A survey of the classification of fuzzy subgroups of some finite groups
- Authors: Makamba, Babington
- Date: 2015-03-18
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11981 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1016591
- Description: In this lecture we survey the classification of fuzzy subgroups of finite groups as studied byProf. B.B Makamba and V. Murali. We present the impact of the research on our postgraduate students. The classification is focusing on finite abelian p-groups and dihedral groups, giving a mixture of abelian and non-abelian groups. We show some highlights and what still needs to be done in the classification of fuzzy subgroups. We also touch on what other researchers have achieved in the classification of fuzzy subgroups and how our work is related to theirs. We begin with a historical background of fuzzy logic. , Inaugural Lecture Address by Prof. Babington Makamba- A survey of the classification of fuzzy subgroups of some finite groups.
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- Date Issued: 2015-03-18
- Authors: Makamba, Babington
- Date: 2015-03-18
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11981 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1016591
- Description: In this lecture we survey the classification of fuzzy subgroups of finite groups as studied byProf. B.B Makamba and V. Murali. We present the impact of the research on our postgraduate students. The classification is focusing on finite abelian p-groups and dihedral groups, giving a mixture of abelian and non-abelian groups. We show some highlights and what still needs to be done in the classification of fuzzy subgroups. We also touch on what other researchers have achieved in the classification of fuzzy subgroups and how our work is related to theirs. We begin with a historical background of fuzzy logic. , Inaugural Lecture Address by Prof. Babington Makamba- A survey of the classification of fuzzy subgroups of some finite groups.
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- Date Issued: 2015-03-18
Water and its microbiome: our allies or nemeses? Judge for yourself
- Authors: Okoh, Anthony I
- Date: 2013-11-06
- Subjects: Population growth , Water usage , Urbanisation , Water conservation , Water microbiome -- waste water
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11978 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007259 , Population growth , Water usage , Urbanisation , Water conservation , Water microbiome -- waste water
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- Date Issued: 2013-11-06
- Authors: Okoh, Anthony I
- Date: 2013-11-06
- Subjects: Population growth , Water usage , Urbanisation , Water conservation , Water microbiome -- waste water
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11978 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007259 , Population growth , Water usage , Urbanisation , Water conservation , Water microbiome -- waste water
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- Date Issued: 2013-11-06
Moving from bureacracy to revocracy: the role of leaders in accelerating transformation and service delivery in the public service
- Authors: Thakathi, Dovhani Reckson
- Date: 2013-09-10
- Subjects: Bureacracy -- revocracy , Service delivery
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007275 , Bureacracy -- revocracy , Service delivery
- Description: Public Service
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- Date Issued: 2013-09-10
- Authors: Thakathi, Dovhani Reckson
- Date: 2013-09-10
- Subjects: Bureacracy -- revocracy , Service delivery
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007275 , Bureacracy -- revocracy , Service delivery
- Description: Public Service
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- Date Issued: 2013-09-10
Information security and the dark side of trust
- Authors: Flowerday, Stephen
- Date: 2013-08-07
- Subjects: Information security , Information age , Cyber fraud , Social media , Internet , Trust , Systems theory
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11970 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007234 , Information security , Information age , Cyber fraud , Social media , Internet , Trust , Systems theory
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- Date Issued: 2013-08-07
- Authors: Flowerday, Stephen
- Date: 2013-08-07
- Subjects: Information security , Information age , Cyber fraud , Social media , Internet , Trust , Systems theory
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11970 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007234 , Information security , Information age , Cyber fraud , Social media , Internet , Trust , Systems theory
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- Date Issued: 2013-08-07
A farm to fork approach to meat science
- Authors: Muchenje, Voster
- Date: 2013-06-10
- Subjects: Animal welfare , Biomarkers , Slaughtering and slaughter-houses , Nguni cattle , Meat consumption , Sensory evaluation , Meat industry and trade -- Quality control , Meat quality
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007272 , Animal welfare , Biomarkers , Slaughtering and slaughter-houses , Nguni cattle , Meat consumption , Sensory evaluation , Meat industry and trade -- Quality control , Meat quality
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- Date Issued: 2013-06-10
- Authors: Muchenje, Voster
- Date: 2013-06-10
- Subjects: Animal welfare , Biomarkers , Slaughtering and slaughter-houses , Nguni cattle , Meat consumption , Sensory evaluation , Meat industry and trade -- Quality control , Meat quality
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007272 , Animal welfare , Biomarkers , Slaughtering and slaughter-houses , Nguni cattle , Meat consumption , Sensory evaluation , Meat industry and trade -- Quality control , Meat quality
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- Date Issued: 2013-06-10
