Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Oct 2015As noted in the 2nd UN World Water Report, “key challenges of contemporary water management can only be understood within the very broad context of the world’s socio-economic systems (UNESCO 2006:3). The report notes that changing demographics ...Read more
Author:Jimenez, B; Austin, A; Cloete, E; Phasha, CDate:2006This paper presents the microbial risks associated with the reuse of Ecosan sludge in agriculture. Sludge from KwaZulu Natal Province in South Africa with a helminth ova content of 30 HO/g TS, faecal coliforms of 10(6) CFU/g TS, faecal ...Read more
Author:Maritz, Johan; Kok, PDate:Aug 2013Migration is an issue that remains critical for policy agendas and government planning. Over time migration, in addition to population growth or decline, changes the demographic composition of towns, cities and regions which in turn requires ...Read more
Author:Maritz, Johan; Kok, PDate:May 2014Migration is critical for policy agendas and government planning as it changes the demographic composition of towns, cities and regions – this requires adjustments to service and infrastructure provision. To develop suitable policy responses, ...Read more
Author:Machaka, P; Bagula, A; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo VDate:Nov 2016This paper seeks to investigate the performance of the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) for mining big data and detection of DDoS attacks in Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. The paper will investigate the tradeoff between ...Read more
Author:Gerber, MC; Gerber, AJ; Van der Merwe, AJDate:Nov 2011The purpose of accounting is to gather financial data of a business or entity,to interpret this data and to report the results in financial statements to the different users thereof. The interpretation off financial data is regulated by ...Read more
Author:Steenkamp, Anton J; Steenkamp, Andries LDate:Jul 2022The paved road network is a critical asset to any economy. South Africa has a paved road network that has an estimated value above R2 trillion. This asset is however under threat as there was a backlog in maintenance of more than R416.6 billion ...Read more
Author:Sahraeian, R; Van Compernolle, D; De Wet, FebeDate:Nov 2015Recently, multilingual deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully used to improve under-resourced speech recognizers. Common approaches use either a merged universal phoneme set based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or a ...Read more
Author:Spocter, MDate:2011The Small Towns Development Initiative is a collaboration between South Africa’s Department of Cooperative Governance and the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut and is supported by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit’s (GIZ) Strengthening ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Gonçalves, DDate:Jul 2019This paper builds on a previous paper on determining a community’s vulnerability to coercion into wildlife crimes along South African game reserves with a focus on rhinoceros poaching. This paper looks at the profiling of coastal communities ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Cooper, Antony K; Byleveld, P; Rossmo, DKDate:Dec 2000A desktop geographical information system (GIS) was used to pin-map the 86 cases associated with the Wemmerpan serial killer, representing crimes committed between 17 September 1995 and 19 December 1997 in central, western and southern ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, PDate:Nov 2008Use of GIS as a forensic tool to determine linkages and movement of criminals before during and after commiting crimes. Using cellular data to determine acticvity space and possible routes used by criminalsRead more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Byleveld, P; Schmitz, PDate:Dec 2001Sometimes, when serial criminals are caught, they admit to their crimes and are willing to point out crime scenes to the police. The South African Police Service (SAPS) then sends independent police officers with the suspect to document those ...Read more
Author:Maritz, JohanDate:Sep 2008Rural accessibility continues to be a challenge in South Africa. This is due largely to past policies that forced residents to locate to homelands. Although political regimes have changed the effects of past policies remain. In order to better ...Read more
Author:Ndimba, R; Cloete, K; Mehlo, Luke; Kossmann, J; Mtshali, C; Pineda-Vargas, CDate:Aug 2017In the present study, possible differences in the mineral composition of transgenic versus non-transgenic sorghum grains were investigated using inductively coupled atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES); and, in-tissue elemental mapping by ...Read more
Author:Steyn, JM; Nel, Willem AJDate:Oct 2014Most research efforts in ISAR focus on techniques to form the image via autofocus or on classification (assuming that the ISAR imagery is already generated). An important step between image formation and classification is to determine which ...Read more
Author:Engelbrecht, L; Botha, M; Botha, ADate:Nov 2016During the Anglo-Boer War a community of women, children and some men were detained in the Mafeking concentration camp. A number of women described their war experiences some years after. The reliability of these testimonies have however been ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LDate:Oct 2008Rural Africa is in need of qualified teachers in mathematics and science for primary and secondary school. Classrooms in rural Africa are often benches under a tree. The teachers themselves often have limited education in mathematics and ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LDate:Oct 2008Rural Africa is in need of qualified teachers in mathematics and science for primary and secondary school. Classrooms in rural Africa are often benches under a tree. The teachers themselves often have limited education in mathematics and ...Read more
Author:Burns, James; Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:May 2017Coastal environments form where the land, sea and atmosphere meet and interact in unique and dynamic ways. A state of dynamic equilibrium is ideally maintained by the natural ocean processes of wind, waves and tides. Human interference, leading ...Read more