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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Title
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Olivier, Cuan
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This dissertation offers a unified application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’ (first introduced in Cohen’s 1996 Monster Theory: Reading Culture), and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890-1937) Supernatural ...
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Van der Meulen, Rudolph
(University of Pretoria, 2006-02-07)
This book is a discourse about the impact that consumerism and globalism have on South African and global architecture. It is irrelevant whether the impact is negative or positive. Architecture has to deal with a reality ...
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Du Plooy, Donovan
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
In the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argue that the Enlightenment is fated to always return to the state of myth which it claims to have escaped from. They attempt to show how the instrumental ...
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Frick, Denise
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This study aimed at exploring the possible impact that habits, values and mindfulness can
have on an athlete's achievement of success. It provided a thorough understanding of these
three concepts and analysed the ...
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Norton, Peter Maurice
(University of Pretoria, 2011-02-09)
The study investigates the habitat preferences and ecological adaptations of the klipspringer in the Namaqualand and the southern Cape mountains. Klipspringer social organisation was found· to consist of a monogamously ...
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Van Rooyen, Jacques
(University of Pretoria, 2009)
Roan antelope numbers have declined drastically over the last 30 years in the Kruger National Park (KNP). Various hypotheses have been tested and suggested as reasons for their sharp decline. A change in habitat structure ...
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Bell, Katie
(University of Pretoria, 2003)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document. Copyright 2003, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be ...
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Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt
(University of Pretoria, 1977)
The population size and seasonal cycle of the Amsterdam Island fur seal ( A. tropicalis) at Gough Island ( 40°20'S, 9°54'W) were investigated in the summers of 1974/75 and 1975/76. Population size was determined by direct ...
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Weaver, Stephen Mark
(University of Pretoria, 1995)
A study of selected herbivores on the Klaserie Private Nature
Reserve, Eastern Transvaal lowveld, was done to investigate
habitat relationships as a means to develop optimum stocking
rates in line with the mean carrying ...
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Winterbach, Hanlie Evelyn Kathleen
(University of Pretoria, 1999)
The range use behaviour and activity patterns of a single herd of disease-free Cape buffalo Syncerus caffer in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve, Free State, was investigated. This reserve falls outside the historical ...
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Morrison, Kerryn Lee-Ann
(University of Pretoria, 1998)
The breeding biology and habitat utilization for foraging and nesting of the blue crane
Anthropoides. paradiseus, grey crowned crane Balearica regulorum and wattled crane
Bugeranus carunculatus on the Steenkampsberg Plateau ...
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Vorster, Francois
(University of Pretoria, 1996)
Springbok habitat is evaluated in terms of a physical description of the areas utilised and the influence of dietary characteristics on the nutritional status of the animals. Two of the three study sites were situated in ...
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Scheepers, Elrien
(University of Pretoria, 2008-08-07)
The course of the haemopoietic response during canine babesiosis caused by Babesia rossi has not previously been studied. This prospective, descriptive longitudinal study on clinical cases describes the haematological ...
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Mashingaidze, Tsungai Vesta
(University of Pretoria, 2024)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been observed to significantly impact both the immune system and haematopoiesis. Haematopoiesis is the regulated process of producing the cellular components of blood with ...
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Fisher, Diana
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Objective To determine the effects of acepromazine and detomidine standing sedation on
haematological and biochemical variables in horses.
Study design A blinded randomised, comparative study.
Animal population Twelve ...
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Retief, Liezl
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Within South Africa, 9.1 million people live in resource-poor environments where they have direct and indirect (through shared ectoparasites) contact with both invasive and indigenous rodent species. Rodents are carriers ...
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Labuschagne, Annemarie
(University of Pretoria, 2010-08-13)
In the past five years generally well managed farms reported an increase in acute deaths in their grower herds to their consulting veterinarian. At the same time reports from across the world indicated that this is not a ...
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Pazzi, Paolo
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
Spirocerca lupi (S. lupi) is a nematode that infects the dog’s oesophagus resulting in an inflammatory fibroblastic nodule that progresses to a sarcoma in approximately 25% of cases. Inflammation, coagulation and cancer ...
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Nagel, Salome Susanna
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
Snake envenomations are often medical emergencies and occur regularly in dogs. Snake venom contains hundreds of enzymes, proteins and peptides that assist in paralysing, killing and digesting prey, or as a defence against ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Gerhard
(University of Pretoria, 2011)
Considering the permanent nature of the built environment, this dissertation investigates an alternative approach towards static architecture. Allowing the building’s users the ability to alter and determine their own ...