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Budget impact analysis of empagliflozin in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes with established cardiovascular disease in South Africa

De Beer, Janetta Catharina; Snyman, Jacques; Ker, James A.; Miller-Janson, Helen; Stander, Marthinus (Elsevier, 2023-01)

OBJECTIVES : This study aimed to estimate the budget impact and affordability of empagliflozin added to usual care compared with usual care alone, in a diabetic population with established cardiovascular disease, from a ...
The Cycas genome and the early evolution of seed plants

Liu, Yang; Wang, Sibu; Li, Linzhou; Yang, Ting; Dong, Shanshan; Wei, Tong; Wu, Shengdan; Liu, Yongbo; Gong, Yiqing; Feng, Xiuyan; Ma, Jianchao; Chang, Guanxiao; Huang, Jinling; Yang, Yong; Wang, Hongli; Liu, Min; Xu, Yan; Liang, Hongping; Yu, Jin; Cai, Yuqing; Zhang, Zhaowu; Fan, Yannan; Mu, Weixue; Sahu, Sunil Kumar; Liu, Shuchun; Lang, Xiaoan; Yang, Leilei; Li, Na; Habib, Sadaf; Yang, Yongqiong; Lindstrom, Anders J.; Liang, Pei; Goffinet, Bernard; Zaman, Sumaira; Wegrzyn, Jill; Li, Dexiang; Liu, Jian; Cui, Jie; Sonnenschein, Eva C.; Wang, Xiaobo; Ruan, Jue; Xue, Jia-Yu; Shao, Zhu-Qing; Song, Chi; Fan, Guangyi; Li, Zhen; Zhang, Liangsheng; Liu, Jianquan; Liu, Zhong-Jian; Jiao, Yuannian; Wang, Xiao-Quan; Wu, Hong; Wang, Ertao; Lisby, Michael; Yang, Huanming; Wang, Jian; Liu, Xin; Xu, Xun; Li, Nan; Soltis, Pamela S.; Van de Peer, Yves; Soltis, Douglas E.; Gong, Xun; Liu, Huan; Zhang, Shouzhou (Nature Research, 2022-04-18)

Cycads represent one of the most ancient lineages of living seed plants. Identifying genomic features uniquely shared by cycads and other extant seed plants, but not non-seed-producing plants, may shed light on the origin ...
Prior pulmonary tuberculosis is a risk factor for asymptomatic cryptococcal antigenemia in a cohort of adults with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease

Wake, Rachel M.; Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Omar, Shaheed V.; Ismail, Farzanah; Tiemessen, Caroline T.; Harrison, Thomas S.; Jarvis, Joseph N.; Govender, Nelesh (Oxford University Press, 2022-07)

The greater mortality risk among people with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease and cryptococcal antigenemia, despite treatment, indicates an increased susceptibility to other infections. We found that prior ...
The effect of graphene nano-powder on the viscosity of water : an experimental study and artificial neural network modeling

Alqaed, Saeed; Mustafa, Jawed; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Cheraghian, Goshtasp (De Gruyter, 2022-08)

Viscosity shifts the flow features of a liquid and affects the consistency of a product, which is a primary factor in demonstrating forces that should be overcome when fluids are transported in pipelines or employed in ...
Coding-complete genome sequences for two confirmed monkeypox cases in South Africa 2022

Chan, Wai Yin; Mtshali, Phillip Senzo; Grobbelaar, Antoinette; Moolla, Naazneen; Mohale, Thabo; Lowe, Michelle; Du Plessis, Morne; Ismail, Arshad; Weyer, Jacqueline (American Society for Microbiology, 2022-11-10)

The coding-complete genome sequences of monkeypox virus (MPXV) were obtained from skin lesion swabs from two human cases detected in South Africa in June 2022. Sequence analyses indicated that the genetic sequences of ...
Epistemologiese oorwegings by die Neo-Calvinistiese afwysing van die teokratiese inslag van artikel 36 van die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis

Schlebusch, J.A. (LitNet, 2022)

Die wysiging van artikel 36 van die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis aan die begin van die twintigste eeu onder leiding van die Neo-Calvinistiese teoloë Abraham Kuyper en Herman Bavinck geniet wydverspreide waardering binne ...
Could purposefully engineered native grassland gardens enhance urban insect biodiversity?

Breed, Christina A.; Morelli, Agata; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Sole, Catherine L.; Du Toit, Marie J.; Cilliers, Sarel S. (MDPI, 2022-07-27)

Progress is required in response to how cities can support greater biodiversity. This calls for more research on how landscape designers can actively shape urban ecologies to deliver contextspecific empirical bases for ...
Widespread metastasis of a spermatocytic seminoma with concomitant hepatic peliosis in a Southern African hedgehog (Atelerixfrontalis)

O'Dell, Nicolize; O'Dell, Jacques Henry; Van der Weyden, L. (Medpharm Publications, 2022)

A six-year-old intact male Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) presented with a history of chronic mild to moderate weight loss, and sub-acute hind limb ataxia that progressed to complete paralysis, at which ...
Acute clinical evaluation for syndesmosis injury has high diagnostic value

