Author:Pretorius, CJDate:Oct 2011In view of the international drive to eliminate silicosis, it is critical that reliable and consistent results are obtained from respirable dust sampling and analysis so that effective control measures can be implemented on mines. Two locally ...Read more
Author:Mokonyama, Mathetha TDate:Mar 2008In South Africa, airport and airline services epitomise what many would like to see in everyday public transport. The CSIR investigates what it will take to provide a commercial public transport service in South Africa which resembles commercial ...Read more
Author:Zvimba, JN; Siyakatshana, Njabulo; Mathye, MatlhodiDate:Dec 2015This study investigated passive neutralization of acid mine drainage using basic oxygen furnace slag as neutralization material over 90 days, with monitoring of parameters quality and assessment of their removal kinetics. The quality was ...Read more
Author:Kraaij, T; Cowling, RM; van Wilgen, BWDate:Sep 2011The recently established Garden Route National Park (GRNP) along the Cape south coast of South Africa occurs in a landscape where indigenous forests, fire-prone fynbos shrublands and fire-sensitive plantations of alien invasive trees are ...Read more
Author:Mapengo, CR; Ray, Suprakas S; Emmambux, MMDate:Mar 2019The effects of stearic acid addition followed by hydrothermal treatment on the functional properties of maize starch were studied. Addition of stearic acid followed by hydrothermal treatment resulted in non-gelling starch. Starch with stearic ...Read more
Author:Grobler, Lichelle R; Suleman, Essa; Thimiri Govindaraj, Deepak BDate:Feb 2021CRISPR technology has revolutionized biological research in the last decade and many academic institutions and companies have patented CRISPR systems and applications. Several patents have been filed for various applications of CRISPR in ...Read more
Author:Nxumalo, Precious Z; Takundwa, MM; Thimiri Govindaraj, Deepak BDate:Feb 2021In this review chapter, we provide full comprehensive analysis on the patent, ethics and biosafety regulation with respect to the application of CRISPR technology in mammalian systems. We focused on recent development in CRISPR technology and ...Read more
Author:Williams, BG; Gouws, E; Colvin, M; Sitas, F; Ramjee, G; Karim, SSADate:Jun 2000South Africa is experiencing an explosive epidemic of HIV/AIDS, with about one in four women attending ante-natal clinics nation-wide being HIV-positive. In order to understand the natural history of the epidemic, to design and target ...Read more
Author:Fuentes, L; Camargo, R; Martinez-Arguelles, G; Komba, Julius J; Naik, B; Walubita, LFDate:Sep 2019Quantification of the pavement serviceability is most often based on the international roughness index (IRI). However, in urban environments it can become challenging to drive at 80 km/h as vehicle operating speeds are much lower, among other ...Read more
Author:Xaba, Nqobile; Modibedi, Remegia M; Mathe, Mahlanyane K; Khotseng, LEDate:Feb 2019Pd, PdSn, PdBi and PdBiSn nanostructured thin films were prepared on Au substrate using the electrochemical atomic layer deposition technique. The activity of the nanostructured thin films towards the electro-oxidation of ethanol was tested ...Read more
Author:O'Kennedy, Maretha M; Burger, JT; Botha, FCDate:Apr 2004Fertile transgenic pearl millet plants expressing a phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) transgene under control of the maize ubiquitin constitutive promoter were obtained using the transformation system described here. Proliferating immature zygotic ...Read more
Author:Das, SonaliDate:Feb 2014In this paper we use a Bayesian approach to investigate the relationship between pedestrian fatality records from Tshwane and time of fatality. Time of fatality is used as a proxy to reflect the presence of effective lighting, not precluding ...Read more
Author:Campbell, C; MacPhail, CDate:Jul 2002Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy. Starting from the assumption that ...Read more
Author:Zhu, H; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2022This paper studies the real-time energy trading problem in a smart community consisting of a group of grid-connected prosumers with controllable loads, renewable generations and energy storage systems. We propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy ...Read morecbna
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Coetzee, S; Kourie, DGDate:2010The Internet has spawned the development of virtual communities or virtual social networks which generate and share information with one another, and with the public at large. Voluntereerd geographical information (VGI) refers to user-generated ...Read more
Author:Cebekhulu, Eric; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Isaac, Sherrin JDate:Feb 2022The use of machine learning (ML) algorithms for power demand and supply prediction is becoming increasingly popular in smart grid systems. Due to the fact that there exist many simple ML algorithms/models in the literature, the question arises ...Read more
Author:Ledwaba, Lehlogonolo PI; Hancke, GP; Venter, HS; Isaac, Sherrin JDate:Jan 2018In past years, cryptography has been considered a difficult task to achieve on sensor nodes for the Internet of Energy (IoE) owing to the resource-constrained nature of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontroller units (MCUs). Previous attempts at ...Read more
Author:Ndlovu, IM; Everson, RC; Chiuta, S; Neomagus, HWJP; Langmi, Henrietta W; Ren, JianweiDate:Dec 2017An experimental evaluation of a microchannel reactor was completed to assess the reactor performance for the catalytic decomposition of vaporised formic acid (FA) for H2 production. Initially, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), elemental mapping ...Read more