Author:Lane, Tanya ElizabethDate:Freight transportation, in its current shape and form, is on a highly unsustainable trajectory. Global demand for freight is ever increasing, while this demand is predominantly serviced by inefficient, fossil fuel dependent transportation ...Read more
Author:Sewnarain, PrenithaDate:The increasing reliance on drugs from natural sources has led to the development of several drugs from traditional plants which are present in abundance in Southern Africa. With the rapid increase of incidence of type 2 diabetes in South ...Read more
Author:Hobbs, Henriëtte RenéeDate:2015We proposed that the development of a new high capacity polymer microsphere technology, termed ReSyn, could be developed as viable detection reagents for lateral flow technology. This body of work outlines the development of this new high ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, JerolenDate:Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the causative agent of AIDS, a disease which affects over 24 million people globally and for which there is neither curative treatment nor vaccine available. As an intracellular pathogen that encodes only ...Read more
Author:Anderson, Taigh ByrneDate:Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery) is a severe inflammatory diarrhoeal disease in humans caused by the Gram-negative bacteria belonging to the Shigella species. Despite over 60 years of vaccine research, no licensed vaccine to prevent shigellosis ...Read more
Author:Cloete, ElsabeDate:2020To date, an accurate understanding of the dynamics between the fibre's inherent geometric, mechanical and biological characteristics is deficient, affecting the reliability and robustness of hair data. There is also insufficient scientific ...Read more
Author:Lindemann, Jessica DanielleDate:2020Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is considered the gold standard in the surgical management of gallstone disease and is one of the most commonly performed general surgery operations worldwide. Bile duct injury (BDI) in LC remains a feared ...Read more
Author:Vazirgiantzikis, IosifDate:Malignant bone tumours often require a patient to make the choice between limb salvage surgery and complete amputation. The Ti-6Al-4V alloy is the material of choice for implantable orthopaedic devices as it provides a favourable combination ...Read more
Author:Tantoh, Aunt Manyongo MosimaDate: 2020The study titled “The applicability of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to the condom use intentions and behavior of migrant youth in South Africa” explores the predictors of condom use behavior and intentions of migrant youth in SA. It ...Read more
Author:van Diepen, Michiel TheodoorDate: 2020Despite huge strides being made towards decreasing the number of individuals getting newly infected with HIV-1, and in reducing AIDS-related deaths, unfortunately current predictions are that the 2020 UNAIDS goals (90-90-90 targets, where 90% ...Read more
Author:Watson, Daniel JohnDate: 2020The success of our first-line antimalarial treatments is threatened by increased drug resistance in Plasmodium parasites. This makes the development of novel drugs critical to combat malaria. Historically, natural products have been an excellent ...Read more
Author:Wallace, JenniferDate: 2020This study investigates the experiences of scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attend elite secondary schools in South Africa. Specifically, the study analyses the narrated accounts of a sample of former ...Read more
Author:Wittwer, TaniaDate:2020The own-group bias in face recognition (OGB) is the greater facility to distinguish and recognize people from one's own group at the expense of people from other-groups. The OGB has been studied for many years, however, very little research ...Read more
Author:Wolff-Piggott, BrendonDate:2020A central assumption of extant mHealth literature is that the technology empowers health care staff and leads to increased efficiency in service delivery. This assumption foregrounds the transformative potential of mHealth and the active ...Read more
Author:Zhigila, Daniel AndrawusDate:2020Thesium L. (Santalales: Santalaceae) is a large (360 species) genus of hemiparasitic perennial or annual species with a mainly Old-World distribution and a greatest concentration in southern Africa (ca. 186 species). Although Thesium is a ...Read more
Author:Zhou, YingDate:2020The status of multinational organisations continues to expand, as global opportunities increase. In particular, Chinese manufacturing companies continue to grow and expand overseas. Given the fact that Chinese Paternalistic Leadership performed ...Read more
Author:Tucker, Chelsea LynDate: 2020The production of fuels from waste on a small-scale decentralized level may enhance the liquid fuel security of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Fischer-Tropsch process can be used to convert waste into drop-in fuels. However, operating at small scale ...Read more
Author:Tsoeunyane, Lekhobola JoachimDate: 2020Modern design of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) applications is based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) due to their ability to be configured into solution architectures that are well suited to domain-specific problems while achieving ...Read more
Author:Tomes, Hayley SarahDate: 2020Epilepsy is more frequent in sub-Saharan Africa than the rest of the world due to high levels of brain infections by larvae of the pig cestode Taenia solium, a condition termed neurocysticercosis. Despite the large nature of the problem, ...Read more
Author:van Der Meer, Willem ArieDate: 2020Coal-fired power plant boilers consist of several complex subsystems that all need to work together to ensure plant availability, efficiency and safety, while limiting emissions. Analysing this multi-objective problem requires a thermofluid ...Read more
