Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role played by digital channel integration in town-centre shopping experience. It also explores how customers perceive town-centres journeys, improves experiences and encourages positive future patronage behaviour. Ultimately, aim identify likely implications a connected experience on intentions. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative resea...

Rapid urbanization in China has triggered the conversion of land from rural to urban use, particularly the conversion of rural settlements to town land. This conversion is the result of the joint effects of the geographic environment and agents involving the government, investors, and farmers. To understand the dynamic interaction dominated by agents and to predict the future landscape of town ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the leading causes of mortality and premature mortality in Cape Town, South Africa, and its subdistricts, and to compare levels of mortality between subdistricts. METHODS Cape Town mortality data for the period 2001-2006 were analysed by age, cause of death and sex. Cause-of-death codes were aggregated into three main cause groups: (i) pre-transitional causes (e.g. commu...

The genetic profiles oj the domestic cat populations oj Cape Town and Pretoria have been determined. That jor the Cape Town population satisfies two testsjor panmixia, whereas the Pretoria population meets one oj two such criteria. The relative ajfinities ojeach locality with variolls populations in England, the Netherlands and the New World are discussed with rejerence to the historical im­ mi...

C.T. Bolliger*, A. Brunelli and A. Charloux *Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa, Dept of Thoracic Surgery, Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ancona, Italy, and Physiologie et Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Correspondence: C.T. Bolliger, Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosc...

1 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa 2 School of Computing, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa (UNISA), P.O. Box 392, Pretoria 0003, South Africa 3 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 753...

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P.O. Box 1906, Cape Town, 7535 South Africa. 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Ilorin, P.M.B. 1515, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. 3 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, P. O. Box 652, Cape Town 80...

shoulder dystocia GJ Hofmeyr, CA Cluver a Effective Care Research Unit, Eastern Cape Department of Health, Universities of Witwatersrand and Fort Hare, South Africa b Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence: CA Cluver, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital,...

2009;22(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Steyn NP, MPH, PhD a Parker W, PhD b Lambert EV, PhD a Mchiza Z, PhD a Knowledge Systems, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town b Sports Science Institute, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town Correspondence to: Dr NP Steyn, e-mail: [email protected]

Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cap...