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Zimbabwe's 'look East' policy : a socio-legal perspective

Soyapi, Caiphas B. (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

De Medeiros, Diego; Waanders, F.; Silveira, F.; Hower, J.; Taffarel, S. (International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, 2016)

Zooplankton and diatoms of temporary and permanent freshwater pans in the Mpumalanga Highveld region, South Africa

Riato, Luisa; Van Ginkel, Carin; Taylor, Jonathan C. (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

West, D.T.; Van As, L.L. (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

De Klerk, Pieter (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 ...

The Zulu muzi: A home garden system of useful plants with a particular layout and function

Molebatsi, Lerato Yvonne; Siebert, Stefan John (New Dawn, 2010)

ŉ Evaluasie van die Afrika-Unie as internasionale organisasie

Bezuidenhout, Henri; Kleynhans, Ewert (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

Tole, Tegene T.; Jordaan, Johannes H.L.; Vosloo, Hermanus C.M. (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

Legoabe, Lesetja J.; Petzer, Anél; Petzer, Jacobus P. (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

Uys, Madeleine M.; Harvey, Brian H.; Shahid, Mohammed; Sallinen, Jukka (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

Uys, Madeleine; Dreyer, Walter; Cockeran, Marike; Harvey, Brian H.; Shahid, Mohammed (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

Darwish, Wageh Sobhy; Ikenaka, Yoshinori; Morshdy, Alaa Eldin; Eldesoky, Kamal Ibrahim; Nakayama, Shouta (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 ...