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The comparative feeding behaviour of‐goats and impalas die vergelykende voedingsgedrag van boerbokke en rooibokke

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Proceedings of the Annual Congresses of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: SusanM. Cooper --- Savanna Ecosystem Project, Transvaal

The feeding behaviour of goats and impalas was compared in terms of the allocation of feeding time to different food sources, the species of plants favoured and the feeding rates obtained from them.

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Field reactions of lucerne genotypes to anthracnose and crown rot caused by Colletotrichum trifolii

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: SusanH. Koch --- Department of Plant Pathology, Republic of South Africa P.S. Knox-Davies --- Department of Plant Pathology, Republic of South Africa

Nineteen different cultivars and experimental lines of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) were inoculated with sand-bran cultures of Colletotrichum trifolii Bain & Essary and evaluated for resistance to anthracnose and crown rot under local conditions. The various genotypes differed significantly in...

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STRATEGIES FOR ACQUIRING ZULU CONCORD

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: SusanM. Suzman --- ,

Transcripts of the speech of four two-year old Zulu children were analysed for insights they provided about the strategies children use to acquire the concord system. It was found that all children initially used a small subset of subject-verb-agreement (SVA)...

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Africanization and the curriculum in linguistics

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: SusanM. Suzman --- Department of Linguistics, Republic of South Africa R.K. Herbert --- Department of Linguistics, Republic of South Africa

This paper considers the links between the study of linguistics and the field of African languages research. It is argued that the context of the southern African university, including socio-political realities, dictate a greater co-operation between the disciplines. A curriculum...

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Learn Zulu the way children do

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: SusanM. Suzman --- Linguistics Department,

In order to master Bantu languages, learners have to acquire pervasive morphology, including a complex noun class and agreement system. First and second language learners of Zulu reflect different degrees of accessibility of complex morphology in the language. First language...

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Is the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act Guilty of Disability Discrimination?

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Susan Hall --- Department of Philosophy, South Africa

South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996 implicitly expresses the attitude that the prenatal detection of foetal abnormality justifies selective abortion, even at a stage when abortion is in general morally prohibited. It will be argued that...

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Anaforiek in substandaardafrikaans

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Susan Prinsloo --- Departement Afrikaans,

In Afrikaans bestaan daar baie min ontledings van anaforiek soos wat dit voorkom in taal-in-gebruik. In hierdie studie word van die standpunt uitgegaan dat verwysing situasiegebonde is, daarom word anaforiek binne konteks bestudeer. Anaforiese verbande is in die tekste Houd-den-Bek...

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Die rol van anaforiek in die spontane mondelinge vertelling in Afrikaans

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: Susan Prinsloo --- Departement Afrikaans, Republiek van Suid-Afrika

In die spontane mondelinge vertelling word sekere items gebruik wat 'n verwysende funksie het. Sommige van hierdie items, die anafore, kan ten opsigte van hul verwysende funksie nie los gesien word van ander items nie, naamlik die antesedente, wat 'n...

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Lexical Cohesion Between An Examination Question Prompt and its Answers

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Linguistics • Authors: SusanL Tonder --- ,

In hierdie artikel word verslag gedoen van 'n gedeelte van 'n navorsingstudie wat ondemeem is om die verband tussen die leksikale kohesie in akademiese skryfwerk van studeme en die koherensiemetings asook die akademiese vlakke van sodanige tekste te ondersoek. Tydens...

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Reader's perception of importance: What ASP readers think is important and why

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susan Manson --- Academic Support Programme, Suellen Shay --- Academic Support Programme,

The authors conducted a study with Psychology I Academic Support Programme (ASP) students and tutors which explored readers' perception of importance in reading a Psychology I text. They explored a) what readers think is important and b) what strategies readers...

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Development and sustainable management of rangeland commons – aligning policy with the realities of South Africa's rural landscape

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Susanne Vetter --- Department of Botany, South Africa

Policy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines the current policy situation and discusses some of the most pervasive ecological and economic assumptions that have...

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A Violent Heritage: Non-Governmental Organizations as an Arena for the Reproduction of Childhood Violence in the Context of HIV/AIDS

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Susan de la Porte --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,

This article used ethnographic fieldwork to explore the overt and covert patterns of childhood violence experienced in a community on the north of Durban, South Africa. Participants included nine female teachers, two hundred pre-school children (age range 6 months to...

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Ethnic Identification as Contributor to the Development of Moral Identity in Child-Headed Households

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacqueline Pretorius --- Private Practice, Piet Retief, Susanne Jacobs --- North West University, South Africa Marie van Reenen --- North West University, South Africa

This study explored whether ethnic membership was a core construct in the moral identity development of adolescents in Zulu child-headed households. A convenience sample of 60 participants (31 male and 29 female) were recruited for the study from a mixed...

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The sequential organisation of South African business-news interview openings

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: SusanI Brokensha

The principal aim of this research article is to explore whether the discourse features of news interview openings identified by Clayman (1991) are replicated in opening segments of South African business-news interview talk. An important justification for this discourse-based study...

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South African news interview talk: The interviewer's maintenance of a position of neutrality

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: SusanI Brokensha

One of the aspects Heritage and Greatbatch (1991) highlight in their Conversation Analytic (CA) study of the sequential organisation of British news interview discourse is the maintenance of interviewer (IR) neutrality. This aspect of news interview talk is also the...

