ABSTRACT
Purpose
Cancer of uterine cervix is one of the leading malignancies affecting the South
African female population. In recent years, High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy in
combination with External Beam Radiotherapy ...
To test if a single dose of artificial surfactant given as rescue therapy to
extremely low birth weight ( ELBW) infants (i.e. those with birth weight
<1000g) with hyaline membrane disease who are not ventilated, will
improve ...
A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF TWO FRACTIONATION
REGIMENS OF RADIATION THERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AIDSASSOCIATED
KAPOSI SARCOMA
OBJECTIVE:
To compare a standard fractionation scheme with a hypofractionated scheme ...
This research report is a probe into prospects of meaningful political opposition in the
parliamentary system South Africa. Political oppositions play a very constructive role
in the entrenching of democracy. A free and ...
Background:
Despite the multitude of studies that have been carried out, controversy still exists as to
the benefits of routine screening for prostate cancer. How often, and with what criteria,
prostate cancer screening ...
For more than two decades now, the civil conflict that has pitted the Ugandan government
against the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has caused significant internal displacement of
people in the north of the country. ...
The deciphering of the human genetic code in 2003 has been widely acknowledged as a major achievement in genetic science but it has given rise to a number of legal and ethical concerns, most notably that of the protection ...
ABSTRACT
Recognising that governance is the key to South Africa's future as a global player in the property market, this study explores the protection of shareholders' interests in listed property funds in South Africa. ...
Increasing levels of morbidity and mortality due to malaria are being reported, fuelled by the development of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. This indicates that new compounds and drug targets are needed ...
ABSTRACT
This study was designed to screen antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) infected patients for proteinuria, using urine dipsticks, at the HIV outpatient clinic at
Johannesburg ...
A new method of testing deep foundation piles is proposed, focusing specifically on rapid load testing. The test involves applying a controlled force to a pile by dropping a weight and damper on it. The specific damper ...
ABSTRACT
This study involves an analysis of sampled television advertisements drawn from
SABC3. The aim of this study is to explore the ways that female characters are
portrayed in South African advertising content and ...
Abstract
The Patient Rights’ Charter is one of several progressive health policies in South Africa with
disappointing implementation in practice. Barriers to implementation have already been
described. Policy analysis ...
The role of practical work is crucial to the learning and teaching of science (Woolnough and
Allsop, 1985). Depending on the design of the activity it can become a powerful tool for
making concrete a subject which is ...
The OSA/Parlay architecture supports the development of applications that control
network connections through an open API. This research presents a proposal
on improving the rate at which applications are developed and ...
Introduction
Glaucoma presents an ever-increasing burden in Africa because of its asymptomatic nature. In
South Africa, pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PXS) is particularly prevalent among black South
Africans patients with ...
The underlying assumption is that your immediate built and natural environment
has an effect on your psyche and your mental well-being. This paper is about
formulating a conceptual framework and a set of recommendations ...
This study set out to explore the use and manifestation of the defense mechanisms of teenage girls living in a children’s home. This was done using data which was collected and analysed by thematic content analysis in a ...
African perspectives of mothering and attachment have only started being explored recently. Conversely there has been extensive research on Western understandings of attachment and mothering from a psychoanalytic perspective. ...