Publications

It has been suggested that the consumption of unhealthy Westernized diet in a context of poverty and resultant food insecurity may have contributed to South-Africa’s status of the third fattest country in the World. Considering that a number of South-Africans are reported to have experienced, or are still experiencing food insecurity, procedures which have been shown to reduce the consumption of unhealthy food may be ineffective in South-Africa. ...

The debate on business and human rights attracts the interest of many parties, and regularly makes the headlines. On 19 January 2017 De Morgen, for instance, ran the following headline: “These banks do business with companies that violate human rights and nature”. The discourse suggests that few question that business enterprises should respect human rights. The legal meaning and consequences of associating 'business' with 'human rights' remain ...

The study of fluid inclusions within diamonds from different locations around the world gives important information on subduction processes (e. g. of oceanic lithosphere material) and the diamond growth. For this, cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein and Finsch mines were studied systematically at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) at the beamlines ID18F and ID22. In addition, XANES measurements (at HASYLAB beamline L) and Raman ...

The urgent need of breeding more drought tolerant crops in order to meet the future needs of the growing world population, requires better understanding of the drought adaptation mechanisms. Phenotyping remains one of the main factors limiting breeding advance. By using a novel non-invasive root and shoot phenotyping system, we were able to link root and shoot phenotype and study their detailed development in time. Kinematic analysis provided ...

It has long been recognised that the similarity or difference between ways of speaking and their possible institutionalisation as ‘languages’ is an ideological matter, a matter of social opinions, rather than one of objective systemic relatedness. This paper emphasises that such language ideologies in any society are always to some extent competitive, that such lack of consensus is not a temporary stage in between moments of shared opinion but a ...

Background
Recovery post stroke is well documented in the field of stroke rehabilitation. The structure and process of rehabilitation which affects recovery post stroke is different between developed and developing countries. The aim of the present study was therefore to compare the motor and functional recovery of stroke patients receiving rehabilitation in Germany a developed country with stroke patients receiving rehabilitation in South ...