Author:Hersey, SP; Garland, Rebecca M; Crosbie, E; Schinger, T; Sorooshian, A; Piketh, S; Burger, RDate:Apr 2015The authors present a comprehensive overview of particulate air quality across the five major metropolitan areas of South Africa (Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Tshwane (Gauteng Province), the Industrial Highveld Air Quality Priority ...Read more
Author:Van Eden, Beatrice; Rosman, Benjamin SDate:Jan 2019Robot vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how robots can be made to gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. Understanding an image at the pixel level often does not provide enough information for decision ...Read more
Author:Gardiner, DDate:Oct 2012In this presentation the author provides an overview of health R&D within the CSIR, and how the organisation is responding to challenges faced by the health care sector.Read more
Author:Johnson, D; Lysko, Albert ADate:Sep 2007Predicting the performance of ad-hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. Experimental study and validation of such predictions is vital to obtaining more realistic results, but ...Read more
Author:Ngwangwa, HM; Heyns, PS; Labuschagne, FJJ; Kululanga, GKDate:Jul 2008A healthy road transport systems is essential for any country's social and economic development. It is generally observed that if road deterioration is allowed to increase, the economy will need significantly larger expenditures in subsequent ...Read more
Author:Nordengen, Paul A; Berman, Robert J; De Saxe, Christopher C; Diess, JDate:Oct 2018The Performance-Based Standards or “Smart Truck” pilot project is a national research initiative that is trialling the introduction of high productivity road freight transport in South Africa. This initiative is being led by stakeholders from ...Read more
Author:Banerjee, R; Ray, Suprakas SDate:Jan 2021The article reports recent advances in reference to the existing literature and presents a knowledge gap and potential solution ideas for polylactide (PLA) nanocomposites as sustainable materials. Various types of nanoparticles have been used ...Read more
Author:Marais, Mario ADate:Nov 2012The sustainability of ICT for Development (ICT4D) initiatives, and indeed any development initiative, depends on many different factors that has been summarised in terms of financial, social, institutional, technological, and environmental ...Read more
Author:Theyse, HL; De Beer, Morris; Rust, FCDate:1996A historical overview of the South African mechanistic pavement design method, from its development in the early 1970s to the present, is presented. Material characterization, structural analysis, and pavement life prediction are discussed, ...Read more
Author:Smyth, J; Philogene, L; Bindon, J; Brooks, M; Smith, G; Snedden, Glen CDate:Oct 2012Space technologies are becoming increasingly important to economic development in Africa. Despite this, the continent lacks a satellite launch capability and its reliance on foreign launch service providers may be seen as both limiting ...Read more
Author:Kinabo, AB; Mwangam, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:May 2021The state of the art for real-time factory-floor communications consists ofa variety of protocols and technologies that aid in timely data exchange through thnetwork. The majority of these are of a fieldbus type, running on a wired link like ...Read more
Author:Waldeck, LDate:Aug 2013This presentation provides an overview of Urban Growth Simulation as a risk free means of assessing the future outcome of major policy and investment decisions with some examples of scenarios that were simulated in different South African cities.Read more
Author:Waldeck, LDate:Nov 2013This presentation provides an overview of Urban Growth Simulation as a risk free means of assessing the future outcome of major policy and investment decisions with some examples of scenarios that were simulated in different South African ...Read more
Author:Blouw, SDate:Feb 2007The vision and mission behind this paper, is to develop a globally competitive fibre industry, with cutting edge technologies, expertise and innovative solutions for the fibre industry. Flax is cultivated in wide range of soils. It requires ...Read more
Author:Anele, AO; Hamam, Y; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Todini, EDate:Nov 2017The stochastic nature of water consumption patterns during the day and week varies. Therefore, to continually provide water to consumers with appropriate quality, quantity and pressure, water utilities require accurate and appropriate short-term ...Read more
Author:Maphoru, MV; Heveling, J; Kesavan Pillai, SreejaraniDate:Jul 2017Oxidative coupling of naphthols is a useful method for the formation of new carbon-carbon bonds in organic synthesis. In the presence of hydrogen peroxide, platinum supported on activated carbon catalyses this reaction. The outcome is influenced ...Read more
Author:Maphoru, MV; Heveling, J; Kesavan Pillai, SreejaraniDate:Jan 2014Bismuth-promoted platinum catalysts were tested for the oxidative coupling of 2- and 4-substituted 1-naphthols at different temperatures and ambient pressure. The principal final products are the 3,3'-substituted 1,1'-binaphthalenylidene-4,4'-diones ...Read more
Author:Thwala, Melusi; Musee, N; Sikhwivhilu, L; Wepener, VDate:Sep 2013The toxicity effects of silver (nAg) and zinc oxide (nZnO) engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) on the duckweed Spirodela punctuta were studied to investigate the potential risks posed by these ENPs towards higher aquatic plants. The influence of ...Read more
Author:Thwala, Melusi; Musee, N; Sikhwivhilu, L; Wepener, VDate:Aug 2013The toxicity effects of silver (nAg) and zinc oxide (nZnO) engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) on the duckweed Spirodela punctuta were studied to investigate the potential risks posed by these ENPs towards higher aquatic plants. The influence of ...Read more