Author:Motshwene, Precious GugulethuDate:2001This thesis investigates cell wall proteins, the presence of which increased in concentration as a result of stress. Two such proteins were found, phosphoglycerate mutase and Hsp 12. Studies on these proteins are reported in chapters 2 ...Read more
Author:Wilson, JessicaDate:2008In 1981 Sizwe Magona a 17-year old South African goes into exile in Europe. He is assigned to work with Graves Kumalo, prominent member of the ANC and responsible for investigating the apartheid government's nuclear weapons' programme. At ...Read more
Author:Cunningham, Carryn L; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2007The present models all assume a single southern Benguela sardine population. Is there sufficient evidence to consider as plausible an alternative that there could be two populations, with one distributed more towards the east and of a size ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2014This document addresses issues raised at and outstanding from the previous discussions of the hake OMP revision at the DWG meeting on 26 August, and concludes by listing issues still requiring choices/analyses to be able to finalise this OMP ...Read more
Author:Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2009The methodology advanced by Brandão and Butterworth (2007 and 2008) for simulating catch sex sampling data in the process of computing lower confidence bounds for the abundance of the West Greenland minke whale population is applied to the ...Read more
Author:Cornwell, DavidDate:2011Although there are no apparent structural links between these nine stories, they were conceived of as belonging to a particular mood or being variations of a particular theme. This theme, I suppose, is South African Disappointment. The scope ...Read more
Author:Thomas, Gary DavidDate:1996Deep drawing of metal sheeting is a commercially significant manufacturing process and as with all metal forming processes is subject to geometric defects. One defect of particular concern, termed earing, is characterised by an uneven edge ...Read more
Author:D'Arcy Nell, DawnDate:1998This study investigates the tensions surrounding livestock enumeration in the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth century. The study situates livestock statistics in an historical context which is intended to provide some indication of what ...Read more
Author:Greenbank, Kevin; Greenbank, KevinDate:1995Very little scholarly work has been written about Cape Town during the Second World War. Indeed, very little has been written about South African society at all during this period. This study is an attempt to contribute towards scholarly ...Read more
Author:Daniels, Nicole MiriamDate:2015The purpose of this article is to discuss the methodological advantage of a dyadic approach to researching home birth. It is based on a study in which a combination of pre and post, conjoint and individual interviews generated men, women and ...Read morecbnd
Author:Lilley, WarrenDate:2014This research is concerned with how students and teachers in an Advanced South African EFL classroom construct meaning through the use of mobile phones. Drawing on CulturalHistorical Activity Theory (CHAT), I view mobile phones as cultural ...Read more
Author:Vale, ElizabethDate:2012This paper investigates community health workers' negotiation between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how standards of public health are re-appropriated through the micro-politics of everyday ...Read morecbnd
Author:Cornick, RuthDate:2007This study occurred in the context of three problems that have arisen within the South African HIV/AIDS crisis: the prevalent HIV and tubertulosis (TB) co-epidemic, the concern that antiretroviral (ARV) provision might compromise the existing ...Read more
Author:Paxton, MoraghDate:2007This paper reports on a research project which set out to explore what happens when students at an English medium university in South Africa are given opportunities to negotiate conceptual understanding in their primary languages. The project ...Read more
Author:Popel, KalinkaDate:2017In South Africa, approximately 600 000 individuals are visually impaired. Approximately onethird of genetic disorders and syndromes involves the eye, including conditions such as congenital cataracts, glaucoma, albinism, and retinal degenerative ...Read more
Author:Swanepoel, TarahDate:2013Life History Theory (LHT) predicts that natural selection favours a degree of developmental plasticity when it comes to sexual strategies and mating displays. Individuals should develop a faster life history strategy (showing, for example, ...Read more
Author:Duff-Riddell, CarolineDate:2008In this study, the goal orientations of female riders between the ages of 7 and 20 and their parents are investigated. Goal orientations were identified by means of the Achievement Goal Questionnaire for Sport (AGQ-S) for: the daughter; the ...Read more