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A critical analysis of the impact of water on the South African campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)The South African campaign in German South West Africa (GSWA) during the First World War depended largely on the access, availability and control of all water sources in the operational area. The Union Defence Force (UDF) ...
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Performing the aporias of the archive : towards a future for South African music archives
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)National memory is continuously contested in South Africa and archives and museums are often called upon to store objects or material remnants of similarly contested pasts or histories. In addition, these institutions may ...
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Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa – a supplement to the EuroVegChecklist
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)In this paper we present nomenclatural adjustments and validations of syntaxa of the forest vegetation of Europe. We introduce a new, valid name of the class of nemoral coniferous or mixed forests (Asaro europaei-Abietetea ...
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The over the orange times, World War One imaginary : an explanation
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)Are centenaries surely not the best times imaginable for fabrication, invention or otherwise making it up? Conventionally, it is nationalists who refract the history of their countries through heroic narratives - including ...
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The Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani − a new vegetation class of the High Arctic polar desert
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)A new class and a new order (Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani and Saxifrago oppositifoliae-Papaveretalia dahliani) have been described, and the Papaverion dahliani validated. This is vegetation of zonal habitats in ...
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Addressing the intersection between alcohol consumption and antiretroviral treatment : needs assessment and design of interventions for primary healthcare workers, the Western Cape, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: At the points where an infectious disease and risk factors for poor health intersect, while health problems may be compounded, there is also an opportunity to provid e health services. Where hum an ...
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Assistive products and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(BioMed Central, 2016)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed great emphasis on the need for much greater social inclusion, and on making deliberate efforts to reach marginalized groups. People with disabilities are often marginalized ...
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A partial economic evaluation of blended learning in teaching health research methods : a three-university collaboration in South Africa, Sweden, and Uganda
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)Background : Novel research training approaches are needed in global health, particularly in sub-Saharan African universities, to support strengthening of health systems a nd services. Blended learning (BL), combining ...
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How to create more supportive supervision for primary healthcare: lessons from Ngamiland district of Botswana : co-operative inquiry group
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)Background : Supportive supervision is a way to foster performance, productivity, motivation, and retention of health workforce. Nevertheless there is a dearth of evidence of the impact and acceptability of supportive ...
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Urban and rural prevalence of diabetes and pre- diabetes and risk factors associated with diabetes in Tanzania and Uganda
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)Background : The increase in prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa underlines the importance of understanding its magnitude and causes in different population groups. We ...
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Student experiences of participating in five collaborative blended learning courses in Africa and Asia : a survey
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)Background : As blended learning (BL; a combination of face-to-face and e-learning methods) becomes more commonplace, it is important to assess whether students find it useful for their studies. ARCADE HSSR and ARCADE ...
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Beyond the checklist : understanding rural health vulnerability in a South African context
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)Background : Vulnerability in the past has sometimes been measured and understood in terms of checklists or common understanding. It is argued here that vulnerability is a more complex issue than this. ...
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Towards establishing capacity for biological dosimetry at ghana atomic energy commission
(Medknow Publications, 1980)The aim of this study was not only to obtain basic technical prerequisites for the establishment of capacity of biological dosimetry at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) but also to stimulate interest in biological ...
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Division of labor brings greater benefits to clones of carpobrotus edulis in the non-native range : evidence for rapid adaptive evolution
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Why some species become invasive while others do not is a central research request in biological invasions. Clonality has been suggested as an attribute that could contribute to plant invasiveness. Division of labor is an ...
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How to evaluate health-related quality of life and its association with medication adherence in pulmonary tuberculosis – designing a prospective observational study in South Africa
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Introduction: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has become an important measure to identify and shape effective and patient-relevant healthcare interventions innovations through outcomes. Adherence to tuberculosis ...
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Enhanced therapeutic efficacy in cancer patients by short-term fasting : the autophagy connection
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Preclinical studies suggest that fasting prior to chemotherapy may be an effective strategy to protect patients against the adverse effects of chemo-toxicity. Fasting may also sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapy. It is ...
