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Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)Large scale land acquisitions by foreign investors in Africa for agricultural purposes continue to capture attention worldwide. In recent years Namibia has received some proposals from multi-national agricultural ... -
Ellagic acid controls cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells via inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 6
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 6 (CDK6) plays an important role in cancer progression, and thus, it is considered as an attractive drug target in anticancer therapeutics. This study presents an evaluation of dietary phytochemicals, ... -
ELUCID. VIII. simulating the coma galaxy cluster to calibrate model and understand feedback
(Institute of Physics, 2024)We conducted an investigation of the Coma cluster of galaxies by running a series of constrained hydrodynamic simulations with GIZMO-SIMBA and GADGET-3 based on initial conditions reconstructed from the SDSS survey volume ... -
Elusive Jannah: The Somali diaspora and borderless Muslim identity, by Cawo M. Abdi
(York University Libraries, 2018)Overall, Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement should be applauded for emphasizing the need to recognize the complexity of refugee lives, and to rethink the dominant assumptions that so often render refugees ... -
Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of authoritarian populism. ... -
Embedding academic literacy skills into the mainstream curriculum: the case of information systems 131/132
(Central University of Technology, Free State, 2016)This paper reports on collaborative teaching between two academic literacy (AL) specialists and two lecturers teaching first-year students Information Systems (IFS) 131/132 during the 2012 and 2013 academic years in ... -
Embodied pedagogies: performative activism and transgressive pedagogies in the sexual and gender justice project in higher education in contemporary South Africa
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)In this chapter, responding to the call to rethink "the fundamental concepts that support such binary thinking" and to recognise "the agential possibilities and responsibilities for reconfiguring the material-social ... -
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children’s reflections on living in Symphony Way temporary relocation area
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows that solutions to illness and health problems ... -
Embodying the Learning Space: Is it Okay if I bring my sexuality to class?
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Embracing risky refuge: Women, land laws and livelihood vulnerabilities in rural Kenya
(2021)There has been a growing interest in laws governing resources particularly land in reference to gender in Africa. Law reforms in relation to land have produced potentially useful regulations and espoused egalitarian land ... -
The emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 N501Y lineages
(Elsevier, 2021-09)The independent emergence late in 2020 of the B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 prompted renewed concerns about the evolutionary capacity of this virus to overcome public health interventions and rising ... -
Emergences and affordances as opportunities to develop teachers’ mathematical content knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Teachers’ mathematical content knowledge has been under scrutiny for some time. This development is in the wake of learners’ unsatisfactory performance in national examinations and international achievement tests. A widely ... -
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey
(Wiley, 2021)Detailed empirical work on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security is scant. Local management of food security has received little attention.This article describes emergency food policies in Wuhan and Nanjing, ... -
The emergent practice of governance and its implications for the concept of politics
(AJOL, 2007)This paper explores the implications of the disjuncture between the real-world practice of governance and the popular understanding of politics. There are two ways of addressing this disjuncture. The first is to accept the ... -
Emerging aeromonas species infections and their significance in public health
(Hindawi Publishers Corporation, 2012)Aeromonas species are ubiquitous bacteria in terrestrial and aquatic milieus. They are becoming renowned as enteric pathogens of serious public health concern as they acquire a number of virulence determinants that are ... -
Emerging evidence implicating a role for neurexins in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders
(The Royal Society, 2021)Synaptopathies are brain disorders characterized by dysfunctional synapses, which are specialized junctions between neurons that are essential for the transmission of information. Synaptic dysfunction can occur due to ... -
Emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)This paper compares and contrasts emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries represent transitional societies that are facing challenges of providing clean ... -
Emerging from the Shadows: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Facing Community Health Workers in Western Cape, South Africa
(MDPI, 2020)Community health workers (CHWs) have been identified as a key component of the health workforce in South Africa. However, the efficacy of CHW programs continues to be limited by a poor understanding of facilitators and ... -
Emerging from the shadows: Intrinsic and extrinsic factors facing community health workers in Western Cape, South Africa
(MDPI, 2020)Community health workers (CHWs) have been identified as a key component of the health workforce in South Africa. However, the efficacy of CHW programs continues to be limited by a poor understanding of facilitators and ... -
Emerging infectious disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from the past and present to be better prepared for future outbreaks
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)Background: Over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has faced multiple public health emergencies (1). A public health emergency (PHE) is a situation with health consequences too severe for conventional community ...