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  • Characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to a tertiary academic hospital in Pretoria with HIV and severe pneumonia : a retrospective cohort study 
    Ueckermann, Veronica; Janse van Rensburg, Luricke; Pannell, N.; Ehlers, Marthie Magdaleen (BMC, 2022-06-15)
    BACKGROUND : Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Pneumonia and opportunistic infections remain a major cause for hospital admission among those living ...
  • Characterization of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg cubes with different porosities 
    Taute, C.; Moller, Heinrich; Du Plessis, Anton; Tshibalanganda, Muofhe; Leary, Martin (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2021-04)
    Additive manufacturing can be used to produce complex and custom geometries, consolidating different parts into one, which in turn reduces the required number of assemblies and allows distributed manufacturing with short ...
  • Characterization of balance problems and rehabilitation needs of patients with Meniere's disease 
    Pyykko, Ilmari; Pyykko, Nora; Zou, Jing; Manchaiah, Vinaya (MDPI, 2022-01-05)
    BACKGROUND : To explore and characterize balance problems in subjects with Ménière’s disease (MD). METHODS : A total of 539 people with MD with a mean age of 61.9 years, mean disease history of 15.6 years, and 79.5% ...
  • Characterization of Brucella spp. and other abortigenic pathogens from aborted tissues of cattle and goats in Rwanda 
    Ntivuguruzwa, Jean Bosco; Kolo, Francis Babaman; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Van Heerden, Henriette (Wiley, 2022)
    BACKGROUND : Abortions cause tremendous economic losses in food-producing animals and may lead to food insecurity. OBJECTIVES : This study aimed to characterize Brucella spp. and other abortigenic pathogens from aborted ...
  • Characterization of Salmonella isolates recovered from stages of the processing lines at four broiler processing plants in Trinidad and Tobago 
    Khan, Anisa Sarah; Georges, Karla; Rahaman, Saed; Abebe, Woubit; Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale (MDPI, 2021-05-13)
    This cross-sectional study determined the prevalence, characteristics, and risk factors for contamination of chicken with Salmonella at four operating broiler processing plants in Trinidad. Standard methods were used to ...
  • Characterization of signalling pathways that link apoptosis and autophagy to cell death induced by estrone analogues which reversibly depolymerize microtubules 
    Mercier, Anne Elisabeth; Prudent, Renaud; Pepper, Michael Sean; De Koning, Leanne; Nolte, Elsie; Peronne, Lauralie; Nel, Marcel; Lafanechere, Laurence; Joubert, Annie M. (MDPI, 2021-01-29)
    The search for novel anti-cancer compounds which can circumvent chemotherapeutic drug resistance and limit systemic toxicity remains a priority. 2-Ethyl-3-O-sulphamoyl-estra-1,3,5(10)15- tetraene-3-ol-17one (ESE-15-one) ...
  • Characterization of the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway in Ceratocystidaceae 
    Sayari, Mohammad; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Rahimlou, Saleh; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Wingfield, Brenda D. (MDPI, 2021-03-22)
    Terpenes represent the biggest group of natural compounds on earth. This large class of organic hydrocarbons is distributed among all cellular organisms, including fungi. The different classes of terpenes produced by ...
  • Characterization of two-way fabricated hybrid metal-oxide nanostructured electrode materials for photovoltaic and miniaturized supercapacitor applications 
    Adewinbi, Saheed A.; Taleatu, B.A.; Maphiri, Vusani Muswa; Fasakin, Oladepo; Omotoso, Ezekiel; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2021-09)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Characterizing and mitigating intraday variability : reconstructing source structure in accreting black holes with mm-VLBI 
    Broderick, Avery E.; Gold, Roman; Georgiev, Boris; Pesce, Dominic W.; Tiede, Paul; Ni, Chunchong; Moriyama, Kotaro; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Cheno, Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cuio, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dougal, Sean; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph R.; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C.M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosale, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Abhishek V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, Michael; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, Sang-Sung; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li, Zhiyuan; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lu, Ru-Sen; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Iván; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Muller, Cornelia; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayan, Ramesh; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Fuentes, Santiago Navarro; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Héctor; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Ros, Eduardo; Romero-Canizales, Cristina; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Traianou, Efthalia; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; Van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wex, Norbert; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Shan-Shan (American Astronomical Society, 2022-05)
    The extraordinary physical resolution afforded by the Event Horizon Telescope has opened a window onto the astrophysical phenomena unfolding on horizon scales in two known black holes, M87* and Sgr A*. However, with this ...
