Methotrexate (MTX) is a highly potent drug against leukemia and other neoplasias. The drug is notorious, however, for exerting toxic side effects and inducing drug resistance in the target cells as a result of deficiencies ...
An investigation was conducted on the failures of 88kV line surge arrestors at an Eskom Distribution substation. The surge arrestor failed when one phase of the transmission line was open circuited and all three phases ...
Previous studies on fertility in South Africa have mostly focused on the analysis of fertility
trends, levels and differentials at the national level and have argued that socioeconomic
development affects the national ...
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a preventable cause of intellectual delay. Highly prevalent in South Africa, it has become a public health concern. Effective screening measures to identify women at risk of producing ...
The acute phase response is implemented by infected hosts in response to exposure to
pathogens, including bacteria and viruses. Acute phase responses comprise physiological
and behavioural changes, such as fever and a ...
Of all South Africa's neighbors, none has suffered more severely from expropriation and
underdevelopment by white colonialism and supremacy than the Kingdom of Lesotho. In
reality, Lesotho is not South Africa's neighbor ...
This research investigated the in-situ beaching and drying behaviour of platinum tailings in
relation to proposed mechanisms described in literature and predicted from laboratory
behaviour. Successive field depositions ...
Gender inequality is one of the hardest issues in our society to tackle. Women continue to be paid less for the same work done by men and experience the highest forms of exploitation. This research will focus on how the ...
The Department of Social Development introduced the Community Shepherds life skills Project at two schools in the Ficksburg community, in the Thabo Mofutsanyane district of the Free State in 2007 due to the high rate of ...
This paper discusses non-military options for confronting international terrorism. It
investigates the non-military discourse contained in United Nations and United States
policy documents. It then compares the principles ...
This study involves a review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
legislation associated with the filling station industry. This is in order to
determine if the South African EIA decision-making processes ...
The 20th century saw a movement from the Industrial Revolution to what we could call the Communication Revolution, and perhaps a newer revolution in the past 20 years, which we could characterise as the Information ...
Many economists have observed that the financial system has a positive and monotonic
effect on economic growth. In this study we reaffirm the finance-growth nexus. We adopt
a three-tier approach for the study’s methodology ...
Notwithstanding growth on transfer payments allocated to Section 21
schools over the last five years, the SGBs are riddled with weak controls,
financial mismanagement and poor accountability for such resources.
The ...
The aim of this study is to investigate the financial bootstrapping techniques used by unfunded SMEs in South Africa. Qualitative research was conducted to look at the challenges that entrepreneurs face in their attempt ...
The purpose of this research was to identify factors which influence the
decision to use financial derivatives in the South African mining industry and
then to establish their importance to the industry.
The research ...
This paper aims to make an empirical contribution to the discussion of the role of banks and to find out if banking is a declining industry. It takes into account that the role of banks is declining in the United States ...
Crude oil is, without doubt, the most important physical commodity as it provides
mankind the energy for transportation, industrial and residential use. As a result, it
is not surprising that crude oil is the world’s ...