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Patterns of biopsy-proven renal disease in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1995 to 2017
(2019-12)Introduction: The causes, prevalence and outcomes of renal disease in developing countries may differ compared to developed countries. In most African countries, little data on the topic is available because of the lack ... -
Patients with concurrent tuberculosis and diabetes have a pro-atherogenic plasma lipid profile
(Elsevier, 2018)Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major risk factor for development of tuberculosis (TB), however the underlyingmolecular foundations are unclear. Since lipids play a central role in the development of both ... -
Deposition and transport of linezolid mediated by a synthetic surfactant Synsurf® within a pressurized metered dose inhaler : a Calu-3 model
(Dove Medical Press, 2018)Background: Previous studies in our laboratory demonstrated that a synthetic peptide containing lung surfactant enhances the permeability of chemical compounds through bronchial epithelium. The purpose of this study was ... -
Growing and destroying catalan–stanley trees
(Discrete Mathematics & amp; Theoretical Computer Science, 2018)Stanley lists the class of Dyck paths where all returns to the axis are of odd length as one of the many objects enumerated by (shifted) Catalan numbers. By the standard bijection in this context, these special Dyck paths ... -
Debt capitalisation : an analysis of the application of section 24BA of the Income Tax Act
(University of Pretoria, 2018)Die kapitalisering van skuld in ruil vir die uitreiking van aandele is ’n algemene verskynsel en kan op drie wyses geskied, naamlik deur die direkte uitreik van aandele (met of sonder kontantvloei), deur skuld-vergelyking ... -
Freedom of religion : from the Church Order of Dordt (1619) to South Africa (2018)
(AOSIS, 2018-11-01)This article is about freedom of religion as an integral part of the Reformation of the 16th century and how it was expressed in the Church Order of Dordt (1619) and later at the Cape of Good Hope under the rule of the ... -
Mark 4:1–34 : a simple structure for the mystery of the kingdom
(AOSIS, 2018-04-24)Existing proposals regarding the structure of Mark 4:1–34 have not met with unqualified approval. This article proposes a simple structure for Mark 4:1–34, then highlights relevant presuppositions before providing an ... -
The boundaries of desire and intimacy in post-apartheid South African queer film : Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid
(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2018)South African cinema is still dominated, both in terms of number and commercial success, by films featuring white Afrikaans-speaking characters. These films are mostly politically voiceless, ignoring the contentious racial ... -
Four South African "sunrises", four cartoons, four eras and the cyclical nature of history
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-05)History as having a cyclical nature has been accepted as theory since ancient times. According to this cyclical theory, events happen in recurring cycles, or, simply put, it is a matter of "history repeating itself". This ... -
Examining the impact of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction intervention on the health of urban South Africans
(AOSIS, 2018-06)Background: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been found to have significant health benefits in studies conducted in the global North. Aim: This study examined the effects of MBSR on stress, mood states and ... -
The development of the visual screening tool for anxiety disorders and depression: Addressing barriers to screening for depression and anxiety disorders in hypertension and/or diabetes
(2018-06)Background: There is a lack of screening tools for common mental disorders that can be applied across cultures, languages and levels of education in people with diabetes and hypertension. Aim: To develop a visual screening ... -
Perceptions regarding the scope of practice of family doctors amongst patients in primary care settings in Nairobi
(AOSIS, 2018-10)Background: Primary care (PC) is the foundation of the Kenyan health care system, providing comprehensive care, health promotion and managing all illnesses across the lifecycle. In the private sector in Nairobi, PC is ... -
Training of workplace-based clinical trainers in family medicine, South Africa : before-and-after evaluation
(AOSIS, 2018-05)Background: The training of family physicians is a relatively new phenomenon in the district health services of South Africa. There are concerns about the quality of clinical training and the low pass rate in the national ... -
Mental health in primary care : integration through in-service training in a South African rural clinic
(2018-05)Background: Integrating mental health into primary care is a global priority. It is proposed to ‘task-share’ the screening, diagnosis and treatment of common mental disorders from specialists to primary care workers. Key ... -
Sexual assault survivors’ perspectives on clinical follow-up in the Eden District, South Africa : a qualitative study
(2018-05)Background: Although effective follow-up of sexual assault survivors is linked to optimal recovery, attendance at follow-up consultations is poor. It is therefore essential that health care providers maximise the benefit ... -
