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Energy Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks using Hierarchical Routing Techniques
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become a popular research area that is widely gaining the attraction from both the research and the practitioner communities due to their wide area of applications. These applications ...
Massively-Parallel Computational Identification of Novel Broad Spectrum Antivirals to Combat Coronavirus Infection
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Given the significant disease burden caused by human coronaviruses, the discovery of an effective antiviral strategy is paramount, however there is still no effective therapy to combat infection. This thesis details the ...
Genomic and proteomic analysis of drought tolerance in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Drought is the most complex phenomenon that remained to be a potential and historic challenge to
human welfare. It affects plant productivity by eliciting perturbations related to a pathway that
controls a normal, ...
An evaluation of the biopesticidal characteristics of Helichrysum marifolium and Helichrysum patulum and their effects on animal metabolism
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
There are a number of pesticides that are suspected to be endocrine disrupters Many of these pesticides are man-made. Endocrine disrupters are chemicals that can lead to an increase in birth defects, sexual abnormalities, ...
Conjugacy classes of some projective linear groups
(University of the Western Cape, 1992)
Given a finite set X of distinct symbols the symmetric group S* and the alternating group A* are obtained without further constructions. More interesting groups are contrived, however, by imposing a certain structure on ...
Female unemployment in South Africa: insight from the 2021 labour force survey.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The study focused on female unemployment and aimed to establish whether or not there is a relationship between female unemployment and demographic characteristics, whether the currently unemployed have ever worked or not, ...
In vitro neuroprotective potential of phyllanthin in MPP+- induced toxicity in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common age-related neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease, with an estimated 9 million people projected to be affected worldwide by the year 2030. PD is associated ...
Accelerating reionization simulations using machine learning
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Epoch of Reionization (EoR) refers to the time in the history of the universe when the appearance of the first luminous sources reionized the intergalactic medium (IGM). The EoR carries a wealth of information regarding ...
Dexamethasone's impact on LPS-induced inflammation of blood-brain barrier endothelial cells
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) serves as a protective and regulatory barrier between the blood and the brain. Microvascular endothelial cells provide homeostatic regulation of the central nervous system (CNS). BBB integrity ...
Exploring a participatory multi-stakeholder engagement approach to address chronic medicine use
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Background: In South Africa, chronic diseases (CD) fall into the quadruple burdens of diseases. In 2018 the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that chronic diseases were responsible for more than fifty percent of ...