On some crystals of Quartz from De Aar (Cape Colony) and other localities

1903 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) ◽  
pp. 331-335
Author(s):  
T. V. Barker
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quartz Crystals ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Small Set ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

A Small set of quartz crystals of somewhat peculiar habit, collected by Lieut. E. G. Spencer-Churchill near De Aar, South Africa, and given by him to the Mineral Department of the University Museum, present some features of interest; two crystals, in particular, are remarkable as exhibiting faces seldom observed on quartz. The first has a face X lying in the zone [mz] (or [mr]?), the other a well-developed face in the zone [rz].The crystal bearing the former face, X, is depicted in fig. 1. As regards habit and other features, it is in all respects similar to the second crystal (fig. 2).The faces r and z cannot be distinguished with certainty, but cleavage-cracks within the crystal point to the lettering shown in fig. 1. The polariscope proves the presence of both right- and left-handed material.

scholarly journals Online module login data as a proxy measure of student engagement: the case of myUnisa, MoyaMA, Flipgrid, and Gephi at an ODeL institution in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaka Chaka ◽  
Tlatso Nkhobo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
The Other ◽  
Online Module ◽  
File Access ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Proxy Measure ◽  
The University

Abstract The current study employed online module login data harvested from three tools, myUnisa, MoyaMA and Flipgrid to determine how such data served as a proxy measure of student engagement. The first tool is a legacy learning management system (LMS) utilised for online learning at the University of South Africa (UNISA), while the other two tools are a mobile messaging application and an educational video discussion platform, respectively. In this regard, the study set out to investigate the manner in which module login data of undergraduate students (n = 3475 & n = 2954) and a cohort of Mathew Goniwe students (n = 27) enrolled for a second-level module, ENG2601, as extracted from myUnisa, MoyaMA, and Flipgrid served as a proxy measure of student engagement. Collectively, these students were registered for this second-level module at UNISA at the time the study was conducted. The online login data comprised myUnisa module login file access frequencies. In addition, the online login data consisted of the frequencies of instant messages (IMs) posted on MoyaMA by both the facilitator and Mathew Goniwe students, and video clips posted on and video clip view frequencies captured by Flipgrid in respect of the afore-cited module. One finding of this study is that student engagement as measured by login file access frequencies was disproportionally skewed toward one module file relative to other module files. The other finding of this study is that the overall module file access metrics of the Mathew Goniwe group were disproportionally concentrated in a sub-cohort of highly active users (HAU).

Chinese Figurines in Mesoamerica

1955 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. de Borhegyi
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
The Other ◽  
Guatemala City ◽  
Catalog Number ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Objects

In a recent article J. Alden Mason (1951) called attention to 2 small Chinese figurines found in local archaeological collections in Mesoamerica. One was from Azqueltan, Jalisco, Mexico and is now in the University Museum, Philadelphia (catalog number NA- 11808), and the other was in the Vitalino Robles collection of Quezaltenango, Guatemala. Both are of a soft stone and were described as “crawling infants.” While browsing through a collection of archaeological objects in an antique shop in Guatemala City I came across another small Chinese figurine similar in most respects to the ones described by Mason. The shop owner, unaware of the Oriental origin of this specimen, was sure that it must have come in with the other artifacts from Kaminaljuyu, a large archaeological site on the outskirts of the city. The figurine has been presented to the University Museum (catalog number 54-4-1).Like the Quezaltenango specimen (Mason 1951 Fig. 1, a), the stone figurine from Guatemala City is an opaque yellowish-amber color with reddish veins and has a very soft, soapy texture (Mohr scale 2.8).

scholarly journals The ‘Prostration Hemerology’ Revisited: An Everyman’s Manual at the King’s Court

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Jiménez ◽  
Selim F. Adalı
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Random Selection ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Museum ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract:The ‘Prostration Hemerology’, with its seemingly random selection of dates and plethora of unparalleled prescriptions – such as the towing of boats upstream, the kissing of ecstatics, and the impregnating of street women –, is one of the most peculiar hemerologies in Alasdair Livingstone’s recent anthology of the genre. This article attempts a new reconstruction of the text which differs from Livingstone’s in several respects. To this end it uses eight previously unpublished manuscripts, identified in the collections of the Ancient Orient Museum of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, the University Museum (Philadelphia), and the British Museum. Thanks to these and the collation of the other five tablets used by Livingstone, an almost complete reconstruction of the text is now possible. It reveals itself to be an influential hemerology: as well as being widely cited by scholars at the Assyrian court, it was extensively quoted in later hemerological compilations.

