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Grand challenges in global health : ethical, social, and cultural issues based on key informant perspectives.
(Plos., 2007)The authors interviewed key informants from the developing world and the Grand Challenges investigators to explore their ethical, social, and cultural concerns about the program. -
Grand challenges in global health : the ethical, social and cultural program.
(Plos., 2007)The Grand Challenges initiative has 44 projects worldwide aimed at addressing diseases of the poor. What are the ethical, social, and cultural issues that the initiative faces? -
Grandparents and their adolescent foster children : experiences of living together.
(2011)Nationally there has been an increase in the number of children requiring care and protection who have been placed in foster care in South Africa. This increase has also been evident at the Child and Family Welfare Society ... -
Granting privacy and authentication in mobile ad hoc networks.
(2012)The topic of the research is granting privacy and authentication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) that are under the authority of a certificate authority (CA) that is often not available. Privacy is implemented in the ... -
Grape fruit juice improves glycemic index and up-regulates expression of hepatic organic cation transporter protein (OCTI) in the rat
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Grapefruit juice ameliorates nephropathy in streptozotocin induced diabetes.
(2012)Background Diabetic Nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of end stage renal disease and mortality in diabetic patients. Over the years, medicinal plants have been used to manage diabetes and its complications. Metformin, ... -
Graph and digraph embedding problems.
(1996)This thesis is a study of the symmetry of graphs and digraphs by considering certain homogeneous embedding requirements. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the chapters that follow. In Chapter 2 we present a brief survey ... -
A graphic rasterizer IC.
(1987)A single chip line-rasterizer that overcomes the major bottleneck in graphics display systems has been designed by the author on a 4408 element gate array marketed by Plessey Semiconductors limited. The rasterizer was ... -
Grappling with large classes : experience of educators, heads of department and principals in three rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)The South African Education system has gone through much transformation and seen significant changes in the past decade in order to provide quality education and reformation. However, many under-resourced schools, such ... -
Grasshopper ecology and conservation in the Nama-Karoo.
(2001)This study was undertaken in the Karoo, a semi-arid grazing land in South Africa, to elucidate the interaction between grasshopper assemblages and various aspects of the Karoo landscape. It falls into four sections, the ... -
Grassland degradation and rehabilitation of soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks.
(2014)Land degradation is widely considered to adversely affect soil fertility, soil quality, constrain productivity, subsequently leading to a decline in soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrients in soils, yet little is known ... -
Grasslands of Umtamvuna Nature Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal : a description and recommendations for monitoring.
(1995)The main aim of this study was to classify and map the threatened coastal grassland communities of the 3 257 ha Umtamvuna Nature Reserve (UNR) in KwaZulu-Natal (30°07'30" to 300 11'05"E; 30°55'00" to 31°04'30"S). Secondary ... -
Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background: techniques and applications.
(2016)We have entered an era of precision cosmology, in which the parameters of the standard cosmological model have been well constrained by observations. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has played a vital role in ... -
Grazing management in the communal rangelands of the Upper Thukela, Kwazulu-Natal.
(2005)The grazing management project in the Okhombe ward of the Amazizi Tribal Authority formed part of the National Department of Agriculture's LandCare program to address communal natural resource management issues. Okhombe ... -
Great Zimbabwe : well of ancient wisdom : an examination of traditional Karanga mythology, symbolism and ritual towards an interpretation of spatial distribution and contextual meaning of symbolic structures and settlement dynamics of the royal settlement of Central Great Zimbabwe.
(2000)The intention of this thesis is to examine the possibility of seeing mythology and ritual as sources for understanding spiritual, symbolic and spatial structures in architecture. Mythology and ritual are used as sources ... -
Green building strategy to mitigate climate change: a case of Department of Public Works in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2019)Government is one of the biggest tenants when it comes to office space in the province of KwaZulu Natal (KZN) such that the adoption and implementation of green building as a way to mitigate climate change is very important. ... -
Green consumerism : a way forward in South Africa? : a case study in Pietermaritzburg.
(1997)The study assessed the possible significance of Green Consumerism in South Africa. Different meanings of "green" are explained. Consumer preferences for some green products was examined. An analysis of the attitudes and ... -
Green human-resource management towards sustainable organizations: a case of KwaZulu-Natal higher education institutions.
(2017)The Human Resources Management Division, as a strategic partner and one of the important functions in any organisation, can make a significant contribution to ensuring environmental sustainability in the organisations where ... -
Green lung to logistics park: a critical assessment of the rezoning of the Clairwood racecourse.
(2017)The South Durban Basin (SDB) (located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is the second largest industrial zone in South Africa, and has one of the highest concentrations of chemical and petro-chemical industries in the country. ...