• Exploring mutual and exclusive biological information in cranial metric and morphological variables 

  Stull, Kyra Elizabeth; New, Briana T.; Corron, Louise K.; Auchter, Leah E.; Spradley, Kate; Wolfe, Christopher A.; Chu, Elaine Y.; Hefner, Joseph T. (University of Florida Press, 2024-07)

  Evidence suggests that both craniometric and cranial morphoscopic (MMS) traits elucidate information about cranial phenotypic variation and are appropriate proxies of genetic variation. Yet, the types of variation underlying ...
• Profiling the diversity of the village chicken faecal microbiota using 16S rRNA gene and metagenomic sequencing data to reveal patterns of gut microbiome signatures 

  Nene, Mxolisi; Kunene, Nokuthula W.; Pierneef, Rian; Hadebe, Khanyisile (Frontiers Media, 2025-02)

  INTRODUCTION: The production environment of extensively raised village chickens necessitates their adaptability to low-resource systems. The gut microbiome plays a critical role in supporting this adaptability by influencing ...
• Modelling, analysis and sensory metrication towards a quantitative understanding of complexity in systems 

  Ball, Melissa Claire; Ayomoh, Michael Kweneojo (MDPI, 2024-11)

  Modelling and metrication of the complexity of systems have occupied a growing and largely underdeveloped problem space in the literature of complex systems. In this research, preliminary results depicting the complexity ...
• Development and validation of a knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) questionnaire for healthcare professionals on environmental sustainability in healthcare in Southern Africa 

  Lister, Helga Elke; Mostert, Karien; Botha, Tanita; Field, Emma; Knock, Danté; Mubi, Natasha; Odendaal, Stefani; Rohde, Megan; Maric, Filip (F1000 Research Ltd, 2024-10)

  BACKGROUND: The triple planetary crisis of climate change, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss is increasingly driving poor health outcomes worldwide. Healthcare systems and services are often not environmentally ...
• Special focus : implementation of decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights 

  Viljoen, Frans; Adegalu, Foluso; Olaitan, Zainab (Pretoria University Law Press, 2024-12-01)

  This Special Focus is devoted to the implementation of decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), the longest-standing African supranational human rights body with continental ...
• Reinstatement of Aloe mutans (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a distinctive, endemic, maculate aloe from the central Limpopo province of South Africa 

  Smith, Gideon F.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Klopper, Ronell Renett (Magnolia Press, 2024-03-12)

  Until 1987, Aloe mutans (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) was accepted as a distinctive species of maculate aloe from South Africa’s Limpopo province. However, this species thereafter often has been included in the synonymy ...
• Petalidium namibense (Acanthaceae), a new species from Namibia 

  Swanepoel, Wessel; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2024-11-12)

  Petalidium namibense, hitherto confused with P. englerianum, P. rossmannianum, and the widespread P. variabile, is here described as a new species. It is a range-restricted species, only known from the area to the southwest, ...
• Gene transfer between fungal species triggers repeated coffee wilt disease outbreaks 

  Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Public Library of Science, 2024-12-06)

  Two outbreaks of coffee wilt disease have devastated African coffee production. A PLOS Biology study suggests that horizontal gene transfer via large Starship transposons between 2 fungal species played a key role in the ...
• On the impact of re-mating and residual fertility on the sterile insect technique efficacy : case study with the medfly, Ceratitis capitata 

  Dumont, Yves; Oliva, Clelia F. (Public Library of Science, 2024-05-06)

  The sterile insect technique (SIT) can be an efficient solution for reducing or eliminating certain insect pest populations. It is widely used in agriculture against fruit flies, including the Mediterranean fruit fly ...
• Southern Ocean food-webs and climate change : a short review and future directions 

  Queiros, Jose P.; Borras-Chavez, Renato; Friscourt, Noemie; Groß, Jasmin; Lewis, Candice B.; Mergard, Georgia; O’Brien, Katie (Public Library of Science, 2024-03-11)

