Author:Landman, WA; Engelbrecht, F; Landman, SDate:Oct 2010In order to produce a weather forecast, the initial state of the atmosphere needs to be entered into the forecast model taking into account factors such as temperature, wind and moisture. However, the scale of some atmospheric motions is far ...Read more
Author:MacPhail, C; Campbell, CDate:Jun 2001Levels of heterosexually transmitted HIV infection are high amongst South African youth, with one recent survey reporting levels of 18.9% amongst 17-20 year olds and 43.1% amongst 21-25 year olds. In these groups levels of knowledge about HIV ...Read more
Author:Manus, N; Wall, K; Moodley, KDate:Aug 2008This paper describes the steady progress that the South African department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has been making with formulating a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. A "scan" of the state ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NDate:Jan 2010The environmental rating and certification of products is a voluntary, market-based response by industry and business to the consumer’s perceptions of the importance of the environment. On the one hand, environmental product certification ...Read more
Author:Murambadoro, MDate:May 2013An integrated and coordinated agrarian land use decision making tool - ICAD for short – was launched recently. Developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Univen’s Institute for Rural Development, the Nkuzi Development ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, LDate:31 Aug 2010Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) is faced with the challenge of creating sustainable and innovative success stories which speak to the creation of an inclusive digital society. Initial attempts at ICT4D had ...Read more
Author:Mwapwele, S; Marais, Mario A; Dlamini, Sifiso B; Van Biljon, JDate:Nov 2019South African teachers are under pressure due to rising expectations of their content knowledge and digital skills without guaranteed infrastructural or institutional support in using ICTs. The purpose of this study is to find out to what ...Read more
Author:Marais, Mario ADate:Feb 2015Sustainability is a systems concept, and ICT4D plays a vital role in a sustainable earth, as well as in sustainable communities. The concept of resilience is introduced since rapid change can push a system into another, possibly undesirable ...Read more
Author:Ford, M; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2014ICT for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) is a large-scale pilot that is testing the use of tablets in 26 deep rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The aim is to develop a replicable framework that will enable ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Dec 2015Over a period of three years, 255 teachers at 26 schools in Cofimvaba, which lies in the very rural Nciba district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, have been using mobile tablets in their classrooms to support teaching and learning. ...Read more
Author:Fourie, ChristoDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the focus areas of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), and what the IDC has achieved in terms of technology development and commercialization, especially in Biotechnology. It also focuses on future ...Read more
Author:Matshekga, LDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the IDC’s role in stimulating and supporting infrastructure innovation: Past, Present & Future. The presentation focuses on the overview of IDC, IDC sectorial focus areas, industrial infrastructure: strategy, ...Read more
Author:Tawona, N; Sithole, Bishop B; Parkin, JDate:2018The suitability of different technology solutions for the beneficiation of biowaste is dependent on the physical and chemical properties of the specific waste stream. This research was undertaken as part of the EU FP7 funded Biowaste4SP ...Read more
Author:Faleschini, T; Fouché, Gerda; Harding, N; Myer, M; Dewar, JDate:01 Sep 2010Plants constitute the basic food chain and provide the most valuable source of natural nutrients; in addition, constituents of medicinal importance are also present in plants. For drug discovery and other purposes, we must characterise the ...Read more
Author:Leyland, RC; Momayez, M; Van Rooy, JLDate:Mar 2016The Karoo Supergroup covers approximately 57% of South Africa’s surface area and the sedimentary rocks therein generally do not yield acceptable pavement aggregates. The Karoo Dolerite Suite (intrusions) present in these sedimentary units ...Read more
Author:Steenkamp, PA; Harding, NM; Van Heerden, FR; Van Wyk, BEDate:Nov 2006An LC-MS screening method was developed to detect the presence of atractyloside (ATR), the toxic principle of a commonly used medicinal plant in South Africa, Callilepis laureola, in biological matrices such as body fluids and human viscera. ...Read more
Author:Hamilton-Atwell, A; Du Toit, A; Kirstein, L; Louw, M; Mtombeni, L; Moses, RDate:Oct 1997Despite all the attempts made to create a safe work environment for employees working in coals mines during the past nine years an average of 25 miners died every year, and 229 were injured. In 45% of the deaths and in 24% of the reported ...Read more
Author:Khoza, BS; Gbashi, S; Steenkamp, Paul A; Njobe, PB; Madala, NEDate:Mar 2016Bidens pilosa is a medicinal plant used for the treatment of several physiological illnesses. In South Africa, as the case may be for other African countries, this plant is equally consumed as a vegetable. In the current study, pressurized ...Read more
Author:Moganedi, Mapoung S; Pottas, DDate:Aug 2020Statista suggests that there would be 368.2 million wearables shipped globally in 2020 with a projection of 500 million by 2024. These predictions are becoming a reality considering the fast growing of Intent of Things (IoT) do-main. These ...Read more