Climate smart soil management: a win-win response to climate change and food security challenges
- Authors: Mnkeni, Pearson
- Subjects: Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11980 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011255 , Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
- Description: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a major food security challenge as a result of projected fast increases in population growth and continuing declining per capita food availability. This calls for accelerated increases in productivity to meet expected increases in food demand. However, the soils from which the extra production is to come from are highly degraded, especially in South Africa where a large proportion of the land is ranked as having high degradation potential. This is compounded by the increasing climate change challenge which will render more land unfavourable for production. The climate change is mainly caused by global warming believed to be a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The link between soil carbon, food security, and climate change will be explained in this paper. It will be shown that the high degradation status of South African soils is related to their low organic carbon contents. Efforts to restore their productivity must include strategies to minimize further loss of organic matter and encouraging carbon sequestration. Some interventions investigated with the help of my students and collaborators are presented. They include use of farmer available organic materials that can be applied to soils to improve soil carbon sequestration and fertility status; use of cyanobacteria to improve soil carbon sequestration and soil biogeochemical performance; and the adoption of conservation agriculture.
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- Authors: Mnkeni, Pearson
- Subjects: Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11980 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011255 , Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
- Description: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a major food security challenge as a result of projected fast increases in population growth and continuing declining per capita food availability. This calls for accelerated increases in productivity to meet expected increases in food demand. However, the soils from which the extra production is to come from are highly degraded, especially in South Africa where a large proportion of the land is ranked as having high degradation potential. This is compounded by the increasing climate change challenge which will render more land unfavourable for production. The climate change is mainly caused by global warming believed to be a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The link between soil carbon, food security, and climate change will be explained in this paper. It will be shown that the high degradation status of South African soils is related to their low organic carbon contents. Efforts to restore their productivity must include strategies to minimize further loss of organic matter and encouraging carbon sequestration. Some interventions investigated with the help of my students and collaborators are presented. They include use of farmer available organic materials that can be applied to soils to improve soil carbon sequestration and fertility status; use of cyanobacteria to improve soil carbon sequestration and soil biogeochemical performance; and the adoption of conservation agriculture.
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Grasping hidden histories and land struggles amidst a democratising South Africa
- Authors: Wotshela, Luvuyo
- Subjects: South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11983 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1013045 , South Africa
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- Authors: Wotshela, Luvuyo
- Subjects: South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11983 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1013045 , South Africa
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Remedial interventions in public procurement processes: an appraisal of recent appellate jurisprudence in search of principles
- Authors: Osode, Patrick
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007279
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- Authors: Osode, Patrick
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007279
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Social acts and projections of change
- Authors: Minkley, G
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011241
- Description: This lecture considers the question of the social from within the workings of the SARChI Chair in Social Change. Rather than accepting ‘the social’ as something that is given, it proposes that we problematize and ‘re: work’ the social as being a hybrid domain, as being spatially diverse and as being enacted. An argument for ‘social acts’, which are related to, but not the same as actors and actions is proposed as a means to read and understand the social and projections of social change in new ways. While social acts produce actors and need actors to be actualised, social acts themselves produce ruptures in the given, entail a remaining in the scene and they always involve others and the Other in altering projections of the social, of ‘other socials’, and of projections of change. In practice too, the enactment of the social and the material as integrally associative decentre the object, bringing it into view as one that is also socially enacted, requiring continuing effort, choreography, staging, repetition, but also rupture. To enact, then, is to realize a rupture in the given-ness of the social and to necessarily attend to the unexpected, unpredictable and unknown of the social and its equally enacted and re-worked projections of change.
