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The role of ground water in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Although water resources managers speak of a water crisis in Africa, the management of ground water has to
date not featured strongly in national and regional African water agendas. Examination of the physical environment
of ...
Of newborns and nubiles: some critical challenges to children's rights in Africa in the era of HIV/AIDS
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2005)
The international legal framework within which HIV/Aids issues
should be addressed
Both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the regional
charter for the protection and promotion of children's rights, ...
Factors influencing the sustainability of university centres promoting multilingualism in South Africa
(HESA; Unisa Press, 2004)
The main question addressed by this article is: How can multilingual language
centres based at universities ensure their long term sustainability? Research was
carried out at three centres in the Western Cape to find the ...
Foreword to special section: groundwater in Africa
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Outcomes-based education and non-English mother tongue speakers from disadvantaged environments: a double-edged handicap to acquiring information literacy
(Unisa Press, 2000)
Information literacy is the ability to access and critically engage
with information, and to communicate new understandings
which lead to knowledge and wisdom. Information literacy skills
are incorporated in our ...
A novel cell-based binding assay system reconstituting interaction between SARS-CoV S protein and its cellular receptor
(Elsevier, 2005)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a life-threatening disease, is caused by the newly identified virus SARS coronavirus (SARSCoV).
In order to study the spike (S) protein of this highly contagious virus, we established ...
Identification and characterization of the Trichoplusia ni Single Capsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus p10 gene
(Springer Verlag, 2000)
The p10 gene was identified and characterized from the Trichoplusia ni single capsid nuclear
polyhedrosis virus (TniSNPV). The p10 open reading frame (ORF) sequence was identified following sequencing
of the ends of the ...
RPL as cognitive praxis in linking higher education, the African Renaissance and lifelong learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)
This article argues that one can use the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) to conceptualise the project of bridging the articulation gap between further and higher education in South Africa by framing the cognitive praxis ...
The variable N-terminal region of DDX5 contains structural elements and auto-inhibits its interaction with NS5B of hepatitis C virus
(Portland Press, 2012)
RNA helicases of the DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp)-box family of
proteins are involved in many aspects of RNA metabolism from
transcription to RNA decay, but most of them have also been
shown to be multifunctional. The DEAD-box ...
Simulation of Y-chromosomal haplotype data
(Elsevier, 2010)
The non-recombining nature of the Y-chromosome determines the non-independence of alleles between
loci. The evolution of short tandem repeat (STR) loci in the Y-chromosome is the result of different factors
such as ...