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Musicians playing at Richard Hatana 60th birthday celebration

  • Authors: Mbali, Willy , Jacobs, Lumkile , Hatana, Richard , Kuluman, Whytie
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: uncatalogued
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126418 , vital:35885 , RHPC-044
  • Description: Musicians playing at Richard Hatana's 60th birthday celebration from left, Willy Mbali, alto sax and leader of Africn Quavers; Lumkile Jacobs, alto sax; Richard Hatana, drums; Whytie Kuluman, alto sax. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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  • Date Issued: 1993

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Personal growth through classroom English : (What pupils say they get out of English teaching)

  • Authors: Thiel, Louise
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Educational counseling English language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1696 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003579
  • Description: Guidance and counselling aims to promote the personal growth of the adolescent. However, in the current South African context, it is possible that formalised Guidance instruction and the post of the school counsellor may disappear in many schools as a result of economic rationalisation. If this occurs, the fostering of personal growth will rest with all teachers and it will be vital to utilise all available opportunities. The study of English is one of the areas traditionally seen to promote personal growth, as several aims of English teaching relate to such growth. The purpose of this study is to investigate from the pupil's perspective whether these aims are being fulfilled within 'Model C' CEO schools in order to gauge the potential of English teaching to fulfil the personal growth role of Guidance teaching. Pupils were asked what influence English teaching had on their attitudes and ideas towards life, on themselves and on their development as people. From the data, common themes were established and documented. These themes showed that important aspects of personal growth are indeed fostered by the English teaching of literature, poetry, written work, oral work and visual literacy. This study therefore confirms that English teaching does foster personal growth and that the potential does exist for English teaching to subsume some of the roles of Guidance.
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Pharmacodynamics of phenylpropanolamine: aspects of safety and efficacy in humans

  • Authors: Petrie, Lauri René
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Phenylpropanolamine
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:3785 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003263 , Phenylpropanolamine
  • Description: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a synthetic sympathomimetic amine, is widely used as a nasal decongestant and as an appetite suppressant. Much controversy exists regarding the efficacy of the drug as an anorectic agent, the related adverse reactions caused by the relatively high doses required for appetite suppression and the potential of this drug for abuse. Whilst numerous studies have been carried out to assess the central and cardiovascular safety of PPA and many investigations have been performed to evaluate efficacy in terms of weight loss in humans, there is a relative paucity of information regarding the effects of PPA on appetite and food intake. A pilot trial was conducted to determine the feasiblility of a multidimensional approach to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PPA as ananorectic agent in humans. Eight normotensive caucasian women who were overweight participated in a randomised double-blind cross-over comparison of PPA (75 mg) and placebo and were dosed to steady-state on a 12-hour fixed-dose schedule for a period of eleven weeks. Aspects of efficacy evaluated included the effects of PPA on hunger, appetite and satiety,salivation, macro-nutrient food intake and body weight. Standardised scales were used to quantitatively assess the possible subjective mood and behavioural reinforcing effects of PPA. Supine systolic and diastolic blood pressures were monitored continually throughout the trial. In addition, peak and trough blood samp1es were taken to monitor serum concentrations of PPA reached at steady-state and patient compliance with the dosing schedule. An adaptation of a published reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) assay for PPA in serum using U.V. detection at 210 nm is presented. A significant decrease in body weight, salivation, total food intake and carbohydrate consumption was demonstrated following PPA administration. Phenylpropanolamine produced significant decrements in subjective reports of hunger and appetite, whilst apparently having little effect on satiety. No significant changes were observed for blood pressures and PPA did not produce significant mood alterations or behavioural reinforcing effects. The study demonstrates the feasibility of using this muti-faceted approach, with certain design modifications, to evaluate the overall safety and efficacy of PPA as an appetite suppressant.
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Pineal-adrenal gland interactions in search of an anti-stressogenic role for melatonin