  • Characterizing leaf nutrients of wetland plants and agricultural crops with nonparametric approach using Sentinel-2 imagery data 
    Dlamini, Mandla; Chirima, Johannes George; Sibanda, Mbulisi; Adam, Elhadi; Dube, Timothy (MDPI, 2021-10)
    In arid environments of the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, floodplain wetlands are a valuable agricultural resource. However, the water reticulation role by wetlands and crop production can negatively ...
  • Cheetah marking sites are also used by other species for communication : evidence from photographic data in a comparative setup 
    Edwards, Sarah; Mueller, Rebekka; Roeder, Ralf; Melzheimer, Joerg; Wachter, Bettina (Springer, 2022-08)
    Many mammalian species communicate via olfactory communication placed at particular locations. The majority of these studies focused on intraspecific communication. More recently, studies have also investigated interspecific ...
  • Chemical and visual ecology of the Symphyta 
    Guignard, Quentin; Slippers, Bernard; Allison, Jeremy D. (Wiley, 2022-11)
    The Symphyta is the most basal sub-order of the Hymenoptera and includes the woodwasps, horntails and sawflies, many of which are pests. Adults are generally short-lived and as a result males and females experience strong ...
  • Chemical cues from honeydew and cuticular extracts of Trialeurodes vaporariorum serve as kairomones for the parasitoid Encarsia formosa 
    Ayelo, Pascal Mahukpe; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Chailleux, Anais; Mohamed, Samira A.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Deletre, Emilie (Springer, 2022-04)
    Kairomones are semiochemicals that are emitted by an organism and which mediate interspecific interaction that is of benefit to an organism of another species that receives these chemical substances. Parasitoids find and ...
  • Childhood asthma : a best-practice strategy for diagnosis and assessment of control in South Africa 
    Van Niekerk, A.; White, D.A.; Goussard, P.; Risenga, S.M. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-08)
    The South African (SA) Childhood Asthma Working Group of the Allergy Society of SA (ALLSA) advises on best-practice strategy for childhood asthma management. The strategy is in accordance with current evidence and consensus. ...
  • Children with conductive hearing loss fitted with hearing aids : outcomes and caregiver experiences in South Africa 
    Van Zyl, Cheri; Le Roux, Talita; Swanepoel, De Wet (Thieme Gruppe, 2022-07-13)
    INTRODUCTION : Hearing aids are a frequent management option for children with conductive hearing loss (CHL) and it is necessary to determine the efficacy of outcomes. Limited information regarding caregivers' perceptions ...
  • China's diversification strategy in Latin American and African markets : defense software and hardware exports 
    Gouvea, Raul; Kapelianis, Dimitri; Terra, Branca (Wiley, 2021-07)
    In the past two decades, China has become a strategic economic partner for both Latin American and African nations. China's economic global relevance is translating via its “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)” into massive ...
  • Chromosome-scale assembly of the Moringa oleifera Lam. genome uncovers polyploid history and evolution of secondary metabolism pathways through tandem duplication 
    Chang, Jiyang; Marczuk-Rojas, Juan Pablo; Waterman, Carrie; Garcia-Llanos, Armando; Chen, Shiyu; Ma, Xiao; Hulse-Kemp, Amanda; Van Deynze, Allen; Van de Peer, Yves; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo (Wiley Open Access, 2022-09)
    The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) selected the highly nutritious, fast growing and drought tolerant tree crop moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) as one of the first of 101 plant species to have its genome sequenced ...
  • Chrysoporthe puriensis sp. nov. from Tibouchina spp. in Brazil : an emerging threat to Eucalyptus 
    Oliveira, M.E.S.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Soares, T.P.F.; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Ferreira, M.A. (Springer, 2021-01)
    The discovery of Cryphonectriaceae and more specifically species related to the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis on shrubs and trees in the Melastomataceae, has deepened our understanding of relevant, and ...
  • Church associations struggling with unity in the uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) between 1999 to 2015 
    Makofane, Karabo M.; Duncan, Graham A. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2021)
    This article analyses the conflict which arose as a result of the attempt to amalgamate the church associations in the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) between 1999 and 2015, following the union of ...
  • Church proliferation and immorality in Nigeria. Interrogating the paradox 
    Onah, N.G. (Nkechi); Agbo, Robinson S. (AOSIS, 2021-06-21)
    In Nigeria, there is an upsurge in the number of churches. This church proliferation in Nigeria has given rise to the founding of a variety of denominations whilst moral decadence thrives. This article therefore examines ...