Author:Dlamini, MNDate:Mar 2014Brick is one of the most used and versatile building materials in use today. Bricks can be defined as modular units connected by mortar in the formation of a building system or product. Commonly the word brick is used to refer to clay bricks, ...Read more
Author:Todorovic, M; Jovanovic, NebojsaDate:Apr 2020Weather represents day-to-day atmospheric condition (e.g. air temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours, cloud cover, wind direction and speed, etc.) over a short term at a given place and time. Climate is defined as the ...Read more
Author:Archer, Emma RMDate:2010Science on observed trends in climate and projected future climate change has evolved substantially in the last few years. Different sub-regions of South Africa have shown, and are likely to continue to show, distinct climate changes. Surface ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:Dec 2017Despite increasing awareness of climate change, there is little evidence of this being addressed in built environments in South Africa. Events such as flooding in Houston, USA, landslides in Free Town, Sierra Leone, and water shortages in La ...Read more
Author:Maluleka, SM; Ruxwana, Lennox NDate:Mar 2016The South African (SA) government adopted Open Source Software (OSS) with the aim to reduce ICT services cost, less dependencies on outsourced proprietary technology, skills and flexibility. However, the SA government was less successful in ...Read more
Author:Francis, J; Celliers, Louis; Rosendo, SDate:2015Most, if not all, of the recommendations contained in this State of the Coast Report, relies on two cross-cutting and fundamental qualities. Firstly, managers, decision- and policy-makers and the various end-users have access to the products ...Read more
Author:Walters, MicheleDate:Jun 2011A preserved plant specimen is a dried and mounted or pickled voucher that is the botanical world's equivalent to the zoologist's stuffed animals, skins or insect collections that are kept in natural history museums. Plant specimens are housed ...Read more
Author:Rösner, S; Giesselmann, UC; Meyer, J; Schwager, M; Wiegand, T; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Brandl, RDate:2010The spatial distribution of suitable nest sites is a limiting resource for many colonial breeding animals. Therefore, we investigated and mapped the spatial distribution of nests of Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) to evaluate whether the ...Read more
Author:Baumbach, JDate:Jul 2012Camouflage, the art of going (as long as possible) undetected by an observer, has changed over the last decade to become a discipline with a more scientific and analytical foundation. Design of a camouflage system needs to consider the ...Read more
Author:Weiss, M; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Jan 2019mHealth solutions, in resource constrained public healthcare settings, are often an extension of the reach of the government health system. As such, mHealth is subjected to demands resulting from not only restrictions due to constrained health ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, SashaDate:Oct 2017Forests in southern Africa are critically important for sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems but are vulnerable to changes in climate, most important being accumulated temperature and moisture deficit, as well as to other external stressors, ...Read more
Author:Grant, T; Burke, Ivan D; Van Heerden, Renier PDate:Oct 2015Based on the idea that offensive cyber operations should be studied and merge from the darkness in which they typically hide, Grant and his colleagues embarked on a research program to explore the potential answers to the question, " What ...Read more
Author:Haelterman, R; Bogaers, Alfred EJ; Degroote, JDate:Feb 2018In many cases, different physical systems interact, which translates to coupled mathematical models. We only focus on methods to solve (strongly) coupled problems with a partitioned approach, i.e. where each of the physical problems is solved ...Read more
Author:Ojijo, Vincent O; Kesavan Pillai, SreejaraniDate:2020Solid-state shear pulverization (SSSP) is a relatively new high-pressure and shear deformation technique, which relies on mechanochemical reactions between polymer chains in solid state. One of it applications is in the compatibilization of ...Read more
Author:Slinger, J; Taljaard, Susan; D'Hont, FDate:Feb 2020The transdisciplinary research synthesised in this book represents an endeavour by a group of coastal researchers and policy analysts to learn from a cross-comparison of seven international case studies on tidal inlet or estuary mouth management ...Read more
Author:Paul, V; John, Maya JDate:Apr 2018There is an increasing urgency worldwide to develop bio-based products that can ease the widespread dependence on fossil fuels. The use of natural fibers and natural bio-based resin systems for the production of biocomposites has been pursued ...Read more
Author:Fatoba, OS; Farotade, GA; Popoola, API; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Apr 2016Laser alloying is a material processing method which utilizes the high power density available from defocused laser beam to melt both metal coatings and a part of the underlying substrate. Since melting occur solitary at the surface, large ...Read more
Author:Patanaik, A; Anandjiwala, RDate:Jul 2011This chapter deals with the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling in reducing yarn hairiness during the ring spinning process and thereby “engineering” yarn with desired properties. Hairiness significantly affects the ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda KDate:Jun 2018This final chapter brings together the key messages that have emerged from the preceding chapters of the Africa Waste Management Outlook. These messages provide the basis for a set of recommendations on what needs to be done to address the ...Read more