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Naturally occurring potentially harmful elements in the Makueni County environment, South-Eastern Kenya : health implications and community awareness
Get PDFAbstract: Please refer to full text to view abstract.Ph.D. (Medical Geology
Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the ℓℓ and ℓℓ final states in collisions at √ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Search for new phenomena with top quark pairs in final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in collisions at √ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Understanding memorable tourism experiences and behavioural intentions of heritage tourists
Get PDFAbstract: This study aims to investigate the interplay of visitor engagement, authenticity, and destination image in driving revisit and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) intentions of heritage tourists through the mediating role of Memorable Tourism Experiences (MTE). The data for this research were collected from tourists in the UNESCOlisted heritage city of Kashan, Iran. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods approach, the study’s findings highlighted the importance of MTE as a mediator of these interrelationships. The results also identified the positive direct and indirect effects of visitor engagement on revisit and eWOM intentions. The indirect effects of authenticity on revisit and eWOM intentions through MTE were also significant. The findings also showed the positive direct and indirect effects of destination image on eWOM intention, with the indirect effect on revisit intention being significant. The practical implications of the study and potential future directions for research are also discussed in the conclusion section
Paulin J. Hountondji : Africa’s quest for authentic knowledge
Get PDFAbstract: Beninois philosopher-politician, Paulin J. Hountondji, born on 11 April 1942 in Treichville, Côte d’Ivoire, is arguably Africa’s most influential philosopher, with an impact that spans Africa’s francophone-anglophone divide. Hountondji stands out as the most consistent and eloquent advocate for the scientific integrity and political efficacy of knowledge production in post-colonial Africa1. Beyond this, he belongs to a rare breed of African academics who have been able to combine their intellectual pursuits with political activism and public service. Schooled at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in the philosophical works of Karl Marx and Edmund Husserl in the early 1960s by Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricoeur (his doctoral supervisor at the University of Paris), Hountondji devoted himself to the contextualisation and application of this European intellectual heritage to the African problematique, and attained the status of one of the most rigorous proponents of African philosophy. He is renowned for his critique of the mode of thought that he seminally isolated as “ethnophilosophy”2 in his seminal 1983 work,3 African Philosophy: Myth and Reality. However, as this essay will demonstrate, Hountondji’s life and mission extend beyond the domain of the discipline of philosophy. His fundamental concern is how research and education in Africa, and on Africa, can be of such quality that it will enable and sustain the structural transformation of social life on the continent. Within his working problematique l’ Afrique, Hountondji posed practical questions such as: “How can the state be transformed . . . How can fear be overcome, and [how can] it be ensured that in this small corner of the globe . . . dictatorship and arbitrary rule become things of the past for ever?”4 . Hountondji is Emeritus Professor at the National University of Bénin, an institution he has been devoted to since 1975. Between 1991 and 1995, he held various government positions of minister of culture and communication, minister of education, and Chargé de Mission du Président de la République in Benin. This experience of a scholar-practitioner informs Hountondji’s life project, expressed in a 2009 lamentation that: Despite all progress . . . we are still a long way from what should be perceived as our final goal: an autonomous, self-reliant process of knowledge production and capitalisation that enables us to answer our own questions and meet both the intellectual and the material needs of African societies.5 Along this vein, Kenyan Professor of African Philosophy, Frederick Ochieng-Odhiambo has examined Hountondji’s work as an archetype of a revolutionary African academic within the tradition of Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramci,6 Hountondji is a crusader for the ontology7 of African intellection as a mode of knowledge that is self-dependent, scientifically rigorous, and emancipated from genitive entanglements with the colonial metropole. The examples of the titles of his research output bears this out: “Scientific Dependence: Its Nature and the Ways to Overcome It”8; and “Knowledge as a Development Issue”9..
The significance of big data in the success of SMEs
Get PDFAbstract: The purpose of this study is to examine how SMEs in emerging markets can benefit from the use of big data and to look at challenges that SMEs encounter when using big data. SMEs play a critical role in growing the economy of developing, emerging, and also developed countries. In South Africa, SMEs account for 98.5% of the total businesses. This study is exploratory and adopted a desk-review approach where journal articles and government reports were reviewed. It was found that SMEs that use big data are more profitable, productive, and innovative. SMEs find it difficult to use big data tools and technologies. This study recommends that institutions of higher learning should introduce short learning programs or continuous education programs to train SMEs on how to use big data tools and technologies. The government should provide both financial and non-financial support to SMEs so that they are able to use advanced technologies and compete with big corporations. Future studies should look at refining big data tools and technologies for SMEs to provide them with technologies and tools that they can easily use
Challenges and success factors of scaled agile adoption : a South African perspective
No full textAbstract: Agile methods and Agile scaling frameworks have become a solution for software-developing organizations striving to improve the success of software projects. Agile methods were developed for small projects, but due to their benefits, even large software-developing organizations have adopted them to scale their software projects. This quantitative study was undertaken to deepen the researchers’ understanding of the critical success factors and challenges of Scaled Agile from the South African perspective. A simple random sampling method was used. Data was collected with the use of an online structured questionnaire and the response rate was 70%. The results reveal that customer satisfaction remains at the epicenter of adopting Scaled Agile methods. Lack of top management support remains the major challenge in adopting Scaled Agile. The results reveal some notable changes when it comes to the most adopted Agile scaling framework
Stock exchange legitimacy : the case of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887-1945
Get PDFAbstract: Over the last two centuries, stock exchanges have emerged as a central component of the capitalist system. While stock exchanges are now widely accepted as legitimate economic actors, and share trading favoured as a legitimate investment vehicle, this has not always been the case. The process by which exchanges, as organisations, became socially accepted (or legitimate) has received minimal scholarly attention, particularly from a historical perspective. To this end, this study examines the organisational legitimacy of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from its establishment in 1887 until the end of World War II. Using both original archival material from the JSE Archive, and other published sources, the study shows that much of the Exchange’s early development can be understood as concurrent processes of legitimation. After its establishment, the Exchange’s legitimation occurred in four overlapping waves. First, it thrived despite a lack of legitimacy. Although market activity and Exchange membership increased rapidly, the Exchange was mostly seen as incompetent during this time. The Exchange did not yet function as a public institution, thus it only sought the approval of its members. Second, as public participation and government interest in the market increased, the Exchange extended its legitimation efforts beyond its members. This was achieved by increasing its control over Exchange members, as well as trading and listing procedures, to improve its competence as a market intermediary...Ph.D. (Finance
The enforcement of restraint of trade agreements in employment relationships : a legal analysis
Get PDFAbstract: In a competitive global marketplace, companies are relentless in their search for the best and most-skilled employees to help their businesses excel. It is chiefly for this reason that many contracts of employment contain restrictive covenants to safeguard employers, upon an employee’s departure, against losing potential and existing clients or the disclosure of their in-house strategies and trade secrets. Often times, as evidenced from case law addressing the enforceability of restrictive covenants, it is the employee who terminates his or her contract of employment with the hope of advancing his or her career or improving his or her financial prospects at his or her employer’s competitor in the marketplace. In other cases, it is the employer who terminates the employment relationship and the employee either “sets up shop” or seeks employment elsewhere. The latter scenario stands quite uniquely from the former as it is brought about through no fault or thrust of the employee...LL.M. (Labour Law
Economic regulations and the effectiveness of South Africa’s the liquid fuels price regulatory framework
Get PDFAbstract: Please refer to full text to view abstract.M.Com. (Competition and Economic Regulation
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