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Angiogenesis and cardiovascular dysfunction in urbanised Africans : the PURE study
(North-West University, 2008)Argument: Hypertension is a main contributing risk factor to many cardiovascular diseases and may be the cause or the result of cardiovascular dysfunction. Black Africans, especially, suffer from hypertension because of ... -
An annotated translation of Bartolus' Tractatus de fluminibus seu Tyberiadis (Book 1)
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1999)South African common law represents a European ius commune based upon Roman law and Roman-Dutch law of the seventeenth century. Included within South African common law is a large volume of medieval commentaries on Roman ... -
The application of life cycle assessments (LCA's) in the chemical industry
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1999)The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology can be applied in various stages - especially conceptual design and IS0 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) implementation - in order to add value and incorporate ... -
The application of work study methodologies: towards the development of an efficiency reporting system for manufacturing organisations in South Africa
(2015)The aim of this study is to demonstrate that work study techniques must be used to determine realistic and achievable standard times for operations and the subsequent development of efficiency reporting systems towards the ... -
An appreciative inquiry into mothers' experiences of their relationship with their children in a low socio-economic environment
(2015)A low socio economic environment poses a number of problems, such as low income, unemployment, learning disabilities and poor education, resulting in mothers often experiencing stress and depression. The emotional state ... -
An appreciative inquiry to strengthen intellectually challenged adolescents' sense of self within familial relationships : a mixed methods study
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The self can be regarded as a complex psychological structure that is constantly evolving and becoming; it is constructed and re-constructed in family relations and through shared social experience. Within a family, people ... -
Arabs as portrayed in the Israeli Hebrew literature since the Second World War
(1981)Within the fifty years of the development of the Arab theme in Israeli literature, a gradual and continuous aloofness from the Arabs and from the Arab way of life may be discerned. (b) In place of a description of the Arab ... -
An archival research of the causes, nature and nuclear family destructiveness of uxoricide as revealed in some newspapers
(2011)This research used a general inductive approach in analysing qualitative raw secondary data from the newspaper archives on the causes, nature and nuclear family destructiveness of uxoricide. The raw data from the newspaper ... -
The art of becoming : description, space and spiritual identity in An outcast of the islands, Lord Jim, and "Heart of darkness"
(North-West University, 2005)Conrad's description and the sense of space in his texts have long intrigued readers, critics and even fellow authors. Within the context of the complexities of Modemism, understanding the relationship between Conrad's ... -
The articulation of context and identity in U–Carmen eKhayelitsha
(North-West University, 2012)The primary focus of this qualitative research project is on the articulation of contexts and identity in operatic texts. In literature, postmodern appropriations and re-writings of classic nineteenth-century texts have ... -
Artis bene moriendi, voorskrifte & tekeninge vir 'n goeie dood : Memorandum : 'n verhaal met skilderye
(North-West University, 2009)This dissertation attempts to research the construction of meaning through the analysis and interpretation of the multi-textual novel Memorandum: 'n verhaal met skilderve by Marlene van Niekerk and Adriaan van Zyl. Memorandum ... -
Aspects of duration and identity in J.W.P. Mashike's short stories Pelo Segole
(2003)The aim of this study is to apply Genette's narratological theory and Ricoeur's views on narrative identity to selected short stories from J.W. Mashike's Pelo Segole. The study comprises four chapters. The problems ... -
Aspects of duration and identity in J.W.P. Mashike's short stories Pelo Segole
(2003)The aim of this study is to apply Genette's narratological theory and Ricoeur's views on narrative identity to selected short stories from J.W. Mashike's Pelo Segole. The study comprises four chapters. The problem statement, ... -
Aspects of moral education in Bhaca mamtiseni and nkciyo initiation rituals
(North-West University, 2010)The main objective of this mini–dissertation is to investigate the basic form and content of moral education as it manifests itself in the mamtiseni and nkciyo female initiation rituals of the Mount Frere region of the ... -
Aspekte van die Afrikaans van Riemvasmakers
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1985)No abstract available -
Aspekte van die werk van J.M.A. Biesheuvel met besondere verwysing na "De Heer Mellenberg"
(1988)Biesheuvel is regarded as one of the most important writers of short stories of the seventies in the Netherlands. His prose is characterised by a strong autobiographical tendency. This is apparent in all the relevant short ... -
Aspekte van lyding in die poësie van Elisabeth Eybers
(North-West University, 2003)Suffering is pati of life and is often ngarded as a universal theme in literawe. The oeuvre of the Afrikaans poet, Elisabeth Eybers, is characterised by the way in which the poet deals with suffering. In this study Eybers's ... -
Aspekte van Natuuromgewingsinvloede op Arbeidsprestasies
(Proefskrif : Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1955)Natuuromgewingsinvloede en die psigologie : Algemeen en wetenskaplik word besef dat die mens deur sy omgewing beinvloed word. Hierdie omgewing word gevorm deur o.a. die sosiale milieu, die beskawings- en kultuurmilieu en ... -
Aspekte van Oranjerivier-Afrikaans in die spontane taalgebruik van Blanke boorlinge in Noord-Kaapland
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1988)The term Oranjerivier-Afrikaans is a collective noun for the form of Afrikaans which is still today used by a considerable number of people in die Orange River area. Griekwa-Afrikaans and Riemvasmaak-Afrikaans are exponents ... -
'n Aspekties-aktionsartige ondersoek na die funksielingematiese ge-premorfeem, diachronies gesien
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1965)Die ge- premorfeem het nie net in Afrikaans 'n besonder hoe gebruiksfrekwensie nie maar ook in die ouer Germaanse tale, waarvan Goties en Angel-Saksies goeie voorbeelde is. Hierdie premorfeem het veral in die funksielingemaat ...
