It is commonplace for organisations to collect personal information to be processed and stored on their systems. Until recently, there was no comprehensive legislation that addressed the ‘processing’ of personal information by organisations in South Africa. The Protection of Personal Information Bill (“POPI”) was signed into law in November 2013 and is expected to come into effect, later this y...

OBJECTIVE There is evidence that non-English speakers in the United States receive lower quality health care and preventive services than English speakers. We tested the hypothesis that Spanish-speaking women would respond differently to an intervention to increase up-to-date status for cancer screening. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A multisite randomized controlled trial showed that scripted tel...

Instant messaging (IM), a form of quasi-synchronous communication over the Internet, is a popular medium, with over 69 million reported users in the US, and over 82 million in Europe. 3 Speaking broadly of online discourse genres, IM is most clearly related to Internet chat, in which multiple users send messages in real time to a central location, where they are displayed for all those ‘logged ...

This paper is a cross-linguistic examination of teachers’ perception of morphologically-mediated spelling patterns, compared with children’s actual spelling performance on these same patterns. The study was conducted on two languages differing greatly in their typologies: Hebrew and Dutch. The research design of this study consisted of two spelling tests, one for Hebrew and one for Dutch. Each ...