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Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures (2016)
Journal Article
Kruger, F. (2016). Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures. Journal of education (University KwaZulu-natal), 65(SAERA 2015 Conference Special Issue), https://doi.org/10.17159/i65a04

Karen Barad’s (2007) concept of intra-action and Rosi Braidotti’s (2013) nomadic posthumanism are employed in this article to problematise the notion of educational research for sustainable futures. In rejecting the hierarchical dualism of Cartesian... Read More about Posthumanism and educational research for sustainable futures.

Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools (2016)
Journal Article
Geyer, K., & Walton, E. (2016). Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.20853/29-1-461

In a quest for improved educational outcomes that will lead to access to and success in higher education and the workplace, many affluent independent South African high schools offer scholarship places to talented and deserving learners. Learners sel... Read More about Schooling in the shadow of benevolence: The experience of scholarship recipients in affluent schools.

Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities (2016)
Journal Article
Ndlovu, S., & Walton, E. (2016). Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities. African Journal of Disability, 5(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v5i1.150

Background: Persons with disabilities continue to be excluded from professions in South Africa despite legislation on non-discrimination and equity.

Objectives: We sought to identify both the opportunities and obstacles that students with disabil... Read More about Preparation of students with disabilities to graduate into professions in the South African context of higher learning: Obstacles and opportunities.

Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique (2016)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2016). Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique. Livraisons d’Histoire de l’Architecture, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.4000/lha.643

Les premières explorations de l'utilisation des ordinateurs dans le domaine du design 1 ont débuté dans les années 1960, près de trente ans avant que le « tournant numérique » (digital turn) ne s'empare du champ de la production architecturale. À cet... Read More about Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique.

Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S.-J. (2016). Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms. In F. Stella, Y. Taylor, T. Reynolds, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315752563

The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2016). Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 24(1), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2016.0009

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.

Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (2016)
Journal Article
Damion, R. A. (2016). Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Diffusion Fundamentals, 26, 1-23

The concept of a propagator is useful and is a well-known object in diffusion NMR experiments. Here, we investigate the related concept; the propagator for the magnetization or the Green's function of the Torrey-Bloch equations. The magnetization pro... Read More about Grassmann variables and pseudoclassical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2016). Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation. In P. R. Carr, P. Thomas, B. J. Porfilio, & J. A. Gorlewski (Eds.), Democracy and Decency: What does Education have to do with it? (21-37). Information Age Publishing

3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bukenya, F., Ehling, J., Kalema, A. K., Eyoh, I., Robert, J., & Bai, L. (2016). 3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter. In Proceedings - 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2016.7850137

Quantification of vessel density helps to know the stage of the disease during diagnosis and patient's response to treatment. However, this requires presence of all vessels in the image. The available segmentation techniques that are manual based are... Read More about 3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter.

Is It Harmful when Advisors Only Pretend to Be Honest? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, D., Muller, T., Zhang, J., & liu, Y. (2016). Is It Harmful when Advisors Only Pretend to Be Honest?. In AAAI'16: Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. , (2551--2557)

The Professionalisation of the Civil Service between Politics and Administration: 8th ReSPA Annual Conference Proceedings, 12-13 November 2015 (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2015, November). The Professionalisation of the Civil Service between Politics and Administration: 8th ReSPA Annual Conference Proceedings, 12-13 November 2015. Presented at 8th ReSPA Annual Conference, Danilovgrad, Montenegro

ReSPA is a joint Initiative of European Union and the Western Balkan countries working towards fostering and strengthening the regional cooperation in the field of public administration among its Members. It seeks to offer excellent innovative and cr... Read More about The Professionalisation of the Civil Service between Politics and Administration: 8th ReSPA Annual Conference Proceedings, 12-13 November 2015.

Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, T., & Soobaroyen, T. (2016). Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities

This paper aims to investigate the monitoring ability of a typically unpaid board of directors (or trustees) in the context of not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs). More specifically, since it has been found that NFPOs may be involved in managing the... Read More about Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities.

Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability? (2016)
Journal Article
Marson, J., & Ferris, K. (2016). Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability?. European Business Law Review, 27(3), 325-351

This article advances an argument that private enforcement of European Union (EU) rights has largely been stunted due to a series of blocking tactics by Member States, enabled through a form of tacitic subservience of the Court of Justice of the Euro... Read More about Collective redress: broadening EU enforcement through state liability?.