Author:Pick, W; Naidoo, Shan; Ajani, F; Onwukwe, V; Hansia, R; Bielu, ODate:Jul 2003Alcohol misuse is a major public health concern in South Africa today. Substance use, and its relationship with mining accidents, has been documented worldwide. It can also lead increased sickness, deaths, and health care utilisation, which ...Read more
Author:Teklehaimanot, GZ; Genthe, Bettina; Kamika, I; Momba, MNBDate:Jun 2015The failure of wastewater treatment plants to produce effluents of a high microbiological quality is a matter of great concern in terms of water resource pollution. A more serious concern is that this water source is used by communities in ...Read more
Author:Keet, CMDate:Sep 2013The OWL 2 DL ontology language is very expressive and has many features for declaring complex object property expressions. Standard reasoning services for OWL ontologies take these expressions as correct and according to the ontologist's ...Read more
Author:Parsons, SDate:Jul 2006Tuberculosis (TB) control can be particularly problematic in correctional and detention facilities, in which persons from diverse
backgrounds and communities are housed in close proximity for varying periods. This report provides a framework ...Read more
Author:Adamski, SADate:Jun 2003Since Grootegeluk Coal Mine commenced operation in 1980 all plant discards and inter-burden material have been stacked on discards dumps, a practice that has led to the spontaneous combustion of the waste material on these dumps. From 1980 ...Read more
Author:Nahman, AntonDate:Oct 2011This study attempts to estimate the external costs of landfilling in the City of Cape Town, using the benefits transfer method (for emissions) and the hedonic pricing method (for disamenities). The results show that external costs are ...Read more
Author:De Jager, PetaDate:Jan 2009Peta de Jager, an architect and a researcher in health facilities from (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in South Africa, visits Sunyani Hospital in rural Ghana. Despite struggling with overcapacity, the hospital is still ...Read more
Author:Wright, C; Albers, P; Oosthuizen, R; Phala, NDate:Sep 2013The objective of this paper is to describe the self-reported sun-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of a sample of South African multi-ethnic primary schoolchildren and consider the roles of sex and skin type as well as school ...Read more
Author:Van Reenen, Coralie ADate:Sep 2014The concept of green buildings is in response to the built environment's high negative environmental impact, including its contribution towards greenhouse gas emissions and the resultant climate change. At its core, the green building movement ...Read more
Author:Niehaus, E; Herselman, Martha E; Babu, ANDate:2009Neuroempiricism describes a strategy to store and process data analogous to the human brain and to derive an adaptive representation by modelling the biological processes. Technical systems often copy biological evolutionary “developments” ...Read more
Author:Brent, ACDate:Apr 2009The emerging field of sustainability science recognizes the important role of technologies in reaching the conditional goals of sustainable development. Research in sustainable technologies requires transdisciplinarity to determine the ...Read more
Author:Wall, KDate:Oct 2010In December 2008, the CEBC met in Brasilia and began work on a framework for a "guidebook for capacity building in the engineering environment" and an associated compendium of programmes and initiatives. This guidebook has subsequently been ...Read more
Author:Smith, Suzanne; Oberholzer, Adelaide E; Land, Kevin J; Korvink, JG; Mager, DDate:Nov 2018We present printed sensing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on different paper and flexible substrates towards low-cost, automated connected sensor solutions. Combining the Internet of Things (IoT) with printed electronics and ...Read more
Author:Smith, Suzanne; Bezuidenhout, Petrone H; Land, Kevin J; Korvink, JG; Mager, DDate:Nov 2017Resource-limited settings require point-of-care (POC) diagnostic solutions that can be rapidly manufactured at a low cost. These solutions require efficient ways to communicate data, and are therefore ideally suited to the internet of things ...Read more
Author:Moolman, SDate:Jun 2002This paper entails patents related to active beads containing encapsulated ingredients, patents cited by International Search Report on previous application and US patents related to suspension of inclusions in beveragesRead more
Author:Paige-Green, P; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJADate:Oct 2019It has been estimated that by the end of the century, $150 billion will be required to repair and maintain existing roads in Africa, the majority of which will be low volume rural access roads. Research into the prioritisation and adaptation ...Read more
Author:Forsyth, GG; Le Maitre, David C; O'Farrell, Patrick J; Van Wilgen, BWDate:Jul 2012Invasions by alien plants are a significant threat to the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems and the services they provide. The South African Working for Water program was established to address this problem. It needs to formulate ...Read more