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Characterisation of air masses passing over the Vredefort Dome world heritage site
(North-West University (South Africa), 2015)
In 2007, it was announced that the Vredefort Dome will be proclaimed South Africa’s seventh UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) world heritage site. It is the largest and second oldest ...
Investigating Western Australia's rehabilitation fund as a fiscal policy solution for South African abandoned mines
(North-West University, 2015)
Historically on a global scale and in South Africa it was common practice for mining operators to abandon a mine once the mineral extraction on site was completed. The operators had no obligation to rehabilitate the land ...
Cloning and evaluation of expression of the open reading frames of a South African G9P[6] rotavirus strain encoding rotavirus structural proteins VP2 and VP6 in bacteria and yeast
(2015)
Rotavirus infection causes severe gastroenteritis, affecting all children under the age of five regardless of hygiene or water quality. The currently licensed vaccines succeeded in reducing diarrhoea worldwide, but they ...
Investigating the state of and drivers for sustainability reporting and assurance thereof in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2015)
The state of sustainability is ever evolving in South Africa and with it so do the drivers of
sustainability reporting and sustainability assurance. Society is placing an increased
demand upon companies to identify and ...
Metabolomics of hypertension in South Africans : the SABPA Study
(North-West University (South Africa), 2015)
There has been growing concern in recent years about the alarmingly high prevalence and
severity of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases in individuals from newly (or
recently) westernised countries such as ...