Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD by Issue Date
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The application of magnetic resonance and computed tomography imaging in the diagnosis and management of maxillofacial tumours
(University of Western Cape, 2004)The Application of Magnetic Resonance (MRI) and Computed Tomography Imaging (CT) in the Diagnosis and Management of Maxillofacial Tumours. For decades maxillofacial surgeons over the world have been frustrated by the high ... -
Spectres of the untold: memory and history in South Africa after the truth and reconciliation commission
(2006)This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). -
The structure of the reproductive system in the male vervet monkey, chlorocebus aethiops, with special reference to spermatogenesis
(2007)The vervet monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, an Old World monkey, has been often used in biomedical research programs (toxicological studies and fertility) because of the inaccessibility of relevant human tissues. Data from ... -
Effect of a material science course on the perceptions and understanding of teachers in Zimbabwe regarding content and instructional practice in design and technology
(2007)The purpose of this study was therefore to address the following primary research question: ‘What effect would a specially designed, developed, implemented and evaluated Material Science (MS) course have on serving teachers ... -
Modelling of reliable service based operations support system (MORSBOSS)
(2008)The underlying theme of this thesis is identification, classification, detection and prediction of cellular network faults using state of the art technologies, methods and algorithms. -
Digital watermarking methods for data security and authentication
(2008)Cryptology is the study of systems that typically originate from a consideration of the ideal circumstances under which secure information exchange is to take place. It involves the study of cryptographic and other processes ... -
Hydraulic properties of the table mountain group (TMG) aquifers
(2008)Research findings in current study provide a new insight into the fractured rock aquifers in the TMG area. Some of the results will have wide implications on the groundwater management and forms a solid basis the further ... -
The ecology of the world's smallest tortoise, homopus signatus signatus: effects of rainfall
(2008)Tortoises appear to be successful in arid ecosystems, where they depend on primary production for their predominantly herbivorous diets. The low primary production of arid regions is exacerbated by priodic droughts, so ... -
Arenas of contestation: policy processes and land tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)Summary: This thesis considers different groupings that have come together in their participation in the policy processes relating to tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa. It is methodologically and theoretically ... -
Translating policy into practice: aspects of learner-centred classroom practices in mathematics in Namibia secondary schools
(2008)"This study is guided by theories about educational policy implementation and their implications for teaching. These theories underline the notion that educational reform is a progress and it iv comes in cycles. According ... -
A case study of the nature of biology practical work in two secondary schools in Namibia
(2008)The aim of the study was to investigate the nature of biology practical work and associated discourses in two Namibian secondary schools. The purposive sample consisted of three biology teachers and 36 grade 11 students ... -
Spectroelectrochemical determination of the antioxidant properties of carpobrotus mellei and carpobrotus quadrifidus natural products
(2009)South African Carpobrotus species have been found to contain hydrolysable tannins,various flavonoids e.g. rutin and hyperoside, phytosterols and aromatic acids which have a diverse range of pharmacological properties ... -
Identification of novel cold-adapted nitrilase superfamily enzymes
(2009)In bacteria, nitrile hydratases and enzymes of nitrilase and signature amidase superfamilies hydrolyse nitriles and amides to their corresponding carboxylic acids releasing ammonia. Bacteria expressing these enzymes are ... -
Male identified same-sex sexual fetish in South Africa: (re)defining sexual relations between people and things
(2010)Historical ethnographic and early psychoanalytic epistemologies on 'fetishism' focus primarily on the fetish 'object', whereby the subject of 'fetish practices' was identified, pathologised and/or socioculturally invalidated ... -
A history of the organizational development of the seventh-day adventist church amongst the coloured community in South Africa 1887-1997
(2010)The Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Africa was planted towards the end of the 19th century. Within less than forty years after its inception, a separate Coloured department developed. This was not to be the last ... -
The development of a woman’s health handbook in the Western Cape
(2010)Background:The Project reported on in this thesis took place between 2003 and 2006 and focused on the problem of high rates of low birth weight in the West Coast /Winelands area of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. ... -
Extant benthic Foraminifera from two bays along the SW coast of South Africa, with a comment about their use as indicators of pollution
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The results of the multivariate analyses suggest that most of the variation in the composition of the samples was of an intra-sample nature, illustrating large scale patchiness in foraminiferal distribution. There were, ... -
Demitrios Tsafendas: race, madness and the archive
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is concerned with the archival production on the life of Demitrios Tsafendas, the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd on the 6 September 1966. Through an examination of three different archival registers: the ... -
Multicomponent catalysts for methanol electro-oxidation processes synthesized using organometallic chemical vapourde position technique
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)In this study, the OMCVD method is demonstrated as a powerful, fast, economic and environmental friendly method to produce a set of PGMelectrocatalysts with different supports, metal content and metal alloys in one step ... -
Efficacy and safety of various tooth-whitening products, with special reference to the three dimensional colour space (L*a*b*) measurements and the microhardness tests
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Tooth-whitening or tooth-bleaching has become an integral part of modern dental practice. Today, a large number of whitening products are available on the market which are commonly categorized into dentist-supervised home ...
