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Music as brand, with reference to the film music of John Towner Williams (with particular emphasis on Williams's 'Main Title' for Star Wars)

Bezuidenhout, Franscois Johannes Thomas (2009-06-23)

In contemporary consumer culture, branding is the term given to the creation of an image or text (visual, aural, textural or multi-sensory) intended to represent a commodity or product sold by a producer or service ...

Music behind bars: exploring the role of music as a tool for rehabilitation and empowerment of offenders at Mthatha Medium Correctional Centre.

Twani, Zoliswa (2012-04-10)

My interest in conducting this empirical research exploring music as a tool for rehabilitation and empowerment of prison offenders was sparked by my observation in 2002 of the problematic use of music at Mthatha Medium ...

Musical imaginations of difference: a dialectic re-evaluation of my composing oeuvre, with special reference to three key works

Cloete, Johan (2010-07-12)

This study attempts to locate and elucidate the subjective roots of my creative output during the twenty-one-year period, 1985 to 2006. In 1994, a potential socio-political disaster, prompted by the apartheid state, was ...

Muslim women's perceptions of gender dynamics in Islam.

Mansoor, Sumayya (2010-03-08)

This study posits that although the religion of Islam encourages the equality between men and women, it appears that men are still given the level of superiority in the religion. Whether this right is given to men through ...

Mutation rates in mycobacterial hosts with altered Dna metabolic activity

Barichievy, Samantha (2006-02-08)

The completion of the genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv revealed that 10% of the coding capacity is devoted to two, large multigene families that are characterised by repeat sequences. These are ...

MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE – FUNCTION INTERACTIONS WITHIN SELECTED SITES ON THE ESCHERICHIA COLI RIBOSOME

Belotserkovsky, Jaroslav Michailovich (2006-02-08)

Mutations were sought in Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA and ribosomal proteins that confer dependence to the antibiotic streptomycin, using both newly available as well as well-established genetic systems. I found that ...

Mutational analysis of the rifampicin glycosyl-transferase (rgt) inactivation protein from Nocardia brasiliensis and its relationship to the vancomycin resistance of this organism

Baker, Alison Saxe (2006-11-16)

Rifampicin is a chemotherapeutic agent used to combat mycobacterial and nocardial infections. Four enzymatic inactivation mechanisms have been identified which are partially responsible for the increasing number of ...

Mutual benefits? : Investigating a service teaching learning partnership

Graetz, Catherine M. (2008-05-14)

ABSTRACT: The study investigated a service learning partnership between mid-career teachers at a primary school in Atteridgeville and newly-qualified, mostly secondary, teachers from Nottingham University. The aim was ...

Mutually independent

Morgado, Claudia Frederica (2008-10-08)

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The Mvula Trust Model

Davids, Philip David (2011-04-01)

There are large water services backlogs in rural areas in South Africa. The local sphere of government has the responsibility to provide basic water services to all people. In addition national government has ...

Mwali in Venda: Some observations on the significance of the High God in the late 19th and early 20th century

Schutte, A.G. (2011-05-09)

The title of the paper suggests a tentative investigation into the nature of the belief in Mwali in Venda and its historical significance. Initial research into the problem was stimulated by reading Daneel (1) and Ranger's ...

“My ma se taal of leertaal?” A study of different forms of Afrikaans spoken by the ‘coloured’ adult learners at E.W.Hobbs ABET center in Eldoradopark, Gauteng

Davids, Bernice (2006-10-26)

This is a phenomenological study that studies a small group (5) of adult learners and two (2) teachers at E.W. Hobbs ABET center in Eldoradopark, and investigates how the colloquial Afrikaans spoken in Eldoradopark and ...

My war, your war: understanding conflict in Africa and the Middle East through fiction film: Hotel Rwanda and The Kingdom

Sakota-Kokot, Tanja (2010-03-17)

ABSTRACT This research will focus on how we understand conflict through fiction film. The thesis will analyse the two case studies Hotel Rwanda, Terry George, (2004) and The Kingdom, (Peter Berg, 2007), by focusing on ...

Myocardial material properties and cardiac dilatation following chronic sympathetic activation in hypertension

Gibbs, Mark (2009-05-06)

Increases in internal dimensions of the chambers of the heart (cardiac dilatation), mediated by right shifts in cardiac chamber diastolic pressure-volume (P-V) relations, predict mortality in patients with established heart ...

Mythologising music: identity and culture in the Italian prisoner of war camps of South Africa

Somma, Donato Andrew (2009-05-29)

This thesis investigates the idea of music-making as mode of cultural expression among Italian prisoners of war imprisoned in South Africa during the Second World War. In addition to readings of some of the music performed, ...

The N-subdomain of the thioredoxin fold of glutathione transferase is stabilised by topologically conserved leucine residue

Khoza, Thandeka Ntokozo (2013-04-30)

The thioredoxin-like (Trx-like) fold is preserved in various protein families with diverse functions despite their low sequence identity. Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are characterised by a conserved N-terminal domain ...

N.P. van Wyk Louw and R.A.F. [i.e. R.F.A.] Hoernlé: Notes on liberal and nationalist discourse in South Africa, 1939-1955

Olivier, Gerrit (2011-04-20)

The contribution of the poet N.P. van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) to the debate on Afrikaans literature, politics and cultural life has been seminal in many respects. Although different aspects of Louw's thought need to be viewed ...

N.P. van Wyk Louw en die utopie van 'n nasionale letterkunde

Cattell, Karin (2009-03-13)

N.P. van Wyk Louw redefined the context-bound Afrikaans literature and criticism in the thirties to establish a new ‘national’ creative and critical discourse in Afrikaans. The central premise of this study is the ...

Nano-size effects on opto-electronic, structural and vibrational properties of vanadium and tungsten oxides produced by laser and ultrasonic spray pyrolysis techniques

Mwakikunga, Bonex Wakufwa (2010-04-15)

The thesis reviews two pyrolysis techniques – ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) and laser pyrolysis (LP). The two techniques - USP at the Physics LP at the National Laser Centre, CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa – were ...

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