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State obligations in international law related to the right to an adequate standard of living for persons with disabilities
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The role played by international law in guaranteeing the right to an adequate standard of living is an important one.1 For a number of years, international bodies have sought to introduce certain levels of financial and ... -
The state of civil society participation in Parliament
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2012)This paper explores the extent of public participation in the legislative, oversight and accountability mandates of Parliament. The legislative mandate refers to the making, introducing and amending of laws. The Constitution ... -
The state of entrepreneurship education at tertiary institutions in the Western Cape
(Clute Institute, 2008)This paper summarizes, analyses the offerings and gaps on entrepreneurship education at four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape. Most of the offerings were knowledge based. Some of the participants on the programmes ... -
The state of health policy and systems research: Reflections from the 2018 5th global symposium
(Health Policy and Planning, 2019)The latest version of this event, the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, took place in Liverpool, UK from 8 to 12 October 2018, and drew 2247 participants from >125 countries—the largest gathering to date of ... -
The state of health policy and systems research: Reflections from the 2018 5th global symposium
(Health Policy and Planning, 2019)The latest version of this event, the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, took place in Liverpool, UK from 8 to 12 October 2018, and drew 2247 participants from >125 countries—the largest gathering to date ... -
The state of methamphetamine ('tik') use among youth in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2016)BACKGROUND Methamphetamine use among youth in the Western Cape Province of South Africa has increased at alarming rates over the past decade. Although current estimates of youth use exist, they range from 2% to 12%. OBJECTIVES ... -
State of newborn care in South Sudan’s displacement camps: a descriptive study of facility-based deliveries
(BMC, 2017)BACKGROUND: Approximately 2.7 million neonatal deaths occur annually, with highest rates of neonatal mortality in countries that have recently experienced conflict. Constant instability in South Sudan further strains a ... -
The state of our local democracies
(Good Governance Learning Framework, 2010)Over the last 15 years, South Africa has transformed its local government system from an illegitimate, racist institution into a democratic institution with a developmental mandate. A new generation of municipalities, lead ... -
State, market and community: The potential and limits of participatory land reform planning in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008-10)Market-assisted land reform, as promoted by the World Bank, has made little progress in South Africa: since the advent of democracy in 1994, just 4 per cent of white-owned agricultural land has been redistributed to black ... -
State, market or the worst of both? Experimenting with market-based land reform In South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)The concept of ‘market-based land reform’ (MBLR, also market-assisted land reform, or market-led agrarian reform) has been central to the ‘new wave’ of land reform that has been in evidence internationally since the early ... -
State-of-the-art review on relevance of genetic algorithm to internet web search
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)People use search engines to find information they desire with the aim that their information needs will be met. Information retrieval (IR) is a field that is concerned primarily with the searching and retrieving of ... -
States' obligations in relation to access to medicines: revisiting Kenyan High Court decision in P.A.O and others v Attorney-General and another
(Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, 2013)Recently a Kenyan High Court in P.A.O and others v Attorney General and another (hereinafter P.A.O) handed down a judgment in relation to sections 2, 32, and 34 of the Anti-Counterfeit Act vis-à-vis Kenya's obligations ... -
Static reservoir modeling using stochastic method: A case study of the cretaceous sequence of Gamtoos Basin, Ofshore, South Africa
(Springer, 2021)Gamtoos Basin is an echelon sub-basin under the Outeniqua ofshore Basin of South Africa. It is a complex rift-type basin with both onshore and ofshore components and consists of relatively simple half-grabens bounded by ... -
Statins-based prophylactic mouthwash and nasal spray may protect against coronavirus disease 2019
(Elsevier, 2020)The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused an unprecedented healthcare crisis. SARS-CoV-2 gets access into the human body mainly through ... -
Statistical gamma-ray decay studies at iThemba LABS
(EDP Sciences, 2017)Abstract. A program to study the γ -ray decay from the region of high-level density has been established at iThemba LABS, where a high-resolution gamma-ray detector array is used in conjunction with silicon particle-telescopes. ... -
Statistical recovery of 21 cm visibilities and their power spectra with gaussian-constrained realizations and gibbs sampling
(The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023)Radio interferometers designed to probe the 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization must contend with systematic effects that make it difficult to achieve sufficient dynamic range to separate the 21 cm ... -
Statistical recovery of the BAO scale from multipoles of the beam-convolved 21 cm correlation function
(Royal Astronomical Society, 2021)Despite being designed as an interferometer, theMeerKAT radio array (a Square Kilometre Array pathfinder) can also be used in autocorrelation (‘single-dish’) mode, where each dish scans the sky independently. Operating ... -
Statistical testing of input factors in the carbonation of brine impacted fly ash
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)A D-optimal design was applied in the study of input factors: temperature, pressure, solid/liquid (S/L) ratio and particle size and their influence on the carbonation of brine impacted fly ash (FA) determined. Both ... -
Statistical tests for changes in the amplitude, frequency or phase of a sinusoidal variation
(Oxford University Press, 2009)The problem considered is that of testing for small changes over time in the properties of a sinusoidal signal contaminated by noise. Two test statistics are proposed. The first is a frequency domain statistic based on ... -
Status of living standards in Nigeria between 2010 and 2013
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020)Nigeria experienced a drop in the poverty rate to an average of56.1% between 1999 and 2007. This could be attributed to themeasures taken by the civilian government against adminis-trative corruption, increased domestic ...