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How to use Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) and the Adaptive Planning Process (APP) to build a shared catchment future

- Palmer, Carolyn G, Rogers, Kevin H, Holleman, Helen, Wolff, Margaret G

Authors: Palmer, Carolyn G , Rogers, Kevin H , Holleman, Helen , Wolff, Margaret G
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , report
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437965 , vital:73425 , ISBN 978-1 4312-0991-0 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP 123-18 web.pdf
Description: For members of Catchment Management Forums (CMFs) and Catchment Manage-ment Agencies (CMAs). CMFs are made up of people who represent all the stake-holders in a catchment. They are the people who know the catchment best, and therefore are in the best position to alert CMAs to local issues and to help develop the strategic plans for their local catchment. However, catchments are dynamic*, complex* systems that need a special planning approach – and that is what this handbook is about. If one part of a catchment is neglected and damaged, it affects the whole system and everyone living in it. We use and recommend a flexible, adap-tive approach in which everyone involved in the planning is both a teacher and a learner, and where everyone contributes their special wisdom to developing a sustainable plan for the catchment.
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Date Issued: 2019

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General structural and functional features of molecular chaperones:

- Edkins, Adrienne L, Boshoff, Aileen

Authors: Edkins, Adrienne L , Boshoff, Aileen
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164808 , vital:41174 , ISBN 978-94-007-7437-7 , DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7438-4_2
Description: Molecular chaperones are a group of structurally diverse and highly conserved ubiquitous proteins. They play crucial roles in facilitating the correct folding of proteins in vivo by preventing protein aggregation or facilitating the appropriate folding and assembly of proteins. Heat shock proteins form the major class of molecular chaperones that are responsible for protein folding events in the cell. This is achieved by ATP-dependent (folding machines) or ATP-independent mechanisms (holders). Heat shock proteins are induced by a variety of stresses, besides heat shock. The large and varied heat shock protein class is categorised into several subfamilies based on their sizes in kDa namely, small Hsps (HSPB), Hsp40 (DNAJ), Hsp60 (HSPD/E; Chaperonins), Hsp70 (HSPA), Hsp90 (HSPC), and Hsp100.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Non-perturbative unitarity constraints on the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density in ultraviolet-complete theories with a gravity dual

- Brustein, R, Medved, A J M

Authors: Brustein, R , Medved, A J M
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , Article
Identifier: vital:6817 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004327
Description: We reconsider, from a novel perspective, how unitarity constrains the corrections to the ratio of shear viscosity η to entropy density s. We start with higher-derivative extensions of Einstein gravity in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. It is assumed that these theories are derived from string theory and thus have a unitary UV completion that is dual to a unitary, UV-complete boundary gauge theory. We then propose that the gravitational perturbations about a solution of the UV-complete theory are described by an effective theory whose linearized equations of motion have at most two time derivatives. Our proposal leads to a concrete prescription for the calculation of η/s for theories of gravity with arbitrary higher-derivative corrections. The resulting ratio can take on values above or below 1/4π and is consistent with all the previous calculations, even though our reasoning is substantially different. For the purpose of calculating η/s, our proposal also leads to only two possible candidates for the effective two-derivative theory: Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The distinction between the two is that Einstein gravity satisfies the equivalence principle, and so its graviton correlation functions are polarization-independent, whereas the Gauss-Bonnet theory has polarization-dependent correlation functions. We discuss the graviton three-point functions in this context and explain how these can provide additional information on the value of η/s.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Internal environment: the agricultural sector in Region E

- van Zyl, Johan, von Bach, Helmke Sartorius, Kirsten, Johann

Authors: van Zyl, Johan , von Bach, Helmke Sartorius , Kirsten, Johann
Date: 1993-05
Subjects: Agriculture -- Economic aspects , Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Statistics
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68792 , vital:29322
Description: The main purpose of this report is to conduct an analysis with a view to determine the potential role and contribution of agriculture in region E. This report emphasises the agricultural impact in determining an economic development strategy for region E. It is therefore the aim of this report to provide a brief situation analysis and an interpretation of existing problems affecting development. The importance of the sector, implications of the spacial distribution, the structure, potential growth and the policy environment will be addressed. From the above, constraints, bottlenecks, the likely future demand, etc will be pointed out. The interpretation of the above and its implications for development is necessary to determine objectives for the aimed strategy. The strategy for region E is necessary in determining policies stressing economic growth and fair distribution of resources to enable the mass of the population to share in increased wealth and economic opportunities. , Region E economic development study
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Date Issued: 1993-05

