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The association between renal sonography and renal function in chronic kidney disease at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Chief Hospital: a retrospective descriptive study.
(2020)Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rapidly emerging as a major cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Africa with a reported prevalence of 10.7% locally. At current, few high-quality studies assessing the ... -
A critical analysis of quality management systems: a logistics perspective.
(2021)The management of quality in any organisation is critical to its success. The premise on which any organisation is built, is to satisfy the needs of its customers. Regardless of whether the organisation’s offering product ... -
Service quality delivery at the Pietermaritzburg Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)With the five SERVQUAL dimensions, this study aims to determine the gap between students' expectations and perceptions of service quality at the Kwazulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus. Service quality in education is ... -
Building a framework for the sustainable African city of the future.
(2021)The increase in rural to urban migration rates have resulted in the rapid urbanization and uncontrolled growth of modern day cities. This trend is expected to continue in the coming years, thereby increasing the demand for ... -
Surgical outcomes of HIV seropositive adult patients with intracranial hypertension secondary to cryptococcal meningitis.
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The glass ceiling at Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and females’ response to it.
(2021)Today’s women have a completely different mind-set to that of women of the past. Women want to work in managerial positions, but they are restricted by several challenges. Various authors have described the main challenge ... -
The confessional novel in South Africa : a study of J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron (1990) and Menan du Plessis' A state of fear (1983).
(1992)Abstract available in PDF. -
The potential of provitamin A-biofortified maize and sweet potato, and bambara groundnut for improving the nutritional status of rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2020)The double burden of malnutrition, under- and over-nutrition, is a serious health problem and a leading contributor to the global disease burden. Undernutrition presents as wasting, stunting, underweight and micronutrient ... -
Performance evaluation of a South African aluminium manufacturing company based in Pietermaritzburg: the Balanced Scorecard approach.
(2021)The current state of manufacturing industry in South Africa is in decline. Measuring and evaluating the firm’s performance to compete, grow and withstand harsh external forces is necessary. This will assist business ... -
The growth and development of the Master Builders Association in the Cape Peninsula.
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Service quality and customer satisfaction in a government funded low-income rental housing project in Pietermaritzburg.
(2021)Increasing the value customers derive from services contributes to increasing perceived service quality. Perceived good service quality is key to establishing a competitive edge. There is not enough research aimed at the ... -
Evaluation of forward osmosis technology for the treatment of selected concentrated brines.
(2021)Abstract available in PDF. -
Cellulose nanocrystals: plant design for up-scaled production and applications in green construction materials.
(2021)Two main problems were addressed in this project. Firstly, upscaling technologies from the laboratory scale to industrial scale is difficult in the absence of pilot scale facilities. This research entailed the development ... -
Thermo-physical properties of alkanolamine-ethanol hybrid solutions: experimental measurements and modelling.
(2021)This study presents the measured densities (!), viscosities (") and refractive indices (nD) of Monoethanolamine (MEA) + Ethanol (ETOH), N-Methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) + ETOH and Diethanolamine (DEA) + ETOH mixtures over ... -
Impression management observation in chairman statements in JSE Top 40 listed companies.
(2021)The study examined whether impression management exists in the Top 40 Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies based on narrative disclosure in chairman’s statements. Based on market share, the JSE Top 40 listed ... -
Analysis of sexual and reproductive healthcare utilisation among young people in Zimbabwe.
(2020)Despite the development and implementation of an adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) strategic plan in 2010, Zimbabwe has the third-highest HIV prevalence amongst sexually active teenagers in ... -
Oil price shocks, exchange rates and output performance in Africa's oil exporting countries.
(2021)This thesis examines oil price shocks, exchange rates and output performance in a sample of Africa’s Oil-Exporting Countries (AOECs) (Algeria, Egypt, Gabon, Libya, and Nigeria). Using quarterly data from 1980 to 2018, it ... -
Do competition regimes matter in international trade? A case study of the Tripartite Free Trade Area.
(2021)This thesis assesses the importance of competition policy and competition reforms in enhancing regional and continental integration processes. While using the envisaged Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) as a case study, ... -
Financial stability and monetary policy in South Africa.
(2020)This thesis is presented in three distinct but related essays. The first essay (Chapter four) explores how financial stress interacts with monetary policy. Financial stress was measured using a time-varying financial ...