• Isolation and structure elucidation of bioctive compounds from Rauvolfia Caffra Sond 

  Tlhapi, Bafedile Dorcas (2018-09-21)

  Rauvolfia caffra Sond, a species of evergreen trees and shrubs in the dogbane family, (Apocynaceae), is used as a medicinal plant among traditional communities in many countries for the treatment of malaria, diabetes, ...
• The impact of enteric pathogens and secreted extracellular vesicles on amoebic virulence and outcome of infection 

  Ngobeni, Renay (2018-09-21)

  Background: Diarrheal diseases have a major effect on human health, Globally; it is second only to pneumonia as a leading cause of death among children under five. They are due to a variety of infectious and non-infectious ...
• Multiscale Modelling of HIV/AIDS Transmission Dynamics 

  Mafunda, Martin Canaan (2018-09-21)

  Infectious diseases remain a major public health concern. Well-known for causing sickness and death, enormous pain and suffering, increased time spent on patient care and huge economic losses due to lost production. ...
• Multi-Scale Modelling of Vector-Borne Diseases 

  Mathebula, Dephney (2018-09-21)

  In this study, we developed multiscale models of vector-borne diseases. In general, the transmission of vector-borne diseases can be considered as falling into two categories, i.e. direct transmission and environmental ...
• Synthesis of Glitazone Analogues as Anti-Diabetic Drugs 

  Tshiluka, Ndivhuwo Raymond (2018-09-21)

  In this study, three series of novel glitazones (acetates, glycinates and alaninates) were designed and prepared by using appropriate synthetic methods to incorporate aromatic ring, alicyclic amines and alanine moiety ...
• Determination of anions and cations in natural water 

  Netshifhefhe, Humbelani Kelly (2018-09-21)

  Surface water is used for domestic and agricultural activities in Musina region and other surrounding areas. This is because of the shortage of potable water. As a result, the people living in the region and its surrounding ...
• Low Field Microwave Absorption in Nano-Magnetic Participle - incorporated YBa2Cu3O7-z Superconducting Materials 

  Nemangwele, Fhulufhelo (2018-09-21)

  Understanding how and why superconductivity (SC) occurs in a given material has been very challenging for physicists for more than a hundred years, notwithstanding the major milestones, such as the London theory, the ...
• The Prevalence of intestinal parasites eggs and pathogenic Escherichia coli on the hands of school children in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province of South Africa 

  Mathebula, Sammy (2018-09-21)

  Introduction: Intestinal infections caused by soil transmitted helminth and diarhoegenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) are a major threat to the health and socio-economic wellbeing of children in developing countries. ...
• Synthesis of Novel -1, 3, 5 - Triazine - Based - Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs. 

  Rapudi, Munaka (2018-09-21)

  Identification of unique leads represents a significant challenge in drug discovery. This challenge is widely visible in neglected diseases such as tuberculosis, which is an infectious disease caused by bacillus Mycobacterium ...
• Synthetic studies and biological evaluation of chromone - 3 - carbaldehydes 

  Gordon, Allen Tauya (2018-08-21)

  Chromones are well known naturally occurring heterocyclic compounds with oxygen as a heteroatom. Chromones are also one of the major classes of naturally occurring compounds, and the interest in their chemistry is due to ...
• Stochastic Modelling of Daily Peak Electricity Demand Using Value Theory 

  Boano - Danquah, Jerry (2018-09-21)

  Daily peak electricity data from ESKOM, South African power utility company for the period, January 1997 to December 2013 consisting of 6209 observations were used in this dissertation. Since 1994, the increased electricity ...
• Short term load forecasting using quantile regression with an application to the unit commitment problem 

  Lebotsa, Moshoko Emily (2018-09-21)

  Generally, short term load forecasting is essential for any power generating utility. In this dissertation the main objective was to develop short term load forecasting models for the peak demand periods (i.e. from 18:00 ...
• Mancozeb in natural water sources in the Vhembe District and the possible endocrine disrupting activity/potential there-of 

  Seshoka, M. F. (2018-09-21)

  Many chemicals released into the environment are believed to disrupt normal endocrine functions in humans and animals. These endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) affect reproductive health and development. A major group ...
• Diversity in APOBEC3 and CCR5 host genes and HIV-1 in a South African population 

  Matume, Nontokozo D. (2018-09-21)

  Introduction Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) continues to be a global public health concern, even though Antiretroviral drugs (ARV), especially Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) has significantly reduced ...
• Synthesis of 1, 3, 5 - Triazine Based Antimalarial Drugs 

  Mugwena, Dakalo Sandra (2018-09-21)

  This dissertation focuses on the application of 1, 3, 5-triazine in a pharmaceutical point of view since it has wide range of uses as described in chapter 1. Malaria is one of the most prevalent and deadly infectious ...
• Numerical Simulations of Stokes Flow by the Iterations of Boundary Conditions and Finite Difference Methods 

  Ndou, Ndivhuwo (2018-09-21)

  In this study the iteration of boundary conditions method (Chizhonkov and Kargin, 2006) is used together with the well known Finite difference numerical method to solve the Stokes problem over a rectangular domain as ...
• Medium term load forecasting in South Africa using Generalized Additive models with tensor product interactions 

  Ravele, Thakhani (2018-09-21)

  Forecasting of electricity peak demand levels is important for decision makers in Eskom. The overall objective of this study was to develop medium term load forecasting models which will help decision makers in Eskom ...
• Molecular characterization of norovirus stains circulating in rural communities of Limpopo Province of South Africa 

  Kabue Ngandu, Jean - Pierre (2018-09-21)

  Globally, one in ten child deaths before the age of 5 years is due to diarrheal disease, causing almost 800,000 mortalities worldwide, which mostly occur in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Eighty-eight percent (88%) ...
• Unsteady hydromagnetic chemically reacting mixed convection MHD flow over a permeable stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with thermal radiation and heat source/sink 

  Machaba, Mashudu Innocent (2018-05-18)

  The unsteady hydromagnetic chemically reacting mixed convection MHD ow over a permeable stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with thermal radiation and heat source/sink is investigated numerically. The original ...
• Numerical analysis of unsteady MHD mixed conversion flow past an infinite vertical plate in the presence of Dufour and Soret effects with viscous dissipation 

  Mukwevho, Nancy (2018-05-18)

  Magnetohydrodynamics ows have gained signi cant attention due to their importance in engineering applications. In this study, we numerically analysed the Dufour and Soret e ects on an unsteady MHD mixed convection ow ...

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