Author:Osman, ADate:Mar 2010Within this research field, projects focus on community needs, skills and extant built environments, specifically conservation-worthy environments and heritage resources as opportunity for creating sustainable communities and living environments.Read more
Author:Stewart, R; Donovan, SJ; Haarhoff, J; Brink, V; Vogt, DDate:Nov 2008Labour-intensive drill-and-blast mining, as conducted on the major South African gold and platinum mines, is often not tightly managed due to the lack of good information about what is going on underground. As a result, mining operations tend ...Read more
Author:Rens, G; Ferrein, A; Van der Poel, EDate:Jun 2009Traditionally, agent architectures based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model make use of precompiled plans, or if they do generate plans, the plans do not involve stochastic actions nor probabilistic observations. Plans that do involve ...Read more
Author:Gerber, AJ; Barnard, A; Van der Merwe, AJDate:May 2006The terms architecture, layered architecture and system architecture are often used by researchers, as well as system architects and business process analysts inconsistently. Furthermore, the concept architecture is commonplace in discussions ...Read more
Author:Nice, Jako ADate:Oct 2019Studies indicate that an estimate eighty five percent of our time is spent indoors, with people sited as the main contributor of bacteria, and consequently pathogenic bacteria in indoor environments. This highlights the significance of the ...Read more
Author:Sibiya, G; Venter, HS; Fogwill, TDate:May 2015The advent of cloud computing has brought new challenges to digital forensics. To address these challenges, new approaches in conducting digital forensic are required. In this paper, challenges that are faced by digital forensic investigator ...Read more
Author:Nice, Jako A; Bole, SheldonDate:Jul 2016This paper reports findings for an innovative architectural methodology in spatial analytics, for application in characterising microbial load and distribution to spatial planning and functional use in inhibiting health care acquired infections ...Read more
Author:Nice, Jako ADate:Jul 2020Humans spend up to 90% of their time in indoor built environments. There is recognition and academic consensus that architectural design impacts both the sources of the microbial communities, (via activity and mix of occupancy), and the ...Read more
Author:De Jager, PetaDate:Jan 2009Peta de Jager, an architect and a researcher in health facilities from (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in South Africa, visits Sunyani Hospital in rural Ghana. Despite struggling with overcapacity, the hospital is still ...Read more
Author:Terhorst, AL; Simonis, I; Moodley, DDate:Mar 2006Understanding the behaviour of ecosystems requires persistent and multi-modal observation. Advances in sensor technology and distributed computing, coupled with the development of open standards that facilitate sensor/sensor network ...Read more
Author:De Jager, PetaDate:Oct 2007Service delivery in the healthcare sector is profoundly affected by the built infrastructure provided to support it. In order for a hospital environment to function optimally, a key question is, is the infrastructure "fit for purpose"? This ...Read more
Author:De Jager, PetaDate:Oct 2007Service delivery in the healthcare sector is profoundly affected by the built infrastructure provided to support it. In order for a hospital environment to function optimally, a key question is, is the infrastructure "fit for purpose"? This ...Read morecb