• Alkali-resistant glass textile reinforcement of 3D printed concrete 

  Janse van Rensburg, Johannes Jacobus (2022)

  ABSTRACT Additive manufacturing such as 3D concrete printing (3DCP), has recently gained significant attention due to its numerous benefits. However, 3DCP still has significant challenges to overcome before it can be ...
• A Comparison Between Existing Mortality Risk Algorithms and Machine Learning Techniques 

  Scholtz, Jenny (2022)

  Abstract This thesis assesses the feasibility and benefits of using the patient data of a large private South African hospital group to estimate a model of mortality risk using flexible machine learning tech- niques. ...
• Mapping research outputs to previously defined research priorities in an emergency care academic community of practice in South Africa 

  Meyer, Kirby (2022)

  Abstract Background: Developing emergency care systems in Africa requires high quality contextual evidence to guide local policies. We sought to map research outputs from the divisions of emergency medicine at the University ...
• Hospital cleaners’ knowledge, attitude and practices and the influence of training regarding cleaning roles in two government hospitals in the Erongo Region, Namibia 

  Geurtze, Etheline Olivia (2022)

  Abstract Introduction: Healthcare associated infections may arise following transfer of microorganisms from the hospital environment to patients. Effective cleaning and disinfection of hospital surfaces reduces the risk ...
• ABSENTEEISM IN DISTRICT RURAL HOSPITALS IN THE EASTERN CAPE: THE EXPERIENCES OF NURSES 

  Jonas, Lindill (2022)

  ABSTRACT Absenteeism is a global concern that has a negative impact on employees, patients and the organization. Whilst absenteeism is exacerbated by working conditions such as resources (human, equipment), rural communities ...
• Clinical predictors of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy and immediate postpartum period: a retrospective, analytical study 

  Sheehama, Ilona Ndapewa (2022)

  ABSTRACT Background Although pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the leading causes of death in pregnancy and postpartum, it has low risk of adverse outcome if diagnosed early and treated appropriately. Ventilation-perfusion ...
• Clinical determinants distinguishing communicating and non-communicating hydrocephalus in childhood tuberculous meningitis at presentation 

  Bovula, Siyabulela (2022)

  ABSTRACT Introduction: Hydrocephalus occurs in up to 80% of children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM), of which the majority (70-80%) is of a communicating nature. Communicating hydrocephalus develops when cerebrospinal ...
• Clinical and laboratory characteristics of ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis among individuals with and without HIV infection 

  Mathew, Dony Korah (2022)

  Summary BACKGROUND/AIMS: In the era of increasing incidence of syphilis globally, ocular syphilis is re-emerging as an important cause of uveitis. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical and laboratory ...
• CXCL13, CXCL10 and CXCL8 as indicators of ocular and neurological involvement in patients with ocular syphilis: An observational descriptive study 

  Van der Merwe, Laurie Wiid (2022)

  ABSTRACT Aim To investigate the role of the chemokines CXCL13, CXCL10 and CXCL8 in the diagnosis of ocular‐ and neurosyphilis by examining the serum, aqueous humour (AH) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with ...
• Prevalence of Pathological Neck of Femur Fractures in Patients undergoing Arthroplasty at a Tertiary Referral Hospital 

  Khan, Suhayl Amed (2022)

  Abstract Background: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of pathological neck of femur (NOF) fractures at a tertiary referral hospital through histological examination of specimens in all NOF fracture patients ...
• Irrigation as Dead Space Management for Fracture Related Type I Intramedullary Chronic Osteomyelitis 

  Grey, Jan-Petrus (2022)

  ABSTRACT Introduction: Dead space management following intramedullary debridement and reaming can be challenging and several alternatives have been described. The main objective of this study was to investigate the ...
• 2'-5'-Oligoadenylate synthetase-like protein inhibits intracellular M. tuberculosis replication and promotes proinflammatory cytokine secretion 

  Leisching, G.; Ali, A.; Cole, V.; Baker, B. (Elsevier, 2019-12)

