Author:Thwala, Melusi; Tancu, YolandaDate:Sep 2016The growing number of nano-enabled products and technologies suggests likelihood increase of nanopollutants into the environment, a trend that is anticipated to increase further as nanotechnology expands. Nanopollutants are considered a case ...Read more
Author:Fok, Ezio T; Scholefield, Janine; Fanucchi, Stephanie; Mhlanga, MusaDate:Oct 2017Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been implicated in many biological processes. However, due to the unique nature of lncRNAs and the consequential difficulties associated with their characterization, there is a growing disparity between the ...Read more
Author:Rajendran, S; Naushad, M; Raju, Kumar; Boukherroub, RDate:2019This book provides the fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) for energy and environmental applications in a comprehensive manner written by specialists who are at the forefront of research ...Read more
Author:Naude, AH; Maritz, JohanDate:May 2007The focus of this paper is the emerging potential for radical e-enabled changes involving two key rural development drivers, namely: Enhanced collaboration - addressing problems such as small enterprise sizes low rural demand and supply chain ...Read more
Author:Mahola, U; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Aug 2015With the emergence of internet-based service providers, known as Over-the-top (OTT), the business landscape has changed massively, hence the current traditional service provider’s business models are transforming. The question treated in this ...Read more
Author:Batchelor, J; Herselman, Martha E; Traxler, J; Fraser, WDate:May 2012This paper reports on the findings of an inquiry to investigate personal convictions, social structure and relationships within the wider community that can influence the innovative teachers' pedagogical reasoning. Data was qualitatively ...Read more
Author:Wright, CDate:Feb 2011BHP Billiton Mozambique Aluminium Smelter (MOZAL) experienced structural damage to the Fume Treatment Centre (FTC) caused by unanticipated corrosion. As a result MOZAL was in the process of rebuilding the FTC, an exercise that entailed a ...Read more
Author:Keene, WC; Lobert, RM; Crutzen, PJ; Maben, JR; Scharffe, DH; Landmann, T; Hely, C; Brain, CDate:Feb 2006Characteristic vegetation and biofuels in major ecosystems of southern Africa were sampled during summer and autumn 2000 and burned under semicontrolled conditions. Elemental compositions of fuels and ash and emissions of CO2, CO, CH3COOH, ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Mokgonyane, TBDate:Nov 2020Speaker recognition is a method which recognise a speaker from characteristics of a voice. Speaker recognition technologies have been widely used in many domains. Most speaker recognition systems have been trained on normal clean recordings, ...Read more
Author:Charles, L; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2021Long Range Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN) has established itself as one of the leading Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocols in the realm of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). Although the technology itself is quite mature, the resource ...Read more
Author:Twala, BDate:2009Increasing the awareness of how incomplete data affects learning and classification accuracy has led to increasing numbers of missing data techniques. This paper investigates the robustness and accuracy of seven popular techniques for tolerating ...Read more
Author:Raborife, M; Zaerbain, S; Ewert, SDate:May 2012This paper discusses the empirical assessments employed on two versions of a Sesotho tone labeling algorithm. This algorithm uses linguistically-defined Sesotho tonal rules to predict the tone labels on the syllables of Sesotho words. The two ...Read more
Author:Gregor, Luke; Kok, S; Monteiro, Pedro MSDate:Dec 2017The Southern Ocean accounts for 40 % of oceanic CO2 uptake, but the estimates are bound by large uncertainties due to a paucity in observations. Gap-filling empirical methods have been used to good effect to approximate pCO2 from satellite ...Read more
Author:Grobler, AJ; Holm, Stanley R; Van Schoor, GDate:2017An accurate thermal model will commonly require empirical parameter identification, specifically for the convection coefficients and interface resistances. A high-speed permanent magnet synchronous machine test platform, equipped with various ...Read more
Author:O'Quigley, DGF; Luyckx, S; James, MNDate:1997This paper reports the results of a comprehensive investigation into the abrasion resistance of WC-Co alloys, as measured by the ASTM Standard B 611-85 test. The alloys ranged from 3 to 50 wt% and from 0.6 to 5 mu-m average grain size. Careful ...Read more
Author:Pandarum, R; Harlock, SC; Hunter, LawranceDate:2017This empirical study examines the body shapes and apparel fit incongruities experienced by a convenience sample of South African women (n=155), aged 20 to 65 years. Also examined was the extent to which apparel manufactured using the ...Read more
Author:Roux, A; Giesler, Achmed; De Villiers, DanielDate:Nov 2008This paper presents the results of an empirical survey into the comparative characteristics of commercial NiCd, Lithium-ion and Lithium Polymer batteries when applied in a range of man portable military radios. The focus is on when the expected ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, Martha J; Pienaar, HDate:Aug 2012Virtual research environments (VREs) are no longer an issue of serious debate in the developed world - they provide the infrastructure for researchers to easily collaborate across a variety of borders and a variety of disciplines. Transparent, ...Read more
Author:Marivate, Vukosi N; Moorosi, NyallengDate:Aug 2017Data from online job boards and online professional networks present an opportunity to understand job markets as well as how professionals transition from one job/career to another. We propose a data driven approach to begin to understand a ...Read more
Author:Van Zyl, P; Fogwill, TDate:Nov 2008Open source software (OSS) is software for which the source code is made available and can be freely modified and redistributed. OSS has been identified in the South African national R&D strategy as a vehicle for fostering local innovation ...Read more