How clinicians experience a simulated antiretroviral therapy adherence exercise : a qualitative study
(2018-10)Background: With the shift of paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) from tertiary to primary health care, there has been a need to train clinicians working in primary health care facilities to support adherence to ... -
Patient satisfaction and treatment adherence of stable human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients in antiretroviral adherence clubs and clinics
(2018-06)Background: South Africa has experienced a substantial increase in access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) in recent years. Effective strategies to manage access to treatment need to be incorporated into and implemented ... -
Plant functional trait data and reflectance spectra for 22 palmiet wetland species
(Elsevier, 2018)We provide reflectance spectra for 22 South African palmiet wetland species collected in spring 2015 from three wetlands throughout the Cape Floristic Region. In addition, we provide summarized plant functional trait data, ... -
Electric vehicle sound stimuli data and enhancements
(Elsevier, 2018)Data for six electric vehicle WOT interior sound measurements and eight enhanced sound signatures are presented. The measurement of electric vehicle interior sound signature data and the enhancement of these stimuli are ... -
The "apostles of terror" : South Africa, the East African campaign, and the Battle of El Wak
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the Union Defence Force (UDF) had to undergo a rapid transformation from an ageing defence force to one that could project offensive power across Africa. The formation ... -
Water as agent for social change, 1900–1939 : two case studies of developmental state approaches in establishing irrigation schemes
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)The advent of the Union of South Africa in 1910, and especially the creation of the Union’s Irrigation Department in 1912, signalled the beginning of large-scale state investment in water storage infrastructure and the ... -
Data for indirect load case estimation of ice-induced moments from shaft line torque measurements
(Elsevier, 2018)During ice navigation, blade measurements of ice-induced moments on ship propellers, are challenged by the harsh operating environment. To overcome this problem, shaft line measurements are performed inboard, and the ... -
The impact of family physician supply on district health system performance, clinical processes and clinical outcomes in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (2011–2014)
(2018-04)Background: A revised family physician (FP) training programme was introduced in South Africa in 2007. A baseline assessment (2011) of the impact of FP supply on district health system performance was performed within ... -
Carnitine requires choline to exert physiological effects in saccharomyces cerevisiae
(Frontiers Media, 2018)L-Carnitine is a key metabolite in the energy metabolism of eukaryotic cells, functioning as a shuttling molecule for activated acyl-residues between cellular compartments. In higher eukaryotes this function is essential, ... -
Data comparing the separation and elution of vitamin D metabolites on an ultra performance supercritical fluid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometer (UPSFC-MS/MS) compared to liquid chromatography (LC) and data presenting approaches to UPSFC method optimization
(Elsevier, 2018)The data presented is related to the research article "Analysis of multiple vitamin D metabolites by ultra performance supercritical fluid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPSFC-MS/MS)" (Jenkinson et al., 2018) ... -
Thou shalt not smoke : content and context in the Lord’s Resistance Army’s concept of the Ten Commandments
(AOSIS, 2019)With the Ten Commandments as a case, the overall focus of this article is how a reader’s a priori concept of a text influences how he or she allows textual content and interpretive context to interact. The frame of the ... -
Reconsidering Deuteronomy 26:5–11 as a small historical creed : overtures towards a migrant reading within the Persian period
(AOSIS, 2019)Against the backdrop of recent scholarship related to Deuteronomy 26:5–11, the influential hypothesis formulated by Gerhard von Rad that this verse entails a ‘small historical creed’ will be re-evaluated. In addition to ... -
Review of channel estimation for candidate waveforms of next generation networks
(MDPI, 2019)The advancement in wireless communication applications encourages the use of effective and efficient channel estimation (CE) techniques because of the varying behaviour of the Rayleigh fading channel. In most cases, the ... -
South African perspective on sexual slavery, sex work and exploitation
(IntechOpen, 2019)After millennia, formal slavery in most jurisdictions worldwide eventually came to an end by the middle of the nineteenth century. Yet, all kinds of trapped forms of labour took its place, among others sexual slavery—one ... -
Modeling top-down and bottom-up drivers of a regime shift in invasive aquatic plant stable states
(Frontiers Media, 2019)The evidence for alternate stable states characterized by dominance of either floating or submerged plant dominance is well established. Inspired by an existing model and controlled experiments, we conceptually describe a ...
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