... sequences in GenBank (GenBank accession nos L40335 and AF251388) are two alleles of the same gene (Fig 3) These data reveal the novel finding that, in both theSouthAfrican Angora goat andthe Boer ... respectively The 17,20-lyase action of CYP17 produces the cleavage of the C17,20 bond of 17-OHPREG and 17-OHPROG to yield the adrenal androgens dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and androstenedione ... CYP17 isoforms in both theSouthAfrican Angora goat and Boer goat The unique genotypes in theSouthAfrican Angora goat have been shown to differ not only in terms of the genes encoding CYP17,...
... Tim Hart and Ineke Vorster ultimately ignores the roles of the project actors andthe effects that they have on the process (in essence their knowledge and behaviour) and suggests that they are ... materials andthe amount of space used The availability of the various materials and their use influences the success of this activity The closure of the community nursery project resulted in the availability ... shortages in the winter and spring months Most of the leaves are dried in the sun, with the rural people in the northern regions both blanching and not blanching the leaves prior to drying The Xhosa...
... promote and fulfil the social and economic rights of the citizens; • Assigns theSouthAfrican Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) the task to monitor whether government departments and other organs ... including the credentials of the researcher who wrote the report; the way the research was conducted andthe 14 data analysed; the "level of consensus among other scholars in the same field" on 15 the ... findings; andthe independence of the researcher Therefore I propose to inquire whether the SAHRC's study satisfies the standard of credibility, both at the level of data gathering and data analysis...
... Tim Hart and Ineke Vorster ultimately ignores the roles of the project actors andthe effects that they have on the process (in essence their knowledge and behaviour) and suggests that they are ... materials andthe amount of space used The availability of the various materials and their use influences the success of this activity The closure of the community nursery project resulted in the availability ... shortages in the winter and spring months Most of the leaves are dried in the sun, with the rural people in the northern regions both blanching and not blanching the leaves prior to drying The Xhosa...
... www.hsrcpress.co.za The second survey was undertaken by the University of Pretoria andthe Eindhoven University of Technology (in the Netherlands) for the period 1998– 2000 and covered the manufacturing and ... thank the Department of Science and Technology for their support and encouragement at the time that the survey was conducted Statistics South Africa supplied the sample for the survey and we ... by the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) andthe DST The main differences between the CIS4 core questionnaire andtheSouthAfrican Innovation Survey 2005 questionnaire were the...
... www.hsrcpress.co.za The second survey was undertaken by the University of Pretoria andthe Eindhoven University of Technology (in the Netherlands) for the period 1998– 2000 and covered the manufacturing and ... thank the Department of Science and Technology for their support and encouragement at the time that the survey was conducted Statistics South Africa supplied the sample for the survey and we ... by the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) andthe DST The main differences between the CIS4 core questionnaire andtheSouthAfrican Innovation Survey 2005 questionnaire were the...
... area geographies by the Office for National Statistics (England and Wales), the General Register Office for Scotland andthe Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency In these countries, similar ... municipalities The least deprived municipalities are in the Western Cape and Gauteng, although compared to the other domains, there are a few of the more deprived municipalities in these provinces 23 TheSouth ... Africans are entitled South Africa also ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1995 (United Nations, 1990), andtheAfrican Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in 2000...
... specialised areas of thebank (BANKSETA, 2004) The high levels of unemployment and poverty in the country, coupled with the growing impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, further exacerbate the shortage of ... developing nations (National Treasury andSouthAfricanReserve Bank, 2004) The highly competitive environment is exacerbated by the entry of foreign and niche banks, and increased commoditisation of ... interdependency is increasing, and uncertainty and complexity are commonplace The BANKSETA confirms that there are a variety of factors driving change in theSouthAfrican Banking Sector The sector’s ability...
... autonomy of MPs and their support for local candidates, it could be that they would be cautious about any move that might weaken the legislature relative to the executive On the other hand, they might ... enables them to make their voices heard in the halls of Parliament and ensures that political parties ‘anticipate’ their reactions at the next election to the actions they take today.8 However, these ... criticise their own political parties and take their own stances on legislation independently of the party line, andthe potential for independent candidates At the same time, when posed the choice,...
