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A Model of Gout Nephropathy

It is generally accepted that many factors, such as hypertension, vascular disease, renal calculi and infection, may contribute to renal disease in patients with gout. However, these are usually regarded as se...

Bryan T. Emmerson, Roy Axelsen, Michael Cross in Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man VI (1989)

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High-throughput DNA extraction from forest trees

It is difficult to extract pure high-quality DNA from trees, which may not be amenable to advances in extraction methods suitable for other plants. A new commercial high-throughput DNA extraction system, using...

Mervyn Shepherd, Michael Cross, Rhonda L. Stokoe… in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter (2002)

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Visible Light Emission from Erbium Doped Yttria Stabilized Zirconia

One of the major shortcomings of silicon (Si) as a semiconductor material is its inability to yield efficient light emission. There has been a continued interest in adding rare earth ion impurities such as erb...

Michael Cross, Walter Varhue in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2003)

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Institutionalising campus diversity in South African higher education: Review of diversity scholarship and diversity education

Increasingly the social, educational, cultural,linguistic, religious and racial diversity ofSouth African society is finding expressionwithin South African institutions of highereducation. Consequently, ``dive...

Michael Cross in Higher Education (2004)

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TNP-470 fails to block the onset of angiogenesis and early tumor establishment in an intravital minimal disease model

The angiogenesis inhibitor TNP-470 (AGM-1470) has shown encouraging results in animal models of established tumors. However, results of recent clinical trials using TNP-470 have been disappointing. Since littl...

Grigore Cernaianu, Sibylle Frank… in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2006)

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Congruence in QTL for adventitious rooting in Pinus elliottii × Pinus caribaea hybrids resolves between and within-species effects

Targeting between-species effects for improvement in synthetic hybrid populations derived from outcrossing parental tree species may be one way to increase the efficacy and predictability of hybrid breeding. W...

Mervyn Shepherd, Shaowei Huang, Peter Eggler, Michael Cross… in Molecular Breeding (2006)

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ICT Policies and Strategies in Higher Education in South Africa: National and Institutional Pathways

This paper focuses on policy initiatives and strategies used to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education in South Africa. It explores a wider international outlo...

Michael Cross, Fatima Adam in Higher Education Policy (2007)

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Fabrication of Self-Assembled Catalytic Nanostructures

Michael Cross, W.J. Varhue… in Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (2008)

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Peer Review and the Dilemmas of Quality Control in Programme Accreditation in South African Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities

The paper scrutinises the dynamics and the nature of peer review in the programme evaluation and accreditation process within the context of diverse individual and institutional legacies in South Africa. It an...

Michael Cross, Devika Naidoo in Higher Education Policy (2011)

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MSCs: Clinical Applications and European Regulatory Aspects

Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) are used to treat a wide variety of diseases. The conditions for which MSCs are administered are often rare and provide an unmet medical need. The biology of MSCs, however...

Jens Reinhardt, Egbert Flory, Isabel Büttel, Christa Schröder… in Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (2013)

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Fabrication of Self-Assembled Catalytic Nanostructures

Michael Cross, W. J. Varhue, Darren L. Hitt in Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanoflui…

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Evaluating Doctoral Programmes in Africa: Context and Practices

Models of doctoral education in Africa remained similar to those in European universities, well into the 2000s. However, there has been an increasing realisation that such programmes are ill-suited for the Afr...

Michael Cross, Judy Backhouse in Higher Education Policy (2014)

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Fabrication of Self-Assembled Catalytic Nanostructures

Michael Cross, W. J. Varhue, Darren L. Hitt in Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanoflui… (2015)

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Child’s Voice, Child’s Right: Is Philosophy for Children in Africa the Answer?

In this concept paper, we explore the notion of the child’s right to be heard, starting in the classroom. The idea that children have unique needs has paved the way for the admission that children have a simil...

Amasa Ndofirepi, Michael Cross in Interchange (2015)

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Tradition and Modernization: Siting Philosophy for Children Within the African Outlook

In this philosophical paper, we investigate the project of doing philosophy with children in Africa. While the philosophy for children program has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon world, we contend that it can sit...

Amasa Philip Ndofirepi, Michael Cross in Interchange (2016)

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Beyond Closure and Fixed Frameworks

In this conclusion, we synthesise and reflect on the key themes emerging from the conversations in all the chapters in volumes one and two. Since it would be impossible to scan through all the issues flagged i...

Michael Cross, Amasa Ndofirepi in Knowledge and Change in African Universities (2017)