Browsing Research Publications (Accounting and Informatics) by Title
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Liberal arts and LIS paraprofessional education in the knowledge context : the cases of South Africa and Quebec, Canada
(2009)Liberal arts or general education provides students with knowledge, skills and values that enhance their ability to use their minds effectively and to participate in society with critical discretion. In many jurisdictions, ... -
LIS education and training in South Africa: a historical review
(2005)The article aims to provide a more complete historical review of LIS education and training in South Africa, particularly the involvement of technikons as well as how changes in the post-1990 era in South African society ... -
Lung cancer prediction using neural network ensemble with histogram of oriented gradient genomic features
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)This paper reports an experimental comparison of artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) ensembles and their “nonensemble” variants for lung cancer prediction. These machine learning classifiers ... -
Measuring service quality in higher education: a South African case study
(The Clute Institute, 2014)The goal of this paper is to report on the SERVQUAL gap which causes unsuccessful service delivery at a University of Technology in South Africa. Using a quantitative research design, the study adopts a SERVQUAL model ... -
Measuring the joint impact of IT adoption and training on academic workload and on research productivity
(IJACThttp://www.ijact.org/volume2issue2.htm, 2013-04-25)Universities carry a prestigious history with their best aca-demics being awarded Nobel prices for their excellent re-search. However, some universities suffer from high aca-demic workload and from low and skewed research ... -
Membership of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) among library and information science workers in KwaZulu-Natal
(Forum Press, 2009)A study was undertaken in 2007 among library and information service (LIS) workers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to investigate LIASA membership trends. The objectives of the study were to investigate: 1) the extent to which ... -
A Meta-Heuristics based decision support system for optimal crop planning
(MCSER Publishing, 2014-09)This paper presents a meta-heuristic based decision support system to support farmers with optimal strategic decision making in the crop planning system. The analysis and modelling of crop planning decision making process ... -
Mobile learning in higher education : a study of the technology readiness of students at a South African higher education institution
(ZAWWWhttp://www.zaw3.co.za, 2012-11)Recent accessibility drives and price wars between the major SA cell phone companies suggest that the landscape for the adoption of mobile learning (m-learning) at Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) level may be changing. ... -
Multiobjective optimization of crop-mix planning using generalized differential evolution algorithm
(2015)This paper presents a model for constrained multiobjective optimization of mixed-cropping planning. The decision challenges that are normally faced by farmers include what to plant, when to plant, where to plant and how ... -
Never the twain shall meet?: professional and para-professional LIS education and training in a changing information environment
(2003)This paper reports on aspects of a comparative study of first level library and/or information science (LIS) qualifications offered at South African universities and technikons. The study was conducted in 2002. The ... -
On the perceived usefulness of the localization of compilers in African indigenous languages
(IJIETDOI: 10.7763/IJIET.2013.V3.243, 2013-02)There are thousands of languages worldwide but only some of them are flourishing while many face extinction. This leads to a situation where computer graphical interfaces are mostly presented in English even for users from ... -
Perceptions of research structures and service quality within various faculties at Durban University of Technology: staff and students perspective
(Business Perspectives, 2016)In order to compete, retain and attract postgraduate students, and overcome the lack of postgraduate throughput, universities of technology need to be more customer orientated. Therefore, to gain competitive advantage, ... -
The perceptions of small businesses in the implementation of cash management techniques
(International Foundation for Research & Development (IFRD)http://ifrnd.org/Research%20Papers/J6%281%298.pdf, 2014-01)The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the perceptions of small business owners on the implementation of cash management techniques in their businesses. This paper also highlights the importance of managing cash inflow ... -
Performance appraisal of evolutionary algorithms in river basin management: a review
(Business Perspectiveshttp://businessperspectives.org/component/option,com_journals/task,issue/id,317/jid,9/Itemid,74/, 2015)Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is a broader concept of accounting which uses accounting tools and practices to support company-internal management decision making on environmental issues and its impact on company ... -
Performance of local averaging handover technique in long term evolution networks
(SAIEE, 2015)In this paper, we investigate the performance of an alternative received signal filtering technique based on local averaging to improve the quality of handover decisions in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. The focus of ... -
Pixel intensity clustering algorithm for multilevel image segmentation
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)Image segmentation is an important problem that has received significant attention in the literature. Over the last few decades, a lot of algorithms were developed to solve image segmentation problem; prominent amongst ... -
Predicting the microbial safety of irrigation water and fresh produce : a collaborative approach
(http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE/PDF/pdf2013/11Jun/Ijabadeniyi%20and%20Olugbara.pdf, 2013-06-11)Outbreak of food borne illnesses as a result of consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits is occurring regularly. In USA for example, it has become business as usual to hear and read about fresh produce recalls. Although, ... -
Prioritising factors influencing service quality at Durban University of Technology: AHP approach
(Kamla-Rajhttp://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/JSS/JSS-40-0-000-14-Web/JSS-40-2-14-Abst-PDF/JSS-40-2-243-14-1611-Green-P-E/JSS-40-2-243-14-1611-Green-P-E-Tx%5B11%5D.pdf, 2014)There have been numerous studies conducted on the evaluation of service quality at universities. However, there remains a deficiency on using a multi criteria decision making approach in determining factors to consider for ... -
Re-thinking boundaries in the African LIS work place as a contribution to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals: reflections from a South African study
(2008)Purpose - In the context of the historical influence of British and American trends on the African LIS context, the current knowledge society, as well as Africa’s challenges in terms of the Millennium Development Goals ... -
Research output of management accounting academics at Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany and Universities of Technology in South Africa : a comparative study of input determinants
(IMB Institute of Management Berlin, 2013-12)German Universities of Applied Sciences and South African Universities of Technology are vocation-oriented higher education institutions with a particular focus on applied research. Due to comparable educational tasks and ...