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The translation of biblical texts into South African Sign Language

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susan Lombaard JacobusA Naudé

This article aims to prove that biblical texts in South African Sign Language (SASL) are more accessible than written or printed biblical texts for deaf-born South African people who use sign language as their first language. The study made use...

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Evaluation of the Cummins theoretical framework for higher education in South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy --- Faculty of Humanities,

In the context of the successful bilingual education of children, the value of the theoretical framework of Jim Cummins is acknowledged by educators and researchers worldwide. This framework is also used extensively in South Africa to provide a structure for...

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Complex systems, multilingualism and academic success in South African higher education

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy --- Faculty of Humanities, South Africa

Scholars of academic success in higher education in South Africa struggle to find an integrated framework that can explain the interplay between heterogeneous elements that combine in dynamic ways to influence the academic success of students. Language of teaching and...

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Applying Google Translate in a higher education environment: Translation products assessed

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Alta van Rensburg --- Language Centre, South Africa Cobus Snyman --- Language Centre, South Africa Susan Lotz --- Language Centre, South Africa

In some South African higher education environments, a significant number of documents are translated in order to help facilitate successful learning. However, in an attempt to reduce the cost of translation, lecturers and students often explore avenues other than professional...

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Positive care? HIV and residential care for children in South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Moses --- , South Africa Helen Meintjes --- , South Africa

Responses to the HIV epidemic leading to an increase in the number of residential care facilities for children across sub-Saharan Africa have prompted concerns that large numbers of orphaned children are being placed in institutional care. There is little empirical...

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Socioeconomic status and barriers to the use of free antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS in Enugu State, south-eastern Nigeria

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: ChijiokeI Okoli --- , Enugu, Nigeria SusanM Cleary --- , South Africa

With about 3 million people living with HIV, Nigeria has approximately 8% of the global burden of HIV cases. In 2009, only about 34% of those in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART) were able to access care, which means that...

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Does accessibility to antiretroviral care improve after down-referral of patients from hospitals to health centres in rural South Africa?

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mosa Moshabela --- , Helen Schneider --- , South Africa SusanM Cleary --- Health Economics Unit, South Africa PaulM Pronyk --- , John Eyles --- School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Canada

We conducted an evaluation of healthcare accessibility among patients taking antiretroviral treatment (ART) after they were ‘down-referred’ from hospital-based programmes to primary healthcare (PHC) centres in a rural South African setting. A cross-sectional design was used to study 109 PHC...

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIETARY CHOICE OF FREE-RANGING JUVENILE OSTRICHES

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: SusanM. Cooper --- , USA Todd Palmer --- , USA

Cooper, S.M. & Palmer, T. 1994. Observations on the dietary choice of free-ranging juvenile Ostriches. Ostrich 65:251-255.

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Conservation in the community: the Kilum-Ijim Forest Project, Cameroon

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: David H.L. Thomas --- , UK Susan Anders --- , Cameroon Nkengla Jeremiah Penn --- , Cameroon

Thomas, D.H.L., Anders, S. & Penn, N.J. 2000. Conservation in the community: the Kilum-Ijim Forest Project, Cameroon. Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 157–161.

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Bullying boys: the traumatic effects of bullying in male adolescent learners

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Susan Louise Penning --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Anil Bhagwanjee --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Kaymarlin Govender --- Department of Psychology, South Africa

Objective: This study investigated the nature and extent of the relationship between bullying and trauma among male adolescent learners. Trauma was operationalised through the multiple constructs of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, dissociation and anger. Method: In this quantitative study, two...

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Development and preliminary validation of a screen for interpersonal childhood trauma experiences among school-going youth in Durban, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: StevenJ Collings --- School of Applied Human Sciences, Howard College Campus, South Africa SachetR Valjee --- School of Applied Human Sciences, Howard College Campus, South Africa SusanL Penning --- School of Applied Human Sciences, Howard College Campus, South Africa

This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of the Developmental Trauma Inventory (DTI), which is a 36-item, retrospective, self-administered screen for interpersonal childhood trauma experiences developed specifically for the South African context. Preliminary validation of the inventory was conducted...

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Cradling bias is absent in children with autism spectrum disorders

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Lea-Ann Pileggi --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team Laboratory (ACSENT Laboratory), Department of Psychology, South Africa Susan Malcolm-Smith --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team Laboratory (ACSENT Laboratory), Department of Psychology, South Africa Michelle Hoogenhout --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team Laboratory (ACSENT Laboratory), Department of Psychology, South Africa KevinGF Thomas --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team Laboratory (ACSENT Laboratory), Department of Psychology, South Africa Mark Solms --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team Laboratory (ACSENT Laboratory), Department of Psychology, South Africa

Objective: This study investigated relations among empathy and cradling bias in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).

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Autism spectrum disorders—Global challenges and local opportunities

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Susan Malcolm-Smith --- ACSENT Laboratory Department of Psychology, South Africa Michelle Hoogenhout --- ACSENT Laboratory Department of Psychology, South Africa Natalia Ing --- ACSENT Laboratory Department of Psychology, South Africa KevinGF Thomas --- ACSENT Laboratory Department of Psychology, South Africa Petrus de Vries --- Division Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, South Africa

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The orchestration of life, Part 1: the music of the genes

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa • Authors: SusanH Kidson

A new synthesis between genetics, embryology and music is explored in this article. Words, lyrics, molecular biology, embryology, art and composition have been intermingled with the intention of creating atmosphere, while at the same time being informative and maintaining the...

