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  • Looking at the distant universe with the MeerKAT array : discovery of a luminous OH megamaser at z>0.5 
    Glowacki, Marcin; Collier, Jordan D.; Kazemi-Moridani, Amir; Frank, Bradley; Roberts, Hayley; Darling, Jeremy; Klockner, Hans-Rainer; Adams, Nathan; Baker, Andrew J.; Bershady, Matthew; Blecher, Tariq; Blyth, Sarah-Louise; Bowler, Rebecca; Catinella, Barbara; Chemin, Laurent; Crawford, Steven M.; Cress, Catherine; Dave, Romeel; Dave, Romeel; Deane, Roger; De Blok, Erwin; Delhaize, Jacinta; Duncan, Kenneth; Elson, Ed; February, Sean; Gawiser, Eric; Hatfield, Peter; Healy, Julia; Henning, Patricia; Hess, Kelley M.; Heywood, Ian; Holwerda, Benne W.; Hoosain, Munira; Hughes, John P.; Hutchens, Zackary L.; Jarvis, Matt; Kannappan, Sheila; Katz, Neal; Keres, Dusan; Korsaga, Marie; Kraan-Korteweg, Renee C.; Lah, Philip; Lochner, Michelle; Maddox, Natasha; Makhathini, Sphesihle; Meurer, Gerhardt R.; Meyer, Martin; Obreschkow, Danail; Oh, Se-Heon; Oosterloo, Tom; Oppor, Joshua; Pan, Hengxing; Pisano, D.J.; Randriamiarinarivo, Nandrianina; Ravindranath, Swara; Schroder, Anja C.; Skelton, Rosalind; Smirnov, Oleg; Smith, Mathew; Somerville, Rachel S.; Srianand, Raghunathan; Staveley-Smith, Lister; Tanaka, Masayuki; Vaccari, Mattia; Van Driel, Wim; Verheijen, Marc; Walter, Fabian; Wu, John F.; Zwaan, Martin A. (IOP Publishing, 2022-05)
    In the local universe, OH megamasers (OHMs) are detected almost exclusively in infrared-luminous galaxies, with a prevalence that increases with IR luminosity, suggesting that they trace gas-rich galaxy mergers. Given the ...
  • Looking back at doctoral education in South Africa 
    Herman, Chaya (Routledge, 2017)
    This article provides a quantitative picture of doctoral education in South Africa up to 2010, from the time the first doctorate was awarded in 1899. It identifies the different institutional profiles and emphases of ...
  • Looking back at doctoral education in South Africa 
    Herman, Chaya (Routledge, 2015-10)
    This article provides a quantitative picture of doctoral education in South Africa up to 2010, from the time the first doctorate was awarded in 1899. It identifies the different institutional profiles and emphases of ...
  • Looking beyond the magic bullet : novel asthma drugs or education, which works better? 
    Masekela, Refiloe; Levin, M.; Annamalai, M.; Naidoo, V.; Van Niekerk, Andre; Hawarden, D.; Emanuel, S.; Katz, H.; Zar, Heather J.; Green, Robin J.; Kritzinger, F.E.; Manjra, Ahmed I. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-08)
    Although ˂5% of children with asthma suffer from severe asthma, they account for the highest use of health resources. The field of asthma therapy is changing rapidly, with a number of new drugs and biologics being added ...
  • Looking east/going south : the Namibian-Chinese “all-weather friendship” 
    Melber, Henning (Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, 2018)
    Chinese-Namibian relations are by both governments classified as an “all-weather friendship”. Based on the Chinese support to the anticolonial liberation struggle, the strong political and economic links emerged since the ...
  • Looking for opinion leaders : traditional vs. modern measures in traditional societies 
    Weimann, Gabriel; Tustin, Deon Harold; Van Vuuren, Daan; Joubert, J.P.R. (Oxford University Press, 2007-04)
    Since the introduction of the opinion leadership conceptualization, both practitioners and academics have been keenly interested in its applicability in modern society. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify ...
  • Looking for ticks from space : using remotely sensed spectral diversity to assess Amblyomma and Hyalomma tick abundance 
    Da Re, Daniele; De Clercq, Eva M.; Tordoni, Enrico; Madder, Maxime; Rousseau, Raphaël; Vanwambeke, Sophie O. (MDPI, 2019-03-30)
    Landscape heterogeneity, as measured by the spectral diversity of satellite imagery, has the potential to provide information on the resources available within the movement capacity range of arthropod vectors, and to help ...
  • Looking like a leader–facial shape predicts perceived height and leadership ability 
    Re, Daniel E.; Hunter, David W.; Coetzee, Vinet; Tiddeman, Bernard P.; Xiao, Dengke; DeBruine, L.M.; Jones, Benedict C.; Perrett, David Ian (Public Library of Science, 2013-12-04)
    Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge ...
  • Looking over the conceptual horizon : a living-theory of practice 
    Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz) (EJOLTS, 2014)
    This paper explores the conceptualisation and implementation of public health in a medical curriculum in South Africa. Society’s health needs to extend beyond treating the individual and the i ...
  • Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for detection of Theileria parva infections targeting the PIM and p150 genes 
    Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.; Rambritch, Natasha E.; Nakao, Ryo; Bazie, Raoul S.; Mbati, Peter; Namangala, Boniface; Malele, Imna; Skilton, Robert A.; Jongejan, Frans; Sugimoto, Chihiro; Kawazu, Shin-Ichiro; Inoue, Noboru (Elsevier, 2010-01)
    We have developed two loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for the detection of Theileria parva, the causative agent of East Coast fever (ECF), an economically important cattle disease in eastern, central ...
  • Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) detection of Babesia orientalis in water buffalo (Bubalus babalis, Linnaeus, 1758) in China 
    He, Lan; Zhou, Yan-Qin; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Zhao, Jun-Long (Elsevier, 2009)
    Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a rapid method with high specificity and efficiency under isothermal condition using a set of four specifically designed primers that recognize six distinct sequences on the ...
  • Loop-mediated isothermal aplification detection of SARS-CoV-2 and myriad other applications 
    Moore, Keith J. M.; Cahill, Jeremy; Aidelberg, Guy; Aronoff, Rachel; Bektas, Ali; Bezdan, Daniela; Butler, Daniel J.; Chittur, Sridar V.; Codyre, Martin; Federici, Fernan; Tanner, Nathan A.; Tighe, Scott W.; True, Randy; Ware, Sarah B.; Wyllie, Anne L.; Afshin, Evan E.; Bendesky, Andres; Chang, Connie B.; Dela Rosa, Richard II; Elhaik, Eran; Erickson, David; Goldsborough, Andrew S.; Grills, George; Hadasch, Kathrin; Hayden, Andrew; Her, Seong-Young; Karl, Julie A.; Kim, Chang Hee; Kriegel, Alison J.; Kunstman, Thomas; Landau, Zeph; Land, Kevin; Langhorst, Bradley W.; Lindner, Ariel B.; Mayer, Benjamin E.; McLaughlin, Lee A.; McLaughlin, Matthew T.; Molloy, Jenny; Mozsary, Christopher; Nadler, Jerry L.; D’Silva, Melinee; Ng, David; O’Connor, David H.; Ongerth, Jerry E.; Osuolale, Olayinka; Pinharanda, Ana; Plenker, Dennis; Ranjan, Ravi; Rosbash, Michael; Rotem, Assaf; Segarra, Jacob; Schurer, Stephan; Sherrill-Mix, Scott; Solo-Gabriele, Helena; To, Shaina; Vogt, Merly C.; Yu, Albert D.; Mason, Christopher E.; The gLAMP Consortium (Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, 2022-09)
    As the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic begins, it remains clear that a massive increase in the ability to test for SARS-CoV-2 infections in a myriad of settings is critical to controlling the pandemic and to preparing ...
  • The Lord is my light and my salvation …” (Ps 27:1) : Psalm 27 in the literary context of Psalms 25-34 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus; Weber, Beat, 1955- (Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2019)
    Psalm 27 has some unique interpretational difficulties. The article briefly refers to the various ways in which its arrangement of elements has been explained. It then attempts to understand the psalm within its literary ...
  • The lord is my shepherd in suffering 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)
    Although Ps 23 can be called a psalm of trust, its purpose is to impart comfort in concrete life. In times of sorrow and crisis, this psalm has struck home. The article starts by reading Ps 23 as composition, then turns ...
  • The Lord’s Prayer and an African predicament – the Ewe-Ghanaian context in focus 
    Sakitey, Daniel; Van Eck, Ernest (AOSIS, 2020-09)
    This article seeks to reconstruct the phrase τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον (Mt 6:11; Lk 11:3) in the light of an African predicament with the Ewe-Ghanaian context in focus. The article posits that the various interpretations ...
  • Loss and gain of gut bacterial phylotype symbionts in afrotropical stingless bee species (Apidae: Meliponinae) 
    Tola, Yosef Hamba; Waweru, Jacqueline Wahura; Ndungu, Nelly N.; Nkoba, Kiatoko; Slippers, Bernard; Paredes, Juan C. (MDPI, 2021-11-24)
    Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are the most diverse group of corbiculate bees and are important managed and wild pollinators distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. However, little is known ...
  • Loss of amplitude of accommodation in pre-presbyopic HIV and AIDS patients under treatment with antiretrovirals 
    Mathebula, Solani D.; Makunyane, P.S. (Priscilla) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-12-01)
    BACKGROUND : The prevalence of HIV and AIDS is causing an enormous public health burden. Its manifestations spare no organ. Ocular complications are mainly attributed to various opportunistic infections which are ...
  • Loss of detectability and indeterminate results : challenges facing HIV infant diagnosis in South Africa's expanding ART programme 
    Haeri Mazanderani, Ahmad F.; Du Plessis, Nicolette Marie; Thomas, Winifred Nancy; Venter, E.; Avenant, Theunis Johannes (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-08)
    BACKGROUND. Early infant diagnosis with rapid access to treatment has been found to reduce HIV-associated infant mortality and morbidity considerably. In line with international standards, current South African guidelines ...
  • Loss of learning space within a legally inclusive education system : institutional responsiveness to mainstreaming of pregnant learners in formal education 
    Runhare, Tawanda; Vandeyar, Saloshna (Ife Center for Psychological Studies & Services, 2011-12)
    This study investigated how education stakeholders in South Africa and Zimbabwe responded to the policy of mainstreaming pregnant learners in formal schools. The study sample consisted of pregnant and former pregnant ...
  • Loss of military equipment by the SADF at the Battle at Indungo during the Border War, 31 October 1987 
    Scheepers, Marius; Pretorius, F. (Fransjohan) (Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2021)
    This article takes the form of an investigation regarding the loss of military equipment by the South African Defence Force (SADF) at the Battle at Indungo, in an operation that was assigned the codename Operation Firewood, ...