Jacques E Raubenheimer
Jacques Raubenheimer has completed two masters degrees (Research Psychology, Practical Theology) and one PhD (Research Psychology). He was fortunate enough to have a good PhD promoter who drilled him hard, all for the better!
He maintains an interest in quantitative psychology, but has also made the transition to medical statistics, where he is currently a lecturer in Biostatistics at the University of the Free State. His broader interests also include him being a research consultant and computer trainer. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Microsoft Office 2010 Specialist Master Instructor, a Microsoft Office Specialist for Word (Expert), Excel (Expert), Access, PowerPoint and Outlook.
He has extensive experience in training students hands-on to write their theses and dissertations using Microsoft Word in a customised training course which he developed. This work resulted in his first book:
Doing Your Dissertation with Microsoft® Word: A comprehensive guide to using Microsoft® Word for academic writing (Updated for Word 2007 & 2010)
(ISBN: 9780868868141).
He now maintains the website http://insight.trueinsight.za.com, where he occasionally blogs, and which contains a set of tools he has developed for students doing their theses and dissertations—the Word uTIlities (a set of Excel uTIlities are rumoured to be in the works).
His second book was published in 2014--Mendeley: Crowd-sourced reference and citation management in the information era (ISBN: 9780620594424).
His other interests include rock climbing (he is at present a mediocre climber, though he is a qualified rock climbing instructor) and writing (he has won some minor awards for short stories in the past). He started a business selling rock climbing equipment (www.mountainpursuits.co.za), which he sold a few years ago.
He maintains an interest in quantitative psychology, but has also made the transition to medical statistics, where he is currently a lecturer in Biostatistics at the University of the Free State. His broader interests also include him being a research consultant and computer trainer. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Microsoft Office 2010 Specialist Master Instructor, a Microsoft Office Specialist for Word (Expert), Excel (Expert), Access, PowerPoint and Outlook.
He has extensive experience in training students hands-on to write their theses and dissertations using Microsoft Word in a customised training course which he developed. This work resulted in his first book:
Doing Your Dissertation with Microsoft® Word: A comprehensive guide to using Microsoft® Word for academic writing (Updated for Word 2007 & 2010)
(ISBN: 9780868868141).
He now maintains the website http://insight.trueinsight.za.com, where he occasionally blogs, and which contains a set of tools he has developed for students doing their theses and dissertations—the Word uTIlities (a set of Excel uTIlities are rumoured to be in the works).
His second book was published in 2014--Mendeley: Crowd-sourced reference and citation management in the information era (ISBN: 9780620594424).
His other interests include rock climbing (he is at present a mediocre climber, though he is a qualified rock climbing instructor) and writing (he has won some minor awards for short stories in the past). He started a business selling rock climbing equipment (www.mountainpursuits.co.za), which he sold a few years ago.
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Design: This was a cross-sectional survey.
Subjects and setting: Registered students at the University of the Free State were invited to participate. Thirty-one thousand and fourteen
students were enrolled in 2013. One thousand, four hundred and sixteen students completed a self-administered web-based questionnaire.
Outcome measures: Food insecurity was assessed using a one-item measure, i.e. the Australian National Nutrition Survey, and a 10-item
measure, i.e. the United States Department of Agriculture Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. Associations of food insecurity with
biographical attributes, food procurement measures and coping strategies were determined using the chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Results: The prevalence of food insecurity according to the one-item measure was 65%. Using the 10-item measure, 60% of the students
experienced food insecurity “with hunger”, and 26% food insecurity “without hunger”. The highest prevalence of food insecurity was in black and coloured, undergraduate, first-generation and male students, as well as in students who were unmarried, unemployed and those relying on loans or bursaries. Using the regression model, the strongest significant predictors of food insecurity were race, gender, being a
first-generation student, not having enough food money, having borrowed food money from parents, having asked for food and having sold belongings to obtain food.
Conclusion: Severe food insecurity in students may be contributing to the high attrition rates experienced by universities in South Africa.
Urgent intervention is required, as not having access to enough nutritionally adequate and safe food could be one of the reasons why more than 50% of South African university students never graduate.
functional delays during infancy and early childhood. Annually, in South Africa, approximately 15% of infants are born prematurely,
the majority being from low socio-economic homes. Basic needs and survival of the infant take priority over developmental progress of
infants. Since developmental progress is dependent on sensory integration, the aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of
developmental and sensory integration difficulties in premature infants in South Africa.
Methods: A descriptive, observational study was conducted. Relevant information on medical history and environmental factors were
obtained through parent questionnaires. Three standardised assessments, the Bayley III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, the
Test of Sensory Function in Infants and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, were used.
Results: Infants presented with low average to average performance in all developmental subtests. The majority (67.7%) of infants
presented with typical sensory seeking behaviour. Sensory processing difficulties were identified in terms of high neurological thresholds
resulting in low registration behaviour as well as low neurological thresholds, resulting in sensory sensitivity and sensory avoiding behaviour.
This influenced their adaptive motor functions and normal development.
Conclusion: Premature infants participating in this research presented with challenges regarding developmental and sensory integration.
Design: This was a cross-sectional survey.
Subjects and setting: Registered students at the University of the Free State were invited to participate. Thirty-one thousand and fourteen
students were enrolled in 2013. One thousand, four hundred and sixteen students completed a self-administered web-based questionnaire.
Outcome measures: Food insecurity was assessed using a one-item measure, i.e. the Australian National Nutrition Survey, and a 10-item
measure, i.e. the United States Department of Agriculture Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. Associations of food insecurity with
biographical attributes, food procurement measures and coping strategies were determined using the chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Results: The prevalence of food insecurity according to the one-item measure was 65%. Using the 10-item measure, 60% of the students
experienced food insecurity “with hunger”, and 26% food insecurity “without hunger”. The highest prevalence of food insecurity was in black and coloured, undergraduate, first-generation and male students, as well as in students who were unmarried, unemployed and those relying on loans or bursaries. Using the regression model, the strongest significant predictors of food insecurity were race, gender, being a
first-generation student, not having enough food money, having borrowed food money from parents, having asked for food and having sold belongings to obtain food.
Conclusion: Severe food insecurity in students may be contributing to the high attrition rates experienced by universities in South Africa.
Urgent intervention is required, as not having access to enough nutritionally adequate and safe food could be one of the reasons why more than 50% of South African university students never graduate.
functional delays during infancy and early childhood. Annually, in South Africa, approximately 15% of infants are born prematurely,
the majority being from low socio-economic homes. Basic needs and survival of the infant take priority over developmental progress of
infants. Since developmental progress is dependent on sensory integration, the aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of
developmental and sensory integration difficulties in premature infants in South Africa.
Methods: A descriptive, observational study was conducted. Relevant information on medical history and environmental factors were
obtained through parent questionnaires. Three standardised assessments, the Bayley III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, the
Test of Sensory Function in Infants and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, were used.
Results: Infants presented with low average to average performance in all developmental subtests. The majority (67.7%) of infants
presented with typical sensory seeking behaviour. Sensory processing difficulties were identified in terms of high neurological thresholds
resulting in low registration behaviour as well as low neurological thresholds, resulting in sensory sensitivity and sensory avoiding behaviour.
This influenced their adaptive motor functions and normal development.
Conclusion: Premature infants participating in this research presented with challenges regarding developmental and sensory integration.