Author:Pelders, Jodi L; Nelson, GDate:Sep 2019Mine workers in South Africa face various health and safety risks, and socioeconomic challenges. This study aimed to assess the associations between socio-demographic factors and health, safety and wellness in the South African mining industry.Read more
Author:Ramukhwatho, Fhumulani R; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Du Plessis, RDate:Oct 2018Food waste is a growing global concern as it has major economic, social and environmental impacts. This paper reports on findings of a research study conducted in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa.The research was ...Read more
Author:Adams, JB; Whitfield, AK; Van Niekerk, LaraDate:Apr 2020This Reflections article highlights the growing pressures that southern African estuaries are experiencing in the Anthropocene, as identified by the research presented in this Special Medal Issue. Estuaries are exposed to multiple stressors, ...Read more
Author:Davis-Reddy, Claire L; Vincent, K; Mambo, JuliaDate:Oct 2017Southern Africa is susceptible to extreme weather events – particularly floods, droughts, fires and large storms, which have cost an estimated USD 10 billion in damages between 1980 and 2015 (based on data from EM-DAT). Integrating climate ...Read more
Author:Davis-Reddy, Claire L; Vincent, K; Mambo, JuliaDate:Oct 2017Southern Africa is susceptible to extreme weather events – particularly floods, droughts, fires and large storms, which have cost an estimated USD 10 billion in damages between 1980 and 2015 (based on data from EM-DAT). Integrating climate ...Read more
Author:Landman, KDate:Mar 2006Africa cities are continuously changing. Increased urbanisation, poverty, unemployment, effective service delivery and scarce natural resources are some of the challenges African cities are facing. And while people have to come to terms with ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Van 't Wout, Magdalena CDate:Oct 2019Implementing new technology into a sociotechnical system, such as a military intelligence system, is a challenging enterprise. The needs and expectations of the “social” users are critical in designing and implementing the technical system ...Read more
Author:Palaniyandy, Nithyadharseni; Kebede, Mesfin ADate:Dec 2019Energy storage technology such as batteries and supercapacitors are authoritative power sources owing to their ease of maintenance, long cycle life, flexible power, and energy features. Recently, the sodium-ion battery (SIB) has had tremendous ...Read more
Author:Van Rooyen, CE; Labuschagne, FJJDate:Jul 2016Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) in South Africa is currently not completely integrated into transport and spatial planning as a formal mode of transport. This is evident when observing the current condition and utilisation of South Africa’s NMT ...Read more
Author:Broich, R; Grobler, HDate:Oct 2014Current radar signal processors lack either performance or flexibility. Custom soft-core processors exhibit potential in high-performance signal processing applications, yet remain relatively unexplored in research literature. In this paper, ...Read more
Author:Broich, RDate:Dec 2013Current radar signal processor architectures lack either performance or flexibility in terms of ease of modification and large design time overheads. Combinations of processors and FPGAs are typically hard-wired together into a precisely timed ...Read more
Author:Fogwill, T; Viviers, I; Engelbrecht, L; Krause, C; Alberts, RDate:Nov 2011Indigenous knowledge (IK) is defined as the unique, traditional and local knowledge of people within a particular area. Tpically, IK is stored in peoples' memories and passed down orally from generation to generation. However, with issues ...Read more
Author:Ndiaye, M; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:May 2017Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly popular with the advent of the Internet of things (IoT). Various real-world applications of WSNs such as in smart grids, smart farming and smart health would require a potential ...Read more
Author:Modieginyane, KM; Letswamotse, BB; Malekian, R; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2017Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are commonly used information technologies of modern networking and computing platforms. Today's network computing applications are faced with a high demand of powerful network functionalities. Functional network ...Read more
Author:Thupae, R; Isong, B; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jan 2018Software defined networking (SDN) is a paradigm developed to cope with inherent limitations posed by the lack of flexibility in the traditional networking architecture like the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The application of SDN in WSN has ...Read more
Author:Kgogo, T; Isong, B; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Sep 2017Wireless Sensors Networks (WSNs) have been gaining significant attention in both the industries and the academia in recent years. However, WSN are vulnerable to growing security threats and attacks which are inept for the current traditional ...Read more
Author:Balikuddembe, JK; Osunmakinde, IO; Bagula, ADate:Apr 2009Undertaking adequate risk management by understanding project requirements and ensuring that viable estimates are made on software projects require extensive application and sophisticated techniques of analysis and interpretation. Informative ...Read more
Author:Brink, AVZ; Hagan, TODate:Mar 2002The objective of the project was to develop a software tool for the assessment of rock
engineering (RE) risk based on the concept proposed in GAP 608 and to evaluate the software with real mine data from a deep level gold mine and a platinum mine.Read more
Author:Van der Walt, CDate:Oct 2012This presentation illustrates how a recently developed software tool enables operators to easily monitor a network and detect intrusions without requiring expert knowledge of network intrusion detections.Read more