• Case study: Cell-Life

  

  Author: Willmers, Michelle ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study analyses the ways in which the Cell-Life initiative, a collaboration between the University of Cape Town's departments of Civil and Electrical Engineering and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, utilised technology-based ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: The Health and Human Rights Programme

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study provides an overview of the Health and Human Rights Project (HHRP), which was established and run collaboratively by the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine and a human rights NGO, the Trauma ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: Custom-designed virtual experiment in fracture mechanics in Mechanical Engineering

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 30 Nov 2008 This case study describes the development and use of a custom-designed virtual experiment in Mechanical Engineering which partially simulates the concept of metal fatigue to help student engage with a complex practical application. It then ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: Interactive spreadsheets

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 30 Nov 2008 This paper describes how the Department of Statistics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) currently uses interactive spreadsheets to assist students in analysing and preparing summaries of data. It explores some of the potential benefits ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: Simulations for visualisation of complex processes and principles in chemical engineering and in physics

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This paper describes two case studies where open source software (OSS) has been used to create simulations to assist students in visualising complex processes in university courses. The first case reviews the use of Python to help students ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: Mobile learning

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Ng'ambi, Dick Date: 28 Feb 2009 At the University of Cape Town (UCT) mobile learning is being adopted for teaching and learning purposes. This paper describes the use of the Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ) tool, designed and developed at UCT by Dick Ng‟ambi, as a ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: UCT Press

  

  Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 31 Jul 2009 The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas. The OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subject for case study in ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: Feminist Africa

  

  Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a journal, Feminist Africa, in the context of an academic department at the University of Cape Town. The journal is of particular interest, because, being situated in the African ... Read more c b n a
• Case study: South African Review of Sociology

  

  Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a scholarly society journal, the South African Review of Sociology, in a context in which the Scientific Editor is a senior member of an academic department at the University of ... Read more c b n a
• The OpeningScholarship project: Executive summary

  

  Author: Gray, Eve ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 31 Aug 2009 Executive summary of the OpeningScholarship project, established in July 2007 and hosted by the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the main aim of this project was to explore ... Read more c b n a
• Delivering a research mission in an ICT-mediated information age: The case of the University of Cape Town

  

  Author: Gray, Eve Date: 31 Aug 2009 This report provides an overview of policies, practices and infrastructure at the University of Cape Town (UCT) related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for research publication. The report will primarily be ... Read more c b n a
• National environmental scan of South African scholarly publishing

  

  Author: Gray, Eve Date: 30 Apr 2009 Undertaken as part of the OpeningScholarship project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), this position paper reviews the national environment for the use of ICTs for research dissemination and publication in the South African higher education ... Read more c b n a
• International environmental scan of the use of ICTs for community engagement in higher education

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle ; Steenkamp-Fonseca, Raymond Date: 28 Feb 2009 This position paper provides a brief overview of how higher education institutions (HEIs) internationally are using ICTs to enhance their engagement with the broader community and highlights some applications which could be useful for South ... Read more c b n a
• The Agreed Method to Determine the Maximum Sardine Catch West of Cape Agulhas During 2017

  

  Author: de Moor, C L Date: Jun 2017 This document details the method agreed at the Small Pelagic Scientific Working Group meeting on 27th June 2017 to be used to inform the maximum directed >14cm sardine catch to be recommended to be caught west of Cape Agulhas during 2017. The ... Read more
• Violence, alcohol and symptoms of depression and in Cape Town's poorest communities: results of a community survey

  

  Author: Cassidy, Tali ; Lloyd, Sam ; Bowman, Brett ; Myers, J E ; Parry, Charles ; Makanga, Tatenda ; Corrigall, Joanne ; Thompson, Mary Lou ; Matzopoulos, Richard Date: 20 Apr 2018 Introduction This paper summarises key findings from the first of three household surveys conducted in three high-violence areas in the Cape Town, investigating community members’ experiences of alcohol use, their built environment, violence ... Read more
• The 2017 Horse Mackerel Updated Assessment

  

  Author: Johnston, S J ; Butterworth, D S Date: Sep 2017 FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/51 provided a full description of the current stock assessment model for the South African Horse Mackerel. FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/52 reported updated 2016 assessments for a number of model variants where the ... Read more
• A spatially structured stock assessment for the South African hake resource with movement based on a gravity model, and including fitting to outputs from the GeoPop Model

  

  Author: Rademeyer, Rebecca A ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: Mar 2017 The gravity model of explicit spatial movement for the two South African hake species is extended to take account of advice from a mini-task group as on the plausibility of some earlier estimates of movement proportions and to incorporate ... Read more c b
• Specifications of the South African Hake 2016 Reference Case Assessment

  

  Author: Rademeyer, R A ; Butterworth, D S Date: Feb 2017 This paper gives full algebraic specifications of the 2016 South African hake Reference Case assessment. The data used as input to the Reference Case are listed in Appendix A. Parameter estimates and detailed values for different contributions ... Read more c b
• 2017 updated South Coast Rock Lobster assessment results

  

  Author: Johnston, S J ; Butterworth, D S Date: Aug 2017 The 2017 assessment of the resource is updated given two further years of data now available. Recruitment is estimated to have increased over the last two seasons compared to the previous three seasons when recruitment was estimated to be ... Read more c b
• West coast rock lobster projections to 2021 under the current TAC 2016 levels

  

  Author: Johnston, S J ; Butterworth, D S Date: Jan 2017 The SWG TAC recommendations for the next five years corresponded to reducing the previous recovery target by 2021 compared to 2006 from a 35% increase down to about a 7% decrease in median terms. The final DAFF decision was to leave the TAC ... Read more

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