This discussion paper delves into the current state of academic Statistics in South Africa, specifically development an early career supervisor Statistics. The discussions held by authors on this topic since 2020 have resulted clear need for action academics motivates a solution involving guiding rubric doctoral thesis coupled with active network across Africa.

Natural language is a pervasive human skill not yet fully achievable by automated computing systems. The main challenge is understanding how to computationally model both the depth and the breadth of natural languages. In this thesis, I present two probabilistic models that systematically model both the depth and the breadth of natural languages for two different linguistic tasks: syntactic par...

Our ability to characterize protein structure and dynamics is vastly outpaced by the speed of modern genetic sequencing, creating a growing divide between our knowledge of biological sequence and structure. Structural modeling algorithms offer the hope to bridge this gap through computational exploration of the sequence determinants of structure diversity. In this thesis, we introduce new algor...

This thesis presents time-optimal self-stabilizing algorithms for distributed spanning tree computation in asynchronous networks. We present both a randomized algorithm for anonymous networks as well as a deterministic version for ID-based networks. Our protocols are the rst to be time-optimal (i.e. stabilize in time O(diameter)) without any prior knowledge of the network size or diameter. Both...

Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these models, potential systemic flaws have not been fully addressed, particularly the potential for unintentional discrimination. This discrimination could be on the basis of race, ge...

This article presents a method to help PhD candidates in the implementation of Design-Based Research (DBR). It focuses on process and set guides designed accompany doctoral different stages their thesis. also proposes tenth principle concerning definition indicators used drive Evaluation is driven using qualitative approach. Training programmes were conducted with 57 students 47 supervisors 201...

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date SIRTUIN 3 IS A CRITICAL REGULATOR OF LIVER SUPEROXIDE METABOLISM DURING EARLY AND LATE EFFECTS OF WHOLE BODY

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OF PhD THESIS STUDY ON EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION OF THE PROTEINS INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING GENOME INTEGRITY PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rusu Mircea Grigore PhD Candidate: Stănescu Raluca Ştefania