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  • Fresh tilapia fish skin graft treatment of severe skin burns in a cat 
    De Witt, Anika A.; Bester, Elizabeth G. (Wiley, 2024)
    An entire female cat presented with extensive third-degree burns covering greater than 30% of total body surface. The wound was cleaned and debrided with daily dressing management to heal with second intention. Dressing ...
  • Child abuse and neglect-related murders in South Africa : a comparison of two national surveys in 2009 and 2017 
    Abrahams, Naeemah; Mhlongo, Shibe; Chirwa, Esnat; Dekel, Bianca; Ketelo, Asiphe; Lombard, Carl J.; Shai, Nwabisa; Ramsoomar, Leane; Mathews, Shanaaz; Labuschagne, Gérard; Matzopoulos, Richard; Prinsloo, Megan; Martin, Lorna J.; Jewkes, Rachel (Elsevier, 2024-08)
    BACKGROUND : Population-based statistics on deaths from child abuse and neglect are only routinely available in countries that have reliable national statistics on child murder. For low-income and middle-income countries, ...
  • R.G. Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer conundrum : contextualising Romans 1:26–27 
    Chabata, Lovejoy (AOSIS, 2024-07)
    Zimbabwe’s late President, R.G. Mugabe, became (in)famous for his bawdy and scurrilous attacks on people of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) sexual orientation. In Romans 1:26–27, Paul seems to berate ...
  • Reading the resurrection appearance at the lakeside through lenses of sensing and intuition 
    Francis, Leslie John; Stevenson, Adam J. (AOSIS, 2024-02)
    This study forms part of a research project designed to test the sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics in respect of a wide range of biblical passages. On this occasion, two ...
  • Social inclusion of street vendors in Harare : challenges and opportunities 
    Chibango, Conrad (AOSIS, 2024-01)
    Zimbabwe’s unending socioeconomic crisis has led to the flooding of informal street vendors in its urban areas, a development that has led to incessant clashes between the street vendors and the local authorities. ...
  • The role of storytelling as a possible trauma release for war veterans : a narrative approach 
    Dickson, Nicole; Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS, 2024-05)
    The master narrative of Apartheid South Africa created a specific identity for white boys and men and, together with this identity, a very particular role and place within the South African context. This identity was ...
  • Theology, philosophy and technology : perspectives from the Hervormde Kerk 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS, 2024-05)
    This contribution is located in the field of Historical Theology. It gives an overview (postWorld War II) of the philosophical-theological discourse on technology and humanity, articulated by academics who were members ...
  • The impacts of cashless policy on churches in Enugu, Nigeria 
    Chukwuma, O.G. (Onyekachi) (AOSIS, 2024-07)
    The study investigates the impacts of the cashless policy on churches in Enugu, Nigeria and was carried out between January 2023 and May 2023 when the cashless policy was newly implemented in Nigeria. Through the purposive ...
  • The influence of Islam on Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal 
    Ngubane, Simesihle Eric; Sukdaven, Maniraj (AOSIS, 2024-06)
    This article explores the influence of Islam among the Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Although several studies focus on the history and experiences of the Asian diaspora or Asian Muslim community, there is a ...
  • The interrelatedness between the Nama Khoikhoi supreme being and celestial objects 
    Hartmann, Iwana; Sukdaven, Maniraj (AOSIS, 2024-05)
    The assumption among Europeans that the Khoikhoi indigenous people of southern Africa had little to no religious beliefs is evident throughout historical documents. However, if the Khoikhoi were regarded as having any ...
  • The concept of an integral mission as the Evangelical proposal of a systematic social teaching 
    Kopiec, Piotr (AOSIS, 2024-06)
    The global expansion of Evangelicalism raises essential questions about inculturation, social involvement and contextualising the Evangelical mission. The concept of an integral mission is an answer to these issues. ...
  • The mission theology of P.S. Dreyer and his contribution to the Maranatha Reformed Church 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS, 2024-01)
    At the University of Pretoria, Historical Theology consists of various sub-disciplines, that is, History of Christianity, History of Doctrine, History of Theology, History of Missions, Church History, and Church Polity. ...
  • Diploid and tetraploid genomes of Acorus and the evolution of monocots 
    Ma, Liang; Liu, Ke-Wei; Li, Zhen; Hsiao, Yu-Yun; Qi, Yiying; Fu, Tao; Tang, Guang-Da; Zhang, Diyang; Sun, Wei-Hong; Liu, Ding-Kun; Hao, Yang; Huang, Jie; Zhao, Xue-Wei; Ke, Shijie; Chen, You-Yi; Wu, Wan-Lin; Hsu, Jui-Ling; Lin, Yu-Fu; Huang, Ming-Der; Li, Chia-Ying; Huang, Laiqiang; Wang, Zhi-Wen; Zhao, Xiang; Zhong, Wen-Ying; Peng, Dong-Hui; Ahmad, Sagheer; Lan, Siren; Zhang, Ji-Sen; Tsai, Wen-Chieh; Van de Peer, Yves; Liu, Zhong-Jian (Nature Research, 2023-06-20)
    Monocots are a major taxon within flowering plants, have unique morphological traits, and show an extraordinary diversity in lifestyle. To improve our understanding of monocot origin and evolution, we generate ...
  • Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification 
    Noriega, Jorge Ari; Hortal, Joaquín; DeCastro-Arrazola, Indradatta; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Ortega, Jean C.G.; Bini, Luis Mauricio; Andrew, Nigel R.; Arellano, Lucrecia; Beynon, Sarah; Davis, Adrian L.V.; Favila, Mario E.; Floate, Kevin D.; Horgan, Finbarr G.; Menendez, Rosa; Milotic, Tanja; Nervo, Beatrice; Palestrini, Claudia; Rolando, Antonio; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Senyuz, Yakup; Wassmer, Thomas; Adam, Reka; Araujo, Cristina de O.; Barragan-Ramírez, Jose Luis; Boros, Gergely; Camero-Rubio, Edgar; Cruz, Melvin; Cuesta, Eva; Damborsky, Miryam Pieri; Deschodt, Christian M.; Rajan, Priyadarsanan Dharma; D’hondt, Bram; Rojas, Alfonso Diaz; Dindar, Kemal; Escobar, Federico; Espinoza, Veronica R.; Ferrer-Paris, Jose Rafael; Rojas, Pablo Enrique Gutiérrez; Hemmings, Zac; Hernandez, Benjamin; Hill, Sarah J.; Hoffmann, Maurice; Jay-Robert, Pierre; Lewis, Kyle; Lewis, Megan; Lozano, Cecilia; Marin-Armijos, Diego; De Farias, Patrícia Menegaz; Murcia-Ordonez, Betselene; Karimbumkara, Seena Narayanan; Navarrete-Heredia, Jose Luis; Ortega-Echeverría, Candelaria; Pablo-Cea, Jose D.; Perrin, William; Pessoa, Marcelo Bruno; Radhakrishnan, Anu; Rahimi, Iraj; Raimundo, Amalia Teresa; Ramos, Diana Catalina; Rebolledo, Ramon E.; Roggero, Angela; Sanchez-Mercado, Ada; Somay, Laszlo; Stadler, Jutta; Tahmasebi, Pejman; Cespedes, Jose Darwin Triana; Santos, Ana M.C. (Nature Research, 2023-12-06)
    Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and functional diversity of terrestrial invertebrates, ...
  • The role of deputy principals : perspectives of South African primary school principals and their deputies 
    Jansen, Christa; Du Plessis, Andre F. (Sage, 2023-01)
    Education leadership literature indicates that relatively little attention has been given to the specific duties and responsibilities of South African deputy principals in comparison with other leadership and management ...
  • Non-educator stakeholders and public-school principals' views on the proposed amendments to the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 
    Kruger, Johan; Beckmann, Johan L.; Du Plessis, Andre (North-West Unversity, 2024-01)
    On 13 October 2017, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) published Government Gazette No 41178 pertaining to the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (hereinafter BELA). The draft bill proposes to amend certain sections ...
  • Strategies that leadership employ to support teacher professional development in Namibia 
    So-Oabeb, Josef Haitale Shingoya; Du Plessis, Andre F.; Masenge, Andries (AOSIS, 2024-03)
    BACKGROUND : Namibian education is faced with a concern of poor-quality teaching and learning. One way of seeking to address this is through the professional development of teachers. Therefore, this study examined ...
  • Trends in COVID-19 admissions and deaths among people living with HIV in South Africa : analysis of national surveillance data 
    Jassat, Waasila; Mudara, Caroline; Ozougwu, Lovelyn Uzoma; Welch, Richard; Arendse, Tracy; Masha, Maureen; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Kufa, Tendesayi; Puren, Adrian; Groome, Michelle J.; Govender, Nevashan; Pisa, Pedro Terrence; Govender, Sharlene; Sanne, Ian; Brahmbhatt, Heena; Parmley, Lauren; Wolmarans, Milani; Rousseau, Petro; Selikow, Anthony; Burgess, Melissa; Hankel, Lauren; Parker, Arifa; Cohen, Cheryl (Elsevier, 2024-02)
    BACKGROUND : In 2021, the HIV prevalence among South African adults was 18% and more than 2 million people had uncontrolled HIV and, therefore, had increased risk of poor outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection. We investigated ...
  • Ben Okri's eco-imagination in Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021) : an Afropolitan approach 
    Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2024)
    There are possibly myriad approaches to an examination of Sir Ben Okri’s African folktale, Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021), that sings the praises of Mother Nature’s ability to transform human nature. Premised on the ...
  • Jesus and the angels : a comparative reading of Hebrews 1:1–4 in light of Ewe angelology 
    Sakitey, Daniel; Van Eck, Ernest (AOSIS, 2024-08)
    This article examines the phrase, tosoutō kreittōn genomenos tōn angelōn (Heb 1:4a) (having become as much superior to the angels) in the exordium of the epistle to the Hebrews in the light of Ewe angelology. The article ...