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  1. Characterization of municipal waste waters by Mbewe, Alfred, Mbewe, Alfred

    Published 2017
    “…With such complexity, designs based on experience or semi-empirical methods no longer will give optimal performance; design procedures based on more fundamental behavioural patterns are required. …”
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  2. The relationship between cultural orientation and reward preference: a study conducted in South Africa and the Netherlands by Van Eijk, Jeff

    Published 2017
    “…Research design: A descriptive research design using quantitative methods was employed. Data was collected from employees in both South Africa (n = 132) and the Netherlands (n = 152). …”
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  3. Psychological correlates of injury, illness and performance in Ironman triathletes by Hugo, Daniel

    Published 2017
    “…Physicians should be aware of the cardinal importance of mental well-being, as this is as vital in the preventative and curative management of the injured, ill or poor performing athlete as optimal physical conditioning.…”
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  4. An audit of endocrine dysfunction in children with craniopharyngiomas at Red Cross Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital from 1976 to 2004 by Omarjee, Zakiyya

    Published 2018
    “…The management of craniopharyngiomas in an African context compares favourably internationally but with limited resources especially with regard to growth hormone replacement, a large proportion of our children are not receiving optimal treatment.…”
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  5. Sea state estimation from inertial platform data for real-time ocean wave prediction by Gwatiringa, Tinashe G

    Published 2019
    “…A Kalman filtering strategy consisting of a phase-locked loop and filter based sea state estimator is used to generate local height and angle of arrival estimates. This method offers an improvement over existing Fast Fourier Transform methods as it does not require long time series data to produce results, and enables the prediction of wave behaviour a short time into the future. …”
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  6. Paediatric brain tumours: The University of Cape Town experience from 1996 - 2017 by Arnold-Day, Christel

    Published 2020
    “…Brain tumours are the second most common malignancy in children(1) (2), and despite some advancements being made over the last 2 decades, patient outcomes in general remain poor when compared with other childhood cancers. Optimal treatment of children with brain tumours is challenging and expertise and resources are not widely available in South Africa. …”
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  7. A Review of Women with Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma in a Middle-Income setting: Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: Demographics, Treatment and Outcomes of Patients be... by Loggenberg, Francisca

    Published 2025
    “…Of the 163 patients who underwent primary cytoreductive surgery, 72 (44.2%) patients were completely debulked with no residual disease, 18 (11%) were optimally debulked to less than 1cm residual disease and 72 (44.2%) still had gross residual disease. …”
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  8. The evolution of Zimbabwean gospel music 1980- 2007

    Published 2013
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  9. Factors associated with missed appointments among adults on anti-retroviral therapy in the uThukela District in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

    Published 2024
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  10. The development of biosorbents from agricultural waste sources for the separation of fat-based particles from water by Swart, Marli

    Published 2020
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  11. Critical Evaluation of slip synchronous wind generator technology by Ockhuis, Dillan

    Published 2022
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  12. Radiotherapy in the management of carcinoma of the vulva in HIV positive and negative patients : an institutional experience by Opakas, Jesse Elungat

    Published 2015
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  13. The common reader and the modernist Bildungsroman : Virginia Woolf's The Waves by Timlin, Carrie-Leigh

    Published 2016
    “…Unlike the Bildungsroman of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, which utilised standard novelistic conventions to explore the relation between form and reality, I contend that The Waves is a thoroughly modernist reinvention of the Bildungsroman form designed to capture a rapidly industrialising and modernising English society. …”
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  14. A retrospective audit into the morbidity and mortality of open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town by Mhlanga, Gugulethu Tsakani Jenny

    Published 2017
    “…We further analysed whether cross-clamp time and anatomical classification of the aneurysm had any effect on the subsequent need for RRT, utilising the Mann-Whitney test. Results: Of the 90 patients, 76.7% were male (n=69). …”
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  15. Chemical and conformational studies of bacterial cell surface polysaccharide repeating units by Timol, Zaheer

    Published 2017
    “…Cell surface polysaccharides are widely utilised as antigenic components in vaccines and play an important role in the protection against numerous diseases including meningococcal disease and shigellosis. …”
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