Author:Saasa, Valentine; Beukes, M; Lemmer, Yolandy; Mwakikunga, Bonex WDate:Dec 2019Analysis of volatile organic compounds in the breath for disease detection and monitoring has gained momentum and clinical significance due to its rapid test results and non-invasiveness, especially for diabetes mellitus (DM). Studies have ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jacob AC; Martinus, Laura; De Wet, FebeDate:Jan 2019Since the release of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) Speech corpus, very few additional resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) system development have been created for South Africa’s eleven official languages. ...Read more
Author:Raw, JL; Van Niekerk, Lara; Chauke, O; Riddin, T; Adams, JBDate:Feb 2023Blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses) contribute towards climate change mitigation because they are efficient at sequestering atmospheric CO2 into long-term total ecosystem carbon stocks. Destruction or disturbance ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Teboho P; Tshabalala, Zamaswazi P; Hillie, Kenneth T; Swart, HC; Motaung, DEDate:Sep 2020The detection of hazardous and toxic gases in homes and corporate world, with highly sensitive and selective manner continues to be of great interest. Therefore, we report on the gas sensing characteristics of NiO nanostructures with crystallite ...Read more
Author:Pieterse, Heloise; Olivier, MSDate:Sep 2014Bluetooth is popular technology for short-range communications and is incorporated in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops. Vulnerabilities associated with Bluetooth technology led to improved security measures ...Read more
Author:Meissner, RichardDate:Oct 2015Allen and Barbara Isaacman give a sobering account of the consequences of large dams on people living in such a project's immediate vicinity and further afield. The authors focus not only on the impacts on people, but also the social-ecological ...Read more
Author:Meissner, RichardDate:Jul 2015Stijn Brouwer’s study of policy entrepreneurs in the Dutch water sector is an excellent example of how an investigation into these political actors needs to be conducted. In this investigation the author was very thoughtful in how he defined ...Read more
Author:Krige, PDDate:Aug 2003The purpose of this booklet is to make a contribution towards improving safety standards in underground transportation. Its scope is limited to horizontal track-bound transportation on gold and platinum mines and its emphasis is on learning ...Read more
Author:Davel, MH; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2003This paper describes a method for improving the efficiency of the language resource development process through bootstrapping.Read more
Author:Davel, MH; Barnard, EDate:Sep 2005Bootstrapping techniques are an efficient way to develop electronic pronunciation dictionaries, but require fast system response to be practical for medium-to-large lexicons. In addition, user errors are inevitable during this process, and ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Jul 2006Bootstrapping techniques can accelerate the development of language technology for resource-scarce languages. We (the authors) define a framework for the analysis of a general bootstrapping process whereby a model is improved through a ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:27 Feb 2006Bootstrapping techniques can accelerate the development of language technology for new languages. The authors define a framework for the analysis of a general bootstrapping process whereby a model is improved through a controlled series of ...Read more
Author:Mafiri, MT; Nyareli, T; Ngwenya, B; Vogt, DDate:Nov 2008The major gold and platinum deposits of South Africa occur in the Witwatersrand Basin (gold) and Bushveld Complex (platinum) (Henning et al., 1994; Carr et al., 1994; Cawthorn, 1999). While the origins and geology of the two structures have ...Read more
Author:Vogt, DR; Nyareli, TNDate:Jun 2008It is difficult to achieve significant directivity in the radial direction of a borehole radar antenna, because the spacing of antenna elements is typically constrained by the borehole diameter to be considerably less than a wavelength. In ...Read more
Author:Vogt, DDate:Dec 2006Borehole radar is an electromagnetic tool that can be applied to assist in the delineation of orebody geometry, ideally using routinely drilled cover and exploration boreholes. Successful trials of borehole radar for delineating reef horizons ...Read more
Author:Estuarine and Coastal Research Unit, ECRUDate:Sep 1982In this report an attempt is made to synthesis available information on the Botriviervlei and Kleimond estuary. The name Bot River is probably a direct reference to the slow flowing nature of the river and derived from bot, while Kleinmond ...Read more
Author:Roodt, JHS; Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Jansen van Vuuren, JCDate:Apr 2010This investigation was launched firstly to direct current Information Warfare definition and capability management activities toward establishing a Require Operational Capability (ROC) statement for a JCD capability, and secondly to provide ...Read more
Author:Leenen, L; Ghose, ADate:Dec 2008The Semiring Constraint Satisfaction Problem (SCSP) framework is a popular approach for the representation of partial constraint satisfaction problems. Considerable research has been done in solving SCSPs, but limited work has been done in ...Read more