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Corruption and human rights law in Africa (2016 Hart Publishing, Oxford)
(PER, 2018-01-16)This contribution reviews the book by Kolawole Olaniyan on corruption and human rights law in Africa. The book, Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa, provides a framework for complementarity between promoting and ... -
Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: a practical-theological response
(OASIS, 2013)On the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International, 89.6% of Sub-Saharan African countries received scores below 50, where a score of zero signifies that the country is highly corrupt and a score of ... -
Corruption: the hidden perpetrator of under-development and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)My lecture is based upon a fully referenced paper but it is not an academic paper that contains evidence from which it draws conclusions. It’s in the nature of corruption that there is little evidence and there are no ... -
Corruption: How should Christians respond?
(Fakulteit Teologie, Universiteit van die Vrystaat, 2012)The results of the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International indicate the seriousness of the worldwide corruption problem. Although recent decades have witnessed a global public awareness and an ... -
Cortical and striatal serotonin transporter binding in a genetic rat model of depression and in response to electroconvulsive stimuli
(Elsevier, 2019)Depression is a debilitating mental illness and two thirds of patients respond insufficiently to conventional antidepressants. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains the most effective treatment to alleviate drug-refractory ... -
Cortical brain release of glutamate by ketamine and fluoxetine : an in vivo microdialysis study in the Flinders sensitive line rat
(North-West University, 2012)In vivo intracranial microdialysis is a valuable technique yielding novel and useful insight into normal or pathological neurochemical processes in the brain by means of sampling of interstitial fluid of cells in a living ... -
Cortico-striatal cyclic AMP-phosphodiesterase-4 signalling and stereotypy in the deer mouse: attenuation after chronic fluoxetine treatment
(Elsevier, 2009)Motor stereotypies, described as repetitive, topographically invariant and seemingly purposeless behaviours, are common to several developmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. While drug induced stereotypy has been ... -
Cortico-striatal oxidative status, dopamine turnover and relation with stereotypy in the deer mouse
(Elsevier, 2011)The deer mouse presents with spontaneous stereotypic movements that resemble the repetitive behaviours of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and demonstrates a selective response to serotonin reuptake inhibitors. OCD has ... -
Corticolimbic changes in acetylcholine and cyclic guanosine monophosphate in the Flinders Sensitive Line rat: a genetic model of depression
(Cambridge, 2012)Objective: Depression is suggested to involve disturbances in cholinergic as well as glutamatergic pathways, particularly the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-mediated release of nitric oxide (NO) and cyclic guanosine ... -
Corticospinal excitability during shortening and lengthening actions with incremental torque output
(Wiley, 2018)The modulation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs), an index of corticospinal excitability, has been shown to increase during isometric contractions with incremental torque output in accordance with the contribution between ... -
Corticospinal responses following strength training: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
(Wiley, 2017)Strength training results in changes in skeletal muscle; however, changes in the central nervous system also occur. Over the last 15 years, non‐invasive brain stimulation techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, ... -
Corticospinal responses of resistance-trained and un-trained males during dynamic muscle contractions
(ELSEVIER, 2013)Little is known regarding the modulation and the plasticity of the neural pathway interconnecting elements of the central nervous system and skeletal muscle in resistant-trained individuals. The aim of the study was to ... -
Cortisol: brain-derived neurotrophic factor ratio associated with silent ischaemia in a black male cohort: the SABPA study
(SASA, 2016)Aim: Emotional distress has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Africans. Cortisol and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), as markers of emotional distress, increase cardiometabolic risk. We therefore ... -
A cosmic collider: was the IceCube neutrino generated in a precessing jet-jet interaction in TXS 0506+056?
(EDP Sciences, 2019)Context. The neutrino event IceCube−170922A appears to originate from the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056. To understand the neutrino creation process and to localize the emission site, we studied the radio images of the jet ... -
Cosmic radiation measurements in the southern hemisphere, with the focus on aviation altitudes
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)The radiation environment around the Earth is intense and complex. During the dawn of the aviation age in 1903, when the Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur invented, built, and flew the world’s first successful aircraft, ... -
Cosmic ray diffusion tensor throughout the heliosphere
(American Geophysical Union, 2010)We calculate the cosmic ray diffusion tensor based on a recently developed model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the expanding solar wind. Parameters of this MHD model are tuned by using published observations ... -
Cosmic ray flux anisotropies caused by astrospheres
(Elsevier, 2016)Huge astrospheres or stellar wind bubbles influence the propagation of cosmic rays at energies up to the TeV range and can act as small-scale sinks decreasing the cosmic ray flux. We model such a sink (in 2D) by a sphere ... -
Cosmic ray flux at the earth in a variable heliosphere
(Elsevier, 2008)In recent years the variability of the cosmic ray flux has become one of the main issues not only for the interpretation of the abundances of cosmogenic isotopes in cosmochronic archives like, e.g., ice cores, but also for ... -
Cosmic ray modulation beyond the heliopause: a hybrid modeling approach
(IOP Publishing, 2013)Results from a newly developed hybrid cosmic ray (CR) modulation model are presented. In this approach, the transport of CRs is computed by incorporating the plasma flow from a magnetohydrodynamic model for the heliospheric ... -
Cosmic ray modulation in the outer heliosphere: predictions for cosmic ray intensities up to the heliopause along Voyager 1 and 2 trajectories
(Elsevier, 2011)Time dependent cosmic ray modulation in the outer heliosphere is calculated and results are compared to Voyager 1 and 2 observations using a two-dimensional time-dependent cosmic ray transport model. We predict possible ...