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  • Naked mole-rat brown fat thermogenesis is diminished during hypoxia through a rapid decrease in UCP1 
    Cheng, Hang; Sebaa, Rajaa; Malholtra, Nikita; Lacoste, Baptiste; El Hankouri, Ziyad; Kirby, Alexia; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Van Jaarsveld, Barry; Hart, Daniel William; Tattersall, Glenn J.; Harper, Mary-Ellen; Pamenter, Matthew E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2021-11-23)
    Naked mole-rats are among the most hypoxia-tolerant mammals. During hypoxia, their body temperature (Tb) decreases via unknown mechanisms to conserve energy. In small mammals, non-shivering thermogenesis in brown adipose ...
  • The naked truth : a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole-rat biology 
    Buffenstein, Rochelle; Amoroso, Vincent; Andziak, Blazej; Avdieiev, Stanislav; Azpurua, Jorge; Barker, Alison J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Brieno-Enriquez, Miguel A.; Bronner, Gary N.; Coen, Clive; Delaney, Martha A.; Dengler-Crish, Christine M.; Edrey, Yael H.; Faulkes, Christopher G.; Frankel, Daniel; Friedlander, Gerard; Gibney, Patrick A.; Gorbunova, Vera; Hine, Christopher; Holmes, Melissa M.; Jarvis, Jennifer U. M.; Kawamura, Yoshimi; Kutsukake, Nobuyuki; Kenyon, Cynthia; Khaled, Walid T.; Kikusui, Takefumi; Kissil, Joseph; Lagestee, Samantha; Larson, John; Lauer, Amanda; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Lee, Angela; Levitt, Jonathan B.; Lewin, Gary R.; Hardell, Kaitlyn N. Lewis; Lin, TzuHua D.; Mason, Matthew J.; McCloskey, Dan; McMahon, Mary; Miura, Kyoko; Mogi, Kazutaka; Narayan, Vikram; O’Connor, Timothy P.; Okanoya, Kazuo; O’Riain, M. Justin; Park, Thomas J.; Place, Ned J.; Podshivalova, Katie; Pamenter, Matthew E.; Pyott, Sonja J.; Reznick, Jane; Ruby, J. Graham; Salmon, Adam B.; Santos-Sacchi, Joseph; Sarko, Diana K.; Seluanov, Andrei; Shepard, Alyssa; Smith, Megan; Storey, Kenneth B.; Tian, Xiao; Vice, Emily N.; Viltard, Mélanie; Watarai, Akiyuki; Wywial, Ewa; Yamakawa, Masanori; Zemlemerova, Elena D.; Zions, Michael; St. John Smith, Ewan (Wiley, 2022-02)
    The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) has fascinated zoologists for at least half a century. It has also generated considerable biomedical interest not only because of its extraordinary longevity, but also because ...
  • Namibian fairy circles 
    Hurter, Jan W. (Agri Connect, 2021-06)
    Scattered across the vast and barren plains of the pro-Namib desert, mysterious patches of soil devoid of any vegetation occur. You would think that a desert is naturally void of any form of life, but a desert, in itself, ...
  • The Namibian war : challenges to the Anglo-German relationship in Southern Africa 
    Beckvold, Christopher Henry (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-07-23)
    Events associated with the Namibian War (1904-1908) offer a glimpse into Anglo-German antagonism in Southern Africa. The Namibian War enveloped German South-West Africa (GSWA), but its effects radiated to the German colony’s ...
  • Nanotechnology applications towards sustainable road surface maintenance and effective asset protection, generating rapid employment opportunities in a post COVID-19 era 
    Jordaan, Gerrit Jacobus; Steyn, Wynand Jacobus Van der Merwe (MDPI, 2022-03)
    The developing world has been faced with high rates of unemployment, exasperated by extended enforced lockdowns due to the Pandemic. Pressure is mounting for drastic intervention to accelerate economic growth and to ...
  • Natal Afrikaner women and the South African war (1899-1902) 
    Wassermann, Johannes Michiel (North-West University, 2021)
    In this article, the variety of experiences of Natal Afrikaner women as British subjects who were related by blood and culture to the Boers of the Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, with which the ...
  • Natural processes influencing pollinator health 
    Stevenson, Philip C.; Koch, Hauke; Nicolson, Sue W.; Brown, Mark J.F. (Royal Society, 2022-03-24)
    Evidence from the last few decades indicates that pollinator abundance and diversity are at risk, with many species in decline. Anthropogenic impacts have been the focus of much recent work on the causes of these declines. ...
  • Nature as God : a juxtaposition of Vito Mancuso and Alexander von Humboldt in their search for understanding reality 
    Buitendag, Johan; Simut, Corneliu Cristian (AOSIS, 2021-05-19)
    This article's premise is that science holds the promise of deepening religious perspectives on creation. The natural sciences have convincingly proved that nature is not static, or a ready-made creation dropped from heaven. ...
