Author:Pretorius, CJ; Chesalokile, TDate:Mar 2013The ISO/IEC 17025 Standard was developed by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) to provide a mechanism to enable laboratories to manage the quality of their analytical results and to produce internationally comparable results. The ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NLDate:Jul 2009The green building movement aims to foster the environmental sustainability of construction products by maximising resource efficiency while minimising concomitant pollution throughout the building life cycle. However, green building principles ...Read more
Author:Annamalai, LeeandranDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses how SMART technology can influence the industry of the future. Topics touched on are software enabled machines able to respond relevantly to real world events, the industrial Internet of Things, and machines ...Read more
Author:Williams, BG; Gouws, E; Karim, SSADate:Jun 2000Demographic forecasting models of the South African population, incorporating geographical distribution and age prevalence data on HIV infection, have been used to predict future mortality due to AIDS. In year 2010, approximately 500 000 ...Read more
Author:Williams, BG; Gouws, E; Karim, SSADate:Jun 2000This article covers many aspects of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. They range from the development of vaccine to the behaviour of adolescents. But they also show that authors have failed so far to have a significant impact on the ...Read more
Author:Wall, K; Bhagwan, J; Ive, O; Kirwan, FDate:Jul 2013Partnerships, using the basic principles of social franchising, could address many challenges in the operation and/or maintenance of water services. Development of this concept in South Africa is moving from research into practice.Read more
Author:Funke, Nicola S; Rieu-Clarke, A; Steyn, Maronel; Gooch, G; Nortje, KarenDate:Jul 2011Place of worship for Tshiavha clan; forms part of larger network of pools, groves and waterfalls which must be protected according to Venda culture to ensure good annual rainfalls and fertile soils. Tshiavha people believe the lake is inhabited ...Read more
Author:Spangenberg, D-M; Dudley, Angela L; Neethling, PH; Rohwer, EG; Forbes, ADate:2014Spatial light modulators are ubiquitous tools for wavefront control and laser beam shaping but have traditionally been used with monochromatic sources due to the inherent wavelength dependence of the calibration process and subsequent phase ...Read more
Author:Masonta, Moshe T; Johnson, D; Mzyece, MDate:Nov 2011The global migration of television (TV) from analogue to digital broadcasting will result in more spectrum bands (known as TV white space), previously used in analogue broadcasting, becoming available and unoccupied. A question is on how much ...Read more
Author:Meissner, RichardDate:Jan 2014The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to analyse water politics and governance in order to highlight aspects that are lesser known within the South African water discourse and to introduce and further a critical understanding ...Read more
Author:Mapeto, T; Louw, J; Gush, Mark B; Pauw, JDate:Mar 2018In a water-scarce country such as South Africa, timber and fibre production often stands in conflict with catchment water yields. The optimal provision of both is sought. Forest hydrological experiments improve our understanding of the ...Read more
Author:Malinga, Andries L; Phahlamohlaka, JackieDate:Sep 2021All over the world, advances in technology have led to many nations into adopting the concept of a smart city in developing their environment. Fewer have considered the smart community notion, yet people all over the world form communities ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda K; Scott, DDate:Oct 2010One of the main reasons given for the current state of waste management in South Africa includes human resource capacity constraints, in particular the difficulty in recruiting suitably qualified or skilled people, and the high turnover of ...Read more
Author:Wesley-Smith, J; Walters, Chavon R; Pammenter, NW; Berjak, PDate:Oct 2015Background and Aims Conservation of the genetic diversity afforded by recalcitrant seeds is achieved by cryopreservation, in which excised embryonic axes (or, where possible, embryos) are treated and stored at temperatures lower than -180(sub0)C ...Read more
Author:Holtmann, BDate:Mar 2008A 2003 initiative to develop a crime prevention strategy for the Central Karoo District Municipality helped formulate the ‘life cycle’ that perpetuates crime and violence, which is discussed in this article. Children’s developmental needs are ...Read more
Author:Mongwe, PDate:Oct 2012This work presents the carbon cycle data collected during the austral winter of 2012 (9 July to 3 August) on the Good Hope
transect between Cape Town and Antarctica and
returning to Cape Town via Marion Island.Read more