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  • Drought risk analysis in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa : the copula lens 
    Botai, Christina M.; Botai, Joel Ongego; Adeola, Abiodun Morakinyo; De Wit, Jaco P.; Ncongwane, Katlego P.; Zwane, Nosipho Ntombani (MDPI Publishing, 2020-07-08)
    This research study was carried out to investigate the characteristics of drought based on the joint distribution of two dependent variables, the duration and severity, in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The ...
  • Drought stress responses in soybean roots and nodules 
    Kunert, Karl J.; Vorster, Barend Juan; Fenta, Berhanu A.; Kibido, Tsholofelo Reineth; Dionisio, Giuseppe; Foyer, Christine H. (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-07-12)
    Drought is considered to be a major threat to soybean production worldwide and yet our current understanding of the effects of drought on soybean productively is largely based on studies on above-ground traits. Although ...
  • Drought-induced modulation of the Camellia sinensis metabolome 
    Nyarukowa, Christopher (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    Climate change is causing droughts affecting crop production on a global scale. Classical breeding and selection strategies for drought tolerant cultivars will help prevent crop losses. Plant breeders, for all crops, need ...
  • Drought-induced starvation of aardvarks in the Kalahari : an indirect effect of climate change 
    Rey, Benjamin; Fuller, Andrea; Mitchell, Duncan; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney; Hetem, Robyn S. (The Royal Society, 2017-07)
    Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are elusive burrowing mammals, predominantly nocturnal and distributed widely throughout Africa except for arid deserts. Their survival may be threatened by climate change via direct and indirect ...
  • Drowning in data, thirsty for information and starved for understanding : a biodiversity information hub for cooperative environmental monitoring in South Africa 
    MacFadyen, Sandra; Allsopp, Nicky; Altwegg, Res; Archibald, Sally; Botha, Judith; Bradshaw, Karen; Carruthers, Jane; De Klerk, Helen; De Vos, Alta; Distiller, Greg; Foord, Stefan; Freitag-Ronaldson, Stefanie; Gibbs, Richard; Hamer, Michelle; Landi, Pietro; MacFadyen, Duncan; Manuel, Jeffrey; Midgley, Guy F.; Moncrieff, Glenn; Munch, Zahn; Mutanga, Onisimo; Nenguda, Rendani; Ngwenya, Mzabalazo; Parker, Daniel M.; Peel, Mike; Power, John; Pretorius, Joachim; Ramdhani, Syd; Robertson, Mark P.; Rushworth, Ian A.; Skowno, Andrew; Slingsby, Jasper; Turner, Andrew; Visser, Vernon; Van Wageningen, Gerhard; Hui, Cang (Elsevier, 2022-10)
    The world is firmly cemented in a notitian age (Latin: notitia, meaning data) – drowning in data, yet thirsty for information and the synthesis of knowledge into understanding. As concerns over biodiversity declines escalate, ...
  • Drowning in Pretoria, South Africa : a 10-year review 
    Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Saayman, Gert; Morris, Neil Kenneth (Elsevier, 2016-01)
    Drowning is classified as the 3rd leading cause of accidental deaths worldwide and is deemed to be a preventable cause of death. Bodies retrieved from a water medium pose several challenges to the forensic pathologist ...
  • Drug resistant tuberculosis in Africa : current status, gaps and opportunities 
    Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Ismail, Farzana; Omar, Shaheed Vally; Blows, Linsay; Gardee, Yasmin; Koornhof, Hendrik; Onyebujoh, Philip C. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-12-06)
    BACKGROUND : The World Health Organization End TB Strategy targets for 2035 are ambitious and drug resistant tuberculosis is an important barrier, particularly in Africa, home to over a billion people. OBJECTIVE : We ...
  • Drug standardization through pharmacognostic approaches and estimation of anticancer potential of chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) using prostate-cancer cell lines : an in-vitro study 
    Khan, Nida; Kalam, Mohd Afsahul; Alam, Mohd Tauseef; Ul Haq, Syed Anam; Showket, Wasia; Dar, Zahoor A.; Rafiq, Nida; Mushtaq, Waseem; Rafeeqi, Towseef Amin; Dar, Mohammad Yunis; Akbar, Seema; Butt, Tariq Ahmad; Gani, Riehana; Majeed, Uzma; Chaudhary, Anis Ahmad; Rudayni, Hassan Ahmed; Al-Zharani, Mohammed; Shilbayeh, Sireen Abdul Rahim; Binsaleh, Ammena Yahia; El-Sheikh, Azza A.K.; Dlamini, Zodwa; Wani, Shabir Hussain; Khan, Shahanavaj; Masoodi, Khalid Z. (Ivyspring International Publisher, 2023-02-05)
    Cancer is the major challenge across world and the adenocarcinoma of prostate malignancy is the second most prevalent male cancer. Various medicinal plants are used for the treatment and management of various cancers. ...
