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University of South Africa
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About: University of South Africa is a education organization based out in Pretoria, South Africa. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 8478 authors who have published 19960 publications receiving 237688 citations. The organization is also known as: Unisa.
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09 Oct 2006TL;DR: An investigation into the role of personality diversity within teams of tertiary students taking a course in software engineering confirms that both personality diversity in teams as well as competence of teams impacts positively on team performance.
Abstract: Reflection on software engineering as a sub-discipline within computer science reveals that it is as much about people and teamwork as it is about technical expertise. It is therefore important that a software engineer is not only competent in software development but also able to work effectively in a team. Based on the scholarly literature we derived a simple model for team composition and used it to guide, without coercion, our students during team formation. This research reports on an investigation into the role of personality diversity within teams of tertiary students taking a course in software engineering. Data collected confirms that both personality diversity in teams as well as competence of teams impacts positively on team performance. In contrast to other studies, our research data does not seek to couple personality with appropriate role allocation in the team; rather, our measurement is in respect of "raw" team diversity alone. In this study the correlation between personality diversity and the success of teams were captured at different stages during the development of a software engineering project tackled by the teams. The same was done with correlation between competence and team success. The personality diversity of the teams showed a strong correlation with team success during the inception phase. This correlation however weakened during the course of the year while the correlation between competence and success started slightly weaker than personality diversity during the inception phase, but grew very strong towards the completion of the team projects.
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TL;DR: The prediction performance of decision tree algorithms will be studied, an in-depth review will be conducted on relevant researches that attempted to improve the performance of the algorithms and the various methods used, and comparison will be done between the various tree based algorithms.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of doping different transition metal into copper oxide (CuO) on the basic properties of CuO nanoparticles and, to study the photocatalytic behaviour of the doped CuO samples.
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TL;DR: An attempt is made to delineate the current knowledge with regard to the ancestral reconstruction of the tick (Ixodida) lineage, indicating modification with descent, as expected for Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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TL;DR: Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is able to optimize energy usage by balancing load scheduling and contribution of renewable sources, while maximizing user comfort and minimizing peak-to-average ratio.
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Alvaro Avezum | 93 | 279 | 48888 |
Jordan J. Louviere | 93 | 356 | 38739 |
Jürgen Eckert | 92 | 1368 | 42119 |
Simon Henry Connell | 83 | 506 | 25147 |
Elina Hyppönen | 81 | 258 | 33011 |
David Wilkinson | 80 | 631 | 27578 |
Béla Bollobás | 78 | 566 | 34767 |
Richard A. Matzner | 72 | 317 | 16389 |
Tim Olds | 71 | 412 | 21758 |
Nicolin Govender | 71 | 412 | 18740 |
Paul A. Webley | 70 | 374 | 18633 |
Dusan Losic | 70 | 398 | 16550 |
Alexander Shapiro | 70 | 252 | 26450 |
Kerin O'Dea | 69 | 359 | 16435 |
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala | 68 | 359 | 21650 |