Assessment of Eritrean rural development projects and their impacts by Kidane Gerbremariam, T.

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The gendered experiences of women, men and couples who plan, have and narrate homebirths by Daniels, Nicole Miriam

“…The thesis sought to make a valid contribution by uncovering a relational view of homebirths that made sense of the gendered interactions and relational negotiations of women, men and couples who experienced homebirth. …”
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An investigation into the nature and prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions among women attending a community clinic, and the effectiveness of an intervention programme for these... by Barnes, Roline Yvette

“…The thesis set out to document the process of developing and testing a non-pharmacological biopsychosocial intervention programme which included exercise and health education for women with musculoskeletal conditions attending a clinic in a poorly resourced area of the Free State Province in South Africa. …”
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A medicinal chemistry approach to drug repositioning in the treatment of tuberculosis and malaria by Kaur, Gurminder

“…The development of a new drug is a lengthy and costly process; therefore, approaches that can save both time and money need to be emphasised. …”
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Farming and manufacturing: The tax consequences of conducting these activities simultaneously by Grotepass, Debora Anneke

“…Similar to this, taxpayers who are conducting manufacturing activities, or operations accepted and listed by SARS as a process of manufacture or similar process, enjoy advantageous allowances in respect of the write off of machinery and buildings. …”
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Management of Credit Risk; the Case of South Akim Rural Bank Limited, Koforidua by Lartey, Odame Edward

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The phonological development of typically developing first language Zulu-speaking children aged 2;6 - 6;5 years : a descriptive cross-sectional study by Jeggo, Zenia M

“…Assessments were audio recorded, and field transcriptions made using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). …”
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An assessment of polymeric materials and surface treated steels as cavitation erosion resistant materials by Barletta, A

“…Frequently these components are damaged by a process known as cavitation erosion and the operation and efficiency of machines are seriously impaired. …”
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Rescuing urban regeneration from urban patronage: towards inclusive development in the Voortrekker Road Corridor by Uppink, Lauren Kim

“…Funded wholly by the City of Cape Town for its first three years of operation, the Partnership had after two years in operation appeared to have made little progress in catalysing interest and tangible investment in the area, even on a micro level. …”
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Orthotopic liver transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital : a serial analysis of biliary cytokines and biochemical parameters by Spearman, C W N

“…It is frequently difficult to distinguish abnormal liver function due to rejection from that due to infection, biliary obstruction or ischaemic injury without performing invasive procedures such as a liver biopsy or angiography which may be Clinically, the diagnosis of rejection is usually once the immunological process is already hazardous. made late, established. …”
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A clinical engineering decision support system by Muller, Johann Heinrich

“…The feasibility of implementing the idealised clinical engineering model in South Africa was investigated and recommendations were made based on the research results of this thesis to bring the actual status of clinical engineering closer to the idealised model. ii…”
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Pricing American/Bermudan-style Options under Stochastic Volatility by Jankelow, Adam

“…We price American options under the Heston and Bates stochastic volatility models where volatility is assumed to be a latent process. The pricing algorithm is based on the least-squares Monte Carlo approach made popular by Longstaff and Schwartz (2001). …”
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Object Detection and Size Determination of Pineapple Fruit at a Juicing Factory by Harris, Jessica

“…The best-performing detector made use of MS COCO starting weights, a ResNet50 CNN backbone, and horizontal flipping data augmentation during the training process. …”
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The solvent extraction and separation of the tetrachloroplatinate (2) and -palladate (2) ions in the presence of stannous chloride into methylisobutylketone by Ahmed, Nazir

“…and palladium(II) selectively as complexes of [M(SnCl3)nCl4-nJ2 - (M=Pt,Pd) was examined. A study was made of the effect of SnCl2 on the solvent extraction of K2PtCl4 and K2PdCl4 from solutions containing various concentrations of HCL into methylisobutylketone (MIBK) /hexane mixtures. …”
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Dissolved air (pressure) flotation by Bratby, John Raymond

“…It appears that, in the past, little attempt has been made to establish the basic parameters influencing the flotation process, or their inter-relationships, on a quantitative basis for the purpose of developing rational design procedures. …”
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Protecting the environment using the GATT Article XX: chasing shadows by Tapiwa, Shumba

“…Some piecemeal fashioned suggestions have been made on how to deal with this issue and there has been some hope in many instances that environmental protection will become accommodated within the multilateral trading system. …”
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Transcription of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection using the Bossa Volunteer Thinking Framework by Munyaradzi, Ngoni

“…Previous attempts have been made to recognize the complex text in the notebooks using machine learning techniques, but due to the complexity of the manuscripts the recognition accuracy was low. …”
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Microstructural analysis of plates with large strains as a result of central localised blast loading by Smith, Michael Philip

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