  Host cytoplasmic surveillance pathways are known to elicit type I interferon (IFN) responses which are crucial to antimicrobial defense mechanisms. Oligoadenylate synthetase-like (OASL) protein has been extensively ...
• Expression and production of the SERPING1-encoded endogenous complement regulator C1-inhibitor in multiple cohorts of tuberculosis patients 

  Lubbers, Rosalie; Sutherland, Jayne S.; Goletti, Delia; De Paus, Roelof A.; Dijkstra, Douwe J.; Van Moorsel, Coline H. M.; Veltkamp, Marcel; Vestjens, Stefan M. T.; Bos, Willem J. W.; Petrone, Linda; Malherbe, Stephanus T.; Walzl, Gerhard; Gelderman, Kyra A.; Groeneveld, Geert H.; Geluk, Annemieke; Ottenhoff, Tom H. M.; Joosten, Simone A.; Trouw, Leendert A. (Elsevier, 2020-03-13)

  Background To facilitate better discrimination between patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI), whole blood transcriptomic studies have been performed to identify novel candidate host biomarkers. ...
• Between drought and deluge : a history of water provision to Beaufort West, ca. 1858-1955 

  Visser, Wessel (NWU, 2020)

  Beaufort West was the first rural town in South Africa to receive municipal status as early as 1837. Situated in the arid interior of the country, the town has struggled with water provision and sufficient water supplies ...
• Short-lived tolerance. An euphoria of the 1938 Voortrekker Centenary as in the editorials of a local newspaper : the George & Knysna Herald 

  Maritz, Loraine (NWU, 2019)

  There have been many studies on the Voortrekker Centenary of 1938 and the unforeseen consequences it had, including the subsequent surge of Afrikaner nationalism and political developments. As the wagons moved across South ...
• Integrating terminological resources in dictionary portals : the case of the Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa 

  Fuertes-Olivera, Pedro A.; Esandi-Baztan, M. A. (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT), 2020)

  This paper advocates the convergence of terminology and lexicography, and illustrates this view by presenting some of the steps taken for incorporating terminological resources and ideas in an online dictionary portal that ...
• Effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, medium and forage type and their interactions on in vitro ruminal fermentation 

  Russouw, A.; Chevaux, E.; Chaucheyras-Durand, F.; Esposito, G.; Raffrenato, E. (Elsevier, 2020-09)

  The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of a live yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-1077, at four doses (0, 1×105, 1×106 and 1 × 107 cfu/mL) according to the reducing medium used [Goering-Van Soest ...
• Fatty acid composition, bioactive phytochemicals, antioxidant properties and oxidative stability of edible fruit seed oil : effect of preharvest and processing factors 

  Kaseke, Tafadzwa; Opara, Umezuruike Linus; Fawole, Olaniyi Amos (Elsevier, 2020-09)

  Fruit seed is a by-product of fruit processing into juice and other products. Despite being treated as waste, fruit seed contains oil with health benefits comparable or even higher than the conventional seed oil from field ...
• An operational definition of the biome for global change research 

  Conradi, Timo; Slingsby, Jasper A.; Midgley, Guy F.; Nottebrock, Henning; Schweiger, Andreas H.; Higgins, Steven I. (Wiley Online, 2020)

  Biomes are constructs for organising knowledge on the structure and functioning of the world’s ecosystems, and serve as useful units for monitoring how the biosphere responds to anthropogenic drivers, including climate ...
• Fusaric acid instigates the invasion of banana by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4 

  Liu, Siwen; Li, Jian; Zhang, Yong; Liu, Na; Viljoen, Altus; Mostert, Diane; Zuo, Cunwu; Hu, Chunhua; Bi, Fangcheng; Gao, Huijun; Sheng, Ou; Deng, Guiming; Yang, Qiaosong; Dong, Tao; Dou, Tongxin; Yi, Ganjun; Ma, Li-Jun; Li, Chunyu (Wiley Online, 2019)

