Background: Studies into childhood mortality present the opportunity to identify the leading and common causes of childhood mortality in different populations. Objectives: To study the trends in all-cause mortality, and ...

Eucalyptus grandis and its hybrids is the most important and widely planted eucalypt in South Africa. It has a wide range of uses including pulpwood, poles, firewood, charcoal, flooring, mining, furniture and general ...

The aim of the present thesis was to develop a process model of union commitment which would outline some of the causes and consequences of union commitment. A review of the literature on psychology's contributions to ...

This thesis describes an investigation into the effect of fluid and flow parameters on cavitation dynamics and cavitation erosion. A rotating disc test apparatus was developed fo: dow-type cavitation studies. A vibratory ...

“The truth of the matter, however, is very different. What actually happens is that social structures crystallize in musical structures; that in various ways and with varying degrees of critical awareness, the musical microcosm ...

This study investigated a wild and a captive-bred wild animal models to provide evidence that adult neurogenesis occurs in the brain of the four-striped mouse (FSM) (Rhabdomys pumilio) and common mole-rat (CMR) (Cryptomys ...

In this research, the greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies of a cement producing company, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) in South Africa are examined. The implications of the various greenhouse gas emission ...

Contemporary notions of the adverse effects of blood pressure (BP) incorporate the increasingly recognised damaging effects of not only distending pressure (indexed by mean arterial pressure-MAP) but also pulse pressure ...

For reasons of mismanagement, corruption and nepotism, poor quality and delivery of education and community perceptions of general inefficiency and ineffectiveness, the government of Botswana embarked on the process of ...