Author:Madhoo, H; Khatri, A; Willemse, T; Oosthuizen, D; Coetzee, LDate:Apr 2015The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is a concept where animate and inanimate objects have the ability to collect and exchange data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Through the utilisation of IoT and ...Read more
Author:Mass MediaDate:Oct 2007Earlier this month a future manufacturing workshop presented by Dr Anthon Botha and Joe Manchu of Innovation Lab Pty Ltd and Lorraine Ngwenya of the Department of Science and Technology - was held at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria. Key ...Read more
Author:Edwards, A; Khoza, N; Zungu, L; Letsoalo, S; Milanzi, LDate:Aug 2012The aim of awareness training of mine workers is to ensure that the worker has the knowledge about the risks of noize hazards and the effects on the hearing health and safety of workers. This is to prevent hearing loss and to train them on ...Read more
Author:Edwards, AL; Khoza, N; Letsoalo, S; Milanzi, L; Zungu, LDate:Aug 2012An investigation of the current practices and policies at various mines of the training practices and the employees’ knowledge of the risks as well as the miner’s use of HPDs was initiated by the Safety in Mining Research Advisory Committee ...Read more
Author:Khati, MDate:Jun 2010Aptamers, simply described as chemical antibodies, are synthetic oligonucleotide ligands or peptides that can be isolated in vitro against diverse targets including toxins, bacterial and viral proteins, virus infected cells, cancer cells and ...Read more
Author:Lain, Elisabeth J; Smith, Marie EDate:Nov 2021Aquaculture in South Africa is really taking off, with around 230 farms countrywide, cultivating a wide variety of fish and shellfish species. Most of these are freshwater farms, and it is the freshwater sector that is indeed growing the ...Read more
Author:Dlamini, Nomusa R; Siwela, MDate:Aug 2015Cereals form a major component of diets around the world; the most commonly consumed cereals include wheat, rice, maize, and barley. In tropical and semiarid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, however, 'small grain' cereals such as sorghum ...Read more
Author:Adedoja, G; Botha, Adèle; Ogunleye, OSDate:May 2012Mobile phones have the potential to improve education for the millions of underprivileged users in the developing world. However, the subjects of mobile learning in the developing countries have not been largely studied. This article presents ...Read more
Author:Wright, Jarrad G; Bischof-Niemz, Sebastian T; Calitz, Joanne R; Mushwana, CrescentDate:Nov 2017South Africa has historically had a predominantly coal based energy system and a particularly coal dominated electricity system due to a large domestic coal resource and favourable coal generation technology economics. A more recently well ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NLDate:Sep 2012The construction of homes provides social and economic benefits to society, but contributes significantly to environmental degradation. The focus of both international and South African efforts to improve the environmental performance of the ...Read more
Author:Fleming, GJ; Van der Merwe, Martina R; Mcferren, GADate:2007Cholera (Vibrio cholerae) is endemic in southern Africa and frequently breaks out in epidemics along the eastern seaboard. Extensive resources are directed at combating cholera yet it remains a significant problem. Limited resources could ...Read more
Author:Mkuzangwe, Nenekazi NP; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo VDate:Apr 2017Fuzzy logic is one of the powerful tools for reasoning under uncertainty and since uncertainty is an intrinsic characteristic of intrusion analysis, Fuzzy logic is therefore an appropriate tool to use to analyze intrusions in a Network. This ...Read more
Author:Nyirenda, CN; Dawoud, DSDate:Sep 2007In 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, the wired and the wireless interfaces of the Access Point are characterized by the disparity in channel capacity. This presents a significant bottleneck for traffic flowing from the wired network to the ...Read more
Author:Kufakunesu, R; Hancke, G; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2022Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology is rapidly expanding as a technology with long distance connectivity, low power consumption, low data rates and a large number of end devices (EDs) that connect to the Internet of Things (IoT) ...Read more
Author:Day, J; Siegfried, WR; Louw, GN; Jarman, MLDate:Dec 1979Current knowledge and thinking on the ecology of the Mediterranean type sclerophyll shrublands and heath lands of the southern and south-western Cape is reviewed in 13 concise syntheses. The Fynbos Biome is defined and characterized in terms ...Read more
Author:Deacon, HJ; Hendey, QB; Lambrechts, JJNDate:Dec 1983Current knowledge of aspects of the geology, soils and palaeontology relevant to the study of the palaeoecology of the fynbos region, the southern margin of the African continent, is surveyed in nine essays and three introductory reviews. ...Read more
Author:Kleinhans, A; Rosman, Benjamin S; Michalik, M; Tripp, B; Detry, RDate:May 2015Autonomous grasping is a problem that receives continuous attention from our community because it is both key to many applications, and difficult to solve. The complexity of robot grasping is counter-intuitive. For us humans, planning a grasp ...Read more
Author:Boesack, CD; Marwal, T; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo VDate:Oct 2011This paper presents a GA-Fuzzy Automatic Generation Controller for large interconnected power systems. The design of Fuzzy Logic Controllers by means of expert knowledge have typically been the traditional design norm, however, this may not ...Read more
Author:Burke, Michael G; Brink, WDate:Aug 2011This paper presents a gain-scheduling controller for a human-following robot. Typical controllers use either a point-to-point approach where the relative orientation between human and platform is uncontrolled, or a direction-based approach ...Read more