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Conceptions of mental health among Ugandan youth orphaned by AIDS

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sheila Harms Ruth Kizza Joshua Sebunnya Susan Jack

The AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected developing or low-income sub-Saharan African countries. Within the context of the epidemic, children and youth are at risk of losing their parents at an early age. The experience of orphanhood due to AIDS has...

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Artistic activities and cultural activism as responses to HIV/AIDS in Harare, Zimbabwe

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Pietrzyk --- Department of Anthropology, United States

Over the last two decades both the number and types of civil-society-led organisations involved in addressing HIV and AIDS have increased dramatically. In many cases, the work undertaken is thoughtfully researched, appropriately focused, and as a result produces positive outcomes...

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Water quality in South African temporarily open/closed estuaries: a conceptual model

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: GavinC Snow Susan Taljaard

Of the five types of estuaries found in South Africa, temporarily open/closed estuaries comprise approximately 70% of the total. This paper provides an overview and a simple conceptual model of the water quality features and characteristics of temporarily open/closed estuaries...

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Acquiring academic literacy: a case of first-year extended degree programme students

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susan van Schalkwyk --- Centre for Teaching and Learning, South Africa Eli Bitzer --- Department of Curriculum Studies, South Africa Christa van der Walt --- Department of Curriculum Studies, South Africa

The way in which academic literacy is acquired is described in the work of many researchers, some of whom speak of students in higher education serving an apprenticeship during which they become acculturated into the discourse of the discipline. But...

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Bodies as open projects: reflections on gender and sexuality

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Maria Elizabeth Susanna (Elbie) van den Berg --- Department of Philosophy & Systematic Theology,

This article argues that the social constructivist paradigm falls into the same dualistic trap as biological essentialism when attempting to respond to questions of gender and sexuality. I argue that social constructivism, like biological determinism, presumes a ‘split’ world, where...

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First records in Guinea Bissau of Adamawa Turtle Dove Streptopelia hypopyrrha (Columbidae), with data on m

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mariana Carvalho Susana Dias

There are no confirmed records of the Adamawa Turtle Dove Streptopelia hypopyrrha in north-eastern Guinea Bissau and there is very little information available on the biology of the species. Eight individuals of the Adamawa Turtle Dove were identified from the...

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NOFSA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Stephen Hough --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Brynne H Ascott-Evans --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Susan L Brown --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Bilkish Cassim --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Tobie J de Villiers --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Stan Lipschitz --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), John M Pettifor --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA), Ernst WW Sonnendecker --- National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA),

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The miracle workers: obstacles and opportunities for restoring sight to children in KwaZulu-Natal

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Susan Levine --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Lene Øverland --- Orbis Africa, Kings Cross Corner, South Africa Prasidh Ramson --- Orbis Africa, Kings Cross Corner, South Africa

The case studies presented in this paper reflect on the experiences of parents and the caregivers of children from the province of KwaZulu-Natal who overcame multiple obstacles to prevent childhood blindness due to cataract. Borrowing Sarah Franklin's metaphor of an...

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A critical engagement with the DSM-5 and psychiatric diagnosis

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Susan Kriegler --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Suzanne E Bester --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa

Classifications in psychiatry can result in the reification of hypothetical approaches, arbitrary categorisation and social injustice. This article applies a social constructivist approach to critique the DSM-5 as a neurobiological model of psychiatric diagnosis which ignores psychosocial factors such as...

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Effects of an exercise programme with people living with HIV: research in a disadvantaged setting

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Clemens Ley --- Universität Wien, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Austria Lloyd Leach --- University of the Western Cape, Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science, South Africa María Rato Barrio --- Palacky University Olomouc, Department of Development Studies, Czech Republic Susan Bassett --- University of the Western Cape, Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science, South Africa

This study aimed to analyse the physical health effects of a community based 10-week physical activity programme with people living with HIV. It was developed, implemented and evaluated in a disadvantaged community in South Africa. A pre-post research design was...

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Bana etlong retlobapala: examining children's musical games on a Soweto playground

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa • Authors: Susan Harrop-Allin --- The Wits School of Arts, Private Bag 3, University of the Witwatersrand,

This article reports on research that investigated the rich tradition of South African urban township children's games. Based on ethnographic observations and documentation of Soweto children's playground games over a period of six months, this study examines musical games children...

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The language issue and academic performance at a South African University

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Bertus van Rooy --- Research Focus Area: Understanding and Processing Language in Complex Settings (UPSET), Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy --- Research Focus Area: Understanding and Processing Language in Complex Settings (UPSET),

Academic performance at universities in South Africa is a cause of concern. It is widely acknowledged that there are a variety of factors that contribute to poor academic performance, but language is regarded as one of the most important issues...

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Bee food: the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Susan W. Nicolson --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa

Bees are herbivorous insects, consuming nectar and pollen throughout their life cycles. This paper is a brief review of the chemistry of these two floral resources and the implications for bee nutrition. Nectar is primarily an energy source, but in...

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A report of symbiotic Siphonostomatoida (Copepoda) infecting mobulids (Rajiformes: Mobulidae) off the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Modjadji C. Lebepe --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa Susan M. Dippenaar --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa

Though South Africa is rich in aquatic species, little is known about the diversity and distribution of copepods that parasitize different hosts ranging from invertebrates to marine mammals. A total of 43 mobulids (34 Mobula kuhlii; two Mobula eregoodootenkee and...

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Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird?

