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Artistic conversation: Louisemarié Combrink in conversation with Jan van der Merwe: Stairways and Ruins
No full textThis contribution presents a textual version of an artistic conversation between Louisemarié Combrink and the artist Jan van der Merwe, in which the latter gives an account of his five-phased approach to creative work. This is done with specific reference to his work Speelgrond/Playground of 2023, made for the Stairways and Ruins exhibition.1 The significance of this approach is that Van der Merwe applies this mode of work to his oeuvre as well as to his teaching more generally. This approach comprises of considerations pertaining to (1) conceptualising; (2) processes, (3) materials, (4) techniques, and (5) presentation. As a focused approach to the mindful production of creative outputs, the insights gleaned from this conversation are presented as useful for professional artists, as well as teachers and students of creative disciplines
A conceptual study of spirituality in selected writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
No full textSeveral authors have noted that one of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’si aims was to dissolve the mind-body dualism, typical of Cartesianism. However, there has been little research on the spirit-body connection, as it appears in Jaques-Dalcroze’s writings. The purpose of this document analysis is to understand how a hermeneutic phenomenological model for spirituality in music education (Van der Merwe & Habron, 2015) can inform our understanding of spirituality in selected writings by Jaques-Dalcroze. In the adapted model holism, balance, aesthetic experience, and movement in time, space and with energy emerged as core concepts. We conclude with suggestions for how we might teach for spirituality in Dalcroze Eurhythmics contexts, based on the findings
Music education as/for artistic citizenship in the Field Band Foundation
No full textMMus (Musicology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015This study views the Field Band Foundation’s activities through the lens of artistic citizenship. The aim of this study is to create an expanded theoretical framework for music education as/for artistic citizenship by analysing the related literature and data gathered from the Field Band Foundation in the Gauteng area.
In Another Perspective: Music Education as/for Artistic Citizenship Elliott (2012a) gives practitioners three goals to realize if they wish to empower participants to achieve artistic citizenship. These three goals may be summarized as: 1) putting music to work in the community 2) infusing music with an ethic of care and 3) making music as ethical action for social justice. These three goals served as the initial compass during the conception and analysis stages of this study.
This study was designed as an instrumental case study. The eclectic data set is made up of literature, interviews, documents, visual and audio-visual data gathered from March 2013 to July 2014. Atlas.ti7 was used to analyse the data. A preliminary theoretical framework was created from the literature. In this framework each of the three themes, expressed through Elliott’s goals, are expanded to include various categories. This framework was used as a priori codes to better understand artistic citizenship as lived in the Field Band Foundation. During the analysis of the data gathered from the Field Band Foundation the categories identified in the literature was expanded to include sub-categories. After analysing the data, gathered in the Field Band Foundation, an expanded theoretical framework for artistic citizenship was
created. From the view point of artistic citizenship a community music education project, such as the Field Band Foundation, is shown to empower participants to achieve personal and communal transformation.Master
Die effek van 'n indiens-opleidingprogram op onderwysers se persepsies van Liggaamlike Opvoeding
No full textMEd (Movement Education), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusNavorsing toon dat daar 'n tekort aan opgeleide en gekwalifiseerde Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers in Suid-Afrika is as gevolg van die herimplimentering van die vak as 'n deel van Lewensoriëntering in die nasionale skoolkurrikulum, nadat dit vir meer as 10 jaar weggelaat is. In die lig van die afname in fisieke aktiwiteit en die gepaardgaande toename in gesondheidsrisiko's onder Suid-Afrikaanse kinders, wat deur effektiewe Liggaamlike Opvoeding klasse aangespreek kan word, is hierdie tekort aan goed opgeleide en gekwalifiseerde Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers