Ferguson, Melanie A.; Eikelboom, Robert H.; Sucher, Cathy M.; Maidment, David W.; Bennett, Rebecca J.(Thieme Medical Publishers, 2023-08)
There are many examples of remote technologies that are clinically effective and provide numerous benefits to adults with hearing loss. Despite this, the uptake of remote technologies for hearing healthcare has been both ...
Malnutrition of children under 5 years is a public health concern because it is the most
vulnerable stage of child’s growth where its impact results in long term health conditions
such as stunting, wasting, obesity and ...
Strychnos madagascariensis also known as black monkey orange is found in
tropical and subtropical Africa including South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and
Swaziland. The fruit is consumed traditionally as food in the northern ...
The use of sodium in processed foods, including meats, has been in existent over
centuries. Its use is mainly as a food and meat processing aid, and a preservative
and flavourant. Even with modern methods of food processing, ...
Despite it being widely recognised that the Bushmen of southern Africa have the oldest DNA in the world, and
that they are the first peoples of the region, their voices are often the last to be heard in matters pertaining ...
Ehlers Smith, David A.; Ehlers Smith, Yvette C.; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.; Thompson, Lindy J.; Parker, Daniel M.; De Villiers, Deon; Ricketts, Dean; Coverdale, Brent; Robertson, Peter J.; Kelly, Christopher; Macfadyen, Duncan N.; Manqele, Nomthandazo S.; Power, R. John; Downs, Colleen T.(Springer, 2023-03)
Conservationists speculated on potential benefits to wildlife of lockdown restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic but voiced concern that restrictions impeded nature conservation. We assessed the effects of lockdown ...
Afzal, Waqar; Abbas, Mujahid; Eldin, Sayed M.; Khan, Zareen A.(AIMS Press, 2023-06-14)
This note introduces the concept of (h1, h2)-convex stochastic processes using intervalvalued functions. First we develop Hermite-Hadmard (H.H) type inequalities, then we check the results
for the product of two convex ...
Evidence-based knowledge of the relationship between foods and nutrients is needed
to inform dietary-based guidelines and policy. Proper and tailored statistical methods to analyse
food composition databases (FCDBs) could ...
Naked mole-rats (NM-R; Heterocephalus glaber) live in multi-generational
colonies with a social hierarchy, and show low cancer incidence and long
life-spans. Here we asked if an immune component might underlie such
extreme ...
Locke, Sara Lindsey; Naidoo, Vinny; Hassan, Ibrahim Zubairu; Duncan, N.M. (Neil)(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-06-14)
Diclofenac was responsible for the decimation of Gyps vulture species on the
Indian subcontinent during the 1980s and 1990s. Gyps vultures are extremely sensitive
(the lethal dose 50 [LD50] ~ 0.1 mg/kg – 0.2 mg/kg), with ...
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are typically isolated and cultured by successive passages using
9- to 11-day-old embryonated chicken eggs (ECEs) and in 14-day old ECEs for virus mutational
studies. Real-time reverse ...
Aflatoxins are potent hepatotoxic and carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced by
toxigenic fungi. The present study investigated the protective effect of methanolic leaf extracts
of Monanthotaxis caffra (MLEMC) against ...
Detailed information on specific species of non-aureus staphylococci (NAS) has become a
necessity for effective udder health control programs in South Africa. The main objective of this
preliminary study was to identify ...
Wentzel, Jeanette Maria; Biggs, Louise Joanne; Van Vuuren, Moritz(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-01)
Historically, the use of antibiotics was not well regulated in veterinary medicine. The emergence
of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in pathogenic bacteria in human and veterinary medicine has
driven the need for greater ...
Koeppel, Katja Natalie; Geertsma, Peter; Kuhn, Brian F.; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.)(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-02-10)
Rabies is a zoonotic disease that remains endemic in large parts of southern Africa because of
its persistence in wildlife and domestic dog vectors. The black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas)
is primarily the wildlife ...
Wake, Rachel M.; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed V.; Ismail, Farzanah; Tiemessen, Caroline T.; Harrison, Thomas S.; Jarvis, Joseph N.; Govender, Nelesh(Oxford University Press, 2022-07)
The greater mortality risk among people with advanced human
immunodeficiency virus disease and cryptococcal antigenemia,
despite treatment, indicates an increased susceptibility to
other infections. We found that prior ...
Mostert-O’Neill, Marja; Tate, Hannah; Reynolds, Sharon Melissa; Mphahlele, M.M. (Makobatjatji); Van den Berg, Gert; Verryn, Steve D.; Acosta, Juan J.; Borevitz, Justin O.; Myburg, Alexander Andrew(Wiley, 2022-09)
From its origins in Australia, Eucalyptus grandis has spread to every continent, except
Antarctica, as a wood crop. It has been cultivated and bred for over 100 yr in places such as
South Africa. Unlike most annual crops ...
A taxonomic revision of all the southern African spiny members of the Celastroideae is
presented. Evidence from macromorphology, leaf anatomy, ecology and
phytogeography is used as a ...
BACKGROUND : The study aimed to derive socio‑demographic–corrected norms for selecting neuropsychological (NP) battery tests for people
living with HIV (PLWHIV) in Nigeria. This cross‑sectional study was conducted amongst ...
Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
The Hebrew text of Gen 2:7, 19 describes both humans and animals as nephesh hayya’ (living being). However, a large number of contemporary influential Bible translations render this expression differently for humans and ...