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Use and consumer perceptions of dietary supplements in the fitness community of Gaborone, Botswana
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Health authorities around the world, including stringent ones, struggle to regulate dietary supplements. Health claims and actual effects of these products on users therefore are not adequately studied and monitored. In ...
Delineation of groundwater protection zone in a fractured rock aquifer setting: A case study of Rawsonville
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is considering the implementation of an Aquifer Protection Strategy to protect the country’s critical groundwater resources. This study will assist in filling the knowledge gap ...
Cheminformatic approaches to hit-prioritization and target prediction of potential anti-mrsa natural products
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The growing resistance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to currently prescribed drugs has resulted in the failure of prevention and treatment of different infections caused by the superbug. Therefore, ...
Acid mine drainage prediction techniques and geochemical modelling: case study on gold tailing dams, West Rand, Witwatersrand basin area, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is identified as one of the contributors to
environmental hazard in the gold mining region of South Africa, as caused by the
mining operational activities performed by mining industries in South ...
Evaluating telemetry system of the Phalaborwa water treatment works process in Lepelle northern water
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Water is a strategic resource critical for basic human needs and for sustaining key economic sectors, including various emerging small businesses. The significance of water to everyday life become apparent mainly during ...
Graphs of integral distance and their properties
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Understanding the geometries of points in space has been attractive to mathematicians
for ages. As a model, twelve years ago, Kurz and Meyer [32] considered point
sets in the m-dimensional a ne space Fmq
over a nite ...
Metal modified mesoporous ZSM-5 as catalysts for the oligomerization of 1- hexene
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
The use of diesel engines in vehicles and heavy machinery throughout the world has been
slowly increasing in the past few decades. This has led to high demand for diesel and
gasoline with high octane number. Diesel and ...
Development of heterostructured tin oxide nanocatalysts for the synthesis of bio-based maleic acid
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Maleic acid (MA) is a key intermediate for the synthesis of polyester resins, surface coatings, lubricant additives, plasticizers, copolymers, pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals. The current industrial production ...
The effects of silver nanoparticles on the expression of protein biomarkers of cell stress, apoptosis and inflammation by the human liver cancer cell line, HepG2
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and objects at the nanoscale (around 1-100 nm), socalled
nanomaterials. These nanomaterials exhibit novel properties that are often very
different to those of the bulk materials used ...
The effects of titanium oxide nanoparticles on cultured cells and the immune system
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Engineered nanomaterials derived from various bulk materials are being developed in ever larger quantities and with very diverse chemical compositions. The physical and chemical properties of the smaller nanoparticles are ...