  • Authors: Van Wyk, Elizabeth Joy
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Pineal gland -- Secretions , Melatonin , Adrenal glands , Pineal gland -- Research
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4054 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004115 , Pineal gland -- Secretions , Melatonin , Adrenal glands , Pineal gland -- Research
  • Description: The multiple functions of the pineal gland have been collectively interpreted as constituting a general anti-stressogenic role. The adrenal glands play a central role in maintaining homeostasis. The major neuroendocrine consequence of long-term stress is elevated circulating glucocorticoid levels. In this study, the effect of chronic, oral hydrocortisone treatment on pineal biochemistry was investigated in male Wi star rats of the albino strain. The results show that seven days of oral hydrocortisone treatment endows the pineal gland with the ability to increase melatonin synthesis in organ culture. The increase is accompanied by a rise in NAT activity, cyclic AMP levels and enhanced specific binding to the pineal B-adrenergic receptors. It appears that hydrocortisone sensitizes the pineal gland to stimulation by B-adrenergic agonists. thus rendering the pineal more responsive to B-adrenergic agonists. Further studies were directed at demonstrating an anti-stressogenic function for the pineal gland by investigating whether the principal pineal indole, melatonin. could protect against the deleterious effects of elevated. circulating drocortisone levels. The results show that chronic, oral hydrocortisone treatment significantly increases liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity. The catabolism of tryptophan by tryptophan pyrrolase is an important determinant of tryptophan availability to the brain, and therefore, brain serotonin levels. The findings show that melatonin inhibits basal and hydrocortisone-stimulated liver tryptophan pyrrolase apoenzyme activity in a dose-dependent manner. This inhibition suggests that melatonin may protect against excessive loss of tryptophan from circulation and against deficiencies in the cerebral serotinergic system which are associated with mood and behavioural disorders. It was shown that another deleterious effect of chronic hydrocortisone treatment is a significant increase in the number of glutamate receptors in the forebrain of male Wistar rats. The increase in receptor number observed in this study is probably due to an increase in the synthesis of glutamate receptors and is associated with a marked reduction in the affinity of the glutamate receptors for glutamate. possible to demonstrate an receptor number or the For practical reasons, it was not effect of melatonin on either glutamate affinity of glutamate receptors for glutamate in rat forebrain membranes. In view of the neurotoxic effect of glutamate in the eNS, the functional significance of recently described glutamate receptors in the pineal gland was investigated. The results show that 10-4 M glutamate significantly inhibits the isoprenaline-stimulated synthesis of N-acetylserotonin and melatonin in organ culture when the pineal glands were pre-incubated with glutamate for 4 hours prior to stimulation with isoprenalin and when glutamate and isoprenaline were administered together in vitro. GABA, a glutamate metabolite could not mimic the decrease in isoprenalinestimulated melatonin, and it is likely that the observed effects were directly attributed to glutamate. Incubation of the pineal gland with 10-4 M glutamate in organ culture did not affect HIOMT activity in pineal homogenates, but significantly elevated both basal and isoprenaline-stimulated NAT activity. It was concluded that glutamate only inhibits melatonin synthesis in intact pineal glands and not in pineal homogenates. The present study has provided further support for an interaction between the pineal and the adrenal glands. There is an ever increasing likelihood that melatonin is an anti-stressogenic hormone and that the pineal gland may have a protective role to play in the pathology of stress-related diseases.
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Plastic changes in spinal function of pre-pubescent scoliotic children engaged in an exercise therapy programme

