Author:Erasmus, TCDate:1975This report is intended to be read at the fifth international coal preparation congress in sydney, Australia, in May, 1976.Read more
Author:Lübcker, N; Zengeya, TA; Dabrowski, James M; Robertson, MPDate:2014Predicting the potential geographical distribution and spread of non-native species is of major concern to ecologists. Silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, ranked as one of the world’s 100 worst invasive species, were introduced into South ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:2013Pitch is a fundamental acoustic feature of speech and as such needs to be determined during the process of speech synthesis. While a range of communicative functions are attributed to pitch variation in speech of all languages, it plays a ...Read more
Author:Klarman, S; Meyer, TDate:Dec 2013Stream reasoning is an emerging research area focusing on the development of reasoning techniques applicable to streams of rapidly changing, semantically enhanced data. In this paper, we consider data represented in Description Logics from ...Read more
Author:Muchuru, S; Landman, WA; DeWitt, DGDate:Oct 2015Seasonal climate forecasts are operationally produced at various climate prediction centres around the world. However, these forecasts may not necessarily be appropriately integrated into application models in order to help with decision-making ...Read more
Author:Whyte, TN; Snyman, IM; Meel, BLDate:Nov 2008An M26 hand grenade was accidentally detonated by a group of eight children, six of whom were killed, in the Mthatha area of South Africa. The M26 grenade is designed to produce casualties through the high velocity fragments that it expels. ...Read more
Author:Greben, JM; Elphinstone, C; Holloway, Jennifer P; De Villiers, R; Ittmann, HW; Schmitz, PDate:Mar 2005During the last three elections in South Africa, the CSIR was involved in the prediction of the final outcome on the basis of early results. In this paper, we describe the methods used by the CSIR in these elections and comment on the success ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, TCDate:1972A mathematical model has been developed by means of which it is possible to predict the Tromp distribution curve at any mean separation specific gravity within the range 1,3 to 1,5. These curves serve as a reference against which the efficiency ...Read more
Author:Conradie, Dirk CU; Kumirai, TDate:Jun 2012During the course of 2009 and 2010 the building performance laboratory (BPL) of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) undertook predictive simulations to quantifiy the expected performance of an advanced new ...Read more
Author:Koen, Hildegarde SDate:Feb 2017Approximately three rhinos are poached daily in South Africa. Rhino poaching is a serious problem that affects not only the rhino population of South Africa, but also the rhino population of the world. South Africa has the largest rhino ...Read more
Author:Mouton, HDate:10 Oct 2012This presentation outlines a proposed top-level tool for predicting rhino poaching attacks at the Kruger National Park.Read more
Author:Anele, AO; Todini, E; Hamam, Y; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2018In a previous paper, a number of potential models for short-term water demand (STWD) prediction have been analysed to find the ones with the best fit. The results obtained in Anele et al. (2017) showed that hybrid models may be considered as ...Read more
Author:Manqele, L; Dlodlo, M; Coetzee, L; Williams, Q; Sibiya, GDate:Sep 2015The usage of the Internet of Things technology across different service provisioning environments has increased the challenges associated with service discovery and selection. Users cannot always remember the Internet Protocol (IP) address ...Read more
Author:Britz, K; Varzinczak, IDate:Jun 2018Modal accounts of normality in non-monotonic reasoning traditionally have an underlying semantics based on a notion of preference amongst worlds. In this paper, we motivate and investigate an alternative semantics, based on ordered accessibility ...Read more
Author:Makola, MM; Steenkamp, Paul A; Dubery, IA; Kabanda, MM; Madala, NEDate:Mar 2016Caffeoylquinic acid (CQA) derivatives are a group of structurally diverse phytochemicals that have attracted attention due to their many health benefits. The structural diversity of these molecules is due in part to the presence of regio- and ...Read more
Author:Casini, GDate:Jun 2012In recent years disciplines such as psychology, cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind have proposed alternative models to the classical view of conceptualization, that is traditionally centered on the role of definitions. Classical logic ...Read more
Author:Britz, K; Meyer, T; Varzinczak, IDate:Nov 2011Modal logic is the foundation for a versatile and well-established class of knowledge representation formalisms in artificial intelligence. Enriching modal logics with non-monotonic reasoning capabilities such as preferential reasoning as ...Read more