Author:Litvin, IA; Forbes, ADate:Oct 2009The authors outline a resonator design that allows for the selection of a Gaussian mode by diffractive optical elements. This is made possible by the metamorphosis of a Gaussian beam into a flat-top beam during propagation from one end of the ...Read more
Author:Padayachi, YR; Thambiran, TirushaDate:Oct 2012Road transport is considered to be a growing source of atmospheric emissions in African countries. In South Africa, competition in the business sector, reduction in rail usage, deregulation of freight transportation and a growing middle income ...Read more
Author:Ramasami, AK; Reddy, MV; Nithyadharseni, P; Chowdari, BVR; Balakrishna, GRDate:Feb 2017Gel-combustion by a bio-fuel, processed starch of the root tuber of cassava (Manihot esculenta), was used to prepare vanadium pentoxide nanowire clusters (V2O5NWC). The as-synthesized product was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), ...Read more
Author:Njiro, EDate:Mar 2006It has taken nearly half a century for the goals of poverty reduction and gender equality to achieve this prominence in mainstream policy concerns. In the process, the understanding of poverty has been transformed from the early equation with ...Read more
Author:Venter, CJ; Mashiri, MDate:Jul 2007The paper explores ways in which existing gender analysis frameworks - and the Moser framework in particular - can be adapted by transport and urban analysts in starting to examine the gender aspects of their work. In recent years a convergence ...Read more
Author:Mashiri, M; Gwarajena, TRD; Chakwizira, J; Nhemachena, CDate:Dec 2010This, chapter investigates the extent to which community-based rural road maintenance and agriculture development projects can be used as tools to empower women, the elderly, children, youth and the unemployed to work towards attaining ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Mokgonyane, TBDate:Aug 2021Gender identification is the task of identifying the gender of the speaker from the audio signal. Most gender identification systems are developed using datasets belonging to well-resourced languages. There has been little focus on creating ...Read more
Author:Light, A; Ladeira, I; Roberson, J; Bidwell, N; Rangaswamy, N; Sambasivan, N; Gitau, SDate:Dec 2010The authors present our experience of gender as female ICT4D researchers. We highlight our field experiences and comment on our perceptions of how being a woman and performing our female identity has influenced our own ICT4D research. We ...Read more
Author:Dlodlo, N; Mvelase, PS; Krause, CDate:Jan 2010This research is one of a series that attempt to unveil the various reasons why the numbers of women participating in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) education and careers in South Africa is significantly low compared to that ...Read more
Author:Vincent, K; Cull, T; Archer, Emma RMDate:Oct 2010It is well-known that women in developing countries tend to be more dependent on natural resources than men, and that female-headed households tend to rely more on agricultural livelihoods than male-headed households. Climate change is projected ...Read more
Author:Van Dijk, JP; Leifert, C; Barros, E; Kok, EJDate:Jan 2010Since the mid 1990s, microarray analysis has become one of the few tools that can analyze the entire contents of a cell regarding a specific information type. Especially since the development of whole genome microarrays the technique can be ...Read more
Author:Rossouw, M; Terblanche, L; Moes, JDate:Sep 2013Long-period waves are almost invisible waves due to the long wave-lengths of several hundreds of metres and heights of only decimetres. The effect of these long waves can, however, be devastating in the form of harbour basin oscillations and ...Read more
Author:Smith, Andrew C; Kotzé, Paula; Gelderblom, HDate:Sep 2011The authors discuss the application of the 'general design methodology‘ in the context of a physical computing project. The aim of the project was to design and develop physical objects that could serve as metaphors for computer programming ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, T; Sombattheera, CDate:May 2012Most belief change operators in the AGM tradition assume an underlying plausibility ordering over the possible worlds which is transitive and complete. A unifying structure for these operators, based on supplementing the plausibility ordering ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, T; Sombattheera, CDate:Jul 2009Most belief change operators in the AGM tradition assume an underlying plausibility ordering over the possible worlds which is transitive and complete. A unifying structure for these operators, based on supplementing the plausibility ordering ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, T; Sombattheera, CDate:Sep 2009Most belief change operators in the AGM tradition assume an underlying plausibility ordering over the possible worlds which is transitive and complete. A unifying structure for these operators, based on supplementing the plausibility ordering ...Read more
Author:Shatalov, MYDate:May 2008A general model of operation of vibratory gyroscopes, which is applicable to a broad class of instruments, including cylindrical, disc and micro-machined gyros, is formulated on the basis of analysis of dynamics and control of a hemispherical ...Read more