  • Authors: Solberg, Gill
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Exercise therapy -- Methods , Scoliosis in children -- Exercise therapy -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5163 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015973
  • Description: Previous studies of the effect of exercise therapy on scoliosis have demonstrated progression of spinal curves despite vigorous exercise regimens. This study presents evidence to the contrary. Ten children with functional scoliosis and attendant upper thoracic asymmetries were analyzed both before and after a specific exercise therapy programme, in order to determine the effect of the therapy on spinal functionality and the scoliotic curve. The effect of this intensive treatment, in which the subjects underwent a five-month exercise training programme with a total of 60 one-hour sessions, was investigated in a controlled clinical trial. A subjective and objective appraisal of posterior trunk asymmetry in schoolchildren aged 7-18 is reported. Selected functional and anthropometric measurements were made before and after the treatment, and antero-posterior x-rays were used to indicate changes in the scoliotic curve. New methods are described for quantifying the scoliotic curves in each child. Post-treatment tests showed a significant (p<0.05) decrease in Cobb's angles as well as a significant reduction in all the spinal and thoracic functional asymmetries observed in the study. The findings suggest that selective exercise programmes can contribute to improvement in cases of functional scoliosis. The study sheds new light on problems related to scoliosis and the benefits of exercise rehabilitation. Data on the incidence of scoliosis amongst 1052 black children are also presented and discussed.
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  • Date Issued: 1993

Prodigality, liberality and meanness in the parable of the prodigal son : Greco-Roman perspective on Luke 15:11-32

  • Authors: Holgate, David A
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Bible. Luke XV, 11-32 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Prodigal son (Parable) , Ethics in the Bible
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:1244 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009701
  • Description: This dissertation consists of an interpretation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32) from the perspective of Greco-Roman moral philosophy. It is divided into three parts. Part 1 traces the history of relating the New Testament to Greco-Roman literature and philosophy. Despite the importance of this perspective for the study of Luke-Acts, the relationship between Luke 15: 11-32 and Greco-Roman moral philosophy has not been investigated before. The legitimacy of this approach is demonstrated by a literary analysis of the parable, which demonstrates the formal emphasis placed upon the liberal and compassionate words and actions of the father. The strong moral orientation of the parable is further illustrated by the formal, linguistic and thematic features which it shares with the other L parables. Part 2 consists of a study of the Greco-Roman moral topos On Covetousness. The use of the Greco-Roman topos as a critical tool for the study of the New Testament is evaluated, the term is defined, and the influence of the topos On Covetousness upon representative works of moral philosophy is studied. This part ends with a summary of the characteristic features of the topos and its use by writers with differing philosophical affiliations. Part 3 reads the whole parable in terms of the topos On Covetousness,with the emphasis being placed on the relationship between the Lukan text and works of Greco-Roman moral philosophy. The parable is seen to be structured according to the influential Peripatetic doctrine of the mean, with the father representing the virtue of liberality, and his two sons the opposing vices of prodigality and meanness. The comparison with the topos reveals Luke's strong rejection of the two vices, and his endorsement of the Greco-Roman virtue of liberality, which is modified by his emphasis upon the Christian virtue of compassion. The approach affirms and demonstrates the internal unity of the parable and its close relationship to the Lukan theme of the correct use of possessions.
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Ranking of topical corticosteroids: principles and results

  • Authors: Smith, Eric W , Haigh, John M
  • Date: 1993
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Article
  • Identifier: vital:6434 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006607
  • Description: The increasing synthesis and use of topical corticosteroid products over the past 30 years has necessitated the development of suitable methods for evaluating the efficacy and potency of new drug entities. Several in vivo models have been developed in this regard using laboratory animals and human subjects. Generally, these tests measure the difference in the non-immunological inflammatory response to an exogenous inflammatory mediator in the presence and absence of the corticosteroid under test. There are also immunologically based assays and several tests which assess the anti proliferative effects of the drug. Several comparative disease model evaluations have also been developed using human subjects. Most of these assays are non-ideal from one point of view or another: most are invasive methods which require some form of trauma to be induced in the skin and therefore problematic to perform and monitor.
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Responses to Western education among the conservative people of Transkei

