Author:Mahlathi, Christopher D; Brink, IC; Wilms, JMDate:Mar 2024River water quality modelling relies on a good dataset for model input, calibration and validation to develop a reliable model. Determination of data requirements, and data sourcing towards this purpose in South Africa, are not elementary. ...Read more
Author:Meyer, HeloiseDate:Mar 2024ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot, has taken the world by storm since the technology¿s release to the public in November 2022. The first reactions were awe and amazement as ChatGPT presented the capability to instantly ...Read more
Author:Gertenbach, Wian P; Botha, Johannes G; Leenen, LDate:Mar 2024The characteristics of blockchain established a desirable platform for entities to innovate and operate in a secure, transparent, and decentralised manner. However, cybercriminals have increasingly found refuge in the decentralised environment ...Read more
Author:Snyman-van der Walt, LuanitaDate:Mar 2024Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is applied to inform decisions on sustainable development but may be limited in its mechanisms for unlocking the potential spatial information, and facilitating actual and effective collaborative ...Read more
Author:Steyn, Maronel; Nortje, K; Haywood, Lorren K; Mathye, Salamina MDate:Jun 2023Transboundary crises such as drought and SARS-CoV-2 highlighted the need to move research into practice. Collaborative effort is required by the various role players (e.g., industry, government civil society) to build a resilient system. Using ...Read more
Author:Nelufule, Nthatheni; Singano, Zothile T; Shadung, Lesiba D; Masemola, Kelebogile BDate:Jun 2023The Internet of Things has enabled unprecedented levels of devices connectivity and communication through data collection and sharing from multiple devices. These massive communications also introduced new challenges to digital forensics, ...Read more
Author:Edwards, Gareth R; Sefara, Tshephisho JDate:Apr 2024Text summarisation is becoming increasingly important for humans to more quickly understand and analyse documents with large amounts of text. In this paper, we review and discuss approaches and methods used in the development of text summarisation ...Read more
Author:Thomalla, Sandy J; Nicholson, Sarah-Anne; Ryan-Keogh, Thomas J; Smith, Marie EDate:Aug 2023Climate change is expected to elicit widespread alterations to nutrient and light supply, which interact to influence phytoplankton growth and their seasonal cycles. Using 25 years of satellite chlorophyll a data, we show that large regions ...Read more
Author:Chauke, Sipho H; Ombinda-Lemboumba, Saturnin; Dube, FS; Mthunzi-Kufa, PatienceDate:Jan 2024Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most important infectious diseases globally, killing approximately 1.5 million people annually. The burden of infection is disproportionately high in low-income and resource-limited settings. This disparity ...Read more
Author:Mak, Franco; Govender, Avashna; Badenhorst, JacoDate:Feb 2024The majority of South Africa’s eleven languages are low-resourced, posing a major challenge to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) development. Modern ASR systems require an extensive amount of data that is extremely difficult to find for ...Read more
Author:Machele, IL; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Kurien, AMDate:Mar 2024The deployment of isolated microgrids has witnessed exponential growth globally, especially in the light of prevailing challenges faced by many larger power grids. However, these isolated microgrids remain separate entities, thus limiting ...Read more
Author:Naicker, Denver; Moodley, MackaylanDate:Mar 2024Self-sovereign identity is an emerging blockchain technology field. Its use cases primarily surround identity and credential management and advocate the privacy of user details during the verification process. Our endeavor was to test and ...Read more