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  • GPR120 inhibits RANKL-induced osteoclast formation and resorption by attenuating reactive oxygen species production in RAW264.7 murine macrophages 
    Sithole, Cynthia; Pieterse, Carla; Howard, Kayla; Kasonga, Abe E. (MDPI Publishing, 2021-09-29)
    Osteoclasts are large, multinucleated cells that are responsible for the resorption of bone. Bone degenerative diseases, such as osteoporosis, are characterized by overactive osteoclasts. Receptor activator of nuclear ...
  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands 
    Maestre, Fernando T.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Eldridge, David J.; Saiz, Hugo; Berdugo, Miguel; Gozalo, Beatriz; Ochoa, Victoria; Guirado, Emilio; Garcia-Gomez, Miguel; Valencia, Enrique; Gaitan, Juan J.; Asensio, Sergio; Mendoza, Betty J.; Plaza, Cesar; Diaz-Martinez, Paloma; Rey, Ana; Hu, Hang-Wei; He, Ji-Zheng; Wang, Jun-Tao; Lehmann, Anika; Rillig, Matthias C.; Cesarz, Simone; Eisenhauer, Nico; Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime; Moreno-Jimenez, Eduardo; Sala, Osvaldo; Abedi, Mehdi; Ahmadian, Negar; Alados, Concepcion L.; Aramayo, Valeria; Amghar, Fateh; Arredondo, Tulio; Ahumada, Rodrigo J.; Bahalkeh, Khadijeh; Ben Salem, Farah; Blaum, Niels; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Bowker, Matthew A.; Bran, Donaldo; Bu, Chongfeng; Canessa, Rafaella; Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P.; Castro, Helena; Castro, Ignacio; Castro-Quezada, Patricio; Chibani, Roukaya; Conceicao, Abel A.; Currier, Courtney M.; Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony; Deak, Balazs; Donoso, David A.; Dougill, Andrew J.; Duran, Jorge; Erdenetsetseg, Batdelger; Espinosa, Carlos I.; Fajardo, Alex; Farzam, Mohammad; Ferrante, Daniela; Frank, Anke S.K.; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Gherardi, Laureano A.; Greenville, Aaron C.; Guerra, Carlos A.; Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth; Hernandez-Hernandez, Rosa M.; Holzel, Norbert; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Hughes, Frederic M.; Jadan-Maza, Oswaldo; Jeltsch, Florian; Jentsch, Anke; Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Kobel, Melanie; Koopman, Jessica E.; Leder, Cintia V.; Linstadter, Anja; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Li, Xinkai; Liancourt, Pierre; Liu, Jushan; Louw, Michelle Anne; Maggs‑Kolling, Gillian; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Issa, Oumarou Malam; Manzaneda, Antonio J.; Marais, Eugene; Mora, Juan P.; Moreno, Gerardo; Munson, Seth M.; Nunes, Alice; Oliva, Gabriel; Onatibia, Gaston R.; Peter, Guadalupe; Pivari, Marco O.D.; Pueyo, Yolanda; Quiroga, R. Emiliano; Rahmanian, Soroor; Reed, Sasha C.; Rey, Pedro J.; Richard, Benoit; Rodriguez, Alexandra; Rolo, Victor; Rubalcaba, Juan G.; Ruppert, Jan C.; Salah, Ayman; Schuchardt, Max A.; Spann, Sedona; Stavi, Ilan; Stephens, Colton R.A.; Swemmer, Anthony M.; Teixido, Alberto L.; Thomas, Andrew D.; Throop, Heather L.; Tielborger, Katja; Travers, Samantha; Val, James; Valko, Orsolya; Van den Brink, Liesbeth; Ayuso, Sergio Velasco; Velbert, Frederike; Wamiti, Wanyoike; Wang, Deli; Wang, Lixin; Wardle, Glenda M.; Yahdjian, Laura; Zaady, Eli; Zhang, Yuanming; Zhou, Xiaobing; Singh, Brajesh K.; Gross, Nicolas (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022-11)
    Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may ...
