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Work, women and welfare: a critical gendered analysis of social development with special reference to income generation projects in the transition period in South Africa (1994 – 2001)
(2013)Studies by feminists frequently investigate reasons why poverty reduction strategies involving income and work generation projects for poor women fail to deliver on set economic and social goals to provide jobs, income, ... -
Automatic signature verification system
(2013)In this thesis, we explore dynamic signature verification systems. Unlike other signature models, we use genuine signatures in this project as they are more appropriate in real world applications. Signature verification ... -
Development and characterization of a transdermal formula for an extract of the medicinal plant harpagophytum procumbens
(2013)The skin is the largest and most readily accessible organ of the body. The stratum corneum forms the outermost layer of the skin, which functions as a barrier to the external environment and regulates the passage of molecules ... -
The map is not the territory: law and custom in ‘African freehold’: a South African case study
(2013)The thesis examines the characteristics of land tenure among African families with freehold title who trace their relationship to the land to their forebears who first acquired title in the mid-nineteenth century. The ... -
The influence of diversity and the educational climate in shaping clinical competence of oral health students
(2013)High attrition, low retention and low throughput are major problems facing South African higher education institutions. These problems have been attributed to student under-preparedness as a result of the legacy of apartheid ... -
The relationship between the church and the reign of God in the reconstruction theology of JNK Mugambi: a critical analysis
(2013)Reconstruction theology is widely regarded as one of the most influential approaches to contemporary African Christian theology – alongside others such as inculturation theology, liberation theology, African women’s theology, ... -
Church and state relations in lesotho: a theological reflection on catholic and reformed contributions 1833-2007
(2013)The relationship between church and state in the history of the Kingdom of Lesotho is an important yet neglected study. This thesis explores how this relationship has played itself out with particular interest in ... -
The effect of insulin, leptin and inflammatory cytokines on reproductive health and hypogonadism in males diagnosed with the metabolic syndrome
(2013)The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a collection of various metabolic, hormonal and immunological risk factors that cluster together, closely related to poorly understood phenomena such a hyperinsulinaemia (insulin resistance), ... -
Search for low spin collective structures in 158Er and 159Er
(2013)Lying in a rapidly-changing transitional region between nuclei that may behave as spherical vibrators (N ≤ 88) or good rotors (N ≥ 92), the N = 90 isotones present a unique testing ground where new nuclear collective ... -
Development of membrane electrode assemblies based on electrophoretic deposition for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications
(2013)High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (HT-PEMFC) have received renewed interest in recent years due to its inherent advantages associated with the limitations faced by Low Temperature Polymer Electrolyte ... -
Development of aqueous ion-intercalation battery systems for high power and bulk energy storage
(2013)Aqueous ion-intercalation batteries (AIB’s) have the potential to provide both high power for hybrid-electric transport, and low cost bulk energy storage for electric grid supply. However, a major setback to AIB development ... -
Electropolymerization and electrochromism of poly(4,7-dithien-2-yl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole) and its copolymer with 3-methoxythiophene in ionic liquids
(2013)This thesis is based on the study of electropolymerization and electrochromism of poly(4,7- dithien-2-yl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole) (P(DTBT) and its copolymer with 3-methoxythiophene (MOT) in imidazolium ionic liquids (ILs) ... -
Development and characterization of pro-apoptotic drug candidates for anticancer drug discovery
(2013)Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the WHO, cancer accounted for 7.4 million deaths world wide in 2004. The metallo-compound cisplatin has been used for years as an effective antitumor ... -
Low temperature tungsten trioxide nano/micro-systems for applications in gas sensing and electrochromism
(2013)In this work we primarily set out to investigate the technique of Aqueous Chemical Growth as a means of producing WO3 thin films that find applications in gas sensing and electrochromism. For the first time we demonstrated ... -
A hierarchical modelling approach to identify factors associated with the uptake of HIV counselling and testing, maternal health services, and prevention of mother to child HIV transmission programme services among post-partum women in Ethiopia
(2013)The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains an unbeaten challenge that affects all parts of the global population. Since the identification of the epidemic in the early 1980s, nearly 58 million people have become infected with the ... -
Poverty and access to health care in Ghana: the challenge of bridging the equity gap with health insurance
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study addresses the issue of the low participation in or enrolment of the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The low enrolment of the poor in the NHIS is attributed to the difficulty in identifying ... -
Socio-economic position, oral pain and oral health-related quality of life among South African adults
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Validation of the OHIP-14 for a South African adult population using CFA resulted in a 12-item scale (OHIP-12) with excellent reliability (α =0.94), but the structural pathway varied across the socio-economic groups. The ... -
Lifetime measurements of excited nuclei through modern nuclear spectroscopy
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The progressive development of scintillator detectors has made it possible to perform direct electronic lifetime determination up to a few hundred nanoseconds. The 2" by 2" LaBr3:Ce detectors provide a combination of ... -
Lifetime measurements of excited nuclei through modern nuclear spectroscopy
(2021)The progressive development of scintillator detectors has made it possible to perform direct electronic lifetime determination up to a few hundred nanoseconds. The 2” by 2” LaBr3:Ce detectors provide a combination of ...