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Dental ethics case 25 the drug-abusing patient – what are my ethical obligations to treat?

Naidoo, Sudeshni (South African Dental Association, 2012)

Dental ethics case 26 the incompetent geriatric patient

Naidoo, Sudeshni (South African Dental Association, 2012)

Dental ethics case 27 - the orthodontic dilemma of non-compliance

Naidoo, Sudeshni (South African Dental Association, 2012)

Dental ethics case 2: What are your responsibilities to patients who may have an eating disorder?

Naidoo, Sudeshni (South African Dental Association, 2010)

Eating disorders are a serious concern and can also have significant consequences on oral health. They represent a clinical challenge to dental professionals because of their unique psychological, medical, nutritional and ...

Dental ethics case 3: informed consent: risks and benefits of treatment

Naidoo, Sudeshni (South African Dental Association, 2010)

Studies have shown that pre-operative patient education, providing coping strategies and/or reasonable expectations regarding the post-operative course can help lessen patient anxiety and decrease pain, complications and ...

A dependable model for attaining maximum authetication security procedure in a grid based environment

Azeez, Nureni A.; Abidoye, Ademola P.; Agbele, Kehinde K.; Adesina, Ademola Olusola (Academic Journals Inc., 2012)

Grid computing is an emergent computing innovation which offers endless access to computing infrastructure across various organizations (academia and industry). Since this technology allows aggregation of various computer ...

Derrida and legal scholarship: A certain step beyond

De Ville, Jacques (Springer, 2009)

A book review of 'Derrida and Legal Philosophy' edited by Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffmann, Michel Rosenfeld, Cornelia Vismann, published by Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, Hampshire/New York), 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-57361-1.

Derrida's 'The Purveyor of Truth' and constitutional reading

De Ville, Jacques (Springer, 2008)

In this article the author explores Jacques Derrida’s reading in ‘The Purveyor of Truth’ of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’. In his essay, Derrida proposes a reading which differs markedly from the interpretation ...

Derrida, the conditional and the unconditional

De Ville, Jacques (Juta Law, 2007)

In his recent book, Law and Sacrifice: Towards a Post-Apartheid Theory of Law, Johan van der Walt gives a clear exposition of the possible impact of inter alia Jacques Derrida's thinking on law. In this article, the book ...

A descriptive study of the perceptions and behaviours of waterpipe use by university students in the Western Cape, South Africa

Daniels, Karin E.; Roman, Nicolette V. (BioMed Central, 2013)

Background: Waterpipe smoking started as a cultural phenomenon but has become a social phenomenon. Hookah cafes are an increasingly popular venue for socializing. Studies suggest that waterpipe users perceive smoking the ...

Designing mobile phone interfaces for age diversity in South Africa: “One-World” versus diverse “Islands”

Renaud, Karen; Blignaut, Renette; Venter, Isabella M. (Springer, 2013)

Designing for diversity is a laudable aim. How to achieve this, in the context of mobile phone usage by South African seniors, is a moot point. We considered this question from two possible perspectives: universal ...

Designing the project: theoretical approaches

Bozalek, Vivienne; Carolissen, Ronelle (HSRC Press, 2012)

Education in South Africa is in crisis. Low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape. At the same time, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities ...

Desire and language in Derrida’s 'Force of Law'

De Ville, Jacques (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009)

In this article, the author proposes a reading of 'Force of Law' from two angles: boundless desire and the ‘law’ of language. The author contends that an analysis from these perspectives casts new light on the notion of ...

The detailed forms of the LMC Cepheid PL and PLC relations

Koen, Chris; Kanbur, S; Ngeow, C (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Possible deviations from linearity of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid period–luminosity (PL) and period–luminosity–colour (PLC) relations are investigated. Two data sets are studied, respectively from the Optical ...

Detection of an increasing orbital period in the subdwarf B eclipsing system NSVS 14256825

Kilkenny, David; Koen, Chris (Oxford University Press, 2012)

New timings of eclipses made in 2010 and 2011 are presented for the hot subdwarf B (sdB) eclipsing binary NSVS 14256825. Composed of an sdB star and a much cooler companion, with a period near 0.1104 days, this system ...

Determinants of nurses’ knowledge gap on pain management in Ghana

Adejumo, Oluyinka; Aziato, Lydia (Elsevier, 2014)

There are concerns about adequacy of nurses’ knowledge and skill in effective pain management since effective pain management promotes early recovery after surgery. This study explores factors that accounted for Ghanaian ...

Determinants of obesity in an urban township of South Africa

Puoane, Thandi (MedPharm Publications, 2008)

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and identify factors associated with Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) among adults residing in an urban township in South Africa. DESIGN: ...

Determining the most appropriate feeding regime for the South African abalone Haliotis midae Linnaeus grown on kelp

Francis, Tamson; Maneveldt, Gavin; Venter, Jonathan (Springer Verlag, 2008)

Beach-cast kelp (the most widely used feed for commercially grown South African abalone) is plentiful during winter months when periodic storms cause kelp to wash ashore. During summer, however, this resource is not ...

A developing dialogue – children’s rights, children’s law and economics: surveying experiences from Southern and Eastern African law reform processes

Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Tilburg University Schoordijk Institute, 2008)

Law reform in southern and eastern African countries to domesticate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), to synthesize common, civil and ...

Developing locally relevant applications for rural areas: a South African example

Chetty, Marshini; Tucker, William D.; Blake, Edwin H. (SAICSIT, in assocation with ACM, 2004)

The digital divide between rural and urban areas within developing countries is vast. We investigate how to address this divide by introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into remote rural areas. Our ...

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