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Dogs and dogma: A discussion of the socio-political construction of Southern African dog 'breeds' as a window on social history
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Capacity for clinical research on herbal medicines in Africa
(2012)An electronic survey was used to assess the training needs of clinical and public health researchers who have been involved, and/or plan to become involved, in clinical trials of herbal medicines in Africa. Over 90 researchers ... -
Effect of chronic CPT-1 inhibition on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R) in a model of diet-induced obesity
(2012)Purpose By increasing circulating free fatty acids and the rate of fatty acid oxidation, obesity decreases glucose oxidation and myocardial tolerance to ischemia. Partial inhibition of fatty acid oxidation may improve ... -
Intralesional bleomycin for the treatment of periocular capillary hemangiomas
(2012)Periocular infantile capillary hemangiomas do not always respond well to conventional treatment modalities such as systemic or intralesional corticosteroids, radiotherapy or debulking surgery. The authors describe the use ... -
Botswana as a 'development-oriented gate-keeping state': A response
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BCS-BEC crossover in nuclear matter with the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory
(2012)Based on the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory, the influence of the pairing interaction strength on the dineutron correlations and the crossover from superfluidity of neutron Cooper pairs in the 1S ... -
Saccharomyces cerevisiae oxidative response evaluation by cyclic voltammetry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
(2012)This study is focused on the evaluation of the impact of Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolism in the profile of compounds with antioxidant capacity in a synthetic wine during fermentation. A bioanalytical pipeline, which ... -
Climate effects on productivity and resource-use efficiency of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica [L.]) in stands with different spatial mixing patterns
(2012)Species mixing is widely held to stabilize productivity, increase resilience and contribute to risk minimization in forest stands in need of special as a result of longevity. However, research on the effects of mixing on ... -
Diversity and Characterization of Culturable Fungi from Marine Sediment Collected from St. Helena Bay, South Africa
(2012)Marine fungi are known to originate from a wide variety of habitats within the marine environment. Marine sediment represents one environmental niche, with most fungi occurring in these sediments being facultative marine ... -
Drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission and resistance amplification within families
(2012)Drug-resistant tuberculosis is caused by transmission of resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and by acquisition of resistance through inadequate treatment. We investigated the clinical and molecular features ... -
From steady-state to synchronized yeast glycolytic oscillations I: Model construction
(2012)An existing detailed kinetic model for the steady-state behavior of yeast glycolysis was tested for its ability to simulate dynamic behavior. Using a small subset of experimental data, the original model was adapted by ... -
From steady-state to synchronized yeast glycolytic oscillations II: Model validation
(2012)In an accompanying paper [du Preez et al., (2012) FEBS J279, 2810-2822], we adapt an existing kinetic model for steady-state yeast glycolysis to simulate limit-cycle oscillations. Here we validate the model by testing its ... -
Codon-optimized glucoamylase sGAI of Aspergillus awamori improves starch utilization in an industrial yeast
(2012)The development of a yeast that converts raw starch to ethanol in one step (called consolidated bioprocessing) could yield large cost reductions in the bioethanol industry. The aim of this study was to develop an efficient ... -
Design of Packaging Vents for Cooling Fresh Horticultural Produce
(2012)This review focuses on the design of vents in packages used for handling horticulture produce. The studies on vent designs that are conducted to obtain fundamental understanding of the mechanisms by which different parameters ... -
Sustained glycolytic oscillations in individual isolated yeast cells
(2012)Yeast glycolytic oscillations have been studied since the 1950s in cell-free extracts and intact cells. For intact cells, sustained oscillations have so far only been observed at the population level, i.e. for synchronized ... -
Allergic rhinitis in South Africa: 2012 guidelines
(2012)Background. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an important disease in South Africa. The South African Allergic Rhinitis Working Group (SAARWG) has published previous guidelines for AR diagnosis and management. Areas of concern ... -
Urbanization drives a reduction in functional diversity in a guild of nectar-feeding birds
(2012)Urbanization is a widespread and rapidly growing threat to biodiversity, therefore we need a predictive understanding of its effects on species and ecosystem processes. In this paper we study the impact of urbanization on ... -
Localized form of Fock terms in nuclear covariant density functional theory
(2012)In most of the successful versions of covariant density functional theory in nuclei, the Fock terms are not included explicitly, which leads to local functionals and forms the basis of their widespread applicability at ... -
Early cardiovascular changes occurring in diet-induced, obese insulin-resistant rats
(2012)The metabolic syndrome is recognized as a cluster of disturbances associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Over the past two decades, the number of people with the metabolic syndrome has increased at an ... -
Strengthening morality and ethics in educational assessment through ubuntu in south africa
(2012)While assessment is regarded as integral to enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, it is also a practice fraught with moral and ethical issues. An analysis is made of current assessment practices of teachers in ...