Vol. 108 No. 9/10 (2012)

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Published: 2012-09-03

Leader

How should university research be funded?

Michael Cherry

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Profiles

William Bond: excited about the future of South African science

Jenny Leonard

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Obituary

Johann Carl Vogel: Chronologist (1932 - 2012)

Graham Baker

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Book Reviews

Bone microstructure of the forerunners of mammals

Roger Benson

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The phenomenal, pliable, palatable prickly pear!

Nicoli Nattrass

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Commentary

Twenty years since the Rio Earth Summit - and now what?

Jessica Wilson

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Quantifying South Africa's carbon storage potential using geophysics

David Khoza

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Too many actions, too few priorities: Commentary on the ministerial review of the STI landscape

David Walwyn, Rob Hagendijk

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The centrality of the language question in post-apartheid South Africa: Revisiting a perennial issue

Neville Alexander

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Review Articles

Global challenges in the risk assessment of nanomaterials: Relevance to South Africa

Mary Gulumian, Eileen Kuempel, Kai Savolainen

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Cooperation and conflict in cancer: An evolutionary perspective

Jonathan Featherston, Pierre Durand

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Research Articles

Darwin as a geologist in Africa - dispelling the myths and unravelling a confused knot

Sharad Master

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The national system of innovation concept: An ontological review and critique

Sibusiso Manzini

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Heavy metal contamination of vegetables cultivated in home gardens in the Eastern Cape

Callistus Bvenura, Anthony Afolayan

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Is Greulich-Pyle age estimation applicable for determining maturation in male Africans?

Kundisai Dembetembe, Alan Morris

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Microbial contamination of herbs marketed to HIV-infected people in Nairobi (Kenya)

Lydia Kaume, Jerald Foote, Edward Gbur

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An air quality assessment in the industrialised western Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa

Andrew Venter, Ville Vakkar, Johan Beukes, Pieter van Zyl, Heikki Laakso, Desmond Mabaso, Petri Tiitta, Miroslav Josipovic, Markku Kulmala, Jacobus Pienaar, Lauri Laakso

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A correlation for predicting the abrasive water jet cutting depth for natural stones

Irfan Engin

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Equal channel angular pressing technique for the formation of ultra-fine grained structures

Kazeem Sanusi, Oluwole Makinde, Graeme Oliver

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Research Letters

Oldest 'earthquake' in South Africa (Robben Island, 07 April 1620) discredited

Sharad Master

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