Author:Ngobeni, Sipho J; Venter, H; Burke, Ivan DDate:Jan 2010Over the past decade, wireless mobile communications technology based on IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) has been adopted worldwide on a massive scale. However, as the number of wireless users has soared, so has the possibility ...Read more
Author:Anochie-Boateng, Joseph; Mataka, MO; Malisa, JT; Komba, Julius JDate:Nov 2015Tanzania is faced with challenges of premature failures in roads and highways. Some asphalt pavements fail prematurely in less than five years of their expected 20 years design life cycle. These failures have been identified as mostly permanent ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jan 2006This paper analyses construction foresight studies and construction reform initiatives with a view to identifying lessons for developing countries. It notes the number of construction reform initiatives over the last 60 years, mostly in the ...Read more
Author:Le Maitre, David C; Versfeld, DBDate:Jun 1997The relationships between forest stand structure, growth and evaporation were analysed to determine whether forest evaporation can be estimated from stand growth data. This approach permits rapid assessment of the potential impacts of ...Read more
Author:Scott, DF; Gush, Mark BDate:Apr 2017South Africa is a semi-arid country with a very limited area of natural forest. The early colonial governments encouraged the establishment of plantations to supply wood for local uses, and South Africa consequently has a long history of ...Read more
Author:Van der Zel, DWDate:1988Even after 300 years of indigenous forest protection as well as 100 years of plantation forestry, no forestry map of South Africa was available. The development and availability of LANDSAT images in the early 1970s opened possibility to use ...Read more
Author:van der Zel, DWDate:1988Even after 300 years of indigenous forest protection as well as 100 years of plantation forestry, no forestry map of South Africa was available. The development and availability of LANDSAT images in the early 1970s opened up possibilities to ...Read more
Author:Van Aardt, JAN; Wynne, RH; Oderwald, RGDate:May 2006This study assessed a lidar-based, object-oriented (segmentation) approach to forest volume and aboveground biomass modeling. The study area in the Piedmont physiographic region of Virginia is composed of temperate coniferous, deciduous, and ...Read more
Author:Scott, DF; Le Maitre, David C; Fairbanks, DHKDate:Jul 1998Forestry is an important sector of industry in South Africa but the growing of timber places significant demands on the available water resources. Yet, a ready source of information on the extent, and probable hydrological impacts, of ...Read more
Author:Hamman, JDate:2000The IIED and CSIR have embarked on a joint study on Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry. In terms of this study, a sub-study on the experience of persons involved in the certification process was commissioned. Being on these ...Read more
Author:Khosa, MDate:2000The outsourcing of forestry activities over the past decade has created an industry with an annual turnover of R600 million and 35000 employees (Edwards, 2000). During the past decade forestry companies have switched from employing some of ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Sasha; Davis, C; Archer, Emma RMDate:Sep 2013This paper provides an analysis of the implications of climate change for forests and rangelands in southern Africa. The extent of the resources and their economic and social functions and drivers of change is outlined. The vulnerability of ...Read more
Author:Morris, G; Stoychev, Stoyan H; Naicker, Previn; Dirr, HW; Fanucchi, StephanieDate:Jul 2018Forkhead box (FOX) proteins are a ubiquitously expressed family of transcription factors that regulate the development and differentiation of a wide range of tissues in animals. The FOXP subfamily members are the only known FOX proteins capable ...Read more
Author:Ngassam, EK; Watson, BW; Kourie, DGDate:Aug 2010With this poster, the authors on the denotational semantics of algorithms to suggest an abstraction of a string recognizer. The abstraction provides a unified formalism for representing FA-based string recognizers as an instance of a parameterized ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda K; Strydom, W; Muswema, Aubrey P; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Roman, H; Mange, MDate:Oct 2014The South African waste sector survey for 2012 was undertaken by the CSIR on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and provides a good understanding of the ‘core’ of the formal waste sector (waste companies), and insight ...Read more