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The use of archaeological and ethnographical information to supplement the historical record of the distribution of large mammalian herbivores in South Africa

- Bernard, Ric T F, Parker, Daniel M

Authors: Bernard, Ric T F , Parker, Daniel M
Date: 2006
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6914 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011877
Description: Introduction: The introduction of animal taxa to areas where they do not naturally occur has the potential to damage severely the native fauna and flora. Introductions, both accidental and intentional, to Australia, New Zealand, Marion Island and other oceanic islands provide spectacular examples of this.1,2 Non-native mammalian herbivores often become invasive in the absence of their natural predators2 and their impact on vegetation, which may include alterations to plant species composition, structure and diversity, is exaggerated, especially if the vegetation has evolved in the absence of similar herbivores.3,4 This influence is not limited to the direct consequence for the vegetation and there may be a cascade effect on ecosystem functioning through, for example, a decline in the amount of available forage for indigenous herbivores,3 a reduction in the breeding efficiency of birds that rely on the vegetation,5,6 and a negative effect on carbon storage by transforming stands of dense vegetative cover to open savannah like systems.7 Nor are these outcomes restricted to non-native herbivores; the re-introduction of a species, such as the elephant (Loxodonta africana), to areas from which it has been absent for many years may have similar consequences.8–11 Additional problems associated with the uncontrolled movement of large mammals include the transmission of disease, such as brucellosis in the United States,3 and a threat to the genetic integrity of a species through hybridization.12 It is thus clear that deliberate introductions of herbivores to areas where they do not naturally occur may not be sound conservation practice.
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What matters in economics teaching and learning? A case study of an introductory macroeconomics course in South Africa

- Snowball, Jeanette D, Wilson, Magdalene K

Authors: Snowball, Jeanette D , Wilson, Magdalene K
Date: 2006
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68500 , vital:29270 , https://doi.org/10.19030/tlc.v3i11.1659
Description: Publisher version , In many universities, economics lecturers now face the challenge of dealing with large, diverse classes, especially at undergraduate level. A common concern is the non-attendance at lectures of unmotivated (conscript) students. Poor lecture quality, as reflected in student evaluations of teaching (SETs), is often blamed for lack of attendance and consequent poor performance. This paper presents the results of a student assessment of a macroeconomics 1 course, coupled with a self-assessment of their own input into the course. The results obtained, using econometric models, suggest that students inputs and attitudes to the course are equally, or more, important than lecture attendance itself.
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Date Issued: 2006

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Marine Reserves: a guide to science, design, and use

- Booth, Anthony J

Authors: Booth, Anthony J
Date: 2005
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/124965 , vital:35714 , https://doi.10.2989/16085910509503862
Description: With the considerable pressures that are being placed on our marine resources, there is an urgent need to find alternative strategies to ensure their long-term sustainability. One measure that has been proposed, and which is rapidly gaining popularity, is the designation of Marine Protected Area (MPA). These are demarcated areas that prohibit (or at least restrict) consumptive or extractive uses, such that human interferences and impacts are minimised. In this edited collection of papers, most of which have been written or co-written by the authors themselves, Sobel and Dahlgren have presented an excellent synopsis of the rationale behind, and the scientific basis underpinning, the use of marine reserves as a management tool. In addition, they have devoted half the book to the provision of case studies.
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Date Issued: 2005

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The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting

- Kaschula, Russell H

Authors: Kaschula, Russell H
Date: 2005
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175147 , vital:42547 , https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v43i1.29727
Description: This book does not resemble any of Jeff Opland’s previous academic works. There is no similarity in style, and to some extent content. His previous books, namely, Xhosa oral poetry: Aspects of a black South African tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1983), and Xhosa poets and poetry (David Philip, 1998), were written as purely scientific, academic works. The Dassie and the Hunter amounts to a subtle snub of academia and its restrictive rules. Though written by Opland, it is as if he and his research subject, Manisi, have colluded to make this work different and special, in a personal mystical way, disregarding academic etiquette, weaving a more creative, poetic tapestry. This makes the book an interesting read. In style and content, it is neither rigorously academic, solely biographical, nor purely creative. It evades classification. It is individualistic.
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'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare; Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegye, Brian Vickers book review

- Birkinshaw, Catherine

Authors: Birkinshaw, Catherine
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457498 , vital:75643 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48033
Description: 'Counterfeiting'Shakespeare; Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegye. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 568 pp. Reviewed by CATHARINE BIRKINSHAW' Counterfeiting' Shakespeare is Brian Vickers's magisterial summing up of the debates over two dubious Shakespearean attributions. The first is the notorious" Shall I die?", Gary Taylor's discovery, that he and Stanley Wells included in the Oxford Complete Works (1986).
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Active anting in captive Cape White-eyes Zosterops pallidus

