Genomics of sickle cell disease and fetal hemoglobin in African populations by Esoh, Kum Kevin

“…However, these loci jointly explain less than 30% of HbF variability in African sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients as compared to ~50% in African Americans and non-anemic Europeans. …”
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Exploring the adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: a case study from Tanzania by Rabenold, Colton

“…In addition to being one of the poorest countries in Africa, Tanzania is considered the 13th most vulnerable nation in the world to climate change and climate variability. Currently over 63% of Tanzanians have no access to the national power grid. …”
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Production function analysis of the sensitivity of maize production to climate change in South Africa

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Broad-based black economic empowerment : the holy grail for financial health? A study of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by Dreyer, Jan Adriaan

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Pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenetics and optimisation of treatment with non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors in HIV-infected African children by Bienczak, Andrzej Marek

“…Efavirenz and nevirapine are the most widely used agents for treatment of HIV in children. Sources of variability in their pharmacokinetics and its association with virological outcome and adverse events in African children are poorly characterised, thereby limiting treatment optimisation. …”
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Anomalous PCR results to Grapevine leafroll associated closterovirus type 3 in South Africa

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The effect of parental involvement on Grade 4 learner literacy : evidence from prePIRLS 2011

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Exploring administrative micro-price data in Uganda : three novel applications by Okiror, Julius

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Physiological responses of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) immobilised with a thiafentanil-azaperone combination

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Multimodal neuroimaging signatures of early cART-treated paediatric HIV - Distinguishing perinatally HIV-infected 7-year-old children from uninfected controls by Khobo, Isaac Lebogang

“…Elastic net (EN) regularisation uses penalised regression to perform variable selection, shrinking the weighting of unimportant variables to zero. …”
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When peacekeeping works: a comparative study of the effectiveness of hybrid peacekeeping in Liberia, Somalia, Sudan and the Ivory Coast by Van As, Stepheny

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Southern Africa and Agro-processing: Investigating the state of agricultural RVCs and the role of South African food retailers in regional supplier development by Gorven, Ruth

“…The Nando's Peri Farms Initiative provides an example of an effective supplier development programme, balancing business with socially oriented outcomes. …”
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The diversity of smallholder wool production and its marketing aspects : a case study at Xume, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Understanding the acceptance and use of open source geospatial software – the case of QGIS in South Africa

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The influence of socio-demographic factors on the nutritional intake of overweight and obese children in the Stellenbosch area, Western Cape by Kirsten, Anna Petronella

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Leveraging the microbiome in host genome wide association studies by Awany, Denis

“…The proposed method uses a weighted combination of phylogenetic and radial basis function kernels to model microbial taxa effects, and a non-parametrically defined latent variable to model latent heterogeneity among samples. …”
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Evaluation Of Non-Treatment Interventions For Reducing Health Risks Associated with Wastewater Irrigated Spring Onions by Ivy, Owusu

“…The Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) version 13.0 was used for testing the various statistical relationships between and within variables. The initial study tested the effectiveness of cessation of irrigation prior to harvesting, management of watering can irrigation to reduce contamination and determination of major source of contamination of spring onions at production site. …”
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The Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury and an Investigation of Behavioural, Emotional and Executive Functioning in a Sample of Male Young Offenders by Steenkamp, Nina Simone

“…In young offenders, particularly, TBI is significantly more prevalent than in the general youth population. This association might be explained by the fact that key TBI sequelae (e.g., aggression, behavioural and cognitive impulsivity, emotional dysregulation) can place individuals at risk for criminal offending. …”
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Shrinkage estimation in ARMA-GARCH regression models with an application in Bitcoin returns

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Cash flow optimization for construction engineering portfolios by Ali, Gasser Galal

“…Optimization of those variables, within scheduling constraints results in a near-optimum NPV. …”
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