Academic Articles & Research Papers

Study of the corrosion properties of powder rolled Ti–6Al–4V alloy applied in the biomedical implants

Great efforts have been made in fabricating Ti–6Al–4V alloys that can be used in the biomedical implants industry. The increasing interest in using fabricated Ti–6Al–4V alloys in industrial applications is mainly due to the properties of al...

Theoretically Speaking – An Autoethnographic Journey in Crossing Disciplines to Being-Becoming a Practical Scholar

Becoming a PhD scholar requires a change in identity and new ways of thinking. This is difficult for those from practical backgrounds who struggle to merge the theoretical/scholarly with the creative/practical. Moving towards the scholarly ...

Outcome of pregnancy in the morbidly obese woman

Background: Obesity is a growing global health problem. In South Africa, more than half of the adult women are overweight and almost 30% are obese. The problems associated with obesity, such as diabetes, hypertension, thrombo-embolism and c...

Cascading Training Model to Promote Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Across South Africa: Rollout in an HIV Service Organization

Background In South Africa, rates of HIV and alcohol use are among the highest globally, with a detrimental synergistic relationship. Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based, cost-effective appr...

Role of aridity in shaping adaptive genomic divergence and population connectivity in a southern African rodent.

Postnatal mothers' knowledge, perceptions and sociocultural influences on donor human milk acceptance in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Beyond disease counts: multimorbidity patterns and self-rated health in South African adults-a network analysis of the 2016 demographic and health survey.

Mast fruiting in a large tropical African legume tree species and the mineral nutrient limitation hypothesis.

Evaluating Integrated Care for People Living With HIV and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: A Case-Based Approach Using the Chronic Care Model.

Human papillomavirus vaccine uptake among adolescent girls living with HIV in Côte d'Ivoire: A national cross-sectional survey.

Traumatic brain injury in African urban centers: The role of road traffic accidents, outcomes, and health-system factors: a systematic review.

Biodiversity and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence From a Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model.

Strengthening emergency care research quality: A commentary on a mid-study PDSA in a multisite project in Ghana.

Very Low Prevalence of Validated kelch13 Mutations and Absence of Histidine-Rich Protein 2/3 Double Gene Deletions in South African Malaria-Eliminating Districts (2022-2024).

Dynamics of zoonotic soil-transmitted helminth infections in wild African green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus).

Depression in People With HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Four African Countries.

Enablers and barriers to stool sample collection for TB diagnosis: insights from caregivers and adult patients in three high TB/HIV burden countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Eswatini, Mozambique, and Uganda).

Timeliness of the outbreak surveillance and response process: a retrospective cross-sectional multicountry assessment in the WHO African Region.

Understanding African swine fever dynamics in South Korean pig farms through agent-based modeling and spatiotemporal analysis of farm outbreaks.

Anticancer Drugs Pharmacogenomics in African Populations: A Scoping Review of Clinico-Molecular Data and Involvement in Personalized Medicine.