• The use of 3D geovisualisations for urban design: The case of informal settlement upgrading in South Africa 

  Rautenbach, Victoria-Justine (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  Informal settlements are a common occurrence in South African due to housing backlogs and shortage of housing subsidies, and are often located on disputed land. To improve in-situ circumstances of these communities, informal ...
• A cooperative prediction based approach to spectrum management in cognitive radio networks 

  Barnes, Simon Daniel (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  One of the problems facing wireless network planners is a perceived scarcity of spectrum. A technology that addresses this problem is cognitive radio (CR). A critical function of a CR network is spectrum sensing (SS). A ...
• Tourist guiding legislation : South Africa, Australia and Canada in a comparative perspective 

  Van den Berg, Lize-Marguerite (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  Not only is tourism becoming one of the fastest growing industries of both the developed and developing countries, it is also the point of entry into a country and its culture. The movement of people between countries and ...
• Characterization of spirocerca lupi in wild and domestic canids 

  Rothmann, Wiekolize (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  Spirocerca lupi is a parasitic nematode that causes spirocercosis predominantly in domestic dogs. This disease is often fatal if not detected early before malignant transformation occurs. The nematodes may also cause serious ...
• Higher education student mobility in Africa: a passage to Nigeria 

  Agbeniga, Olaide (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  International student mobility is a growing expression of internationalisation. Research has shown that close to 3.7 million international students travelled across the borders of their own country to study in 2009, ...
• The correlation between levels of physical activity, academic performance and self-esteem in grade 4 children in a South African private school 

  Dryden, Loraine (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  The study of self-esteem has spanned more than a century, with theorists approaching it from many and varied standpoints. This study aimed to examine the relationship between physical activity, self-esteem and academic ...
• Optimal sensor placement approaches for the design of inverse experiments by simulation 

  Chae, Younghwan (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  This dissertation serves to present the research conducted on sensor placement optimisation (SPO) using sensitivity analyses of virtual experiments in order to design virtual inverse problems. Two classes of SPO methods ...
• Investigating the application of Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) for mitigating power transmission line losses 

  Aduragba, Adebiyi Abayomi (Durban University of Technology, 2017)

  Voltage instability and increased power loss on transmission lines are major challenges in power transmission due to ever increasing load growth. This work investigates the effect of Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) ...
• Wild and domestic animals as reservoirs of antibiotic resistant escherichia coli in South Africa 

  King, Tracy Leigh Bridget (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2017)
• The influence of mycobacterium tuberculosis on B cells during disease and treatment response 

  du Plessis, Willem Jacques (Stellenbosch University, 2016)
• A resource flow typology of African cities 

  Currie, Paul Klugman (Stellenbosch University, 2015)

  Global urbanisation trends predict a future in which the already overburdened cities of Africa and Asia will house the bulk of the two billion new people born by 2050. This second wave of urbanisation will increase resource ...
• Extended information processing of technology education learners during the early phases of the design process 

  Blom, Nicolaas Willem (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  The purpose of my study was to describe the manner in which Grade 9 technology learners typically accessed and used information sources during the early phases of their design processes. I did this by using an Extended ...
• Power series expansion of the Jost function on the complex angular momentum plane 

  Tshipi, John Tshegofatso (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  The aim of this research is to develop a method for expanding the Jost functions as a Taylor-type power series on the complex angular momentum plane. From this method in conjunction with the Watson transformation, we ...
• Social recognition and telencephalic binding sites of oxytocin in a solitary and a social otomyine species 

  Goldner, Gerhard Tobias (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  This study examined the sociality of two phylogenetically closely related otomyine, murid rodent species that display differences in social behaviour in the wild. A fundamental characteristic of sociality in mammals is the ...
• Molecular genetic analyses of antipsychotic pharmacogenes in a South African first episode schizophrenia cohort 

  Higgins, Faatiemah (Stellenbosch University, 2015)

  Antipsychotic treatment of schizophrenia is often accompanied by distressing adverse effects and a high relapse rate. Although pharmacogenetic research has identified some promising candidate pharmacogenes, these remain ...
• Immunological tools for the characterization of the humoral immune response to Mycobacterium bovis infection in African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) 

  McFadyen, Ross (Stellenbosch University, 2016)
• Investigating the potentially expanded target repertoire of murinized Internalin of Listeria monocytogenes 

  Ndima, Daniel, S. (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  The ability of intracellular pathogens to invade and spread from non-phagocytic cell to another is an imperative mechanism broadly investigated in cellular biology. Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) –one example of intracellular ...
• Steady-state analysis of continuous succinic acid fermentations by actinobacillus succinogenes 

  Bradfield, Michael Ford Alexander (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  Succinic acid (SA) is poised to become a significant building-block or platform chemical in the bio-based economy. Of the microbial strains that show promise for biological SA production, the wild-type bacterium Actinobacillus ...
• The influence of environmental variability on the catch of chokka, Loligo reynaudii, off the coast of South Africa 

  Joyner, Jessica Mary (Rhodes University, 2015)

  Globally, cephalopod fisheries are being relied on more heavily due to the depletion of longer-lived teleost species. The South African chokka squid (Loligo reynaudii) fishery is a case in point. Although previously numerous ...
• Exploring stakeholder inclusivity in the development of the South African national policy on basic education 

  Mabusela, Queen Simangele (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  This study explores the necessity of stakeholder inclusivity, particularly the inclusivity of teachers, in the development of the national policy pertaining to the programme and promotion requirements of the National ...

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