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Young adults’ experiences regarding mobile phone use in relation to older persons: implications for care
(Sage, 2019)This article explores the relational experiences of young Setswana-speaking adults in South Africa in relation to older persons’ use of mobile phones and highlights implications for older adults’ care. Research was conducted ... -
Young children and spirituality: understanding children's connectedness in a group music class
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)In a fast-paced materialistic world, it is important to create opportunities for spirituality in early childhood music education, a developmental element often neglected in the scholarly literature. The purpose of the ... -
Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2011)The German occupation of Norway during the Second World War caused unprecedented problems for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and other Christian denominations. The subordination of the church to the de facto ... -
The young engineers and scientist of Africa: initiating the STEMI pipeline
(University of the Free State, 2011)Education reform in many parts of the world is premised on the view that teachers show lack of professionalism. The solution to this problem lies in increasing teacher professionalism. Education reform, therefore, affects ... -
Young Moroccan-Dutch: thinking in Dutch, feeling Moroccan
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)We examined to what extent Moroccan-Dutch (N= 25) between 15 and 32 years of age are oriented towards the Dutch and Moroccan community when describing their identities. We used the Twenty Statements Test (developed by ... -
The youth and school history – learning from some of the thinking of yesterday in South Africa
(South African Society for History Teaching, 2012)In this article the broad emphasis is on the significance of revisiting past thinking, especially from academia and in research reports of 20th century History teaching at the Further Education and Training level (FET), ... -
Youth intervention through training and equipping in the midst of challenges and crisis: the LIFEPLAN® programme as a possible solution
(Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS), 2016)The youth in contemporary South Africa seems to face massive challenges and experience problems such as substance use and drug abuse, violence, rape, child trafficking, prostitution, etc., lead to the lives of many young ... -
Zimbabwe's 'look East' policy : a socio-legal perspective
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / UNISA Press, 2015)The studies of the relations between China and Zimbabwe, as with other studies of Chinese relations with African states, have focused largely on the socio-economic and political aspects thereof. There has not been a ... -
Zinc occurrence in coal power plant burning combinations of coal and tires
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Zooplankton and diatoms of temporary and permanent freshwater pans in the Mpumalanga Highveld region, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This paper provides a description of the zooplankton and epiphytic diatom communities of permanent and temporary freshwater pans in the Mpumalanga Highveld region of South Africa. Few studies have investigated the biota ... -
Zooplankton composition of temporary pools within the lower Nata River channel, Botswana, during dry season
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The Nata River is a seasonal system situated in the semi-arid north-eastern Botswana, where rainfall is unpredictable and drought is common. The annual flow of approximately 279 million cubic meters is regionally significant ... -
'De Zuid-Afrikaan' se standpunt oor stemreg vir bruin mense voor die totstandkoming van die Kaapse koloniale parlement in 1854
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015)The newspaper De Zuid-Afrikaan was founded in 1830 mainly to serve as a mouthpiece of the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the Cape Colony. It was strongly in favour of the establishment of a legislative body as part of a ... -
ʼn Evaluasie van die Afrika-Unie as internasionale organisasie
(South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2014)The half centenary of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the first decade of the African Union (AU) were celebrated during 2013. The OAU was established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, with the aim to promote unity ... -
α-Pyridinyl alcohols, α,α’-pyridine diols, α-bipyridinyl alcohols, and α,α’-bipyridine diols as structure motifs towards important organic molecules and transition metal complexes
(Bentham, 2020)Background: The preparation and use of pyridinyl alcohols as ligands showed incredible increment in the past three decades. Important property of pyridinyl alcoholato ligands is their strong basicity, which is mainly due ... -
α-Tetralone derivatives as inhibitors of monoamine oxidase
(Elsevier, 2014)In the present study, a series of fifteen a-tetralone (3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalen-1-one) derivatives were synthesised and evaluated as inhibitors of recombinant human monoamine oxidase (MAO) A and B. The a-tetralone ... -
The α2C-adrenoceptor antagonist, ORM-10921, exerts antidepressant-like effects in the Flinders Sensitive Line rat
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)Depression involves deficits in monoaminergic neurotransmission. Differential roles for α2A, B and C subtypes of the α2-adrenoceptor (AR) are evident, with selective α2C-AR antagonists purported to have antidepressant and ... -
The α2C-adrenoceptor antagonist, ORM-10921, has antipsychotic-like effects in social isolation reared rats and bolsters the response to haloperidol
(Elsevier, 2016)Early studies suggest that selective α2C-adrenoceptor (AR)-antagonism has anti-psychotic-like and pro-cognitive properties. However, this has not been demonstrated in an animal model of schizophrenia with a neurodevelopmental ... -
β-carotene and retinol contents in the meat of herbivorous ungulates with a special reference to their public health importance
(Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, 2016)The aim of this study was to estimate total carotenoids, β-carotene and retinol concentrations in the livers and muscles of some ungulates (cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and horses) in comparison with the Wistar rats as a ... -
μ-Analysis applied to self-sensing active magnetic bearings
(SAIEEE, 2011)The stability margin of a two degree-of-freedom self-sensing active magnetic bearing (AMB) is estimated by means of μ -analysis. The specific self-sensing algorithm implemented in this study is the direct current ...
