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How professional nurses in a general hospital setting perceive mentally ill patients.

Lethoba K.G.; Netswera F.G.; Rankhumise E. (2006)

In recognition of the enormous challenges in South Africa confronting the nursing of the mentally ill, this project was conducted in a public hospital in Gauteng. The purpose of the research was to describe professional ...
Elemental contaminants in groundwater: A study of trace metals from residential area in the vicinity of an industrial area in Lagos, Nigeria

Awofolu O.R. (2006)

Groundwater (well water) from a residential area within the vicinity of an industrial estate in Lagos, Nigeria were sampled and analysed by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy for their heavy metals content. This was with ...
A new species of Cytinus (Cytinaceae) from South Africa and Swaziland, with a key to the Southern African species

Burgoyne P.M. (2006)

A new species of Cytinus L., C. visseri Burgoyne, a root holoparasite from Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa and from Swaziland is described. Morphological and phenological differences separate it from the ...
Characterizations of noncommutative H ∞

Blecher D.P.; Labuschagne L.E. (2006)

We transfer a large part of the circle of theorems characterizing the generalization of classical H ∞ known as 'weak* Dirichlet algebras', to Arveson's very general noncommutative setting of subalgebras of finite von Neumann ...
Using Email to Explore New Subject Positions for Teachers and Additional Language Learners

Bretag T. (2006)

[No abstract available]
Still photography provides data for community-based initiatives

Seedat, Mohamed; Baadjies L.; van Niekerk, Ashley; Mdaka T. (2006)

We use community psychology's accent on methodological pluralism and giving voice to the marginalised as a platform to critically examine the utility and outcome of photography as a data collection and community engagement ...
Editorial

Seedat, Mohamed; Lazarus, Sandy (2006)

[No abstract available]
Towards perfect practice in South African court interpreting: A quality assurance and quality management model

Moeketsi R.M.H.; Mollema, Nina (2006)

The Constitution of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996 at s35(3)(k) stipulates that 'every accused person has a right to a fair trial, which includes the right to be tried in a language that the accused person understands or, ...
Occupational stress experienced by caregivers working in the HIV/AIDS field in South Africa

Van Dyk A.C. (2007)

The burden of HIV on caregivers is especially heavy in South Africa where an estimated 5.5 million people were living with HIV in 2006, and where an estimated one in every three to four patients admitted to some public ...
Household budgets as a social indicator of poverty and inequality in South Africa

Martins J.H. (2007)

In the absence of a universally accepted method of calculating poverty, household expenditure can be used to provide an indication of inequality of wealth and serve as an indicator of poverty. Household expenditure comprises ...
Facial animation in a nutshell: Past, present and future

Radovan M.; Pretorius, Laurette (2006)

During its almost forty years of existence, facial animation has seen a host of technologies being invented, then fading into obsolescence. The modelling and animation methods have mostly been dictated by the available ...
A constraint-based decision procedure for the description logic ALCN

Britz K.; Horne T. (2006)

Description logics are modal-like logics used to express knowledge about structured domains, and reason about them. One of the major reasoning problems in description logics is that of determining whether a given terminological ...
Dynamic allocation of finite automata states for fast string recognition

Ngassam E.K.; Watson B.W.; Kourie D.G. (2006)

The spatial and temporal locality of reference on which cache memory relies to minimize cache swaps, is exploited to design a new algorithm for finite automaton string recognition. It is shown that the algorithm, referred ...
What happened to the human mind after the Howiesons Poort?

Lombard M.; Parsons I. (2011)

The authors deliver a decisive blow to the idea of unidirectional behavioural and cognitive evolution in this tightly argued account of why the bow and arrow was invented and then possibly laid aside by Middle Stone Age ...
Rank and the Drazin inverse in Banach algebras

Brits R.M.; Lindeboom L.; Raubenheimer H. (2006)

Let A be an arbitrary, unital and semisimple Banach algebra with nonzero socle. We investigate the relationship between the spectral rank (defined by B. Aupetit and H. Mouton) and the Drazin index for elements belonging ...
Comparative Analysis on the Behaviour of the Consonantal Archiphonemes /N/ (French) and /R/ (English)

Bizzocchi A.L. (2006)

[No abstract available]
Heavy episodic drinking in the São Paulo epidemiologic catchment area study in Brazil: Gender and sociodemographic correlates

Silveira C.M.; Wang Y.-P.; Andrade A.G.; Andrade L.H. (2007)

Objective: The aims of this study were to quantify heavy episodic drinking (HED) among adults living in two middle-class boroughs in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and to estimate possible effects of gender, age, and other ...
The dynamics of neurobehavioural recovery following sleep loss

Lamond N.; Jay S.M.; Dorrian J.; Ferguson S.A.; Jones C.; Dawson D. (2007)

Rate of recovery of daytime performance and sleepiness following moderate and severe sleep deprivation (SD) was examined when recovery opportunity was either augmented or restricted. Thirty healthy non-smokers, aged 18-33 ...
Taking sociality seriously: The structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

Barrett L.; Peter Henzi S.; Lusseau D. (2012)

Understanding human cognitive evolution, and that of the other primates, means taking sociality very seriously. For humans, this requires the recognition of the socio cultural and historical means by which human minds and ...
An aspect-oriented implementation of e-consent to foster trust

Padayachee, K.; Eloff, J.H.P. (2006)

As society becomes increasingly dependent on software, there is an increasing expectation of information systems to protect the individual's right to privacy. The process of attaining electronic consent (e-Consent) may ...

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