Systematics of Hermannia L. (Malvaceae): a taxonomic review of the genus by Gwynne-Evans, David

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Towards adaptive management of high-altitude grasslands: Ingula as a case study by Maphisa, David Hlosi

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Understanding a high resolution regional climate model's ability in simulating tropical East Africa climate variability and change by Osima, Sarah Emerald

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Challenges impeding South African municipalities from adopting waste-to-energy schemes : an exploratory approach by Mutezo, Gamuchirai Thelma

“…WtE technologies have been successfully deployed in many developed as well as some developing countries but there are limited initiatives in South Africa due to a number of barriers to the deployment of the technology. …”
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Effects of an offloaded running versus active recovery on performance after an ultramarathon-race by Burger, Amy

“…Discussion and Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that there may be benefits in using the anti-gravity treadmill as a recovery tool that a) provided temporary relief in muscle pain during a recovery run and; b) may alleviate muscle pain once implemented in the days following an ultra-marathon race. Some improvements in heart rate and RPE during a 5-km time trial, were observed, supporting the potential effectiveness of an offloaded recovery in limiting some of the deleterious effects of EIMD after an ultra-marathon race. …”
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Impedance spectroscopy techniques for condition monitoring of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells by Aroge, Fabusuyi Akindele

“…The fuel cell is essentially an electrochemical conversion system which takes in fuel supply to produce electricity. Some key features make the fuel cell attractive as a power source. …”
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Differences in callosal and subcortical volumes and associated neurobehavioural deficits in children with prenatal alcohol exposure by Biffen, Stevie Crystal

“…Certain high-risk communities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa where heavy maternal prenatal alcohol consumption is perpetuated by historical and societal challenges, have some of the highest prevalence rates of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) in the world. …”
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Group taxation of tightly-held qualifying groups in South Africa by Adams, Razeen

“…With that in mind, the author has looked to encouraging group formation in small businesses by attempting to relieve some of the challenges that small businesses encounter in trying to establish a group structure. …”
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Towards a digital tool for monitoring and reporting mobile victimisation among South African high school students by Lusinga, Shallen

“…Schools particularly lack systems for reporting and students do not trust some of the reporting mechanisms. Similar problems have been identified in cyberbullying literature. …”
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Computational analysis of Escherichia coli O25 and O25b carbohydrate antigens using the CHARMM36 and GLYCAM06 force fields by Fourie, Alexander Rees

“…These findings are in agreement with other studies that indicate the collapse of some oligosaccharides into metastable globular conformations during simulations with GLYCAM06. …”
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Quinoline-triazole half-sandwich iridium(III) complexes: Synthesis, antiplasmodial activity and preliminary transfer hydrogenation studies by Melis, Diana

“…All five of the tested compounds were found to inhibit β-haematin formation to some extent but were, in general, less effective β-haematin inhibitors than chloroquine itself. …”
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A study of impact breakage of single rock specimen using discrete element method by Oladele, Temitope Philip

“…Secondly, it emphasised some of the causes of the variation observed during ore characterisation on a laboratory breakage device, attributable to pre-weakening and mineralogical composition.…”
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Assessment of a Shredding Technology of Waste Printed Circuit Boards in preparation for Ammonia-based Copper leaching by Prestele, Marc Patrick

“…It can be seen that apart from size reduction there is delamination of some of the shredded PCB pieces. However, this delamination is not always complete and Cu metal can still be seen covered by fibreglass and hence inaccessible to leach agents. …”
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Promoting Inclusive Higher Education in the digital age: Wrapping massive open online courses (MOOCs) for youth from marginalised communities in South Africa by Deane, Nawaal

“…However, in 2020 the forced move to online learning, and the use of freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provided an opportunity to rethink accessto HE for youth from marginalised areas. In some cases, a blended learning approach has been adopted by universities to provide more flexible pathways to HE. …”
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A prospective, longitudinal, observational study to assess the health-related quality of life of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in the South African context by Kotze, Urda Karin

“…Some of the lessons learnt in this study from a LMIC, may be of value in planning subsequent tumour-related HRQOL studies in LMICs, regardless of tumour type.…”
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Testing for host adaptive evolution using the maize streak virus model by Oyeniran, Kehinde Adewole

“…Although these temporally-scaled phylogeographic analyses indicated that human activities are likely responsible for some of the long-range movements of MSV-A1 variants (such as movements from East Africa to Madagascar), leafhopper-mediated dissemination of these variants also likely played a major role in long and short distance movements of these variants within both Madagascar and between East African countries. …”
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An investigation of the (in)flexibility of the minibus-taxi operating license system: the case of Stellenbosch by Bergstedt, Roscoe

“…This is descriptive data displayed in a graphical style via route maps, which were obtained by onboard tracking utilizing smart phone technology and GPS equipment to compare taxi operations to the initial route description in the operating license. Some of the routes mapped were established more than 20 years ago, however while some of the route's elements are still in use, others have become obsolete as land uses have changed. …”
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Psychosocial predictors of HIV treatment outcomes among young pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV by Noholoza, Sandisiwe

“…No statistically significant associations were found among these psychosocial risk factors. However, there was some indication of an association between depression and unintended pregnancy (P=0.095), depression and IPV (p=0.087) and hazardous alcohol use and IPV (p=0.119). …”
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Differentiating follicular thyroid carcinoma from the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma by Rikhotso, Tshikani Norman

“…Diagnostic challenges may be encountered with some encapsulated follicular-patterned neoplasms of the thyroid due to uncertainty about the presence of capsular or vascular invasion. …”
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An outcomes evaluation of the Zim-TTECH cervical cancer intervention in Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe by Tapera, Oscar

“…The evaluation also revealed some negative implications of the Zim-TTECH intervention on the health system which include the following: the programme‘s screening resulted in the detection of invasive cervical cancer cases which were referred to weak and ill-capacitated public health facilities, and most screening services are offered in HIV clinics which results in some women who are not HIV positive not wanting to screen for fear of stigma and the programme also contributed to staff attrition in public health facilities as they search for better opportunities in the NGO sector and outside the country. …”
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