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  • Naked mole-rat brown fat thermogenesis is diminished during hypoxia through a rapid decrease in UCP1 
    Cheng, Hang; Sebaa, Rajaa; Malholtra, Nikita; Lacoste, Baptiste; El Hankouri, Ziyad; Kirby, Alexia; Bennett, Nigel C.; Van Jaarsveld, Barry; Hart, D.W. (Daniel); Tattersall, Glenn J.; Harper, Mary-Ellen; Pamenter, Matthew E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2021-11-23)
    Naked mole-rats are among the most hypoxia-tolerant mammals. During hypoxia, their body temperature (Tb) decreases via unknown mechanisms to conserve energy. In small mammals, non-shivering thermogenesis in brown adipose ...
  • The naked truth : a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole-rat biology 
    Buffenstein, Rochelle; Amoroso, Vincent; Andziak, Blazej; Avdieiev, Stanislav; Azpurua, Jorge; Barker, Alison J.; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Brieño-Enríquez, Miguel A.; Bronner, Gary N.; Coen, Clive; Delaney, Martha A.; Dengler-Crish, Christine M.; Edrey, Yael H.; Faulkes, Chris G.; Frankel, Daniel; Friedlander, Gerard; Gibney, Patrick A.; Gorbunova, Vera; Hine, Christopher; Holmes, Melissa M.; Jarvis, Jennifer U. M.; Kawamura, Yoshimi; Kutsukake, Nobuyuki; Kenyon, Cynthia; Khaled, Walid T.; Kikusui, Takefumi; Kissil, Joseph; Lagestee, Samantha; Larson, John; Lauer, Amanda; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Lee, Angela; Levitt, Jonathan B.; Lewin, Gary R.; Hardell, Kaitlyn N. Lewis; Lin, TzuHua D.; Mason, Matthew J.; McCloskey, Dan; McMahon, Mary; Miura, Kyoko; Mogi, Kazutaka; Narayan, Vikram; O’Connor, Timothy P.; Okanoya, Kazuo; O’Riain, M. Justin; Park, Thomas J.; Place, Ned J.; Podshivalova, Katie; Pamenter, Matthew E.; Pyott, Sonja J.; Reznick, Jane; Ruby, J. Graham; Salmon, Adam B.; Santos-Sacchi, Joseph; Sarko, Diana K.; Seluanov, Andrei; Shepard, Alyssa; Smith, Megan; Storey, Kenneth B.; Tian, Xiao; Vice, Emily N.; Viltard, Mélanie; Watarai, Akiyuki; Wywial, Ewa; Yamakawa, Masanori; Zemlemerova, Elena D.; Zions, Michael; St. John Smith, Ewan (Wiley, 2022-02)
    The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) has fascinated zoologists for at least half a century. It has also generated considerable biomedical interest not only because of its extraordinary longevity, but also because ...
  • Namibian fairy circles 
    Hurter, Jan W. (Agri Connect, 2021-06)
    Scattered across the vast and barren plains of the pro-Namib desert, mysterious patches of soil devoid of any vegetation occur. You would think that a desert is naturally void of any form of life, but a desert, in itself, ...
  • The Namibian war : challenges to the Anglo-German relationship in Southern Africa 
    Beckvold, Christopher Henry (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-07-23)
    Events associated with the Namibian War (1904-1908) offer a glimpse into Anglo-German antagonism in Southern Africa. The Namibian War enveloped German South-West Africa (GSWA), but its effects radiated to the German colony’s ...
  • Nanotechnology applications towards sustainable road surface maintenance and effective asset protection, generating rapid employment opportunities in a post COVID-19 era 
    Jordaan, Gerrit Jacobus; Steyn, Wynand Jacobus Van der Merwe (MDPI, 2022-03)
    The developing world has been faced with high rates of unemployment, exasperated by extended enforced lockdowns due to the Pandemic. Pressure is mounting for drastic intervention to accelerate economic growth and to ...
  • Naphthalimide-NHC complexes : synthesis and properties in catalytic, biological and photophysical applications 
    Roos, Liza; Malan, F.P. (Frederick); Landman, Marile (Elsevier, 2021-12)
    The following review provides an account of all 82 N-heterocyclic carbene metal complexes containing a naphthalimide-NHC moiety, incorporating either an imidazolylidene, imidazolinylidene or benzimidazolylidene ligand, ...
  • Natal Afrikaner women and the South African war (1899-1902) 
    Wassermann, Johannes Michiel (North-West University, 2021)
    In this article, the variety of experiences of Natal Afrikaner women as British subjects who were related by blood and culture to the Boers of the Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, with which the ...
  • National and institutional responses – reimagined operations – pandemic disruptions and academic continuity for a global university 
    Moja, Teboho (Routledge, 2021)
    The 2019/2020 academic year started well with no anticipation of what was in store for the second semester and how the year would end. New students were welcomed on campus and included international students and international ...
  • The national research rating system in South Africa: the past impacts the future 
    Kikianty, Eder; Nongxa, Loyiso (American Mathematical Society, 2022-02)
    No abstract available.