kommerwekkend. Die bekwaamheid, effektiwiteit en persepsies van dié onderwyser maak verder 'n wesenlike deel van 'n kwaliteit Liggaamlike Opvoedingprogram uit. Die doel van hierdie studie was om in die konteks van 'n vyf-dag indiens-opleidingprogram vir Liggaamlike Opvoeding die effek van so 'n program op onderwysers se persepsies rakende Liggaamlike Opvoeding te ondersoek. Hierdie doel is verder gedefinieer deur die volgende doelwitte: 1) om die persepsies van Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers van die hindernisse ten opsigte van die aanbieding van die skoolvak te ondersoek; 2) om die effek van 'n indiens-opleidingprogram op Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers se persepsies van die waarde van die vak te toets; en 3) om die effek van 'n indiens-opleidingprogram op Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers se persepsies ten opsigte van hulle vermoë en bedrewendheid om die vak te onderrig, te bepaal. Die studie is gebaseer op kwalitatiewe navorsing vanuit die teoretiese raamwerk van die Self-determination Theory (SDT) van Deci en Ryan (2000), wat die bevrediging van die basiese psigologiese behoeftes van outonomie, bekwaamheid en verwantskap as bepalend van intrinsieke motivering, voorhou. Die kwalitatiewe data-insameling het oop-einde vrae in vraelyste en individuele onderhoude behels, wat deur beperkte kwantitatiewe data vanuit die vraelyste ondersteun is. Alvorens die indiens-opleidingprogram in aanvang geneem het, is die onderwysers gevra om hulle behoeftes met betrekking tot die program weer te gee. Die indiens-opleidingprogram het na aanleiding van hierdie behoeftes, teoretiese en praktiese opleiding in die verskillende inhoudstemas van Liggaamlike Opvoeding (fisieke fiksheid, sport en spele en rekreasie-bewegingsaktiwiteite), asook didaktiek vir die aanbieding van Liggaamlike Opvoeding behels. Agt onderwysers, wat doelgerig gekies is uit die deelnemers aan die opleidingprogram, het die vraelyste op die eerste en die laaste dag van die opleidingprogram voltooi en semi-gestruktureerde individuele onderhoude het op die laaste dag van data insameling plaasgevind. Tydens die data-analise is kategorieë en temas met behulp van kleurkodering en spesifieke stappe en riglyne geïdentifiseer en geïnterpreteer en die antwoorde op die kwantitatiewe vrae is met behulp van beskrywende statistiek geanaliseer. Die temas wat uit die kwalitatiewe data na vore gekom het, was eerstens hindernisse tot die aanbied van Liggaamlike Opvoeding, waarin die sub-temas van oorvol klasse, onvoldoende apparate en fasiliteite en onvoldoende tydstoekenning ingesluit was. Die tweede tema was die ingesteldheid en motivering van leerders en onderwysers, waar die deelnemers gevoel het dat die kennis, vaardighede en nuwe idees wat in die indiens opleiding program verkry is, tot hoër vlakke van selfvertroue en motivering gelei het. Met betrekking tot die derde tema, naamlik die waarde en status van Liggaamlike Opvoeding, het die response van die deelnemers daarop gedui dat hulle positiewe persepsies en begrip van die waarde van die vak deur die program versterk is. Ten opsigte van die vierde tema het die deelnemers meer bekwaam gevoel na afloop van die program en ook dat alle Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers gespesialiseerde opleiding moet kry. Die kwantitatiewe resultate het die bogenoemde bevindings ondersteun. Uit die bevindings blyk dit dat die indiens-opleidingprogram, gebaseer op die bevrediging van die behoeftes van Liggaamlike Opvoeding onderwysers binne die raamwerk van die SDT, 'n sterk positiewe effek op die onderwysers se persepsies van Liggaamlike Opvoeding gehad het. Soortgelyke indiens-opleidingprogramme kan dus 'n positiewe bydrae maak tot die effektiewe aanbieding van Liggaamlike Opvoeding en indirek tot die bevordering van Liggaamlike Opvoeding in Suid-Afrika.Master
Amblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe
No full textAmblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe Amblyseius (Amblyseius) neolargoensis van der Merwe 1965: 59. Amblyseius neolargoensis, Moraes et al. 1986: 23, 2004: 41; Chant & McMurty 2004: 208, 2007: 80; Zannou et al. 2007: 20. Amblyseius vazimba Blommers & Chazeau 1974: 312 (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988). This species also belongs to the largoensis species group and the largoensis species subgroup (see above for A. largoensis). Its biology is totally unknown. It is the first mention of Amblyseius neolargoensis from Mauritius. World distribution: Cape Verde, Hawaii, Mozambique, La Réunion Island, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Specimens examined: a single ♀ collected in Mauritius during the survey. Nouvelle-France (aasl 442 m, lat. 20°22 ′ 34 ″ S, long. 57°35 ′ 58 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Camelia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae), 31/X/2018. Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well measurement values given by van der Merwe (1965) for specimens from South Africa and Zannou et al. (2007) for specimens from South Africa and Mozambique.Published as part of Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, New records of phytoseiid mites from Mauritius Island (Acari: Mesostigmata, pp. 520-545 in Acarologia 60 (3) on page 532, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204382, http://zenodo.org/record/450344
