Author:Mngenge, NA; Mthembu, L; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Ngejane, Hombakazi CDate:Jul 2015Fingerprint indexing is an efficient approach that improves matching performance significantly in Automated Fingerprint Recognition Systems (AFRSs). Fingerprints are currently the most highly reliable and widely biometrics trait for identification ...Read more
Author:Bugan, Richard DH; Jovanovic, NebojsaDate:01 Sep 2010Water management in South Africa is increasingly being shifted towards the public domain as was intended by the National Water Act (1998). This means that water managers, managing Catchment Management Agencies (CMAs) or similar bodies, will ...Read more
Author:Mahlobo, DD; Ndarana, T; Grab, S; Engelbrecht, FrancoisDate:Dec 2018This study uses two methods to diagnose the local Hadley circulation; first the zonally averaged mass stream function, and second the stream function vector method. The two methods have been applied to the ERA-Interim reanalysis data for the ...Read more
Author:Taute, BJEDate:Mar 2007The Border Control Operational Coordinating Committee (BCOCC) is a national body “responsible for the strategic management of the South African border environment in a coordinated manner.” This includes the key components of improved and ...Read more
Author:Gueli, R; Liebenberg, S; Van Huyssteen, ElsonaDate:2007South Africa is a post-conflict society unlike many others: its transition from conflict to peace during the 1990s was marked by unrivalled levels of political and social reconciliation; and, during this critical time, government institutions ...Read more
Author:Annamalai, LDate:Sep 2007In the African scenario, slow-moving airborne platforms such as transport aircraft have in recent years come up against a wide variety of threats, including several generations of man-portable surface to air missile systems (MANPADS or SAMS). ...Read more
Author:Hauptfleisch, Dries; Lazarus, Spencer; Knoetze, Theunis P; Liebenberg, SybertDate:May 2007It is imperative that capacity building and black economic empowerment take place in South Africa at a rapid pace. This requires that, inter alia, strategies be implemented in order to create sustainable construction enterprises from a low ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, C; Waldeck, L; Willemse, EDate:Feb 2010Providing municipal services such as electricity and waste water treatment is a major challenge for small towns that often lack the institutional capacity to manage and maintain the necessary infrastructure. High levels of poverty in these ...Read more
Author:Isong, B; Ratanang, T; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2023This paper addresses the issues of fault tolerance (FT) and intrusion detection (ID) in the Software-defined networking (SDN) environment. We design an integrated model that combines the FT-Manager as an FT mechanism and an ID-Manager, as an ...Read more
Author:Manzi, M; Cooper, G; Malehmir, A; Durrheim, RJ; Nkosi, ZDate:Jul 2015The authors present an integrated approach to the seismic interpretation of one of the world's deepest gold ore body (Carbon Leader Reef) using three-dimensional seismic data, ultrasonic velocity measurements at elevated stresses, and modified ...Read more
Author:Maree, JP; Strydom, WF; De Beer, MorrisDate:1999Volumetric iron (II) oxidation rates exceeding 100 g/(l.d) were achieved by dosing powdered limestone to a bio-reactor treating artificial acid mine water. Neutralisation and partial sulphate removal were achieved as well. The rate is highly ...Read more
Author:Waldeck, Louis; Van Heerden, Quintin; Holloway, Jennifer PDate:Oct 2020Confronted by poverty, income disparities and mounting demands for basic services such as clean water, sanitation and health care, urban planners in developing countries like South Africa, face daunting challenges. This paper explores the ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, Quintin; Waldeck, LDate:Oct 2015This presentation discusses the link between economic infrastructure, that includes transport, and social infrastructure that includes social well-being and the basic necessities of people. It shows how transport models and urban models ...Read more
Author:Villholth, KG; Tøttrup, C; Stendel, M; Maherry, ADate:Jun 2013Groundwater drought denotes the condition and hazard during a prolonged meteorological drought when groundwater resources decline and become unavailable or inaccessible for human use. Groundwater drought risk refers to the combined physical ...Read more
Author:Mbecke, ZP; Jahed, MIDate:Jul 2010This paper is based on an in-progress PhD thesis themed: “Modeling the Differential Incidence of Child Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation in Poor Households in South Africa”. The thesis argues that the gaps and shortcomings in the prevention of ...Read more