ENTERING UNIVERSITY DURING TIMES OF DISRUPTION: EXPERIENCES OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS FROM A HISTORICALLY DISADVANTAGED UNIVERSITY IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The study, premised on the interpretive paradigm explored the experiences of First Year students from a historically disadvantaged university SCULPTE 3 in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.The study was underpinned by one research question namely, what are the experiences of first-year students from a historically disadvantaged university d

Assessing the distribution of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) haplotype variation is useful for studying the phylogeography of angiosperms.In the last two decades the cpDNA phylogeography of white oaks in Europe has been extensively studied, mostly based on the PCR-RFLP technique.However, PCR-RFLPs have low mutation rates and are primarily useful for recon

BACKGROUND Chronic cardiomyopathy occurs in 20-40% of the patients with Chagas disease.Autoimmune mechanisms may contribute to its pathogenesis.We diagnosed several cases of systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian migrants in Geneva with a high prevalence of Chagas disease.OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis of a clinical association between sy