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Mission as reconciliation
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2019-12-02)For a long time, missiology operated in the paradigm of civilisation and good citizenship. Since the end of the 19th century, inculturation and social justice have replaced this paradigm. The current focus is on self-affirmation. ... -
A philosophical perspective on pulmonary hypertension : what is 'rare'?
(ASSAf, 2020-05-27)Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a fatal disease and public health concern.1 The global prevalence of PH is not known1 and a major focus is to establish registries in order to determine the actual prevalence of PH per country2. ... -
Accomplishments in wheat rust research in South Africa
(ASSAf, 2020-11-26)Rust diseases, although seasonal, have been severe constraints in wheat production in South Africa for almost 300 years. Rust research gained momentum with the institution of annual surveys in the 1980s, followed by race ... -
Gender pay transparency mechanisms : future directions for South Africa
(ASSAf, 2020-03-26)The gender pay gap – that is, the difference in wages between men and women for the same or substantially the same work, or work of equal value – still features prominently as a stumbling block in achieving South African ... -
Not the peace train but the piece train
(ASSAf, 2020-05-27)In what should fall foul of any literary trades description Act, Charles van Onselen describes his latest work as a ‘little book’ (p.14). It is, as anyone who opens The Night Trains will quickly discover, anything but ... -
Lessons from a major pest invasion : the polyphagous shot hole borer in South Africa
(ASSAf, 2020-11-26)The arrival and establishment of invasive forest pests can cause devastating environmental damage and great economic impact. For example, the cost over the past decade of dealing with the arrival of a single invasive ... -
Updated account of Angola's remarkable biodiversity
(ASSAf, 2020-01-29)Angola is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world, yet relatively little is known about the species that occur there, or the ecosystems in which they live. There were, compared to southern and eastern ... -
Public sector challenges : an Interview with Kate Kopischke
(2015)Kate Kopischke is an independent mediator specializing in stakeholder engagement, dispute prevention, and dispute resolution in the natural resources sectors. Kate’s work involves conflict assessments and facilitation ... -
What the science of child and adolescent development contributes to understanding the impacts of COVID-19
(ASSAf, 2021)As of 8 September 2020, there were 27 236 916 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 891 031 deaths reported to the World Health Organization.1 The direct effects of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) and COVID-19 (the disease ... -
Of angels and devils : an interview with Merrick Hoben
(2015)Merrick Hoben is the Director of the Consensus Building Institute’s Washington, D.C., Regional Office, a Practitioner Associate at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute ... -
Making up for lost time : an interview with Alex B. Muhweezi
(2015)Alex Muhweezi is an ecologist (MSc) with 28 years of experience in the field of environmental management in Uganda and East Africa. He manages the Kampala-based consulting firm Future Dialogues International, which he ... -
An established population of African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802), in mainland China
(Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre, 2019)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Reports of amphibian invasions are increasing, although it seems likely that there are more extant populations of alien species than we are currently aware of, and we are far from understanding their full ... -
Hermetia illucens Larvae Reared on different substrates in broiler quail diets : effect on physicochemical and sensory quality of the quail meat
(MDPI, 2019-08-02)This research aimed at improving the fatty acid (FA) profile of Hermetia illucens larvae (HI) and evaluating the effects of their inclusion in growing broiler quails’ diets on the meat physicochemical quality, including ... -
Hard choices : ethical challenges in phase 1 of COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in South Africa
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03)Access to COVID-19 vaccines has raised concerns globally. Despite calls for solidarity and social justice during the pandemic, vaccine nationalism, stockpiling of limited vaccine supplies by high-income countries and ... -
Designed antimicrobial peptides for recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis treatment
(American Society for Microbiology, 2019)Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) is a widespread chronic infection that has a substantial negative impact on work and quality of life. The development of antimicrobial resistance and biofilm formation are ... -
An investigation of the perceptions of South African students with regards to accelerated learning courses
(HESA, 2021)The cost of repeating a module has both financial and social implications. The social implications include increased workloads when repeating a module and students often not being able to graduate within the prescribed ... -
