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Carbonation of brine impacted fractionated coal fly ash: Implications for CO2 sequestration

Muriithi, Grace; Gitari, Wilson; Petrik, Leslie; Ndungu, Patrick (Elsevier, 2011)

Coal combustion by-products such as fly ash (FA), brine and CO2 from coal fired power plants have the potential to impact negatively on the environment. FA and brine can contaminate the soil, surface and ground water through ...

Cardiovascular effects of the alkaloid hippadine on the isolated perfused rat heart

Mugabo, Pierre; Obikeze, Kenechukwu; Njagi, Angela; Burger, Andries; Dietrich, Danielle; Green, Ivan (Open Access Science Research Publisher, 2012)

Crinum macowanii has been used extensively in traditional medicines for treatment of various illnesses such as oedema and ‘heart disease’. Previous studies of the crude bulb extracts on Langendorff perfused isolated rat ...

Carybdea branchi, sp. nov., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from South Africa.

Gershwin, Lisa-Ann; Gibbons, Mark J. (Magnolia Press, 2009)

A common and conspicuous member of the medusan fauna of South Africa has been the subject of repeated taxonomic confusion. After having been mistakenly identified by earlier workers as either Carybdea alata or Tamoya ...

A catalogue with keys to the non-geniculate coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) of South Africa

Maneveldt, Gavin; Keats, Derek; Chamberlain, Yvonne (Elsevier, 2008)

Non-geniculate coralline red algae are common in all of the world’s oceans, where they often occupy close to 100% of the primary rocky substratum. The South African rocky subtidal and intertidal habitats in particular, ...

Cell phone notification via bluetooth for Web 2.0 applications

Mutemwa, Muyowa; Tucker, William D.; Norman, Michael (Telkom, 2009)

This paper discusses how an Instant Messaging application on a computer can use Bluetooth in order to provide vibration notification on a mobile phone. The initial motivation was to aid Deaf1 office workers to know when ...

Cellular Characterization of SARS Coronavirus Nucleocapsid

Goh, Phuay-Yee; Choi, Yook-Wah; Shen, Shou; Tan, Yee-Joo; Fielding, Burtram C.; Tan, Timothy H.P.; O, Eng-Eong; Lim, Seng Gee; Hong, Wanjin (Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, 2004)

The Severe and Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) is a newly-emerged virus that caused an outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the winter of 2002-2003. Polyclonal antibodies raised against the nucleocapsid (N) ...

Challanges related to working conditions experienced by social workers practising in rural areas

Alpaslan, Nicky; Schenck, Catherina (Rinie) (University of Stellenbosch, 2012)

Introduction: In view of the references to the “poor working conditions” of social workers (Kusambisa in Chibba, 2011), which make it a challenge to retain social workers in rural areas (Kruger, 2008:44), and the exodus ...

Challenges faced by the urban black South Africans in the prevention of non-communicable diseases

Puoane, Thandi; Tsolekile, Lungiswa (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2008)

This paper was conducted to describe some of the circumstances that increases the risk factors for non-communicable diseases amongst the previously disadvantaged South African population. The work presented here is based ...

Challenges facing physiotherapy education in Africa

Frantz, Jose M. (Nova Southeastern University, 2007-01-01)

Health care is changing and the demands put on health professionals are increasing. Physiotherapy education should reflect the health and social priorities of the nation. The World Confederation of Physical Therapy (WCPT) ...

Challenges for information literacy education at a university of technology

Hart, Genevieve; Davids, Marion (University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)

The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The ...

Challenges for quality primary education in Papua New Guinea — a case study

Rena, Ravinder (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)

There is an urgent need to reform the educational system to achieve universal primary education in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Even after 35 years of independence, PNG has been struggling to educate an estimated 2 million ...

Changes in paediatric HIV-related hospital admissions and mortality in Soweto, South Africa, 1996-2011: light at the end of the tunnel?

Meyers, Tammy; Dramowski, Angela; Schneider, Helen; Gardiner, Nicolene; Kuhn, Louise; Moore, David (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012)

Background: With widespread availability of pediatric antiretro- viral therapy and improved access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), it is important to monitor the impact on pediatric HIV-related ...

Changing conceptions of literacies, language and development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa

Kerfoot, Caroline (Centre for Bilingual Research, Stockholm University, 2009)

This study aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the circumstances under which adult education, in particular adult basic education, can support and occasionally initiate participatory development, social ...

The changing nature of large-scale commercial farming & implications for agrarian reform: evidence from Limpopo, Western Cape and Northern Cape

Genis, Amelia (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)

The privileged position of white commercial farmers in South Africa came to an end by the early 1990s, when political and policy changes removed the certainty provided by controlled marketing, protective tariffs and ...

Characterisation of human coronavirus-NL63 nucleocapsid protein

Berry, Michael; Manasse, Taryn-Lee; Tan, Yee-Joo; Fielding, Burtram C. (Academic Journals, 2012)

Coronavirus N is a multifunctional protein that plays an essential role in enhancing the efficiency of virus transcription and assembly. This manuscript reports the analysis of HCoV-NL63 N protein by comparing the amino ...

Characterisation of the arsenic resistance genes in Bacillus sp. UWC isolated from maturing fly ash acid mine drainage neutralised solids

Musingarimi, Wicleffe; Tuffin, I. Marla; Cowan, Donald A. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)

An arsenic resistant Bacillus sp. UWC was isolated from fly ash acid mine drainage (FA-AMD) neutralised solids. A genomic library was prepared and screened in an arsenic sensitive mutant Escherichia coli strain for the ...

Characteristics of children under 6 years of age treated for Early Childhood Caries at Tygerberg Oral Health Centre, South Africa

Mohamed, Nadia; Barnes, Jo (Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, 2008)

Objective: This retrospective survey highlighted the characteristics of children less than six years of age presenting with early childhood caries(ECC) who had two or more teeth extracted under intravenous sedation at ...

The characterization and phylogenetic relationship of the trichoplusia ni single capsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus polyhedrin gene

Fielding, Burtram C.; Davison, Sean (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999-08-21)

The polyhedrin gene (polh) was identified from the Trichoplusia ni (Tni) single capsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (SNPV). An EcoRI fragment containing the truncated polyhedrin gene was detected by hybridization with an ...

Characterization of a unique group-specific protein (U122) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Fielding, Burtram C.; Tan, Yee-Joo; Shen, Shuo; Tan, Timothy H.P.; Ooi, Eng-Eong; Lim, Seng Gee; Hong, Wanjin; Goh, Phuay-Yee (American Society for Microbiology, 2004)

A novel coronavirus (CoV) has been identified as the etiological agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The SARS-CoV genome encodes the characteristic essential CoV replication and structural proteins. Additionally, ...

Child mortality rate in Ethiopia

Appunni, Sathiya Susuman (Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2012)

Ethiopia’s childhood mortality has continued to decline although at a swift pace. The drop in urban childhood mortality decline, duration of breastfeeding is the principle reason for the overall decline in mortality trends ...

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