The District Clinical Specialist Team (DCST) is a strategy implemented by the South African National Department of Health to strengthen district health systems. An amount of R396 million per annum will be required to fund posts in all 52 districts. During implementation, numerous risks were identified, the major one being the most expensive category of DCST personnel, i.e. Head of Clinical Unit...

Plant-based diets contain a plethora of secondary metabolites that may impact on health and disease prevention. Much attention has been focused on the potential bioactivity and nutritional relevance of several classes of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, carotenoids, phytooestrogens and glucosinolates. Less attention has been paid to simple phenolic acids that are widely found in fruit, vegeta...

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a supramolecular assembly that is inserted in the nuclear envelope (NE) and mediates nucleocytoplasmic transport (Fahrenkrog and Aebi, 2003; Tran and Wente, 2006). The NPC scaffold is characterized by distinct substructures that are arranged with an eightfold rotational sym­ metry (Stoffler et al., 1999; Beck et al., 2007). The NPC in the yeast Saccharomyces ce...

áeñ = 2.22 in the infiltrated one (reducing the contrast at the same time). After inversion the mean dielectric constant decreases to áeñ = 1.41 and, accordingly, the L pseudogap energy shifts upwards (see Fig. 5). The peak width is a function of both the dielectric contrast and the filling factor of the structure. Bare opals present a contrast eSiO2/eair = 2.1 that shifts to epolymer/eSiO2 = 1...

The worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity in the adult population is estimated to be 35%. These trends are reflected in childhood obesity prevalence, and the potential impact of early-onset obesity is of great concern. The aim of this review was to investigate the long-term implications of childhood obesity for metabolic and cardiovascular health, focusing on the independent contributi...

The Convention on Biological Diversity commits the 177 signatory countries to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity. The long-term conservation of biodiversity requires an understanding of the processes that allow species to persist in natural as well as human-dominated ecosystems. During most of the 20th century, nature reserves and national parks have been a cornerstone in the pre...

Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well...