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A pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stress
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Background: Home-based care is recognised as being a stressful occupation. Practitioners working with patients experiencing high levels of trauma may be susceptible to compassion fatigue, with the sustained need to remain ...
Biodiversity: so much more than legs and leaves
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Microorganisms inhabit virtually every possible niche on Earth, including those at the outer envelope of survival. However, the focus of most conservation authorities and ecologists is the ‘legs and leaves’ side of biology ...
Criteria to facilitate the implementation of woman-centred care in childbirth units of Limpopo Province, South Africa (Part 2)
(OASIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Background: Facilitation of mutual participation, respectful and egalitarian relationship between the mother and the midwife during childbirth is a critical aspect. This article delineated the criteria that would facilitate ...
Cardioprotective and anti-hypertensive effects of Prosopis glandulosa in rat models of pre-diabetes
(Clinics Cardive Publishing, 2013)
AIM: Obesity and type 2 diabetes present with two debilitating complications, namely, hypertension and heart disease. The dried and ground pods of Prosopis glandulosa (commonly known as the Honey mesquite tree) which is ...
"Eat dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly": a food-based dietary guideline
(Medpharm, 2013)
The objective of this paper is to review recent scientific evidence to support the food-based dietary guideline (FBDG): “Eat
dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly”. In this review, legumes are synonymous with ...
The use of ultraviolet radiation as a non-thermal treatment for the inactivation of alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris spores in water, wash water from a fruit processing plant and grape juice concentrate
(CUT Free State, 2013)
Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris is a non-pathogenic, spore-forming bacterium
that can survive the commercial pasteurisation processes commonly used
during fruit juice production. Surviving bacterial endospores germinate, ...
Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert
(Springer, 2013)
The Namib Dessert is considered the oldest desert in the world and hyperarid for the last 5 million years. However, the environmental buffering provided by quartz and other translucent rocks supports extensive hypolithic ...
Selection of diazotrophic bacterial communities in biological sand filter mesocosms used for the treatment of phenolic-laden wastewater
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
Agri effluents such as winery or olive mill waste-waters are characterized by high phenolic concentrations. These compounds are highly toxic and generally refractory to biodegradation. Biological sand filters (BSFs) represent ...
Diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses
(Inter Research, 2013)
Whale sharks Rhincodon typus are large filter-feeders that are frequently observed
feeding in surface zooplankton patches at their tropical and subtropical coastal aggregation sites.
Using signature fatty acid (FA) ...
Engineering pyruvate decarboxylase-mediated ethanol production in the thermophilic host Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
This study reports the expression, purification, and kinetic characterization of a pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) from Gluconobacter oxydans . Kinetic analyses showed the enzyme to have high affinity for pyruvate (120 μM at ...