Biogeography and conservation of terrestrial afrotropical birds by De Klerk, Helen Margaret

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The effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives on respondent attrition in longitudinal survey by Choga, Ngonidzashe Nicholas

“…One major challenge facing longitudinal data collection is the attrition of subjects during the course of the study, which is the continuous loss of participants during a longitudinal survey due to verbal drop-outs and non-response. Attrition can render datasets useless due to incomplete entries, making it one of the most significant weaknesses of longitudinal surveys. …”
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Investigating kidney disease clinical epidemiology using routinely collected administrative data and proteomics by Aylward, Ryan Edward

“…The implementation of the NHSE AKI detection algorithm in English laboratories was largely successful, though further investigation is required for alerts in people with CKD and alerts from a few outlying laboratories. Overall, the epidemiological findings in Cape Town shed light on the burden and characteristics of AKI, CKD and A-on-CKD in the region and challenges to research with routinely collected data in complex health systems like South Africa. …”
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A spatial model with vaccinations for COVID-19 in South Africa

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An introduction to the man-made landscape at the Cape from the 17th to the 19th centuries by Fagan, Gwendoline Elizabeth

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Organisational practices and individual innovation behaviour: a non-linear approach to modelling the emergence of corporate entrepreneurship by Hind, Colene

“…Phase 2 comprises a qualitative exploration with subject matter experts, of outlying cluster patterns produced by the quantitative results. …”
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Factors influencing utilization and adherence to Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS services in Rivers State, Nigeria by Jumare, Fadila

“…These include unavailability of test kits, antiretroviral medication stock-outs, and inadequate human resources for health. …”
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Barriers to tuberculosis drug discovery: the mycobacterial cell wall by Whittaker, Caitlin

“…The variability in permeation of different click-reactive moieties could be rapidly determined using fluorescent read-outs; this, in combination with the availability of a wide array of click-reactive side chains, presents a potentially powerful platform for establishing the properties required by a compound to effectively cross the mycomembrane. …”
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The effects of environment and niche on the distributions of dwarf chameleons, present and future by Houniet, Darren

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Stock Optimisation for an online business offering niche products by Maringa, Palesa

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Community-clinical psychological consultation with teachers in an "African" lower primary school : discourses and future directions by Wood, Rosemary Jane

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An evaluation of an aids educational programme in industry: an exploratory study by Van der Velde, Patricia

“…These stores were stratified into northern, central, southern· suburbs and outlying districts. Each group of 4 stores was assigned at random to either the treatment or control group of each component of the solomon - four according to their suburb stratification. 16 randomly selected weekly paid employees (8 males and a females) at each store were interviewed, by social work students, using an adapted version of the Temoshok (1987) questionnaire assessing knowledge and personal opinions about AIDS. …”
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An educational psychologist's perspective in understanding the experiences of residential youth care workers by Carstens, Alison Lee

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‘The rates of pre-hospital over-triage and the reasons behind them in a Cape Town setting' by McAlpine, David

“…The most regularly over-triaged complaint was obstetric &amp; gynaecological (84.87%) followed by motor vehicle accidents (65.70%); the lowest rate was for cardiac call-outs (47.12%). We reviewed the 38 highest workload call-takers, and found subtle, but non-statistically significant, trends towards higher over-triage rates with higher levels of training (ILS 62.16%, no medical training 59.42%; p=0.67), more years as a call-taker (< 2 years 59.32%, > 5 years 60.23%; p=0.93) and more years working in the field (0 years 59.36%, > 5 years 63.66%; p=0.31). …”
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Legislative backing of the SETA learnership contracts : a myth or reality

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Understanding logistics facility location patterns in the Western Cape by Chapman, Alan Jason

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A historical study of industrial ethnicity in urban colonial Zimbabwe and its contemporary transitions : the case of African Harare, c. 1890-1980 by Manganga, Kudakwashe

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An investigation of the beliefs, attitudes and practice of health care workers towards the use of oral morphine in the palliative care management of HIV/AIDS and cancer patients in... by Bates, Jane M

“…Respondents understood that morphine was a strong pain killer, which they thought was useful and should be more widely available for patients with both HIV/AIDS and cancer related problems, though reported stock outs at their institutions were common. Oral morphine was available at only two of the institutions visited at the time of the interviews. …”
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Benefits of smart grid technologies in South Africa by Masembe, Immaculate Angela

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Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Botswana: barriers and risk factors influencing patient outcomes, case detection, and linkage to effective care and treatment by Boyd, Rosanna M

“…Qualitative interviews confirmed inconsistent adherence to national policies and identified additional challenges including frequent medication and reagent stock-outs, misperceptions about disease transmission from both providers and patients, and inadequate national level support for the RR-TB program. …”
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