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English 232
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Music 447
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Philosophy 351
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Psychology 874
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Recent Submissions
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(Wiley, 2025-02)Recent work in philosophy of technology has come to bear on the question of responsibility gaps. Some authors argue that the increase in the autonomous capabilities of decision-making systems makes it impossible to properly ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2025-03)OBJECTIVE : To investigate whether psychosocial factors account for a proportion of the difference in cognitive performance between persons with and without HIV. DESIGN : Cross-sectional study of 273 participants (178 ...
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(University of the Free State, 2024-12)Violent crimes and domestic violence are notoriously high in South Africa, which leaves many children defenceless to struggle with emotions such as loneliness and sadness. The healthy development and socialisation of ...
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(Springer, 2024-04)To review the longitudinal trajectories – and the factors influencing their development – of mental health problems in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Systematic review methods were employed. Searches of ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2024)In the South African education system, there is consistent concern about academic success and how it can be supported. Using a positive psychology lens could add additional insight on aspects of positive psychological ...
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(Deakin University, 2024-04)This article uses the idea and practice of the mask and masking technology in the popular Mission: Impossible film franchise to critically consider the tensions between digital and analogue. In the Mission: Impossible ...
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(Deakin University, 2024-04)During the medical superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, from 1890 to 1907, he was watchful of his patients’ appearances, facial expressions and conduct. Of particular interest, ...
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(Deakin University, 2024-04)Screen technologies, ranging from the cinema to the smartphone, are taken for granted in the contemporary screen landscape. This landscape has been referred to as the “screen-sphere” (Sobchack 2014) owing to the fundamental ...
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(Deakin University, 2024-04)In this introductory essay to the special issue on “Persona and Inter(face)”, the problem of collapsing or imploding inter(faces) is explored. The basic argument is that the inter(face) needs to remain in-between or ...
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Exploring a process-relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science (Wiley, 2024-08)As sustainability scientists increasingly put forward the relevance of process-relational approaches to make sense of social-ecological phenomena, an inquiry on which methods would fit a process-relational approach is ...
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(Unisa Press, 2024-08)This article explores the idea and articulation of place in Taylor Sheridan’s western series 1883 and Yellowstone. Through narrative and genre analysis, we critically compare these two series to demonstrate that genre ...
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(Unisa Press, 2024-11)In this article, I examine the representation of displacement in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1969). Head not only features displaced characters but also depicts, through her protagonists, the struggles that ...
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(Emerald, 2024-03)PURPOSE – As the subject of female criminology in South Africa has only recently been dealt with in a qualitative manner, this paper aims to explore if there is a potential link between rehabilitation, reintegration support ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-10)OBJECTIVE: To better understand the clinical phenotype of Ménière's disease (MD), we examined family history, thyroid disorder, migraine, and associated disorders in complaints of people living with MD. METHOD: We designed ...
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(African Minds, 2024-12)The devastation and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to pervade almost every sphere of human existence, albeit arguably increasingly nuanced. As we move into the post-pandemic world, it is essential to reflect ...
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(Elmer Press, 2024-11)This paper describes a case study of a 56-year-old male patient with a small cavernous hemangioma and concurrent peripheral vestibular symptoms, initially thought to warrant neurosurgical intervention. A structured, ...
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(Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2024-12)The right to basic education is a fundamental human right, the realisation of which is dependent on the holistic fulfillment of all educational needs. The study reflects on the interpretation of basic education by the South ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2025-03)Die grense van grammatikale kategorieë wat op skoolvlak gebruik word, soos bysinne, behoort nie wollerig te wees nie. Tog wys Van der Merwe (1966) op die onduidelike grense van bysinkategorieë en op die feit dat ...
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(Springer, 2024-09)This commentary reflects on the tensions inherent in enacting creative, co-produced, and participatory methods with younger co-researchers who are also climate justice advocates. Whilst participatory research with young ...
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(UCL Press, 2024)This article traces how historical constructions of Jews – informed by protean notions of social, cultural, and physical difference in Europe – were transplanted into the colonial imagination, infusing the writings ...