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Examining the performance of the South African economics departments, 2005-2014
(Wiley, 2017)This study examines the teaching and research activities of 17 Economics Departments in 2005-2014 by consulting the information from each university’s faculty prospectus, publication in accredited local and international ... -
Examining the relationship among bullying, school climate and adolescent well-being in Chile and South Africa: a cross cultural comparison
(Springer, 2019)Bullying at school represents a major challenge in different school cultural contexts. As a result, victims of bullying experience negative consequences that influence their daily life and personal well-being. School climate ... -
Examining the Relationship between Term Structure of Interest Rates and Economic Activity in Namibia
(Academic research publishing group, 2016)Abstract: This paper analysed the forecasting ability of yield-curve as a predictor of the short-run fluctuations in economic activities in Namibia. The study employed the techniques of unit root, cointegration, impulse ... -
Examining the relationship between term structure of interest rates and economic activity in Namibia
(Academic Research Publishing Group, 2016)This paper analysed the forecasting ability of yield-curve as a predictor of the short-run fluctuations in economic activities in Namibia. The study employed the techniques of unit root, cointegration, impulse response functions ... -
Examining the variations in the implementation of interventions to address stillbirth from the national to subnational levels: Experiences from Uganda
(BMC, 2022)The current global burden of stillbirth disproportionately afects regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where Uganda is located. To respond to this burden, policies made at the national level were difused from the centre and ... -
The excessive use of antioxidant therapy: A possible cause of male infertility?
(Wiley, 2018)Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress are closely associated with various pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases, ageing and male infertility. Hence, antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, N‐acetyl ... -
The exchange rate channel and monetary policy transmission in Namibia
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015)This paper investigates the exchange rate channel of monetary policy transmission in Namibia over the quarterly 1993:Q1 - 2011:Q4. The empirical analysis was conducted using innovation accounting tools such as generalised ... -
Exclusion through defined membership in people-centered natural resources management: Who defines?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)This paper investigates how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has determined membership to rights over forestry and wildlife resources in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The legal frameworks in these ... -
Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (PROMISE-EBF): a cluster-randomised trial
(Elsevier, 2011)Background: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is reported to be a life-saving intervention in low-income settings. The effect of breastfeeding counselling by peer counsellors was assessed in Africa. Methods:24 communities ... -
Exercise testing and intervention: translation into a low resource community
(2015)Ikageng is a low-resource community on the outskirts of Potchefstroom in the North West Province of South Africa. South Africa experiences a burden of disease that includes both diseases of lifestyle due to obesity and ... -
Exercise therapy education enriched through interprofessional
(2021)Biokineticist and physiotherapy professional scopes of practice are explicit that they are both exercise therapists, meaning that they use exercise as a treatment modality. Despite these well-defined scopes of the profession ... -
Exercise therapy education enriched through interprofessional teaching
(Wiley, 2021)Biokineticist and physiotherapy professional scopes of practice are explicit that they are both exercise therapists, meaning that they use exercise as a treatment modality. Despite these well-defined scopes of the ... -
Existence domains of dust-acoustic solitons and supersolitons
(AIP PublishingAIP Publishing, 2013)Using the Sagdeev potential method, the existence of large amplitude dust-acoustic solitons and supersolitons is investigated in a plasma comprising cold negative dust, adiabatic positive dust, Boltzmann electrons, and ... -
Exodontia skills acquisition: focusing on clinical teaching and training
(Public Library of Science, 2023)The aim of the research was to evaluate the traditional exodontia block course. The objectives were to explore the experiences and views of students, clinical teachers and dental practitioners of the various elements of ... -
Exogenous 3,3′-diindolylmethane improves vanadium stress tolerance in brassica napus seedling shoots by modulating antioxidant enzyme activities
(MDPI, 2021)3,3′-diindolylmethane (DIM) belongs to a family of indole glucosinolate compounds that have been shown to improve Brassica napus growth through the modulation of reactive oxygen species when applied exogenously. The B. ... -
Exogenous antioxidants enhance seedling growth and yield of artificially aged cabbage and lettuce seeds
(MPDI, 2021)Aged seeds exhibit compromised vigour in terms of germination, seedling emergence and growth, but this can to some extent be alleviated by invigoration treatments before sowing. This study aimed to investigate ageing ... -
Exogenous p-coumaric acid improves salvia hispanica l. Seedling shoot growth
(MDPI Open Access Journals, 2019)p-Coumaric acid (p-CA) belongs to a family of natural esters of hydroxycinnamic acid compounds that have been shown to modulate plant growth and metabolism. In this study, we investigated the effect of exogenous p-CA on ... -
Exome sequencing identifies novel dysferlin mutation in a family with pauci-symptomatic heterozygous carriers
(Springer Nature, 2018)Background: We investigated a South African family of admixed ancestry in which the first generation (G1) developed insidious progressive distal to proximal weakness in their twenties, while their offspring (G2) experienced ... -
Exome sequencing identifies novel dysferlin mutation in a family with paucisymptomatic heterozygous carriers
(BioMed Central, 2018)BACKGROUND: We investigated a South African family of admixed ancestry in which the first generation (G1) developed insidious progressive distal to proximal weakness in their twenties, while their offspring (G2) experienced ... -
Exomol line lists – xliv. Infrared and ultraviolet line list for silicon monoxide (28si16o)
(Oxford University Press, 2022)A new silicon monoxide ( 28Si16O) line list covering infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions called SiOUVenIR is presented. This line list extends the infrared EBJT ExoMol line list by including vibronic transitions ...