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Carnegie's role in developing capacity through investment in the strengthening of the foundation of research production and innovation
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Cell-autonomous role of GFRα1 in the development of olfactory bulb GABAergic interneurons
(The Company of Biologists, 2018-05-18)GFRα1, a receptor for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), is critical for the development of the main olfactory system. The olfactory bulb (OB) of Gfra1 knockout mice shows significant reductions in the ... -
Chris Brink: Anatomie van ’n omvormer
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2007)INLEIDING: Dit is die gebruik van die Universiteit Stellenbosch om met die vertrek van ’n rektor ’n geleentheidspublikasie die lig te laat sien. Inhoudelik was hierdie publikasies in die verlede anekdoties van aard, met ... -
Chris Brink: Anatomy of a transformer
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2007)INTRODUCTION: t is customary at the University of Stellenbosch to produce a commemorative volume when a rector leaves the University. In terms of content such publications have in the past tended to be anecdotal, with a ... -
A clinical audit of caesarean section delivery at Helderberg District Hospital
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Maternal health is one of the main health services packages at any district-level hospital in South Africa and caesarean section delivery forms a key component of this service. Furthermore, ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality : the role of social reflexivity
(Springer Verlag, 2017)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and ... -
COMODI : an ontology to characterise differences in versions of computational models in biology
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-11)Background: Open model repositories provide ready-to-reuse computational models of biological systems. Models within those repositories evolve over time, leading to different model versions. Taken together, the underlying ... -
Considerations for South African higher education : a 'national student men who have sex with men' sexual behaviour survey
(HESA, 2017)This non-experimental study contributes to the quantitative knowledge about university student men who have sex with men (MSM), their sexual behaviour and their experiences on campus. A sample of 8896 students (MSM n = ... -
Consumer-resource dynamics : quantity, quality, and allocation
(Public Library of Science, 2011-01-20)Background: The dominant paradigm for modeling the complexities of interacting populations and food webs is a system of coupled ordinary differential equations in which the state of each species, population, or functional ... -
Counting and countering the opportunity cost of professional learning: a ‘care-full’ approach
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)Introduction: Professional learning of lecturers for their teaching is a field in which Eli Bitzer did important work, specifically during the earlier years of his career in higher education. The hard work to establish ... -
Coupling, reinforcement, and speciation
(University of Chicago Press, 2018)During the process of speciation, populations may diverge for traits and at their underlying loci that contribute barriers to gene flow. These barrier traits and barrier loci underlie individual barrier effects, by which ... -
Critical interdisciplinary dialogues : towards a pedagogy of well-being in STEM disciplines and fields
(HESA, 2018)Students enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) globally and in South Africa are generally not in a state of well-being. International and South African research studies show that undergraduate ... -
Cultural heritage and the knowledge economy : the role and value of sound archives and sound archiving in developing countries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010)Paper presented at the Stellenbosch University Library 2010 Symposium / IFLA Presidential Meeting. Knowing is not enough: Engaging in the knowledge economy, 18 to 19 February 2010. At first glance the concepts of cultural ... -
Curriculum inquiry in South African Higher Education: some scholarly affirmations and challenges
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2011)BOOK BLURB: In looking at the construction of curriculum from a trans- and multidisciplinary perspective at the higher education level, this book initiates and supports the issues of curriculum design and purposes, escpecially ... -
A day in the life of an open scholarship manager : Ina Smith
(UKSG - United Kingdom Serials Group, 2014-03)Making research openly accessible and marketing research are Ina’s passions. Since being trained as a secondary school teacher and librarian, she has come a long way and her career has steered her in a direction she ... -
Death domain signaling by disulfide-linked dimers of the p75 neurotrophin receptor mediates neuronal death in the CNS
(Society for Neuroscience, 2016-05-18)The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) mediates neuronal death in response to neural insults by activating a caspase apoptotic pathway. The oligomeric state and activation mechanism that enable p75NTR to mediate these ... -
Declaration on mental health in Africa : moving to implementation
(Co-Action Publishing, 2014-06-16)Urgent action is needed to address mental health issues globally. In Africa, where mental health disorders account for a huge burden of disease and disability, and where in general less than 1% of the already small health ... -
“Deeper into a hole?” : borrowing and lending in South Africa
(University of Chicago Press Journals, 2014-08)In South Africa, with upward mobility much aspired to but seldom attained, householders must spend money they have not yet earned. Borrowing both from formal institutions and smaller moneylenders (legal and illegal) positions ... -
Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching
(Frontiers Media, 2017)Donald proposes that early Homo evolved mimesis as a new form of cognition. This article investigates the mimesis hypothesis in relation to the evolution of teaching. The fundamental capacities that distinguish hominin ... -
Did we captivate them? Perceptions of second-year students about the library's information literacy online tutorials
(University of South Africa, Unisa Press, 2013)At Stellenbosch University the Department of Information Science is responsible for the mandatory Information Skills 172 and 174 programmes for fi rst-year students in four faculties. In 2009 the faculty librarians were ...
