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HerMES: Candidate gravitationally lensed galaxies and lensing statistics at submillimeter wavelengths
(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 ...
Association between pro-inflammatory alleles and allergic phenotypes in Xhosa adolescents
(Wiley, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Significant differences exist in the prevalence, spectrum, and severity of allergic diseases between developing and developed countries and between subpopulations within single countries. These discrepancies ...
Correlates of infant and child mortality in Ethiopia 2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
INTRODUCTION: Risk of mortality prevails for children with shorter birth interval since their mothers are likely
to have poor health. AIM: The aim of the study is to determine the indirect estimation of infant and child ...
Informal land sale and housing in the periphery of Pointe-Noire
(GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2016)
This article examines the relations between practices in informal
land transactions under customary tenure and spatial differentiation
among suburbs in the periphery of the city of Pointe-Noire, Congo-
Brazzaville. Urban ...
A review of the underlying factors influencing female genital mutilation in Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a re-occurring decimal in Africa. This phenomenon is estimated to occur in over twenty-five (25) countries in Africa. It is further estimated that FGM has been performed on nearly two ...
Match injury incidence during the Super Rugby tournament is high: a prospective cohort study over five seasons involving 93 641 player-hours
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence and nature of
injuries in the Super Rugby tournament over a 5-year
period.
METHODS: 482 male professional rugby union players
from six South African teams participating in the ...
A qualitative study of referring agents’ perceptions of access barriers to inpatient substance abuse treatment centres in the Western Cape
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background: Despite empirical support for the individual and public health benefits of treating substance use disorders (SUDs) , access to these services is impeded by several barriers. Although many studies on access ...
A detection threshold in the amplitude spectra calculated from Kepler data obtained during K2 mission.
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
We present our analysis of simulated data in order to derive a detection threshold which can
be used in the pre-whitening process of amplitude spectra. In case of ground-based data of
pulsating stars, this threshold is ...
Proximate determinants of fertility in Ethiopia: comparative analysis of the 2005 and 2011 DHS
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
Fertility is one of the elements in population dynamics that makes a significant contribution towards changing population size and structure over time. In Ethiopia, for the last 10 years the total fertility rate (TFR) has ...
An exploratory look at associated factors of poverty on educational attainment in Africa and in-depth multilevel modelling for Namibia.
(BER, 2013)
This study examines several indicator variables related to education
and poverty in Africa from the Demographic and Health Surveys
(DHS). Many have described income and education as one of the
fundamental determinants ...