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Effects of an eight-week lumbar stabilization exercise programme on selected variables of patients with chronic low back pain:

- Abass, Ademola O, Alli, Abiola R, Olagbegi, Oladapo M, Christie, Candice J, Bolarinde, Olufemi S

Authors: Abass, Ademola O , Alli, Abiola R , Olagbegi, Oladapo M , Christie, Candice J , Bolarinde, Olufemi S
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150307 , vital:38966 , DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v19i3.45864
Description: Lumbar stabilisation exercise has been shown to reduce pain and disability in patients with low back pain but information on its potential benefits in term of back muscle endurance is scarce. This study was aimed at investigating the effects of augmenting conventional physiotherapy with lumbar stabilization exercises on selected variables of patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP).
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Date Issued: 2020

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Improved endoglucanase production and mycelial biomass of some ericoid fungi

- Adeoyo, Olusegun Richard, Pletschke, Brett I, Dames, Jo-Anne F

Authors: Adeoyo, Olusegun Richard , Pletschke, Brett I , Dames, Jo-Anne F
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61435 , vital:28026 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5209310/
Description: Fungal species associated with ericaceous plant roots produce a number of enzymes and other bio-active metabolites in order to enhance survival of their host plants in natural environments. This study focussed on endoglucanase production from root associated ericoid mycorrhizal and dark septate endophytic fungal isolates. Out of the five fungal isolates screened, Leohumicola sp. (ChemRU330/PPRI 13195) had the highest relative enzyme activity and was tested along with isolates belonging to Hyloscyphaceae (EdRU083/PPRI 17284) and Leotiomycetes (EdRU002/PPRI 17261) for endoglucanase production under different pH and nutritional conditions that included: carbon sources, nitrogen sources and metal ions, at an optimum temperature of 28 °C. An optimal of pH 5.0 produced enzyme activity of 3.99, 2.18 and 4.31 (U/mg protein) for isolates EdRU083, EdRU002 and Leohumicola sp. respectively. Increased enzyme activities and improved mycelial biomass production were obtained in the presence of supplements such as potassium, sodium, glucose, maltose, cellobiose, tryptone and peptone. While NaFe-EDTA and Co2+ inhibited enzyme activity. The potential role of these fungi as a source of novel enzymes is an ongoing objective of this study.
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Date Issued: 2017

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AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.2

- Africa Information Afrique (AIA)

Authors: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
Date: 1995
Subjects: AIA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169389 , vital:41745
Description: Windhoek, January 16,1995 (AIA/Joshua Amupadhi) — Many impoverished Namibians are demanding swifter change to better their lives following elections which restored the ruling SWAPO party to power for another five years. SWAPO, the former guerrilla organisation which fought for the independence of Namibia from apartheid South African rulers, won an easy victory in the first post independence elections in December. Those interviewed say five years were enough for the former liberation movement to have made a good start on improving the standards of living of many previously disadvantaged Namibians and dismantle apartheid structures established during 75 years of South African colonialism. One SWAPO supporter says independence has created only a black elite to join whites in the rich suburban areas but has not narrowed the gap between the rich and poor.
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Date Issued: 1995

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Optically stimulated luminescence and spectral emission features of radioluminescence and thermoluminescence of natural kunzite:

- Alatishe, M A, Ogundare, F O, Folley, Damilola E, Chithambo, Makaiko L, Chikwembani, S

Authors: Alatishe, M A , Ogundare, F O , Folley, Damilola E , Chithambo, Makaiko L , Chikwembani, S
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160478 , vital:40449 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2020.106457
Description: Features of luminescence optically stimulated from natural kunzite using 470 nm blue light are reported. Preparatory measurements of its X-ray excited radioluminescence and thermoluminescence show that the sample has two main bands centered at 360 nm and 600 nm. The optically stimulated luminescence discussed in this report was monitored in the UV region and is presumed to be the same 360 nm emission that appears in the radioluminescence and thermoluminescence spectra. The glow curve shows at least three peaks at 74, 202, 432 oC for heating at 1 oC and the third one is a composite of two. Only the first two peaks are deduced to contribute most of the optically stimulated luminescence.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Improving fold resistance prediction of HIV-1 against protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors using artificial neural networks:

- Amamuddy, Olivier S, Bishop, Nigel T, Tastan Bishop, Özlem

Authors: Amamuddy, Olivier S , Bishop, Nigel T , Tastan Bishop, Özlem
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148261 , vital:38724 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1186/s12859-017-1782-x
Description: Drug resistance in HIV treatment is still a worldwide problem. Predicting resistance to antiretrovirals (ARVs) before starting any treatment is important. Prediction accuracy is essential, as low-accuracy predictions increase the risk of prescribing sub-optimal drug regimens leading to patients developing resistance sooner. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a powerful tool that would be able to assist in drug resistance prediction. In this study, we constrained the dataset to subtype B, sacrificing generalizability for a higher predictive performance, and demonstrated that the predictive quality of the ANN regression models have definite improvement for most ARVs.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Studies on the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the southern hemisphere, VIII: A new species of the genus Dieidolycus from Tierra del Fueg