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Susan J Cunningham --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Rowan O Martin --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Philip AR Hockey --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa

Behavioural thermoregulation, particularly the use of cool microclimates, is one method by which organisms could avoid the worst effects of climate warming. However, retreat into cool microsites, e.g. shady vegetation or burrows, may carry important lost-opportunity costs. These could include...

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Elevated temperatures drive fine-scale patterns of habitat use in a savanna bird community

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Rowan O Martin --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Susan J Cunningham --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST–NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Philip AR Hockey --- ,

Many animals use thermally buffered microhabitats, e.g. patches of shade within trees, to avoid temperature extremes. These ‘thermal refugia’ may mediate the impact of climate change on animals. Predicting how species and communities will respond to rising temperatures therefore requires...

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Reports of Kroyeria species collected from South African waters with notes on the host–parasite associations

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Peter J Mokumo --- Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, South Africa Susan M Dippenaar --- Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, South Africa

There are 21 species in the genus Kroyeria of which nine have been reported from hosts caught off South Africa. Host–parasite associations were reported for K. dispar, K. papillipes and K. sphyrnae. Kroyeria specimens were collected from the gill filaments...

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Examining empathy and its association with aggression in young Western Cape children

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Susan Malcolm-Smith --- Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team, Department of Psychology, South Africa Danielle Woolley --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Catherine L Ward --- Safety and Violence Initiative, Department of Psychology, South Africa

Objective: In a context of disturbing rates of violent crime, this pilot study initiated examination of the association between empathy and aggressive behaviour in young Western Cape children. Establishing which empathy measures are appropriate for our context was a primary...

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Early Postnatal Development, Parental Care and Interaction in the Banded Mongoose Mungos Mungo

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: Susan Viljoen --- Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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Metabolic rate and body temperature of an African sunbird, Nectarinia Chalybea: daily rhythm and the effect of ambient temperature

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Zoology • Authors: Belle Leon --- Department of Physiology, South Africa W. Susan Nicolson --- Department of Zoology, South Africa

The oxygen consumption (VO2) of the lesser double-collared sunbird, Nectarinia chalybea. was measured at ambient temperatures (Ta) from 7 to 35°C. The diel variation in body temperature (Tb) and wet thermal conductance (C) was also determined. The sunbirds (mean mass...

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The heart of the cheetah: Biography, identity and social change in north-western Namibia

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Joëlle Chesselet --- Doxa Productions, Susan Levine --- Department of Social Anthropology, Cornelius Mukuena Tjiuma

This ethnographic collaboration between filmmaker, anthropologist and translator aims to make visible the often unacknowledged life-story of the translator whose particular positioning as ‘cultural broker’ between ethnographers and indigenous communities is unmapped. By micro-mapping the interaction between place and personhood,...

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Kroyeria deetsi n.sp. (Kroyeriidae: Siphonostomatoida), a parasitic copepod infecting gills of spinner sharks, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839), in the Indian Ocean

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Susan M. Dippenaar --- Department of ZoologyandBiology, South Africa George W. Benz --- Tennessee Aquarium and Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, U.S.A. Pieter A.S. Olivier --- Department of ZoologyandBiology, South Africa

Kroyeria deetsi n.sp. (Kroyeriidae: Siphonostomatoida) is described from both sexes collected from the gills of spinner sharks, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839), captured in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa. Kroyeriadeetsi n.sp. can easily be distinguished...

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Relative merits of using purified proteins and natural foods in studies of wildlife nutrition: the nitrogen requirements of a rodent pollinator

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Ian G. Van Tets --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Ken Hutchings --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Susan Nicolson --- Department of Zoology, South Africa

Aethomys namaquensis is a 60 g murid rodent that is an important pollinator of several Protea species in South Africa. We compared the nitrogen requirements of this species on two different protein sources: pollen and casein. Pollen is an important...

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Manure and Fertiliser Requirements of Potatoes on Acid Soils

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: Susan M. Mugambi --- Coffee Research Station, Kenya

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Examining the evidence for ecologically sustainable ostrich breeding practices on natural veld in the Little Karoo, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Anita Wheeler --- Department of Botany, South Africa Andrew T Knight --- Department of Life Sciences, UK Susanne Vetter --- Department of Botany, South Africa

Land degradation in the Little Karoo is extensive. Overstocking of breeding ostriches on natural veld has been among the main causes of this. The National Department of Agriculture has set a general stocking rate of 60 ha LSU−1 as a...

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Making meaning in the time of AIDS: longitudinal narratives from the Malawi Journals Project

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amy Kaler --- Department of Sociology and School of Public Health, Canada Susan Cotts Watkins --- California Center for Population Research, USA Nicole Angotti --- Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, USA

The Malawi Journals Project is one of the longest-running observational field studies in rural sub-Saharan Africa, ongoing since 1999. The journals provide real-time accounts of the unfolding epidemic, from the days when AIDS was considered by rural Malawians to be...

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Aboveground biomass production of a semi-arid southern African savanna: towards a new model

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Anthony R Palmer --- Agricultural Research Council–Animal Production Institute, South Africa Igshaan Samuels --- Agricultural Research Council–Animal Production Institute, South Africa Clement Cupido --- Agricultural Research Council–Animal Production Institute, South Africa Andiswa Finca --- Agricultural Research Council–Animal Production Institute, South Africa W Fransiska Kangombe --- Department of Biological Sciences, Namibia Isa AM Yunusa --- School of Environmental and Rural Sciences, Australia Susanne Vetter --- Department of Botany, South Africa Isaac Mapaure --- Department of Biological Sciences, Namibia

Following a field campaign to determine the species composition, canopy cover, aboveground annual production and leaf area index (LAI) of the semi-arid savanna of north-western Namibia, we present a production model that can be used by graziers to determine the...

