It must have bee about five a'clock, and the last rays of the sun slanted through my window and joined the glow of the logs in my fireplace. It was a cold sun, but the room was warm with the woody scent of the fire. I ...

ABSTRACT Successful communication with patients in a multicultural, multilinguistic environment is a challenge to health professionals, particularly in the context of HIV/Aids and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. Although ...

It is a common practice for physiotherapists working in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to treat patients who are intubated and mechanically ventilated and assist with extubation. The role of chest physiotherapy treatment (CPT) ...

Abstract This pilot study aimed to establish if an exercise programme utilizing the world’s first manual compression foot-pump, commonly known as “Venous Anti-Stasis Slippers”, could be used as an intervention to improve ...

This study was aimed at establishing the psychometric properties of the OLSET Picture-Language Vocabulary Level 1 Test (OPLVLT) which is a group test developed in South Africa for children in the lower primary school. The ...

Synopsis The strategic limitations of counter -piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden (GOA) are disadvantaged by the legal incoherence in both the international and institutional context which navies attempt to adhere ...

The African National Congress (ANC) led government has, since 1994, adopted and followed the public sector reforms that took place in many parts of the world in the 1990s. In 1996, the Republic of South Africa (RSA) adopted ...

This collection of papers attempts to start bringing together these different approaches, relying on different methodologies and disciplines, in order to deepen our understanding of the interaction, at the local level, ...

The approximately 2 km thick Upper Zone of the Rustenburg Layered Suite represents a series of differentiated rocks with the appearance of magnetite, olivine and apatite in that order, as cumulus phases in the stratigraphy. ...

PROBLEM STATEMENT Planners encounter problems as they work among disadvantaged communities. Most community leaders engage in planning operations, excluding the community from participating in the solution of their ...