Sustainable food production has been a major challenge in the era of climate change
and a growing population in the twenty-first century. However, climate change
scenarios such as extreme temperatures and fluctuations ...
Background: Wound infections continue to be problematic in clinical practice where
empiric treatment of infections is a routine, with non-healing wounds being a burden
to the health care system. A gap has been noted ...
The gas sensing performance of two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride
nanosheets (h-BNNSs) has being studied by means of computational and
experimental methods. The structural, stability and vacancies properties ...
Background: Cardio Vascular Diseases(CVD) are presently the main cause
of high mortality rate around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, CVDs
contributes to about 13% of deaths, with 80% deaths being recorded from ...
Background: Emergency departments (EDs) as the hospitals' front door have a critical role in ensuring access to and efficient care of acute illness and injuries in the healthcare system. The environment in EDs is physically ...
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is amongst the underlying causes of mortality and morbidity globally. However, lifestyle habits such as frequent consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) contributes to its ...
Developing countries face huge challenges in provision of pharmaceutical care whereas some developed countries have developed and implemented measure to improve pharmaceutical care through collaborative practices. Collaborative ...
Beef and chicken meat play a very crucial role in providing food to South African consumers. However, the rise of food prices in South Africa is viewed to curtail progress and drives consumers into debt and forgone opportunity ...
Agriculture is regarded as one of the pillars for economic development for most developing countries including South Africa; however youth participation in the sector is minimal. Similar to the situation in many other ...
Background: The increase in diabetes prevalence is often accompanied by comorbidities and complications, which negatively impact on the quality of life of patients. Poor dietary intake and physical inactivity lead to obesity ...
Our discussion starts with the study of convergence and clustering of filters initiated in
pointfree setting by Hong, and then characterize compact and almost compact frames
in terms of these filters. We consider the ...
South Africa is characterised by low production which can be attributed to a lack of diversification and flexibility in agricultural production. There has been an explosive change in consumer-food relationships due to ...
Background: The health and safety of the miners in the South African mining industry are guided by the regulations and standards which are anticipated to promote a healthy work environment and fatalities. It is of utmost ...
Using the ARFIMA (autoregressive and fractionally integrated moving aver age) model extended with sGARCH (standard generalised autoregressive con ditional heteroscedasticity) and ’gjrGARCH (Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle gen ...
Pharmacy Dispensing Units (PDUs) are automated medicine dispensing systems, which
are the first of its kind in South Africa and are operational in the public healthcare sector.
At present, the application of automated ...
The purpose of this study was to analyse socioeconomic factors influencing formal and informal market participation by beef cattle farmers. Cattle production plays an important role in the provision of food worldwide. It ...
Background
Hypothyroidism in head and neck cancer patients after radiotherapy is known to
occur, yet thyroid function tests are not routinely monitored in all patients post
radiation therapy. Routine post radiation ...
Background
Breast cancer is known to be a heterogeneous disease that demands patient centered
care. Establishing the clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer patients is a vital
step in an effort to individualize ...
Nature reserves are reservoirs for biodiversity. Their very purpose is to preserve indigenous fauna and flora and thus protect associated ecosystem services. The Schuinsdraai Nature Reserve of rural Sekhukhune District, ...