Author:Badejogbin, Rebecca EmieneDate:2017Judges of formal courts in Nigeria and South Africa do not easily have access to the contents of customary law they are required to apply in the course of adjudication and this has been a major challenge. This thesis examines the processes ...Read more
Author:de Wet, Willem MyburghDate:2013South Africa has an extensive coastline offshore of which lies the prominent South African
continental shelf, a relatively flat extension of the onshore coastal plain. The continental shelf is host to major mineral and petroleum deposits, ...Read more
Author:Swanepoel, DeborahDate:1995Two sites in Table Bay, South Africa, were examined for stranded debris between October and December 1994. One beach (Milnerton) is a popular recreation area in the metropolitan area whereas the other (Koeberg) is closed to public access. ...Read more
Author:Loriston, Izienne PDate:2018Globally, higher healthcare demand strains existing systems, already overburdened by a lack of resources and funding while longer life expectancy and increased disease burden force higher patient loads. A majority of the South African population ...Read more
Author:Bistline, Kathryn LouDate:2018South Africa has one of the world’s highest burdens of TB, HIV/TB co-infection, and drug-resistant TB. Second-line TB treatment is less effective, more expensive, and more toxic than treatment for drug-sensitive TB. Nearly 1 in every 5 persons ...Read more
Author:Longandjo, Georges-Noel TiersmondoDate:2018Central Africa is, climatologically speaking, a poorly studied region (Clivar, 2000; Dezfuli and Nicholson, 2012; Nicholson and Dezfuli, 2012; Todd and Washington, 2004). It is considered as a knowledge gap in the understanding of the tropical ...Read more
Author:Davidian, Kenneth JohnDate:2018To respond to the research question, “by what processes do new industries emerge?”, the author identified different models of innovation development and industry emergence. Relevant streams of literature included economics, innovation, ...Read more
Author:Ncube, PresleyDate:2018The United Nations Population Division publishes fertility projections for all countries in the World Population Prospects (WPP). These are the most widely used projections for planning and policy implementation. Despite a substantial body ...Read more
Author:Balshaw, Lloyd StanleyDate:2018Asset pricing models are well established and have been used extensively by practitioners both for pricing options as well as for hedging them. Though Black-Scholes is the original and most commonly communicated asset pricing model, alternative ...Read more
Author:Bhatta, AbhishekDate:2018Using communication signals for radar applications has been a major area of research in radar engineering. In the recent years, due to the widely available wireless signals, a new area of research called commensal radars has emerged. Commensal ...Read more
Author:Ayifah, Rebecca Nana YaaDate:2018This thesis consists of three papers on child labour and schooling in Ghana. The first paper examines the correlates of child labour and schooling, as well as the trade-off between work and schooling of children aged 5-17 years with the 2013 ...Read more
Author:Ambler, Jon MitchellDate:2018Background: Despite the development of new drugs and success of social programs, tuberculosis remains a leading cause of mortality. This burden falls disproportionately on developing countries where the high burden of HIV has a potentiating ...Read more
Author:Ajumobi, Deborah ODate:2018The primary purpose of this study was to examine and understand the nature of Information and communication technology (ICT) supported formal women business networks (eFWBNs) and their contribution to the development of women entrepreneurs. ...Read more
Author:L'abbate, Fabrizio PDate:2018Chloroquine was one of the main malarial treatments until the late 1960s when resistance began to emerge. This antimalarial targets haemozoin formation which causes a cytotoxic accumulation of free haem in the malaria parasite leading to ...Read more
Author:Landschoff, JannesDate:2018Hermit crabs form an important component of the marine benthos and globally more than 1,200 species have been described. In the unique bioregion of South Africa, hermit crabs are poorly known, and the last taxonomic revision of the group was ...Read more
Author:Cawood, Anthony RobinDate:2018This thesis explores how schools with a religious affiliation recruit religion in school culture and the formal curriculum (both curriculum content and pedagogic method) and how this relates to the pedagogic identities they project. An ...Read more
Author:Chirehwa, Maxwell TawandaDate:2018The pharmacokinetics of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol in TB/HIV coinfected patients recruited in two phase III clinical trials (61 patients in TB-HAART and 222 patients in RAFA study) were described using nonlinear ...Read more
Author:Dalwai, Mohammed KDate:2018Emergency medical care (EMC) is proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as being one of the core components of a horizontal approach to improving population health in low-resource settings; triage is considered to be a fundamental ...Read more