Menu
The concept of chaos in classical mechanics is well defined. The classically chaotic system studied in its quantum mechanical version, “quantum chaos”, shows special features that are different...
During the past decades it became evident that at least 21% of the global cancer incidence is linked to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. Among these infectious agents, viruses play a rather dominant...
The underlying circuitry for somatic sensation remains a mystery. Although different kinds of somatic sensory neurons are specialized to respond to certain qualities of stimuli, they all release glutamate....
Over the last century, several waves of democracy have swept over the globe, bringing representative democracy to places where it seemed inconceivable. There are many reasons to be enthusiastic about this...
Through quasi-inquisitorial procedures for identifying particular subjects as criminals, law at the Cape circa 1795-1810 fashioned hierarchies of criminals in the name of a particular sovereign’s justice....
The miniaturisation of animal body cells is limited, and as a consequence, muscle and nerve cells are of similar diameters in large and small animals, to within an order of magnitude. Small animals thus...
Cardiovascular disease has for many years been the leading cause of death in western societies and the incidence is now also rapidly increasing in many developing countries. The major clinical manifestations...
Nederlandsliedjies are one of the two most important repertoires of creole songs which feature in the competitions of the Sangkore (also called: Nagtroepe, Hollandse Teams or Malay Choirs); they are also...
It is often believed that “in the past”, women were confined to the home and supported by their husbands (the “male breadwinner model”). While this may be true for nineteenth-century bourgeois...
This project will involve collaboration with Jannie Hofmeyr (SU) on, amongst others the principles of supply and demand as driving force of metabolic activity, and incorporating them: 1) into existing...
Emergent behaviour seems to be characteristic of the `complex systems’ that currently feature in Mathematics, Computer Science, the Physical Sciences and Philosophy. The purpose of this project is...
The project will involve the final editing and fine-tuning of the main body of the book Nelson Mandela – Tolerance and Leadership. Key persons who can add value to the content of the book will be interviewed....