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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus protein 7a interacts with hSGT
(Elsevier, 2006)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 7a is an accessory protein with no known homologues. In this study, we report the interaction of a SARS-CoV 7a and small glutamine-rich tetratricopeptide repeat-containing ... -
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge of postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa
(BMC, 2022)Globally and in South Africa, university students’ knowledge of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is low. This study was conducted in response to the dearth of information about the sexual and reproductive health knowledge ... -
Sexual dimorphism in odontometric parameters using cone beam CT: A systematic review
(BMC, 2023)To determine whether odontometric parameters using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) would aid in sex estimation by assessing sexual dimorphism of odontometric parameters. The focused question was whether there is ... -
Sexual diversity and the role of educators on a South African teacher education module
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)This article is a reflection on a 5-credit, 50 hour stand-alone module titled ‘Sexual Diversity and the Role of Educators’ for final-year pre-service education students at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. ... -
Sexual identity and transformation at a South African university
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)Despite the proliferation of policies ostensibly protecting all persons’ rights, and mounting critical academic debate and scholarship on sexuality and sexual orientation, sexual orientation in the academy remains a site ... -
Sexual risk behaviour among female school adolescents in a local community in the Western Cape, South Africa
(LAM Publications Limited, 2006)Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa are faced with a changeover from adolescence to adulthood shadowed by the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping through the African continent. With this growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa ... -
Sexual violence in prisons – Part 1: The duty to provide safe custody and the nature of prison sex
(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011)While the exact extent of sexual victimisation in prisons amongst men is uncertain, it is accepted that this is a universal phenomenon. This article, in two parts, examines sexual violence in South African prisons and ... -
Sexual violence in prisons – Part 2: The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act (32 of 2007) – its implications for male rape in prisons and the Department of Correctional Services
(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011)The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act (32 of 2007), referred to here as the Sexual Offences Act (SOA), established in law a gender-neutral definition of rape and this has important implications ... -
Seychellois courts and the protection of the right to equal protection of the law
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Unlike the constitutions of other African countries such as Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Zimbabwe and Namibia which expressly provide for grounds on which a person may not be discriminated against, the Constitution ... -
Sê sjibbolet: ’n intertekstuele lees
(University of Pretoria, 2012)This article pursues an intertextual reading of Adam Small's collection of poetry Sê sjibbolet ("Say shibboleth"). The collection is read alongside texts that refer to "shibboleth" in their titles i.e. works by Paul Celan, ... -
Shades of empire: police photography in German South-West Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This article looks at a photographic album produced by the German police in colonial Namibia just before World War I. Late 19th- and early 20th-century police photography has often been interpreted as a form of visual ... -
Shades,voice and mobility: Afar pastoralist and Rift Valley com- munities (re)interpreting literacy and linguistic practices
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)In this paper, narrative data from remote communities in Ethiopia reveal in intimateways how ‘linguistic citizenship’ (Stroud 2001) is claimed and exercised to resisteducational decisions which are insensitive to the rhythms ... -
The shadow of legal pluralism in matrimonial property division outside the courts in Southern Nigeria
(University of Pretoria, 2018)Scholarly interest in the co-existence of normative orders in African social fields tends to focus on conflicts arising from the interaction of customary law with state law. This article takes a different path by revealing ... -
Shale-gas potential from Cretaceous succession in South Africa’s orange basin: insights from integrated geochemical evaluations
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)Shale sediments were collected from four Cretaceous stratigraphic units across four explorations well locations in South Africa’s Orange Basin and analysed to determine organic-matter characteristics, such as amount, ... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under ... -
Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism
(King's College, 2021)This paper is a radical break with a view of multilingualism as an arrangement or hierarchy of different languages which produces more or less visibility for these named varieties. Rather, it takes as its starting point a ... -
Shaping scholarly communication guidance channels to meet the research needs and skills of doctoral students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(Elsevier, 2020)This article as part of a more comprehensive study, investigated the level of research and scholarly communication skills of doctoral students and the channels to be adopted by the academic library for the provision ... -
A shared agenda for gender and Covid-19 research: Priorities based on broadening engagement in science
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)While the acute and collective crisis from the pandemic is over, an estimated 2.5million people died from COVID-19 in 2022, tens of millions suffer from long COVID and national economies still reel from multiple ... -
The shared pleasure paradigm: A study in an observational birth cohort in South Africa
(Springer, 2021-07)Mother–infant dyads in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may be exposed to a range of factors associated with suboptimal development. Optimal infant development is likely supported by synchronicity in the early ... -
Shari'a in South Africa
(Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 1995)Muslim Personal Law (MPL) is often practised to the detriment of Muslim women in many countries. The Qur'an is a religious text considered by Muslims to be the literal word of God. It is a primary source of Islamic law and ...