Author:Cannoo, BR; Gledhill, Irvy MA; Cooper, Antony K; Greben, JMDate:Mar 2008The protection of coastal structures is important to South Africa. The dynamics of breakwaters is a topic that is becoming amenable to numerical study, in terms of the motion of multiple interlocking structures under wave action. In this ...Read more
Author:Reyers, B; Nel, JL; O'Farrell, Patrick J; Sitas, Nadia E; Nel, DCDate:Jun 2015Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Danielle PDate:06 Sep 2023Reliance on digital technologies for innovation management is unavoidable in current contexts. While digital processes and business models have been prioritised as key factors to drive innovation and value creation within firms, cybersecurity ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jacob AC; De Wet, FebeDate:Apr 2022The aim of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) project was to create speech and text resources that would enable Human Language Technology (HLT) development for the 11 official languages of South Africa. The speech data ...Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, MH; Van Heerden, C; De Wet, Febe; Badenhorst, JDate:May 2014The NCHLT speech corpus contains wide-band speech from approximately 200 speakers per language, in each of the eleven of cial languages of South Africa. We describe the design and development processes that were undertaken in order to develop ...Read more
Author:Popoola, PAI; Pityana, Sisa L; Fedotova, T; Popoola, OMDate:Jun 2011As the reports in the literature regarding corrosion performance of Al/TiB2 MMC are rather contradictory, the optimization of laser surface alloying parameters for these composite coatings seems to be necessary. The characterization of the ...Read more
Author:Govender, G; Ivanchev, LHDate:Oct 2005The SSM forming technology has demonstrated that it will be a competitive process for the manufacture of high quality, high volume components for the automotive industry in particular. The new slurry approaches to SSM forming has made the ...Read more
Author:Mouton, F; Malan, MM; Kimppa, KK; Venter, HSDate:Nov 2015Social engineering is deeply entrenched in the fields of both computer science and social psychology. Knowledge is required in both these disciplines to perform social engineering based research. Several ethical concerns and requirements need ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, J; Jacob, M; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Sep 2015The South African engineering and manufacturing industries drive employment and growth in the economy, but face a large industrialisation and supplier development challenge in a globally competitive and knowledge intensive market. In order ...Read more
Author:Petrick, AJDate:1971This report discusses the importance of fuel research institute as an industrial research institution, and emphasis on how problems of direct interest to the industries served by the Institute fall directly to their responsibility to undertake ...Read more
Author:Manus, N; Manus, L; Wall, K; Otterman, ADate:Jul 2010The South African government has prioritised infrastructure asset management as a critical element in sustaining services to all. Responsibility for implementing water services lies principally with municipalities in their role as statutory ...Read more
Author:Duvenhage, F; Brent, AC; Stafford, William HLDate:Mar 2019The rapid global growth in the use of renewable energy to reduce GHG emissions and mitigate climate change, through the inclusion of large amounts of PV and wind in existing electricity grids, has highlighted certain challenges. Most critically, ...Read more
Author:Duvenhage, F; Brent, AC; Stafford, William HLDate:Mar 2019The rapid global growth in the use of renewable energy to reduce GHG emissions and mitigate climate change, through the inclusion of large amounts of PV and wind in existing electricity grids, has highlighted certain challenges. Most critically, ...Read more
Author:Celliers, Louis; Scott, D; Taljaard, Susan; Ngcoya, M; Audouin, Michelle ADate:Sep 2012In May 2011, the CSIR (Natural Resources and the Environment), in partnership with University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) School of Development Studies (SDS, now School of Built Environment and Development Studies – SBEDS) submitted a proposal ...Read more
Author:Celliers, Louis; Scott, D; Ngcoya, M; Taljaard, SusanDate:Sep 2021Hybrid science-society approaches for knowledge production are often framed by a transdisciplinary approach. Most forms of “linear” progression of science informing policy or the “production” of knowledge as a one-way process are increasingly ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Sebake, NDate:Oct 2018South Africa's commitment to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, requires the country to have an understanding of the range of possible, likely and ...Read more
Author:Lloyd, CD; Bhatti, S; McLennan, D; Noble, M; Mans, Gerbrand GDate:Jun 2021Capturing the dynamics of population change in urban areas necessitates access to geographically fine-grained and temporally consistent data for several time points. Such data are generally not available and they must be created using standard ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:2013It is increasingly acknowledged that current plans to implement sustainability are not achieving the scale and speed of change required. National built environment strategies to address sustainability tend to focus on large-scale programmes ...Read more