  • The nature of family reunification services in the Gauteng province 
    Sibanda, Sipho; Lombard, A. (Antoinette) (Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University, 2022)
    Placement of children in alternative care is supposed to be a temporary and not a permanent arrangement. In the absence of a family reunification model in South Africa, most children stay for longer periods in alternative ...
  • Near-complete genome sequence of Ndumu virus from Garissa, Kenya, 1997 
    Moolla, Naazneen; Viljoen, Natalie; Patharoo, Venessa; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Ismail, Arshad; Weyer, Jacqueline (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-08-26)
    We report a nearly complete genome sequence of Ndumu virus (NDUV) identified using a metagenomics approach. The sequence was derived from a viral isolate obtained from a bovine calf following a diagnostic investigation ...
  • Nearby transposable elements impact plant stress gene regulatory networks : a meta-analysis in A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum 
    Deneweth, Jan; Van de Peer, Yves; Vermeirssen, Vanessa (BMC, 2022-01)
    BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TE) make up a large portion of many plant genomes and are playing innovative roles in genome evolution. Several TEs can contribute to gene regulation by influencing expression of nearby ...
  • Negative responses to urban residential noise as a social rebound effect of increasing population density : legislative challenges and auditory territoriality 
    MacCutcheon, Douglas (Medknow Publications, 2021-01)
    Populations in cities are projected to increase globally, densifying urban residential environments with both positive and negative effects. Positive social effects are offset by negative health effects however; urban ...
  • Negotiating belonging : the case of Francophone Cameroonian migrants in Pretoria 
    Atabongwoung, Gallous (SUNMeDIA, 2022-07-31)
    Francophone Cameroonian migrants in Pretoria face challenges such as language barriers. The migrants are not easily accepted by locals and often face discrimination and harassment that influence their sense of belonging ...
  • Nested locally Hamiltonian graphs and the Oberly-Sumner conjecture 
    De Wet, J.P. (Johan); Frick, Marietjie (Sciendo, 2022-11)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Neurobehavioural challenges experienced by HIV exposed infants : a study in South Africa 
    Rencken, Gina; Govender, Pragashnie; Uys, Catharina Jacoba Elizabeth (BMC, 2022-08-06)
    BACKGROUND : The newborn infant is a complexly organized, competent being, who plays an active role in shaping their environment through their increasing skills in autonomic regulation, motor control, regulation of state ...
  • New assessment of Anopheles vector species identification using MALDI‑TOF MS 
    Nabet, Cecile; Kone, Abdoulaye K.; Dia, Abdoulaye K.; Sylla, Moussa; Gautier, Magali; Yattara, Mohammed; Thera, Mahamadou A.; Faye, Ousmane; Braack, L.E.O.; Manguin, Sylvie; Beavogui, Abdoul H.; Doumbo, Ogobara; Gay, Frederick; Piarroux, Renaud (BioMed Central, 2021-01-09)
    BACKGROUND : Anopheles species identification is essential for an effective malaria vector control programme. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has been developed ...
  • New religious movements and the problem of syncretism : a study of Anioma Healing Ministry, Nawgu, Nigeria 
    Anizoba, Emmanuel C. (AOSIS, 2022-07-08)
    This work studied the Anioma Healing Ministry of the late prophet Eddy Okeke. The aim is to investigate the structure, demography, beliefs and practices of the ministry. The study adopts a qualitative phenomenological ...
  • New transmission-selective antimalarial agents through hit-to-lead optimization of 2-([1,1 '-Biphenyl]-4-carboxamido)benzoic acid derivatives 
    Reader, Janette; Opperman, Daniel; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Theron, Anjo; Leshabane, Meta Kgaogelo; Da Rocha, Michelle; Turner, Jonathan; Garrabrant, Kathleen; Pina, Ivett; Mills, Catherine; Woster, Patrick M.; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (Wiley, 2022-11)
    Malaria elimination requires multipronged approaches, including the application of antimalarial drugs able to block humanto- mosquito transmission of malaria parasites. The transmissible gametocytes of Plasmodium ...
  • The new WHO global air quality guidelines : what do they mean for South Africa? 
    Garland, Rebecca M.; Wernecke, Bianca; Feig, Gregor Timothy; Langerman, Kristy (National Association for Clean Air, 2021)
    Ambient air quality standards are a key policy lever in air quality management. In South Africa, the introduction of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) highlighted the shift in the focus of air quality ...
  • Newcastle disease vaccine virus I-2 fails to acquire virulence during repeated passage in vivo 
    Bisschop, S.P.R. (Shahn); Peters, Andrew; Domingue, Gil; Pearce, Michael C.; Verwey, Jeanette; Poolman, Petrus (F1000Research, 2021-12)
    BACKGROUND : This study determined whether the naturally attenuated, thermotolerant Newcastle disease vaccine virus I-2 could acquire virulence after five in vivo passages through SPF chickens. METHODS : Study design was ...