South African Journal of Science  

John Butler-Adam

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Juanette John, Sonali Das

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Antoinique van Staden, Nova Ahmed, Yoseph Getachew, Irvy M.A. Gledhill, Maria Kanjere, Sibusisiwe Khuluse-Makhanya, Sonali Das

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Irvy M.A. Gledhill, Marie-Françoise Roy, Mei-Hung Chiu, Rachel Ivie, Silvina Ponce-Dawson, Helena Mihaljevic

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Heidi Prozesky, Johann Mouton

Empirical knowledge of the career challenges that confront African scientists, and women scientists in particular, holds an important key to achieving future success in the science systems of the continent. In this article, we address a lack of evidence g... see more

U. Marie Clémentine Nibamureke, Irene E.J. Barnhoorn, Gesina M. Wagenaar

Aquatic environments around the world have become mixtures of different types of pollutants, including pharmaceuticals. The presence of pharmaceuticals in aquatic environments has raised concerns regarding the possibility of unintended effects on aquatic ... see more

Kathleen A. Grant, Ettienne J. Myburgh, Elizabeth Murray, Fredrieka M. Pienaar, Martin Kidd, Colleen A. Wright, Maritha J. Kotze

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is routinely used to approximate breast cancer intrinsic subtypes, which were initially discovered by microarray analysis. However, IHC assessment of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth... see more

Julien Benoit

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J. Francis Thackeray

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Tomoko L. Kitagawa

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Willem Coetzer, Michelle Hamer

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Ian Glenn, Sam M. Ferreira, Danie Pienaar

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Hlengisizwe Ncube

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David A. Coldwell

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Jennifer M. Fitchett

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Lizette Moolman, Sam M. Ferreira, Angela Gaylard, Dave Zimmerman, Graham I.H. Kerley

Understanding and identifying drivers of local population declines are important in mitigating future risks and optimising conservation efforts. The Knysna elephants have, after being afforded protection since the early 1900s, declined to near extinction ... see more

Brent Abrahams, Nadia Sitas, Karen J. Esler

Addressing complex challenges facing social-ecological systems (SES) requires the integration of knowledge from a diversity of disciplines and stakeholders. This requirement has resulted in the establishment of many integrative research programmes, both g... see more

Bankole Falade

Syndromic disease surveillance mechanisms can be enhanced by incorporating mass media informatics for disease discourse and aberration detection and social psychology for understanding risk perceptions and the drivers of uptake and resistance. Using compu... see more

Anita Wheeler, Andrew T. Knight, Mark Difford, Susanne Vetter

Environmental sustainability rests on human choice and action. Understanding these may assist in determining the factors that predict or influence an individual’s behaviour towards the environment. In South Africa, approximately 80% of the most threatened... see more

Douw G. Breed, Tanja Verster

Segmentation of data for the purpose of enhancing predictive modelling is a well-established practice in the banking industry. Unsupervised and supervised approaches are the two main types of segmentation and examples of improved performance of predictive... see more

Maryke Schoonen, Albertus S. Seyffert, Francois H. van der Westhuizen, Izelle Smuts

The research fields of bioinformatics and computational biology are growing rapidly in South Africa. Bioinformatics pipelines play an integral part in handling sequencing data, which are used to investigate the aetiology of common and rare diseases. Bioin... see more