Author:Kganyago, KR; Ngoepe, PE; Catlow, CRADate:Mar 2003Energetics of the anode system LiC6 compared to metallic lithium is calculated within the framework of local-density functional theory (LDA-DFT) techniques. Our results suggest that the energy of anode intercalation results in a small change ...Read more
Author:Mashapa, MG; Chetty, N; Ray, Suprakas SDate:Sep 2012A systematic study of vacancies in single-walled carbon nanotubes and boron nitride nanotubes was carried out. First principles calculations within the framework of density functional theory using the CASTEP code are used to optimize fully ...Read more
Author:Anderson, PML; Hoffman, MT; O'Farrell, Patrick JDate:Aug 2010This study set out to generate estimates of the standing perennial biomass for six different vegetation types, and associated upland and lowland habitats, across the altitudinal gradient presented by the Kamiesberg mountain range in the ...Read more
Author:Bouvet, A; Mermoz, S; Le Toan, T; Villard, L; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Naidoo, Laven; Asner, GPDate:Mar 2018Savannahs and woodlands are among the most important biomes in Africa: they cover half of sub-Saharan Africa, provide vital ecosystem services to the rural communities, and play a major part in the carbon budget. Despite their importance and ...Read more
Author:Rutherford, MCDate:Jan 1979Aboveground peak season biomass is given for 11 woody species in each of five belt transects under study. Mean aerial biomass for all species was 16 273 kg ha, made up of 14 937 kg ha wood, 236 kg ha current season's twigs and 1 100 kg ha ...Read more
Author:Halland, K; Britz, KDate:Oct 2012The formal definition of abduction asks what needs to be added to a knowledge base to enable an observation to be entailed by the knowledge base. ABox abduction in description logics (DLs) asks what ABox statements need to be added to a DL ...Read more
Author:Van Wyngaardt, WM; Simpson, BRSDate:Oct 2006Four radionuclides with electron-capture-based decay schemes have been directly measured by a liquid scintillation coincidence extrapolation technique. The advantage of using (LS) counting in the 4p channel is that self-absorption does not ...Read more
Author:Ndiege, JRA; Herselman, Martha E; Flowerday, SVDate:Oct 2014Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries continue to be challenged by their information technology (IT) adoption process, which is often characterized by a number of deficiencies. The purpose of this study was to examine ...Read more
Author:Murray, K; Roux, DJ; Nel, JL; Driver, A; Freimund, WDate:Mar 2011The ability of an organisation to recognise the value of new external information, acquire it, assimilate it, transform, and exploit it, namely its absorptive capacity (AC), has been much researched in the context of commercial organisations ...Read more
Author:Ndiege, JR; Herselman, Martha E; Flowerday, SVDate:Jun 2012The purpose of this article is thus to provide a review of the literature on this subject with the aim of finding out how both large and small enterprises stand to benefit from AC. We intend to affirm that, by successfully carrying out a ...Read more
Author:Debba, PraveshDate:Jul 2009This paper evaluates a spectral unmixing method for estimating the partial abundance of spectrally similar minerals in complex mixtures. The method requires formulation of a linear function of individual spectra of individual minerals. The ...Read more
Author:Adedeji, KB; Ponnle, AA; Abe, BT; Jimoh, AA; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hamam, YDate:Jun 2018Metallic pipelines have attendant problems of alternating current (AC) assisted corrosion when installed in the utility corridor with high voltage transmission lines. Research studies in the past and recent years have shown that this corrosion ...Read more
Author:Mthethwa, Sthembile; Pretorius, MorneDate:Dec 2022The ongoing push for the 4th industrial revolution is setting the stage to digitise, persist and verify identity along with credentials. Academic and skills credentials are currently verified manually and have much scope for automation using ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, S; Steiniger, S; Köbben, B; Iwaniak, A; Cooper, Antony KDate:May 2017The demand for geospatial data across different disciplines and organisations has led to the development and implementation of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and the theory and concepts behind them. An SDI is an evolving concept about ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Dashnie; Maharaj, VJ; Moodley, N; Sewnarain, P; Ndlebe, VJDate:Jun 2010The research conducted by the Bioprospecting group to identify TB drug leads using the accelerated approach will be outlined. The Bioprospecting platform in collaboration with the South African National Botanical Institute (SANBI) has established ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Dashnie; Maharaj, V; Steenkamp, PDate:01 Sep 2010The bioprospecting research group at CSIR biosciences undertakes research that taps into South Africa’s plant biodiversity with the aim of discovering natural products that can be used to develop new medicines effective against tuberculosis ...Read more
Author:Molefi, M; Markus, ED; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2021A Conformal Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonance (CSCMR) wireless power transfer (WPT) system is a small footprint technology suitable for applications such as small low power sensors and implantable medical devices. These applications require ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, Louw; Ulloa-Calderon, A; Harvey, JT; Coetzee, NFDate:Oct 2017This paper provides a brief description of the technological developments involved in the development and use of the Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) accelerated pavement testing equipment. This covers the period from concept in the late 1960’s, ...Read more