Background: Skin cancer is a growing public health problem in South Africa due to its high ambient ultraviolet radiation environment. The purpose of this study was to estimate the annual health system costs of ...

Purpose: To determine if the cerebral oxygenation response during cortical activation is influenced by the exercise training mode. Methods: Sixty-seven individuals (55 to 75 years old) volunteered for this 16-week ...

South African welfare policy is influenced by global economic trends and has some indicators of neoliberal policy implementation. This paper discusses the indicators of neoliberalism before exploring the implications for ...

Twenty-two years after apartheid South African higher education is still struggling with challenges around access, success and transformation. Stellenbosch University (SU), as a historically white university, is striving ...

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 = ...

Rules and expectations for appropriate public couple behaviour on university campuses are predominantly heteronormative and marginalise people with other sexual orientations. Such environments pose specific challenges to ...

About 2 000 corresponding authors of articles in the Web of Science (who had a South African university address) selected from a list of 22 categories the perceived beneficiaries of their research. A beneficiary was defined ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Thiopurine medications e.g. Azathioprine and 6- Mercaptopurine are metabolized by the thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) enzyme. This enzyme activity is highly variable due to polymorphism of the ...

Although much has been written about value in coopetition initiatives, the dynamics of value creation and appropriation remain poorly articulated. This paper explores the types of value and the dynamics of value creation ...

Background: The disproportionate species richness of the world’s biodiversity hotspots could be explained by low extinction (the evolutionary “museum”) and/or high speciation (the “hot-bed”) models. We test these models ...

Contingent valuation is widely used due to its flexibility in valuing a wide variety of nonmarket goods. Although this method has important benefits, its validity and reliability are often criticised. This paper reviews ...

Background: Technical advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) provide a means to acquire deeper insights into cellular functions. The lack of standardized and automated methodologies poses a challenge for the analysis ...

HIV infection, together with ART, is associated with changes in biochemical, metabolic parameters and lipid profiles. The aim of this study was to compare changes in lipid profiles among HIV positive outpatients over nine ...

We compare the genetic structuring and demographic history of two sympatric caridean shrimp species with distinct life history traits, one amphidromous species Palaemon capensis and one marine/estuarine species Palaemon ...

Objective: The research objective was to test the hypothesis that corporate health and wellness contributed positively to South African companies’ financial results. Methods: The past share market performance of eligible ...

Environmental change incorporates the full range of natural and anthropogenic changes currently affecting the planet. These changes include fluxes within the carbon and nutrient cycles, resulting in disturbances at the ...

In hierdie saak moes die hof uitspraak gee oor ’n regspunt wat nie voldoende deur die Wet op Deeltitels 95 van 1986 behandel word nie. Die applikante wou twee kombuisvensters in hul woonstel op die grondvloer van ’n ...

In die dertigerjare van die vorige eeu was daar in Suid-Afrika ’n sterk oplewing van Kuyperiaanse neocalvinisme. Die neocalviniste het hulle begin organiseer in ’n beweging met die doel om die neocalvinistiese ideologie ...

Verbindings van AuII is reeds langer as 60 jaar bekend. ’n Literatuurstudie toon dat slegs ’n beperkte aantal struktuur- en bindingstipes tot dusver in suiwer vorm geïsoleer en gekarakteriseer kon word. Die grootste enkele ...

Beide die Afrikaanse Standaard Vertaling en die Nuwe Testament en Psalms: ’n Direkte Vertaling is direkte vertalings van die Nuwe Testament wat in 2014 verskyn het. In hierdie artikel word die vertaalfilosofie van hierdie ...

Gegrond op etnografiese metodes bespreek hierdie artikel die leerpraktykvorming van plattelandse werkersklasleerders in en oor hul leerruimtes heen. Ons huldig die mening dat alhoewel die invloed van armoede op die ...

Hierdie is die eerste van twee artikels oor die rol van die uitverkiesingsleer in die NG Kerk. Eers word daar geargumenteer dat leerstukke soos die Gereformeerde leer van sola gratia mettertyd verskillend geïnterpreteer ...

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 ...

The paper gives an overview of the observations on four continents and two research vessels obtained with eight Polly systems. The specific aerosol types at these locations (mineral dust, smoke, dust-smoke and other dusty ...

Objectives: Cotinine, the principal metabolite of nicotine found in smokers' seminal plasma, has been shown to adversely affect sperm functionality while quercetin, a flavonoid with diverse properties is associated with ...

Varicocele is present in approximately 15% of men, and, although it is the most commonly diagnosed cause of male infertility, nearly two-thirds of men with varicoceles remain fertile. It was decided to make use of the ...

A bidirectional communication between the immune and endocrine systems exists and facilitates optimum responses in the host during infections. This is in part achieved through changes in secretion patterns of hypothalamic ...

As all naturalized species are potential invaders, it is important to better understand the determinants of naturalization of alien plants. This study sought to identify traits that enable the alien tree Casuarina equisetifolia ...

Biological invasions are widely acknowledged as a major threat to global biodiversity. Species from all major taxonomic groups have become invasive. The range of impacts of invasive taxa and the overall magnitude of the ...

Establishing mutualistic interactions in novel environments is important for the successful establishment of some non-native plant species. These associations may, in turn, impact native species interaction networks as ...