This study examined postpartum maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBH) between January 2004 and December 2013. The aim was to gather reliable information about the trends and rates in postpartum maternal ...

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Breast tumour progression involves complex interactions between malignant cells and the tumour microenvironment. It is increasingly apparent that immunity is a critical determinant for tumour progression. T regulatory ...

The cave deposits at Malapa, on the Malapa Nature Reserve, Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng Province, South Africa, have yielded the remains of two extremely well-preserved hominins (Australopithecus sediba) ...

This study presents the combined processing, integration and inverse modelling of magnetic and gravity data for first-order crustal scale structures in southern Mali and northeast of Guinea. Southern Mali and northeast ...

This thesis is an attempt to ascertain that the identity of a culture is largely dependent on how that culture is represented. The identity and culture of the Indian people of Johannesburg is the primary focus of this ...

This study is a six year retrospective review of the histopathology of nasopharyngeal masses in adult patients who underwent a biopsy in theatre at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) from 1st ...

Introduction The bulk of the surgical literature about laryngeal cancer is concerned with cure rates or five-year survival rates. While this is important, the five year survival rate is only one measure of success of ...

Ab-initio calculation are undertaken to compare some phases of several metal oxynitrides namely: titanium (TiON), tantalum (TaON), niobium (NbON), and tungsten (WON). The crystal structures considered follow that found ...

Materials are modeled by the ab-initio plane wave pseudopotential methods using density functional theory. In this work, we are seeking new ultrahard with enhanced elastic and mechanical properties, thermal stability as ...