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  • Physiological effects of physical activity on neurocognitive function in people living with HIV : a systematic review of intervention and observational studies 
    Nweke, Martins C.; Mshunqane, Nombeko; Govender, N.; Akinpelu, O.A. (LAM Publications Limited, 2021-03-01)
    The inadequacy of antiretroviral therapy in the treatment of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders paves a way for regular physical activity as a lifestyle modification alternative. However, uncertainty exists among ...
  • Phytoremediation of Cr(VI) in wastewater using the vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) 
    Masinire, Farai F.; Adenuga, Dorcas Oluyemisi; Tichapondwa, Shepherd Masimba; Chirwa, Evans M.N. (Elsevier, 2021-10)
    In this study, the phytoremediation of Cr(VI) in wastewater using vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) was investigated. The influence of parameters such as initial concentration, grass density, and solution pH was ...
  • PID-MPC implementation on a chiller-fan coil unit 
    Sanama, Conrad; Xia, Xiaohua; Nguepnang, M. (Hindawi, 2022-09)
    A proportional, integral, and derivative-model predictive controller (PID-MPC) is implemented to enhance the performance of a chiller-fan coil unit with regards to temperature, humidity, and CO2 level control. The sublayer ...
  • Pilot study on the current management of children with COVID-19 In hospitals in Bangladesh : findings and implications 
    Nusrat, Nadia; Haque, Mainul; Chowdhury, Kona; Adnan, Nihad; Lutfor, Afzalunnessa Binte; Karim, Enamul; Hassan, Mahmuda; Rabbany, Arif; Begum, Dilara; Mohammad Nazmul Hasan; Sihan, Nazmus; Zaman, Sifat Uz; Islam, Salequl; Schellack, Natalie; Gowere, Marshall; Kurdi, Amanj; Godman, Brian (Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, 2021-09)
    OBJECTIVE : The focus on COVID-19 in children in low- and middle-income countries including Bangladesh has been on addressing key issues including poor vaccination rates as well as mental health issues, domestic violence ...
  • Pilots after shoulder surgery and rehabilitation in a dedicated musculoskeletal rehabilitation unit of a major airline returned to work earlier when compared to standard rehabilitation by external providers 
    Hohmann, Erik; Pieterse, Renier Johannes (Elsevier, 2022-01)
    PURPOSE : The purpose of this study was to compare the time to return to work (RTW) for pilots who underwent shoulder surgery and underwent rehabilitation within a dedicated musculoskeletal rehabilitation (MSK) unit of a ...
  • Pitiful rooftop solar uptake in sunny South Africa : a policy, funding and service delivery perspective 
    McKay, Tracey; Hendricks, Donavan (Frontiers Media, 2022-09-20)
    Despite rolling blackouts, high electricity prices, a favorable climate and the size of the South African economy, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar products have low levels of middle-income residential market penetration. ...
  • The place of African belief and germ theory on the causes of human diseases 
    Anizoba, Emmanuel C. (AOSIS, 2021-12-15)
    This study looks into the African belief about the mystical causes of diseases and the tenets of Western germ theory. Despite widespread Western medical practices, African people still strongly believe in the mystical ...
  • Planar hypohamiltonian oriented graphs 
    Burger, Alewyn P.; De Wet, J.P. (Johan); Frick, Marietjie; Van Cleemput, Nico; Zamfirescu, Carol T. (Wiley, 2023)
    In 1978 Thomassen asked whether planar hypohamiltonian oriented graphs exist. Infinite families of such graphs have since been described but for infinitely many it remained an open question whether planar hypohamiltonian ...
  • Plasmonic effect and bandgap tailoring of Ag/Ag2S doped on ZnO nanocomposites for enhanced visible-light photocatalysis 
    Ichipi, Emmanuel O.; Tichapondwa, Shepherd Masimba; Chirwa, Evans M.N. (Elsevier, 2022-06)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Platelet function, role in thrombosis, inflammation, and consequences in chronic myeloproliferative disorders 
    Repsold, Lisa; Joubert, Anna Margaretha (MDPI, 2021-11-05)
    Platelets are conventionally defined as playing a vital role in homeostasis and thrombosis. This role has over the years transformed as knowledge regarding platelets has expanded to include inflammation, cancer progression, ...
  • Point and density forecasting of macroeconomic and financial uncertainties of the USA 
    Salisu, Afees A.; Gupta, Rangan; Ogbonna, Ahamuefula E. (Wiley, 2021-07)
    We forecast macroeconomic and financial uncertainties of the USA over the period of 1960:Q3 to 2018:Q4, based on a large dataset of 303 predictors using a wide array of constant-parameter and time-varying models. We find ...
