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Cimetidine as an Effective Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid
(CITESEERX, 2014)The performance of Cimetidine (2-cyano- 1-methyl- 3-(2-[(5-methyl- 1H-imidazol- 4-yl)methylthio]ethyl)guanidine) as corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in 1 M HCl was thoroughly investigated by weight loss and electrochemical ... -
Circadian rhythm and day to day variability of serum potassium concentration: a pilot study
(Springer Verlag, 2015)Background Hyperkalemia is a common and life–threatening complication frequently seen in patients with acute kidney injury, end–stage renal disease and chronic heart failure. Cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation are ... -
Circular economy and environmental health in low- and middle-income countries
(BMC, 2019)Background The circular economy framework for human production and consumption is an alternative to the traditional, linear concept of ‘take, make, and dispose’. Circular economy (CE) principles comprise of ‘design out ... -
Circulating DNA: its origin and fluctuation
(Wiley, 2008)Circulating DNA is present in the blood of all individuals, but it has been found that cancer patients and patients with a variety of other conditions have increased amounts of these circulating DNA fragments in their ... -
The circumstances and needs of adolescent orphans in foster care
(University of Stellenbosch, 2012)HIV and AIDS have a major impact on families and on community structures in South Africa. Children are especially affected when they are orphaned. Research was undertaken to identify the circumstances and needs of adolescent ... -
Circumstances of foster children and their foster parents affected by HIV and AIDS
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Cirolana bambang, a distinctive new species of Cirolana Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Bitung, Indonesia
(Magnolia Press, 2018)Cirolana bambang sp. nov. from Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia is described. The species can be recognised by generally smooth body with small, acute, submedian nodules on pleonites 4–5 and the anterior dorsal surface ... -
Cirolana phuketensis, a new species of marine isopod (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand
(Pensoft, 2017)Cirolana phuketensis sp. n. was collected from coral rubble from the Andaman sea coast of Thailand. C. phuketensis sp. n. is described and fully illustrated; C. phuketensis sp. n. can be recognized by the presence of ... -
Citizen participation in developmental local government: statutory obligations
(ASSADPAM, 2004)Democratic and developmental local government in South Africa depends on good relations between them and the citizens they serve. There are several statutory and regulatory initiatives to establish a framework for promoting ... -
City-Level Law and Action for Climate-Resilient Development in Southern Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)This article studies eight cities in four countries in the southern African region (Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana) to explore whether and how local governing author ity has been channelled towards local ... -
Clarifying the factor structure of the mental health continuum short form in three languages: a bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling approach
(Sage, 2017)The Mental Health Continuum Short Form measures both the private and public aspects of overall positive mental health. This study explored the factor structure of English (n = 324), Afrikaans (n = 476), and Setswana (n = ... -
Clarifying the thesis of 1 Esdras 3 & 4 that "women are the strongest" through cognitive linguistics
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Clarity and trust: the experience of workplace regulations by employees
(Unisa, 2008)Workplace regulations are important components of healthy labour relations in South Africa. In this article the dimensions of trust and clarity with regard to the way such employment regulations are experienced within the ... -
A clash of hands and tongues - 2 Maccabees 14 and 15 in the framework of cognitive linguistics
(Unisa Press, 2013)Applying cognitive linguistics to the text of 2 Maccabees 14 and 15 is a useful tool for our understanding of these narratives. Studying the author of 2 Maccabees 14 and 15’s use of the cognitive concepts ‘hands,’ ‘right ... -
A clash of space. Reaccessing spaces and speech: a cognitive-linguistic approach to Psalm 2
(Sabinet, 2013)Applying cognitive linguistics to the text of Psalm 2 is shown to be indispensable for a more comprehensive understanding of this psalm. Studying the poet’s use of cognitive concepts such as “heaven” and “earth”, as well ... -
A clash of the deities in 2 Maccabees 1:10b–17 in terms of space, body and narrative
(The Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA), 2013)The text of 2 Macc 1:10b-17 has been approached in different ways during the past century. Recent developments within linguistic theo-ry were applied to the text. These theories concern, inter alia, space, body and narratives ... -
Clashing deities in the book of Judith: a Greimassian perspective
(AOSIS, 2015)The shaping of a text with a specific kind of plot is suggestive of the fundamental values that the author desires to either promote or discourage within the reader’s community and its worldview. The Judith narrative is ... -
Class II 6.7 GHz methanol maser association with young massive cores revealed by ALMA
(IOP, 2017)We explored the implication of the association (or lack of it) of 6.7 GHz class II methanol (CH3OH) masers with massive dense cores (MDCs) detected (within a sample of ATLASGAL selected infrared quiet massive clumps) at ... -
A class of goodness-of-fit tests based on a new characterization of the exponential distribution
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)A new characterisation of the exponential distribution in the class of new better than used in expectation (NBUE) life distributions is presented. Utilising this characterisation, a new class of goodness-of-fit tests for ... -
A class of goodness-of-fit tests for circular distributions based on trigonometric moments
(IDESCAT, 2019)We propose a class of goodness–of–fit test procedures for arbitrary parametric families of circular distributions with unknown parameters. The tests make use of the specific form of the characteristic function of the ...