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    • Health-related quality of life of patients six months poststroke living in the Western Cape, South Africa 

      Rhoda, Anthea (AOSIS Publishing, 2014)
      BACKGROUND: The majority of individuals report a decline in health-related quality of life following a stroke. Quality of life and factors predicting quality of life could differ in individuals from lower income countries. ...

    • Health-seeking behaviours of older black women living with non-communicable diseases in an urban township in South Africa 

      Aboyade, Oluwaseyi; Beauclair, R.; Mbamalu, Oluchi; Puoane, Thandi; Hughes, Gail (BioMed Central, 2016)
      BACKGROUND: Various studies have shown that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) especially diabetes and hypertension are prevalent among older women living in South African urban areas, placing a heavy burden on the healthcare ...

    • The health-sustaining, moderating, and mediating roles of sense of coherence in the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and burnout among South African teachers 

      Padmanabhanunni, Anita; Pretorius, Tyrone Brian; Kagee, Ashraf (MDPI, 2022)
      The current study focuses on the interrelationship between fear of COVID-19, sense of coherence, and burnout. Participants (n = 355) were school teachers from across all provinces in South Africa who completed the Fear ...

    • Healthcare provider perceptions on the implementation of the universal test-and-treat policy in South Africa: a qualitative inquiry 

      Nicol, Edward; Mehlomakulu, Vuyelwa; Jama, Ngcwalisa Amanda; Hlongwa, Mbuzeleni (BMC, 2023)
      Background South Africa had an estimated 7.5 million people living with HIV (PLHIV), accounting for approximately 20% of the 38.4 million PLHIV globally in 2021. In 2015, the World Health Organization recommended the ...

    • Healthcare workers’ beliefs, motivations and behaviours affecting adequate provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare services to adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study 

      Jonas, Kim; Crutzen, Rik; Krumeich, Anja; Roman, Nicolette V.; van den Borne, Bart; Reddy, Priscilla (BioMed Central, 2018)
      BACKGROUND: Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) needs have been prioritized globally, and they have the rights to access and utilize SRH services for their needs. However, adolescents under-utilize SRH ...

    • Healthwise South Africa: cultural adaptation of a school-based risk prevention programme 

      Wegner, Lisa; Flisher, Alan J.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Vergnani, Tania; Smith, Edward A. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      There is a need for effective prevention programmes aimed at reducing risk behaviour among South African adolescents. Health Wise South Africa is a school-based programme designed to reduce sexual and substance use risk ...

    • Heavy metals in the irrigation water, soils and vegetables in the Philippi horticultural area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa 

      Malan, M.; Müller, F.; Cyster, L.; Raitt, Lincoln; Aalbers, J. (Springer Verlag, 2014)
      The aims of this study were to investigate the extent of heavy metal contamination in the Philippi horticultural area in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Concentrations of Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn were ...

    • The hegemonic role of biomedical discourses in the construction of pregnancy loss 

      Naidoo, Anika (ScienceDirect, 2019)
      Pregnancy is constructed as a joy-filled and natural experience with a taken-for-granted expectation that the outcome will be a healthy baby. However, in South Africa approximately 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage and ...

    • Height determination of a blue discharge observed by asim/mmia on the international space station 

      Bai, Xue; Füllekrug, Martin; Kosch, Michael (Wiley, 2023)
      We analyze simultaneous photometric observations of thundercloud discharges from the Modular Multispectral Imaging Array of the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on board the International Space Station with ...

    • Helichrysum genus and compound activities in the management of diabetes mellitus 

      Akinfenwa, Akeem O.; Sagbo, Idowu J.; Makhaba, Masixole (MDPI, 2022)
      The global management of diabetes mellitus (DM) involves the administration of recommended anti-diabetic drugs in addition to a non-sedentary lifestyle upon diagnosis. Despite the success recorded from these synthetic ...

    • HELP: a catalogue of 170 million objects, selected at 0.36–4.5 μm, from 1270 deg2 of prime extragalactic fields 

      Shirley, R; Roehlly, Y; Hurley, P (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      We present an optical to near-infrared (NIR) selected astronomical catalogue covering 1270 deg2. This is the first attempt to systematically combine data from 23 of the premier extragalactic survey fields – the product of ...

    • HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project 

      Jarvis, M.J.; Shirley, R; Duncan, K; Campos Varillas, M.C.; Hurley, P.D.; Malek, K; Roehlly, Y; Oliver, S.J. (Oxford University Press, 2021)
      We present the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). This project collates, curates, homogenizes and creates derived data products for most of the premium multiwavelength extragalactic data sets. The sky boundaries ...

    • Her heart lies at the feet of the mother: Transformations of the romance plot in Leila Aboulela’s minaret 

      Moolla, F. Fiona (University of Western Cape, 2021)
      Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. ...

    • Her-stories in South African sport: gender and sport in the Cape Colony 1806-1910 

      Jones, Denise (University of the Western Cape, 2006)
      INTRODUCTION: The gendering of South African sport has a point of origin which is not explicitly evident until one examines the impact of the combined effects of the masculinity-sports relationship during the Victorian ...

