Durban University of Technology

More than a Meal: The Cultural Imaginary and Practices Behind Student Access to University Canteens in Milan

University canteens occupy a structurally significant position within European higher education, functioning simultaneously as food security infrastructures, socioeconomic equalizers, and community-building spaces. Yet, access to these services remains deeply uneven, shaped by fi...

Preserving Participant Meaning in AI-Mediated Multilingual Qualitative Research

<ns5:p>Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering multilingual qualitative research through automated transcription, translation, coding, summarisation and quotation editing. Existing scholarship has examined many of these practices separately. Yet qualitative claims are usually...

Survival analysis of maternal, household, environmental, and child-level determinants of under-five mortality in Nigeria

In Africa, Nigeria bears the highest burden of under-five mortality, with an estimated 850,000 under-five deaths from preventable causes reported in 2024. Existing evidence has not applied a time to event approach using recent nationwide data to examine factors associated with ch...

Gravimetric, culture-based and public transcriptomic perspectives on low-density polyethylene feeding in Galleria mellonella

Abstract Galleria mellonella can remove substantial amounts of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), but host and microbial contributions remain unresolved. We examined whether antimicrobial exposure altered time-dependent LDPE mass disappearance and integrated gravimetric, culture-ba...

Economic and Environmental Framework of Producing Green Hydrogen from Groundwater in South Africa: A Systematic Review

The hydrogen economy has emerged as a promising pathway to address climate change and ensure long-term global energy security, with water electrolysis powered by renewable energy as a key enabler of sustainable hydrogen production. Recent advances in various electrolyser technolo...

“AI’s Good, but People Have Hearts”: Artificial Intelligence in Data-Driven Journalism in Ghanaian Newsrooms

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers tremendous potential to advance data journalism by empowering journalists to analyse massive datasets and produce insights for investigative reporting. Through the lens of the technology acceptance model and the social construction of technolog...

The quantile effects of retrofitting policies on rental price appreciation among student housing in Ghana

Purpose Despite global evidence of retrofitting effects on building performance, there is a key research gap: the impact of retrofitting policies on rental price appreciation in the student housing rental market. This study aims to examine the quantile effects of retrofitting on...