Baltes, Thomas P.A.; Al Sayrafi, Omar; Arnaiz, Javier; Al‑Naimi, Maryam R.; Geertsema, Celeste; Geertsema, Liesel; Holtzhausen, Louis; D’Hooghe, Pieter; Kerkhoffs, Gino M.M.J.; Tol, Johannes L. (Springer, 2022-11)

PURPOSE : To determine the diagnostic value of injury history, physical examination, six syndesmosis tests and overall clinical suspicion for syndesmosis injury. METHODS : All athletes (> 18 yrs) with an acute ankle injury ...
Evidence that residues of tebuthiuron arboricide present in soil of Mokala National Park can be phytotoxic to woody and grass species

Reinhardt, Carl Frederick (Charlie); Bezuidenhout, Hugo; Judith M. Botha (AOSIS, 2022-03-18)

Mokala National Park (MoNP) has a history of arboricide use through South African National Parks (SANPs) having bought commercial game farmland for its establishment in 2007. Tebuthiuron arboricide is known to have been ...
A fuzzy-logic based adaptive data rate scheme for energy-efficient LoRaWAN communication

Kufakunesu, Rachel; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan (MDPI, 2022-12)

Long RangeWide Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology is rapidly expanding as a technology with long distance connectivity, low power consumption, low data rates and a large number of end devices (EDs) that connect to the ...
Cultivated hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida var. major) genome sheds light on the evolution of Maleae (apple tribe)

Zhang, Ticao; Qiao, Qin; Du, Xiao; Zhang, Xiao; Hou, Yali; Wei, Xin; Sun, Chao; Zhang, Rengang; Yun, Quanzheng; Crabbe, M. James C.; Van de Peer, Yves; Dong, Wenxuan (Wiley, 2022-08)

Cultivated hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida var. major) is an important medicinal and edible plant with a long history of use for health protection in China. Herein, we provide a de novo chromosomelevel genome sequence ...
The (de)colonial praxis : confronting present-day dilemmas of transforming knowledges and societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt milk

Ncube, Ndumiso (Unisa Press, 2022-09)

Contemporary South African campus fiction has always been concerned with questions of power, being, and knowledge production. Kopano Matlwa’s novel Spilt Milk, like most campus fiction, evokes and challenges the South ...
Doing literature now

Nethersole, Reingard (Unisa Press, 2022-04)

For over 35 years SAVAL-LASA's Journal of Literary Studies, ably assisted and directed by Andries Oliphant, devoted itself to examining literary texts. In the waxing and waning of theories it did a remarkable job reading ...
Forecastability of agricultural commodity futures realised volatility with daily infectious disease-related uncertainty

Shiba, Sisa; Aye, Goodness Chioma; Gupta, Rangan; Goswami, Samrat (MDPI, 2022-11-10)

Given the food supply chain disruption from COVID-19 lockdowns around the world, we examine the predictive power of daily infectious diseases-related uncertainty (EMVID) on commodity traded futures within the agricultural ...
A study of mandibular premolar root and canal morphology in a Black South African population using cone-beam computed tomography and two classification systems

Buchanan, Glynn Dale; Gamieldien, Mohamed Yasin; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Van Schoor, Albert-Neels; Uys, Andre (Nihon University School of Dentistry, 2022)

PURPOSE : An investigation of the configurations of mandibular premolar roots and canals in a population of Black South Africans. METHODS : Cone-beam computed tomography analysis of 772 mandibular premolars was performed, ...
Assessment of prevalence and risk factors of diabetes and pre‑diabetes in South Africa

Grundlingh, Nina; Zewotir, Temesgen T.; Roberts, Danielle J.; Manda, S.O.M. (Samuel) (BMC, 2022-03-02)

BACKGROUND : Diabetes prevalence, as well as that of pre-diabetes, is rapidly increasing in South Africa. Individuals with pre-diabetes have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is reversible with a change in ...
Effectiveness of universal newborn hearing screening : a systematic review and meta-analysis

Edmond, Karen; Chadha, Shelly; Hunnicutt, Cynthia; Strobel, Natalie; Manchaiah, Vinaya; Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine (International Society of Global Health, 2022-10)

BACKGROUND : Permanent bilateral hearing loss (PBHL) is a serious condition in newborns, with a prevalence of at least one per 1000 live births. However, there has been no recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the ...
Identification and characterization of a QTL for growth of Fusarium circinatum on pine-based medium

Swalarsk-Parry, Benedicta S.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van Wyk, Stephanie; Santana, Quentin C.; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen (MDPI, 2022-11-16)

Fusarium circinatum is an economically important pathogen of pine and resides in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex. Here we investigated the molecular processes underlying growth in F. circinatum by exploring the ...
The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing : standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track

Smits, Cas; Festen, Joost M.; Swanepoel, De Wet; Moore, David R.; Dillon, Harvey (Acoustical Society of America, 2022-10-25)

The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase or up-down) procedure is often used to estimate the speech recognition threshold (SRT) in speech-in-noise testing. This article provides a brief historical overview of the one-up ...

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