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Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential : results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire
(2016)Childhood maltreatment has diverse, lifelong impact on morbidity and mortality. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) is one of the most commonly used scales to assess and quantify these experiences and their impact. ...
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Narratives from North Africa : South African prisoner-of-war experience following the fall of Tobruk, June 1942
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)South African prisoners of war (POWs) captured at Tobruk in June 1942 experienced similar events and conditions. All shared a feeling of shock at becoming POWs and all of them had to deal with extremely difficult living ...
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Treatment Contact Coverage for Probable Depressive and Probable Alcohol Use Disorders in Four Low- and Middle-Income Country Districts : the PRIME Cross-Sectional Community Surveys
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Context: A robust evidence base is now emerging that indicates that treatment for depression and alcohol use disorders (AUD) delivered in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) can be effective. However, the coverage ...
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Die geskiedenis van Afrikanerbetrokkenheid in die Rhodesiese tabakbedryf (1890-1980)
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)Die tabakbedryf in Rhodesië (vandag Zimbabwe) het ongetwyfeld 'n kardinale rol in die ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Rhodesië gespeel. Sedert die Britse kolonialisering van Rhodesië gedurende die 1890's het die klem van ...
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Still Bay Point-production strategies at Hollow Rock Shelter and Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter and Knowledge-transfer systems in Southern Africa at about 80-70 thousand years ago
(Public Library of Science, 2016)It has been suggested that technological variations associated with Still Bay assemblages of southern Africa have not been addressed adequately. Here we present a study developed to explore regional and temporal variations ...
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How effective is help on the doorstep? a longitudinal evaluation of community-based organisation support
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Community-based responses have a lengthy history. The ravages of HIV on family functioning has included a widespread community response. Although much funding has been invested in front line community-based organisations ...
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Boer-uitbeeldings in Franse jeugliteratuur tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-07-13)Voorstellings van die “ander” of die “vreemde” word grootliks beïnvloed deur die voorsteller se eie historiese konteks. Wanneer hierdie konteks verander, gebeur dit dikwels dat die voorstelling van die “ander” ook aangepas ...
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Die verband tussen vroee apartheidsintellektualisering, Afrikanermusiekhistoriografie en die ontluiking van 'n apartheidsestetika in die toonkuns
(LitNet, 2011-12)Epistemologiese afhanklikheid van Europese verwysingspunte kenmerk dikwels analitiese modelle van Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek en kunsmusiekhistoriografie. ’n Tipiese voorbeeld is die beskrywing van Stefans Grové se musikale ...
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"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ...
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Patient-reported barriers to adherence to antiretroviral therapy : a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Maintaining high levels of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a challenge across settings and populations. Understanding the relative importance of different barriers to adherence ...
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Epistatic gene-based interaction analyses for glaucoma in eMERGE and NEIGHBOR Consortium
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disease and is one of the major leading causes of blindness worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified several common variants associated with ...
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Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity
(Unisa Press, 2016)Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are, continue to be an issue in every society. It is even more rampant when we think of the role religion plays in determining ...
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Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
(Unisa Press, 2016)This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African philosophy as a ...
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Intimate partner violence and depression symptom severity among South African women during pregnancy and postpartum : population-based prospective cohort study
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Violence against women by intimate partners remains unacceptably common worldwide. The evidence base for the assumed psychological impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) is derived primarily from studies ...
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Remembering the Heidelberg Catechism in South Africa today? Some remarks on the commemoration of a 16th century Reformed confession
(University of the Free State, 2014)With the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism of 2013 in mind, this article offers some remarks on the question what it means to remember and commemorate this 16th century Reformed confession in South Africa today. ...
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The Heidelberg Catechism : elements for a theology of care
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article proposes a fresh reading of the Heidelberg Catechism from the perspective of an ethics of care, a new paradigm of doing ethics, strongly influenced by feminist philosophy. In its anthropology, this approach ...
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The Heidelberg Catechism on human sin and misery
(University of the Free State, 2014)The Heidelberg Catechism's section on Sin and Misery does not provide a moralistic or legalistic perspective on the human condition. Instead, it offers, in abbreviated format, a restatement of the doctrine of original sin, ...
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Salvation according to the Heidelberg Catechism
(University of the Free State, 2014)The Heidelberg Catechism has been part of the Reformed Confessional tradition for over 400 years. It has helped to shape and form generations of Reformed believers. The question however can be raised if the model of salvation ...
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Translational research for tuberculosis elimination : priorities, challenges, and actions
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Summary Points: • The WHO End TB Strategy, endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2014, has the ambitious goal of ending the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2035, with targets of a 95% decline in deaths due ...
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The reception of Galatians 2:20 in the Patristic period and in the Reformation
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article explores the reception of Galatians 2:20 in the Patristic period, and in the Reformation by Luther and Calvin. As it turns out, the interpretation of the verse does not fit into popular notions of their ...
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Unequal contribution of native South African phylogeographic lineages to the invasion of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis , in Europe
(PeerJ, 2016)Due to both deliberate and accidental introductions, invasive African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) populations have become established worldwide. In this study, we investigate the geographic origins of invasive X. laevis ...
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When homoplasy mimics hybridization : a case study of Cape hakes (Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus)
(PeerJ, 2016)In the marine environment, an increasing number of studies have documented introgression and hybridization using genetic markers. Hybridization appears to occur preferentially between sister-species, with the probability ...
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Overland movement in African clawed frogs ( Xenopus laevis ) : a systematic review
(PeerJ, 2016)African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) are often referred to as ‘purely aquatic’ but there are many publications which suggest extensive overland movements. Previous reviews which considered the topic have not answered the ...
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Oor die inhoud en boodskap van die Heidelbergse Kategismus
(University of the Free State, 2014)The essay argues that it is meaningful to speak about the theme, content and message of the Heidelberg Catechism, although these three should be distinguished. A first section claims that the Catechism shows more of a ...
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Women on leadership? Perspectives from postgraduate theology students through the lenses of social identity
(University of the Free State, 2015)South Africa has experienced a long history of patriarchal leadership in the spheres of politics, economics and culture as well as in the sphere of religion, in particular. Many factors influence the current state of ...
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"Anatheism" within the framework of theodicy : from theistic thinking to theopaschitic thinking in a pastoral hermeneutics
(University of the Free State, 2016)The Syrian and refugee crises, the violent radicalisation in Europe, and global xenophobia stir up anew the link between the human quest for meaning and hope within the realm of human misery and destructive acts of severe ...
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Paul, military imagery and social disadvantage
(University of the Free State, 2016)In the past, attention for the social position or standing of the early Jesus followers was overrun by concerns for the theological and religious dimensions of those communities. The role of the Roman Empire and the impact ...
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Christian prisoners : fifth and sixth century inscriptions from Corinth
(University of the Free State, 2016)Among the inscriptions from Corinth (in publication), there are graffiti carved into the floor of a prison in Corinth. They shed interesting light on the hopes, beliefs and opinions of Christians from late antiquity. This ...
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Finding the plot in South African reading education
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article argues that we have lost the plot in South African reading education. To find it, we need to move beyond the predominant mode of reading as oral performance, where the emphasis is on accuracy and pronunciation, ...
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The "First Deborah" – Genesis 35:8 in the literary and theological context
(University of the Free State, 2016)Exegetes consider Genesis 35:8 an intrusive verse in the narrative of Genesis 35:1-15 because of its isolated mention of the death and burial of Deborah, Rebekah's nurse. However, the analysis of the verse in its literary ...
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