Vol. 107 No. 3/4 (2011)

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Published: 2011-03-01

Leader

The International Year of Chemistry and South Africa

Pieter Steyn

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Obituary

Okkie de Jager (1961- 2010)

Renier Burger

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News and Views

Fatter and fatter: South Africa's rise in body mass index

Alan Morris

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Book Reviews

Rock art and archaeology in the Maloti-Drakensberg: Then and now

Judith Sealy

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The beasts of Berlin

Bill Nasson

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Fleeing the beloved country...

Wieland Gevers

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From aardvark to z-values: A decade of biodiversity monitoring in Africa's arid and semi-arid southwest

Susanne Vetter

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Commentary

The new growth path: Game changing vision or cop-out?

Nicoli Nattrass

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The Red List of South African plants - A global first

Domitilla Raimondo

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Review Articles

Designer ligands: The search for metal ion selectivity

Perry Kaye

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Gold coordination during homogeneous alkyne and allene cyclisation catalysis: Coordination to substrates, to ancillary ligands and in intermediates

Helgard Raubenheimer, Hubert Schmidbaur

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A review of shaped carbon nanomaterials

Neil Coville, Sabelo Mhlanga, Edward Nxumalo, Ahmed Shaikjee

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Research Articles

Lake St Lucia, Africa's largest estuarine lake in crisis: Combined effects of mouth closure, low levels and hypersalinity

Digby Cyrus, Hendrik Jerling, Fiona MacKay, Leon Vivier

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Robert Plant (1818- 1858): A Victorian plant hunter in Natal, Zululand, Mauritius and the Seychelles

Donal McCracken

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Antibacterial and anticandidal activity of Tylosema esculentum (marama) extracts

Walter Chingwaru, Gyebi Duodu, Yolandi van Zyl, C.J. Schoeman, Runner Majinda, Sam Yeboah, Jose Jackson, Petrina Kapewangolo, Martha Kandawa-Schulz, Amanda Minnaar, Avrelija Cencic

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Ultrasonic wave effects on the diameter of TiO2 nanoparticles

Hossain Milani Moghaddam, Shahruz Nasirian

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Hominin palaeoecology in Late Pliocene Malawi: First insights from isotopes (13C, 18O) in mammal teeth

Herv é Bocherens, Oliver Sandrock, Ottmar Kullmer, Friedemann Schrenk

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Synthesis of novel glycopolymer brushes via a combination of RAFT-mediated polymerisation and ATRP

Reda Fleet, Eric van den Dungen, Bert Klumperman

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A failure by any other name: The phenomenon of underpreparedness

Jill Bradbury, Ronald Miller

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Optimising position control of a solar parabolic trough

Puramanathan Naidoo, Theo van Niekerk

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Atmospheric dry and wet deposition of sulphur and nitrogen species and assessment of critical loads of acidic deposition exceedance in South Africa

Miroslav Josipovic, Harold Annegarn, Melanie Kneen, Jacobus Pienaar, Stuart Piketh

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Correspondence

The disempowered supervisors

Mark Gibbons

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