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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Title
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Durandt, Chrisna
(University of Pretoria, 2010-08-30)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Raubenheimer, Denni
(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-22)
The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is the largest layered mafic intrusion in the world and contains the largest known deposits of vanadium, chromium and Platinum group elements on the planet, as well as large deposits of ...
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van der Westhuizen, Natasha
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Background: P300 event-related potentials can be used to measure auditory processing speed, working memory and attention.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare latencies and amplitudes of the P300 event-related ...
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Van Schoor, Albert-Neels
(University of Pretoria, 2010-04-29)
In 1973, Winnie and co-workers stated that no technique could truly be called simple, safe and consistent until the anatomy has been closely examined. This is evident when looking at the literature where many anatomically ...
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Van Schoor, Albert-Neels
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-06)
Clinical procedures are an important part of the daily work of doctors of various specialities, including the practice of regional anaesthetic procedures on paediatric patients. The competency that a doctor displays in ...
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L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle
(University of Pretoria, 2005)
In 1999, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) initiated the development of the Nandoni Dam. A component of this project was the relocation of seven rural villages, which include Mulenzhe, Budeli, Dididi, ...
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Wheeler, Alex Thomas
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Coal deposits serve as important archives of palaeoclimate change. Palynomorph assemblages reflect the composition of the parent plant communities which are in turn controlled by the local environment and regional climate. ...
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Mare, Leonie Pauline
(University of Pretoria, 2006-05-05)
A palaeomagnetic study of the Waterberg Group (Jones and McElhinny, 1967) did not find a consistent direction. However, a pattern was identified and interpreted in terms of apparent polar wander during the deposition and ...
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Dunning, Craig A.
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
This thesis provides the findings of an explanatory case study that utilized
elements of ethnographic research to discover effective evangelistic methods
being practiced among Palestinian Muslims in the West Bank. With ...
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Serfontein, Susan
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
A palynofacies study of the lower number 4 coal seam in the Highveld coalfield of the Karoo
Basin, South Africa, was conducted to get more insight into the palaeoenvironment. The
lower number 4 coal seam was sampled near ...
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Hirpo, Sehen
(University of Pretoria, 2006)
"This study attempts to provide a picture of how parliaments have been contributing to the protection of human rights and democracy and how the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) can draw lessons from the different mechanisms ...
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Lombard, Johanna Christina
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring ...
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Huchzermeyer, Karl David August
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
In the Kruger National Park (KNP), pansteatitis in sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell), was shown to be a serious problem in the inlets to large man-made lakes fed by rivers arising in the polluted catchments ...
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Dabrowski, Jacqueline
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
The Olifants River is recognised as one of South Africa s hardest working rivers . Deteriorating water quality has been attributed to increased discharge of effluents from mines, industry, and wastewater treatment works, ...
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Swart, Lorinda
(University of Pretoria, 2010-11-12)
The pulp and paper industry is expanding world-wide to supply the needs and
demands of the consumer. Due to this rapid expansion of commercial forests and our
ever changing climate including the sporadic increase and ...
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Greyling, Izette
(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-12)
Plantations of Eucalyptus spp. are expanding world-wide to serve growing global requirements for timber and pulp products. Together with this expansion, there has been a concomitant increase in diseases affecting these ...
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Manoko, Masale Clement
(University of Pretoria, 2022-07-30)
Adsorption of pollutants from wastewater by demineralized and synthesized biochar derived from paper waste sludge has been received significant interest in recent studies. however there has been minimal research on ...
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Kganyago, Kgabo Ezekiel
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The implementation of technology into the curriculum is becoming an inseparable part of good
and quality teaching. The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has recently introduced
paperless classrooms for teaching and ...
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Makwela, Victoria Nomcebo
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This study aimed to explore how ICT supports the learning and teaching of Science in Grade 7 of two schools in Tembisa that are currently piloting Paperless classrooms. The research sought to describe the experiences of ...
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Mathibe, Mokgoshi Albert
(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-03)
In this dissertation the three poems Lehu, Polokong written by Ratlabala and Matsoba by Lentsoane, are compared. Thematically they deal with life that triumphs over death, while the topics that are addressed, vary, namely ...