... Tim Hart and Ineke Vorster ultimately ignores the roles of the project actors andthe effects that they have on the process (in essence their knowledge and behaviour) and suggests that they are ... materials andthe amount of space used The availability of the various materials and their use influences the success of this activity The closure of the community nursery project resulted in the availability ... shortages in the winter and spring months Most of the leaves are dried in the sun, with the rural people in the northern regions both blanching and not blanching the leaves prior to drying The Xhosa...
... selected mines and to refine the existing theory and model Obvious differences between the various case studies are the different commodities mined andthe different mining methods used The results ... with the personnel at the mine • When mine personnel not properly understand the nature of the information required to complete the questionnaire, or the relevance, importance and purpose thereof, ... minerals have been the cornerstone of theSouthAfrican economy The mining and quarrying industry has always been, according to Statistics SA (2004:7-8) andthe Department of Minerals and Energy (DME)...
... ‘Unsmoothed SouthAfrican Reinsurers’ Loss Ratio’ Figure 15 ‘3 Year Smoothed SouthAfrican Reinsurers’ Loss Ratio’ Figure 16 ‘5 Year Smoothed SouthAfrican Reinsurers’ Loss Ratio’ Figure 17 SouthAfrican ... investment They hypothesise the demand for insurance to be a function of price – the inverse of the loss ratio – and aggregate income Equating the quantity of insurance demanded with the quantity ... one cannot test the theories against each other, nor can a single theory explain the cause of underwriting cycles (Meier and Outreville 2006) Some theories not explain the cause of the cycle itself,...
... Children The study was commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund andthe Nelson Mandela Foundation as part of the larger Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS 2002 The aim was to give us, and ... children and what predisposes them to HIV infection, but also the effects of the epidemic on their care and support This study forms part of the larger Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS: SouthAfrican ... in South Africa and worldwide On behalf of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, I would like to comment on the importance of The National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African...
... race and gender, the relationship of medicine to society, andthe status of theSouth in the nation’s political and social economies These ideas reflected the world as these authors knew it and ... the subjects were African American, southern, and poor.2 For Smith and others, portrayals of the midwives were linked to a specific set of representations of theAfrican American body and of African ... birth, on the one hand, andthe official sanctions against traditional midwifery, on the other, one begins to glimpse the dimensions of the struggle over the “said” andthe “unsaid” in the recollections...
... smoothing and a lesser weight on the output gap Tachibana (2003) estimated the preferences for central banks of Japan, the UK andthe U.S after the first oil shock The author showed that these countries ... regard to the aggregate demand equation, the lag coefficients of the output gap and of the terms of trade lagged one period were statistically significant (see Table 2) On the other hand, the coefficient ... that the current inflation rate depends on its lagged values, on the fluctuation of the exchange rate in the previous period and on the two-period lag of the output gap The verticality of the...
... considering the fact that banks through the SHG -Bank Linkage programme andthe NBFC-MFIs together cover over 90% of the microfinance sector andthe fact that theReserveBank regulates both the banks and ... of regulatory arbitrage The responsibility for regulating NBFCs has been given to theReserveBank under theReserveBank Act and therefore theReserveBank is already the regulator for NBFC-MFIs ... by the SHG- Bank linkage model and 34% of the portfolio is owned by the NBFC-MFIs Both banks and NBFCs are outside the scope of the proposed Act, and are infact regulated by ReserveBank b) Therefore,...
... of Class 3 also benefit from ultra easy monetary policy128. Overall, however, they suffer the most because their net wealth is very low, their access to further credit disappears, and they are the most liable to lose their jobs in the downturn. Ironically, if Rajan’s thesis is correct, the ... relative to longer term rates, and relative to rates incorporating a counterparty risk premium, banks have an incentive to create credit as the demand for credit increases. The rate of growth of credit in the AME’s andthe EME’s between 2003 and 2007 was well above the ... procyclical in its operations. Essentially this is because the value of available collateral reflects three components; the market value of the collateral, the haircut imposed on the borrower andthe velocity of turnover (rehypothecation)of the ...
... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/12/1/5 interpreted the data, and drafted the manuscript LM assisted with the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data, and helped to draft the manuscript RW conceived of the study, participated ... negatively on both physical and mental HRQoL [10,31] However, the nature of the symptoms and whether they were attributed to the disease process or to HAART was not clear In the developing world, Jelsma ... design, and critically reviewed the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Dr Catherine Orrell and Dr Richard Kaplan for the...