Twenty-three new species of the Afrotropical sac spider genus Cheiramiona Lotz & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1999 are described: C. baviaan sp. nov. (♀, South Africa), C. boschrandensis sp. nov. (♀, South Africa), C. debeeri sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. haddadi sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. hlathikulu sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. hogsbackensis sp. nov. (♀, ♂, South Africa), C. ibayaensis sp. nov. ...

KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 4 National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa 5 eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality Health Unit, Durban, South Africa 6 School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 7...

 Developing countries stand to gain from South-South cooperation in particular when confronting a common problem, even if the countries concerned are at different stages in tackling the problem.  Because of the growing economic diversity and vast difference in the size of the countries of the South, no standard models of South-South cooperation have emerged. Some of these countries – notably ...

Xylem sap flux density (Fd) was measured, on a 43-year-old (mature) and three 4-year-old (young) mango (Mangifera indica L.) trees, using Granier-type probes. The relative influences of environmental variables were examined under well-watered condition. Circumferential variation in Fd was also investigated by placing sensors on the north, south-west and south-east sides of the mature tree. Sap ...

In August 1995, the South Centre became a permanent intergovernmental organization of developing countries. In pursuing its objectives of promoting South solidarity, South-South cooperation, and coordinated participation by developing countries in international forums, the South Centre prepares, publishes and distributes information , strategic analyses and recommendations on international econ...

Robert J. M. Crawford*, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Philip A. Whittington, Rod M. Randall, W. Herman Oosthuizen and Lauren J. Waller 1 Branch Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Animal Demography Unit, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa 3 Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Eli...

Andaleb Kholmukhamedov, Christina Logdon, Jiangting Hu, Richard A. McKinney, Francis G. Spinale, John J. Lemasters, and Rupak Mukherjee Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...

In this paper, we are going to investigate the growth of the Iranian maritime transport with a focus mainly on the North - South transit Corridor, review of dry ports in order to support the Iranian container terminals at the south ports in order to increase the volume of container storages at the terminals. For the purpose of assessing the outcome of port operational management, the Balanced ...

Purpose:  The paper aims to focus on South Africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. It attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the National Dev...

foreign direct investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like bangladesh through accelerating gross domestic product (gdp), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. the present scenario of fdi in bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...