African Evaluation Database

9120 records found

Source	Electronic ID	Title	Authors	Publication Year	Source Title	Volume	Issue	DOI	Affiliations	Authors with Affiliations	Abstract	Author Keywords	Index Keywords	Funding Details
Scopus	2-s2.0-33645987566	Evaluation of morpho-agronomic variability of wild and cultivated kola (Cola species Schott et En...	Adebola P.O., Morakinyo J.A.	2006	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution	53	4	10.1007/s10722-004-3558-1	Plant Breeding Group, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, PMB 5244, Ibadan, Nigeria; Plant Scien...	Adebola, P.O., Plant Breeding Group, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, PMB 5244, Ibadan, Niger...	As part of a breeding programme, exploration and systematic selection exercise of kola (Cola spp....	Cola species; Genetic improvement; Germplasm evaluation; Morphological variability; Utilization p...	agronomy; breeding; cultivation; perennial plant; plant community; Africa; Nigeria; Sub-Saharan A...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-65549164595	Climate change impacts on African rangelands	Hoffman T., Vogel C.	2008	Rangelands	30	3	10.2111/1551-501X(2008)30[12:CCIOAR]2.0.CO;2	Plant Conservation Unit, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Sch...	Hoffman, T., Plant Conservation Unit, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Sout...	Despite the fact that Africa has contributed the most minimal in worldwide greenhouse gas emissio...	None	carbon emission; climate change; ecological impact; greenhouse gas; land tenure; rangeland; Africa	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84930248448	Elemental distribution and chemical composition of amadumbe (colocasia esculenta) leaf and impact...	Mngadi S., Moodley R., Jonnalagadda S.B.	2015	Fresenius Environmental Bulletin	24	4	None	School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Chiltern-Hills...	Mngadi, S., School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Ch...	The increased consumption of edible Amadumbe (Colocasia esculenta) leaves and bulbs around the wo...	Antagonism; Colocasia esculenta; Contamination; Nutrition; Synergy; Toxic elements; Yams	chemical composition; leaf; nutritive value; phytotoxicity; root vegetable; soil quality; toxic m...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84875076653	Impacts of past habitat loss and future climate change on the range dynamics of South African Pro...	Sarmento Cabral J., Jeltsch F., Thuiller W., Higgins S., Midgley G.F., Rebelo A.G., Rouget M., Sc...	2013	Diversity and Distributions	19	4	10.1111/ddi.12011	Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsd...	Sarmento Cabral, J., Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology...	Aim: To assess how habitat loss and climate change interact in affecting the range dynamics of sp...	Biodiversity refugia; CFR Proteaceae; Climate change; Demographic properties; Habitat loss; Local...	abundance; Cape Floristic Region; climate change; demography; dicotyledon; dispersal; environment...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84899627264	Evaluation of reference genes for accurate normalization of gene expression for real time-quantit...	Imai T., Ubi B.E., Saito T., Moriguchi T.	2014	PLoS ONE	9	1	10.1371/journal.pone.0086492	Plant Physiology and Fruit Chemistry Division, NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Tsukuba, Iba...	Imai, T., Plant Physiology and Fruit Chemistry Division, NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Ts...	We have evaluated suitable reference genes for real time (RT)-quantitative PCR (qPCR) analysis in...	None	actin; annexin; beta tubulin; complementary DNA; elongation factor 1alpha; glyceraldehyde 3 phosp...	JSPS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84899845225	Which farmers benefit most from sustainable intensification? An ex-ante impact assessment of expa...	Franke A.C., van den Brand G.J., Giller K.E.	2014	European Journal of Agronomy	58	None	10.1016/j.eja.2014.04.002	Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, Netherlands; S...	Franke, A.C., Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, ...	Legume technologies are widely promoted among smallholders in southern Africa, providing an oppor...	Crop model; Farm typologies; Groundnut; Maize; Soybean	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84945492640	Fuelwood collection and its impacts on a protected tropical mountain forest in Uganda	Sassen M., Sheil D., Giller K.E.	2015	Forest Ecology and Management	354	None	10.1016/j.foreco.2015.06.037	Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, Wageningen, Netherlands; UNEP-Worl...	Sassen, M., Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, Wageningen, Netherland...	Local communities who live close to protected tropical forests often depend on them for woodfuel,...	