  • A national, multicentre, web-based point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and quality indices among hospitalised paediatric patients across South Africa 
    Skosana, P.P.; Schellack, Natalie; Godman, Brian; Kurdi, A.; Bennie, M.; Kruger, D.; Meyer, J.C. (Elsevier, 2022-06)
    OBJECTIVES : Data on antimicrobial consumption among the paediatric population in public hospitals in South Africa are limited. This needs to be addressed to improve future antimicrobial use and reduce antimicrobial ...
  • Natural family planning, an option in reproductive healthcare : a qualitative study on clinicians’ perceptions 
    Ibeziako, Ozoemena Joan (Sage, 2022-08)
    Natural family planning (NFP) empowers women to control their reproductive health and approach fertility as a normal biological process. Although substantive literature supports their comparative effectiveness with ...
  • Natural processes influencing pollinator health 
    Stevenson, Philip C.; Koch, Hauke; Nicolson, Sue W.; Brown, Mark J.F. (Royal Society, 2022-03-24)
    Evidence from the last few decades indicates that pollinator abundance and diversity are at risk, with many species in decline. Anthropogenic impacts have been the focus of much recent work on the causes of these declines. ...
  • Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century 
    Van den Hoogen, Toine (AOSIS, 2022-09-19)
    As our scientific conscience about nature has been deeply changed by the development of so-called 'quantum theory' during the 20th century, theology has been confronted with a new horizon of questions about 'God' and about ...
  • Nature as God : a juxtaposition of Vito Mancuso and Alexander von Humboldt in their search for understanding reality 
    Buitendag, Johan; Simut, Corneliu Cristian (AOSIS, 2021-05-19)
    This article's premise is that science holds the promise of deepening religious perspectives on creation. The natural sciences have convincingly proved that nature is not static, or a ready-made creation dropped from heaven. ...
  • The nature of family reunification services in the Gauteng province 
    Sibanda, Sipho; Lombard, A. (Antoinette) (Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University, 2022)
    Placement of children in alternative care is supposed to be a temporary and not a permanent arrangement. In the absence of a family reunification model in South Africa, most children stay for longer periods in alternative ...
  • Navigating dissonance : bodymind and character congruency in acting 
    Haarhoff, Emil Ernst; Munro, Marth; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)
    This chapter sets out to create an embodied approach for responsibly navigating actor-character dissonance in performance. Actors attempt to enflesh characters in performance. Enfleshment is the subjective, deliberate ...
  • Near-complete genome sequence of Ndumu virus from Garissa, Kenya, 1997 
    Moolla, Naazneen; Viljoen, Natalie; Patharoo, Venessa; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Ismail, Arshad; Weyer, Jacqueline (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-08-26)
    We report a nearly complete genome sequence of Ndumu virus (NDUV) identified using a metagenomics approach. The sequence was derived from a viral isolate obtained from a bovine calf following a diagnostic investigation ...
  • Nearby transposable elements impact plant stress gene regulatory networks : a meta-analysis in A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum 
    Deneweth, Jan; Van de Peer, Yves; Vermeirssen, Vanessa (BMC, 2022-01)
    BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TE) make up a large portion of many plant genomes and are playing innovative roles in genome evolution. Several TEs can contribute to gene regulation by influencing expression of nearby ...
  • The need for communication between clinicians and pathologists in the context of oral and maxillofacial diseases 
    Perez-de-Oliveira, Maria Eduarda; Van Heerden, W.F.P. (Willem Francois Petrus); Motta, Ana Carolina Fragoso; Rodrigues-Fernandes, Carla Isabelly; Romanach, Mario Jose; Agostini, Michelle; Gueiros, Luiz Alcino Monteiro; Vargas, Pablo Agustin; Lopes, Marcio Ajudarte; Ribeiro, Ana Carolina Prado; Brandao, Thaís Bianca; De Almeida, Oslei Paes; Khurram, Syed Ali; Santos-Silva, Alan Roger (Brazilian Oral Research, 2022-01)
    Good communication between clinicians and pathologists is a vital element in the diagnostic process, and poor communication can adversely affect patient care. There is a lack of research about communication in diagnostic ...
  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide 
    Tognetti, Pedro M.; Prober, Suzanne M.; Baez, Selene; Chaneton, Enrique J.; Firn, Jennifer; Risch, Anita C.; Schuetz, Martin; Simonsen, Anna K.; Yahdjian, Laura; Borer, Elizabeth; Seabloom, Eric W.; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Brown, Cynthia S.; Cadotte, Marc W.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Daleo, Pedro; Dwyer, John M.; Fay, Philip A.; Gherardi, Laureano A.; Hagenah, Nicole; Hautier, Yann; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; McCulley, Rebecca L.; Price, Jodi N.; Standish, Rachel J.; Stevens, Carly J.; Wragg, Peter D.; Sankaran, Mahesh (National Academy of Sciences, 2021-07)
    Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment is driving global biodiversity decline and modifying ecosystem functions. Theory suggests that plant functional types that fix atmospheric nitrogen have a competitive advantage in nitrogen-poor ...