• Multi-mycotoxin exposure of children (0-24 months) in rural maize-subsistence farming areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. 

  Tshalibe, R.S.; Taljaard-Krugell, C.; Lombard, M.J.; Rheeder, J.P.; Alberts, J.F. (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2020)

  In South Africa, child malnutrition is highly prevalent among children from in rural areas mostly at risk. In the Eastern Cape (EC) Province, maize is commonly used as complementary and weaning food. Previous studies ...
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  Rhinosinusitis and allergy: a relationship of random meetings 

  Wolmarans, D.; Steyn, S.F.; Brand, L. (AOSIS, 2019)

  Sinusitis, more aptly referred to as rhinosinusitis, can be described as a symptomatic inflammatory condition of the paranasal sinuses and the nasal cavity.1 Generally, the condition is regarded as acute (ARS) if lasting ...
• Recent advances in the synthesis and development of nitroaromatics as anti-infective drugs 

  Kannigadu, Christina; N'Da, David D. (Bentham Science, 2020)

  Infectious diseases commonly occur in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The pathogens of such diseases are able to multiply in human hosts, warranting their continual survival. Infections that are commonplace include ...
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  Intellectual disability, exercise and aging: the IDEA study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial 

  Oviedo, Guillermo R.; Moss, Sarah J.; Javierre, Casimiro; Font-Farré, Manel; Tamulevicius, Nauris (BMC, 2020)

  Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have low levels of physical activity (PA) together with accelerated aging profiles. Adherence to PA interventions for persons with ID is low based on barriers such ...
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  Psychosocial barriers and enablers of exclusive breastfeeding: lived experiences of mothers in low-income townships, North West Province, South Africa 

  Witten, Chantell; Claasen, Nicole; Kruger, Herculina S.; Grobler, Herman; Coutsoudis, Anna (BMC, 2020)

  Background:Despite national efforts to promote exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), South Africa’s EBF rate is only 32 %.The aim of this study was to examine the rate of EBF discontinuation and the lived experiences of ...
• Testing two-component models on very high-energy gamma-ray-emitting BL Lac objects 

  Acciari, V.A.; Arcaro, C.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L.A.; MAGIC Collaboration (EDP Sciences, 2020)

  Context. It has become evident that one-zone synchrotron self-Compton models are not always adequate for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray-emitting blazars. While two-component models perform better, they are difficult to ...
• Die vrou in die ekonomie : sy aan sy met die man 

  Viviers, Wilma (1987)
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  Safety and efficacy of inactivated African horse sickness (AHS) vaccine formulated with different adjuvants 

  Van Rijn, Piet A.; Potgieter, Christiaan A.; Maris-Veldhuis, Mieke A.; Grobler, Miemie; Wright, Isabel M. (Elsevier, 2020)

  African horse sickness virus (AHSV) is a virus species in the genus Orbivirus of the family Reoviridae causing African Horse Sickness (AHS) in equids with a mortality of about 95% in naïve horses. AHS causes serious losses ...
• Competitive intelligence in a foreign environment: German and Canadian firms compared 

  Calof, J; Viviers, W (Physica-Verlag HD, 2005)

  The objective of this chapter was to examine the intelligence practices of German MNE's and contrast these to those found in Canadian and U.S. studies. Taking into consideration the caveats involved in the comparison of ...
• Streamlining South Africa’s export development efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa: a decision support model approach 

  Steenkamp, Ermie; Grater, Sonja; Viviers, Wilma (WTO, 2016)

  Given its abundant natural resources and accelerating consumer-driven growth, sub-Saharan Africa has much to offer investors and traders. Yet the region remains weakly integrated into global and regional value chains, due ...
• Export promotion: a decision support model approach 

  Cuyvers, Ludo; Viviers, Wilma (Sun Media, 2012)
• Metallothionein 1 overexpression does not protect against mitochondrial disease pathology in Ndufs4 knockout mice 

  Miller, Hayley Christy; Louw, Roan; Mereis, Michelle; Venter, Gerda; Boshoff, John-Drew; Mienie, Liesel; Van Reenen, Mari; Venter, Marianne; Lindeque, Jeremie Zander; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus (Springer, 2020)

  Mitochondrial diseases (MD), such as Leigh syndrome (LS), present with severe neurological and muscular phenotypes in patients, but have no known cure and limited treatment options. Based on their neuroprotective effects ...
• Agricultural export patterns from Africa to the European Union: exploring non-tariff measures, product relatedness, and market size 

  Idsardi, Ernst; Viviers, Wilma (WTO, 2018)

  For many years, the European Union has been an important market for agricultural products from Africa. However, African agricultural exporters have often found the European market difficult to access because of a raft of ...
• The twofold Ellis-Gohberg inverse problem for rational matrix functions on the real line 

  Ter Horst, S.; Kaashoek, M.A.; Van Schagen, F. (Springer, 2020)

  From the mid-1980s R.L. Ellis, I. Gohberg and D.C. Lay wrote several papers on systems of orthogonal matrix polynomials and matrix functions, culminating in the monograph [3] by Ellis and Gohberg, where additional background ...
• Testing serial independence with functional data 

  Hlávka, Zdeněk; Meintanis, Simos G.; Hušková, Marie (Springer, 2020)

  We consider tests of serial independence for a sequence of functional observations. The new methods are formulated as L2-type criteria based on empirical characteristic functions and are convenient from the computational ...
• Southern Africa and the digital challenge: how the G20 can influence a digital turnaround in the region 

  Parry, Ali; Viviers, Wilma; Jansen van Rensburg, Susara J. (ICTSD, 2018)

  The economies of southern Africa all face significant development challenges, not helped by the fact that many of these countries are ill-prepared for the demands of the rapidly advancing digital era. Given its heterogeneous ...
• Historic distribution and life history of the African twig mantid, Popa spurca (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) in southern Africa 

  Greyvenstein, Bianca; Du Plessis, Hannalene; Van den Berg, Johnnie (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  (Stål) (Deroplatyidae) is a well-known species within the African Mantodea. Because this species is often kept as pets, several citizen-based platforms provide information on the rearing of this species. There is however ...
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  Mosquito identification and haemosporidian parasites detection in the enclosure of the African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) at the SANBI zoological garden 

  Taioe, Moeti O.; Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.; Mnisi, Mafanela C.; Chaisi, Mamohale; Mwale, Monica (Elsevier, 2020)

  The National Zoological Gardens (NZG) is a facility of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and the largest zoo in southern Africa. Among the 9000 captive animals kept by the NZG, is the endangered ...
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  Prevalence and molecular characterization of ticks and tick-borne pathogens of one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius) in Nigeria 

  Onyiche, ThankGod E.; Thekisoe, Oriel; Răileanu, Cristian; Tauchmann, Oliver; Fischer, Susanne (BMC, 2020)

  Background Ticks are hematophagous arthropods responsible for maintenance and transmission of several pathogens of veterinary and medical importance. Current knowledge on species diversity and pathogens transmitted by ...
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  Erratum: Cascading constraints from neutrino-emitting blazars: the case of TXS 0506+056 

  Reimer, Anita; Böttcher, Markus; Buson, Sara (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  We wish to correct the definition of the comoving target photon energy density in Section 4 of the published article

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