Author:Dube, A; Semete-Makokotlela, Boitumelo; Ramalapa, Bathabile E; Reynolds, J; Boury, FDate:Mar 2021The increasing prevalence of drug resistant pathogenic strains, including multi drug resistant TB along with the growing HIV and malaria resistance demand new routes of innovation for pharmaceutical drug discovery. Nanomedicine provides the ...Read more
Author:Wen, L; Luo, Honqze; Liu, G-Y; Zheng, HaitaoDate:Jul 2016Nanostructured lithium titanates (Li(sub4)Ti(sub5)O(sub12)) have been intensively investigated as anode materials of Li-ion batteries due to their many advantages, such as excellent performance, outstanding safety, and excellent cycle life. ...Read more
Author:Makgopa, K; Ejikeme, PM; Ozoemena, KIDate:Jul 2016The development of energy storage systems (ESSs) comes as a crucial factor when it comes to addressing the problem of energy in the world due to the rapid development of the global economy, the depletion of fossil fuels and the increase of ...Read more
Author:Hillie, T; Hlophe, MDate:Aug 2012This chapter discusses water and its sources; the main focus is put on surface water and ground water. Factors such as water pollution and sewage are also discussed in areas of mining and agriculture. Furthermore the global water challenges ...Read more
Author:Walters, Chavon R; Pool, E; Somerset, VDate:Oct 2016Nanotoxicology represents a new and growing research area in toxicology. It deals with the assessment of the toxicological properties of nanoparticles (NPs) with the intention of determining whether (and to what extent) they pose an environmental ...Read more
Author:Balakrishnan, P; John, Maya J; Pothen, L; Sreekala, MS; Thomas, SDate:2016Fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials are fast gaining ground as preferred materials for construction of aircrafts and space crafts. In particular, their use as primary structural materials in recent years in several technology- ...Read more
Author:John, Maya J; Thomas, SDate:Aug 2012The scarcity of natural polymers during the world war years led to the development of synthetic polymers like nylon, acrylic, neoprene, styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and polyethylene. The increasing popularity of synthetic polymers is partly ...Read more
Author:Lindeque, MDate:Jan 2013Is it possible to develop a building that uses a net zero amount of water? In recent years it has become evident that it is possible to have buildings that use a net zero amount of electricity. This is possible when the building is taken off ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jan 2013In its experimental work on research and development of innovative technologies for low income housing on the Innovation Site on the CSIR campus in Pretoria, the Building Science and Technology (BST) competence area identified a number of ...Read more
Author:Ozoemena, K; Kebede, Mesfin ADate:Jul 2016Every market analysis predicts that lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) will dominate energy storage technologies for now and the foreseeable future. LIBs will drive many applications ranging from portable electronics to electric vehicles and smart ...Read more
Author:Khutlang, Rethabile; Machaka, Pheeha; Singh, Ann; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo VDate:Aug 2017Biometric fingerprint scanners scan the external skin's features onto a 2-D image. The performance of the automatic fingerprint identification system suffers first and foremost if the finger skin is wet, worn out or a fake fingerprint is used. ...Read more
Author:Davis-Reddy, Claire LDate:Oct 2017The body of work on historical climate trends has been steadily increasing during the last decade. Global mean annual temperatures have increased by 0.85°C since 1880 and are projected to increase by 0.3 to 2.5 °C by 2050, relative to the ...Read more
Author:Krug, Marjolaine J; Cipollini, P; Dufois, FDate:Jun 2014The Agulhas Current is a challenging region for satellite remote sensing observations. Strong evaporation rates above the current core and the Retroflection reduce the number of cloud-free observations from Infra-Red sensors, while microwave ...Read more
Author:Bernard, Stewart; Pitcher, G; Evers-King, H; Robertson, L; Matthews, M; Rabagliati, A; Balt, CDate:2014The Benguela, as a highly productive upwelling system, suffers from the occurrence of a variety of harmful algal blooms, most of which are associated with elevated biomass; a feature common to the shelf environment of upwelling systems. Most ...Read more
Author:Msiza, IS; Mistry, J; Leke-Betechuoh, B; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Marwala, TDate:Jul 2011The concept of fingerprint classification is an important one because of the need to, before executing a database search procedure, virtually break the fingerprint template database into smaller, manageable partitions. This is done in order ...Read more
Author:Ndwe, J; Barnard, E; Dlodlo, M; Mashao, D; Kuun, C; Sharma, ADate:Sep 2008The OpenPhone project aims to design an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) health information system that enables people who are caregivers for HIV/AIDS infected children to access relevant information by using a telephone in their native ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HW; Sarma Yadavalli, VSDate:Jun 2010The history and current activities of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) is presented in this chapterRead more
Author:Mgaga, Sboniso S; Tapamo, JRDate:Dec 2020Latent fingerprints are fingerprint impressions left on the surfaces a finger comes into contact with. They are found in almost every crime scene. Conventionally, latent fingerprints have been obtained using chemicals or physical methods, ...Read more
Author:Olwal, TO; Djouani, K; Van Wyk, BJ; Hamam, Y; Siarry, PDate:Jan 2011This chapter proposes a scalable singularly perturbed weakly-coupled TPM which is supported at the LL of the network protocol stack. Firstly, the WMN is divided into sets of unified channel graphs (UCGs). A UCG consists of multiple radios, ...Read more