Author:Sibolla, B; Vahed, Anwar; Engelbrecht, F; Naidoo, M; Mtsetfwa, M; Simonis, IDate:Oct 2012Climate change poses a major threat to environmental sustainability. In Africa, sectors which face projected vulnerability include, food security, public health and water resources. A general increase in extreme weather events is also predicted ...Read more
Author:Strik, H; Palumbo, L; De Wet, Febe; Cucchiarini, CDate:Sep 2015The European ‘Lifelong Learning Programme’ (LLP) project ‘Games Online for Basic Language learning’ (GOBL) aimed to provide youths and adults wishing to improve their basic language skills access to materials for the development of communicative ...Read more
Author:Adeyeye, M; Makitla, I; Fogwill, TDate:Aug 2013Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) introduces real-time multimedia communication as native capabilities of Web browsers. With the adoption of WebRTC the Web browsers will be able to use WebRTC to communicate with one another (peer-to-peer), ...Read more
Author:Pearson, D; Irwin, Barry VW; Herbert, ADate:Sep 2017Malicious entities are constantly trying their luck at exploiting known vulnerabilities in web services, in an attempt to gain access to resources unauthorized access to resources. For this reason security specialists deploy various network ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, WPDate:Sep 2011A version of the iterative Fourier technique (IFT) for the design of thinned antenna arrays with weighted elements is presented. The structure of the algorithm means that it is well suited to the design of weighted thinned arrays with low ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, HeidiDate:Aug 2022Purpose of our project: 1. Improve the mapping of the extent and types of wetlands of the Maputaland Coastal Plain: To verify the location and type of wetlands on the Maputaland Coastal Plain and to understand where wetlands are degraded and ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Oct 2014The potential impact of climate change and global warming is without doubt one of the most life-threatening challenges that face humanity. Central to this challenge is our dependence on fossil fuels as the primary source of energy- the major ...Read more
Author:Khuluse, S; Das, Sonali; Debba, Pravesh; Elphinstone, CDate:Apr 2009When events occur outside the range of acceptable fluctuations, they may result in either (a) the events being more favourable than usual, or (b) the events being less favourable than usual. The latter has serious implications if their ...Read more
Author:Haywood, Lorren K; De Lange, Willem J; Musvoto, Constansia D; De Wet, BenitaDate:Jan 2021As intermediaries between producers, manufacturers and consumers, retailers are uniquely positioned to influence production practices and consumption trends. Supermarket retailers are increasingly imposing responsibility on their suppliers ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Casini, G; Meyer, T; Varzinczak, IDate:Mar 2015We continue recent investigations into the problem of reasoning about typicality. We do so in the framework of Propositional Typicality Logic (PTL), which is obtained by enriching classical propositional logic with a typicality operator and ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jaco; Tshoane, Alfred; De Wet, FebeDate:Dec 2016This paper reports on an analysis of isiXhosa speech produced by adult language learners. The learners whose speech was recorded were all acquiring isiXhosa as an additional language and the majority of the students had beginner level oral ...Read more
Author:Funke, Nicola S; Meissner, Richard; Nienaber, S; Ntombela, CDate:Jan 2014It has been 16 years since the promulgation of the National Water Act, which has the decentralisation of water resource management as a core focus. What do we know of these water institutions that are supposed to govern our water resources, ...Read more
Author:Sampson, L; Rust, FC; Smit, Michelle ADate:Oct 2022It is estimated that 80% of the developing world’s poor live in rural areas. Low volume rural roads account for 80 to 90% of the road infrastructure in most developing countries and are critical to the access and mobility of rural communities. ...Read more
Author:Rosman, Benjamin S; Ramamoorthy, SDate:Nov 2012The computational complexity of learning in sequential decision problems grows exponentially with the number of actions available to the agent at each state. We present a method for accelerating this process by learning action priors that ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Nov 2007In this paper, the authors illustrate the need for standardized addresses in South Africa by describing scenarios where standardized addresses are required, or where standardized addresses would improve the current situation. They present the ...Read more
Author:Karsten, AEDate:Nov 2008For effective laser treatment it is very important to provide the correct dose at the required treatment depth. In South Africa we have a richness of ethnic groups contributing to a large variety in skin tones. Effective laser treatment of ...Read more
Author:Goldbach, ODate:01 Sep 2010Increased levels of seismicity are known to occur when water enters cracks in the Earth’s surface. This so-called “fluid-induced seismicity” is a phenomenon that has been observed in many non-mining settings (e.g. filling of dams and fluid ...Read more
Author:Archibald, SA; Roy, DP; Van Wilgen, BW; Scholes, RJDate:Mar 2009The factors controlling the extent of fire in Africa south of the equator were investigated using moderate resolution (500 m) satellite-derived burned area maps and spatial data on the environmental factors thought to affect burnt area. A ...Read more
Author:Goga, T; Harding, Kevin; Russo, Valentina; Von Blottnitz, HDate:Aug 2022Global production and consumption of plastics have increased significantly in recent years. The environmental impacts associated with this trend have received growing attention internationally with single-use plastic packaging responsible for ...Read more