Kar-wai Tong
Biographic Data
| ID | 10057335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kar-wai Tong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kar-wai |
| FAMILY NAME | Tong |
| SIGNATURE | TONG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 0 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 17 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Patterns of fertility in contemporary South Africa
Globally, there have been significant changes in women’s reproductive behaviour that have had profound effects on population growth. Despite declining fertility in South Africa in recent years, population growth is yet to slow down. This study examined patterns of childbearing in contemporary South Africa. Specifically, it investigated the prevalence of fertility among women of different relationship status and its associated social, economic, an…
Policy making and governance structures in Zimbabwe
Although the African Youth Charter emphasizes the role of the youth as prerequisites for sustainable development’, there remains an existential marginalisation of youth from most policy making and governance structures. In response to such exclusion, young Africans across the continent have been at the fore of protests and similar movements. In effecting inclusivity, decentralisation in Zimbabwe has meant that equitable participation is regulated…
What is a hate crime
The term hate crime is instinctively understood across policy and practice domains, but is defined differently across contexts. Whilst it is accepted that a standard universal and internationally accepted definition of a hate crime is not possible or desirable, I will seek to create common definitional boundaries for the term hate crime, which allows for jurisdictional flexibility whilst retaining a common core of understanding. In doing so, I wi…
Exploring the experiences of family caregivers with people with drug-resistant tuberculosis
The South African health system faces major challenges: crumbling infrastructure, shortage of beds and health professionals, and a high burden of diseases such as Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. The emergence of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis has made matters worse, as some of the burden of care for patients was transferred from nurses at hospitals to families in communities after patient discharge. This study explores and describes experiences of family…
Campaign propaganda, electoral outcome and the dynamics of governance in the post-2015 presidential election in Nigeria
This study evaluates the impact of campaign propaganda on both the outcome of the 2015 presidential poll and post-election governance in Nigeria. It specifically analyses how ethno-religious campaign messages of the two major political parties determined the rational voting choices of individuals, the triumph of an opposition party, and the policy direction of the winning party. This study is qualitative and it is derived from the Rational Choice…
A corpus-based ideational meta-functional analysis of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at United Nations general assembly
The current research paper aims to analyze the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly. It attempts to explore the transitivity process in political speech. In this research, the Ideational meta-function of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is used as a theoretical framework. Transcription of Imran khan’s speech at UNGA is taken as research material. A quantitative research methodology…
Advancing alternative health care financing through effective community partnership
This paper sought to advance alternative health care financing for the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) in Nigeria considering the widening inequality, dwindling government spending, and non-inclusive health insurance scheme in the country. An adoptive narrative review of existing literature and authors’ experiences and observations of health care financing system was used to develop an overview of health care financing system in Nig…
Stakeholders as catalyst to human trafficking
Transnational crime with its perpetual impact has been substantially explored in research. Stakeholder organisations’ involvement as catalyst towards secondary victimisation of human trafficking victims is generally an afterthought for several organisations and individuals in South Africa. There is almost no knowledge on stakeholders’ involvement as catalyst in the process of perpetuating human trafficking in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. T…
Health information literature across the cultural evolutionary divide
This paper details the process involved in developing the theoretical framework of factors for a major study entitled “Factors influencing the implementation of ICD-10 in Saudi public hospitals”. An original systematic review strategy, together with specific features of Endnote bibliographic manager software, were used to classify the global literature, separating it into the categories of developed nations and developing nations and, again, nati…
Delineating the role of foreign governments in the fight against corruption in Africa
Corruption on the African continent unfolds two unique trends: first, the involvement of senior state officials in the perpetration of grand corruption; and secondly, the illicit and surreptitious transfer of stolen assets and funds beyond Africa’s borders. As such, African States are heavily drained of their resources when corruption is committed. Foreign states become safe havens for stolen assets from Africa which makes Africa’s development st…
Cyberbullying and condom use among tertiary education students
South Africa has a high incidence of HIV. Violence in the country is also high and often perpetrated by dating partners. Dating violence can make it difficult for partners to negotiate safe sex practices. Moreover, the field of interpersonal violence is changing as social networking sites redefine interpersonal boundaries. To our knowledge, there are no studies that have examined the influence of cyberbullying on safe sexual practices. This study…
