Author:Kumile, CM; Tlale, NS; Bright, GDate:May 2007Changing manufacturing environment is characterised by aggressive competition on a global scale and rapid changes in process technology requires to create manufacturing systems that are be able to quickly adapt to new products, processes as ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, O; Adeniyi, O; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Dec 2022Tuberculosis is a deadly disease that has been at the forefront of many deaths around the world, but patient nonadherence to medication has been a foremost contributor to this result. Nonetheless, there could be innovative, technological ...Read more
Author:Adewusi, EA; Moodley, N; Steenkamp, VDate:Dec 2010Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a common neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by low levels in the brain of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine (ACh). Clinical treatment of this disease is palliative and relies mostly on enhancing cholinergic ...Read more
Author:Roberts, JW; Van Aardt, J; Ahmed, FBDate:Jul 2008This research explored the potential benefits of fusing optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) medium resolution satellite-borne sensor data for forest structural assessment. Image fusion was applied as a means of retaining disparate data ...Read more
Author:Osman, A; Herthogs, PDate:01 Sep 2010Medium-Density Mixed Housing (MDMH), of which social housing (SH) is one component, is perceived to have the capacity to contribute to the transformation of fragmented South African cities more than the massive roll-out of government subsidised ...Read more
Author:Smuts, S; Hunter, L; Frazer, WDate:Feb 1983A photoelectric device (called a Medullameter), which provides a measure of the amount of light scattered at the fiber/medulla interface of all medullated fibers in a sample, and therefore of the degree of medullation, was built at SAWTRI ...Read more
Author:Dekker, JJ; Edwards, AL; Franz, RM; Van Dyk, T; Banyini, ADate:May 2011Controlling noise has proven difficult in mining, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) remains common. In 2008, a South African Mine Health and Safety Council study focused on small- to medium-sized mines in relation to the milestones set ...Read more
Author:Turton, A; Earle, A; Drackner, MDate:Feb 2009As part of a global survey to evaluate the impacts of megaconferences in the water sector conducted by the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico, the African Water Issues Research Unit was commissioned to undertake a regional ...Read more
Author:John, Maya J; Anandjiwala, R; Oksman, K; Mathew, APDate:Apr 2012Bio-based continuous fibers were processed from polylactic acid (PLA) and cellulose nanowhiskers (CNWs) by melt spinning. Melt compounding of master batches of PLA with 10 wt % CNWs and pure PLA was carried out using a twin-screw extruder in ...Read more
Author:Kilinkissa, OEY; Báthori, NB; Govender, KrishnaDate:Mar 2020The impact of chirality is assessed via comparison of structural features and properties of binary cocrystals. 4,4'-Bipyridine and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane were combined with achiral, racemic mixture or pure enantiomers of selected carboxylic ...Read more
Author:Van der Merwe, SW; Groenwold, AA; Loveday, Philip W; Thiart, GDDate:Jan 2010The valveless micropump holds great potential for the biomedical community in applications such as drug delivery systems, blood glucose monitoring, and many others. In this paper, the authors investigate the characteristics of a planar ...Read more
Author:Makitla, IDate:Nov 2014The proliferation of mobile phones in developing countries such as South Africa has been revolutionary. This might have sufficed to address the issues of digital divide but not the digital difference. The latter means that not all these mobile ...Read more
Author:Somerset, VSDate:May 2010Organophosphate and carbamate pesticides are powerful neurotoxins that impede the activity of cholinesterase enzyme leading to severe health effects. This study firstly reports the development, characterisation, and application of thick-film ...Read more
Author:Williams, CR; Leaner, LJ; Somerset, VS; Nel, JMDate:Feb 2011A mercury (Hg) processing plant previously operating in KwaZulu-Natal Province (South Africa) discharged Hg waste into a nearby river system causing widespread contamination since the 1980s. Although the processing plant ceased operation in ...Read more
Author:Williams, CR; Leaner, JL; Nel, JM; Somerset, VSDate:Sep 2010Total mercury (TotHg) and methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations were determined in various environmental compartments collected from water resources of three Water Management Areas (WMAs) - viz. Olifants, Upper Vaal and Inkomati WMAs, potentially ...Read more
Author:Kading, TJ; Mason, RP; Leaner, JJDate:2009Mercury deposition histories have been scarcely documented in the southern hemisphere. A sediment core was collected from the ecologically important estuarine floodplain of the Berg River (South Africa). The authors establish the concentration ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, MA; John, J; Somerset, VDate:2010The objective of this study is to establish whether a specific community in a gold mining area, with potentially associated small-scale gold mining activities, was exposed to mercury. The community was situated in Mpumalanga, where some ...Read more
Author:Matooane, MDate:Mar 2010South Africa is considered one of the major contributors to global Hg emissions into the atmosphere mainly due to coal-based power generation. Exposure to Hg occurs through the inhalation of Hg vapours, or ingestion of Hg-contaminated food ...Read more
Author:Matooane, M; Oosthuizen, RDate:Nov 2009This presentation highlights the toxic effects that over-exposure to mercury (Hg) might have on human health. This includes blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, mental problems and abnormal reflexes and muscle tone. Hg emissions increasing ...Read more
Author:Watson, BP; Ryder, JA; Kataka, MO; Kuijpers, JS; Leteane, FPDate:Aug 2008The Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are two distinct, shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebodies and strike for many hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from close-to-surface to 2 000 m. The mining method ...Read more