  • Green sample preparation methods in the environmental monitoring of aquatic organic pollutants 
    Forbes, Patricia B.C. (Elsevier, 2021-10)
    Sample preparation in analytical chemistry can have considerable environmental impacts. This article highlights sampling and sample preparation methods relating to organic pollutants in water, which have been published ...
  • Grit, motivation and university grades 
    Pleace, Michelle; Nicholls, Nicky (Wiley, 2022-03)
    Many South African university students either do not complete their degrees or take a prolonged time to meet the minimum degree requirements, with significant cost implications. Identifying malleable drivers of academic ...
  • Group identity in fairness decisions : discrimination or inequality aversion? 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Elsevier, 2021-08)
    This paper reports preliminary evidence from a pilot study (, with 455 decisions) on issues of decision time and race in distributive fairness decisions in South Africa. We conduct a dictator game to gather data on transfer ...
  • Groups with a given number of nonpower subgroups 
    Anabanti, C.S. (Chimere); Hart, S.B. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-10)
    No group has exactly one or two nonpower subgroups. We classify groups containing exactly three nonpower subgroups and show that there is a unique finite group with exactly four nonpower subgroups. Finally, we show that ...
  • Growth and the pubertal growth spurt in South African adolescents living with perinatally-acquired HIV infection 
    Mwambenu, Bilema; Ramoloko, Vundli; Laubscher, Ria; Feucht, Ute Dagmar (Public Library Science, 2022-01-25)
    BACKGROUND : The majority children living with HIV infection now survive into adulthood because of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), but few data exist on their growth during adolescent years. This study investigated ...
  • Growth implications of creation and discovery behavior among family firms : the moderating role of venture age 
    Donbesuur, Francis; Hultman, Magnus; Boso, Nathaniel; Oghazi, Pejvak (Emerald, 2023-01)
    PURPOSE : The aim of the study is to examine the effects of opportunity creation and discovery on the performance of family firms. Specifically, from the tenets of dynamic capabilities and organizational contingency ...
  • Guest editorial 
    Green, Robin J. (Allergy Society of South Africa, 2022-03)
    Many authors have suggested that one of the most important contributing factors to the enhanced survival of the human population over time has been the vaccination of children. You only have to think of polio and how ...
  • Guest editorial : Special issue on lithosphere dynamics and earthquake hazard forecasting 
    Ismail-Zadeh, Alik; Kijko, Andrzej; Nekrasova, Anastasiya; Shebalin, Peter (Springer, 2022-04)
    Brilliant scientific ideas coupled with quantitative modelling and laboratory experiments have determined progress in seismology and geodynamics for the last several decades. Methods of nonlinear geophysics, inverse problems, ...
  • Guidelines for resident training in veterinary clinical pathology. IV: Laboratory quality management—teaching domains, competencies, and suggested learning outcomes 
    Flatland, Bente; Dehghanpir, Shannon D.; Evans, Samantha J.M.; Freeman, Kathleen P.; Grimes, Carolyn; Hancock, Tamara; Hollinger, Charlotte; Hooijberg, Emma Henriette; Korchia, Jeremie; Lawson, Cheryl; Matlow, Jennifer R.; Sample, Saundra; Viall, Austin (Wiley, 2024-02)
    BACKGROUND : The 2019 ASVCP Education Committee Forum for Discussion, presented at the annual ASVCP/ACVP meeting, identified a need to develop recommendations for teaching laboratory quality management principles in ...
  • Habitat model forecasts suggest potential redistribution of marine predators in the Southern Indian ocean 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Corney, Stuart; Raymond, Ben; Lombard, Amanda T.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Crawford, Robert J. M.; Davies, Delia; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Dilley, Ben J.; Kirkman, Stephen P.; Makhado, Azwianewi B.; Ryan, Peter G.; Schoombie, Stefan; Stevens, Kim L.; Tosh, Cheryl A.; Wege, Mia; Whitehead, T. Otto; Sumner, Michael D.; Wotherspoon, Simon; Friedlaender, Ari S.; Cotte, Cedric; Hindell, Mark A.; Ropert-Coudert, Yan; Pistorius, Pierre A. (Wiley, 2022-01)
    AIM : Climate change will likely lead to a significant redistribution of biodiversity in marine ecosystems. We examine the potential redistribution of a community of ma-rine predators by comparing current and future habitat ...
