University of Venda

A protocol for developing a culturally relevant framework to promote Indigenous Games as a strategy to enhance youth wellbeing in rural communities in Limpopo Province

<ns5:p>South Africa has the highest rate of non-communicable diseases in the Southern African Development Community. The South African government has developed sports and recreation legislation to provide infrastructure that addresses non-communicable diseases and promotes health...

Machine Learning-Based Crisis Detection Framework for Banking Systems: A Case Study of Nigeria

Banking crises are a persistent threat to macroeconomic stability in emerging markets, where conventional econometric monitoring frameworks often fail to capture non-linear macro-financial relationships. This paper examines whether machine learning algorithms can improve the dete...

Metabolic reprogramming in finger millet following ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis

Finger millet is a climate-resilient cereal crop with strong potential for improving food security in marginal environments; however, its improvement has been constrained by low natural genetic variability. This limitation has prompted the use of mutation breeding to expand genet...

Monitoring and Human Health Assessment of Trace Elements in Fresh and Dry Fish From Lake Kariba, Siavonga, Zambia

This study investigated the levels of trace elements in two fish species, Kariba bream (Oreochromis mortimeri) and Kapenta (Limnothrissa miodon) from Lake Kariba in two consecutive years, 2021 and 2022. Both Kariba Bream fresh/sun-dried muscle and sun-dried Kapenta tissues were d...

On the Numerical Solution of the Multiscale Models Characterising Noroviral Infectious Disease Systems Using the Multistage Spectral the Relaxation Method and the Nonstandard Finite Difference Method

Multiscale models for infectious disease systems are highly nonlinear. This presents substantial difficulties for both analysis and computation. Consequently, there is a continuous demand for the development of efficient numerical methods that provide reliable solutions. Over tim...