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Die klein dorp in verval.
No full text• Opsomming:
Die verval van die klein dorp het reeds krisisafmetings aangeneem
op die Suid-Afrikaanse platteland. Dit word weerspieël in die
afname van veral Blanke-bevolkingsgetalle en dit benadeel die interne
struktuur en funksionering van die dorpe in terme van hul
dienste, fasiliteite, ekonomiese basis en sosio-ekonomiese bevolkingsamestelling.
Hierdie omstandighede het ontstaan omdat die bestaansfunksie
van sommige dorpe in die moderne tegnologiese
wêreld uitgedien geraak het, as gevolg van die bevolkingsverskuiwing van die platteland na die stede en sommige dorpe se ongunstige ligging. 'n Kitsoplossing vir die ingewikkelde probleem is nie voor-die-hand-liggend nie. Verskeie benaderings tot die probleem is
moontlik. Met die oog op gedifferensieerde bystand moet verskillende
vlakke van dorpe onderskei word. Die geringe tekens van oplewing
by nie-metropolitaanse gebiede bied moontlik ook geleentheid
om hoof- en ondersteunende dorpe met grootskaalse ontwikkelingshulp
uit te bou tot lewenskragtige streekskerne. Daar sal ook
rekening gehou moet word met die feit dat nie alle dorpe in die proses
gehelp kan word nie - sommige sal noodwendig aan voortgesette
verval oorgelaat moet word in 'n poging om die streek te red.• Summary:
The decline of the small town in the South African countryside
has reached a critical stage. This is reflected in the shrinking White population figures and is detrimental to the internal structure
and functioning of these towns as far as services, facilities, the basis
of their economies and their socio-economic population composition
are concerned. This situation is the cumulative result of an obsolete
reason for the existence of some towns in a changed technological
milieu, the migration of the population from the countryside to the
cities, and the incompetent state of some towns. Although an instant
solution is not available, several approaches to this complex problem
are possible. Different levels of towns could be identified before taking
differentiated remedial action. It is also possible to follow up the
slight signs of revival in non-metropolitan areas by using extensive
development aid to guide main and subsidiary towns into vital regional
centres. It should, however, be taken into account that not all
towns will advance this process - some will inevitably be subjected
to progressive decline in order to save the region as a whole
A spatial and socio-economic profile of economically active women in Cape Town ['N ruimtelike en sosio-ekonomiese profiel van ekonomies aktiewe vroue in Kaapstad]
No full textOne might expect women to differ significantly from men in their economic work behaviour. Also, economically active women might differ from fulltime housewives in their personal and domestic characteristics. These suppositions are confirmed when sample data about white married women in Cape Town are analysed. The project typifies and compares the work activity patterns of women and men, in order to determine whether any discriminatory practices are present, and identifies personal and domestic variables according to which economically active women are distinguishable from non-economically active women, in order to estimate whether an individual will enter the labour market. -from English summar
Van der Merwe, I.J. 1983. Die stad en sy omgewing: inleiding tot nedersettingsgeografie. [Boek resensie]
No full textThe spatial behaviour of urban children in Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa [Die ruimtelike gedrag van stadskinders in Stellenbosch]
No full textMost generalisations espoused by geographers pertain to the adult world. The world of the child, however, has specific relevance to the geographer. This study aims at white and coloured school children in Stellenbosch and focuses on three main aspects. Firstly, the absolute and relative home locations of children are identified; secondly, the type and destination of activities are investigated; and thirdly, different subgroups of children are compared regarding their activity patterns. With these purposes in mind, the results of a questionnaire survey are statistically analysed and plotted on maps. Children's activities are spatially concentrated on areas such as Krigeville, central town, Cloetesville and Uniepark. Younger children participate less frequently in activities than their older counterparts, boys are more active in sport, while children of parents in the lower income group (and coloureds) take part in fewer activities. -English summar
( Spatial patterns of mental illness in Cape Town). [Ruimtelike patrone van geestessiektes in Kaapstad.]
No full textThe attempts by geographers to explain the spatial patterns of mental illness within an ecological framework are based on the assumption that abnormal or disintegrated human behaviour is stimulated in part by certain high risk environmental conditions in a city. By analysing 760 patients in Cape Town an attempt is made to portray these spatial patterns of mental illness and to identify to what extent certain environmental conditions are associated with these patterns.-English summar
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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