Rabbit Encephalopathy of Prematurity MRI Data
No full textEx vivo MRI was performed on fixed brains as described. Newborns rabbits were perfused using the active staining technique to introduce the gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent (Magnevist®, Dimeglumine Gadopentetate 0.5 mmol/mL, Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany) into the brain parenchyma. After perfusion fixation with 4% PFA in 0.1 mol/L phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) containing 2% (10 mM) gadoteridol, the heads were removed and immersed in PFA 4% for 48h. Finally, the fixed brains, still in the cranium, were placed in PBS containing 1% (5 mM) gadoteridol at 4°C for 2 to 5 days to ensure equilibration of contrast agent, and tissue rehydration. The heads were trimmed and placed in a sample holder, surrounded by proton-free perfluoropolyether solution (Fomblin®, Solvay Solexis) that minimizes susceptibility artefacts at the interface and imaging was done with a Bruker Biospec 9.4 Tesla small animal MR scanner (Bruker Biospin, Ettlingen, Germany; horizontal bore, 20 cm) equipped with actively shielded gradients (600 mT/m) and a 3.5 cm quadrature coil (volume resonator, Rapid Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany). Analysis was done with automated template propagation for the neonatal rabbit brain and subsequent T1 volumetric data and DTI derived fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were calculated. The volumes of each brain region were analyzed as absolute values and relative values after normalization to the body weight or total brain volume from the same animal. Data from the left and right hemispheres were summed together
Data for: Well-managed grassland heterogeneity promotes butterfly conservation in a corridor network
No full textThis file contains species data for butterflies and dominant plant assemblages, as well as environmental variables at each of the 37 sites
City government resilience: Towards a diagnostic instrument
No full textPhD (Development and Management), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2018This study starts with exploring the evolution of thinking regarding organisations as open systems. It provides a perspective on a total systems approach to organisation design and organisation development and identifies high leverage components in systems which enable organisation resilience. It provides a holistic perspective on organisation resilience and sustainable economic growth including the paradigmatic developments, schools of thinking, theoretical principles theories and models for orgainsational resilience. It identifies the anticipation, adaptation and recovery (AAR) framework as starting point within which a diagnostic instrument could be designed and developed. It investigates trends patterns of behaviour and systemic structures that influence resilience, with specific reference to city government, including high leverage areas within the extended AAR meta-framework. Factors and items are components of a diagnostic instrument for gauging and enabling resilience in city government including aspirational descriptors for factors and items in the diagnostic instrument with which to gauge current reality for a city government resilience strategy. The aspirational quality of descriptors provides a perspective on the desired results (vision) for particular aspects and may form the basis for linking factors and items to benchmarks. Capability assessment, capacity-building in cross-cutting competencies, anticipation, adaptation, recovery, sustainable development, green growth and smart cities form the meta-framework of the diagnostic instrument within which items and their descriptors are situated. Triangulation between the literature study, the instrument design, and cross-checking with a purposive sample of users established its validity empirically within a pre-test and post-test framework to develop the final diagnostic instrument for gauging city government resilience.
