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Whole-genome sequencing for an enhanced understanding of genetic variation among South Africans
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)The Southern African Human Genome Programme is a national initiative that aspires to unlock the unique genetic character of southern African populations for a better understanding of human genetic diversity. In this pilot ... -
Whole-genome sequencing of African swine fever virus from wild boars in the Kaliningrad region reveals unique and distinguishing genomic mutations
(Frontiers Media, 2023)Since the first report of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in Georgia in 2007, the disease has expanded into Europe, Russia, and Asia, spreading rapidly via contact with infected animals including domestic pigs and ... -
Whole-genome sequencing of African swine fever virus from wild boars in the Kaliningrad region reveals unique and distinguishing genomic mutations
(Frontiers Media, 2023)Since the first report of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in Georgia in 2007, the disease has expanded into Europe, Russia, and Asia, spreading rapidly via contact with infected animals including domestic pigs and ... -
Whole-of-community interventions that address alcohol-related harms: Protocol for a scoping review
(BMC, 2022)Alcohol-related harm is a rising global concern particularly in low-income and middle-income countries where alcohol use fuels the high rates of violence, road traffic accidents and is a risk factor for communicable ... -
Whole-system change: case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province
(BioMed Central, 2014)BACKGROUND: Whole-system interventions are those that entail system wide changes in goals, service delivery arrangements and relationships between actors, requiring approaches to implementation that go beyond projects or ... -
Whose Land Question? Policy deliberation and populist reason in the South African land debate
(PLAAS, 2019-11)On 4 and 5 February 2019, the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), along with colleagues from the Universities of Fort Hare and of Rhodes, hosted a national conference entitled Resolving the Land ... -
Why cannot the term development just be dropped altogether? Some reflections on the concept of maturation as alternative to development discourse
(AOSIS, 2016)This contribution is aimed at some provocation by questioning the basic assumptions of current development discourse (also in the context of religion and theology). It asks for conceptual clarification and differentiation ... -
‘Why can’t race just be a normal thing?’ Entangled discourses in the narratives of young South Africans
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2015)Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity hascontinued to permeate many aspects of private and public life post-apartheid. For young people growing up in the ‘new’ South Africa, the ... -
Why dentists should take a greater interest in sex and gender
(Nature Publishing Group, 2010)This brief review highlights the lack of evidence relating to sex and gender differences in oral health as well as the widespread conceptual confusion and conflation that often underlies them. A broader biomedical understanding ... -
Why do some hospitals achieve better care of severely malnourished children than others? Five-year follow-up of rural hospitals in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Staff at 11 rural hospitals in an under-resourced region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, participated in an intervention to improve the quality of care of severely malnourished children through training and support ... -
Why do we need to care about transboundary aquifers and how do we solve their issues?
(SpringerLink, 2023)As the reliance on transboundary groundwater is increasing globally, it is important to understand and address the specifc issues raised by the assessment and management of transboundary aquifers (TBAs). Building on 20 ... -
Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?—Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in pennsylvania Dutch
(2021): In this article we examine the allomorphic variation found in Pennsylvania Dutch plurality. In spite of over 250 years of variable contact with English, Pennsylvania Dutch plural allomorphy has remained largely distinct ... -
Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?—Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch
(MDPI, 2022)In this article we examine the allomorphic variation found in Pennsylvania Dutch plurality. In spite of over 250 years of variable contact with English, Pennsylvania Dutch plural allomorphy has remained largely distinct ... -
Why land invasions will happen here too .....
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)Will Zimbabwean-style land invasions take place in South Africa at some point in the future? In my view – yes, it is likely that they will, despite the great differences between the political economies of the two countries. ... -
Why patients visit dentists a study in all world health organization regions
(journal of evidence based dental practice, 2020)Objective: The dimensions of oral health–related quality of life (OHRQoL) Oral Function, Orofacial Pain, Orofacial Appearance, and Psychosocial Impact are the major areas where patients are impacted by oral diseases and ... -
Why the Supreme Court of Uganda should reject the Constitutional Court's understanding of imprisonment for life
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2008)The issue of life imprisonment is always a contentious one. Some people argue that life imprisonment should mean what it means, namely 'wholelife'. In Uganda, life imprisonment continues to mean imprisonment of 20 years. ... -
Why treating water scarcity as a security issue is a bad idea.
(The Conversation Africa, 2018)Helen Zille, the Premier of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made two startling claims about the water crisis in the province. She says there will be anarchy when the taps run dry, and that normal policing will be ... -
Wide-angle effects in multi-tracer power spectra with Doppler corrections
(IOP Publishing, 2023). We examine the computation of wide-angle corrections to the galaxy power spectrum including redshift-space distortions and relativistic Doppler corrections, and also including multiple tracers with differing clustering, ... -
A wide-angle formulation of foreground filters for HI intensity mapping
(Springer Nature, 2024)The fluctuations generated by Inflation are nearly Gaussian in the simplest models, but may be non-Gaussian in more complex models, potentially leading to signatures in the late Universe. In particular, local-type primordial ... -
A wide-angle formulation of foreground filters for HI intensity mapping
(Institute of Physics, 2024)Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping can in principle deliver rapid and large-volume cosmological surveys with exquisitely accurate redshifts that are determined directly from imaging. However, intensity maps suffer from ...