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Pharmacy perspectives in the design and implementation of a mobile cellular phone application as a communication aid for dispensing medicines to deaf people in the South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
South Africa's White Paper for the transformation of the health care system in South Africa (DOH, 2007) acknowledges major disparities and inequalities as a result of an imprint by apartheid policies. In its transition to ...
Graphene-modified pencil graphite bismuth-film electrodes for the determination of heavy metals in water samples using anodic stripping voltammetry
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Electrochemical platforms were developed based on pencil graphite electrodes (PGEs) modified with electrochemically deposited graphene (EG) sheets and Nafion-graphene (NG) nanocomposites in conjunction with an in situ ...
Computational characterisation of DNA methylomes in mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing hyper- and hypo-virulent strains
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is estimated to infect approximately one-third of the world’s population and is responsible for around 2 million deaths per year. The disease is endemic in ...
Tumour specific targeted in vitro theranostics application of fabricated nanostructures in a multi-drug resistant ovarian carcinoma cell line
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Ovarian cancer is called the “Silent Killer” as it is often diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease or misdiagnosed which ends with a poor prognostic outcome for the patient. A high rate of disease relapse, a high ...
Identification of miRNA's as specific biomarkers in prostate cancer diagnostics : a combined in silico and molecular approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each of these cancers are classified by the type of cell that it initially affects. For the purpose of this research we will be focussing on prostate cancer (PC). Prostate ...
The isolation and characterisation of novel natural products from marine bacterial symbionts
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Drug-resistant infections are a global health crisis and drastically hinder the treatment options to effectively combat disease. Today, natural products remain an important source of novel drug candidates. Micro-organisms, ...
Antibacterial activity of some South African plant extracts against streptococcus mutans
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Good oral health has a major influence on the general quality of life and well-being. Several chronic and systemic diseases have been attributed to poor oral health. With the increasing incidence of oral diseases, the ...
Parametric deconvolution for a common heteroscedastic case
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
There exists an extensive statistics literature dealing with non-parametric deconvolution, the estimation of the underlying population probability density when sample values are subject to measurement errors. In parametric ...
The role of visualization in the teaching and learning of multivariate calculus and systems of ordinary differential equations
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of visualization in the conceptualisation and solution of problems in multivariate calculus and dynamical systems. The theoretical basis, and the visual and analytical ...
Synthesis and characterization of pyridyl/quinolyl imine ruthenium(II) and palladium (II) complexes in catalysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
We report the successful syntheses of a family of tetradentate N-donor pyridyl and quinolyl-imine ligands N1,N2-bis((pyridin-2-yl)methylene)ethane-1,2-diamine (L1), N1,N3- bis(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)propane-1,3-diamine (L2), ...