Author:Campbell, C; MacPhail, CDate:Jul 2002Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy. Starting from the assumption that ...Read more
Author:Zhu, H; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2022This paper studies the real-time energy trading problem in a smart community consisting of a group of grid-connected prosumers with controllable loads, renewable generations and energy storage systems. We propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy ...Read morecbna
Author:Duvenhage, B; Le Roux, WHDate:Jun 2007Distributed parallel and soft real-time simulation architecture is presented. It employs a publish-subscribe communication framework layered on a peer-to-peer Transport Control Protocol-based message passing architecture. Mechanisms for ...Read more
Author:Shelembe, SDate:Oct 2012In the presentation the author discusses the current state of mobile devices in penetration testing and future trends.Read more
Author:Funchall, D; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Nov 2011The South African Government has recognised the potential of the contribution of Small Medium Micro Enterprise’s (SMMEs) to the overall economy of the country. Government and the private sector have introduced agencies and operations to support ...Read more
Author:Strydom, WF; Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Oct 2010Unacceptable waste management practices are the root cause of many problems in South Africa. Failing waste management services impact negatively on environmental and human health. Communication and awareness creation often fail to change ...Read more
Author:Kamdar, A; Kienhofer, F; Emwanu, B; Heyns, G; Nordengen, Paul ADate:Oct 2018This paper investigates perceptions of the Road Transport Management System (RTMS) accreditation scheme as well as the impact of RTMS awareness workshops aimed at increasing certification in South Africa. The RTMS is a voluntary, self-regulation ...Read more
Author:Kamdar, A; Kienhofer, F; Emwanu, B; Heyns, G; Nordengen, Paul ADate:Jul 2017This paper uses a structured survey to provide insight into how the Road Transport Management System (RTMS), SABS standard SANS 1395:2014, has developed and is viewed within the road transport industry in South Africa. The RTMS is an industry-led, ...Read more
Author:Matsebe, GNDate:Dec 2011South Africa is a water scarce country (Otieno and Ochieng, 2004; Wassung, 2010). The current sanitation system mostly used in South African urban areas depends on extensive use of water in a form of flush toilets. The housing sector in major ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Coetzee, S; Kourie, DGDate:2010The Internet has spawned the development of virtual communities or virtual social networks which generate and share information with one another, and with the public at large. Voluntereerd geographical information (VGI) refers to user-generated ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, E; Schlunz, Georg IDate:Nov 2009With the increasing prominence and maturity of corpus-based techniques for speech synthesis, the process of system development has in some ways been simplified considerably. However, the dependence on sufficient amounts of relevant speech ...Read more
Author:Liu, YS; Takawira, F; Xu, HJDate:Sep 2007This paper presents the performance analysis of a hybrid Token-CDMA MAC protocol. The protocol is based on a token passing scheme with the incorporation of code division multiple access (CDMA). The protocol provides both QoS guarantee and ...Read more
Author:Darlow, Luke N; Connan, J; Singh, AnnDate:Jun 2016The Hybrid fingerprint is a local-quality-specific blend of the surface and internal fingerprints, extracted from optical coherence tomography scans. Owing to its origin, and the manner in which it is obtained, the Hybrid fingerprint is a ...Read more
Author:Ogbodo, EU; Dorrell, DG; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Sep 2017Recently, cognitive radio based sensor network (CRSN) has been introduced into Smart Grids (SG) in order to address the problems of spectrum inefficiency and interferences. CRSN has the capability of opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) to ...Read more
Author:Simelane, Sengiphile N; Mudau, Unarine B; Duma, Talent CDate:Jun 2018The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria is rapidly reducing reliance on energy supply from Tshwane Municipality with the implementation of renewable energy projects as part of its drive to demonstrate the potential ...Read more
Author:Lamola, MM; Johnson, DL; Lysko, Albert A; Maliwatu, R; Densmore, MDate:Aug 2019Commonly used WiFi is known to be ill-suited for penetrating vegetation and buildings and non-line-of-sight conditions. Television white space (TVWS) operates in ultra-high frequency (UHF) bands that overcome many of the penetration and ...Read more
Author:Cebekhulu, Eric; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Isaac, Sherrin JDate:Feb 2022The use of machine learning (ML) algorithms for power demand and supply prediction is becoming increasingly popular in smart grid systems. Due to the fact that there exist many simple ML algorithms/models in the literature, the question arises ...Read more
Author:Bello-Salau, H; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Adebiyi, RF; Adedokun, EA; Hancke, GpDate:Jun 2021Recently, machine learning (ML) classifiers are being widely deployed in many intelligent transportation systems towards improving the safety and comfort of passengers as well as to ease and enhance road navigation. However, the comparative ...Read more
Author:Sokoya, O; Maharaj, BTDate:Aug 2009This paper presents the performance analysis of Super-Orthogonal Space-Frequency trellis coded OFDM (SOSFTC-OFDM) system using the Gauss-Chebyshev Quadrature technique. SOSFTC-OFDM is a form of the super-orthogonal space-time trellis code ...Read more
Author:Grobler, InusDate:Oct 2022Lithium Titanite Oxide (LTO) cells with the typical anode chemical compound Li4Ti5O12, are currently used in heavy transport vehicles (e.g., electric busses) and MW-size Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), due to their excellent performance, ...Read more