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 ... -
Marketing potentials of the social media tools in the banking market of an emerging country
(Virtus Interpresshttp://www.virtusinterpress.org/MARKETING-POTENTIALS-OF-THE-SOCIAL.html, 2016)There are many facts that attest to the pervasiveness of social media applications in the current world of business. This communication medium is replacing the well-known emails and complimenting the likes of short message ... -
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 banking in South Africa : a systematic review of the literature
(Business Perspectives, 2016)Mobile banking in South Africa recently has undergone rapid growth, and research on it is on the increase. This paper seeks to improve authors’ understanding of the current state of knowledge of mobile banking in South ... -
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. ... -
Modeling South African accounting academic staff teaching rationalism factors for the preservation of indigenous knowledge
(International Foundation for Research and Developmenthttp://ifrnd.org/journal/index.php/jebs/article/view/1435, 2016-10)South African universities are under pressure to maximize the amount of accounting students, with specific reference to expand the number of qualified black African accountants, especially the Chartered Global Management ... -
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 ... -
Peer-to-peer programming versus individualised programming: The real world
(The Independant Institute of Education, 2016)Does programming alone depict the real world scenario? It is often said, ‘In programming, One is the loneliest number’. Addressed in this paper is a strategy referred to as ‘peer-to-peer programming’, and the focus is ... -
Perceived impact of public sector leadership on road infrastructure service delivery
(Business Perspectives, 2016)It is well documented that road infrastructure is an important catalyst of the South African economy because of the interchange of people, goods and services which are dependent upon transport. The purpose of this study ... -
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 ...