Author:Duncker, Louiza C; Wilkinson, MDate:Jan 2012Enshrined in the South African Constitution is the right of all South Africans to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being and to have access to sufficient food and water. In fulfilling its role as regulator, in 2006 ...Read more
Author:Hwabamungu, B; Williams, QDate:Oct 2010The penetration of mobile phones and mobile technologies in developing countries has led to innovative developments of various m-Health applications. These applications have proven the potential of mobile technologies for improving the quality ...Read more
Author:Buitendag, A; Roux, L; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha E; Van der Walt, JDate:May 2012Within Southern Africa the establishment of Living Labs for community development is steadily gaining momentum. The majority of the established living labs aim to improve and address various aspects and issues encountered in rural environments. ...Read more
Author:Mboweni, IV; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Ramotsoela, DTDate:Oct 2021The confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical infrastructure is crucial for any economy to operate efficiently. Water distribution critical infrastructure is a target of many attackers who aim to penetrate the system for malicious ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Laven; Main, Russell S; Cho, Moses A; Madonsela, Sabelo; Majozi, Nobuhle, PDate:Jan 2022Maize has been identified as a strategic commodity for the reduction of poverty and enhancement of food security in the African continent. Climate variability and difficult economic conditions are pressuring farmers to produce higher (maize) ...Read more
Author:Hanslo, Ridewaan; Tanner, MDate:Sep 2020Agile software development methodologies are used in many industries of the global economy. The Scrum framework is the predominant Agile methodology used to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software products. While the success of software ...Read more
Author:Van Zyl, TDate:Feb 2014When trying to understand the difference between machine learning and statistics, it is important to note that it is not so much the set of techniques and theory that are used but more importantly the intended use of the results. In fact, ...Read more
Author:Thupae, R; Isong, B; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2018Software defined network (SDN) is a paradigm developed achieve great flexibility and cope with the limitations of traditional networks architecture such as the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Introducing SDN in WSN leads to SDWSN. However, ...Read more
Author:Adams, A; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Nov 2023Transport systems are fundamental to supporting economic growth, and the need for smarter, safer, more efficient and climate neutral transport systems continues to grow. Maintenance and operation of transport infrastructure is expensive and ...Read more
Author:Machaka, RonaldDate:Feb 2021“The answer to the question “why HEAs exhibit such exceptional properties” lies in their phases” [1]. The implementation of machine learning (ML) approaches for the classification of solid solution high-entropy alloy (HEA) phases is, therefore, ...Read more
Author:Edwards, AL; Franz, RMDate:Mar 2009Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) can be prevented, but only by incorporating more proactive and innovative measures into our NIHL-prevention programmes. At present, direct and indirect costs to the mining industry resulting from occupational ...Read more
Author:Napier, MarkDate:Dec 2005The economic, social and spatial impacts of the national state housing programme in South Africa over the last ten years have been significant. And yet the ability of the programme to produce settlements which can be described as 'sustainable' ...Read more
Author:Richter, PW; Thomas, ME; Van Deventer, TDate:Aug 1999Solid freeform fabrication is a recent technology by which prototype devices can be manufactured layer by layer under computer control. This allows the production not only of individual devices of complex shape, but also objects with an ...Read more
Author:Thomas, ME; Richter, PW; Van Deventer, T; Crooks, J; Ripamonti, UDate:Aug 1999An improved strategy is described for the manufacture of macroporous hydroxyapatite bioceramics for bone substitute applications. This is based on a modified fugitive phase technique, which allows production of relatively open, high-strength ...Read more
Author:Pistorius, PC; Presoly, P; Tshilombo, GDate:Aug 2009Steel was sampled after calcium treatment at an industrial steel plant, and the inclusions identified by energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX) on polished sections of the samples analysing the samples in a scanning electron microscope. ...Read more
Author:Pistorius, CP; Presoly, P; Tshilombo, KGDate:Aug 2006Calcium treatment of alumina inclusions, to convert the alumina to molten or partially molten calcium aluminates, is a well-established treatment for steel, to improve the castability of aluminium-killed steel. However, the role of magnesium ...Read more
Author:Chigondo, M; Paumo, HK; Bhaumik, M; Pillay, K; Maity, ArjunDate:Feb 2019Magnetic arginine-functionalized polypyrrole (Fe3O4@Arg-PPy) nanocomposite was fabricated by in-situ polymerisation of pyrrole (Py) monomer in the presence of arginine and Fe3O4 nanoparticles for toxic chromium(VI) ions removal from simulated ...Read more
Author:Hato, MJ; Choi, HJ; Sim, HH; Park, BO; Ray, SSDate:Feb 2011Soft magnetic carbonyl iron (CI) based magnetorheological (MR) fluids containing three different loadings of submicron-sized organoclay were prepared. The MR characteristics were measured via rotational and oscillatory tests, in which the ...Read more
Author:Roul, BK; Mishra, DK; Ray, M; Sahu, DR; Mishra, PK; Srinivasu, VV; Pradhan, AKDate:May 2009Micron size Fe3O4 powders were chemically prepared and processed by radio frequency (13.56 MHz) oxygen plasma irradiation technique at different elevated temperatures using low radio frequency (RF) power level. Low magnetic field RF superconducting ...Read more