Systemic legislation
A question on the right to make legislative distinctions is important to determine the essence of legislative content. Starting with Aristotle’s question on capacity development for legislation that rests outside of it, this paper uses systems theory and investigates common principles of complex units to enhance what should be systemic in the laws and to address the right to make distinctions on which rules are based. The paper enumerates basic e…
A comparative analysis of the quality of Community Police Forums in local Cato Manor & Glenwood communities, South Africa
Policing multiracial communities represents an important and contemporary challenge for police, since culturally diversified local environments raise many social and organisational issues regarding community relationships, problem-solving and ensuring safety and security. Furthermore, the quality of community policing in local communities is an important research topic in the fields of criminological and police studies and requires special compet…
Plea bargaining as a human rights question
The right to a fair hearing is a basic norm in international human rights law, which envisages a fair trial where the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. However, contemporary criminal justice accommodates pleas of guilt subject to guilty plea standards under plea bargain agreements, where the accused are assumed to have voluntarily waived full trials, primarily for judicial expediency and efficiency. Human rights law has embraced t…
The alternativisation of healthcare
The use of alternative medicine (AM) outside mainstream healthcare has witnessed an increasing upsurge across western societies in recent decades. The theoretical tool articulated to capture this growing uptake of AM coalesced around the framework of alternativisation. Drawing from the perspectives in medical sociology, this article maps out the dimensions through which alternativisation and the expansion of AM in society. The key questions of wh…
Secondary education spending and school attendance in South Africa
The education system in South Africa is perceived to be expensive, inefficient, and under-performing relative to its peers. Hence, this study aims to investigate the relationship between secondary education spending and school attendance in South Africa through econometric modelling. The ARDL Bounds test revealed that the variables have long-run relationship. Furthermore, the long run estimates indicate that both secondary education spending, hou…
Misrepresentation of research on academic promotions at the University of Cape Town
In this response, we address the misrepresentation of our article by Rene W Albertus on higher education decolonisation processes in South Africa. We respond to her claim, based on a misreading of our article, that at the University of Cape Town white academic staff are promoted faster than black staff and restate the major findings of our quantitative analysis of 11 years of promotion data. We used time to promotion as a proxy for fairness to ex…
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Advancing alternative health care financing through effective community partnership
This paper sought to advance alternative health care financing for the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) in Nigeria considering the widening inequality, dwindling government spending, and non-inclusive health insurance scheme in the country. An adoptive narrative review of existing literature and authors’ experiences and observations of health care financing system was used to develop an overview of health care financing system in Nig…
Stakeholders as catalyst to human trafficking
Transnational crime with its perpetual impact has been substantially explored in research. Stakeholder organisations’ involvement as catalyst towards secondary victimisation of human trafficking victims is generally an afterthought for several organisations and individuals in South Africa. There is almost no knowledge on stakeholders’ involvement as catalyst in the process of perpetuating human trafficking in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. T…
Health information literature across the cultural evolutionary divide
This paper details the process involved in developing the theoretical framework of factors for a major study entitled “Factors influencing the implementation of ICD-10 in Saudi public hospitals”. An original systematic review strategy, together with specific features of Endnote bibliographic manager software, were used to classify the global literature, separating it into the categories of developed nations and developing nations and, again, nati…
Delineating the role of foreign governments in the fight against corruption in Africa
Corruption on the African continent unfolds two unique trends: first, the involvement of senior state officials in the perpetration of grand corruption; and secondly, the illicit and surreptitious transfer of stolen assets and funds beyond Africa’s borders. As such, African States are heavily drained of their resources when corruption is committed. Foreign states become safe havens for stolen assets from Africa which makes Africa’s development st…
Cyberbullying and condom use among tertiary education students
South Africa has a high incidence of HIV. Violence in the country is also high and often perpetrated by dating partners. Dating violence can make it difficult for partners to negotiate safe sex practices. Moreover, the field of interpersonal violence is changing as social networking sites redefine interpersonal boundaries. To our knowledge, there are no studies that have examined the influence of cyberbullying on safe sexual practices. This study…
Systemic legislation
