Author:King, J; Pienaar, HarrisonDate:Sep 2011Water resources provide important benefits to humankind in the form of commodities such as water and food and by enhancing lives in many other ways. In South Africa, a water-scarce country, we recognise that water resources are under stress ...Read more
Author:Engelbrecht, L; Botha, M; Botha, ADate:Nov 2016During the Anglo-Boer War a community of women, children and some men were detained in the Mafeking concentration camp. A number of women described their war experiences some years after. The reliability of these testimonies have however been ...Read more
Author:Pierce, Warrick T; Ferreira, Bianca ADate:Apr 2022Summary of 2021 statistics: Coal still dominates and provides about 80% of electricity generated, record high diesel usage, and renewables (excluding hydro) accounted for 6.7%.Read more
Author:Makgatho, M; Marivate, V; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Wagner, VDate:Feb 2022How can we transfer semantic information between two low-resourced African languages? With one language having more resources than the other? The problem is that African languages still lag in the advances of Natural Language Processing ...Read more
Author:Zlobinsky, N; Johnson, D; Mishra, AK; Lysko, Albert ADate:Dec 2021Channel Assignment (CA) in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) has not been well studied in scenarios where the network uses Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). This work aims to fill some of this gap. We compare metaheuristic algorithms for optimising ...Read more
Author:Jele, TB; Lekha, Prabashni; Sithole, Bishop BDate:Nov 2021The pursuit for sustainability in the papermaking industry calls for the elimination or reduction of synthetic additives and the exploration of renewable and biodegradable alternatives. Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), due to their inherent ...Read more
Author:Klein, Peter; Potgieter, M; Ferreira, Bianca ADate:Aug 2021Dynamic thermo-fluid models of fire-tube steam boilers can be used to optimise the design and operation of equipment, resulting in possible energy and emissions savings. This work presents the development of a dynamic boiler model of a 4-pass ...Read more
Author:Sebogodi, Keolebogile R; Johakimu, Jonas K; Sithole, Bishop BDate:Feb 2021Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the repercussions that result from earth-moving activities around the sulfide-bearing mineral hosts. The detrimental effects associated with this AMD are driven by its characteristics, which include low pH ...Read more
Author:Skosana, V; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2021Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) hold the key to unlocking the next generation of video surveillance applications. They operate under energy-constrained environments but Compressive Sensing (CS) is a tool that can help overcome these ...Read more
Author:Steenkamp, Anton J; Kienhofer, F; De Saxe, CCDate:Sep 2021Previous research investigating the dynamic road wear produced by heavy vehicles has not included the effect of road crossfall. This study shows that road crossfall, even at values as low as 1%, has a significant effect on the predicted dynamic ...Read more
Author:Pierce, W; Ferreira, Bianca ADate:Apr 2022This presentation presents a summary of statistics of utility-scale power generation in South Africa in 2021.Read more
Author:Ferreira, Bianca A; Pierce, Warrick TDate:Apr 2022This presentation discusses the statistics derived from utility-scale power generation in
South Africa in 2021.Read more
Author:Bello-Salau, H; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Adebiyi, RF; Adedokun, EA; Hancke, GpDate:Jun 2021Recently, machine learning (ML) classifiers are being widely deployed in many intelligent transportation systems towards improving the safety and comfort of passengers as well as to ease and enhance road navigation. However, the comparative ...Read more
Author:Molose, RSS; Isong, B; Dladlu, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2021Energy consumption is a typical challenge that is inherent in wireless sensors networks (WSN). Despite the proposals and the development of several routing protocols and Software-defined WSN (SDWSN) introduction to address the challenge and ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jacob AC; De Wet, FebeDate:Nov 2021Sufficient target language data remains an important factor in the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. For instance, the substantial improvement in acoustic modelling that deep architectures have recently achieved for ...Read more
Author:Maweza, Elijah L; Pratt, Lawrence E; Roro, Kittessa TDate:Nov 2021The high demand for low carbon energy and rapidly decreasing solar panel prices have led to a surge in solar photovoltaic (PV) plants across the globe, more than at any other time since the industry began. Combined with geographic variations ...Read more
Author:Mkasi, Hlaluku W; Lawrence, Pratt; Ayanna, Manjunath B; Roro, KittessaDate:Nov 2021The high demand for low carbon energy and rapidly decreasing solar panel prices have led to a surge in solar photovoltaic (PV) plants across the globe, more than at any other time since the industry began. Combined with geographic variations ...Read more
Author:Schreiner, Gregory ODate:Aug 2021The disciplinary domains known as ‘Impact Assessment’ and ‘Scientific Assessment’ occupy fairly similar spaces at the contemporary Science-Policy Interface. At their essences, both concern themselves with providing the evidence-base to support ...Read more