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Diet of nesting African Crowned Eagles Stephanoaetus coronatus in emerging and forest–savanna habitats in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Gerard Malan --- Department of Nature Conservation, South Africa Eleen Strydom --- Department of Nature Conservation, South Africa Susanne Shultz --- Faculty of Life Sciences, UK Graham Avery --- Natural History Collections Department, South Africa

The aim of this study was to investigate the species composition of prey caught in the forest, savanna and emerging habitats in which African Crowned Eagles Stephanoaetus coronatus breed in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. At the 17 nest sites, the...

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The economics of the carbon sequestration potential of plantation forestry in south-western Uganda

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Isaac Kiyingi --- National Forestry Resources Research Institute, Uganda Abdi-Khalil Edriss --- Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Faculty of Development Studies, Malawi Alexander MR Phiri --- Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Faculty of Development Studies, Malawi Buyinza Mukadasi --- School of Postgraduate Studies, Uganda Susan Tumwebaze --- School of Forestry, Environment and Geographical Sciences, Uganda Hillary Agaba --- National Forestry Resources Research Institute, Uganda

This study assessed the amount of carbon stored and the economic viability of the small-scale Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon offsets in Pinus caribaea and Eucalyptus grandis plantations under varying rotations. Volume equations were used to estimate carbon stocks and...

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True height and variability in estimates thereof across race and gender

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen Lahner --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Susanna Kassier --- Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness, Faculty of Science and Agriculture,

Although standing height is the ideal indicator of a subject’s true height, numerous internal and external factors can have an effect on its accuracy. These factors include measurement error, the clinical environment, growth and a secular change in growth, and...

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Arm-associated measurements as estimates of true height in black and white young adults of both genders: an exploratory study, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Christen R Lahner --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Susanna M Kassier --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Frederick J Veldman --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, South Africa

Objective: To determine the accuracy of arm-associated anthropometric measurements as estimates of true height.

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Keeping kids in care: virological failure in a paediatric antiretroviral clinic and suggestions for improving treatment outcomes

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Purchase --- HOPE Cape Town Association and Trust, South Africa Jayne Cunningham --- HOPE Cape Town Association and Trust, South Africa Monika Esser --- Immunology Unit, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, South Africa Donald Skinner --- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa

The burden of paediatric HIV in South Africa is extremely high. Antiretrovirals (ARVs) are now widely accessible in the country and the clinical emphasis has shifted from initiation of treatment to retention in care. This study describes the cumulative virological...

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Neurocognitive considerations when assessing Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Katie Hamilton --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Michelle Hoogenhout --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Susan Malcolm-Smith --- Department of Psychology, South Africa

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterised by poor social competence; and since Theory of Mind (ToM) is a building block for social-communicative skills and successful social integration, these skills are important to assess when preparing and monitoring educational and therapeutic...

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Identity experiences of black people in the Netherlands

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Renée Zonneveld --- Tilburg University, The Netherlands Susanne B. E. Brand --- Tilburg University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands Byron G. Adams --- Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and University of Johannesburg, South Africa

In this study, we used the tri-dimensional model of identity and acculturation strategies to explore how black people living in the Netherlands define themselves. We used a qualitative survey design in which 14 participants (females = 8; age range 21...

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Obesity and kidney disease: hidden consequences of the epidemic

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Csaba P Kovesdy --- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, United States Susan Furth --- Department of Pediatrics, United States Carmine Zoccali --- CNR – IFC Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Italy [FN0001]

Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, and its prevalence has been projected to grow by 40% in the next decade. This increasing prevalence has implications for the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and also for chronic kidney disease. A high...

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Community acceptability of minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) in children under five years of age in Soweto, South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nonhlanhla Ngwenya --- Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, South Africa David Coplan --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa Susan Nzenze --- Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, South Africa Nellie Myburgh --- Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, South Africa Shabir Madhi --- Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, South Africa

This interdisciplinary study, using qualitative and ethnographic research methods, collected data from 330 men and women in Soweto, South Africa, in order to understand the community acceptability of minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) in children who died under five years of...

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Recommendations for the use of meningococcal vaccines in South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Susan Meiring --- Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, South Africa Gregory Hussey --- Vaccines for Africa Initiative, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, South Africa Prakash Jeena --- Department of Paediatrics, South Africa Salim Parker --- General Practitioner, South African Society of Travel Medicine, South Africa Anne von Gottberg --- Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, South Africa

Background: Although meningococcal disease (MD) incidence in South Africa is low, Neisseria meningitidis (NM) causes severe disease that is often life-threatening and can cause long-term disabilities. A quadrivalent protein-conjugated meningococcal vaccine (MCV4) is available, and provides protection against 75% of...

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Experiences along the HIV care continuum: perspectives of Kenyan adolescents and caregivers

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Winnie K Luseno --- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), USA Bonita Iritani --- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), USA Susannah Zietz --- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), USA Suzanne Maman --- Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, USA Isabella I Mbai --- School of Nursing, Kenya Florence Otieno --- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya Barrack Ongili --- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya Denise Dion Hallfors --- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), USA

To be effective, HIV programmes should be responsive to the unique needs of diverse groups of infected adolescents. We highlight a range of adolescent perspectives on HIV services, including those who acquired HIV perinatally or sexually and those who were...

