OBJECTIVE
To determine whether there are differences in time to resolution of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and in the occurrence of biochemical abnormalities in adult patients who received either normal saline or Ringer’s ...
Background Potential causes of poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment outcomes can be patient or health system related. Data on the effect of health system on ART outcomes is scarce.
Objective: To compare treatment ...
Background: Accurate diagnostic methods for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are required for
optimal patient management, appropriate implementation of infection control measures and
surveillance. An assay that also ...
Thoracic mobilisation is a popular modality employed by physiotherapists as part
of the management of neck pain, despite the lack of evidence as to its benefits. A
randomised control trial was conducted to compare manual ...
The relationship between HIV and body composition is not well documented. No description of Fat Mass (FM), Fat Free Mass (FFM) or body fat percentage (BF%) has been reported in children infected with HIV (9-36 months), ...
BACKGROUND
Since the inception of Community Service in 1998, junior doctors have been required to administer anaesthesia in rural areas with poor or no supervision, despite a lack of technical skills and an initial need ...
Unit trust returns are published and quoted regularly in various media publications.
These returns, calculated as Time-Weighted Rates of Return, do not reflect the
actual returns that investors perceive. The timing of ...
Objectives: To evaluate differences in virologic outcomes between adolescents and pre-adolescents initiated on HAART and to determine the patient baseline variables associated with virologic suppression.
Design: Retrospective ...
Policy makers and regulators have been concerned with the issue of how efficiently banks transform their various inputs into multiple financial products, because efficiency in the banking sector is considered a precondition ...
Abstract
The resilience of trade balances of the major industrialised economies such as the US and
Japan to changes in their exchange rates following the switch from fixed to floating exchange
rate regimes, triggered ...
The aim of this study was to contribute to literature the effects of working with
traumatized children in a continuous traumatic stress environment more specifically in a
township which is historically known as characterised ...
ABSTRACT
High levels of trauma within the South African society affect the majority of the population either directly or indirectly. In order to assist individuals overcome such traumatic incidents, many companies in South ...
Purpose: To assess and measure the compatibility of irreversible hydrocolloids (alginates) readily available in South Africa with available gypsum products by testing the quality reproducibility of lines on a standard ...
How so many species coexist while utilizing the same resources is both of ecological interest and important for the management of wildlife communities and parks. This thesis endeavours to understand how grazing herbivores ...
This dissertation analyzes the competitiveness and performance of the Zimbabwean poultry industry in the context of trade liberalization, given that both poultry output and the main inputs (animal feed and breeding stock) ...
International competitiveness is the ability of a firm to sustain its international performance relative to competitors over time and in the future. This research examined the firm level factors that contribute to ...
Walmart’s entry into South Africa is an example of global expansion that best
illustrates the impact of a new market entrant on competitive strategy and
industry structure.
The research explores the evolving nature of ...
In line with the liberalisation of gambling laws across many countries of the world,
the lottery and other gambling revenues increasingly feature prominently in many
countries’ public finance planning. Apart from being ...