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
Author:Thimiri Govindaraj, Deepak BDate:Sep 2023Background: The Global Biofoundry Alliance (GBA) has been established between countries including the UK, US, Japan, Singapore, China, Australia, Denmark, and Canada through 16 research institutions. GBA plays a key role in the synthetic ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Teboho P; Mathew, Maya JDate:Apr 2020In this work, cellulose nanofibres (CNFs) were extracted from sawdust, which is an underutilized by-product from the wood and timber industry. The extracted CNFs by chemical and mechanical treatments had a web-like structure with diameters ...Read more
Author:Schutte, ICDate:Mar 2000Road traffic collision result in both human loss and cost to the company. Government and other role players addressing this problem require reliable information on the cost of collisions to the economy. Collisions costs are also used in the ...Read more
Author:Nota, N; Musee, N; Aldrich, CDate:Sep 2010This paper presents findings on the quantification of potential risks posed by nTiO2 and CNTs to the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The risk quotient (RQ) was calculated as a ratio of modelled predicted environmental concentrations (PEC) ...Read more
Author:Nickless, A; Rayner, PJ; Engelbrecht, Francois A; Brunke, E-G; Erni, BDate:Apr 2018The results of a high resolution Bayesian inversion over the City of Cape Town, South Africa, are presented, which used observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide from sites at Robben Island and Hangklip lighthouses collected over a sixteen ...Read more