The use of animals and plants as traditional remedies for medical magico-religious purposes has a long history socio-cultural economic importance in South Africa. Herein, we aim to characterize the social value wild animal species used traditional, belief-based medicine within Africa from healers’ perspective explore knowledge plant-based alternatives wildlife-based derivatives this type trade....

INTRODUCTION This project was based on the FIELD trial. It is a localisation of the study by Carrington and Stewart. The aim of the original study was to determine the impact of fenofibrate therapy on healthcare costs of middle-aged patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk of future cardiovascular events. METHODS The methodology used in the Carrington article was adopted for this study. The...

BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, there is growing interest in the use of cash transfer (CT) programs for HIV treatment and prevention. However, there is limited evidence of the consequences related to CT provision to adolescents in low-resourced urban settings. We explored the experiences of adolescents receiving CTs to assess the acceptability and unintended consequences of CT strategies in u...

Anadolu'daki çeşitli medeniyetlere ait gümüş işçiliği ile hazırlanan eşyalar, işçiliğinin tarihinin milattan öncelere kadar gittiğini göstermekte, o dönem insanlarının kültürlerini, sosyo-ekonomik durumlarını, yaşam tarzlarını, zevklerini ve kültürlerarası etkileşimlerini ortaya koymaktadır. Türk Orta Asya'da yayılmaya başlamış, Anadolu'da İslamiyet birlikte altın kullanımı artmış, Anadolu Selç...

This paper attempted to apply an EVT-based pairwise copula method for modelling risk interaction between foreign exchange rates and equity indices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) model dependence structure underlying assets with some selected listed stock indices. We filtered return residuals using stochastic volatility GJR-GARCH (1,1) models different distributions, we best-fitted in ...

High incidence of postharvest losses is a major challenge to global food security. Addressing better strategy increase business efficiency and improve security rather than simply investing more resources production. Global estimates show that fruit vegetables are the highest contributors waste, with 45% production lost. This represents 38% total waste. However, lack primary data on at critical ...

Elektrofizyolojinin tarihsel sürecini konu aldığımız bu çalışma ile Galvani sonrası geç dönem olan 1850-1900 yıllarındaki gelişmeler değerlendirilmiştir. “Canlı elektriği ” (animal electricity) iddiasının ampirik olarak ispatlanmış olmasına rağmen Galvani’nin ölümünden sonra da devam eden sıra dışı - Volta rekabeti, volta pilinin keşfi, biyolojik akımın ölçümü için cihaz geliştirilmesi (galvano...