Author:Tugizimana, F; Steenkamp, PA; Piater, LA; Dubery, IADate:Feb 2012Plants have the ability to continuously respond to microbial signals in their environment. One of these stimuli is a steroid from fungal membranes, ergosterol, which does not occur in plants, but acts as a pathogen-associated molecular pattern ...Read more
Author:Gass, BG; Ventura, DFC; De Beer, MorrisDate:Mar 1993The use of stabilised layers is cost effective in road construction in South Africa. Some stabilised materials have however been found to be susceptible to erosion. To identify erodible materials the Erosion Test was developed in 1989. ...Read more
Author:Martirosian, O; Davel, MDate:Nov 2007The authors explore pattern recognition techniques for verifying the correctness of a pronunciation lexicon, focusing on techniques that require limited human interaction. They evaluate the British English Example Pronunciation (BEEP) dictionary ...Read more
Author:Ouma, S; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Jul 2010Currently within the developing world, there are many ongoing projects and pilot studies in the healthcare sector. However, there is a tendency of developing the m-health (mobile-health) applications without looking into factors that can lead ...Read more
Author:Reyers, B; Stafford-Smith, M; Erb, K-H; Scholes, RJ; Selomane, OdirilweDate:Jun 2017The imperative to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has resulted in a proliferation of targets and indicators fed by an ever-expanding set of observations. This proliferation undermines one principal purpose of the ...Read more
Author:Phillips, HRDate:Nov 1997Research has shown that one of the most effective methods of preventing the frictional ignition of methane/air mixtures at the coal face is to spray water directly behind the cutting picks and parallel to their direction of travel. However, ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, Johanna MDate:17 Aug 2007Knowledge management facilitates team work & collaboration across boundaries. Gladwell maintains that “innovation, the heart of the knowledge economy, is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, Johanna MDate:Aug 2007Knowledge management facilitates team work & collaboration across boundaries. Gladwell maintains that “innovation, the heart of the knowledge economy, is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of ...Read morecb
Author:Van Heerden, Johanna MDate:05 Jun 2008In order to address national challenges and development objectives as per its mandate it has increasingly become necessary for the CSIR to focus on interdisciplinary research projects. However, due to the physical distribution of CSIR ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, LDate:Feb 2013Many modern management systems, such as military command and control, tend to be large and highly interconnected sociotechnical systems operating in a complex environment. Successful development, assessment and implementation of these systems ...Read more
Author:Brent, ACDate:Nov 2006The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of life cycle assessments (LCAs) evaluates the potential environmental impact profiles of industrial activities throughout the life cycles of products and processes. The LCIA procedure is dependent ...Read more
Author:Willers, Cornelius J; Al-Ghamdi, AA; Bezuidenhout, DF; Al-Hosiny, NMDate:Apr 2011The protection of own aircraft assets against infrared missile threats requires a deep understanding of the vulnerability of these assets with regard to specific threats and specific environments of operation. A key capability in the protection ...Read more
Author:Van Brummelen, AC; Becker, JVW; Mancama, Dalubuhle T; Hoppe, HCDate:Jan 2010The most important contributing factor to the current malaria crisis is the rapid spread of parasite resistance to available anti-malarial drugs. Anti-malarial drug resistance is critical and the need for compounds with novel modes of action ...Read more
Author:Van Brummelen, AC; Becker, JVW; Mancama, Dalubuhle T; Hoppe, HDate:Jan 2010In order to establish malaria parasite transfection technology in South Africa, firefly luciferase and green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter constructs were prepared. In attempt to simplify these constructs, a var intron (PFC0005w), ...Read more
Author:Boguslavsky, A; Barkhuysen, F; Timme, E; Matsane, RNDate:Sep 2007South Africa has high level of unemployment and low standards of living in rural areas. The Eastern Cape Province is particularly impoverished, with unemployment of about 60% in the Great Karoo region alone. Agave americana (AA), the only ...Read more
Author:Brent, AC; Rogers, DECDate:Jul 2002Air pollution control devices (APCDs) are not compulsory for medical waste incinerators (MWIs) in developing countries. In South Africa, combustion gases are usually vented directly to the atmosphere at temperatures greater than the formation ...Read more
Author:Meissner, Richard; Stuart-Hill, S; Nakhooda, ZDate:Oct 2016The establishment of catchment management agencies goes beyond the involvement of governmental entities or the stipulations contained in regulatory structures and policies. A number of actors or stakeholders from both the governmental and ...Read more