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Pulmonary Echinococcus in children: a descriptive study in a LMIC
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Towards a real-time decision support system for fire incidence management in South African forestry
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Assessment of Contract Terms and Conditions for Lump-sum Contracts
Published 2021“…Lump sum contracts are becoming increasingly utilized in construction projects around the world. …”
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Rural internship job preferences of final year medical students in South Africa: a discrete choice experiment
Published 2020“…In contrast, increases in rural allowance and the provision of housing provided smaller mean utility increases of 0.001 (p<0.01) and 0.09 (p<0.05) respectively. …”
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Engineered Nanostructured Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Network (NDC) Electrodes with Unprecedented Cycling Stability for Water Capacitive Deionization in Harsh Conditions
Published 2021“…Oxidation of the electrodes during the sequential adsorption-desorption processes is one of the most challenging problems hindering their long-term cycling performance. …”
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A Framework to Harmonize Legal Provisions in Infrastructure PPP Projects in Egypt Funded by Multilateral Development Banks
Published 2025“…This was accomplished by addressing the three main contractual relationships; concession agreement, lending agreement, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement, focusing on the most crucial contract provisions that have the potential of causing conflicts between parties, namely; (1) governing law and (2) dispute resolution in both the concession and EPC agreements of five real-world case studies in addition to expert interviews. …”
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Multi-criteria selection of waste transfer stations in the Kumasi Metropolis.
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A scalable packetised radio astronomy imager
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Risk-return portfolio modelling
Published 2016“…We find that GARCH(l , 1) models capture most of the autocorrelation in the squared residuals for both simple returns and log returns and shifts the efficient frontier to the left. …”
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The mechanical design aspects of a small diameter vascular prosthesis
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Ecological resilience at semi-arid and temperate boundaries of the Mediterranean-type Fynbos Biome, South Africa, during the Holocene
Published 2017“…Mediterranean-type ecosystems are amongst the most vulnerable to global change. Threats from desertification are projected due to rapid expansion of adjacent semiarid systems. …”
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Inactivation synergy between high energy neutrons and ⁶⁰Co gamma rays
Published 2018“…Synergistic interaction was observed to be most pronounced in a radiation mixture consisting of about one part neutrons and three parts photons and appeared to be optimal at approximately 5 Gy. …”
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Minimally invasive CT-guiding excision of benign bone tumours
Published 2019“…Result: Eleven patients (5 male) with a median age of 16 years (range 5-33) were included. Pain was the most common presenting feature. A histological diagnosis of OO was confirmed in 5 of 9 patients with a suspected diagnosis of OO preoperatively. …”
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Benthic metrics as indicators of human disturbance in a marine-dominated lagoon
Published 2019“…Benthic metrics are an excellent example of disturbance indicators in soft sediment based aquatic systems, and are directly applicable to one of South Africa’s most economically and ecologically significant marine-dominated lagoons; Langebaan lagoon. …”
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Design of a bipedal robot for rapid acceleration and braking manoeuvres
Published 2020“…Baleka was found to be the most agile bipedal robot, exceeding the agility of humans. …”
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The impact of stressful life events on antiretroviral treatment adherence and viral load amongst adults in Gugulethu, Cape Town
Published 2021“…Optimal antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence is critical in achieving virologic suppression. …”
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Predicting diarrhoea outbreak with climate change
Published 2021“…Our sensitivity analysis revealed that the most influential climate variables to be considered when predicting outbreak of diarrhoea in South Africa are precipitation, humidity, evaporation and temperature conditions. …”
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Language effects on semantic fluency test performance among South African adults
Published 2021“…Issues around the cultural fairness of cognitive tests and their administration are becoming increasingly important as the global spread of neuropsychological practice quickens. Most of these tests are developed and standardized in high-income countries of the global north, and so when used in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs) of the global south they are susceptible to influence by non-organic factors. …”
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