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Service learning in pharmacy: Evaluation of tuberculosis screening by pharmacy students in primary health care facilities.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the arms of the so-called quadruple burden of
disease in South Africa. One of the major impediments to TB control is failure to detect the
disease, and undiagnosed cases in the ...
Interior operators and their applications
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Categorical closure operators were introduced by Dikranjan and Giuli in [DG87] and then developed by
these authors and Tholen in [DGT89]. These operators have played an important role in the development
of Categorical ...
Bioactivity and genome guided isolation of a novel antimicrobial protein from Thalassomonas viridans
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The continued emergence of bacterial resistance to the antibiotics currently employed to treat several diseases has added to the urgency to discover and develop novel antibiotics. It is well established that natural products ...
Valuation of options for hedging against exchange rate exposure
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The risk associated with currency exposure is one of the main sources of risk in terms of internationally
diversi ed portfolios. Controlling the risk is important for improving the performance
of international investments. ...
Green synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles from South African plants and their biological evaluations
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The field of nanotechnology continues to offer solutions for biotechnologists whose
target is to improve the quality of life by finding new therapies to combat diseases.
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been showing great ...
Smart cities air pollution monitoring system - Developing a potential data collecting platform based on Raspberry Pi
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Air pollution is becoming a challenging issue in our daily lives due to advanced industrialization.
This thesis presents a solution to collection and dissemination of pollution data. Most of the
devices that monitor air ...
Data science for health-care: Patient condition recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have elicited
increased interest in many areas of our daily lives. These include health, agriculture, aviation,
manufacturing, cities management ...
Cosmology with next generation radio telescopes
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The next generation of radio telescopes will revolutionize cosmology by
providing large three-dimensional surveys of the universe. This work presents
forecasts using the technique 21cm intensity mapping (IM) combined ...
The availability of persons nominated for adverse drug reporting and associated challenges in Gauteng regional and district public hospitals
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background and Objectives: The reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is a major public health necessity. It is estimated that only six to 10 percent of all ADRs are reported worldwide. This number is far less than the ...
Determinants of under-five mortality in South Africa: A logistic regression
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
While several interventions have been implemented over the past decade to combat child mortality, under-five mortality remains a challenge especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Global-ly, child mortality has decreased to half ...