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
Author:Ramnath, L; Sithole, Bishop B; Govinden, RDate:Sep 2017This study highlights the importance of determining substrate specificity at variable experimental conditions. Lipases and esterases were isolated from microorganisms cultivated from Eucalyptus wood species and then concentrated (cellulases ...Read more
Author:Raseleka, RM; Human, HGCDate:2004An electro thermal vaporizer (ETV) coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) with laser ionization (LI) was applied to the identification of molecules from sulphur and chlorine matrices in the furnace. An interface was developed ...Read more
Author:Barros, EDate:2013Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi; they can play a role as food contaminants and have the ability to negatively influence human and animal health. To improve food safety and to protect consumers from harmful contaminants, ...Read more
Author:Njobeh, PB; Dutton, MF; Chuturgoon, AA; Koch, SH; Steenkamp, PA; Stoev, SDDate:Jun 2009A novel metabolite of P. polonicum was recently isolated from Cameroonian Zea mays by means of preparative silica gel thin layer chromatographic method. The potential cytotoxic effects of this novel compound was further tested, in vitro, ...Read more
Author:Barros, E; Verryn, S; Hettasch, MDate:Jul 2002Wood splitting is a defect in eucalyptus which results in considerable losses when converting logs to solid wood products. Commonly in forestry, molecular markers are identified through studying pedigrees from a single cross. This limits the ...Read more
Author:Kijko, A; Lasocki, S; Retief, SJPDate:1999A technique to interpret a cluster of seismic events in terms of causative structures is described. The process consists of moving the located hypocenters of events within their confidence ellipsoids until a simplified pattern of the seismic ...Read more
Author:Oberholster, Paul J; Myburgh, JG; Govender, D; Bengis, R; Botha, A-MDate:2009The eutrophic process potentially caused by a high urine and faecal load resulting from an unusually high hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious) density in the Nhlanganzwane Dam, Kruger National Park, South Africa, triggered a chain of events ...Read more