- Anderson, M Eric, Pequeño R, Germán, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Anderson, M Eric , Pequeño R, Germán , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1998-05
Subjects: Dieidolycus Anderson, 1988 -- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -- Identification , Zoarcidae -- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile)
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70415 , vital:29653 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 61 , A new lower-slope eelpout of the genus Dieidolycus Anderson, 1988 (Family Zoarcidae, Subfamily Lycodinae), is described from a single juvenile female trawled in 2008-2165 m off Tierra del Fuego, Chile. It differs from congeners D. leptodermatus Anderson, 1988 and D. adocetus Anderson, 1994 by its head pore pattern, 10 caudal-fin rays, 18 pectoral-fin rays and longer gill slit.
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Date Issued: 1998-05

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Insights from experimental economics on local cooperation in a small-scale fishery management system:

- Aswani, Shankar, Gurney, Georgina G, Mulville, Sara, Matera, Jaime, Gurven, Michael

Authors: Aswani, Shankar , Gurney, Georgina G , Mulville, Sara , Matera, Jaime , Gurven, Michael
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145437 , vital:38438 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.003
Description: Cooperation is central to collective management of small-scale fisheries management, including marine protected areas. Thus an understanding of the factors influencing stakeholders’ propensity to cooperate to achieve shared benefits is essential to accomplishing successful collective fisheries management. In this paper we study stakeholders’ cooperative behavioral disposition and elucidate the role of various socio-economic factors in influencing it in the Roviana Lagoon, Western Solomon Islands. We employed a Public Goods Game from experimental economics tailored to mimic the problem of common pool fisheries management to elucidate peoples’ cooperative behavior. Using Ostrom's framework for analyzing social-ecological systems to guide our analysis, we examined how individual-scale variables (e.g., age, education, family size, ethnicity, occupational status, personal norms), in the context of village-scale variables (e.g., village, governance institutions, group coercive action), influence cooperative behavior, as indexed by game contribution. Ostrom's framework provides an effective window for conceptually peeling back the various socio-economic and governance layers which influence cooperation within these communities.
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Date Issued: 2013

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A Review of Arterial Stiffness and HIV Infection in Adult Africans

- Awotedu, Kofoworola Olajire, Iputo, Jehu

Authors: Awotedu, Kofoworola Olajire , Iputo, Jehu
Date: 09-06-2016
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3484 , vital:43615 , https://www.hilarispublisher.com/open-access/a-review-of-arterial-stiffness-and-hiv-infection-in-adult-africans-2167-1095-1000221.pdf
Description: Aim: To review the impact of the human immunodeficiency virus and antiretroviral therapy on the vasculature. Objectives: This review seeks to identify the burden which the human immunodeficiency virus and antiretroviral therapy have on the vasculature. Method: Medline/PubMed and Google scholar were searched. There were over 100 publications reviewed. Some people who worked in similar fields were also contacted. The present review summarized current understanding of Human immunodeficiency virus, antiretroviral therapy and effect on the vasculature such as arterial stiffness. Atherosclerosis, endothelial dysfunction, the strengths and weaknesses of current testing strategies, and their potential applications in clinical research and patient care. The association of inflammatory biomarkers, blood pressure and ageing with arterial stiffness were also reviewed. Conclusion: Available literature shows that HIV and antiretroviral agents have a great impact on the vasculature and its progression.
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Date Issued: 09-06-2016

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A response to the South African Jewish report and Ms Klazinga on "Jews unwelcome at Rhodes"

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7883 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016432
Description: On 1 January 2014, the South African Jewish Report and Ms Larissa Klazinga made a number of unfounded claims and unsubstantiated allegations against Rhodes University. Stripped of the hysteria, lies and inaccuracies, the central claim made is that Rhodes University is hostile to Jews and seeks to be rid of Jews. We reject with contempt these baseless and self-serving claims and allegations of the South African Jewish Report and Klazinga. Rhodes is committed to an institutional culture that respects and promotes equity, human dignity and human rights, embraces difference and diversity and is comfortable for all people irrespective of ‘race’, gender, language, culture, nationality, sexual orientation and religion. Rhodes welcomes all and will continue to strive to be a Home for All.
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Date Issued: 2014

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An experimental test of the allotonic frequency hypothesis to isolate the effects of light pollution on bat prey selection:

- Bailey, Lauren A, Brigham, R Mark, Bohn, Shelby J, Boyles, Justin G, Smit, Ben

Authors: Bailey, Lauren A , Brigham, R Mark , Bohn, Shelby J , Boyles, Justin G , Smit, Ben
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158309 , vital:40171 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/s00442-019-04417-w
Description: Artificial lights may be altering interactions between bats and moth prey. According to the allotonic frequency hypothesis (AFH), eared moths are generally unavailable as prey for syntonic bats (i.e., bats that use echolocation frequencies between 20 and 50 kHz within the hearing range of eared moths) due to the moths’ ability to detect syntonic bat echolocation. Syntonic bats therefore feed mainly on beetles, flies, true bugs, and non-eared moths. The AFH is expected to be violated around lights where eared moths are susceptible to exploitation by syntonic bats because moths’ evasive strategies become less effective. The hypothesis has been tested to date almost exclusively in areas with permanent lighting, where the effects of lights on bat diets are confounded with other aspects of human habitat alteration. We undertook diet analysis in areas with short-term, localized artificial lighting to isolate the effects of artificial lighting and determine if syntonic and allotonic bats (i.e., bats that use echolocation frequencies outside the hearing range of eared moths) consumed more moths under conditions of artificial lights than in natural darkness.
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Date Issued: 2019

