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‘… The Agapanthi, Asphodels of the Negroes…’: Life-writing, landscape and race in the South African diaries and poetry of George Seferis

Field, Roger (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

The Greek poet George Seferis (1900-1971) spent 10 months in South Africa during WWII as a senior diplomatic official attached to the Greek government in exile. Drawing on his diary entries, correspondence and poetry ...

Agent-based context-aware healthcare information retrieval using DROPT approach

Agbele, Kehinde K.; Adesina, Ademola Olusola; Daniel, Ekong; Seluwa, Dele (International Science Press, 2012)

As the volume of information available on the Web information systems is growing continuously, browsing this content becomes a tedious task given the presentation of data that does meet user's aims and needs. In this paper, ...

The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction: my two sense(s)

Lerm, Jessica (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)

The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction is very well established and widely employed in the metaethical literature. However, I argue that there are actually two different senses of the distinction at large: the ...

Alan Paton’s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination

Wittenberg, Hermann (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2005)

This article develops a postcolonial reading of the sublime by suggesting that aesthetic theories of the sublime were, in their classical philosophical formulations by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, founded on problematic ...

Alan Paton’s writing for the stage: towards a non-racial South African theatre

Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2007)

Introduction: It would not be an exaggeration to assert that no South African playwright in the 1950s and 1960s received as much international attention and recognition as Alan Paton, until eclipsed by Athol Fugard’s ...

Alcohol consumption amongst young adults living in a low socioeconomic status community in Cape Town

Adams, Sabirah; Savahl, Shazly; Isaacs, Serena; Carels, Cassandra Zeta (Society for Personality Research, 2013)

Our aim was to ascertain the extent of risky alcohol consumption amongst young adults living in a low socioeconomic status community in Cape Town, South Africa. We used a cross-sectional survey design and the street ...

Alcohol use among black female adolescents in a South African community: A mixed methods investigation

Phillips, Julie (Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, 2008)

Background: According to the World Health Organization global alcohol consumption has increased in recent decades, with most of this increase occurring in developing countries. Added to this is the concern of the increased ...

Aligning clinical assessment with course elements in prosthodontic dentistry: a South African case

Maart, Ronel Deidre; Bitzer, Elias M. (American Dental Education Association, 2013)

Clinical tests were introduced and implemented as an additional clinical assessment tool in the Prosthodontic curriculum of the fourth year undergraduate dentistry program at one South African university. This study ...

All roads lead to property: Pashukanis, Christie and the Theory of Restorative Justice

Koen, Raymond (North-West University, 2013)

The name of Evgeny Pashukanis, the Bolshevik jurisprudent, is linked umbilically to the so-called commodity form theory of law. In his Law and Marxism Pashukanis develops a general theory of law which turns upon the ...

All theology is natural theology: The hermeneutic necessity of natural theology?

Conradie, Ernst (Stellenbosch University, 2011)

This article first offers a brief overview of the history of what is understood under "natural theology". The contrast between the Barthian critique against natural theology and the dangers of repudiating natural theology ...

Alteration of Bax-to-Bcl-2 ratio modulates the anticancer activity of methanolic extract of Commelina benghalensis (Commelinaceae) in Jurkat T cells

Mbazima, Vusi G.; Mokgotho, Matlou P.; February, Faghri; Rees, Jasper G.; Mampuru, Leseilane J. (Academic Journals, 2008)

Stem extracts of Commelina benghalensis (Linn.), although not extensively documented, are frequently used in traditional medicine for the treatment of ailments such as skin malformations and outgrowths. Accordingly, the ...

Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa.

Bock, Zannie; Gough, David H. (Routledge, 2001)

The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...

Alzheimer's disease: a nursing-perspective

Splinter, A. (University of the Western Cape, 2007)

INTRODUCTION: Alzheimer's disease presents a challenge for nursing, nurses, formal and informal carer's of person's with Alzheimer's disease. Theoretical knowledge provides insight and understanding into the bio-psycho-social ...

Am I my brother’s keeper? on personal identity and responsibility

Beck, Simon (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)

The psychological continuity theory of personal identity has recently been accused of not meeting what is claimed to be a fundamental requirement on theories of identity - to explain personal moral responsibility. Although ...

The ambiguity of Johan Heyns: Sitting at Bavinck's left or right hand?

Conradie, Ernst (SUN, 2013)

Following some biographic introductory comments, the argument of this contribution proceeds in two steps. First, the distinction between Herman Bavinck's left and right hand is clarified, amongst others with reference ...

Amino acids 1055 to 1192 in the S2 Region of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus S Protein induce neutralizing antibodies: Implications for the development of vaccines and antiviral agents

Keng, Choong-Tat; Zhang, Aihua; Shen, Shuo; Lip, Kuo-Ming; Fielding, Burtram C.; Tan, Timothy H.P.; Chou, Chih-Fong; Loh, Chay Boon; Wang, Sifang; Fu, Jianlin; Yang, Xiaoming; Lim, Seng Gee; Hong, Wanjin; Tan, Yee-Joo (American Society for Microbiology, 2005)

The spike (S) protein of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) interacts with cellular receptors to mediate membrane fusion, allowing viral entry into host cells; hence it is recognized as the primary ...