Local governments play an important role in the development of the livelihoods of local communities in South Africa. Local governments are responsible for the provision …
IOL Research’s Submission for WMT 2023 Quality Estimation Shared Task
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Zeyu Yan
This paper presents the submissions of IOL Research in WMT 2023 quality estimation shared task.We participate in task 1 Quality Estimation on both sentence and …
Can Clean Delivery Kits Prevent Infections? Lessons from Traditional Birth Attendants in Nigeria
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Adediwura Oladunni Arowosegbe, Iyabode Olabisi Dedeke, Olufunke Bolatito Shittu
Background: In resource-poor settings, perinatal infections contribute significantly to maternal and neonatal deaths, and the use of clean delivery kits (CDKs) has been proposed as …
In-Air Signature Verification System Based on Beta-Elliptical Approach and Fuzzy Perceptual Detector
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AbdulAzeez R. Alobaidi, Thameur Dhieb, Tarek M. Hamdani
Believing that biometrics trends are moving to distant and contactless mode, in-air signature verification is nowadays considered as one of the principal users biometric identification …
USABILITY OF VIRTUAL TOOLS FOR PARTICIPATORY ENTERPRISE MODELLING
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Anthea Venter, Marné de Vries
Participatory modelling (PM) is focused on actively involving enterprise stakeholders and modelling experts in the modelling process. Typically, participants are co-located and encouraged to collaborate …
FITNESS LANDSCAPE MEASURES FOR ANALYSING THE TOPOLOGY OF THE FEASIBLE REGION OF AN OPTIMISATION PROBLEM
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Nathan van der Westhuyze, Jan H. van Vuuren
Fitness landscape analysis has found numerous applications in industrial engineering, such as estimating optimisation problem complexity, predicting metaheuristic performance, and automating algorithm selection. In these …
Transforming healthcare with the synergy of biotechnology and information technology
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Leelakrishna Reddy, Segun Akinola
We explore the integration of biotechnology and information technology in healthcare innovation. The convergence of these fields has revolutionized diagnostics, therapeutics and patient management. Biotechnology …
Ontology-Driven Semantic Enrichment Framework for Open Data Value Creation
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Oarabile Sebubi, Irina Zlotnikova, Hlomani Hlomani
The CODATA Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal, publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data and …
Knowledge, Practices and Associated Factors to Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People of Cotonou, Bénin in 2022
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Sogbossi D Nancy Lee, Damien Barikissou Georgia, Badirou Aguèmon
Background: The sexual and reproductive health of young people is a public health priority, especially in developing countries such as Benin. The objective of this …