UWC Research Repository: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 7909
-
South African critical masculinities studies: a scan of past, current and emerging priorities
(Routledge, 2023)Depending on the position from which it is read, and what is regarded as the beginning of the history of the field, South African critical studies on men and masculinities have a relatively estimable though comparatively ... -
Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship
(University of Johannesburg, 2023)Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process of academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written on the process and experience of peer reviewing, besides a few ... -
How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition: A multi-country secondary data analysis
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)Age and sex influence the risk of childhood wasting. We aimed to determine if wasting treatment outcomes differ by age and sex in children under 5 years, enroled in therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes. Utilising ... -
An exploration of AGN and Stellar feedback effects in the intergalactic medium via the low-redshift Lyα Forest
(American Astronomical Society, 2023)We explore the role of galactic feedback on the low-redshift Lyα (Lyα) forest (z ≲ 2) statistics and its potential to alter the thermal state of the intergalactic medium. Using the Cosmology and Astrophysics with Machine ... -
The importance of facilitating goal‑concordant care (GCC) in a pandemic: the MD Anderson Experience with hospitalized COVID‑19‑positive patients
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023)Purpose: Provider-patient communication (PPC) about goals of care (GOC) facilitates goal-concordant care (GCC) delivery. Hospital resource limitations imposed during the pandemic made it vital to deliver GCC to a patient ... -
Social sustainability for whom? developing an analytical approach through a tripartite collaboration
(Emerald [Commercial Publisher], 2023)Purpose Social sustainability is a concept frequently referred to in public debates concerning how to construct the governance of future societies. The interpretations of its meaning, however, are ambiguous, and practices ... -
Review: Groundwater recharge estimation in northern China karst regions
(Institute for Ionics, 2023)Reliable estimates of groundwater recharge are crucial for the groundwater resources evaluating and sustainable utilization plans formulating. To protect the precious karst groundwater resources, this paper critically ... -
A liquid metal microdroplets initialized hemicellulose composite for 3d printing anode host in Zn-Ion battery
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)Maintaining a steady affinity between gallium-based liquid metals (LM) and polymer binders, particularly under continuous mechanical deformation, such as extrusion-based 3D printing or plating/stripping of Zinc ion (Zn2+), ... -
Alcohol consumption patterns, suppliers and online alcohol marketing: before and during COVID-19 alcohol bans
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2023)COVID-19-related alcohol sales bans and stay-at-home orders prompted the alcohol industry in South Africa to increase their online alcohol sales promotions. We investigated changes in alcohol-related behaviour and the ... -
The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT – XIII. Timing, flux density, rotation measure, and dispersion measure time series of 597 pulsars
(Oxford, 2024)We report here on the timing of 597 pulsars over the last four years with the MeerKAT telescope. We provide times of arrival, pulsar ephemeris files, and per-epoch measurements of the flux density, dispersion measure (DM), ... -
Frameworks describing the transition to open labour employment for persons with mild and moderate intellectual disability: a scoping review protocol
(BMJ Open, 2024)Introduction Persons with mild and moderate intellectual disability (MMID) have the right to participate in all aspects of society and be afforded equal opportunities to realise their full potential. However, it is a ... -
Praxis, power, and processes: youth participation in health policy – a response to recent commentaries
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM), 2024)We are appreciative of the opportunity to further engage in critical discussions and to advance the knowledge on youth participation in health policy processes, by providing a response to commentaries on our paper, “Between ... -
Return to work rate of individuals after cardiac rehabilitation and the demographic and impairment factors that influence return to work in the Western Cape, South Africa [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
(F1000Research, 2024)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) commonly affects individuals within the working age group, often resulting in unemployment, particularly in low- to middle-income countries. The purpose of the study was to determine the return ... -
Nutrition policy reforms to address the double burden of malnutrition in Zambia: a prospective policy analysis
(Oxford, 2023)The evolution of nutrition patterns in Zambia has resulted in the coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition in the same population, the double burden of malnutrition. While Zambia has strong policies addressing ... -
Digital technology in Zambian agriculture: a scoping report
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Digital technologies in agriculture have been identified as a game changer in agrifood systems (IFPRI, 2020). Policy makers, researchers and corporate interests make claims about how digital technologies in agriculture are ... -
Digital technology in Kenyan agriculture: a scoping report
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Recent developments in Kenya’s agriculture have seen a steady emergence of experimentations with a wide range of digital solutions targeting smallholder farmers. The inspirations driving these innovations and application ... -
Resolving presidential term limits in transitional justice processes: revisiting the 2015 Burundi crisis
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The efforts to resolve the conflict in Burundi through the implementation of transitional justice have been fraught with many challenges. The crisis in Burundi took a new twist in June 2020 with the sudden passing of one ... -
Of norms and ambiguity: the contested authority of UN security council and African Union in the use of force in Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)There has been a renewed interest in the debates on the use of force. This resurgence in academic and policy circles can be attributed to the new wave of military interventions after the initial hiatus of the Global War ... -
The African Union two-dimensional solidarity normative agenda: between contestation and cooperation
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The idea of solidarity is not neither new to Africa nor to African peoples. In fact, it was Obina Okere who once remarked that “African conception of man is not that of an isolated and abstract individual, but an integral ... -
Digital tech in African agriculture: livelihoods, climate change and food system transformation
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2023)Background: The digital revolution in global agriculture has begun and this includes digital technology in African agriculture. We now see the use of a variety of digital tools on the continent, such as drones, precision ...