Author:Mfupe, Luzango P; Mekuria, Fisseha; Mzyece, MjumoDate:Mar 2017National regulatory authorities (NRAs) in developing countries need an accelerated means to formulate technical regulations for the telecommunications sector. This will enable countries to gain maximum benefits from the rapid advances in ...Read more
Author:Landman, WA; Beraki, Asmerom FDate:Feb 2012Southern African December-January-February (DJF) probabilistic rainfall forecast skill is assessed over a 22-year retroactive test period (1980/1981 to 2001/2002) by considering multi-model ensembles consisting of downscaled forecasts from ...Read more
Author:Ludick, Chantel J; Van Heerden, QuintinDate:Jul 2022In many countries, including South Africa, data on employment is rarely available on a downscaled level, such as building level, and is only available on less detailed levels, such as municipal level. The aim of this research was to develop ...Read more
Author:Tugizimana, F; Steenkamp, PA; Piater, LA; Dubery, IADate:Jan 2014Metabolomics is providing new dimensions into understanding the intracellular adaptive responses in plants to external stimuli. In this study, a multi-technology-metabolomic approach was used to investigate the effect of the fungal sterol, ...Read more
Author:Fatoki, OS; Opeolu, BO; Genthe, Bettina; Olatunji, OSDate:Dec 2018A multi-residue method for the determination of the occurrence and prevalence levels of selected veterinary pharmaceutical residues in surface water was developed on a high performance liquid chromatography coupled to ultraviolet-visible ...Read more
Author:Kleebauer, M; Marz, Christopher A; Reudenbach, C; Braun, MDate:Dec 2023In the realm of solar photovoltaic system image segmentation, existing deep learning networks focus almost exclusively on single image sources both in terms of sensors used and image resolution. This often prevents the wide deployment of such ...Read more
Author:Botai, OJ; Sivakumar, V; Combrinck, CL; Rautenbach, CJDDate:2009In this study, data from the Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes (SHADOZ) are used to compute the spatially averaged water vapour (WVg) over low and mid-tropical Africa. Based on the SHADOZ stations, reanalysis data from the National ...Read more
Author:Musehane, Ndivhuwo M; Oxtoby, Oliver F; Reddy, BDDate:Nov 2018In this work, droplet–droplet interaction is modelled using a multi-scale approach which couples multiphase flow simulation using a volume of fluid method to a surface thin film model operating on the sub-grid scale. The volume of fluid model ...Read more
Author:Olakanmi, EO; Nyadongo, ST; Malikongwa, K; Lawal, SA; Botes, Annelize; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Jan 2019Inappropriate choice of processing and materials parameters when re-manufacturing industrial equipment, via laser cladding (LC) technique, has adverse implications for attaining durability of equipment in terms of functional performance, ...Read more
Author:Rousseau, AL; Matlaba, P; Parkinson, CJDate:Jun 2007The novel use of zinc chloride to catalyse the one-pot, three component synthesis of imidazo (1,2-a) pyridines for a range of substrates using either conventional heating or microwave radiation is described. This methodology afforded a number ...Read more
Author:Ryan-Keogh, Thomas J; Thomalla, Sandy J; Scheel Monteiro, Pedro M; Tagliabue, ADate:Feb 2023Southern Ocean primary productivity is principally controlled by adjustments in light and iron limitation, but the spatial and temporal determinants of iron availability, accessibility, and demand are poorly constrained, which hinders accurate ...Read more
Author:Lunga, D; Ersoy, ODate:Jun 2013Multidimensional embedding is a technique useful for characterizing spectral signature relations in hyperspectral images. However, such images consist of disjoint similar spectral classes that are spatially sensitive, thus presenting challenges ...Read more
Author:Al-Thabaiti, SA; Ray, SS; Basahel, SN; Mokhtar, MDate:Mar 2015The processing and characterization of multifunctional nanobiocomposite of biodegradable poly[(butylene succinate)-co-adipate] (PBSA) and organically modified synthetic fluorine mica (OSFM) are reported. The nanobiocomposite of PBSA with OSFM ...Read more
Author:Mkwizu, TS; Mathe, Mahlanyane K; Cukrowskia, IDate:Jun 2013Electrochemical, surface and bulk compositional properties of multilayered nanoclusters of Pt and Au, electrochemically deposited on glassy carbon under conditions involving sequential surface–limited redox–replacement reactions (performed ...Read more
Author:Feld, M; Barnard, E; Van Heerden, C; Muller, CDate:Dec 2009Multilinguality represents an area of significant opportunities for automatic speech-processing systems: whereas multilingual societies are commonplace, the majority of speechprocessing systems are developed with a single language in mind. ...Read more
Author:Tönsing, KM; Van Niekerk, K; Schlunz, Georg I; Wilken, IlanaDate:Apr 2019Background: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can assist persons with complex communication needs to communicate competently with a variety of communication partners in a variety of contexts. However, AAC systems and intervention ...Read more