Small-scale insights into the above- and below-ground invasion dynamics of Parthenium hysterophorus in a South African savanna: The potential role of stocking rate

2022 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Blair W. Cowie ◽  
Marcus J. Byrne ◽  
Ed T.F. Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Parthenium Hysterophorus ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Stocking Rate ◽  
African Savanna ◽  
Invasion Dynamics ◽  
Below Ground

scholarly journals The Potential Role of Regulatory Genes (DNMT3A, HDAC5, and HDAC9) in Antipsychotic Treatment Response in South African Schizophrenia Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Sean O’Connell ◽  
Nathaniel Wade McGregor ◽  
Robin Emsley ◽  
Soraya Seedat ◽  
Louise Warnich
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Response ◽  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Regulatory Genes ◽  
Antipsychotic Treatment

A sociolinguistic approach to implicit language attitudes towards historically white English accents among young L1 South African indigenous language speakers

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (260) ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera ◽  
Alejandro Marín-Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Language Exposure ◽  
Accented English ◽  
Type Of School

Abstract This study investigates the potential role of context-relevant sociolinguistic factors in explaining young L1 indigenous South African language speakers’ IAT (Implicit Association Test) scores towards two varieties largely associated with the white group: Standard South African English and Afrikaans accented English. To this end, a post-IAT sociolinguistic survey on participants’ linguistic background, language exposure and intergroup social distance levels (among other social factors) was used. Separate ANOVAS were performed using the IAT reaction times as a dependent variable and sociolinguistic variables as factors. Notably, the sociolinguistic approach revealed that more positive attitudes towards Afrikaans accented English are correlated with the language range of participants, the dominant languages spoken in their places of origin, and the type of school they have attended.

scholarly journals The Role of the Media in South African Construction Health and Safety (H&S)

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
John Smallwood ◽  
Danie Venter
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
South African ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
The Media

A large number of fatalities and injuries occur in the South African construction industry. Traditionally, the print media have dedicated editorial, published news, articles and letters, and have exposed abusive or non-conforming conditions and practices in terms of H&S. Literature also indicates that the print media can influence and has an impact on H&S.Given the level of fatalities and injuries and the potential role of the print media, a postal survey was conducted among editors of construction and related magazines. Findings indicate that: the print media do contribute to and play a role in construction H&S; industry has the capacity and needs to promote H&S on a wider basis; there is a need to improve construction H&S; to a degree, editors are aware of what constitutes unsafe acts and unsafe conditions, and the print media can play an increased role through the review of articles, advertisements, advertorial, editorial and phototgraphs to prevent the depiction of unhealthy and unsafe practices and conditions

scholarly journals The Influence of Green Marketing Tools on Green Eating Efficacy and Green Eating Behaviour

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Muposhi ◽  
M Dhurup
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Green Marketing ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

This study employs the Legitimacy Theory and Self-efficacy Theory to examine the potential role of green marketing tools in fostering green eating behaviour. Using the mall-intercept technique at major retailers, data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire survey on South African consumers who regularly buy green products. Data analysis was conducted with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0.The results indicate that South African consumers are significantly influenced by eco-labels and eco-brands when buying green products. The study, however, shows a negative relationship between green advertising and green eating efficacy. It also reveals a positive relationship between green eating efficacy and green eating behaviour. The findings of the study highlighted important implications and policy directions that marketers and policy makers may implement in order to promote green eating behaviour.

scholarly journals Blockchain – the accounting perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
Irina Bogdana Pugna ◽  
Adriana Duţescu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Experimental Technology

AbstractBlockchain remains still an experimental technology, with current applications addressing only some elements of small-scale projects. Once the technology matures however, it has the potential to transform industries and even the economy, as it begins to integrate complementary technologies such as AI and IoT. It has the potential to bring fundamental changes to financial accounting and auditing, and even to entire financial markets. This paper explores the potential for blockchain applications in accounting, identifying major benefits and shortcomings, and analysing opportunities and possible threats. We investigate mainly the organizational challenges raised by an accounting blockchain systems and its potential to enhance the accounting activity. We discuss blockchain’s potentially disruptive effect on the accounting profession, and conversely, the potential role of this professions in further developing blockchain technology.

The Continued Impact of Black Consciousness in South Africa

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kogila Moodley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
World View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
African Society ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
South African Society

The idea of Black Consciousness heralded an era of alternative political awareness in the late 1960s. A self-empowering, vibrant, reconstructionist world-view emphasised the potential rôle of black initiatives and responsibility in articulating the power of the powerless. Between 1968–76, the Black Consciousness Movement (B.C.M.), as it became known, was one of the most important developments in South Africa, not only as the result of the self-confident protest and rebellion that it unleashed, but also ‘because of the questions it posed about the nature of oppositional politics in South Africa and its relation to the nature of South African society’.1

scholarly journals The Role of Media in South African Health and Safety

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
John Smallwood ◽  
Danie Venter
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The South ◽  
African Health ◽  
South African Health

A large number of fatalities and injuries occur in the South African construction industry.Traditionally, the print media have dedicated editorial, published news, articles andletters, and have exposed abusive or non-conforming conditions and practices in termsof H&S. Literature also indicates that the print media can influence and has an impacton H&S.Given the level of fatalities and injuries and the potential role of the print media, a postalsurvey was conducted among editors of construction and related magazines. Findingsindicate that: the print media do contribute to and play a role in construction H&S;industry has the capacity and needs to promote H&S on a wider basis; there is a needto improve construction H&S; to a degree, editors are aware of what constitutes unsafeacts and unsafe conditions, and the print media can play an increased role through thereview of articles, advertisements, advertorial, editorial and photographs to prevent thedepiction of unhealthy and unsafe practices and conditions

scholarly journals Potential influence of social and technological developments on direct marketing in South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-321
Author(s):  
Yolanda Jordaan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Future Growth

This article argues that social and technological events in South Africa are leading to the development of the direct marketing industry. The article reviews various social and technological aspects as well as the influence that government intervention has on the direct marketing industry, especially in terms of legislation regarding privacy. The role of the South African Post Office is put under the spotlight since the direct marketing industry is very reliant on the Post Office. The opportunities presented by the information age are discussed and future growth areas highlighted. Although this paper mainly concentrates on direct marketing, it also tries to explain the potential role of direct marketing in an economic system approach, as a driving force of economic progress in developing countries.

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