An evaluation of a brief multlple family group psychoeducation programme with families in which a member has schizophrenia by Leaver, Patricia

“…AIMS OF THE STUDY: To evaluate the effectiveness of a brief multiple family group psychoeducation programme with families, who have a family member with schizophrenia, currently being treated as patients of Valkenberg Hospital. i) To assess families' knowledge about schizophrenia ii) To assess their present levels of functioning. iii) To assess their support systems. iv) To assess objectives i), ii) and iii) via a pre-test questionnaire in which the sample group of families give their responses in personally conducted interviews. v) To undertake action research whereby a psychoeducation model is introduced and families are exposed to a one day educational skills workshop followed up by six weekly family sessions. vi) To administer a post-test questionnaire to assess the impact of psychoeducation on families.…”
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Ab-initio investigation of the antimony-vacancy complex and related defects in germanium

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The expression of personality among adolescents exposed to interpersonal violence

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Development of a Vehicle-Agnostic Direct-Sensing Telematics System for Electric Vehicles by Shaboodien, Sameer

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Critical evaluation of predictive modelling of a cervical disc design by De Jongh, Cornel

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An analysis of the phenotypic features of chromosomes 22q11.1 deletion syndrome at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital by Hendricks, Lesley Jill

“…A retrospective folder review was done of the phenotypic features of all patients who had had a FISH test done on the suspicion on 22qDS. A total of 144 patient folders were reviewed (72 patients who were FISH positive for 22qDS and 72 patients who were FISH negative and functioned as the control arm of this study). …”
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and the early neurodevelopmental outcomes of children in a South African birth cohort study by Hendricks, Gaironeesa

“…Significant interactions occurred between prenatal alcohol, including tobacco smoking exposure, and impaired receptive vocabulary (B=-2.49, 95%CI -5.24 -0.27, p=0.02) and cognitive functioning at 24 months (B=- 3.25, 95%CI -5.98- -0.52, p=0.02) (Chapter 5 Manuscript 3). …”
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Vector boson production with the ALICE detector by Senosi, Kgotlaesele Johnson

“…The production of W bosons is studied in p-Pb, p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.023, 8 and 5.023 TeV centre-of-mass energies, respectively. …”
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Investigating the efficacy of XML and stylesheets to render electronic courseware for multiple learning styles by Du Toit, Masha

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Acute cognitive dysfunction, short and long-term outcomes and the impact of medical follow-up following hospitalisation for general medical illness in Cape Town, South Africa by Abdullah, Mohamed

“…Delirium is an important and common general medical condition with a high morbidity and mortality rate independently associated with increases in the length of hospital stay, the requirement for institutional care, persistent cognitive deficits, and functional decline. The Gold standard for testing delirium continues to evolve but requires lengthy bedside cognitive testing by trained specialists. …”
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Flagellin glycosylation in Pantoea ananatis

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Identification and characterization of bioactivity of simulated gastrointestinal digested indigenous southern African honey samples

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Utility and effectiveness of auditory measures for detecting 'Hidden hearing loss' and/or Cochlear Synaptopathy

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Evidence of knowledge spillovers from the natural resources sector in least developed countries

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Formal analysis of state estimation for nonlinear model predictive control by Moeti, Sekhonyana

“…The cost functions served as performance markers for analyzing performance of ASEKF and ASUKF in NMPC formulation in multidimensional space. …”
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The development of a system of 24 hours preservation of the heart for transplantation by Wicomb, Winston Neville

“…Six positive aspects of cardiac preservation have emerged from this study: - (1) A clear fluid hyperosmolar solution was formulated that adequately preserved viability of pig and baboon hearts. (2) A pneumatically powered portable preservation unit was designed which successfully preserved pig and baboon hearts when assessed by either functional testing or orthotopic transplantation. (3) A method of in vitro testing of hearts was developed that correlated with results from orthotopic transplantation. (4) A technique of cardiac autotransplantation in baboons was perfected. (5) The high release of lysosomal acid phosphatase during the period of hypothermic preservation was shown to be non-pathological and was reversible after a period of warm blood perfusion. (6) Successful preservation of human hearts for periods longer than 4 hours, not previously achieved, was obtained. …”
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Comparative screening study on the adsorption of Aqueous Pb(II) using different metabolically inhibited bacterial cultures from industry

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