Author:Furnival-Adams, J; Olanga, EA; Napier, Mark; Garner, PDate:Jan 2021Despite being preventable, malaria remains an important public health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that overall progress in malaria control has plateaud for the first time since the turn of the century. Researchers and ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Muswema, Aubrey P; Ramukhwatho, Fhumulani RDate:May 2018Food waste is becoming an important issue in light of population growth and global food security concerns. However, data on food wastage are limited, especially for developing countries. Global estimates suggest that households in developed ...Read more
Author:Matamanda, AR; Chirisa, I; Rammile, S; Marais, Mario ADate:Mar 2022The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before. With reference to Zimbabwe, a developing country in Southern Africa, the essence of this book is to bring out housing as an ...Read more
Author:Marais, L; Hoekstra, J; Napier, Mark; Cloete, J; Lenka, MDate:Jan 2018Under apartheid, black African households could not own land or homes in most major urban centres in South Africa. This limited residential mobility and locked many households into state rental accommodation in townships. Homeownership for ...Read more
Author:Furnival-Adams, J; Olanga, EA; Napier, Mark; Garner, PDate:Aug 2019This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: Primary: To assess the effects of different structural house modifications on malaria disease burden. Secondary: To explore whether effects vary with level ...Read more
Author:Jiang, J; Lin, C; Han, G; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Shah, SBH; Martínez-García, MDate:Dec 2023The ongoing expansion of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is enabling the possibility of effective Industry 4.0, where massive sensing devices in heterogeneous environments are connected through dedicated communication protocols. This ...Read more
Author:Nortje, Karen; Funke, Nicola S; De Lange, Willem JDate:Jul 2014A completed study initiated, managed and funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and led by the CSIR is delving into the successes of land reform and water allocation reform in the Maruleng local municipal area.Read more
Author:Midgley, JJ; Scott, DF; Harris, CDate:Jul 2001Isotopes of water (D, O-18) in rain and streams were used to obtain an estimate of the amount of ground water in the south-western Cape Mountains. It was assumed that the groundwater reservoir is well-mixed and that the water isotope signals ...Read more
Author:Smith, Andrew C; Harrison, PA; Pérez Soba, M; Archaux, F; Blicharska, M; Egoh, Benis NDate:Aug 2017There is no unified evidence base to help decision-makers understand how the multiple components of natural capital interact to deliver ecosystem services. We systematically reviewed 780 papers, recording how natural capital attributes (29 ...Read more
Author:Cowling, R; Van Wilgen, BW; Kraaij, T; Britton, JDate:Sep 2009Successful land management depends in part on good planning. Planners often use brief descriptions of possible futures (termed scenarios) to help people to visualize the longer-term consequences of the actions they take (or fail to take) ...Read more
Author:Foteinis, SpyrosDate:May 2020Disposable paper cups comprise typical single-use plastic items, as they are lined internally with a thin plastic coating for waterproofing. They are consumed at a staggering rate worldwide, with the UK alone consuming around 7 million cups ...Read more
Author:Taljaard, Susan; Van Niekerk, LaraDate:Mar 2013Over the past six years international interest in multi-use marine spatial planning (MSP), as a practical process to launch integrated coastal management (ICM), exploded. This paper explores the extent to which existing national legal frameworks ...Read more
Author:Landman, WADate:Jun 2014The production of seasonal forecasts on a routine basis in South Africa started in the early 1990s. Most of the modelling then was based on linear statistical approaches. The subsequent evolution of the seasonal forecasting enterprise in South ...Read more
Author:Hietanen, O; Lefutso, D; Marais, Mario A; Munga, N; Taute, B; Nyewe, M; Semwayo, TDDate:Apr 2011In this work we look at the collaboration projects between COFISA Y SAFIPA, which were set up by the department of external affairs in Finland between 2006 and 2010 in cooperation with South Africa. COFISCA’s objective was to help increase ...Read more
Author:Roux, FSDate:Oct 2013Optical vortices are always created or annihilated as vortex dipoles — pairs with opposite topological charge. Here a quantity, consisting of the transverse first and second derivatives of the optical field, is derived with which one can ...Read more
Author:Walwyn, DR; Taylor, D; Brickhill, GDate:Sep 2002Risk management practices in the R&D departments of many chemical and pharmaceutical companies lack much of the rigor and sophistication of the equivalent corporation in the financial sector. For instance investment decisions on research ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Meyer, TDate:Feb 2011Most approaches to iterated belief revision are accompanied by some motivation for the use of the proposed revision operator (or family of operators), and typically encode enough information in the epistemic state of an agent for uniquely ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, E; Van Wilgen, BW; Roux, DJDate:Sep 2001Since the era of great water engineering works in South Africa, there has been a major shift in the thinking and approach to water resources management. Previous focus on water supply has been replaced by demand management initiatives and the ...Read more