African Evaluation Database

9120 records found

Source	Electronic ID	Title	Authors	Publication Year	Source Title	Volume	Issue	DOI	Affiliations	Authors with Affiliations	Abstract	Author Keywords	Index Keywords	Funding Details
Scopus	2-s2.0-33846573779	Performance of push-in pressure cells in overconsolidated Clay	Richards D.J., Clark J., Powrie W., Heymann G.	2007	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering	160	1	10.1680/geng.2007.160.1.31	School of Civil Engineering and the Environmental, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Gif...	Richards, D.J., School of Civil Engineering and the Environmental, University of Southampton, Uni...	Low-profile push-in pressure cells (spade cells) are commonly used to measure total horizontal st...	Field testing & monitoring; Geotechnical engineering	Consolidation; Excavation; Geotechnical engineering; Monitoring; Pressure effects; Stresses; Fiel...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84859239041	Environmental impact of landfill on groundwater quality and agricultural soils in Nigeria	Akinbile C.O.	2012	Soil and Water Research	7	1	None	School of Civil Engineering, University Sains Malaysia (USM), Nibong Tebal, Penang 14300, Malaysi...	Akinbile, C.O., School of Civil Engineering, University Sains Malaysia (USM), Nibong Tebal, Penan...	Physical, chemical and bacteriological analyses were carried out of water samples from three bore...	Chemical land use; Parameters; Pollution; Wastes; Water	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-29144505474	Subjective impacts of dental caries and fluorosis in rural Ugandan children	Robinson P.G., Nalweyiso N., Busingye J., Whitworth J.	2005	Community Dental Health	22	4	None	School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council P...	Robinson, P.G., School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, School of ...	Objective: Describe the oral health related quality of life among a group of children in rural Ug...	Children; Dental caries; Dental fluorosis; Oral health related quality of life	article; attitude to health; child; classification; cross-sectional study; dental caries; female;...	None	View
None	None	Modeling the impact of climate change on the dynamics of rift valley fever	Mpeshe S.C., Luboobi L.S., Nkansah-Gyekye Y.	2014	Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine	2014	None	10.1155/2014/627586	School of CoCSE, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 447, Arus...	Mpeshe, S.C., School of CoCSE, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, P.O....	A deterministic SEIR model of rift valley fever (RVF) with climate change parameters was consider...	None	Aedes; article; basic reproduction number; climate change; Culex; egg laying; environmental tempe...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84899948778	The description of South African corporate communication practitioners that contribute to organis...	Le Roux T.	2014	Public Relations Review	40	2	10.1016/j.pubrev.2013.11.008	School of Communication Studies/African Centre for Disaster Studies (ACDS), Hoffmanstreet North-W...	Le Roux, T., School of Communication Studies/African Centre for Disaster Studies (ACDS), Hoffmans...	Public relations are a function that contributes to the greater good of society and the performan...	Corporate communication influences; Corporate communication roles theory; Manager; Practitioner r...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-79953252832	Modelling the impact of acute infection dynamics on the accumulation of HIV-1 mutations	Shiri T., Welte A.	2011	Journal of Theoretical Biology	279	1	10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.03.011	School of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesb...	Shiri, T., School of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM), University of the Witwatersrand...	Events over the past year have brought hope and have re-energized the interest in targeting pre-i...	Branching process; Diversity; Effective reproductive number; PrEP; Vaccine	emtricitabine; Human immunodeficiency virus vaccine; tenofovir disoproxil; drug resistance; genom...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-63449087905	Likelihood gradient evaluation using square-root covariance filters	Kulikova M.V.	2009	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	54	3	10.1109/TAC.2008.2010989	School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, W...	Kulikova, M.V., School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand,...	Using the array form of numerically stable square-root implementation methods for Kalman filterin...	Gradient methods; Identification; Kalman filtering; Maximum likelihood estimation; Numerical stab...	Block codes; Control theory; Convergence of numerical methods; Gradient methods; Kalman filters; ...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84896259051	The impact of organisational structure on enterprise architecture deployment	Iyamu T., Mphahlele L.	2014	Journal of Systems and Information Technology	16	1	10.1108/JSIT-04-2013-0010	School of Computer Science and Informatics, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoe...	Iyamu, T., School of Computer Science and Informatics, Namibia University of Science and Technolo...	Purpose: In many organisations, the alignment between information technology (IT) and business is...	Deployment; Enterprise architecture; Human interaction; Organisational structure; Structuration t...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84896348149	Automating fault tolerance in high-performance computational biological jobs using multi-agent ap...	Varghese B., McKee G., Alexandrov V.	2014	Computers in Biology and Medicine	48	1	10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.02.005	School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom; Faculty of Computing and I...	Varghese, B., School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom; McKee, G., F...	Background: Large-scale biological jobs on high-performance computing systems require manual inte...	Biological jobs; Checkpoint; Fault tolerance; High-performance computing; Multi-agents; Seamless ...	Bioinformatics; Core levels; Experiments; Fault tolerance; Multi agent systems; Biological jobs; ...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-33646249415	Performance of hardcoded finite automata	Ngassam E.K., Kourie D.G., Watson B.W.	2006	Software - Practice and Experience	36	5	10.1002/spe.708	School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria 0003, South Africa; Fastar Research Gro...	Ngassam, E.K., School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria 0003, South Africa, Scho...	We study the performance of a hardcoded algorithm for recognizing strings of a finite automaton's...	Cache memory; Finite automata; Hardcoding; Performance; Regression analysis	Algorithms; Cache memory; Codes (symbols); Computer architecture; Information technology; Regress...