Faculty of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Effectiveness of sms technology on timely community health worker follow-up for childhood malnutrition: A retrospective cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa
(U.S. Agency for International Development, 2018)The Millennium Villages Project facilitated technology-based health interventions in rural under-resourced areas of subSaharan Africa. Our study examined whether data entry using SMS compared with paper forms by community ... -
Reproductive health situation in South Africa: Emerging policy issue
(SAGE Publications, 2018)South Africa is still lagging behind with health outcomes, especially when it comes to accessing treatment, prevention and care for reproductive health issues despite the significant progress made with regard to certain ... -
Establishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2018)Urbangrowthisakeyprocessaffectingthefunctioningofnaturalecosystems,andconsequentlythegloballand-surface process. This work aimed at establishing the link between land cover changes around HarareMetropolitancityandtheprol ... -
PZQ Therapy: How close are we in the development of effective alternative anti-schistosomal drugs?
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2019)Today schistosomiasis, caused mainly by the three major schistosome species (S. mansoni, S. haematobium and S. japonicum), has for many decades and still continues to be on a rapid and swift rise globally, claiming ... -
Discrimination of tomato plants (solanum lycopersicum) grown under anaerobic baffled reactor effluent, nitrified urine concentrates and commercial hydroponic fertilizer regimes using simulated sensor spectral settings
(MPDI, 2019)We assess the discriminative strength of three different satellite spectral settings (HyspIRI, the forthcoming Landsat 9 and Sentinel 2-MSI), in mapping tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Linnaeus) plants grown under hydroponic ... -
New insights in the evaluation of reserves of selected wells of the Pletmos Basin offshore South Africa
(One Petro, 2016)The area evaluated has similar structural styles and settings as the producing neighboring fields of F-A and E-M in the adjacent Bredasdorp basin Offshore South Africa. The main objective of this study is to create a ... -
Towards a gender sensitive vulnerability assessment for climate change: Lambani, Limpopo Province, South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Women’s limited access to resources and decisionmaking processes increases their vulnerability to impacts of climate change. Despite their own vulnerability, women are often responsible for caring for close relatives, ... -
Cosmic microwave background constraints on a physical model of reionization
(Oxford University Press, 2021)We study constraints on allowed reionization histories by comparing predictions of a physical seminumerical model with secondary temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Our model ... -
Review: Groundwater resource potential and status of groundwater resource development in Ethiopia
(Springer Nature, 2019)The groundwater resources potential of Ethiopia is estimated to be about 40 billion cubic meters. Groundwater has been used as the main source of water supply since the 1970s for the main cities, towns and dispersed rural ... -
Assessing the surface material quality of unpaved rural roads to understand susceptibility to surface deterioration. A case study of four rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2019)Road surface deterioration is one of the most common problems of unpaved road networks worldwide. It is areduction in the performance of a road due to a decline in road surface material quality. Accumulated damagefrom ... -
Discrimination of tomato plants (solanum lycopersicum) grown under anaerobic baffled reactor effluent, nitrified urine concentrate and commercial hydroponic fertilizer regimes using multi-source satellite data
(ISPRS, 2019)We evaluate the detection and discriminative strength of three different satellite spectral settings, namely, HyspIRI, the forthcoming Landsat 9 and Sentinel 2-MSI, in mapping tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants grown ... -
Male infertility, oxidative stress and antioxidants
(IntechOpen, 2021)Within the male reproductive system, oxidative stress (OS) has been identified as prevailing etiology of male infertility. The effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on male fertility depend on the dimensions, “modus ... -
Relevance of leukocytospermia and semen culture and its true place in diagnosing and treating male infertility
(Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology, 2021)The current WHO 2010 manual for human semen analysis defines leukocytospermia as the presence of peroxidase-positive leukocytes at a concentration >1×106 /mL of semen. Granular leukocytes when activated are capable of ... -
Advancements in satellite remote sensing for mapping and monitoring ofalien invasive plant species (AIPs)
(Elsevier, 2019)Detecting and mapping the occurrence, spatial distribution and abundance of Alien Invasive Plants (AIPs) have recently gained substantial attention, globally. This work, therefore, provides an overview of advancements in ... -
Technologies for remediation of emerging contaminants in wastewater samples
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)Introduction Various Emerging Contaminants Different Types of Bimetallic Nanoparticles Methods Used for Synthesis Techniques Used for Characterization Methods Used for Remediation Conclusions Acknowledgments -
Occurrences, levels and risk assessment studies of emergingpollutants (pharmaceuticals, perfluoroalkyl and endocrine disruptingcompounds) infish samples from Kalk Bay harbour, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2019)A comprehensive analysis of 15 target chemical compounds (pharmaceuticals and personal care product,perfluoroalkyl compounds and industrial chemicals) were carried out to determine their concentrationsin selected commercially ... -
Records of ctenophores from South Africa
(PeerJ Inc., 2021)Although ctenophores can be conspicuous components of the plankton in coastal marine ecosystems, only six species have been formally described from around South Africa. Using photographs from local community scientists, ... -
Male infertility
(Lancet Publishing Group, 2021)It is estimated that infertility affects 8–12% of couples globally, with a male factor being a primary or contributing cause in approximately 50% of couples. Causes of male subfertility vary highly, but can be related to ... -
Synthesis, characterization and anticancer activity of new 2-acetyl-5-methyl thiophene and cinnamaldehyde thiosemicarbazones and their palladium(II) complexes
(Elsevier S.A., 2021)New thiosemicarbazone (TSC) ligands, AMT-C[dbnd]N-TSCH (L1), AMT-C[dbnd]N-TSC(CH3) (L2), CIN-C[dbnd]N-TSCH (L3) and CIN-C[dbnd]N-TSC(CH3) (L4) (AMT = 2-acetyl-5-methylthiophene, TSCH = thiosemicarbazide, TSC(CH3) = ... -
A spitzer survey of deep drilling fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin observatory legacy survey of space and time
(Oxford University Press, 2021)The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main survey. In this paper, we describe the ...