  • Authors: Deliwe, Dumisani
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002662 , Xhosa (African people) -- Attitudes , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Black people -- Education -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Education -- South Africa -- Transkei
  • Description: This thesis is concerned with the impact of Western education on the social life of the members of a Transkeian village. Various authors in the locally relevant literature, have for a long time commented that, due to Western education and Christianity, African societies became divided into 'school'people, who readily accepted Western education and culture, and 'red' people, who initially resisted these. Whilst the terms 'red' and 'school' became used as analytical constructs for the differing responses to Western culture, they were also used by African people. My findings at Qhude, Transkei, confirmed such a social division. I argue that this social division does not present an absolute distinction, but may best be conceived in terms of a continuum. Whilst the thesis considers interaction between the 'school' and the 'red' people of Qhude in various fields of life such as politics, law, religion (see Chapter Two) and education (see Chapter Six), the main emphasis is on the 'red' people. Thus, the thesis concerns itself, to a large degree, with an analysis of the 'red' people's experience and interpretation of Western education and Western educated people. The main argument is that the 'red' people's perception of Western education and Western educated people is ambiguous. That is, they see them in both positive and negative terms (see Chapter Five). This ambiguity is looked at here as a manifestation of the difficulties encountered by the 'red' people in adjusting to an institution (i.e Western education)that was initially foreign, and to which they were initially opposed. The perception of Western education as positive follows from the fact that it is seen as leading to economic empowerement by the 'red' people of Qhude, who are facing poverty, due to an economic decline (see Chapter Three). However, the economic contribution of the young (who are the ones receiving western education) and the knowledge they gather from school, threaten the authority of elders, as the young become increasingly independent from the elders. As a result of such independence, and other factors, Western education is seen in negative terms by the 'red' people. Such potential dangers of Western education are well recognised by the 'reds' of Qhude, and are dealt with culturally. That is, it is made clear to the young, in particular during occasions such as circumcision rituals, that education has to be made relevant to the building of the homestead, which is under the overlordship of parents whom the young are called upon to respect (see Chapter Six). In conclusion, it is argued that the use of culture in this way, shows how 'tradition' is employed to deal with crisis. Such use of culture necessitates a clarification of the opinion that uneducated Africans rejected Western education (see Chapter Seven).
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Rhodes University Annual Report 1993

Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1993

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1993
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:8127 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006752
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies Friday, 16 April 1993 at 10:30 a.m. [and] 8:15 p.m. [and] Saturday, 17 April 1993 at 10:30 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday, 8 May 1993 at 11.00 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
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Richard Buckland - retirement function, 1993

  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Buckland, Richard -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50660 , vital:26011 , PIC/M 7381 , This image 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.
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Richard Buckland - retirement function, 1993

  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Buckland, Richard -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50668 , vital:26013 , PIC/M 7383 , This image 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.
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Richard Buckland - retirement function, 1993

  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Buckland, Richard -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50690 , vital:26014 , PIC/M 7384 , This image 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.
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Richard Buckland - retirement function, 1993

  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Buckland, Richard -- Photographs
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50664 , vital:26012 , PIC/M 7382 , This image 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.
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Richard Hatana at his 60th birthday celebration

  • Authors: Hatana, Richard
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: uncatalogued
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126504 , vital:35893 , RHPC-052
  • Description: Richard Hatana at his 60th birthday celebration. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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Richard Hatana's 60th birthday celebration

  • Authors: Lebakeng, Shirley , Wotshela, Fezile , Mkuze, Nomzamo
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: uncatalogued
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126476 , vital:35891 , RHPC-050
  • Description: Shirley Lebakeng, vocalist; SABC presenter Fezile Wotshela; Nomzamo Mkuze at Richard Hatana's 60th birthday celebration. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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SADTU Western Cape Bulletin - Vol 1

  • Authors: SADTU
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: SADTU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134655 , vital:37187
  • Description: We are forced to acknowledge the major strides which SADTU has made as a union representing the interests of its members. But with equal sobriety and honesty, we have to take stock of the enormous challenges which lie ahead of a union, which is still relatively weak, both structurally and programmatically. Several branches have not been functioning effectively because of the inconsistency of leadership and grassroots members. The crisis of commitment is also reflected in the irregularity of union meetings at site and branch level and the crisis-related activities of SADTU. Because of our weakness in local structures, we are thus forced to respond in a knee-jerk manner to each specific crisis, without consolidating, the members(or non-members) in a union building process.
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  • Date Issued: 1993
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