  • The polarized image of a synchrotron-emitting ring of gas orbiting a black hole 
    Narayan, Ramesh; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Johnson, Michael D.; Gelles, Zachary; Himwich, Elizabeth; Chang, Dominic O.; Ricarte, Angelo; Dexter, Jason; Gammie, Charles F.; Chael, Andrew A.; The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Barrett, John; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Boland, Wilfred; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Shami; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Chesler, Paul M.; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, Roman; Gomez, Jose L.; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Jorstad, Svetlana; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Michael; Kramer, Carsten; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Sang-Sung; Levis, Aviad; Li, Yan-Rong; Li, Zhiyuan; Lindqvist, Michael; Lico, Rocco; Lindah, Greg; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Muller, Cornelia; Musoke, Gibwa; Mus Mejías, Alejandro; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Park, Jongho; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Potzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Ros, Eduardo; Rose, Mel; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sasada, Mahito; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Trent, Tyler; Traianou, Efthalia; Trippe, Sascha; van Bemmel, Ilse; Van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wex, Norbert; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (IOP Publishing, 2021-05-01)
    Synchrotron radiation from hot gas near a black hole results in a polarized image. The image polarization is determined by effects including the orientation of the magnetic field in the emitting region, relativistic motion ...
  • Political campaigns in South Africa : does celebrity endorsement influence the intention to vote? 
    Madinga, Nkosivile Welcome; Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa; Mototo, Lebogang Thato; Chuchu, Tinashe (Wiley, 2021-05)
    From presidential campaigns to social awareness campaigns, celebrities have gradually become central fixtures in modern politics. They tend to be information platforms for candidates and parties they either clearly support ...
  • Polyctenidae (Hemiptera: Cimicoidea) species in the Afrotropical region : distribution, host specificity, and first insights to their molecular phylogeny 
    Szentivanyi, Tamara; Hornok, Sandor; Kovacs, Aron B.; Takacs, Nora; Gyuranecz, Miklos; Markotter, Wanda; Christe, Philippe; Glaizot, Olivier (Wiley Open Access, 2022-10)
    Polyctenidae bugs are rarely studied, hematophagous, and highly specialized ectoparasites of bats. There are only 32 described species worldwide, including six species in the Afrotropical region. Knowledge on these ...
  • Polyethylene glycol and membrane processes applied to suction control in geotechnical osmotic testing 
    Vandoorne, Rick; Grabe, Petrus Johannes; Heymann, Gerhard (Taylor and Francis, 2022)
    The osmotic technique in geotechnical testing of unsaturated soils is a promising technique to control soil-water potential. This technique is an alternative to the axis-translation technique. In this technique an aqueous ...
  • Population diversity and genetic structure reveal patterns of host association and anthropogenic impact for the globally important fungal tree pathogen Ceratocystis manginecans 
    Liu, FeiFei; Duong, Tuan A.; Barnes, Irene; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chen, ShuaiFei (MDPI, 2021-09-15)
    Species in the Ceratocystis manginecans complex are important fungal pathogens of plantation trees globally. The most important hosts include species of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Mangifera, and Punica. Despite their relevance ...
  • Population genomics reveals historical and ongoing recombination in the Fusarium oxysporum species complex 
    McTaggart, Alistair R.; James, T.Y.; Shivas, R.G.; Drenth, A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Summerell, B.A.; Duong, Tuan A. (Elsevier, 2021-12-17)
    The Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC) is a group of closely related plant pathogens long-considered strictly clonal, as sexual stages have never been recorded. Several studies have questioned whether recombination ...
  • Population structure, biogeography and transmissibility of mycobacterium tuberculosis 
    Freschi, Luca; Vargas Jr., Roger; Husain, Ashaque; Kamal, S.M. Mostofa; Skrahina, Alena; Tahseen, Sabira; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Barbova, Anna; Niemann, Stefan; Cirillo, Daniela Maria; Dean, Anna S.; Zignol, Matteo; Farhat, Maha Reda (Nature Research, 2021-10-20)
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a clonal pathogen proposed to have co-evolved with its human host for millennia, yet our understanding of its genomic diversity and biogeography remains incomplete. Here we use a combination ...
  • Portable WIM systems : comparison of sensor installation methods for site- specific traffic data measurements 
    Walubita, Lubinda F.; Mahmoud, Enad; Fuentes, Luis; Komba, Julius Joseph; Teshale, Eyoab Zegeye; Faruk, Abu N.M. (ASTM International, 2021-05-01)
    As an alternative to costly permanent weigh-in-motion (WIM) stations that are mostly limited to major interstate highways, portable WIM systems are often used as a substitute or supplement to routinely collect site-specific ...
  • Portraits of ‘angels’ : some ancient near Eastern and Old Testament perspectives in relation to ATR belief system(s) 
    Human, Dirk J. (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)
    For the modern mind the notion of heavenly beings or ‘angels’ is an enigmatic and fascinating phenomenon. In the Ancient Near Eastern world and in the Hebrew Bible the word for ‘angel’, namely mal’ āk, is widely attested ...