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The presence of artificial water points structures an arid-zone avian community over small spatial scales

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Salamatu Abdu --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Alan TK Lee --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Susan J Cunningham --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa

Water plays a key role in avian thermoregulation, especially when environmental temperatures approach or exceed body temperature. Birds living in arid environments need to either be adapted to life with unreliable access to water, or engage in large-scale movements to...

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Birds of the arid zones: living life on the edge

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Susan J Cunningham --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa

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Improved parameters of Pinus greggii seedling growth and health after inoculation with ectomycorrhizal fungi

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Rebeca Casique Valdés --- Department of Horticulture, Mexico Rosalinda Mendoza Villarreal --- Department of Horticulture, Mexico Fernando Galindo García --- Department of Horticulture, Mexico Susana González Morales --- Department of Horticulture, Mexico Sergio Sanchez Peña --- Department of Parasitology, Mexico

Pinus greggii Engelm. ex Parl. is an endemic pine of Mexico with notorious adaptability to eroded, shallow and poor soils. It is widely used in reforestation programmes worldwide. The purpose of the present study is to develop an ectomycorrhizal fungi...

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Rhetoric-specific features of interactive metadiscourse in introduction moves: A case of discipline awareness

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Hadi Kashiha --- Department of English, Iran Susan Marandi --- Department of English, Iran

To gain credibility and get acceptance from academic discourse communities, writers rely heavily on communicating with their audiences through publishing research articles (RAs). Analysing the generic structure of RAs can deal with issues relating to their language style and the...

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Materials and technology solutions to tackle the challenges in daily concrete construction for housing and infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Wolfram Schmidt --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany Nsesheye Susan Msinjili --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany Hans-Carsten Kühne --- Department 7: Safety of Structures Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany

Sub-Saharan Africa's economic rise has caused a high demand for housing and infrastructure. This rapid growth has resulted in urgent challenges of enormous dimensions for urban and infrastructural planners and the entire construction sector. Considering the African supply chains and...

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Rice husk ash as a sustainable supplementary cementitious material for improved concrete properties

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nsesheye Susan Msinjili --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Wolfram Schmidt --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Andreas Rogge --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany Hans-Carsten Kühne --- Division 7.4 - Technology of Construction Materials, Germany

There is a wide range of research worldwide on supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) such as fly ash, slag and silica fumes that have pozzolanic properties sufficient for substituting ordinary Portland cement (OPC). These SCMs are known to significantly improve concrete...

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Some new results on H summability of Fourier series

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Calixto P. Calderón --- Department of Mathematics, USA A. Susana Coré --- Department of Mathematics, USA Wilfredo O. Urbina --- Department of Mathematical and Actuarial Sciences, USA

In this paper we shall be concerned with Hα summability, for 0 < α ≤ 2 of the Fourier series of arbitrary L1([−π, π]) functions. The methods employed here are a modification of the real variable ones introduced by J...

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Language choices among South African migrants in the tourist space of Zanzibar

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Susanne Mohr --- Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, Germany

In an increasingly mobile world, in which people and languages from different cultures meet all across the globe, the development and dynamics of linguistically and culturally superdiverse spaces are of particular sociolinguistic interest. In this regard, two important phenomena are...

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Depressive symptoms disrupt leftward cradling

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Lea-Ann Pileggi --- , South Africa Simone Storey --- , South Africa Susan Malcolm-Smith --- , South Africa

Objective: Leftward cradling bias is thought to facilitate optimal interaction between mother and infant. There is mixed evidence indicating this bias may be disrupted by depression. This study investigated the relationship between depressive symptoms and preferred cradling side (i.e., cradling...

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Unravelling technology-acceptance factors influencing farmer use of banana tissue culture planting materials in Central Uganda

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Lucy Mulugo --- , Uganda Florence Birungi Kyazze --- , Uganda Paul Kibwika --- , Uganda Enoch Kikulwe --- , Aman Bonaventure Omondi --- , Susan Ajambo --- ,

Effective management of plant health is fundamental for food and income security to meet the growing demands of local and global markets. This however requires farmers’ adequate access to quality planting materials under the prevailing contextual and psycho-social factors. This...

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First look at humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song structure from western South Africa

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: James Seymour Hawkey --- , South Africa Simon Harvey Elwen --- , South Africa Bridget Susan James --- , South Africa Alexa Simone Prinsloo --- , South Africa Tess Gridley --- , South Africa

Humpback whales are known for their complex and well-structured song that is typically produced on low-latitude breeding grounds. However, there is increasing evidence of song production on migration routes and high-latitude feeding grounds. Within a breeding ground and season, males...

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Characterisation of ecosystem-based adaptations to drought in the central cattle corridor of Uganda

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Susan Nanfuka --- , Uganda David Mfitumukiza --- , Uganda Anthony Egeru --- , Uganda

Ecosystems provide climate-change adaptation opportunities including ecosystem services, adaptation benefits and livelihood improvement especially for natural resource dependent communities. To contribute to the understanding of location specific adaptation processes of predominantly agro-pastoralists, a study was carried out in the central...

