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Configurations of a southern place: a postcolonial, southern urban inquiry into place-making in Norwood, Johannesburg.
(2023-05-12)
Place theory in geography has largely been a northern scholarly endeavor. Yet there is much to learn about place-making in global south cities. Southern urban scholars argue that understanding cities of and from the vantage ...
IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A HYDRO-MECHANICAL ELASTOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR FULLY COUPLED ANALYSIS OF UNSATURATED SOILS
(2017-05)
Unsaturated soils are commonly encountered in natural soil deposits above the ground water table and in civil infrastructure construction as compacted soils. In earthquake prone areas, problems arise from dynamic loading ...
The relentless pursuit of construct validity: Why employment interviews predict job performance?
(2011)
Employment interviews are one of the most frequently researched areas in the human resources management research (Buckley, Norris, & Wiese, 2000). Over the last eighty years, the employment interview research has gone ...
Multidimensional fit: A theory and a test of the influence of realistic job previews and pre-hire fit.
(2003)
Organizational scholars have long debated the exact nature of the construct of fit. Researchers have identified at least four dimensions of fit (P-V Fit, P-J Fit, P-O Fit, and P-P Fit), and these dimensions of fit tend to ...
Development and validation of a sodar simulator for atmospheric boundary layer characterization
(2014-05-09)
A sodar simulator capable of producing time-series data emulating sodar signals
has been developed and tested. The atmospheric elds used to populate the sodar
simulator are taken from output of a large eddy simulation ...
Optimal design of water utilization systems in refineries and process plants.
(1999)
The intensive use of water in refineries and process plants was the object of several studies starting in the early eighties. All these Studies have aimed at the reduction of the water consumption as well as the allocation ...
Not all disappeared: Disease and southeastern Indian survival, 1500-1800.
(1998)
Southeastern Indian survival depended on four factors. First, smallpox came relatively late to the Southeast, failing to become epidemic until the 1690s. Second, when epidemics struck with full force after the 1690s, Indians ...
DESIGN AND FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION OF A 3D IN-VITRO LIVER CULTURE SYSTEM FOR APPLICATIONS IN TOXICITY SCREENING OF NEW CHEMICAL ENTITIES
(2011)
Advancements in biomaterials and manufacturing processes have enabled the development of 3D cell encapsulated hydrogels as systems to mimic in-vivo like function for drug-screening. Accurate prediction of human response ...
RECURSIVE ADAPTATION AND INTERDEPENDENT COMMUNICATION: A GROUNDED APPROACH TO THE INTEGRATION OF NEW/MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND THE K-2 TEACHER
(2019-05-10)
The ascendency of technology in contemporary culture has catalyzed vertiginous alterations in the communication practices of individuals, groups, and organizations. The integration of new/mobile technology in educational ...