Author:Thwala, Melusi; Radebe, N; Tancu, Y; Musee, NDate:Sep 2014Transformation and bioavailability information of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in environmental systems impedes assessment of their potential risks to aquatic environments. In aqueous environments ENPs undergo numerous transformation ...Read more
Author:Mawela, K; Lezar, S; Chakauya, E; Eloff, JN; Chikwamba, Rachel KDate:01 Sep 2010HIV prevalence is over 33 million worldwide with 68% of AIDS sufferers residing in sub-Saharan Africa (1). Currently the available HIV prevention tools are feasible but women cannot insist on these preventive measures due to social, cultural ...Read more
Author:Zungu, N; Lotter, T; Dube, N; Chakauya, E; Lezar, S; Chikwamba, Rachel KDate:Jan 2008Rabies, an important disease in Asia and Africa, is an acute viral disease of the central nervous system that affects humans and other mammals. Upon bites or contact with rabid animals patients are immediately immunized with antibodies followed ...Read more
Author:Brown, Dane; Bradshaw, KDate:Sep 2016The feature-level, unlike the match score-level, lacks multi-modal fusion guidelines. This work demonstrates a practical approach for improved image-based biometric feature-fusion. The approach extracts and combines the face, fingerprint and ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, L; Van den Bergh, FDate:Nov 2012Despite the fact that image texture features extracted from high-resolution remotely sensed images over urban areas have demonstrated their ability to distinguish different classes, they are still far from being ideal. Multiresolution grayscale ...Read more
Author:Ortlepp, WD; Swart, AHDate:Nov 2002The submitted proposal for the GAP 818 project was formally approved during the first week of May 2001. The objectives of the proposed programme were, broadly, to examine possible ways of preventing the collapse of fractured rock from the ...Read more
Author:Loots, L; De Wet, Febe; Niesler, TDate:Nov 2010In this study we explore the extension of a small Afrikaans pronunciation dictionary by applying phoneme-tophoneme (P2P) and grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P)
conversion to an existing and more extensive Dutch pronunciation dictionary. ...Read more
Author:Rens, G; Ferrein, A; van der Poel, EDate:Nov 2008For sophisticated robots, it may be best to accept and reason with noisy sensor data, instead of assuming complete observation and then dealing with the effects of making the assumption. We shall model uncertainties with a formalism called ...Read more
Author:Muwonge, BK; Chan, HADate:Apr 2008This paper highlights issues relating to signalling of IMS traffic, and how a truly seamless converged network may be achieved using cognitive radio technology. In this paper we propose implementation of the Resource Admission Control Subsystem ...Read more
Author:Marais, Laurette; Pretorius, LDate:Jan 2023The African languages Wordnet (AfWN) for Zulu (ZWN) was built using the expand approach, which relies on the translation of concepts in the Princeton WordNet (PWN), while retaining their PWN lexical categories. In this paper the focus is on ...Read more
Author:De Lange, Willem J; Nahman, Anton; Theron, ADate:May 2009The valuation of estuarine goods and services serves to highlight the degree to which estuaries contribute to human well-being and to show that the social cost of activities which contribute to estuary degradation could be greater than the ...Read more
Author:Bell, Teboho; King, Gary; Litvin, IDate:Feb 2020This work proposes a method that can be used to control the transverse profile of the optical intensity distribution of a diode-end-pumped solid-state laser operating with a Gaussian seed beam. The transverse gain profie in an external amplifier ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Apr 2006Various automated techniques can be used to generalise from phonemic lexicons through the extraction of grapheme-to-phoneme rule sets. These techniques are particularly useful when developing pronunciation models for previously unmodelled ...Read more
Author:Marivate, Vukosi NDate:Nov 2015The use of social media data to gain insights into public phenomena is a potentially powerful tool. We present the use of social media data analysis, connected with crime and public safety incidents, to better understand reoccurring topics ...Read more
Author:Akhoury, SS; Darlow, LNDate:Feb 2015Physiologists have found that fingerprint patterns exist in the inner layers (viz. papillary junction) of the skin
of the fingertip. However, conventional acquisition systems do not have capabilities to extract fingerprints at subsurface ...Read more
Author:Johnson, M; Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:May 2017The coastal zone occurs at the interface of three major natural systems. These systems include the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface. Ocean waves are among the most important forces shaping the world¿s coastlines. They drive environmental ...Read more
Author:Johakimu, Jonas K; Sithole, Bishop BDate:Sep 2017This work summarises the findings of our research on the activation of woodchips using weak white liquor as an alternative mill self-generated alkaline solvent. The ultimate goal was to gain a better understanding on: the effectiveness of the ...Read more
Author:Du Preez, WB; Richter, PW; Hope, D; Kotze, CPDate:Jul 2006Eyeborn is an innovative hydroxyapatite orbital implant used to replace the eyeball of a patient who has lost an eye. A prosthetic eye cap is fitted in front of the Eyeborn implant, restoring the patient’s appearance and improving his quality ...Read more