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The household economic burden of non- communicable diseases in 18 countries
(BMJ Global Health, 2020)
background Non- communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. In 2014, the United Nations committed to reducing premature mortality from NCDs, including by reducing the burden of healthcare costs. ...
Households in HIV care: designing an intervention to stimulate HIV competency in households in South Africa
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program and widespread antiretroviral treatment rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, which are aggravated by human resource shortages in the ...
Learning from experience in Hangzhou: WLCE leisure experience research opportunity
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This text was collaboratively written by the 12 students – from Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Hungary – who participated in the WLCE Leisure Experience Research Opportunity, a fieldwork project focusing on resident, ...
Petrophysical interpretation and fluid substitution modelling of the upper shallow marine sandstone reservoirs in the Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
The fluid substitution method is used for predicting elastic properties of reservoir rocks and their dependence on pore fluid
and porosity. This method makes it possible to predict changes in elastic response of a rock ...
Looking back
(José Frantz, 2020)
Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory,
history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how
they can help “assist us in ...
The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape
(José Frantz, 2020)
The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of
a planetary condition through established scientific and
humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work ...
Memory burns
(José Frantz, 2020)
Among the photograph collections at Mayibuye, especially
from IDAF, are numerous contact sheets. The contact sheet
was part of the toolkit of the photographer in the time of
analogue photography. The contact sheet is ...
Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
(Springer, 2020)
COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns
on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could ...
Unraveling the diversification and systematic puzzle of the highly polymorphic Psammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828) complex (Reptilia: Testudinidae) through phylogenetic analyses and species delimitation approaches
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The high level of phenotypic diversity in southern African tent tortoises (Psammobates tentorius complex) has for decades prevented systematists from developing a stable taxonomy for the group. Here, we used a comprehensive ...
Applying science to pressing conservation needs for penguins
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
More than half of the world's 18 penguin species are declining. We, the Steering Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Penguin Specialist Group, determined that the ...