  • Habitat‐ based density models of pack-ice seal distribution in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica 
    Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Steinhage, D.; Auel, H.; Flores, H.; Knust, R.; Ryan, S.; Bornemann, H. (Inter Research, 2021-09)
    Climate variability and changes in sea ice dynamics have caused several iceobligate or krill-dependent populations of marine predators to decline, eliciting concern about their demographic persistence and the indirect ...
  • Habituation of common eland (Taurotragus oryx) to intensive routine handling, and the effect of immunocastration thereon 
    Musa, Abubakar S.; Needham, Tersia; Kotrba, Radim; Neradilova, Silvie; Ganswindt, Andre; Ceacero, Francisco (Elsevier, 2021-04)
    The temperament of captive common eland (Taurotragus oryx) during handling is crucial for their management, as they have been identified as an ideal antelope for game meat farming, and are well-represented in captive ...
  • Hair matters : the psychoanalytical significance of the virtual absence of hair in the Book of Job in an African context 
    Van der Zwan, Pieter (AOSIS, 2022-05-25)
    Compared with other biblical books that are named after its main protagonist, Job mentions many (at least 72) body parts. Yet hair is explicitly referred to only once, even when it plays a relatively significant role in ...
  • Haplotype-resolved genome assembly and allele-specific gene expression in cultivated ginger 
    Cheng, Shi-Ping; Jia, Kai-Hua; Liu, Hui; Zhang, Ren-Gang; Li, Zhi-Chao; Zhou, Shan-Shan; Shi, Tian-Le; Ma, Ai-Chu; Yu, Cong-Wen; Gao, Chan; Cao, Guang-Lei; Zhao, Wei; Nie, Shuai; Guo, Jing-Fang; Jiao, Si-Qian; Tian, Xue-Chan; Yan, Xue-Mei; Bao, Yu-Tao; Yun, Quan-Zheng; Wang, Xin-Zhu; Porth, Ilga; El-Kassaby, Yousry A.; Wang, Xiao-Ru; Li, Zhen; Van de Peer, Yves; Mao, Jian-Feng (Springer Nature, 2021-08)
    Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is one of the most valued spice plants worldwide; it is prized for its culinary and folk medicinal applications and is therefore of high economic and cultural importance. Here, we present a ...
  • “Harba lori fa” : ’n tekstuele en intertekstuele reis 
    Ohlhoff, Heinrich (Carl Heinrich Friedrich) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2021-12)
    This article is about three poetry texts: “Eens Meienmorgens vroe” (Early one May morning) by the 13th century Dutch minstrel Duke Jan I of Brabant, and texts by two twentieth-century poets – TT Cloete (Afrikaans) and ...
  • A harmonized information security taxonomy for cyber physical systems 
    Pool, Johannes Hendrik; Venter, H.S. (Hein) (MDPI, 2022-08-12)
    Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are found in many aspects of daily life, and they control and protect energy production, manufacturing and even healthcare. Due to long lifecycles and the use of legacy technologies, its ...
  • Hate crime based on disability in South Africa : lessons for law reform 
    Holness, Willene Audri (Institute for Strategic Studies, 2021)
    When contemplating whether to introduce disability hate crime as a new substantive offence or as a penalty enhancement of existing crimes, legislators should consider the peculiarities of reporting, investigating and ...
  • Head-to-head intra-individual comparison of [Ga-68]-FAPI and [F-18]-FDG PET/CT in patients with bladder cancer 
    Novruzov, E.; Dendl, K.; Ndlovu, Honest; Choyke, P.L.; Dabir, M.; Beu, M.; Novruzov, F.; Mehdi, E.; Guliyev, F.; Koerber, S.A.; Lawal, I.; Niegisch, G.; Debus, J.; Haberkorn, U.; Sathekge, Mike Machaba; Giesel, F.L. (Springer, 2022-08)
    Please read abstract in the article.