    • HERA Phase I Limits on the Cosmic 21 cm Signal: Constraints on Astrophysics and Cosmology during the Epoch of Reionization 

      Abdurashidova, Zara; Aguirre, James E.; Alexander, Paul; Ali, Zaki S.; Balfour, Yanga; Barkana, Rennan; Beardsley, Adam P.; Bernardi, Gianni; Billings, Tashalee S.; Bowman, Judd D.; Bradley, Richard F. (The American Astronomical Society., 2022)
      Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) has produced the experiment’s first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21 cm fluctuations at z ∼ 8 and 10. Here, we use several independent theoretical models ...

    • Herbicides in Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), supplemented 

      Ojemaye, C.Y; Onwordi, C.T; Pampanin, D.M (Elsevier, 2021)
      During 2017 the herbicides alachlor, atrazine, butachlor, metolachlor, and simazine were detected in water samples, beach sediments and marine biota collected at Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. During that period, the ...

    • HerMES: Candidate gravitationally lensed galaxies and lensing statistics at submillimeter wavelengths 

      Wardlow, Julie L.; Cooray, Asantha; De Bernardis, Francesco; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Baker, A.J.; Bethermin, M.; Blundell, R.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Bridge, C.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Bussmann, R.S.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Calanog, J.A.; Carpenter, J.M.; Casey, C.M.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Cava, A.; Chanial, P.; Chapin, E.; Chapman, S.C.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Cox, P.; Dowell, C.D.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Ferrero, P.; Franceschini, Alberto; Frayer, D.T.; Frazer, C.; Fu, Hai; Gavazzi, R.; Glenn, J.; González Solares, E.A.; Griffin, M.; Gurwell, M.A.; Harris, A.I.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Hopwood, R.; Hyde, A.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Kim, S.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Negrello, M.; Neri, R.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Panuzzo, P.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, E.; Pohlen, M.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Scoville, N.; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Streblyanska, A.; Strom, A.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Trichas, M.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.D.; Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Xu, C.K.; Zemcov, M.; Yan, L. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      Gravitational lensing increases the angular size and integrated flux of affected sources. It is exploited to investigate the mass distribution of the foreground lensing structures and the properties of the background lensed ...

    • Hermes: Cosmic infrared background anisotropies and the clustering of dusty star-forming galaxies 

      Viero, M. P.; Wang, L.; Zemcov, M.; Addison, G.; Amblard, A.; Arumugam, V.; Aussel, H.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Boselli, A.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Casey, C.M.; Clements, D.L.; Conley, A.; Conversi, L.; Cooray, Asantha; de Zotti, G.; Dowell, C.D.; Farrah, D.; Franceschini, Alberto; Glenn, J.; Griffin, M.; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Heinis, S.; Ibar, Edo; Ivison, R.J.; Lagache, G.; Levenson, L.; Marchetti, L.; Marsden, G.; Nguyen, H.T.; OHalloran, B.; Oliver, S.J.; Omont, A.; Page, Matthew J.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pearson, C.P.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Pohlen, M.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Seymour, N.; Shupe, D.L.; Smith, A.J.; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Valtchanov, I.; Vieira, J.D.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Xu, C.K. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      Star formation is well traced by dust, which absorbs the UV/optical light produced by young stars in actively starforming regions and re-emits the energy in the far-infrared/ submillimeter (FIR/submm; e.g., Savage & ...

    • HerMES: The contribution to the cosmic infrared background from galaxies selected by mass and redshift 

      Viero, M. P.; Monclesi, L.; Quadri, L.F.; Arumugam, V.; Assef, R.J.; Bethermin, M.; Bock, J.; Bridge, C.; Casey, C.M.; Conley, A.; Cooray, Asantha; Farrah, D.; Glenn, J.; Heinis, S.; Ibar, Edo; Ikarashi, S.; Ivison, R.J.; Kohno, K.; Marsden, G.; Oliver, S.J.; Roseboom, I.G.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Serra, P.; Vaccari, M.; Vieira, J.D.; Wang, L.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Wilson, G.W.; Yun, M.S.; Zemcov, M. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      The cosmic infrared background (CIB), discovered in Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE; Puget et al. 1996; Fixsen et al. 1998), originates from thermal ...

    • HerMES: The far-infrared emission from dust-obscured galaxies 

      Calanog, J.A.; Wardlow, Julie L.; Fu, Hai; Cooray, Asantha; Assef, R.J.; Bock, J.; Casey, C.M.; Conley, A.; Farrah, D.; Ibar, Edo; Kartaltepe, J.; Magdis, G.; Marchetti, L.; Oliver, S.J.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Riechers, D.; Rigopoulou, D.; Roseboom, I.G.; Schulz, B.; Scott, Douglas; Symeonidis, Myrto; Vaccari, M.; Viero, M. P.; Zemcov, M. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      The far-infrared (far-IR) luminosities of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) and ultra-LIRGs (ULIRGs) are dominated by reprocessed thermal dust emission, due to a combination of star formation and active galactic nucleus ...