  Food-webs are a critical feature of ecosystems and help us understand how communities will respond to climate change. The Southern Ocean is facing rapid and accelerating changes due to climate change. Though having evolved ...
• Advancing action on the UN sustainable development goals 

  Archer, Emma Rosa Mary; Males, Jamie (Public Library of Science, 2024-01-04)

  The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of objectives that were agreed by the global community in 2015 as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” ...
• Mother Earth is the pluriversal panarium of all : the living and the dead 

  Ramose, Mogobe B. (Unisa Press, 2023-12)

  Mother Earth is the panarium of all who live and die in it. This is not restricted to human beings only. The principle of the equality of all human beings demands peaceful coexistence and mutual respect. This is not the ...
• A question of underlying interests : economic justice, constitutional history and the capture of the South African state by white economic interests 

  Sibanda, Sanele; Raboshakga, Ngwako (University of the Western Cape, 2023)

  Understanding the South African constitutional state beyond the banal framings of liberal or transformative thinking requires a reconsideration of the prevailing approach to questions of constitutional identity or character. ...
• Using laptops in prisoners' cells : failing to distinguish between differentiation and discrimination, and failing to identify a prohibited ground of discrimination - Pretorius v the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services 2018 2 SACR 501 (GP) 

  Kok, Anton; Meyer, Zoe (LexisNexis, 2023-11)

  Suid-Afrikaanse diskriminasiereg onderskei duidelik tussen blote differensiasie en diskriminasie. Blote differensiasie is meestal aanvaarbaar en howe stel 'n baie laer drempel daar vir differensiasie om grondwetlik te wees ...
• Narrating constitutional dis/order in post-1994 South Africa : a critical response to Theunis Roux 

  Modiri, Joel Malesela (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2024)

  No abstract available.
• Women's experience of preterm birth in an East African context : a qualitative study 

  Habtu, Thomas Asmelash; Pembe, Andrea Barnabas; Chiwanga, Faraja S.; Odland, Jon Oyvind; Darj, Elisabeth (Makerere University, Medical School, 2024-03-01)

  BACKGROUND: Approximately 15 million children are born each year prematurely, representing more than 10 percent of all childbirths worldwide. Prematurity is an acute event and the leading cause of death among newborns and ...
• Principals’ perspectives on the connection between context and student learning in Cameroonian Presbyterian schools 

  Mokoko, Grace Emade; Marishane, Ramodikoe Nylon (Routledge, 2024)

  This study examines the role of secondary school leadership in enhancing student learning in Cameroon, focusing on Presbyterian school principals and their understanding of the relationship between learning context and ...
• Petalidium etendekaense (Acanthaceae), a new species from Namibia, with notes on the taxonomic identity of P. glutinosum 

  Swanepoel, Wessel; Manzitto-Tripp, Erin A.; Dexter, Kyle G.; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2024-02-01)

  Petalidium etendekaense, previously mistaken for P. glutinosum and P. variabile, is now described as a new species. The name P. pilosibracteolatum is considered synonymous with the older P. glutinosum, the latter of which ...
• Clarifying the placement of Trifolium capense in leobordea (Fabaceae) 

  Le Roux, M. Marianne; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Boatwright, James S. (Magnolia Press, 2024-01-24)

  No abstract available.
• Anti-biofilm and anti-quorum sensing activities of extract, fractions and compounds from the leaves of Cassia alata L. against yeast pathogens 

  Dzoyem, J.P.; Fotso, Simplice Chimi; Wansi, Jean Duplex; Tabenkoueng, Bellier; Tsopgni, Willifred Dongmo Tekapi; Toze, Flavien Aristide Alfred; McGaw, Lyndy Joy (Elsevier, 2024-11)

  BACKGROUND : Cassia alata or Senna alata, also known as “ringworm bush” because of its very effective fungicidal properties, is commonly used in African traditional medicine to treat fungal infections. Despite ...

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