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Bibliography Islam & biological evolution exploring classical Sunni sources and methodologies
(2010)This research investigates, within the framework of classical Sunni Islamic scholarship,what we might expect an Islamic opinion about evolution to be,bringing together an accurate and detailed understanding of evolutionary ... -
Big data analytics capabilities and the organisational performance of South African retailers
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Big data analytics is becoming a real source of competitive advantage and growth as it helps organisations to have a better understanding of their insights. Recent studies have identified the resources needed to build a ... -
Bildungsroman writing by women in Africa and in the African diaspora
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The Bildungsroman has from inception traditionally been a male-dominated genre, but a number of significant women-authored novels written in the 20th century disrupt these established patterns. The thesis demonstrates how ... -
Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study is an investigation into the biliteracy skills (in Arabic and English) employed by Libyan students at the University of the Western Cape to gain their academic success. Nowadays, international students form a ... -
The Bill of Rights as the cornerstone of environmental justice in South Africa : an analysis of section 24
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Bioactive actinobacteria associated with two South African medicinal plants, Aloe ferox and Sutherlandia frutescens
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Actinobacteria, a Gram-positive phylum of bacteria found in both terrestrial and aquatic environments, are well-known producers of antibiotics and other bioactive compounds. The isolation of actinobacteria from unique ... -
Bioactivity and genome guided isolation of a novel antimicrobial protein from Thalassomonas viridans
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The continued emergence of bacterial resistance to the antibiotics currently employed to treat several diseases has added to the urgency to discover and develop novel antibiotics. It is well established that natural products ... -
Bioactivity guided fractionation of Sutherlandia frutescens extracts for the induction of apoptosis
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)Sutherlandia frutescens popularly known as "cancer bush" or "kankerbos" is indigenous to South Africa and claimed by traditional healers to have wide therapeutic potential, most specifically against cancer. To verify these ... -
Bioassay guided fractionation of Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor compound from Hypericum perforatum
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Due to the contribution of hypertension to various cardiovascular diseases, many studies are currently focused on identifying efficient bioactive compounds with antihypertensive activity and thus reducing the levels of ... -
A biochemical and proteomic analysis of sugargraze sorghum under hyperosmotic stress
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Sugargraze is a moderately drought tolerant sweet sorghum hybrid which is ideal for grazing, winter stand over and pit silage. A major advantage that Sugargraze has over other forages is its very high sugar content which ... -
Biochemical characterisation of an alpha-amylase with pullulan hydrolase type III characteristics derived from a hot spring metagenomics library
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The field of metagenomics has provided biotechnological researchers with new enzymes and insight into previously unknown enzyme families with potential for novel modes of action and being able to function under extreme ... -
Biochemical characterization of β-xylosidase and β-glucosidase isolated from a thermophilic horse manure metagenomic library
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The complete degradation of recalcitrant lignocellulose biomass into value-added products requires the efficient and synergistic action of lignocellulose degrading enzymes. This has resulted in a need for the discovery of ... -
Biochemical investigation of anti-cancer activity of Tulbaghia violacea
(UWC, 2012)Natural products have been a source of many pharmaceutical drugs and a number of drugs that are currently used in the treatment of cancer are derivatives of compounds originally isolated from natural products. There is ... -
Biocontrol potential of fungal endophytes against Fusarium proliferatum in maize
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Fusarium proliferatum is a fungal pathogen that is the cause of numerous diseases in various crops of fruit and vegetables. About 25% of the maize crops harvested annually are affected by mycotoxins produced by F. ... -
Biodiscovery of Novel Bioactivities from the South African Marine Environment
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)There is currently a global health crisis taking place, which is the increasing occurrence of drug-resistant pathogens within clinical microorganisms. Drugresistant pathogens are increasingly becoming more difficult to ... -
Biogenic synthesis of gold nanoparticles using red and green pear fruit extracts
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)There has been a growing interest in the design of biocompatible and environmentally affable nanoparticles (NPs) among scientists to develop novel and safe biomaterials for use in various biomedical applications. This can ... -
A biogeographic, phylogenetic and taxonomic evaluation of South African orthopteran species (Orthoptera: Pneumoridae)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)The order Orthoptera contains a wide diversity of species and is the most speciose of the polyneopteran insect lineages. In South Africa, the orthopteran fauna is abundant and diverse, with approximately 88% of all Southern ... -
Biography in and of an archive : the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2012)This study is about the recent political history of South Africa. It examined the crucial period of late apartheid, through the political transition into democracy. The study was conducted through the lenses of Shelagh ... -
A bioinfonnatics approach to the study of the transcriptional regulation of AMPA Glutamate receptors (GRIAs) and genes whose expression are co-regulated with GRIAs
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)It was postulated that each gene has three main sets of transcriptional elements: one which is gene-specific, one which is family-specific, and a third which is tissue-specific. The starting hypothesis for this project had ... -
Bioinformatics and polymerase chain reaction: Tools to determine the host specificity of Salmonella typhi murium
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)The nucleotide primer pair, Redl and Red2, was designed from the nucleotide sequence obtained from the NCBI database (Fig. 2.1). This nucleotide sequence encodes for the Salmonella typhimurium invasion gene D protein ...