Author:Herling, MC; Cupido, CF; O'Farrell, PJ; Du Plessis, LDate:Nov 2009Nonsustainable ostrich farming practices have degraded large areas of the Little Karoo, a semiarid region in South Africa. The Little Karoo lies within the Succulent Karoo biome, a recognized biodiversity hotspot. A financial feasibility ...Read more
Author:Reyers, B; Polasky, S; Tallis, H; Mooney, HA; Larigauderie, ADate:May 2012Recently, some members of the conservation community have used ecosystem services as a strategy to conserve biodiversity. Others in the community have criticized this strategy as a distraction from the mission of biodiversity conservation. ...Read more
Author:Nortje, R; Britz, K; Meyer, TDate:Dec 2009Module extraction plays an important role in the reuse of ontologies as well as in the simplification and optimization of some reasoning tasks such as finding justifications for entailments. In this paper the authors focus on the paper of ...Read more
Author:Venter, CPDate:Oct 2015This presentation discusses how laboratory experiments and results regarding technology solutions to secure South African borders are linked to real life security solutions.Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda KDate:Oct 2015Moving the South African waste sector away from landfilling provides recognised social, environmental and economic opportunities for the country. This paper presents some of the key findings emerging from research undertaken by the CSIR on ...Read more
Author:Herselman, Martha E; Botha, Adèle; Dlamini, Sifiso B; Marais, Mario A; Mahwai, Nare JDate:Apr 2019The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of how the selected teachers at 24 schools in 7 provinces in South Africa reacted to questions pertaining to the extent of their prior training, attitudes towards technology, perceived ...Read more
Author:De Korte, GJDate:Oct 2012Dense medium cyclones have been used for many years in a number of countries to beneficiate fine coal. The use of cyclones in this application is, however, not widespread and at present, the process is in use only in South Africa and China. ...Read more
Author:Baruni, Kedimotse P; Nair, Kishor K; Ratsoma, Mahlatse SDate:Aug 2018Due to the rising concern of data security and privacy, fingerprint recognition has been used for identity verification. This paper presents a minutiae-based finger code matching algorithm for identity verification. It describes the effect ...Read more
Author:Sililo, OTN; Tellam, JHDate:Nov 2000Unstable unsaturated zone flow (fingering) is a potentially important process in recharge, pollution, and surface water/ground water body interactions. Extending previous workers ' studies on homogeneous systems, sand tank experiments have ...Read more
Author:Dorasamy, K; Webb, L; Tapamo, J; Khanyile, NPDate:Jul 2015The use of directional patterns has recently received more attention in fingerprint classification. It provides a global representation of a fingerprint, by dividing it into homogeneous orientation partitions. With this technique, the challenge ...Read more
Author:Shabalala, MB; Moabalobelo, Terrence; Van der Merwe, TDate:Mar 2015As cybercrime is on the rise, individuals would like to rest assured that their authentication information cannot be stolen, and then used to gain access to their privileged information. Smart cards can and have played a pivotal role in ...Read more
Author:Baruni, Kedimotse P; Helberg, A; Nair, Kishor KDate:Dec 2016Fingerprint Match-on-Card (MoC) offers the highest degree of privacy and security to cardholders as the fingerprint never leaves the secure environment of a smart card. The level of security of a biometric system is evaluated by the location ...Read more
Author:Moolla, Yaseen; Singh, A; Saith, E; Akhoury, SDate:Dec 2015Fingerprint recognition is an important security technique with a steadily growing usage for the identification and verification of individuals. However, current fingerprint acquisition systems have certain disadvantages, which include the ...Read more
Author:Darlow, Luke Nicholas; Rosman, Benjamin SDate:Oct 2017The high variability of fingerprint data (owing to, e.g., differences in quality, moisture conditions, and scanners) makes the task of minutiae extraction challenging, particularly when approached from a stance that relies on tunable algorithmic ...Read more
Author:Msiza, IS; Leke-Betechuoh, B; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Msimang, NDate:Oct 2009The problem of Automatic Fingerprint Pattern Classification (AFPC) has been studied by many fingerprint biometric practitioners. It is an important concept because, in instances where a relatively large database is being queried for the ...Read more
Author:Mngenge, NA; Nelufule, Nthatheni; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Msimang, MDate:Nov 2012Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (AFRSs) rely on minutiae position and orientation within the fingerprint image for matching. Minutiae information is highly accurate provided that the fingerprint image matched is of high quality. ...Read more
Author:Molale, P; Twala, B; Seeletse, SDate:Nov 2011In this study, the application of classifiers to problems in fingerprint prediction is investigated. Six supervised learning and two statistical fingerprint classification methods (classifiers) are considered: linear discriminant analysis ...Read more
Author:Msiza, IS; Leke-Betechuoh, B; Malumedzha, TDate:Feb 2011Fingerprint re-alignment is an important aspect in the subject of fingerprint biometrics because a fingerprint that has been rotated, voluntarily or involuntarily, can have negative impact on the functionality of an automated fingerprint ...Read more
Author:Msiza, IS; Mathekga, Mmamolatelo E; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Marwala, TDate:Sep 2011Fingerprint image segmentation plays an important role in any fingerprint image analysis implementation and it should, ideally, be executed during the initial stages of a fingerprint manipulation process. After careful consideration of various ...Read more
Author:Marwala, T; Sibisi, SDate:Jan 2005Finite element (FE) models are widely used to predict the dynamic characteristics of aerospace structures. These models often give results that differ from measured results and therefore need to be updated to match measured results. Some of ...Read more