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84897906615	Measurement of ordinary heterotrophic organism active biomass in activated sludge mixed liquor: E...	Lee B.J., Wentzel M., Ekama G., Choi Y.Y., Choi J.W.	2014	Environmental Engineering Research	19	1	10.4491/eer.2014.19.1.091	School of Construction and Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Sangju 742-7...	Lee, B.J., School of Construction and Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, S...	Ordinary heterotrophic organism (OHO) active biomass plays key roles in biological wastewater tre...	Activated sludge system; Active biomass; Endogenous respiration; Growth; Heterotrophic; Models	Activated sludge systems; Active biomass; Biological wastewater treatment process; Design and sim...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-57749184301	'This is where we buried our sons': People of advanced old age coping with the impact of the AIDS...	Seeley J., Wolff B., Kabunga E., Tumwekwase G., Grosskurth H.	2009	Ageing and Society	29	1	10.1017/S0144686X08007605	School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; Uganda...	Seeley, J., School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kin...	Much research on the impact of HIV and AIDS on older people fails to differentiate between age gr...	Impact of HIV and AIDS; Older people; Oldest old; Uganda	acquired immune deficiency syndrome; elderly population; epidemic; human immunodeficiency virus; ...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-50949100402	Using in-depth qualitative data to enhance our understanding of quantitative results regarding th...	Seeley J., Biraro S., Shafer L.A., Nasirumbi P., Foster S., Whitworth J., Grosskurth H.	2008	Social Science and Medicine	67	9	10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.07.001	School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; MRC, ...	Seeley, J., School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Ki...	Two significant challenges face researchers tracking HIV-related socio-economic and demographic c...	HIV/AIDS; Households; Longitudinal research; Mixed methods; Uganda	acquired immune deficiency syndrome; cohort analysis; health impact; health survey; household exp...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-76249106721	Growing old in the era of a high prevalence of hiv/aids: The impact of aids on older men and wome...	Munthree C., Maharaj P.	2010	Research on Aging	32	2	10.1177/0164027510361829	School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa	Munthree, C., School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Afri...	Despite the important consequences that HIV/AIDS is likely to have for older people in South Afri...	HIV/AIDS; Multiple impacts; Older people	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-34250666645	Search for a meteoritic component in drill cores from the Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Plati...	McDonald I., Peucker-Ehrenbrink B., Coney L., Ferrière L., Reimold W.U., Koeberl C.	2007	Meteoritics and Planetary Science	42	42465	None	School of Earth Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3YE, U...	McDonald, I., School of Earth Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardi...	An attempt was made to detect a meteoritic component in both crater-fill (fallback) impact brecci...	None	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84922993569	Slope stability susceptibility evaluation parameter (SSEP) rating scheme - An approach for landsl...	Raghuvanshi T.K., Ibrahim J., Ayalew D.	2014	Journal of African Earth Sciences	99	None	10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.05.004	School of Earthsciences, College of Natural Science, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 1176, Addis A...	Raghuvanshi, T.K., School of Earthsciences, College of Natural Science, Addis Ababa University, P...	In this paper a new slope susceptibility evaluation parameter (SSEP) rating scheme is presented w...	Landslide hazard evaluation; Landslide hazard zonation; Landslide triggering; Slope stability; Su...	governance approach; hazard management; inventory; landslide; mapping; parameterization; slope st...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84877102385	The impacts of complementary information technology resources on the service-profit chain and com...	Cohen J.F., Olsen K.	2013	International Journal of Hospitality Management	34	1	10.1016/j.ijhm.2013.04.005	School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Af...	Cohen, J.F., School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesb...	The potential of information technology (IT) resources to empower employees, to shape customer se...	Competitiveness; Customer service; Hospitality; Information technology; Resource complementarity;...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84893693599	Impact of employment protection legislation on employment and exporting in select African countries	Gwatidzo T., Moyo B.	2014	Development Southern Africa	31	2	10.1080/0376835X.2014.880877	School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 20...	Gwatidzo, T., School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private ...	Labour market flexibility is an important issue in both development and labour economics. More fl...	African firms; employment; employment protection; exports; investment; labour market flexibility;...	employment; export; investment; labor market; labor policy; legislation; regulatory framework; Af...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-56049105154	Contextual determinants and performance implications of information systems strategy planning wit...	Cohen J.F.	2008	Information and Management	45	8	10.1016/j.im.2008.09.001	School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, Johann...	Cohen, J.F., School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private B...	While studies have shown the effect of context on IS planning as important, the incorporation of ...	Commitment; Context; Environment; IS performance; Planning expertise; Strategic IS planning; Stra...	Information retrieval systems; Regional planning; Strategic planning; Commitment; Context; Enviro...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-33751317994	The IS-business relationship and its implications for performance: An empirical study of South Af...	Cohen J.F., Toleman M.	2006	International Journal of Information Management	26	6	10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2006.06.002	School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, Johann...	Cohen, J.F., School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private B...	Lack of a close 'Information systems (IS)-business relationship' has been described as a potentia...	Commitment; IS performance; IS-business relationship; Shared vision; Understanding	Computer vision; Data reduction; Information dissemination; Societies and institutions; IS-busine...	None	View

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