- Lunt, Nicky, Hulley, Patrick E, Craig, Adrian J F K

Authors: Lunt, Nicky , Hulley, Patrick E , Craig, Adrian J F K
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465278 , vital:76589 , https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00264.x
Description: The article focuses on active anting in captive Cape white-eyes Zosterops pallidus. In this study, observation of captive birds at close quarters enables to test some of the stimuli that could elicit this behavior. When anting, birds either brush ants through their plumage or allow ants to crawl over them. Anting has been recorded in more than 160 species of passerine birds worldwide. Nevertheless, it is rarely observed in the wild, perhaps because the actions resemble preening movements or dust-bathing. Experiments were designed to clarify whether white-eyes ant before eating ants, and whether anting is correlated with moult in this species.
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Additional morphological characteristics of Olive Thrushes and Karoo Thrushes

- Bonnevie, Bo T, Craig, Adrian J F K, Hulley, Patrick E

Authors: Bonnevie, Bo T , Craig, Adrian J F K , Hulley, Patrick E
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447712 , vital:74669 , https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/00306520409485415
Description: A southern race of the Olive Thrush, Turdus olivaceus smithi Bonaparte, has recently been proposed as a full species, the Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi (Bowie et al. 2003). Some of the published information on the Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus olivaceus thus pertains to the Karoo Thrush (eg Kopij 2000), whereas other information deals specifically with the Olive Thrush (eg Winterbottom 1966, Bonnevie et al. 2003). We have ringed, recaptured and recovered both Olive and Karoo Thrushes in the Eastern Cape since 1986, and the two taxa are markedly different in this region. We describe some differences in appearance of the two populations from these data, and compare mass and wing length of living birds, as well as culmen and tarsus lengths of museum specimens from the East London Museum, South Africa. The collection sites of the museum specimens were mapped using ArcView 3.1 (ESRI 1996) together with the ringing sites (Figure 1). Areas of potential sympatry are Oudtshoorn (33 25’S, 22 11’E) and Patensie (33 45’S, 24 48’E).
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Joan Metelerkamp: requiem, book launch: deep south publishing, Grahamstown, 2003

- Wessels, Paul

Authors: Wessels, Paul
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , poem
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/464639 , vital:76532 , ISBN 0028-4459 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/EJC47766
Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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Quantification of the photosynthetic performance of phosphorus-deficient Sorghum by means of chlorophyll-a fluorescence kinetics

- Ripley, Bradley S, Redfern, Sally P, Dames, Joanna F

Authors: Ripley, Bradley S , Redfern, Sally P , Dames, Joanna F
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440444 , vital:73783 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC96177
Description: Chlorophyll fluorescence induction curves have been used as a sensitive tool for screening the photosynthetic performance of plants. Experimental treatments involving nitrate supply and chilling stress have been shown to affect fluorescence induction curves and other measures of photosynthesis. We have investigated the photosynthetic performance of Sorghum bicolor supplied with Long Ashton growth solution containing standard (20 mmol mol-1) or low (5 mmol mol-1) phosphorus. The JIP-test based on the chlorophyll fluorescence induction curve was used as a non-destructive method to measure the relative proportions of energy dissipated by different processes (termed energy fluxes) in the light reactions. The various energy fluxes or derived parameters were compared to find the measures that were most sensitive to the experimental conditions. Plant response to treatments was first evident in selected chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, particularly performance index (PIABS); plants with increased PIABS manifested higher electron transport activity and dissipated less energy as heat, possibly as a result of their better phosphorus status, leading to more functional reaction centres. Observed changes in fluorescence were correlated to changes in gas exchange and biomass. Standard phosphorus treatments significantly increased biomass, leaf area, photosynthetic and respiratory rates, carboxylation efficiencies and levels of ribulose biphosphate regeneration rates, relative to plants with low supplies of nutrients.
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Date Issued: 2004

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Shakespeare's Globe Revisited, JR Mulrayne and Margaret Shewring eds.: book review

- Glover, Jayne

Authors: Glover, Jayne
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457845 , vital:75683 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48035
Description: As the preface makes clear, Shakespeare's Globe Revisited is designed as a tribute to the rebuilding, in the 1990s, of the Globe theatre on London's Bankside. It is described by the editors, Ronnie Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, as "one of the most imaginative projects of recent decades" (11). In particular they acknowledge the vision of Sam Wanamaker and architect Theo Crosby, who worked together to see their dream of a working Globe come to fruition.
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Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: performing history in the theatre of Charles Kean, Richard W. Schoch: book review

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:7050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48030
Description: preprint , This book is a primarily a study of Charles Kean’s productions of Shakespeare’s English chronicle plays at the Princess’s Theatre between 1852 and 1859, a period crucial to the development of ideas of English nationalism. Schoch focuses on these particular stagings as more than drama; as performances of nineteenth century theories of history and historical representation. His project operates under the aegis of the so-called ‘linguistic turn’ in cultural theory, and is suspicious of neo-marxian fundamentalism.
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Why old maids stay sweet

- Compton, Stephen G

Authors: Compton, Stephen G
Date: 2004
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452095 , vital:75103 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32590
Description: The usual function of floral nectaries in plants is to attract and reward pollinators, while extra-floral (foliar) nectaries function in the defence of the plant, attracting ants and other insects that can act as bodyguards (Beattie 1985). In a few plants these functions have been reversed, with floral nectar used to attract bodyguards (Dominguez et al. 1989) or foliar nectar used to attract pollinators, Poinsettias, Euphorbia pulcherimma L. are a well-known example (Thorp and Sugden 1990).
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