Author:Olwal, TO; Montsi, LDate:Oct 2012The CSIR has developed a cognitive radio-based transmission energy management algorithm that can be used to manage the energy consumption of Wi-Fi networks in rural
and remote communities in South Africa. The
project demonstrates the ...Read more
Author:Eng, Jeanine; Inggs, MRDate:Dec 2016Differential interferometry techniques are well known for its ability to provide centimeter to millimeter scale deformation measurements. However, in natural and agricultural areas, the presence of vegetation and the evolution of the land ...Read more
Author:De Clercq, LE; Botha, LR; Du Plessis, A; Rohwer, EGDate:Jul 2009The purpose of this study was to develop a model of the coherent excitation of the first few vibrational modes in the electronic ground state of the molecule. The model will be used in combination with an optimization algorithm to optimize a ...Read more
Author:Lynch, RADate:Jun 2002The SIMRAC project COL816 investigated the feasibility of a small, independent device monitoring local seismicity and extracting similar activity information to what can be recorded by a temporary network of seismometers. To do this seismic ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, JDate:Oct 2015The competitiveness of manufacturing in South Africa has dramatically decreased and ways must be found to increase local production. Most products are becoming more complex, calling for more sophisticated and advanced ways to design, manufacture ...Read more
Author:Takyi, A; Densmore, M; Johnson, DDate:Sep 2016Collaborative sensing among secondary users in television white space (cognitive radio) networks can considerably increase the probability of detecting primary or secondary users. In current collaborative sensing schemes, all collaborative ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, WH; Burke, Ivan DDate:May 2009Citation has always been a crucial part of research when it comes to accreditation for intellectual property. The maintenance of these references has mostly been the sole responsibility of the author to collect, maintain and format. There are ...Read more
Author:Naudé, A; McFerren, GDate:Feb 2006The paper deals with the results of CSIR work to develop a platform for Collaborative Spatial Analysis and Modelling (referred to as CoSAMP). The platform is aimed at addressing a range of “collaboration divides and barriers” - including ...Read more
Author:Booth, ARDate:1977Research into collapse settlement in compacted soils is described, with special reference to recent cases in Southern Africa where collapse settlement occurred in road embankments following wetting of the soil. The laboratory work described ...Read more
Author:Guild, R; Stanton, DWDate:Jul 2003This project was designed to assemble historical material that was not easily accessible and publish it in an electronic format. Literature searches were undertaken on the Internet, various libraries (public and private) were visited and ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, J; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Aug 2011The authors describe the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which contains data from the eleven official languages of South Africa. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Mar 2009The authors describes the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which includes data from nine Southern Bantu languages. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per language is ...Read more
Author:Walters, MicheleDate:Jun 2011A preserved plant specimen is a dried and mounted or pickled voucher that is the botanical world's equivalent to the zoologist's stuffed animals, skins or insect collections that are kept in natural history museums. Plant specimens are housed ...Read more
Author:Sciacchitano, IDate:Aug 1963The leeches collected from the Vaal Barrage and from the streams and rivers of the Vaal dam Catchment Barrage by F.andM. from Chutter, which I have just studied, constitute a collection of 121 specimens. I sincerely thank Mr F. M. Chutter for ...Read more
Author:Yinka-Banjo, CO; Osunmakinde, IO; Bagula, ADate:Mar 2011Collision avoidance is one of the important safety key operations that needs attention in the navigation system of an autonomous robot. In this paper, a Behavioural Bayesian Network approach is proposed as a collision avoidance strategy for ...Read more
Author:Govender, Nicolin; Wilke, DN; Kok, SDate:Sep 2015Convex polyhedra represent granular media well. This geometric representation may be critical in obtaining realistic simulations of many industrial processes using the discrete element method (DEM). However detecting collisions between the ...Read more
Author:Madala, NE; Steenkamp, PA; Piater, LA; Dubery, IADate:Aug 2012Metabolomics entails identification and quantification of all metabolites within a biological system with a given physiological status; as such, it should be unbiased. A variety of techniques are used to measure the metabolite content of ...Read more