  • Drug-resistance mechanisms and tuberculosis drugs 
    Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Koser, Claudio U.; Javid, Babak; Ellington, Matthew J.; Feveriegel, Silke; Niemann, Stefan; Brown, Nicolas M.; Burman, William J.; Abubakar, Ibrahim; Moore, David; Peacock, Sharon J.; Torok, M.Estee; Liddel, Kathleen (Elsevier, 2015-01)
    Bedaquiline and delamanid, novel classes of anti-tuberculosis drugs, have been recently approved for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Antimicrobial resistance invariably follows the introduction of ...
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis in pet ring-tailed Lemur, Madagascar 
    LaFleur, Marni; Reuter, Kim E.; Hall, Michael B.; Rasoanaivo, Hoby H.; McKernan, Stuart; Ranaivomanana, Paulo; Michel, Anita Luise; Rabodoarivelo, Marie Sylvianne; Iqbal, Zamin; Rakotosamimanana, Niaina; Lapierre, Simon Grandjean (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021-03)
    We diagnosed tuberculosis in an illegally wild-captured pet ring-tailed lemur manifesting lethargy, anorexia, and cervical lymphadenopathy. Whole-genome sequencing confirmed the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate belonged ...
  • The druggable antimalarial target PfDXR : overproduction strategies and kinetic characterization 
    Goble, Jessica L.; Johnson, Hailey; De Ridder, Jaco; Stephens, Linda L.; Louw, Abraham Izak; Blatch, Gregory L.; Boshoff, Aileen (Bentham Science Publisher, 2013)
    Plasmodium falciparum 1–deoxy–D–xylulose–5–phosphate reductoisomerase (PfDXR) is a key enzyme in the synthesis of isoprenoids in the malaria parasite, using a pathway that is absent in the human host. This enzyme is ...
  • Drugged driving in South Africa 
    Liebenberg, Jade; Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Saayman, Gert; Steenkamp, Vanessa (Institute for Security Studies, 2019-03)
    Driving under the influence is a major threat to road safety in South Africa. Various psychoactive substances (both licit and illicit) have the potential to adversely affect driving performance and increase the probability ...
  • Drugs are the solution not the problem : exploring drug use rationales and the need for harm reduction practices South Africa 
    Marks, Monique; Gumede, Sibinelo; Shelly, Shaun (CRIMSA, 2017)
    In the past ten years, the use of low-grade heroin (known as whoonga or nyaope) by people from marginalised communities in Durban, South Africa has become increasingly prevalent. Focus groups held with young homeless people ...
  • Drugs for diarrhoea? 
    Wittenberg, Dankwart F. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-03)
    No abstract available.
  • Drumpels op weg na ons bestemming 
    Wepener, Cas (Netwerk 24, 2019-03-09)
    Geen opsomming beskikbaar.
  • The dry matter consumption of sheep on natural grazing in the Transvaal 
    Smuts, D.B.; Marais, J.S.C.; DuToit, P.J. (Pretoria : The Government Printer, 1940)
    From a study on the dry matter consumption of sheep under natural conditions of grazing, it is evident that the quantity consumed is not a factor in the loss of weight in sheep during winter. It appears from these ...
  • Dry matter production, intake and nutritive value of certain Indigofera species 
    Tjelele, Tlou Julius (University of Pretoria, 2007-04-04)
    The objective of the study was to evaluate the dry matter production, intake and the nutritive value of Indigofera species. The dry matter yield, leaf:stem ratio, chemical composition, voluntary intake and digestibility ...
  • Dry powder alkali-activated slag cements 
    Kovtun, Maxim; Kearsley, Elsabe P.; Shekhovtsova, Julia (Thomas Telford, 2015)
    This paper reports on the results of an investigation into the possibility of producing dry powder alkali-activated slag cements as a ready-to-use product which can be packed in bags and mixed with water to produce a ...
  • Dry powder antibiotic aerosol product development : inhaled therapy for tuberculosis 
    Hickey, Anthony J.; Misra, Amit; Fourie, P.B. (Petrus Bernardus) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-11)
    Inhaled therapies offer a unique approach to the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) using a relevant target organ system as a route of administration. The number of research reports on this topic has been increasing exponentially ...
  • A dry udder in the milk season? Natural resource exploitation in Africa: realising the right to economic benefit to host communities 
    Bosire, Conrad Mugoya (University of Pretoria, 2009)
    Natural resources and economic development in Africa take place within a set of external and internal factors. These factors range from issues that prevail in the international trading system, political factors and other ...