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The effect of storage time on the platelet concentration of Choukroun's platelet rich fibrin (PRF)
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Wound healing is a complex process characterised by the repair and reconstitution of lost or damaged tissue. By the mid 1990s, several methods were proposed to enhance wound healing of surgical sites by introducing high ...
Recognition of facial action units from video streams with recurrent neural networks : a new paradigm for facial expression recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This research investigated the application of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for recognition of facial expressions based on facial action coding system (FACS). Support vector machines (SVMs) were used to validate the ...
Exploring parental coping with childcare after the disclosure of child sexual abuse
(University of the Western Cape., 2011)
Child sexual abuse is a well-documented social crime that influences every aspect of the survivor and their family's lives. The parents are then confronted with a child that presents behavior that may include scholastic ...
Familial needs : comparing traditional and non-traditional families of public officials
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Participation of diverse families in familial needs studies, assist in understanding and comparing their descriptive account of their families and experiences today. This descriptive study compared traditional and ...
Professional nurses' perceptions of newly qualified professional nurses competency and factors influencing competency
(University of the Western cape, 2011)
In our constantly changing healthcare system and with large numbers of staff shortages in hospitals, newly qualified professional nurses are expected to be competent and work unsupervised in leadership capacities soon after ...
Advanced Ti – based AB and AB2 hydride forming materials
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Ti – based AB and AB₂ hydride forming materials have shown to be very promising hydrogen storage alloys due to their reasonable reversible hydrogen storage capacity at near ambient conditions, abundance and low cost. ...
Structural and functional characterization of human DDX5 and its interaction with NS5B of hepatitis C virus
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Hepatitis C was first recognized as a transfusion-associated liver disease not caused by hepatitis A or hepatitis B virus after serological tests were developed to screen for their presence in the blood. The infectious ...
A theoretical study of stellar pulsations in young brown dwarfs
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis reports the results of a twofold study on the recently proposed phenomenon of 'stellar pulsations' in young brown dwarfs by the seminal study of Palla and Baraffe (2005) (PB05, thereafter). The PB05 study ...
Effect of low-cost housing on household and environmental health of residents in Phumlani Village, City of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Many poor households in South Africa find themselves living in informal housing and only become proprietors of formal housing via the government subsidy scheme for core low-cost housing, thereby also realizing their ...
The representation of children and childhood in the Children's Amendment Act (41 of 2007)
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Until fairly recently studies of children as actively engaged in the production of meaning making in their social lives has been overlooked, ignored or received marginal attention within the contemporary social sciences ...