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Systems approach to the study of brain damage in the very preterm newborn
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Background: A systems approach to the study of brain damage in very preterm newborns has been lacking. Methods: In this perspective piece, we offer encephalopathy of prematurity as an example of the complexity and ...
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Current knowledge and future research directions on fecal bacterial patterns and their association with asthma
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Asthma is a complex respiratory condition that involves interplay between genetic predisposition, environmental, and immunological factors (Edwards et al., 2012). It is considered to be one of the most common chronic ...
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Biologically based methods for control of fumonisin-producing fusarium species and reduction of the fumonisins
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Infection by the fumonisin-producing Fusarium spp. and subsequent fumonisin contamination of maize adversely affect international trade and economy with deleterious effects on human and animal health. In developed countries ...
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Pattern of infectious morbidity in HIV-exposed uninfected infants and children
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Background: Almost 30% of children in Southern Africa are HIV exposed but uninfected (HEU) and experience exposures that could increase vulnerability to infectious diseases compared to HIV unexposed (HU) children. The ...
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Optimizing research methods to understand HIV-exposed uninfected infant and child morbidity : report of the second HEU infant and child workshop
(Frontiers Media, 2016)The first HIV Exposed Uninfected (HEU) Infant and Child Workshop was held in Vancouver in July 2015, hosted by the Child and Family Research Institute at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital and University of British ...
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Aboveground biomass and carbon in a South African mistbelt forest and the relationships with tree species diversity and forest structures
(MDPI, 2016)Biomass and carbon stocks are key information criteria to understand the role of forests in regulating global climate. However, for a bio-rich continent like Africa, ground-based measurements for accurate estimation of ...
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Peritoneal dialysis technique survival at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
(African Association of NephrologyPublisher's version, 2017)Background: The use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a treatment modality for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has been declining in many countries over the past few years. One of the reasons is technique failure, ...
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Peritoneal dialysis technique survival at Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique failure invariably occurs in patients with end-stage renal disease who are treated with this modality and results in increased morbidity and mortality. Various factors have ...
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Hanseniaspora uvarum from winemaking environments show spatial and temporal genetic clustering
(Frontiers Media, 2016)Hanseniaspora uvarum is one of the most abundant yeast species found on grapes and in grape must, at least before the onset of alcoholic fermentation (AF) which is usually performed by Saccharomyces species. The aim of ...
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Soil elements influencing community structure in an old-growth forest in Northeastern China
(MDPI, 2016)This study uses detailed soil and vegetation data collected in a 30-ha old-growth broad-leaved Korean pine forest to study the effect of soil properties on tree community structures. Spatial distribution patterns are ...
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Comparing Johnson’s SBB, Weibull and Logit-Logistic bivariate distributions for modeling tree diameters and heights using copulas
(Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, 2016)Aim of study: In this study we compare the accuracy of three bivariate distributions: Johnson’s SBB, Weibull-2P and LL-2P functions for characterizing the joint distribution of tree diameters and heights. Area of study: ...
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Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests : new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians
(Pensoft, 2016-09-26)We carried out a survey of reptiles and amphibians within Afromontane forest and woodland slopes of three inselbergs in northern Mozambique (Mount Mabu, Mount Namuli, and Mount Ribáuè). A total of 56 species (22 amphibians ...
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Simulation modelling as a decision support in developing a sterile insect-inherited sterility release strategy for Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
(Florida Entomological Society, 2016)A user-friendly simulation tool for determining the impact of the sterile insect technique/inherited sterility technique (SIT/IS) on populations of the African sugarcane stalk borer, Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: ...
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Utilising the Stone Age for sport historical teaching
(The South African Society for History Teaching, 2016-12)In this article the author explored sport history pedagogy by combining the Canadian Benchmarking Project with the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) for teaching ancient culture to undergraduate students of sport history. The ...
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