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Counting coloured boxes
This thesis consists of the manuscripts of two research papers. In the first paper, we verify a recent conjecture of Kenyon/Szendroi by computing the generating function for pyramid partitions. Pyramid partitions are closely related to Aztec Diamonds; their generating function turns out to be the …
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Structurally coloured bacterial colonies
… response of the previously reported structurally coloured bacteria Flavobacterium strain IR1. Moreover, using the same methods, it was then studied how variations in the nutrient conditions affect the optical response of the colony, revealing a highly specific metabolic pathway that is involved in …
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Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
… sexual and racial lack. Dorothy Stevens' Coloured Nude (1933) is symptomatic of this unique fetishization, a state which is indicative of the positioning of "Black Woman" as dichotomous to idealized white womanhood. Representations of black women in Canadian painting in the 1930's locate …
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Different Coloured Tears: Bicultural Bereavement Perspectives
The research explored the pathways that Māori and Pākehā bicultural whānau follow in mourning, grieving and moving on through life, in response to the death of a signficant loved one. Of specific interest were sites of conflict, processes of negotiation and pathways to resolution occuring across …
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Multiparameter quantum groups: contractions and coloured generalisations.
… scheme is then set in the wider context of the coloured extensions of these deformations, namely, the so-called ‘coloured’ quantum groups. The contraction procedure is generalised to the coloured quantum group GL lambda, mu over r(2) to yield a new Jordanian quantum group GL lambda, mu over …
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Coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation
This research investigated coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation. The research was done in an engineering manufacturing company in Epping, Cape Town. Fifty-six subjects were selected by means of a stratified random sample. Subjects were weekly paid factory workers in …
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The coloured cube test and the coloured mental rotation test: two new measures of spatial ability and mental rotation
… The test format is similar to the Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices Test (RCPM) which also served as a validation tool. The first new test, the Rotated Colour Cube Test (RCCT), consists of multicoloured single cubes in different orientations. Three age groups of 7- to 10-year-old …
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Pubertal development in white and coloured urban schoolgirls
… stages of pubertal development of white and coloured school girls living in greater Cape Town. 2. The relationship between the age of menarche and the other stages of pubertal development, social class and race. 3. The influence of home environment (childminder, sibling number, maternal …
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Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative
In this study I explore how coloured identity has been historically produced as a monolithic racial category, focussing on how performance offers critically generative ways of addressing and contesting the politics and meanings of colouredness in post-apartheid South Africa. This study explores the …
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Khoe, San, Coloured, controvert or conform: Physical attributes influencing the formation of cultural identity in ""Coloured"" women of the Western and Northern Cape
… people classified under the Apartheid regime as Coloured. Racist, derogatory past classificatory terms which refer to Khoe and San persons, still haunt many people to the extent that they have chosen to disassociate from their indigenous ancestry and internalize and embrace the Apartheid …
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Can coloured men be good fathers and will society let them? An intergenerational exploration of coloured men in Cape Town and their caring practices
… from fathers to sons, particularly within Coloured families. Statistics concerning the number of Coloured men who are ‘present’ fathers suggest an overwhelming absence: up to 48% of families are without a father. The historical and social perceptions of Coloured men have often painted them …
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Through a Coloured Lens: Post-Apartheid Indentity amongst Coloureds in KZN
… concept useful in describing the ethnogenesis of Coloureds as a new group of people in South Africa. To call Coloured people "creole" deviates from the prescribed racialized and informal definition of them as "mixed-race" thereby also circumventing the idea of racial "purity." Recognizing that …
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Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities
… risk behaviours amongst a group of marginalised 'coloured' men from two deprived communities, one urban and one rural, in Cape Town, South Africa. To achieve this aim, the research examined two broad questions. The first question asked: What levels of conformity to masculinity norms are expressed …
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Leliefontein : structure and decline of a Coloured mission community 1870-1913
Leliefontein is a Coloured Reserve in the magisterial district of Namaqualand. There are five Coloured Reserves in Namaqualand: Leliefontein, Komaggas, Steinkopf, Concordia and Richtersveld. All these Reserves owe their existence to missionary influence. Leliefontein is the most southerly of the …
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Racial attitude development in black, white and coloured South African children
… groups. The sample consisted of black, white and coloured children from the Cape Town area. The study aimed to examine developmental patterns of own-group preference and out-group prejudice, as well as the efficacy of the Katz- Zalk Projective Prejudice Test (Katz and Zalk, 1976) in the South …
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The notion of reconciliation as part of the emerging coloured identity
… striving for unity and reconciliation, black and coloured Christians, however, were unanimous in their rejection of cheap reconciliation without justice. Since this country's first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africa has had to face many new challenges to the democratic process. One …
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The Independent Churches of the Coloured people of the Cape Flats.
The Coloured people of the Cape Flats, which lie at the foot of Table Mountain adjacent to Cape Town, represent a people unique in many ways. Racially, they are the product of the mixing of several groups over the period of many years, but culturally they are very similar to the Whites who rule …
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