Chartered accountancy and resistance in South Africa
(HESA, 2021)In recent times, the chartered accountant profession was regularly in the news for reasons pertaining to the unethical and unprofessional behaviour of members. The profession has an important role to play in the South ... -
The invisible support networks of doctoral candidates : what acknowledgement sections of doctoral theses reveal
(HESA, 2021)Although some argue that acknowledgement sections should not form part of doctoral theses, others welcome such sections and are of the opinion that they reflect original and personal contributions, constituting a neglected ... -
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-06-30)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Chronic osteomyelitis is notoriously difficult to eradicate, and high treatment failure rates have been reported in the literature.[1,2] Although no evidence-based treatment guidelines exist ... -
Delivery outcomes of patients with pre-eclampsia at 27 - 34 weeks’ gestation at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa : a retrospective observational study
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-04-03)Background. Obstetricians are cognisant of the serious nature of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. Despite a 17% overall reduction in maternal deaths in South Africa between 2011 and 2016, there was a 14% increase in ... -
Could human challenge studies for COVID-19 vaccines be justified in South Africa?
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03)Although human challenge studies (HCSs) have been widely employed in vaccine development for malaria, dengue, typhoid and cholera, the role of this research design in COVID-19 remains controversial. While the potential ... -
A severity-of-illness score in patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03-02)Background. We previously retrospectively validated a 6-point severity-of-illness score aimed at identifying patients at risk of dying of tuberculosis (TB) in the intensive care unit (ICU). Parameters included septic shock, ... -
Establishing a South African national framework for COVID-19 surgical prioritisation
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03-23)Background. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, surgical operations have been drastically reduced in South Africa (SA). Guidelines on surgical prioritisation during COVID-19 have been published, but are specific to ... -
The effect of barley and lysine supplementation of pasture-based diet on growth, carcass composition and physical quality attributes of meat from farmed Fallow Deer (Dama dama) the effect of barley and lysine supplementation of pasture-based diet on growth, carcass composition and physical quality attributes of meat from farmed Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
(MDPI, 2019-01-24)Fallow deer (Dama dama) are important meat producing species providing venison and other products to an international market. The present study investigated the effects of different feed rations on the growth, carcass ... -
Love in the time of decoloniality
(CSSALL Publishers, 2019)The most recent student protests have yet again echoed calls for ‘decolonisation’. In reaction, much has been offered by way of responses in terms of decolonising curricula, knowledge, and spaces. Now that the proverbial ... -
School connectedness as psychological resilience factor in children affected by HIV/AIDS
(Routledge, 2019)Children affected by HIV/AIDS are at high risk for poor mental health outcomes. Social and psychological connectedness to school has been identified as an important resilience factor for youth affected by adversity (Centers ... -
Hunger as a driver of depressive symptoms : optimising responses to mental health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-07)The COVID-19 pandemic has had major implications for mental health, and much has been written about clinical interventions and health policy to address this. In South Africa (SA) and other low- and middle-income countries, ... -
Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-01-28)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recent studies have shown that the detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in wastewater may provide the basis for a surveillance system to track the environmental dissemination of this virus in communities. ... -
Seed-drill opener type and crop residue load affect canola establishment, but only residue load affects yield
(American Society of Agronomy, 2019)Core Ideas Canola establishment can be affected by the residues of the previous crop. Different planting tools may handle crop residue differently. Tine and disc furrow openers at different residue loads were tested. Canola ... -
Ivermectin for COVID-19 : promising but not yet conclusive
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2021-03)Ivermectin has been proposed as a potential definitive and prophylactic treatment for COVID-19.[1] Ivermectin is an anthelmintic drug that is usually indicated for filarial and resistant scabies infections, but has been ...
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