Author:Le Roux, WH; Burke, Ivan DDate:May 2009Citation has always been a crucial part of research when it comes to accreditation for intellectual property. The maintenance of these references has mostly been the sole responsibility of the author to collect, maintain and format. There are ...Read more
Author:Naudé, A; McFerren, GDate:Feb 2006The paper deals with the results of CSIR work to develop a platform for Collaborative Spatial Analysis and Modelling (referred to as CoSAMP). The platform is aimed at addressing a range of “collaboration divides and barriers” - including ...Read more
Author:Booth, ARDate:1977Research into collapse settlement in compacted soils is described, with special reference to recent cases in Southern Africa where collapse settlement occurred in road embankments following wetting of the soil. The laboratory work described ...Read more
Author:Guild, R; Stanton, DWDate:Jul 2003This project was designed to assemble historical material that was not easily accessible and publish it in an electronic format. Literature searches were undertaken on the Internet, various libraries (public and private) were visited and ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, J; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Aug 2011The authors describe the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which contains data from the eleven official languages of South Africa. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Heerden, C; Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Mar 2009The authors describes the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which includes data from nine Southern Bantu languages. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per language is ...Read more
Author:Walters, MicheleDate:Jun 2011A preserved plant specimen is a dried and mounted or pickled voucher that is the botanical world's equivalent to the zoologist's stuffed animals, skins or insect collections that are kept in natural history museums. Plant specimens are housed ...Read more
Author:Sciacchitano, IDate:Aug 1963The leeches collected from the Vaal Barrage and from the streams and rivers of the Vaal dam Catchment Barrage by F.andM. from Chutter, which I have just studied, constitute a collection of 121 specimens. I sincerely thank Mr F. M. Chutter for ...Read more
Author:Yinka-Banjo, CO; Osunmakinde, IO; Bagula, ADate:Mar 2011Collision avoidance is one of the important safety key operations that needs attention in the navigation system of an autonomous robot. In this paper, a Behavioural Bayesian Network approach is proposed as a collision avoidance strategy for ...Read more
Author:Govender, Nicolin; Wilke, DN; Kok, SDate:Sep 2015Convex polyhedra represent granular media well. This geometric representation may be critical in obtaining realistic simulations of many industrial processes using the discrete element method (DEM). However detecting collisions between the ...Read more
Author:Madala, NE; Steenkamp, PA; Piater, LA; Dubery, IADate:Aug 2012Metabolomics entails identification and quantification of all metabolites within a biological system with a given physiological status; as such, it should be unbiased. A variety of techniques are used to measure the metabolite content of ...Read more
Author:Rösner, S; Giesselmann, UC; Meyer, J; Schwager, M; Wiegand, T; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Brandl, RDate:2010The spatial distribution of suitable nest sites is a limiting resource for many colonial breeding animals. Therefore, we investigated and mapped the spatial distribution of nests of Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) to evaluate whether the ...Read more
Author:Makhado, RA; Potgieter, MJ; Wessels, DCJDate:2009The use of Colophospermum mopane wood was quantified from six villages in the northeast of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. One hundred and eighty individuals were interviewed from the selected villages. Three villages were located in the ...Read more
Author:Maasdorp, APB; Black, WADate:Apr 1983The photochemical degradation of unpigmented and unstabilised polypropylene films can be monitored coloremetrically following reaction of the carbonyl groups produced, with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone produced under acidic conditions.Read more
Author:Baumbach, JDate:Jul 2012Camouflage, the art of going (as long as possible) undetected by an observer, has changed over the last decade to become a discipline with a more scientific and analytical foundation. Design of a camouflage system needs to consider the ...Read more
Author:Baumbach, JDate:Jun 2008Three experimental patterns, having the same colours, were developed to better understand colour, form and texture perception by the human cognitive system. It was found that at short distances small elements (highly textured pattern) are ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Teboho P; Swart, HC; Hillie, Kenneth T; Motaung, DEDate:Mar 2021Propanol and benzene, toluene, ethylenebenzene and xylene (BTEX) vapours are within the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) family and are utilized in industrial and petroleum goods, are greatly toxic in human health and environment. Therefore, ...Read more
Author:Grobler, M; Van Vuuren, JJDate:Dec 2009Combating Transnational & Cross Border Crime in Africa 2009, Southern Sun Hotel OR Tambo International Airport 8 - 10 December 2009Read more