Author:Landman, WA; Engelbrecht, F; Landman, SDate:Oct 2010In order to produce a weather forecast, the initial state of the atmosphere needs to be entered into the forecast model taking into account factors such as temperature, wind and moisture. However, the scale of some atmospheric motions is far ...Read more
Author:Manus, N; Wall, K; Moodley, KDate:Aug 2008This paper describes the steady progress that the South African department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has been making with formulating a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. A "scan" of the state ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, LDate:31 Aug 2010Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) is faced with the challenge of creating sustainable and innovative success stories which speak to the creation of an inclusive digital society. Initial attempts at ICT4D had ...Read more
Author:Mwapwele, S; Marais, Mario A; Dlamini, Sifiso B; Van Biljon, JDate:Nov 2019South African teachers are under pressure due to rising expectations of their content knowledge and digital skills without guaranteed infrastructural or institutional support in using ICTs. The purpose of this study is to find out to what ...Read more
Author:Ford, M; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2014ICT for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) is a large-scale pilot that is testing the use of tablets in 26 deep rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The aim is to develop a replicable framework that will enable ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Dec 2015Over a period of three years, 255 teachers at 26 schools in Cofimvaba, which lies in the very rural Nciba district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, have been using mobile tablets in their classrooms to support teaching and learning. ...Read more
Author:Fourie, ChristoDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the focus areas of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), and what the IDC has achieved in terms of technology development and commercialization, especially in Biotechnology. It also focuses on future ...Read more
Author:Matshekga, LDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the IDC’s role in stimulating and supporting infrastructure innovation: Past, Present & Future. The presentation focuses on the overview of IDC, IDC sectorial focus areas, industrial infrastructure: strategy, ...Read more
Author:Faleschini, T; Fouché, Gerda; Harding, N; Myer, M; Dewar, JDate:01 Sep 2010Plants constitute the basic food chain and provide the most valuable source of natural nutrients; in addition, constituents of medicinal importance are also present in plants. For drug discovery and other purposes, we must characterise the ...Read more
Author:Hamilton-Atwell, A; Du Toit, A; Kirstein, L; Louw, M; Mtombeni, L; Moses, RDate:Oct 1997Despite all the attempts made to create a safe work environment for employees working in coals mines during the past nine years an average of 25 miners died every year, and 229 were injured. In 45% of the deaths and in 24% of the reported ...Read more
Author:Moganedi, Mapoung S; Pottas, DDate:Aug 2020Statista suggests that there would be 368.2 million wearables shipped globally in 2020 with a projection of 500 million by 2024. These predictions are becoming a reality considering the fast growing of Intent of Things (IoT) do-main. These ...Read more
Author:Kijko, A; Lasocki, S; Retief, SJPDate:1999A technique to interpret a cluster of seismic events in terms of causative structures is described. The process consists of moving the located hypocenters of events within their confidence ellipsoids until a simplified pattern of the seismic ...Read more
Author:Ottermann, RWDate:Dec 2000The occurrence and cause of overwind and underwind events in underground mining were investigated in conjunction with devices, which are at present being applied to prevent and control such incidents. Proposals for in-shaft systems to protect ...Read more
Author:Johnson, RA; Hagan, TO; Squelch, AP; Jaku, EDate:Mar 2000Assessments of accident records indicate the need for improved understanding and
competence among underground production and service personnel with regard to
strata control, and the associated risks, in gold and platinum mines. The ...Read more
Author:Phillips, HRDate:Jan 1999This report describes outcome of a literature review of the extensive research conducted worldwide into the phenomenon of frictional ignition, a review of whether machines currently used in South Africa comply with known principles for reducing ...Read more
Author:Hernandez-Leal, P; Taylor, ME; Rosman, Benjamin S; Sucar, LE; Munoz de Cote, EDate:Feb 2016In many situations, agents are required to use a set of strategies (behaviors) and switch among them during the course of an interaction. This work focuses on the problem of recognizing the strategy used by an agent within a small number of ...Read more
Author:Archibald, S; Roy, DPDate:Jul 2009An algorithm for identifying individual fires from the Modis burned area data product is introduced for southern Africa. This algorithm gives the date of burning, size of fire, and location of the centroid for all fires identified over 8 years ...Read more
Author:Nel, JL; Driver, A; Strydom, W; Maherry, A; Petersen, C; Hill, Liesl; Roux, DJDate:Oct 2012This presentation highlights the use of systematic conservation planning to identify priority areas for managing the health of freshwater ecosystems and their associated biodiversity and ecosystem services.Read more