• Pooled analysis of the association between food insecurity and violence against women : evidence from low- and middle-income settings 

  Jewkes, Rachel; Chirwa, Esnat; Alangea, Deda Ogum; Addo-Lartey, Adolphina; Christofides, Nicola; Dunkle, Kristin; Ramsoomar, Leane; Gibbs, Andrew (International Society of Global Health, 2023)

  BACKGROUND : Intimate partner violence impacts relationships across the socioeconomic spectrum, nonetheless its prevalence is reported to be highest in areas that are most socio-economically deprived. Poverty has direct ...
• Budget impact analysis of empagliflozin in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes with established cardiovascular disease in South Africa 

  De Beer, Janetta Catharina; Snyman, Jacques; Ker, James A.; Miller-Janson, Helen; Stander, Marthinus (Elsevier, 2023-01)

  OBJECTIVES : This study aimed to estimate the budget impact and affordability of empagliflozin added to usual care compared with usual care alone, in a diabetic population with established cardiovascular disease, from a ...
• The Cycas genome and the early evolution of seed plants 

  Liu, Yang; Wang, Sibu; Li, Linzhou; Yang, Ting; Dong, Shanshan; Wei, Tong; Wu, Shengdan; Liu, Yongbo; Gong, Yiqing; Feng, Xiuyan; Ma, Jianchao; Chang, Guanxiao; Huang, Jinling; Yang, Yong; Wang, Hongli; Liu, Min; Xu, Yan; Liang, Hongping; Yu, Jin; Cai, Yuqing; Zhang, Zhaowu; Fan, Yannan; Mu, Weixue; Sahu, Sunil Kumar; Liu, Shuchun; Lang, Xiaoan; Yang, Leilei; Li, Na; Habib, Sadaf; Yang, Yongqiong; Lindstrom, Anders J.; Liang, Pei; Goffinet, Bernard; Zaman, Sumaira; Wegrzyn, Jill; Li, Dexiang; Liu, Jian; Cui, Jie; Sonnenschein, Eva C.; Wang, Xiaobo; Ruan, Jue; Xue, Jia-Yu; Shao, Zhu-Qing; Song, Chi; Fan, Guangyi; Li, Zhen; Zhang, Liangsheng; Liu, Jianquan; Liu, Zhong-Jian; Jiao, Yuannian; Wang, Xiao-Quan; Wu, Hong; Wang, Ertao; Lisby, Michael; Yang, Huanming; Wang, Jian; Liu, Xin; Xu, Xun; Li, Nan; Soltis, Pamela S.; Van de Peer, Yves; Soltis, Douglas E.; Gong, Xun; Liu, Huan; Zhang, Shouzhou (Nature Research, 2022-04-18)

  Cycads represent one of the most ancient lineages of living seed plants. Identifying genomic features uniquely shared by cycads and other extant seed plants, but not non-seed-producing plants, may shed light on the origin ...
• Prior pulmonary tuberculosis is a risk factor for asymptomatic cryptococcal antigenemia in a cohort of adults with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease 

  Wake, Rachel M.; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed V.; Ismail, Farzanah; Tiemessen, Caroline T.; Harrison, Thomas S.; Jarvis, Joseph N.; Govender, Nelesh (Oxford University Press, 2022-07)

  The greater mortality risk among people with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease and cryptococcal antigenemia, despite treatment, indicates an increased susceptibility to other infections. We found that prior ...
• The effect of graphene nano-powder on the viscosity of water : an experimental study and artificial neural network modeling 

  Alqaed, Saeed; Mustafa, Jawed; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Cheraghian, Goshtasp (De Gruyter, 2022-08)

  Viscosity shifts the flow features of a liquid and affects the consistency of a product, which is a primary factor in demonstrating forces that should be overcome when fluids are transported in pipelines or employed in ...
• Facile Zn and Ni Co-doped hematite nanorods for efficient photocatalytic water oxidation 

  Talibawo, Joan; Kyesmen, Pannan Isa; Cyulinyana, Marie C.; Diale, M. (MDPI, 2022-08-27)

  In this work, we report the effect of zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni) co-doping of hydrothermally synthesized hematite nanorods prepared on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates for enhanced photoelectrochemical (PEC) water ...
• Coding-complete genome sequences for two confirmed monkeypox cases in South Africa 2022 

  Chan, Wai Yin; Mtshali, Phillip Senzo; Grobbelaar, Antoinette; Moolla, Naazneen; Mohale, Thabo; Lowe, Michelle; Du Plessis, Morne; Ismail, Arshad; Weyer, Jacqueline (American Society for Microbiology, 2022-11-10)

  The coding-complete genome sequences of monkeypox virus (MPXV) were obtained from skin lesion swabs from two human cases detected in South Africa in June 2022. Sequence analyses indicated that the genetic sequences of ...
• The acidic tumour microenvironment : manipulating the immune response to elicit escape 

  Worsley, Catherine; Veale, Rob B.; Mayne, Elizabeth S. (Elsevier, 2022-05)

  The success of cancer treatment relies on the composition of the tumour microenvironment which is comprised of tumour cells, blood vessels, stromal cells, immune cells, and extracellular matrix components. Barriers to ...
• The distribution and diversity of Leptocybe invasa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and its gall associates in South Africa 

