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Research Articles (University of Pretoria)
This collection offers open access to the full text of research articles published by staff, students and affiliates of the University of Pretoria. These items are identical in content to their published counterparts. It is linked to the Research Information System and complements the Annual Research Report.
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018-08-29)The duty of employers to reasonably accommodate employees living with disabilities is fundamental and is invoked on a daily basis in response to various health conditions which employees experience, such as cancer. While ...
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Pre-agreement assessment as a responsible lending tool in South-Africa, the EU and Belgium : Part 2 (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018-03-19)Responsible lending has become a very pertinent issue on the agenda of credit regulators across the globe who seek to combat the causes of consumer over-indebtedness. In this context the use of "pre-agreement assessment" ...
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Pre-agreement assessment as a responsible lending tool in South-Africa, the EU and Belgium : Part 1 (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018-03-19)Responsible lending has become a very pertinent issue on the agenda of credit regulators across the globe who seek to combat the causes of consumer over-indebtedness. In this context the use of "pre-agreement assessment" ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how intercultural learning can ...
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Wissenschaftliches Gedächtnis als Erinnerungskultur : Zwei Fallstudien zum Kolonialkrieg in Namibia (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)This contribution is based on the premise that remembering as representation of the past is always also the (re-)construction of reality and that the same applies to scientific memory. The generation of historical and ...
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Effectiveness of individual and group investigations in developing integrated science inquiry skills (Education Association of South Africa, 2018-08)The South African Physical Sciences Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) requires learners to develop science inquiry skills, including Integrated Science Inquiry Skills (ISIS). However, the performance of ...
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(SUNMeDIA, 2018)This article looks into the damaging effect of the disintegrated relationship between humanity and nature. The current relationship we have with nature is hierarchal and fragmented because it is rooted in a culture of ...
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(Company of Biologists, 2018-08)The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) proposes that testosterone has both beneficial effects on male reproductive potential and negative effects by suppressing the immune system. However, support for the ICHH ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2018-08)Given its associated burden of disease, climate change in South Africa could be reframed as predominately a health issue, one necessitating an urgent health-sector response. The growing impact of climate change has major ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2018-09-12)The bottlenose dolphin, genus Tursiops is one of the best studied of all the Cetacea with a minimum of two species widely recognised. Common bottlenose dolphins (T. truncatus), are the cetacean species most frequently ...
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(Kassel University Press, 2018-06-27)The study was conducted on indigenous scavenging chickens under village management firstly, to evaluate the early development of the digestive tract to 28 days of age and secondly, to determine the growth performance of ...
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(Kassel University Press, 2018-06-27)The objective of this study was to determine the dietary protein and apparent metabolisable energy (AME) requirements of local chickens. Freshly laid eggs of scavenging chickens collected in rural villages were hatched ...
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(BioMed Central, 2018-09-04)BACKGROUND : Aligning short reads to a reference genome is an important task in many genome analysis pipelines. This task is computationally more complex when the reference genome is provided in the form of a de Bruijn ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-09-03)This paper explores possible synergies between techniques used to minimise seismicity in deep South African gold mines and their applicability to control coal bumps. The paper gives a summary of the techniques used in ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of third-year architecture students’ information behaviour. It focusses on information activities, personal experience, resource usage, preferences ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to explore the corporate requirements, benefits and inhibitors of scenario planning in strategic decision-making. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : This paper is based on a sample of 15 ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-02)Please read abstract in the article.
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(Springer, 2018-04)Amaranthus species are an emerging and promising nutritious traditional vegetable food source. Morphological plasticity and poorly resolved dendrograms have led to the need for well resolved species phylogenies. We ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2018-09)Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is common practice today for life threatening malignant and non-malignant diseases of the blood and immune systems. Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is rich in hematopoietic stem ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-09)BACKGROUND. Poor emergency obstetric care has been shown by national confidential enquiries into maternal deaths to contribute to a number of maternal deaths in South Africa. OBJECTIVES. To assess whether a structured ...