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The biogeography of the Prosopistomatidae, with a particular emphasis on Southern African species

- Barber-James, Helen M

Authors: Barber-James, Helen M
Date: 2003
Language: English
Type: Conference paper
Identifier: vital:6998 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008378
Description: The mayfly family Prosopistomatidae consists of the single genus Prosopistoma Latreille. Its known distribution includes species from Africa, Madagascar, the Comores, Europe, the Levant, India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia. A tropical Gondwanaland origin of the family has been suggested. No species are currently known from the Neotropical or Nearctic regions, though the family may yet be discovered in northeastern South America, since this region separated from West Africa only c.120 mya. Focussing on southern Africa, several undescribed species have recently been discovered, with interesting implications to the biogeography on a more localised scale. In the western Cape, a prosopistomatid species has been collected in the Olifants River, extending the distribution of this family further south into a more temperate region. Geological evidence indicates that the Olifants River was connected to the Orange River during the Tertiary period. Prosopistomatidae are known from the Orange River today, and the presence of the family in the Olifants River in the western Cape supports the geological evidence of the historical link between these two rivers. Another unexpected discovery was from the Buffalo River in the eastern Cape, at 33ºS. A subtropical zone extends along the east coast of South Africa as a result of the warm Agulhas current offshore, allowing the southerly extension of the distribution of more tropical species. , Research Update on Ephemeroptera & Plecoptera: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ephemeroptera, 8-11 August 2001, Perugia, Italy. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, pp. 263-270.
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Date Issued: 2003

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Parallel visions: Byron, Géricault and the Medusa

- Beard, Margot

Authors: Beard, Margot
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147792 , vital:38673 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.1999.11761285
Description: Martin Meisel has noted that Delacroix's 1841 painting A Shipwreck was recognised as uniting Gericault and Byron. for not only does the painting illustrate that moment in Don Juan when lots are drawn for the human sacrifice {2, 75) but it also invokes comparison with Gericault' s 1819 painting entitled Raft of the Medusa(Meisel1988:601).1 would like to argue in this paper that Gericault' s famous painting and Byron's shipwreck stanzas in the second canto of Don Juan have other points of comparison. Gericault used the Savigny and Correard Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal ( 1817) as the primary source of information for his treatment of the Medusa incident (Eitner 1971: 117). Byron used multiple sources when he researched material for his shipwreck stanzas but it is highly probable that the Savigny and Correard text was one of them. Thus, the cause celebre of the wreck of the Medusa is directly treated by Gericault and indirectly by Byron - two artists temperamentally and artistically attuned.
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Date Issued: 2016

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From Baudelaire to Beardsley: some thoughts on Poe's beast as an indicator of the tastes and fears of nineteenth-century Europe

- Beard, Margot

Authors: Beard, Margot
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147781 , vital:38672 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2001.11876980
Description: Charles Baudelaire (1821 1867) was one of the major influences on the French Decadent poets of the late nineteenth century whose aesthetic principles were shared, to a large extent, by a group of English poets and artists, among whom was Aubrey Beardsley (1872 1898). One of the major influences on Baude laire had been the American, Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849), in whose short stories and poems Baudelaire had recognised a kindred spirit. Some intriguing aspects of changing nine teenth century attitudes emerge from a study of Baudelaire's 1856 translation of Poe's `The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and Beardsley's 1893 illustration to this story.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Those merry, tinkling, tuneful bells : handbells in Victorian Grahamstown with a note on bell ringing at Grahamstown Cathedral

- Berning, J M

Authors: Berning, J M
Date: 2003
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6993 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012420
Description: [From the introduction]: The idea of using sets of small bells tuned to particular notes in order to produce music is very old. There are illustrations of slung bells being played in this way from the 11th and 12th centuries. Bell ringers in England date the sue of sets of tuned and hand-held bells from as early as the 16th century though it seems that the modern handbell may have come into existence in the early 18th century. Such bells were used by tower bell ringers as convenient practice devices for change ringing. The ringing of tunes on handbells became popular in the 18th century and reached its heyday in the latter half of the 19th century. In England tune ringing was especially popular in the north and major competitions had their centre at Manchester. Special trains were run to competitions there and bands, ringing up to 200 bells, could find their skills tested on extracts from Mozart's Don Giovanni. World War I and the spread of alternative media of entertainment like radio put an end to ringing on this scale. , This publication marked the 150th Anniversary of the Diocese of Grahamstown. Michael Berning was a member of the Rhodes University Library staff from 1965 until his retirement in 1997. He was Tower Captain of the Grahamstown Cathedral during the 1980s.
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Date Issued: 2003

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