scholarly journals Critical analysis of leadership governance and its implications in the universities: a case study of South African universities

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Lulu Fortunate Jali ◽  
Lawrence Mpele Lekhanya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
South African Universities ◽  
Survey Monkey ◽  
Operational Issues ◽  
The University

This paper focuses on exploring the leadership governance in universities. The leadership governance creates an environment which is transparent and it incorporates stakeholders that transform the university. The leadership governance faces visible and invisible challenges which calls for experts in different areas of leadership to be incorporated into the structures of the university in order to bring sustainability in the university. The primary data was collected from six traditional universities and three universities of technology in South Africa from the sample of 39 members of senate. The nature of the study is a quantitative study in which Survey Monkey was used for the distribution of questionnaires. The findings of the study indicate that there is a lack of involvement of stakeholders in the processes of reviewing policies and operational issues. The other findings was the use of university members in leadership to promote unity.

scholarly journals The Dutch Reformed Church and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippus R. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Role Players ◽  
The University ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The focus of this article is on the fundamental and practical reasons that led to the establishment of theological training by the Dutch Reformed Church in the northern part of South Africa. The Faculty of Theology (Division B) was eventually established in 1938 at the University of Pretoria - nearly 80 years since the opening of the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch. Attention is given both to the major role players in Church and Faculty as well as to the developments that inf uenced both Church and Faculty: the Dutch Reformed Church of Transvaal eventually dissolved into four synods; the Faculty of Theology on the other hand united the two Divisions to become one multi-denominational faculty in 2000. Cognisance is taken of the major tensions between faculty and Church during the course of time. Special attention is given to certain accusations regarding theological heresy during the last decade.�

scholarly journals Al‘suphi’s Star-Atlases and Middle Europe

1987 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Karl A.F. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Middle Europe ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The oldest European mythological figures of the star constellations originate from the Farnesian Globe of the 3rd century B.C. The “Centaurus” with the Therion “Lupus” is the most important constellation from which I derive all the series specified. Centaurus holds the wolf with one hand on the hind leg; in the other hand he holds a lance with which he cuts the wolf’s throat. This constellation is incorrectly drawn in the first publication of the Farnesian Globe by Bianchini. These antique figures were the pattern for Cod. Vind. 5415, probably by John Dorn, a Dominican, who made also the globe of Bylica at the Budinian court of the king Mathias. This globe is at present the property of the University-Museum of Krakau. The antique constellation-forms were the pattern for the celestial maps of Sebastian Sperantius of Nurnberg in 1503. Due to Albrecht Durer these mythological figures of the constellations re-appeared in the renaissance. We can find them by John Honterus, John Middoch, on many globes for example that of Coronelli, or of the manuscript globe of the Bibiliotheca Cassanatense in Rome of Moroncelli from the year 1716. They survived till modern times in the “Uranometria” of John Bayer, in the star-atlases of John Flamsteed, John Erlet Bode as well as in the latest star atlas with allegoric figures of Rudiger-Meisner from the year 1805.

scholarly journals Poem

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kobus Moolman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The University

Title(s): ANATOMY, a sequence containing The Hand, The Foot, The Foot (the other one), The Shoulder, The Foot Re-Visited, and The Wrist, Kobus Moolman has published three collections of poetry and two plays. He has won numerous awards both locally and internationally for his work. He teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

scholarly journals Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
W.F. Wargau ◽  
B. Cunow ◽  
C.J.H. Schutte
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Third World ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

The University of South Africa celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Over this period it grew, becoming one of the largest tertiary distance education institutions and the largest university on the African continent.South Africa always had a mixed racial population with each group having its own culture. This difference between people is further aggravated by differences in the level of “westernisation”. Furthermore, South Africa also suffers from an extreme urbanisation problem where on the one hand we find modern cities and on the other tribal groups. All these factors led to a differentiation of the population into a first world and third world component.

scholarly journals Contesting and reshaping learning spaces: Students’ activism in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Antje Daniel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
University Students ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

Universities in South Africa are a microcosm of society and thus offer grounds for criticism. In 2015, the Rhodes Must Fall student movement emerged, which demanded decolonization. This movement became one of the most important social movements in post-apartheid South Africa. While the student movement was formed to protest against the university, students created a space for transformative learning within the frame of the university. This article examines the ambivalence of the university: on the one hand, as a target of criticism and as a space for experimentation and reflection on society and societal change; and, on the other hand, as a space for emerging collective processes of transformative learning which created alternative knowledge, for instance in respect of decolonization and thus also discrimination, racism and marginalization.

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