Hierdie studie begin met die ondersoek van die evolusie van denke rakende organisasies as oop stelsels. Dit bied 'n geïntegreerde stelselsbenadering tot organisasie-ontwerp en organisasie-ontwikkeling, en identifiseer hoë-hefboom komponente in stelsels wat organisatoriese veerkragtigheid moontlik maak. Dit bied 'n holistiese perspektief op organisatoriese veerkragtigheid en volhoubare ekonomiese groei, insluitende die paradigmatiese ontwikkelinge, denkskole, teoretiese beginsels, teorieë en modelle vir organisasie veerkragtigheid. Dit identifiseer die verwagting, aanpassing en herstel (VAH), ook genoem die “AAR” raamwerk, wat as ontwerpsbeginpunt vir die ontwikkeling van 'n diagnostiese instrument dien. Dit ondersoek tendense van gedrag- en sistemiese strukture wat veerkragtigheid beïnvloed, met spesifieke verwysing na stadsregering, insluitend hoë-hefboomgebiede binne die uitgebreide AAR meta-raamwerk. Faktore en items word komponente van 'n diagnostiese instrument wat veerkragtigheid meet en dit ook van toepassing op stadsregering maak deur die faktore en items wat in die diagnostiese instrument vervat is. Vaardigheidsaanslag, kapasiteitsbou in kruisvaardighede, afwagting, aanpassing, herstel, volhoubare ontwikkeling, “groen” ontwikkeling en “slim” stede (smart cities) vorm die meta-raamwerk van die diagnostiese instrument waarbinne items en hul aanwysers geleë is. Triangulering van data afkomstig van die literatuurstudie, die instrumentontwerp en ‘n kruiskontrole met 'n doelgerigte steekproef van gebruikers het empiries die instrument se geldigheid vasgestel binne 'n voor-toets- en na-toets-raamwerk om die finale diagnostiese instrument te ontwikkel wat ‘n stadsregering se veerkragtigheid meet.Doctora
Capitalisation of borrowing costs: an investigation into technical uncertainties in IAS 23
No full textThose who are not experts in the field of accounting will most probably be of the opinion that interest should be expensed and therefore reduce profits. However, for financial periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009, the capitalisation of borrowing costs (interest) incurred on certain qualifying assets became mandatory for companies applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Apart from the practical implications of this change, some technical questions remain unanswered by IAS 23 Borrowing Costs, and since it is now mandatory to capitalise borrowing costs, it might be worthwhile to take a deeper look at the requirements of this standard. The study reveals that knowledgeable Financial Accounting academics were quite divided in their opinions regarding the finer technical details of the revised standard, for example the period that constitutes a “substantial period of time” as mentioned in the standard when defining qualifying assets. These differences in opinion might prove that accountants with equal knowledge may interpret the standard differently, which might lead to confusion and inconsistency in external reporting; to at least some degree a possible infringement of the modern plea towards accounting harmonisation. The findings of this research could prompt standard-setters to provide clearer guidance in the revision of future standards on borrowing costs in various different accounting frameworks, or even of other standards with similar uncertainties. In the instances where participants did agree on the correct accounting treatment, the findings in this research could also be used as guidance for what the correct accounting treatment should be for various scenarios. This could be useful, amongst others, to accountants in practice, auditors, textbook and guidance document authors, university lecturers and providers of continuing professional development (CPD) traininghttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsar20/currenthttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10291954.2012.11435165DOI:10.1080/10291954.2012.1143516
Origins and evolution of cinnamon and camphor: a phylogenetic and historical biogeographical analysis of the Cinnamomum group (Lauraceae)
No full textAbstract not availableJian-Feng Huang, Lang Li, Henk van der Werff, Hsi-Wen Li, Jens G. Rohwer, Darren M. Crayn, Hong-Hu Meng, Marlien van der Merwe, John G. Conran, Jie L
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