  Gevers, C.R. (Caitlin); Slippers, Bernard; Germishuizen, Ilaria; Dittrich-Schroder, Gudrun; Hurley, Brett Phillip (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2022)

  Leptocybe invasa is an invasive gall wasp and pest of Eucalyptus trees, which has become widely distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Several other wasp species have been found to co-occur in L. invasa-induced ...
• Blood and blood : anti-retroviral therapy, masculinity, and redemption among adolescent boys in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa 

  Gittings, Lesley; Colvin, Christopher J.; Hodes, Rebecca (Wiley, 2022-09)

  Adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV are among the first generation in South Africa to grow up with anti-retroviral therapy and democratic freedoms. In this article, we explore the biosocial lives of adolescent ...
• Academic flocking and global distress : equitable south-north research partnering to promote quality education in diverse contexts and cultures 

  Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Omidire, Margaret Funke; Murphy, P. Karen (Springer, 2022-06)

  In this article we apply an Afrocentric Resilience Theory (relationship-resourced resilience) to the domain of education research partnerships. We posit academic flocking as an equitable research partnership approach aimed ...
• Running records (RR) as ’n leesassesseringstrategie om leesonderrig in Suid-Afrikaanse grondslagfaseklaskamers te ondersteun 

  Van Tonder, Lynette; West, Joyce Phillis; Moen, Melanie (LitNet, 2022-12)

  Vanuit internasionale en nasionale studies kan waargeneem word dat Suid-Afrikaanse grondslagfaseleerders sukkel om basiese leesvaardighede aan die einde van die fase te bemeester. Moontlike redes hiervoor is dat onderwysers ...
• Efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae and (E)–2–hexenal combination using autodissemination technology for the management of the adult greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae 

  Paradza, Vongai M.; Khamis, Fathiya M.; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Subramanian, Sevgan; Akutse, Komivi S. (Frontiers Media, 2022-09)

  The efficiency of an autodissemination technique in controlling adult whiteflies, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on tomato, Solunum lycopersicum was investigated with previously identified ...
• Epistemologiese oorwegings by die Neo-Calvinistiese afwysing van die teokratiese inslag van artikel 36 van die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis 

  Schlebusch, J.A. (LitNet, 2022)

  Die wysiging van artikel 36 van die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis aan die begin van die twintigste eeu onder leiding van die Neo-Calvinistiese teoloë Abraham Kuyper en Herman Bavinck geniet wydverspreide waardering binne ...
• Could purposefully engineered native grassland gardens enhance urban insect biodiversity? 

  Breed, Christina A.; Morelli, Agata; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Sole, Catherine L.; Du Toit, Marie J.; Cilliers, Sarel S. (MDPI, 2022-07-27)

  Progress is required in response to how cities can support greater biodiversity. This calls for more research on how landscape designers can actively shape urban ecologies to deliver contextspecific empirical bases for ...
• Antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of undescribed cassiaric acid and other constituents from Cassia arereh stem barks 

  Missi, Marius Balemaken; Evina, Jean Noel; Zintchem, Auguste Abouem A.; October, Natasha; Bona, Angela; Moela, Pontsho; Diboue, Patrick Herve Betote; Bikobo, Dominique Serge Ngono; Pegnyemb, Dieudonne Emmanuel (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

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• Widespread metastasis of a spermatocytic seminoma with concomitant hepatic peliosis in a Southern African hedgehog (Atelerixfrontalis) 

  O'Dell, Nicolize; O'Dell, Jacques Henry; Van der Weyden, L. (Medpharm Publications, 2022)

  A six-year-old intact male Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) presented with a history of chronic mild to moderate weight loss, and sub-acute hind limb ataxia that progressed to complete paralysis, at which ...
• Acute clinical evaluation for syndesmosis injury has high diagnostic value 

  Baltes, Thomas P.A.; Al Sayrafi, Omar; Arnaiz, Javier; Al‑Naimi, Maryam R.; Geertsema, Celeste; Geertsema, Liesel; Holtzhausen, Louis; D’Hooghe, Pieter; Kerkhoffs, Gino M.M.J.; Tol, Johannes L. (Springer, 2022-11)

  PURPOSE : To determine the diagnostic value of injury history, physical examination, six syndesmosis tests and overall clinical suspicion for syndesmosis injury. METHODS : All athletes (> 18 yrs) with an acute ankle injury ...
• Evidence that residues of tebuthiuron arboricide present in soil of Mokala National Park can be phytotoxic to woody and grass species 

  Reinhardt, Carl Frederick (Charlie); Bezuidenhout, Hugo; Judith M. Botha (AOSIS, 2022-03-18)

  Mokala National Park (MoNP) has a history of arboricide use through South African National Parks (SANPs) having bought commercial game farmland for its establishment in 2007. Tebuthiuron arboricide is known to have been ...
• A fuzzy-logic based adaptive data rate scheme for energy-efficient LoRaWAN communication 

  Kufakunesu, Rachel; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan (MDPI, 2022-12)

  Long RangeWide Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology is rapidly expanding as a technology with long distance connectivity, low power consumption, low data rates and a large number of end devices (EDs) that connect to the ...

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