Browsing by Subject "Cultural practices"

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  • Body Image: Society's Secret Obsession 

    Tommy, Janine (University of the Western Cape, 2002)
    Women and their bodies are at the very centre of a prevailing cultural obsession regarding strict standards of body weight, shape and image. The pressure to achieve unattainable body-beautiful standards has given rise to ...

  • Genetic variation among verticillium dahliae isolates using pathogenicity and aflp analysis 

    Visser, Marinda (University of the Western Cape, 1999)
    Soilborne plant pathogenic fungi have had an important economic and social impact on humans since the evolution of agricultural societies (Stakman, 1959). In South Africa, the soilborne pathogen Verticillium dahliae Kleb, ...