Author:Wall, K; Bhagwan, J; Ive, O; Kirwan, FDate:Sep 2012South African research finds that social franchising partnerships could address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising trains those on-site, and also provides backup off-site skills. ...Read more
Author:Govender, Avashna; De Wet, FebeDate:Dec 2016Building synthetic child voices is considered a difficult task due to the challenges associated with data collection. As a result, speaker adaptation in conjunction with Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based synthesis has become prevalent in this ...Read more
Author:Durrheim, RJ; Ogasawara, H; Nakatani, M; Yabe, Y; Milev, AM; Cichowicz, A; Kawakata, H; Moriya, HDate:Oct 2010Mining-induced earthquakes pose a risk to workers in deep South African mines, while natural earthquakes pose a risk to people living close to plate boundaries. The authors introduce a 5-year Japanese - South African collaborative project ...Read more
Author:Snedden, Glen C; Dunn, Dwain I; Von Backström, TW; Ingram, GDate:Jan 2010This study examines the results of a CFD and rotating experiment, comparing an annular and a generic end wall design for a model turbine rotor in a 1½ stage turbine at the CSIR, in an attempt to draw some conclusions regarding the proper ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2005In this paper the authors describe a new approach to rewrite rule extraction and analysis, using Minimal Representation Graphs. This approach provides a mechanism for obtaining the smallest possible rule set – within a context-dependent rewrite ...Read more
Author:Cook, APDate:Oct 1998The review output of the project comprised three main sections, literature, gas incidents and accidents, and technical interviews with mine personnel. Literature covered combustible gas emissions in mining operations in South Africa and ...Read more
Author:Swart, S; Monteiro, Pedro MS; Zietsman, H; Goslett, Daniel G; Coetzee, JDate:Oct 2015South Africa’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers over 1.5 million km2 and comprises the remote waters around the Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean. The benefits of an EEZ come with the responsibility of managing its resources, ...Read more
Author:Beraki, Asmerom F; DeWitt, D; Landman, WA; Olivier, CDate:Sep 2011This paper introduces the South African Weather Service's coupled ocean-atmosphere model. The paper also demonstrates the advances made in configuring an operational coupled ocean-atmosphere model in South Africa for seasonal forecast production. ...Read more
Author:Smith, Marie EDate:Nov 2022Relatively young industry with potential for growth. Together, the Aquaculture and Fisheries sector could contribute approximately R10-15 Billion to SA’s GDP.Read more
Author:Smith, Marie; Vhengani, LufunoDate:May 2023This presentation discusses the objectives that water quality becomes fit for all designated uses, including for recreational use, industrial use, aquaculture and the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.Read more
Author:Bateman, P; Tucker, KCDate:2006The community’s “strength in diversity” was evident throughout the discussion diversity in terms of the members, their perspectives, interests, activities, offerings and contributions. The dynamic list of questions is a reasonable reflection ...Read more
Author:Garland, Rebecca M; Naidoo, MDate:Jan 2014Improving ambient air quality has proven to be a difficult task in South Africa and internationally, particularly for secondary pollutants. In order to achieve the goal of full compliance, a variety of regulatory tools are necessary, as well ...Read more
Author:Lezar, S; Barros, EDate:Sep 2009Mycotoxins are fungal toxins which pose a continuous challenge to the safety and quality of food commodities in South Africa. These toxins can cause unthriftiness, loss of appetite, feed refusal, liver cirrhosis, vomiting, poor weight gain, ...Read more
Author:Theron, BertusDate:Jul 2012In many scientific research environments the popular belief seems to be that scientific research cannot be subject to so-called “quality” management, at least not down to the research operational level. Examples of popular arguments behind ...Read more
Author:Shatalov, MDate:Sep 2012The method of lines is a simple and reliable method of numerical analysis of parabolic and hyperbolic problems of mathematical physics. By means of this method mixed initial-boundary problems described by partial differential equations are ...Read more
Author:Shatalov, M; Fedotov, I; Joubert, SDate:May 2006It was shown in 1985 by Acad. V. Zhuravlev that the angular rate of a pure vibrating mode excited in a vibratory gyroscope with spherical symmetry is proportional to an inertial angular rate of the gyroscope. The effect is three dimensional ...Read more