Forest conservation; Fuelwood; Human impacts; Mt Elgon; Tree species; Uganda	Biodiversity; Charcoal; Conservation; Extraction; Fuels; Tropics; Wood; Wood fuels; Wood products...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84855196350	Cool Farm Tool - Potato: Model Description and Performance of Four Production Systems	Haverkort A.J., Hillier J.G.	2011	Potato Research	54	4	10.1007/s11540-011-9194-1	Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 616, 6700 AP Wa...	Haverkort, A.J., Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Bo...	The Cool Farm Tool - Potato (CFT-Potato) is a spreadsheet programme that allows the calculation o...	Carbon dioxide emissions; Cool Farm Tool; Irrigation; Organic potato; Seed potato; Starch potato;...	Solanum tuberosum; Suidae	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-67349190849	Urban impact on ecological integrity of nearby rivers in developing countries: The Borkena River ...	Beyene A., Legesse W., Triest L., Kloos H.	2009	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	153	42373	10.1007/s10661-008-0371-x	Plant Science and Nature Management (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels 105...	Beyene, A., Plant Science and Nature Management (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, ...	Accelerated pollution and eutrophication of rivers and streams because of human activity are a co...	Borkena river; Ecological integrity; Ethiopia; Faunal diversity; Macroinvertebrate; Pollution	Borkena river; Ecological integrity; Ethiopia; Faunal diversity; Macroinvertebrate; Developing co...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-34547674873	The uneven impact of AIDS in a polarized society	Marais H.	2007	AIDS	21	SUPPL. 3	10.1097/01.aids.0000279691.76900.8b	PO Box 1363, Gallo Manor 2052, Johannesburg, South Africa	Marais, H.PO Box 1363, Gallo Manor 2052, Johannesburg, South Africa	Literature on the impact of serious AIDS epidemics anticipates severe outcomes, and places specia...	AIDS; HIV; Home-based care; Household; Impact; Inequality; Poverty; Social protection; Women; Wor...	acquired immune deficiency syndrome; article; community care; economic aspect; epidemic; health c...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-77950625251	The issue of personal safety on dolomite: A probability-based evaluation with respect to single-s...	Kirsten H.A.D., Heath G.J., Venter I.S., Trollip N.Y.G., Oosthuizen A.C.	2009	Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering	51	1	None	PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, 2032, France; Private Bag X112, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa; PO Box 36...	Kirsten, H.A.D., PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, 2032, France; Heath, G.J., Private Bag X112, Pretoria,...	In refining the principles supporting the safe and judicious use of land, the Council for Geoscie...	Coincidence; Dolomite; Probability; Residential; Sinkhole	Coincidence; Development density; Flood event; Geosciences; In-line; Industry standards; Inherent...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84908365644	The issue of personal safety on dolomite: A probability-based evaluation with respect to transien...	Kirsten H.A.D., Heath G.J., Venter I.S., Oosthuizen A.C.	2014	Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering	56	2	None	PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, Johannesburg, South Africa; Private Bag X5, Westonaria, South Africa; P...	Kirsten, H.A.D., PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, Johannesburg, South Africa; Heath, G.J., Private Bag X...	For the past fifty years empirical knowledge guided the development of rules regarding population...	City centre; Coincidence; Hazard; Personal safety; Probability; Risk; Sinkhole; Transient passage	Probability; Risks; City centre; Coincidence; Personal safety; Sinkhole; Hazards	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84908374644	The issue of personal safety on dolomite: A probability-based evaluation with respect to two- and...	Kirsten H.A.D., Heath G.J., Venter I.S., Oosthuizen A.C.	2014	Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering	56	2	None	PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, Johannesburg, South Africa; Private Bag X5, Westonaria, South Africa; P...	Kirsten, H.A.D., PO Box 17, Fontainebleau, Johannesburg, South Africa; Heath, G.J., Private Bag X...	While single-storey (single-house) residential developments were considered in a previous paper, ...	Coincidence; Dolomite; Hazard; Multiple housing; Probability; Risk; Sinkhole	Probability; Risks; Coincidence; Dolomite; Personal safety; Sinkhole; Hazards	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-27644547370	From impact assessment to effective management plans: Learning from the Great Brak Estuary in Sou...	