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Lessons for Africa in economic policy reform: the Mauritius best practice case
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Lessons from parasitic flatworms about evolution and historical biogeography of their vertebrate hosts
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Lessons in managing the visitor experience at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival
(Clute Institute, 2012)The event industry, in particular arts festivals, is one of South Africa’s fastest growing tourism sectors in tourism industry. However, only minimal research has been done to identify factors that arts festival visitors ... -
Lessons learned from gamification of a learning experience : a case study
(NWU, 2018)The use of gamification principles can be valuable to motivate students and enhance their learning experience. A gamification initiative making use of a mobile app to prepare students for their summative assessment was ... -
Lessons learned from teaching scratch as an introduction to object-oriented Programming in Delphi
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)As part of curriculum changes in South Africa, an introductory programming language, Scratch, must first be taught before switching to the well-established teaching of Delphi. The nature of programming in Scratch is ... -
Lessons on evolution from the study of edaphic specialization
(Springer, 2018)Plants adapted to special soil types are ideal for investigating evolutionary processes, including maintenance of intraspecific variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, ecotypic differentiation, and the tempo and ... -
Lethal and sublethal impacts of a micropredator on post-settlement Caribbean reef fishes
(Springer, 2019)The transition from a planktonic larval stage to a benthic or demersal juvenile stage, “recruitment”, is a crucial event in the life history of coral reef fishes, and has a strong influence on population size. Predation ... -
Letterkunde as kulturele ekologie in Die Bergengel (Carina Stander)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019)Die Bergengel (The Angel of the Mountain), with its striking nature centeredness, is characterised by poetical and lyrical use of language. This aspect is drawn into the ecocritical study of the novel in this article. ... -
Leukocyte telomere length and hemostatic factors in a South African cohort: the SABPA study
(Wiley, 2014)Background Incident atherothrombotic disease is predicted by leukocyte telomere length, a marker of biological age, and hemostatic factor levels, indicating a hypercoagulable state. We hypothesized that shorter telomeres ... -
Level of agreement between objectively determined body composition and perceived body image in 6-to 8-year-old South African children: the Body Composition-Isotope Technique study
(Public Library of Science, 2020)To assess the level of agreement between body size self-perception and actual body size determined by body mass index (BMI) z-score and body fatness measured by the deuterium dilution method (DDM) in South African children ... -
Level of agreement between physical activity levels measured by ActiHeart and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in persons with intellectual disability
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the level of agreement between objective physical activity (PA) (ActiHeart®) and subjective proxy-respondent International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short version ... -
Level of job satisfaction amongst nurses in the North-West Province, South Africa: Post occupational specific dispensation
(AOSIS, 2016)Background: Job satisfaction and burnout have been recurring problems amongst nurses in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). As a result, nurses are still leaving the rural public sector in search of lucrative work at the ... -
Levelling the playing fields in PAR: the intricacies of power, privilege, and participation in a University-Community-School Partnership
(Sage, 2017)When academics, who occupy a traditional position of power and privilege, engage with community members whose thinking, attitudes, and responses have been shaped by ongoing sociohistorical oppression and disadvantage, ... -
Levelling-out and register variation in the translations of experienced and inexperienced translators: a corpus-based study¹
(University of Stellenbosch, 2016)Explicitation, simplification, normalisation and levelling-out, the four features of translation proposed by Baker (1996), have attracted considerable attention in translation studies. Although the first three have been ... -
Levels of DNA methylation and transcript accumulation in leaves of transgenic maize varieties
(Springer, 2016)Background: Prior to their release in the environment, transgenic crops are examined for their health and environ‑ mental safety. In addition, transgene expression needs to be consistent in order to express the introduced ... -
Levels of PCBs in wild bird eggs: considering toxicity through enzyme induction potential and molecular structure
(ELSEVIER, 2013)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were analysed in wild bird eggs from industrialised areas in South Africa. The concentration, congener profile, feeding guild, potential associated risk and biology were investigated. PCBs ... -
Leveraging ongoing research to evaluate the health impacts of South Africa s salt reduction strategy: a prospective nested cohort within the WHO-SAGE multicountry, longitudinal study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Introduction. Attempting to curb the rising epidemic of hypertension, South Africa implemented legislation in June 2016 mandating maximum sodium levels in a range of manufactured foods that contribute significantly to ... -
Leveraging the urban-rural divide for epigenetic research
(Future Medicine, 2020)Urbanization coincides with a complex change in environmental exposure and a rapid increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Epigenetics, including DNA methylation (DNAm), is thought to mediate part of the association ... -
Lewende Godsprake vir ons: Die implikasie van λόγια ζῶντα in Handelinge 7:38
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)In what turned out to be his final sermon on earth, Stephen the Deacon used the expression λόγια ζῶντα to describe the authoritative oracles from God as the people of Israel received them from God and his angels through ... -
The liability of historical mine authorisation holders for rehabilitation of old order mine dumps
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / UNISA Press, 2014)Mine dumps or tailings (i.e. 'mine waste') created by mining activities are some of the main environmental impacts of mining. Historically little or no regard was given to the environment while planning mine dumps, since ...