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Lithostratigraphy of the Naros Granite (Komsberg Suite), South Africa and Namibia
(Bureau for Scientific Publications, 2021)The Naros Granite occurs as a large, northwest-trending ovoid batholith roughly 30 km long and 15 km wide straddling the Orange River border between South Africa and Namibia, 25 km northeast of Onseepkans. It consists ... -
Local community attitudes and perceptions towards benefits and challenges associated with biodiversity conservation in Blouberg Nature Reserve, South Africa
(Journal of Ecology, 2022)This study assessed the benefits and challenges associated with local community involvement in biodiversity conservation in the Blouberg Nature Reserve (BNR) of South Africa. To achieve this, a descriptive research design ... -
Local ownership, exercise of ownership and moving from passive to active entitlement: a practice-led inquiry on a rural community network
(CCIRDT, 2015)In this paper, we aim to shed light on local ownership from a double practical and theoretical perspective, and examine its meaning as well as the factors that are bound to influence its development in community based ... -
‘Lockdown’: Digital and emergency elearning technologies—A student perspective
(MDPI, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamental and disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of the modality of educational delivery from ... -
A LOFAR observation of ionospheric scintillation from two simultaneous travelling ionospheric disturbances
(The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2020)This paper presents the results from one of the first observations of ionospheric scintillation taken using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The observation was of the strong natural radio source Cassiopeia A, taken ... -
The lofar tied-array all-sky survey: Timing of 35 radio pulsars and an overview of the properties of the lofar pulsar discoveries
(EDP Sciences, 2023)The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS) is the most sensitive untargeted radio pulsar survey performed at low radio frequencies (119−151 MHz) to date and has discovered 76 new radio pulsars, including the 23.5-s ... -
The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey: Timing of 35 radio pulsars and an overview of the properties of the LOFAR pulsar discoveries
(Astronomy& Astrophysics, 2023)The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS) is the most sensitive untargeted radio pulsar survey performed at low radio frequencies (119−151 MHz) to date and has discovered 76 new radio pulsars, including the 23.5-s pulsar ... -
The lofar two-meter sky survey: Deep fields data release 1: II. The elais-n1 lofar deep field
(EDP Sciences, 2021)The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) will cover the full northern sky and, additionally, aims to observe the LoTSS deep fields to a noise level of ? 10 μJy beam-1 over several tens of square degrees in areas that have ... -
The lofar two-meter sky survey: Deep fields data release 1: IV. Photometric redshifts and stellar masses
(EDP Sciences, 2021)The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey split across multiple tiers over the northern sky. The first LoTSS Deep Fields data release consists of deep ... -
The LOFAR Two-metre sky survey deep fields: The star-formation rate-radio luminosity relation at low frequencies
(EDP Sciences, 2021)In this paper, we investigate the relationship between 150 MHz luminosity and the star-formation rate - the SFR-L150 MHz relation - using 150 MHz measurements for a near-infrared selected sample of 118 517 z < 1 galaxies. ... -
The lofar two-metre sky survey: Deep fields data release 1. V. Survey description, source classifications, and host galaxy properties
(Oxford University Press, 2023)Source classifications, stellar masses, and star-formation rates are presented for ≈80 000 radio sources from the first data release of the Low Frequency Array Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Deep Fields, which represents the ... -
London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy for South African women with mental illness: Exploring perspectives on pregnancy
(AOSIS, 2018)INTRODUCTION: Unplanned pregnancy is a community health concern. Research with South African women revealed the complexities surrounding pregnancy planning. Categorising pregnancies as either planned or unplanned is ... -
Long-term eclipse timing of white dwarf binaries: an observational hint of a magnetic mechanism at work
(Oxford University Press, 2016)We present a long-term programme for timing the eclipses of white dwarfs in close binaries to measure apparent and/or real variations in their orbital periods. Our programme includes 67 close binaries, both detached and ... -
Low microsatellites used to investigate leopard genetic structure severely restricts the results by Ropiquet et al. (2015) to infer population structure for managers
(Elsevier, 2016)Low microsatellites used to investigate leopard genetic structure severely restricts the results by Ropiquet et al. (2015) to infer population structure for managers. -
Low- And medium-spin negative-parity bands in the Os 187 nucleus
(American Physical Society, 2021)Low- and medium-spin negative-parity bands of Os187 have been studied using the AFRican Omnipurpose Detector for Innovative Techniques and Experiments (AFRODITE) array, following the W186(He4,3n)Os187 reaction at a beam ... -
Low-Cost feedstock conversion to biodiesel via ultrasound technology
(MDPI, 2009)Biodiesel has attracted increasing interest and has proved to be a good substitute for fossil-based fuels due to its environmental advantages and availability from renewable resources such as refined and waste vegetable ... -
A low-cost flow cytometric assay for the detection and quantification of apoptosis using an anionic halogenated fluorescein dye
(Future Science Group, 2008)We describe here a technical improvement of an established colorimetric method used to detect and measure the occurrence of apoptosis in mammalian cells during in vitro cell culture. This assay uses an anionic halogenated ... -
Low-operational temperature for selective detection of xylene gas using a p-n CuO-ZnO heterostructure-based sensor
(Elsevier Ltd, 2023)Xylene is not just considered detrimental to the environment but also hazardous to humans. Herein we report on xylene vapour detection using CuO-ZnO heterostructures containing various concentrations (0.1–2.0 wt%) of Zn, ... -
The low-redshift circumgalactic medium in SIMBA
(Oxford University Press, 2021-08)We examine the properties of the low-redshift circumgalactic medium (CGM) around star-forming and quenched galaxies in the SIMBA cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, focusing on comparing H I and metal line absorption ... -
Lyman α absorption beyond the disc of simulated spiral galaxies
(Oxford University Press, 2020)We present an analysis of the origin and properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in a suite of 11 cosmological zoom simulations resembling present-day spiral galaxies. On average the galaxies retain about 50 per cent ...