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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zhang, Ticao; Qiao, Qin; Du, Xiao; Zhang, Xiao; Hou, Yali; Wei, Xin; Sun, Chao; Zhang, Rengang; Yun, Quanzheng; Crabbe, M. James C.; Van de Peer, Yves; Dong, Wenxuan(Wiley, 2022-08)
Cultivated hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida var.
major) is an important medicinal and edible plant
with a long history of use for health protection in
China. Herein, we provide a de novo chromosomelevel
genome sequence ...
Contemporary South African campus fiction has always been concerned with
questions of power, being, and knowledge production. Kopano Matlwa’s novel
Spilt Milk, like most campus fiction, evokes and challenges the South ...
For over 35 years SAVAL-LASA's Journal of Literary Studies, ably assisted and directed by Andries Oliphant, devoted itself to examining literary texts. In the waxing and waning of theories it did a remarkable job reading ...
Given the food supply chain disruption from COVID-19 lockdowns around the world, we
examine the predictive power of daily infectious diseases-related uncertainty (EMVID) on commodity
traded futures within the agricultural ...
Buchanan, Glynn Dale; Gamieldien, Mohamed Yasin; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Van Schoor, Albert-Neels; Uys, Andre(Nihon University School of Dentistry, 2022)
PURPOSE : An investigation of the configurations of mandibular premolar
roots and canals in a population of Black South Africans.
METHODS : Cone-beam computed tomography analysis of 772 mandibular
premolars was performed, ...
BACKGROUND : Diabetes prevalence, as well as that of pre-diabetes, is rapidly increasing in South Africa. Individuals
with pre-diabetes have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is reversible with a change in ...
Edmond, Karen; Chadha, Shelly; Hunnicutt, Cynthia; Strobel, Natalie; Manchaiah, Vinaya; Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine(International Society of Global Health, 2022-10)
BACKGROUND : Permanent bilateral hearing loss (PBHL) is a serious condition in newborns, with a prevalence of at least one per 1000 live births. However, there has been no recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the ...
Swalarsk-Parry, Benedicta S.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van Wyk, Stephanie; Santana, Quentin C.; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen(MDPI, 2022-11-16)
Fusarium circinatum is an economically important pathogen of pine and resides in the
Fusarium fujikuroi species complex. Here we investigated the molecular processes underlying growth
in F. circinatum by exploring the ...