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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"wits"”.
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Wits imagined: an investigation into Wits University's public roles and responsibilities, 1922 - 1994
… of the University, namely the foundation of Wits (1910s and 1920s); early debates about the entry of Black staff and students (1930s and 1940s); the Academic Freedom protests (starting in the mid-1950s) and the formation of the Wits History Workshop (from 1977 to the early 1990s). In each of …
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"Pseudo-wits and polished frauds" : directing Molière's The Learned Ladies
“Pseudo-wits and polished frauds”: directing Molière's The Learned Ladies examines the preparation, pre-production, and rehearsal process behind The Learned Ladies, staged at the University of British Columbia’s Frederic Wood Theatre from February 7-16, 2008. As detailed in the following paper, my …
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The experience of sexuality of male cancer patients under palliative care at Hospice Wits Houghton
The experience of advanced cancer leaves in its wake devastating effects, which are both complex and multi-dimensional for the patient, their family and society. The consequences are far-reaching and span psychological, physical and sexual dimensions. Unfortunately sexual dimensions are least …
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Readiness for research data management in the life sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
… state of RDM readiness in the life sciences at Wits to ascertain what support is needed with regards to RDM. In order to achieve the aim, the current RDM practices and needs of researchers, as well as the challenges they face, were investigated. The Jisc Research Data Lifecycle (Jisc, 2021a) was …
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Connections Matter: Implicit infrastructures and Electricity Access in Witsand, Cape Town
For most residents living in Wits and, on Cape Town's north-western urban periphery, electricity access involves piecing together electricity wires and connecting them to Eskom transmission lines or tampering with Eskom prepaid meters and recharging with cheaper black market electricity vouchers. …
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Disruptive bodies and peripheral politics: How naked protests disrupt the patriarchal public sphere
… at the University of Witwatersrand (hereafter Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa staged a naked protest to call for a ceasefire during the peak of the #FeesMustFall (FMF) protests. The FMF movement emerged in late 2015 as a student revolt against costly higher education fees especially for …
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An analysis of internet traffic flow in SANReN using active and passive measurements
… causing high delays (medians of 25.26 ms to WITS, 25.47 ms to UJ, and 25.95 ms to UNISA) and high page load times (medians of 237.07 ms to WITS, 272.09 ms to UNISA, 280.47 ms to UJ transferring 31594 bytes of data). Using Cape Town as the traffic source resulted in a low median throughput of …
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Becoming liberal : a history of the National Union of South African students : 1945-1955
… group, predominantly left-wing radicals based at Wits, called for NUSAS to become a racially more inclusive organisation and admit Fort Hare to membership.
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A Streetcar Named Kanye West
… zany mystery, filled with slapsticks and low-wits. In this powerhouse action adventure, buddy-cop-bonanza, there is no respite from hilarity and political intrigue. With cameos aplenty, a trolley chase, and one very live-wire prop comedian, this thing has got it all, friends. You didn’t ask …
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The economic impact of the Writers-in-the-Schools program at UNLV: 2003
… surveys to determine the economic impact of the WITS program in the Las Vegas community. Four nationally recognized writers conducted public readings at UNLV, and those that attended these events were the subject of this study. Through employing the logit and probit methods of estimation in a …
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The Development of a Vascularly Implanted Prosthetic Endocrine Pancreas
… increased the lag time of prototype wits and the uniformity of the protein coating could not be guaranteed...
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User-centered product design of live-action game experiences
… and challenges participants of all ages. 5 Wits Productions is in the process of producing a live-action game experience based around dozens of "rooms" that each contain physical and mental challenges for small groups of guests to solve. Using the elements of user-centric design such as …
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Diversity of fungi associated with dieback of Ziziphus Mucronata in Limpopo Province, South Africa
… Tshikundamalema, Buzzard Mountain Farm and Wits Rural Facility to identify fungi from branches of Z. mucronata showing dieback symptoms. Symptomatic branches were collected from each site and processed in the laboratory before primary isolations. Isolates obtained from the samples collected …
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Profile Attractiveness in Borderline Class III Surgical/Orthodontic Cases
… than -4° and less than 1°, and 4) had a Wits appraisal less than -1.5mm and greater than -4mm. Patients with craniofacial anomalies and skin conditions were excluded from this study. Two groups of thirty raters evaluated the profile images for facial attractiveness by marking a 10 cm …
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Development Of West Indies College, 1907-1960: A Historical Study
… community. (7) West Indian Training School (WITS) began as an industrial school at a time when the people of Jamaica perceived manual training as an effort to restrict them to the lower level of society. (8) Ideological differences concerning the direction of the school and curriculum …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… depiction of Wit in his “cross-over” comedy The Wits is compared with John Fletcher‟s “cross-over” comedy Wit Without Money. Reference is made to comedies by Sir Robert Howard and John Wilson which did not themselves “cross over” but which nevertheless comment on “cross-over” themes, particularly …
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Association of Nasal Septum Area and Deviation with Anteroposterior Maxillary Position and Facial Skeletal Asymmetries
… total maxillary length (R²=60.80%), and Wits (R²=14.20%). In males, the model association was significant with total maxillary length (R²=35.20%), SNB (R²=31.40%), and ANB (R²=40.00%). ASD and skeletal asymmetries were split into right and left deviations and tested for association with …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… in the stories of girls and women who use their wits to achieve their desires or to keep themselves safe. Two areas where women excel as Tricksters are in persuasive or language tricks and in sexual tricks Sexual tricks can take a variety of forms, and include bed tricks, gender reversal, and …
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“Speaking as one African to another”: friendship as politics in the letters of Robert Sobukwe and Benjamin Pogrund, 1960-1969
… by Benjamin Pogrund in the early 1990s to the Wits Historical Research Papers archive at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and were subsequently digitized and made available online. In addition to the letters, I also draw on a collection of public speeches made by Sobukwe in …
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Women's wit on stage, 1660-1720
… and Mary Pix were referred to as ‘the female wits’ during their life-time, women’s wit has not been the focus of academic study in their work or the work of male dramatists from the Restoration onwards. I expand the view of wit as intellectual or humorous discourse to develop women’s ‘pregnant …
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