  Fusaric acid (FSA) is a phytotoxin produced by several Fusarium species and has been associated with plant disease development, although its role is still not well understood. Mutation of key genes in the FSA biosynthetic ...
• Precarious freedom : manumission in Eighteenth-Century Colombo 

  Ekama, Kate (Oxford University Press, 2020-09-04)

  In the historiography of slave-owning societies, manumission has been a contentious topic. Based on the assumption that manumission rates and the level of cruelty in a slave-owning society were closely related, historians ...
• An analysis of biopsies for suspected skin cancer at a tertiary care dermatology clinic in the Western Cape province of South Africa 

  De Wet, Johann; Steyn, Minette; Jordaan, Henry F.; Smith, Rhodine; Claasens, Saskya; Visser, Willem I. (Hindawi, 2020)

  Background. Skin cancer is a growing health concern worldwide. It is the most common malignancy in South Africa and places a large burden on the public healthcare sector. There is a paucity of published scientific data on ...
• Acridid ecology in the sugarcane agro-ecosystem in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 

  Bam, Adrian; Addison, Pia; Conlong, Desmond (Pensoft, 2020-01-10)

  Grasshoppers and locusts are well known crop and pasture pests throughout the world. Periodically they cause extensive damage to large areas of crops and grazing lands, which often exacerbate food shortage issues in many ...
• On the minimal Hamming weight of a multi-base representation 

  Krenn, Daniel; Suppakitpaisarn, Vorapong; Wagner, Stephan (Elsevier, 2020)

  Given a finite set of bases b1, b2, ..., br (integers greater than 1), a multi-base representation of an integer n is a sum with summands dbα1 1 b α2 2 ··· bαr r , where the αj are nonnegative integers and the digits ...
• Peripheral blood lymphocyte proviral DNA predicts neurocognitive impairment in clade C HIV 

  Ruhanya, Vurayai; Jacobs, Graeme Brendon; Nyandoro, George; Paul, Robert H.; Joska, John A.; Seedat, Soraya; Glashoff, Richard Helmuth; Engelbrecht, Susan (Springer, 2020-07)

  It is not known if proviral DNA in the periphery corresponds to cognitive status in clade C as it does in clade B and recombinant forms. A cross-sectional study was conducted on participants investigated for HIV-associated ...
• MHD variable viscosity mixed convection of nanofluid in a microchannel with permeable walls 

  Kefene, Mesfin Zewde; Makinde, Oluwole Daniel; Enyadene, Lemi Guta (CSIR-NIScPR, 2020)

  In this study, we examine the combined effects of buoyancy forces, pressure gradient, thermophoresis, Brownian motion, variable viscosity of nanofluid flow in a microchannel with suction and injection in the presence of ...
• Where is property? Some thoughts on the theoretical implications of Daniels v Scribante 

  Boggenpoel, Zsa-Zsa; Slade, Bradley (NISC, 2020)

  The theoretical implications of the Constitutional Court’s decision in Daniels v Scribante are analysed in this article. With reference to Jane Baron’s theory of the contested commitments of property, it considers the ...
• Multi-product forwarder-based timber extraction : time consumption and productivity analysis of two forwarder models over multiple products and extraction distances 

  Gagliardi, Kayla; Ackerman, Simon; Ackerman, Pierre (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, 2020)

  Accurate predictions in forest operations can be used towards effective planning, costing, and maximizing the productivity of machines in mechanised cut-to-length (CTL) harvesting. There is a general and substantial gap ...
• Aid donors, democracy and the developmental state in Ethiopia 

  Brown, Stephen; Fisher, Jonathan (Taylor & Francis, 2019-09-26)

  The “developmental state” has become a prominent alternative development model defended by contemporary Western aid donors, particularly in Africa. Purported “developmental states,” such as Ethiopia and Rwanda, are argued ...
• Postcolonial thinking and modes of being-with others 

  Woermann, Minka (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2022)

  This paper seeks to interrogate the mode of relationality – or Being-with Others – that supports a responsible postcolonial thinking. The paper draws from both the Western and African philosophical traditions. Three modes ...

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