Table of Contents
Book Reviews
Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack |
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| Robin Cherry | 21 |
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Bad Science |
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| Wieland Gevers | 22 |
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Tobias in Conversation: Genes, fossils and anthropology |
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| Alan Morris | 22 |
News and Views
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Southern African science in the year 1909 – 100n |
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| Cornelis Plug | 11 |
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Observing the present and considering the past to ponder the future |
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| Roderick Brown | 13 |
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How innovative is South Africa? |
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| William Blankley, Cheryl Moses | 15 |
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Coping with drought – do science and policy agree? |
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| Colleen Seymour, Philip Desmet | 18 |
Correspondence
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Stormy skies for South African research |
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| Nicola Illing, Mark Gibbons | 10 |
News
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Management shows contempt for academic freedom at UKZN |
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| Craig McKune | 5 |
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The universe: yours to discover |
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| Kevin Govender | 7 |
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South African scientists can now engage fully with Third World Academy |
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| Wieland Gevers | 7 |
News Feature
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Curiosity first, applications later |
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| Robert Berold, Janice Limson | 8 |
Obituary
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A.P. Fairall (1943–2008) |
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| Patrick Woudt | 20 |
Research Articles
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Drought, climate change and vegetation response in the succulent karoo, South Africa |
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| M. T. Hoffman, P. J. Carrick, L. Gillson, A. G. West | 54 |
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Agriculture production’s sensitivity to changes in climate in South Africa |
PDF Appendixes |
| James Blignaut, Liza Ueckermann, James Aronson | 61 |
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Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer is predicted to contribute towards colorectal cancer in young South African blacks |
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| L. Cronjé, P.J. Becker, A.C. Paterson, M. Ramsay | 68 |
Research Letters
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Preference for dry sex, condom use and risk of STI among HIV-negative black women in the Western Cape province, South Africa |
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| Priscilla Reddy, Dorina Saleh-Onoya, Sibusiso Sifunda, Delia Lang, Gina Wingood, Bart van den Borne, Robert Ruiter | 73 |
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The structural characterisation of HWCVD-deposited nanocrystalline silicon films |
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| Bibhu P. Swain | 77 |
Review Articles
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When to stay, when to go: trade-offs for southern African arid-zone birds in times of drought |
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| W.R.J. Dean, P. Barnard, M.D. Anderson | 24 |
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Drought, change and resilience in South Africa’s arid and semi-arid rangelands |
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| Susanne Vetter | 29 |
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Human response and adaptation to drought in the arid zone: lessons from southern Africa |
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| P.J. O'Farrell, P. M.L. Anderson, S. J. Milton, W. R.J. Dean | 34 |
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Water resources in the Klein Karoo: the challenge of sustainable development in a water-scarce area |
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| David Le Maitre, Christine Colvin, Ashton Maherry | 39 |
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Global sugar, regional water, and local people: EU sugar regime liberalisation, rural livelihoods, and the environment in the Incomati River Basin |
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| Jo Lorentzen | 49 |
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