Author:Abbas, FJ; Van der Vyver, AG; Marais, Mario ADate:Nov 2013The Digital Doorway is a computerized machine that was implemented in areas populated by disadvantaged communities throughout South Africa to promote computer literacy within these communities. Understanding the progress and satisfaction of ...Read more
Author:Bello-Salau, H; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Adebiyi, RF; Adekale, AD; Bello, RS; Ajayi, ODate:Oct 2023Road infrastructure is essential to national security and growth. Potholes on the road sur- face causes accidents and costly automotive damage. Novel technology that detects potholes and alerts drivers in real time may address this challenge. ...Read more
Author:Bello-Salau, H; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Adebiyi, RF; Adekale, AD; Bello, RS; Ajayi, ODate:Oct 2023Road infrastructure is essential to national security and growth. Potholes on the road surface causes accidents and costly automotive damage. Novel technology that detects potholes and alerts drivers in real time may address this challenge. ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Biggs, HCDate:Apr 2011This paper uses five inter-related topics (the management of rivers, fire regimes, invasive alien species, rare antelope and elephants) to assess 15 years of adaptive management in the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa. The importance ...Read more
Author:Maneschijn, MM; Botha, Adèle; Van Biljon, JADate:Nov 2013Possessing appropriate ICT skills has become necessary to meet the demands of the knowledge driven economies. Therefore, the transfer of those skills to Higher Education learners must be accomplished effectively. The purpose of this paper is ...Read more
Author:Naqvi, KH; Markus, ED; Muthoni, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2022South Africa as a developing nation is evolving in new healthcare technologies. With an increase in these innovations comes many challenges foremost among which is security. This paper presents a review of challenges faced in IoT connected ...Read more
Author:Jovanovic, Nebojsa; Israel, SDate:Jan 2012The chapter is structured in three parts, namely: i) A theoretical overview of evapotranspiration processes, including the principle of atmospheric demand-soil water supply, ii) A review of methods and techniques to measure and estimate actual ...Read more
Author:Kelly, AM; Jager, AJDate:Oct 1996The quality of installation and grouting of rock reinforcing tendons is seen as a serious problem by the mining industry. Up to half of all full-column grouted steel tendons or rock bolts installed in South African gold and platinum mines are ...Read more
Author:Taylor, NJ; Mahohoma, W; Vahrmeijer, JT; Gush, Mark B; Allen, RG; Annandale, JGDate:01 Mar 2015The estimation of crop water use is critical for accurate irrigation scheduling and water licenses. However, the direct measurement of crop water use is too expensive and time-consuming to be performed under all possible conditions, which ...Read more
Author:Kleynhans, N; Barnard, EDate:Dec 2013Mismatches between application and training data greatly reduce the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. However, collecting suitable amounts of in-domain and application-specific data for training is resource intensive ...Read more
Author:Funke, Nicola S; Jacobs-Mata, Inga M; Nohayi, NgowenaniDate:Jun 2018SA has been receiving millions of migrants from neighbouring countries and further afield. Environmental factors can be one of push factors that contribute to people’s decision to move. Easier identifiable in cases of rapid onset disasters ...Read more
Author:Zandamela, Frank; Ratshidaho, Terence; Nicolls, F; Stoltz, George GDate:Nov 2022Deep learning has gained traction due its supremacy in terms of accuracy and ability to automatically learn features from input data. However, deep learning algorithms can sometimes be flawed due to many factors such as training dataset, ...Read more
Author:Luo, H; Vaivars, G; Modibedi, Remegia M; Mathe, Mahlanyane KDate:Jul 2009The low-cost cross-linked Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) proton exchange membranes were prepared via the simple route. The membranes exhibited similar electrochemical properties as compared with commercial Nafion. The membranes were highly proton ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Aug 2023In this work, we explore the use of phonological features incross-lingual transfer within resource-scarce settings. We modify the architecture of VITS to accept a phonological feature vector as input, instead of phonemes or characters. ...Read more
Author:Lou, H; Vaivars, G; Mathe, Mahlanyane KDate:Oct 2009The low cost proton exchange membrane was prepared by cross-linking water soluble sulfonated-sulfinated poly(oxa-p-phenylene-3,3-phthalido-p-phenylene-oxa-p-phenylene-oxyphenylene) (SsPEEK-WC). The prepared cross-linked membrane became insoluble ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Manamela, MJ; Modipa, TIDate:Aug 2021The task of automatically identifying and/or verifying the identity of a speaker from a recording of a speech sample, known as automatic speaker recognition, has been studied for many years and automatic speaker recognition technologies have ...Read more
Author:Wall, KDate:Jul 2008Private sector institutions utilise many different business methods, some of which can selectively be adapted for use by organisations outside the private sector, to the benefit of their service delivery responsibilities. But the best of the ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LDate:May 2014Twitter is a microblogging facility that allows people to post 140 character status updates about various topics. In times of special events (such as extreme weather, emergencies, sporting goals, etc), status updates on Twitter often give ...Read more
Author:Herold, C; Wall, K; Botha, DDate:28 Jan 2009There is currently a high level of public interest in water-related matters, and the government is clearly concerned about a number of important water and sanitation issues. Increasing water scarcity and equitably allocating this precious ...Read more