A question on the right to make legislative distinctions is important to determine the essence of legislative content. Starting with Aristotle’s question on capacity development for legislation that rests outside of it, this paper uses systems theory and investigates common principles of complex units to enhance what should be systemic in the laws and to address the right to make distinctions on which rules are based. The paper enumerates basic e…
A comparative analysis of the quality of Community Police Forums in local Cato Manor & Glenwood communities, South Africa
Policing multiracial communities represents an important and contemporary challenge for police, since culturally diversified local environments raise many social and organisational issues regarding community relationships, problem-solving and ensuring safety and security. Furthermore, the quality of community policing in local communities is an important research topic in the fields of criminological and police studies and requires special compet…
Plea bargaining as a human rights question
The right to a fair hearing is a basic norm in international human rights law, which envisages a fair trial where the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. However, contemporary criminal justice accommodates pleas of guilt subject to guilty plea standards under plea bargain agreements, where the accused are assumed to have voluntarily waived full trials, primarily for judicial expediency and efficiency. Human rights law has embraced t…
The alternativisation of healthcare
The use of alternative medicine (AM) outside mainstream healthcare has witnessed an increasing upsurge across western societies in recent decades. The theoretical tool articulated to capture this growing uptake of AM coalesced around the framework of alternativisation. Drawing from the perspectives in medical sociology, this article maps out the dimensions through which alternativisation and the expansion of AM in society. The key questions of wh…
Secondary education spending and school attendance in South Africa
The education system in South Africa is perceived to be expensive, inefficient, and under-performing relative to its peers. Hence, this study aims to investigate the relationship between secondary education spending and school attendance in South Africa through econometric modelling. The ARDL Bounds test revealed that the variables have long-run relationship. Furthermore, the long run estimates indicate that both secondary education spending, hou…
Misrepresentation of research on academic promotions at the University of Cape Town
In this response, we address the misrepresentation of our article by Rene W Albertus on higher education decolonisation processes in South Africa. We respond to her claim, based on a misreading of our article, that at the University of Cape Town white academic staff are promoted faster than black staff and restate the major findings of our quantitative analysis of 11 years of promotion data. We used time to promotion as a proxy for fairness to ex…
Patterns of fertility in contemporary South Africa
Globally, there have been significant changes in women’s reproductive behaviour that have had profound effects on population growth. Despite declining fertility in South Africa in recent years, population growth is yet to slow down. This study examined patterns of childbearing in contemporary South Africa. Specifically, it investigated the prevalence of fertility among women of different relationship status and its associated social, economic, an…
Policy making and governance structures in Zimbabwe
Although the African Youth Charter emphasizes the role of the youth as prerequisites for sustainable development’, there remains an existential marginalisation of youth from most policy making and governance structures. In response to such exclusion, young Africans across the continent have been at the fore of protests and similar movements. In effecting inclusivity, decentralisation in Zimbabwe has meant that equitable participation is regulated…
What is a hate crime
The term hate crime is instinctively understood across policy and practice domains, but is defined differently across contexts. Whilst it is accepted that a standard universal and internationally accepted definition of a hate crime is not possible or desirable, I will seek to create common definitional boundaries for the term hate crime, which allows for jurisdictional flexibility whilst retaining a common core of understanding. In doing so, I wi…
Exploring the experiences of family caregivers with people with drug-resistant tuberculosis
The South African health system faces major challenges: crumbling infrastructure, shortage of beds and health professionals, and a high burden of diseases such as Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. The emergence of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis has made matters worse, as some of the burden of care for patients was transferred from nurses at hospitals to families in communities after patient discharge. This study explores and describes experiences of family…
Campaign propaganda, electoral outcome and the dynamics of governance in the post-2015 presidential election in Nigeria
This study evaluates the impact of campaign propaganda on both the outcome of the 2015 presidential poll and post-election governance in Nigeria. It specifically analyses how ethno-religious campaign messages of the two major political parties determined the rational voting choices of individuals, the triumph of an opposition party, and the policy direction of the winning party. This study is qualitative and it is derived from the Rational Choice…
A corpus-based ideational meta-functional analysis of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at United Nations general assembly
The current research paper aims to analyze the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly. It attempts to explore the transitivity process in political speech. In this research, the Ideational meta-function of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is used as a theoretical framework. Transcription of Imran khan’s speech at UNGA is taken as research material. A quantitative research methodology…
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