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Loss to follow-up among female sex workers in Zambia: findings from a five-year HIV-incidence cohort

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kalonde Malama --- , France Luis Sagaon-Teyssier --- , France Andréa Gosset --- , France Rachel Parker --- , USA Kristin M Wall --- , USA Amanda Tichacek --- , USA Tyronza Sharkey --- , Zambia William Kilembe --- , Zambia Mubiana Inambao --- , Zambia Matt A Price --- , USA Bruno Spire --- , France Susan Allen --- , USA

HIV-incidence studies are used to identify at-risk populations for HIV-prevention trials and interventions, but loss to follow-up (LTFU) can bias results if participants who remain differ from those who drop out. We investigated the incidence of and factors associated with...

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Grass functional trait responses to experimental warming and fire in Afromontane grasslands

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Mariska te Beest --- , The Netherlands Anne Kleinjan --- , The Netherlands Veerle Tuijnman --- , The Netherlands Nicky Findlay --- , The Netherlands Thembeka Mvelase --- , South Africa Elizabeth le Roux --- , United Kingdom Michelle Tedder --- , South Africa Paul Gordijn --- , South Africa Susan Janse van Rensburg --- , South Africa

Climate change is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the coming century. To understand the impact of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, we urgently require a better understanding of plant responses to climate change. To address...

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Anthropogenic food availability and body mass maintenance in urban Red-winged Starlings Onychognathus morio

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Taylyn C Risi --- , South Africa Petra Sumasgutner --- , South Africa Susan J Cunningham --- , South Africa

Anthropogenic food availability is influenced by short-term fluctuations in human presence, especially in core urban areas. Few studies have explored responses to such day-to-week fluctuations, specifically on body mass and body condition of urban birds. Here, we investigated non-breeding body...

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Evaluation of an improved Katambora grass cultivar G HR1 for root-knot nematode management in tobacco

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Privilege T Makunde --- , Zimbabwe Susan Dimbi --- , Zimbabwe Tafadzwa S Mahere --- , Zimbabwe Stanford Banana --- , Zimbabwe Cleopas C Chinheya --- , Zimbabwe

Increased environmental, human and animal health concern with nematicides use in controlling root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) has fostered the need to find environmentally-friendly alternatives. Among these alternatives is the use of non-host crops in rotation...

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Home range size of male dama gazelles, Nanger dama, in an ex situ population in West Texas

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Elizabeth Cary Mungall --- , United States Susan M Cooper --- , United States

Dama gazelles (Nanger dama Pallas, 1766) are critically endangered within their native habitat of northern Africa’s Sahelo-Saharan Zone. However, several Texas ranches maintain populations that provide a hedge against extinction and that can provide suitable stock for conservation projects, including...

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The nutrient quality and labelling of ready-to-eat snack foods with health and/or nutrition claims

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Andrea Susan Bursey --- , South Africa Nicola Laurelle Wiles --- , South Africa Chara Biggs --- , South Africa

Background: Nutrition claims on food labels are used to attract attention to products. Inaccurate claims on ready-to-eat (RTE) snack food products may mislead consumers into consuming a higher volume of a seemingly ‘healthy’ product.

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“Just smile and wave”: Workplace requirements and emotional labour of academic staff at a South African university

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Susanna Maria O’Neil --- , South Africa Jeshika Gopal --- , South Africa

Emotional labour is a part of all work situations, and how people manage it influences their quality of work-life. We aimed to study lived emotional labour and sustainable work participation of a sample of 15 South African university lecturers (females=...

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COVID-19 and hyperglycaemic emergencies: perspectives from a developing country

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Raisa Bhikoo --- , South Africa Marli Conradie-Smit --- , South Africa Gerhard Van Wyk --- , South Africa Sa’ad Lahri --- , South Africa Elizabeth Du Plessis --- , South Africa Jaco Cilliers --- , South Africa Susan Hugo --- , South Africa Ankia Coetzee --- , South Africa

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A tribute to Winston Smuts Watts Trollope – a firebrand and visionary in fire research

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Navashni Govender --- , South Africa Sally Archibald --- , South Africa Susanne Vetter --- , South Africa Corli Wigley-Coetsee --- , South Africa

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Social entrepreneurs’ use of spatial bricolage to create frugal innovation in a divided urban setting

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Susanne Nilsson --- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Mikael Samuelsson --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Camille Meyer --- University of Cape Town, South Africa

This study examines how social entrepreneurs mobilize resources to innovate in divided urban settings. Over a period of two years, we followed four social start-up entrepreneurs in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, characterized by some of the highest...

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Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of unequal access in Uganda

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Susan Reynolds Whyte --- Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Michael A. Whyte --- Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Lotte Meinert --- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Aarhus, Betty Kyaddondo --- AIDS Information Centre,

The price of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines in Uganda has fallen dramatically in recent years and more people are under treatment. By mid-2003 it was estimated that 10 000 people were taking ARVs. Drawing on participant observation, qualitative interviews, work with...

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Provider-initiated HIV testing in health care settings: Should it include client-centered counselling?

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Susan M Kiene --- Medicine and Community Health (Research), Brown University, Michael Stein --- Medicine and Community Health, Brown University, USA Moses Bateganya --- Makerere University (Internal Medicine), Rhoda Wanyenze --- Makerere University School of Public Health-CDC HIV Fellowship Programme, Uganda Kenneth Mayer --- The Fenway Institute/Fenway Health, Haruna Lule --- Gombe Hospital, Uganda

To increase access to HIV testing, the WHO and CDC have recommended implementing provider-initiated HIV testing (PITC). To address the resource limitations of the PITC setting, WHO and CDC suggest that patient-provider interactions during PITC may need to focus on...

