Author:Amis, MA; Rouget, M; Balmford, A; Thuiller, W; Kleynhans, CJ; Day, DJC; Nel, JLDate:Apr 2007Freshwater biodiversity is globally threatened due to human disturbances, but freshwater ecosystems have been accorded less protection than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Few criteria exist for assessing the habitat integrity of ...Read more
Author:Forbes, A; Botha, LDate:Mar 2005A model is developed for the breakdown and regeneration of component gases in an industrialised TEA CO2 laser, both with and without internal catalysts, and is found to be in excellent agreement with experimental data. The laser was found to ...Read more
Author:Smit, Jacoba E; Karsten, AE; Sparrow, RWDate:Jul 2011In the past 50 years lasers has found numerous applications in medicine. One of their advantages is their use for minimalistic or non-invasive diagnosis and treatment. Often that means light penetration through skin and the correct dose ...Read more
Author:Twala, B; Phorah, MDate:Oct 2010With the wealth of sequence data and the huge amount of data generated from molecular technologies, the issue of gene classification/prediction has become a central challenge in the field of microarray data analysis. This has led to the ...Read more
Author:Le Maitre, David CDate:2004The adverse impacts of invading alien organisms are widely recognized as one of the major threats to biodiversity and are receiving growing recognition as a major socioeconomic threat. The hydrological impacts of alien plants have received ...Read more
Author:Nzuza, P; Ramoelo, Abel; Odindi, J; Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-Marc; Madonsela, SabeloDate:Sep 2020Land degradation is defined as the reduction of biological and economic productivity, which impedes the capacity of the land to provide ecosystem services. There is a need to move towards near real-time monitoring of land degradation using ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, PDate:27 Feb 2006One of the major construction materials for high-quality pavement layers in roads in South Africa is the basic crystalline group of rocks, which outcrop locally and/or regionally over at least 60% of South Africa. Problems related to the ...Read more
Author:Mpheshea, LE; Landman, WADate:Sep 2015A strong El Niño phenomenon is expected to develop during the austral summer. This study seeks to address the two main questions. 1) How strong will the 2016 event be? 2) With how much skill and confidence can a really strong event be predicted? ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, TCDate:1975This report is intended to be read at the fifth international coal preparation congress in sydney, Australia, in May, 1976.Read more
Author:Lübcker, N; Zengeya, TA; Dabrowski, James M; Robertson, MPDate:2014Predicting the potential geographical distribution and spread of non-native species is of major concern to ecologists. Silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, ranked as one of the world’s 100 worst invasive species, were introduced into South ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:2013Pitch is a fundamental acoustic feature of speech and as such needs to be determined during the process of speech synthesis. While a range of communicative functions are attributed to pitch variation in speech of all languages, it plays a ...Read more
Author:Klarman, S; Meyer, TDate:Dec 2013Stream reasoning is an emerging research area focusing on the development of reasoning techniques applicable to streams of rapidly changing, semantically enhanced data. In this paper, we consider data represented in Description Logics from ...Read more
Author:Muchuru, S; Landman, WA; DeWitt, DGDate:Oct 2015Seasonal climate forecasts are operationally produced at various climate prediction centres around the world. However, these forecasts may not necessarily be appropriately integrated into application models in order to help with decision-making ...Read more
Author:Whyte, TN; Snyman, IM; Meel, BLDate:Nov 2008An M26 hand grenade was accidentally detonated by a group of eight children, six of whom were killed, in the Mthatha area of South Africa. The M26 grenade is designed to produce casualties through the high velocity fragments that it expels. ...Read more
Author:Greben, JM; Elphinstone, C; Holloway, Jennifer P; De Villiers, R; Ittmann, HW; Schmitz, PDate:Mar 2005During the last three elections in South Africa, the CSIR was involved in the prediction of the final outcome on the basis of early results. In this paper, we describe the methods used by the CSIR in these elections and comment on the success ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, TCDate:1972A mathematical model has been developed by means of which it is possible to predict the Tromp distribution curve at any mean separation specific gravity within the range 1,3 to 1,5. These curves serve as a reference against which the efficiency ...Read more
Author:Conradie, Dirk CU; Kumirai, TDate:Jun 2012During the course of 2009 and 2010 the building performance laboratory (BPL) of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) undertook predictive simulations to quantifiy the expected performance of an advanced new ...Read more
Author:Koen, Hildegarde SDate:Feb 2017Approximately three rhinos are poached daily in South Africa. Rhino poaching is a serious problem that affects not only the rhino population of South Africa, but also the rhino population of the world. South Africa has the largest rhino ...Read more