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Development of clinical guidelines for the management of post-operative pain within the medico-socio-cultural context of Ghana
(2012)
Literature on post-operative pain indicates that post-operative pain is inadequately managed in many countries including Ghana. Little was also known about post-operative pain (POP) response and management in Ghana. This ...
Rock art in the Northern Cape: the implications of variability in engravings and paintings relative to issues of social context and change in the precolonial past
(2012)
This thesis follows and builds upon a previous study at the rock engraving site of Driekopseiland (Morris 2002). The earlier findings are here contrasted with another site in the area, namely Wildebeest Kuil, as a means ...
A model for obtaining parental informed consent for HIV clinical trials research with pediatric patients
(2013)
All research involving human subjects should be conducted in accordance to the general ethical principles of autonomy or respect for persons, beneficence and justice. Competent adults can exercise their autonomy and can ...
Sources of heavy metals in vegetables in Cape Town, and possible methods of remediation
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Cape Town includes two vegetable farming areas within the city limits, the Joostenbergvlakte/Kraaifontein area and the Philippi area. Both areas supply produce to local markets and further afield. Sporadically, high levels ...
Reservoir quality, structural architecture, fluid evolution and their controls on reservoir performance in block 9, F-O gas field, Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The use of integrated approach to evaluate the quality of reservoir rocks
is increasingly becoming vital in petroleum geoscience. This approach was employed to unravel the reason for the erratic reservoir quality of ...
Students and teachers’ views on factors that hinder or facilitate science students in mastering english for academic purposes (eap) in Rwanda higher education
(2013)
This study explores second and third year students' and teachers‟ views on factors that hinder or facilitate the mastery of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in the Science and Engineering Technology Higher Institutions ...
In silico investigation of glossina morsitans promoters
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp) are the biological vectors for Trypanosomes, the causative magents of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT). HAT is a debilitating disease that continues to present a major public health problem ...
Homelessness and Violence: Freud, Fanon and Foucault and the shadow of the Afrikan sex worker
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In this thesis, I will argue that one of the ways to think about the concept of homelessness and its relationship to violence is to trace the concept as it emerges in key theoretical texts of critical intellectuals who ...
Fitted numerical methods to solve di erential models describing unsteady magneto-hydrodynamic ow
(2013)
In this thesis, we consider some nonlinear di erential models that govern unsteady
magneto-hydrodynamic convective ow and mass transfer of viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting uid past a porous plate ...
The transmission of intergenerational trauma in displaced families
(2013)
This research focuses on the displacement of families in the Western Cape during apartheid within the context of its slave past.The transmission of intergenerational trauma has been based on research on holocaust survivors. ...