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Perceived stigma among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment: A prospective randomised trial comparing an m-DOT strategy with standard-of- care in Kenya

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Susan Kaai --- Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo, Canada Sandra Bullock --- Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo, Canada Avina Sarna --- Population Council, Matthew Chersich --- Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand, Stanley Luchters --- International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ghent University, Belgium Scott Geibel --- Population Council, Paul Munyao --- ICAP, Kenya Kishorchandra Mandaliya --- , Kenya Marleen Temmerman --- Obstetrical Department, Ghent University Hospital, Naomi Rutenberg --- Population Council,

HIV and AIDS remain highly stigmatised. Modified directly observed therapy (m-DOT) supports antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence but little is known about its association with perceived stigma in resource-constrained settings. In 2003, 234 HIV-infected adults enrolled in a two-arm randomised trial...

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Factors underlying taking a child to HIV care: implications for reducing loss to follow-up among HIV-infected and -exposed children

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Juddy Wachira [d221e18] Susan E Middlestadt Rachel Vreeman Paula Braitstein

Objective: With the aim of reducing pediatric loss to follow-up (LTFU) from HIV clinical care programs in sub-Saharan Africa, we sought to understand the personal and socio-cultural factors associated with the behavior of caregivers taking HIV-infected and -exposed children for...

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Evaluation of a community-based ART programme after tapering home visits in rural Sierra Leone: a 24-month retrospective study

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: J. Daniel Kelly --- , , USA Raphael Frankfurter --- , , USA Gregoire Lurton --- , , USA Sulaiman Conteh --- , Sierra Leone Susannah F. Empson --- , , USA Fodei Daboh --- , Sierra Leone Brima Kargbo --- , Sierra Leone Thomas Giordano --- , , USA Joia Mukherjee --- , , USA M. Bailor Barrie --- , Sierra Leone

Evaluations of community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes have demonstrated positive outcomes, but little is known about the impact of tapering community-based ART. The objective of this study was to assess 24-month HIV retention outcomes of a community-based ART programme and...

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Distribution patterns of amphibians from the Kakamega forest, Kenya

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Susanne Schick --- Mainz University, Germany Michael Veith --- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stefan Lötters --- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

We discuss generalized geographical range patterns for the 24 anuran species that occur in the Kakamega Forest, western Kenya. Eight distributions are distinguished: from “western Equatorial Rift Valley” to almost entire sub‐Saharan. The former may be more common than previously...

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Accounting outsourcing and its relationship with financial performance of SMEs: Manager and employee perspectives

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Faeze Rezazade --- Excelsia College, Australia Susannah Minutillo --- Excelsia College, Australia Nirmal Patel --- Excelsia College, Australia

There is a gap in the literature related to understanding the relationship between outsourcing of accounting functions and financial performance (productivity and cost efficiency) of SMEs. This study examines the relationship between accounting outsourcing and financial performance in terms of...

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Effects of short-duration kraaling depend on initial conditions in a mesic grassland

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Heidi-Jayne Hawkins --- , South Africa Nompendulo Mgwali --- , South Africa Susanne Vetter --- Rhodes University, South Africa

Short-duration overnight kraaling has been suggested as a tool for restoring degraded rangelands. However, the response of different plant functional types and communities to such intense livestock impact may vary depending on local context. We thus examined the effects of...

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The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for decolonising education in South Africa through the development of indigenous languages

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Burgert Senekal --- University of the Free State, South Africa Susan Brokensha --- University of the Free State, South Africa

Despite having 12 officially recognised languages (with the addition of South African Sign Language on 3 May 2023), South Africa’s education system is becoming increasingly monolingual. The current article makes the case for employing artificial intelligence (AI) to improve multilingualism...

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The names of the supreme being in Bemba: some critical morphological insights

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Hambaba Jimaima --- University of Zambia, Zambia Susan Matukuto --- University of Zambia, Zambia Gabriel Simungala --- University of Zambia, Zambia

In this article, we use lexical morphology to account for names of the supreme being in Bemba, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia as rendered by various translators in the Christian holy book, the Bible. Motivated by the agglutinative nature...

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Is there a gender gap in audit fees in Spain? Explaining the variables involved in audit fees

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Mercedes Mareque --- University of Vigo, Spain Susana Escaloni --- University of Vigo, Spain

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Participant acceptability and clinician satisfaction of cognitive behavioural therapy and medication management algorithm compared with enhanced standard care for treatment of depression among youth with HIV

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Emily A Barr --- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Kristin Baltrusaitis --- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA Betsy D Kennard --- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Graham J Emslie --- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Chelsea Krotje --- , USA Kevin Knowles --- , USA Sarah Buisson --- , USA Lauren Bergam --- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA Jaime G Deville --- David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, USA Susan L Gillespie --- , USA Melissa Shikora --- , USA Ellen Townley --- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, USA David E Shapiro --- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA Larry K Brown --- Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA

Background: Primary results of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT) 2002 trial showed that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and medication management algorithm (MMA) (COMB-R) significantly improved depression in youth with HIV (YWH) compared with enhanced standard...

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Exploring SDG 2 disclosure of South African food and beverage companies

Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Elizma Booysen --- Management Cybernetics research niche area, North-West University, South Africa Susanna L Middelberg --- Management Cybernetics research niche area, North-West University, South Africa Nadia Gulko --- University of Lincoln, UK

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