Author:Jonker Klunne, WDate:Jan 2013Worldwide increasing attention to energy consumption and associated environmental impacts thereof has resulted in a critical attitude towards energy usage of building. Increasing costs of energy and dependence on energy service providers add ...Read more
Author:Da Veiga, A; Astakhova, LV; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2020The ideal or strong information security culture can aid in minimising the threat of humans to information protection and thereby aid in reducing data breaches or incidents in organisations. This research sets out to understand how information ...Read more
Author:Archibald, S; Lehmann, CER; Gómez-Dans, JL; Bradstock, RADate:Apr 2013Fire is a ubiquitous component of the Earth system that is poorly understood. To date, a global-scale understanding of fire is largely limited to the annual extent of burning as detected by satellites. This is problematic because fire is ...Read more
Author:Smith-Godfrey, SDate:2016Oceans are increasingly gaining in importance in terms of enabling international trade via linking sellers and buyers. The behaviour patterns of such linking enablers on the oceans are receiving more attention from a regulatory and economic ...Read more
Author:Motlogeloa, O; Fitchett, JM; Sweijd, Neville ADate:Jan 2023The acute respiratory infectious disease season, or colloquially the “flu season”, is defined as the annually recurring period characterized by the prevalence of an outbreak of acute respiratory infectious diseases. It has been widely agreed ...Read more
Author:Vhahangwele, M; Mugera, GW; Tholiso, NDate:Nov 2014Al(sup3+)-bentonite clay (Alum-bent) was prepared by ion exchange of base cations on the matrices of bentonite clay. Intercalation of bentonite clay with Al(sup3+) was performed in batch experiments. Parameters optimized include time, dosage, ...Read more
Author:Gxowa, Zizo; Chown, LH; Govender, Sagren; Curle, UlyateDate:Oct 2016This work evaluates the deformation behaviour, at warm working temperatures, of green particle-reinforced aluminium composites produced by powder blending in a high-energy ball mill. The work focuses on metal matrix composites (MMCs) based ...Read morecb
Author:Louw, M; Reid, SJDate:May 1995A novel method has been developed for increasing the production of commercially valuable enzymes, such as proteases, beta-glucanases, alpha-amylases and levansucrase. It is dependent on two genes cloned from Bacillus brevis, expressed on a ...Read more
Author:Giri, S; Bhaumik, M; Das, R; Gupta, VK; Maity, ArjunDate:Mar 2016Dehalogenation of aryl halides was demonstrated using polyaniline/zero valent iron composite nanofiber (termed as PANI/Fe0) as a cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly heterogeneous catalyst. The catalyst was prepared via rapid mixing ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, M; Van Heerden, FR; Van Der Merwe, MMDate:Jan 2009The three-ring eudesmanolide, C15H16O3, is a natural product isolated from Dicoma anomala Sond. (Asteraceae). The compound contains an endo-exo cross conjugated methylenecyclohexenone ring with an envelope conformation trans-fused with ...Read more
Author:Oyewobi, SS; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Onumanyi, Adeiza JDate:Aug 2019Cognitive radio has emerged as an enabling technology in the realization of a spectrum-efficient and delay-sensitive industrial wireless communication where nodes are capable of responding in real-time. However, particularly for time-critical ...Read more
Author:Ledwaba, LPI; Hancke, GP; Mitrokotsa, A; Isaac, Sherrin JDate:Oct 2020Recently, work with Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) has focussed on leveraging the decentralised, immutable ledger for use outside of cryptocurrency. One industry poised to benefit from DLTs is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); ...Read more
Author:Shalin, S; Samuelsen, A; Korosov, A; Menon, N; Backeberg, Bjorn-Christoph; Pettersson, LHDate:Mar 2018The spatial and temporal variability of marine autotrophic abundance, expressed as chlorophyll concentration, is monitored from space and used to delineate the surface signature of marine ecosystem zones with distinct optical characteristics. ...Read more
Author:Grodner, MDate:Sep 2001The depth of mining in the gold mines of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa is continuously increasing, with several mines already stopping at depths exceeding 3500m. Due to the high stresses imposed on the rock mass in these deep level ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NaalamkaiDate:Jul 2017This paper presents a project delivery model developed for use by public sector clients tasked with using innovative building technologies (IBTs) in lieu of conventional building technologies (CBTs) in the delivery of social infrastructure projects.Read more
Author:Wall, KDate:Feb 2006There is a great need for institutional innovations aimed at improving access to basic water services in South Africa, and sustaining that improvement. In support of effective delivery, the CSIR, with the support of the Water Research Commission, ...Read more