Author:Fourie, PJFDate:1965During November 1965 the FRI of SA was requested by a director Balgray Collieries (Pty) Ltd., to take a bulk sample of their run-of-mine anthracite at Balgray Colliery, Dundee for washability determinations.Read more
Author:Fourie, PJFDate:1965The FRI of SA was requested by Eikeboom Colliery to conduct washability tests on samples of cobbles, nuts and peas from this colliery at specific gravities 1.50, 1.55 and 1.60.Read more
Author:Revat, E; Tucker, KCDate:Feb 2006The FLOSSWorld Regional Workshop for Africa was held in conjunction with Idlelo 2, the foremost conference on FLOSS in Africa which brought together people from across the continent (and the world) to assess current status and plot a way ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Feb 2021South Africa has an obligation to report progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 12 seeks to decouple economic growth and resource use towards achieving sustainable consumption and production. Therefore, a ...Read more
Author:Wall, Kevin; Rust, ChrisDate:Jul 2017The purpose of the “national infrastructure report cards” of the condition of engineering infrastructure in South Africa has been to draw the attention of government, and of the South African public at large to the importance of maintenance, ...Read more
Author:Ruttkamp-Bloem, EDate:Mar 2015"Naturalised realism" is presented as a version of realism which is more compatible with the history of science than convergent or explanationist forms of realism. The account is unpacked according to four theses : 1) Whether realism is ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Nthabiseng ME; Nair, Kishor KDate:Aug 2018The choice of a face database should solemnly depend on the problem to be solved. In this research work, we use the Face Recognition Technology (FERET) database to address the challenge of face pose variations. The Scale Invariant Feature ...Read more
Author:Goliger, Adam M; Kruger, A; Retief, JDate:Jul 2013The siting of wind measurement infrastructure has implications on the development of wind speed statistics for the design of the built environment. The South African Weather Service (SAWS) wind measurement network is considered to be typical ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, JDate:Oct 2014The paper explores the use of requirements engineering techniques and principles for the description of social systems. The scope is limited to only defining requirements for the system-of-interest, thus excluding any attempt to design the ...Read more
Author:Rust, FCDate:May 2015The management of research and development (R&D) in the transport infrastructure field is complex due to the multidisciplinary nature of the work. The literature shows that linear R&D models that progress from idea through to consumer product ...Read more
Author:Bernard, Stewart; Kudela, RM; Franks, P; Fennel, W; Kemp, A; Fawcett, A; Pitcher, GCDate:2006The Benguela system suffers from the frequent occurence of a variety of harmful algal blooms (HABs).These blooms can have severe negative impacts on local marine ecosystems and communities, in addition to commercial marine concerns such as ...Read more
Author:Mbaya, IR; Gerber, AJ; Van Der Merwe, AJDate:Feb 2009The vision of the Semantic Web is to provide the World Wide Web the ability to automate interoperate and reason about resources and services on the Web. However, the autonomous dynamic open distributed and heterogeneous nature of the Semantic ...Read more
Author:Steyn, WJvdMDate:Jul 2008Nanotechnology is the science concerned with the design, construction and utilisation of functional structures with at least one characteristic dimension measured in nanometres. Compared to typical transportation engineering structures (roads, ...Read more
Author:Mtsweni, Jabu SDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses how research and development can be used in an Industry 4.0 environment to enhance cybersecurity.Read more
Author:Ozoemena, KIDate:Oct 2015With the increasingly fast global uptake of clean and renewable energy sources like solar and wind power plants and the unprecedented use of smartphones, laptops and tablets, new high-performance electrical energy storage technologies are ...Read more