Slinger J.H., Huizinga P., Taljaard S., van Niekerk L., Enserink B.	2005	Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal	23	3	None	Policy Analysis Section, Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technol...	Slinger, J.H., Policy Analysis Section, Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft Univer...	In 1990, the environmental impacts of an upstream dam on the Great Brak town and estuary were ass...	Adaptive management; EIA follow-up; Freshwater requirements; Mouth breaching; Public participatio...	assessment method; environmental impact; freshwater; monitoring system; Africa; Eastern Hemispher...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84928121788	Evaluation of an automated struvite reactor to recover phosphorus from source-separated urine col...	Grau M.G.P., Rhoton S.L., Brouckaert C.J., Buckley C.A.	2015	Water SA	41	3	10.4314/wsa.v41i3.10	Pollution Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, So...	Grau, M.G.P., Pollution Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Nat...	In the present study we attempted to develop a reactor system to recover phosphorus by struvite p...	Automation; Conductivity; Human urine; Magnesium dose; Struvite precipitation; Turbidity; VUNA	Automation; Body fluids; Electric conductivity; Magnesium; Particle size; Particle size analysis;...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-47249096566	Improved oxygen barrier performance of poly(vinyl alcohol) films through hydrogen bond complex wi...	Labuschagne P.W., Germishuizen W.A., C. Verryn S.M., Moolman F.S.	2008	European Polymer Journal	44	7	10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2008.04.015	Polymers and Bioceramics, Materials Science and Manufacturing, CSIR, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001,...	Labuschagne, P.W., Polymers and Bioceramics, Materials Science and Manufacturing, CSIR, P.O. Box ...	Hydrogen bonding between poly(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic acid) (PMVE-MA) and poly(vinyl alcohol...	Free-volume; Hydrogen bonding; Interpolymer complexation; Permeability	Amorphous films; Broadband amplifiers; Cobalt; Complexation; Deposits; Differential scanning calo...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84934270632	High-performance towards removal of toxic hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution using graphen...	Chauke V.P., Maity A., Chetty A.	2015	Journal of Molecular Liquids	211	None	10.1016/j.molliq.2015.06.044	Polymers and Composites, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)Pretoria, South Afr...	Chauke, V.P., Polymers and Composites, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)Preto...	Abstract Graphene oxide (GO) was functionalized with alpha cyclodextrin (αCD) through a covalent ...	Adsorption; Cr(VI) removal; Cyclodextrin; Graphene oxide; Nanocomposite; Polypyrrole	Adsorption isotherms; Chemicals removal (water treatment); Chromium compounds; Cyclodextrins; Gra...	CSIR, Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa; DST, Department of Science ...	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-42649098883	Lost opportunities and constraints in producing rigorous evaluations of USAID Health Projects, 20...	Teller C.H.	2008	IDS Bulletin	39	1	None	Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC, United States; Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, ...	Teller, C.H., Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC, United States, Addis Ababa University,...	Impact evaluation is offen seen as a central building block of results-based management. But in U...	None	development aid; project assessment; project design; North America; United States	None	View
WoS	WOS:000321168700005	Determining the effectiveness of three software evaluation techniques through informal aggregation	Juristo, Natalia,Olorisade, Babatunde Kazeem,Vegas, Sira	2013	INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY	55	9	10.1016/j.infsof.2013.02.015	Polytechnic University of Madrid, Fountain Univ	"Juristo, Natalia: Polytechnic University of Madrid","Vegas, Sira: Polytechnic University of Madr...	Context: An accepted fact in software engineering is that software must undergo verification and ...	AGGREGATION,EXPERIMENTATION,"testing technique","Testing technique effectiveness",DETECT	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-80052023718	Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive beha...	Bellows B., Warren C., Vonthanak S., Chhorvann C., Sokhom H., Men C., Bajracharya A., Rob U., Rat...	2011	BMC Public Health	11	None	10.1186/1471-2458-11-667	Population Council, General Accident House, Ralph Bunche Road, Nairobi, Kenya; National Institute...	Bellows, B., Population Council, General Accident House, Ralph Bunche Road, Nairobi, Kenya; Warre...	Background: Cost of delivering reproductive health services to low income populations will always...	Output based approach; Vouchers	None	None	View

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