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Up Beat Issue Number 3 1993

- SACHED

Authors: SACHED
Date: 1993
Subjects: SACHED
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115634 , vital:34209
Description: When is the right time to have sex? Upbeat receives hundreds of letters from young people around the country, asking this question. People tell us how confused and frightened they feel. It is a very difficult question and Upbeat doesn't have the answer. Maybe your friends are 'doing it' and you feel left out. But don't rush into anything that you are not sure of. Rather wait than make a big mistake. We've an article on page 14, to make you think about whether you are ready to have sex or not. We hope it helps you make the right choice. There are lots of great stories to read in this issue. On page 4 you can find out what is happening in the troubled schools of Soweto. Read an amazing story about Argentina on page 10 about young boy who was stolen. It is a story about courage - the courage of women who stood up and demanded that the government find their children. This issue is also packed with lots of things to win. We've got FIVE great competitions that will get you thinking, drawing and making things. Don't miss the competition for an ISM computer on page 20, or the school bursaries competition on page 36. There are also competitions for music and books.
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Date Issued: 1993

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Report of the Conference on Women and Gender in Southern Africa, 30 January to 3 February 1991

- Gender Research Group Conference Planning Committee, University of Natal

Authors: Gender Research Group Conference Planning Committee , University of Natal
Date: 1991-02-03
Subjects: Women – Political activity – Africa, Southern -- Congresses , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government, Resistance to – South Africa , Women – Social conditions – Africa, Southern -- Congresses , Women in development – Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Language: English
Type: text , conference publication
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58278 , vital:27139 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: Women’s studies and courses which incorporate gender into their analysis have slowly, over the last five or six years, been gaining a toe-hold at South African universities. More and more academics, most of them women, are doing research in the area. Despite this, Women’s and Gender Studies are often marginalised and lecturers have to fight for the space to teach them. Papers on women tend to be ghettoised at conferences. Thus at its first meeting in 1989 the Gender Research Group (GRG) felt the need to celebrate this growing area of work being produced under difficult conditions by organising a conference. The purpose of the conference was to stimulate further research and provide a forum for the work people were already doing. The organising committee wanted the conference to be a place for debate with an emphasis on research and theory. The Conference was organised around four main themes: * Race, class and gender * Culture and ideology * Organising women and policy * Everyday life. It was the first academic conference in South Africa to focus directly on women’s and gender issues. It was attended by participants from most southern African countries as well as southern Africanists from the USA, Britain, Canada and the Netherlands. There were sixty-four papers, some presented in plenary discussion and others in smaller parallel sessions. In addition, two panel discussions were organised, one on ‘Conceptualising gender’ and the other on ‘Organising women’ The conference was followed by two one-day workshops - ‘Teaching Women’s Studies’ and ‘Gender and Popular Education’.
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Date Issued: 1991-02-03

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The chemistry and petrogenesis of igneous rocks of the Karoo central area, southern Africa

- Eales, Hugh V, Marsh, Julian S

Authors: Eales, Hugh V , Marsh, Julian S
Date: 1984
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133934 , vital:37042 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailamp;idt=6519911
Description: Outcrops of the Jurassic Karoo basalts and dolerites in central South Africa are remnants of an intracratonic continental igneous suite whose volume probably once exceeded 1.5 x 106 km³. Basic rocks with 6-8% MgO, 50-55% Si02 and Mg-number = 53-67 are overwhelmingly dominant in the Central area suite. Application of discriminant analysis to a data set of major and trace element analyses of the basic rocks confirms field and petrographic evidence that a number of compositionally distinct basalt magma types exist in the Central area.
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Date Issued: 1984

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