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- Authors: Minkley, G
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011241
- Description: This lecture considers the question of the social from within the workings of the SARChI Chair in Social Change. Rather than accepting ‘the social’ as something that is given, it proposes that we problematize and ‘re: work’ the social as being a hybrid domain, as being spatially diverse and as being enacted. An argument for ‘social acts’, which are related to, but not the same as actors and actions is proposed as a means to read and understand the social and projections of social change in new ways. While social acts produce actors and need actors to be actualised, social acts themselves produce ruptures in the given, entail a remaining in the scene and they always involve others and the Other in altering projections of the social, of ‘other socials’, and of projections of change. In practice too, the enactment of the social and the material as integrally associative decentre the object, bringing it into view as one that is also socially enacted, requiring continuing effort, choreography, staging, repetition, but also rupture. To enact, then, is to realize a rupture in the given-ness of the social and to necessarily attend to the unexpected, unpredictable and unknown of the social and its equally enacted and re-worked projections of change.
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South Africa`s reflections and juxtapositions of puffery psychodynamic evaluation of public administration shortcomings: public protests versus elections outcomes
- Ijeoma, Edwin Okechukwu Chikata
- Authors: Ijeoma, Edwin Okechukwu Chikata
- Subjects: Public procurement , Service delivery , Corruption , Tender fraud , Cadre deployment , Law courts
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11972 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007762 , Public procurement , Service delivery , Corruption , Tender fraud , Cadre deployment , Law courts
- Description: As the country concludes the second decade since the dawn of the new democratic dispensation in South Africa, there has been an explosion in the magnitude and intensity of service delivery related protest in the entire country. Such grumbling actions are a sign of the perceived growing frustration of the citizens of the failure of their government to provide service to them or a situation catalysed by the “enemies of the state”?. The governing party has to reflect on its policies and practices so as to rectify these in line with satisfying the citizens since these are the voters-cum-tax payers. Ironically, the protests related to service rendering are more frequent in the strongholds of the governing party, a situation which has led to some scholars handpicking the cadre deployment policy of the governing party as a failure. There are various incidences where residents or citizens had to take to the streets in protest of the manner in which the government has addressed the plight of the ordinary citizens. Some of these protests have turned into running battles between the residents and the police, sometimes even leading to death of protestors. One case in point is the death in Ficksburg of Andres Tatane on the 13 of April 2011, a protester from rubber bullet wounds in the Free State Province. The death has also been labelled a failure on the side of the police, same as those of the Marikana miners and the Mozambican Mido Macia on the 27 of February 2013, who also succumbed to police inflicted injuries. This paper probes the outcomes of elections and service delivery in the wake of the protracted rise in public service delivery protests. The paper also provides some recommendations which the governing parties can consider in reshaping its mandate and policies aimed at elimination the frequency of Public protest everywhere in the country.
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- Authors: Ijeoma, Edwin Okechukwu Chikata
- Subjects: Public procurement , Service delivery , Corruption , Tender fraud , Cadre deployment , Law courts
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11972 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007762 , Public procurement , Service delivery , Corruption , Tender fraud , Cadre deployment , Law courts
- Description: As the country concludes the second decade since the dawn of the new democratic dispensation in South Africa, there has been an explosion in the magnitude and intensity of service delivery related protest in the entire country. Such grumbling actions are a sign of the perceived growing frustration of the citizens of the failure of their government to provide service to them or a situation catalysed by the “enemies of the state”?. The governing party has to reflect on its policies and practices so as to rectify these in line with satisfying the citizens since these are the voters-cum-tax payers. Ironically, the protests related to service rendering are more frequent in the strongholds of the governing party, a situation which has led to some scholars handpicking the cadre deployment policy of the governing party as a failure. There are various incidences where residents or citizens had to take to the streets in protest of the manner in which the government has addressed the plight of the ordinary citizens. Some of these protests have turned into running battles between the residents and the police, sometimes even leading to death of protestors. One case in point is the death in Ficksburg of Andres Tatane on the 13 of April 2011, a protester from rubber bullet wounds in the Free State Province. The death has also been labelled a failure on the side of the police, same as those of the Marikana miners and the Mozambican Mido Macia on the 27 of February 2013, who also succumbed to police inflicted injuries. This paper probes the outcomes of elections and service delivery in the wake of the protracted rise in public service delivery protests. The paper also provides some recommendations which the governing parties can consider in reshaping its mandate and policies aimed at elimination the frequency of Public protest everywhere in the country.
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