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Showing 1 to 20 of 809 for “"Africans"”.
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Physical fitness of young South Africans
… The title, 'Physical Fitness of Young South Africans', has been selected to convey the best general impression of the subject matter but the scope of the thesis is in some respects narrower, and in others broader, than the title suggests. The investigation has been restricted to adolescents …
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Quantitative analysis and metabonomic study of phytoestrogens in Africans
… metabolism and its biochemical effects in Africans. The principal aim of this research was to investigate the phytoestrogen content in six African staple foods, their metabolism and biochemical effects after soyintervention in Africans. With respect to the food investigations, sensitive and …
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Being and belonging among White English-speaking South Africans
White English-speaking South Africans - WESSAs - have been an understudied topic in general, and particularly within the discipline of anthropology. In this thesis, I take the reader on an autoethnographic journey of attempting to make sense of life in the suburbs of Cape Town, searching for the …
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Population explosion and poverty amongst Africans in South Africa
… very controversial subject on the fertility of Africans in South Africa based on research conducted within the Eastern and Western Cape regions. The thesis is divided into five parts. Part A discusses the aims and objectives of the study. It also discusses the methodology of the research and …
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Efavirenz pharmacogenetics and metabolic toxicity in black South Africans
Background: Efavirenz is associated with hepatotoxicity, dyslipidaemia and dysglycaemia. We aimed to determine if CYP2B6 composite metaboliser genotypes influence lipids, glucose and ALT concentrations. Methods: Data and DNA from South African antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve participants …
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Significance of connexion genes in non-syndromic deafness in Africans
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Perception and Politics: Chinese South Africans in 1980 and 2008
In 2008, Chinese South Africans achieved inclusion in the efforts of the government's Black Economic Empowerment policy, following their inclusion was criticism accusing the Chinese of being adjacent to whiteness and therefore undeserving of their victory. This work examines past perceptions of …
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Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
… of a naturalized gateway to Africa for diaspora Africans. These castles are the backdrop for PANAFEST and Emancipation Day, two Pan-African oriented festivals observed in Ghana since the 1990s which attract large numbers of diaspora Africans. African Americans have been selected by Ghana's …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
… to reclassify enslaved captives as ‘liberated Africans’ through sanctioning the naval capture of slave ships, court adjudications of these captures, and the apprenticeship of the slaves. At the end of apprenticeship, the polity in which liberated Africans had served the apprenticeship generally …
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Africans in Cape Town : state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
This local history focusses on Cape Town's black African population, the development 'Native' (later 'Bantu') policy, as well as the escalating organised resistance which arose in response. The study relies as far as possible on archival sources to disaggregate these themes. On this basis, it …
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Discovering the Current Wound Management Practices of Rural Africans: a Pilot Study
Unrelenting heat, poor sanitation, lack of knowledge, and poverty contribute to a disabling wound prevalence that often exceeds 20% in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Wounds in this environment are usually poorly managed at very high cost. Traditional health practitioners and village …
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The establishment of implicit perspectives of personality in Tshivenda-speaking South Africans
Personality tests are widely used in South Africa. The application of personality assessment techniques for clinical and personnel decisions has been a major activity for psychologists. All main personality models have ken developed in a Western context: the question therefore arises whether these …
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Exploring the perceptions of black tax among young employed black South Africans
Black South Africans make up the majority of the population and theoretically they should be the biggest contributors to the economy. The democratically elected government of South Africa introduced the Employment Equity Act (55 of 1998) to increase the representation of previously disadvantaged …
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Global fibrinolytic potential of black South Africans in the North West Province
INTRODUCTION AND AIM - The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has increased significantly in the black South African population in recent years. Early in the development of CVD, atherosclerotic plaques form in the vessel wall. When this plaque becomes unstable and ruptures, the coagulation …
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Common ABCA4 mutations in South Africans: frequencies, pathogenicity and genotype-phenotype correlations
Stargardt disease (STGD), a juvenile-onset form of macular dystrophy resulting in a severe reduction of central vision, may be inherited in either an autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant manner. To date the only gene found to be involved with the autosomal recessive form is ABCA4. Mutations in …
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
… South Africa. Situating white South Africans as part of the powerful racial dispersal of Europe formed as a result of colonial expansion, it argues that since democracy, which has placed white South Africans in a weak position to the immediate centres of state power, white South …
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The assessment of forensic molecular markers for skin colour in South Africans
The scientific development of innovative molecular techniques has transformed the approach towards human identification. In forensic casework, the emergence of molecular phenotyping, or phenotypic prediction from DNA, has mitigated some challenges involving the unavailability of references samples …
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Molecular genetics of arrhythmogenic right ventricular and dilated cardiomyopathy in South Africans
… the molecular genetics of cardiomyopathy in Africans. Aims: to (I) determine the prevalence of desmosomal gene mutations in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in desmosomal protein genes (i.e., plakophilin 2, desmocollin 2, desmoglein 2, …
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