Author:Gerber, MC; Gerber, AJDate:Nov 2011The purpose of accounting is to gather financial data of a business or entity, to interpret this data and to report the results in financial statements to the different users thereof. The interpretation of financial data is regulated by ...Read more
Author:Gerber, A; Kotzé, Paula; Van der Merwe, ADate:Jun 2010Metamodels are abstractions that are used to specify characteristics of models. Such metamodels are generally included in specifications or framework descriptions. A metamodel is for instance used to inform the generation of enterprise ...Read more
Author:Maharajh, Dheepak M; Lalloo, Rajesh; Smit, MDate:Mar 2015Omega-3 fatty acids have an attractive market potential as human nutraceutical supplements, as ingredients in functional foods and as animal feed supplements. The current market for these products is dominated by fish oils, which contain ...Read more
Author:Velthausz, DDate:Oct 2012In this presentation the author outlines the 'smart world' concept and how technology (smart infrastructure, analytics) can foster smarter cities, smarter regions and a smarter world.Read more
Author:De Lange, Willem J; Botha, AM; Oberholster, Paul JDate:Sep 2016Water pollution permit systems are challenging to design and implement. Operational systems that has maintained functionality remains few and far between, particularly in developing countries. We present current progress towards developing ...Read more
Author:De Vos, M; Backeberg, Björn; Counillon, FDate:Oct 2016The impact of assimilating along-track sea level anomaly (SLA) data into a regional Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) is investigated with regard to the simulation of mesoscale eddy characteristics in the Agulhas System. Eddy characteristics ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, CJ; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2010In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between SVM hyperparameters for linear and RBF kernels and classification accuracy. The process of finding SVM hyperparameters usually involves a gridsearch, which is both time-consuming ...Read more
Author:De Beer, Morris; Fisher, ColinDate:Sep 2016An important element of Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) is the selection of appropriate test tyre(s) to be used for APT testing. By far the majority of full scale (or scaled) APT devices uses pneumatic rubber tyres. Tyres differ not only ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, J; Erasmus, Louwrence D; Pretorius, J-HCDate:Jun 2015An argument is presented for the unification of descriptions of product systems and enterprise systems. Product systems are developed and produced by enterprises, thus forming an integral part of the enterprise's architecture. However, many ...Read more
Author:Klarman, S; Britz, KDate:Jul 2015Data-driven elicitation of ontologies from structured data is a well-recognized knowledge acquisition bottleneck. The development of efficient techniques for (semi-)automating this task is therefore practically vital — yet, hindered by the ...Read more
Author:De Beer, Morris; Maina, JW; Van Rensburg, Yvette; Greben, JMDate:Sep 2011Optimization of road pavement design, especially towards the surface of the pavement, requires a more rational approach to modeling of truck tire-road contact stresses. Various road surfacing failures are given in this paper as examples, and ...Read more
Author:Kinabo, ABD; Mwangama, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:Dec 2021The Internet of Things (IoT) has varied applications in industry, where its networks are uniquely characterised by a stringent requirement for reliability. Many technologies, such as PROFINET and EtherCAT, arose to fill this need for reliable ...Read more
Author:Hadzic, S; Phokeer, A; Johnson, DDate:Oct 2016This paper describes a network architecture to provide low cost last mile access and cloud services for local content sharing in a poorly resourced township environment. We describe how ICT solutions are developed in close partnership with ...Read more
Author:Dellamatrice, PM; Monteiro, RTR; Blaise, C; Slabbert, JL; Gagne, JL; Alleau, SDate:Aug 2006We (the authors) examined the possibility of adapting the LuminoTox, a recently-commercialised bioanalytical testing procedure initially developed for aqueous samples, to assess the toxic potential of sediments. A significant correlation was ...Read more
Author:Thwala, Melusi; Musee, N; Wepener, V; Oberholster, Paul JDate:01 Sep 2010This study is according to current literature the first to investigate the toxicity effects of ENMs on higher aquatic plants. Such information is vital for aquatic ecosystem protection information from the relatively less understood ENMs. The ...Read more
Author:Lukhele, LP; Musee, N; Wepener, V; Mamba, BBDate:Aug 2013Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) find wide applications as their science and applicability are well understood. According to Lux Research Inc., the market for CNTs increased from $43 million in 2005 to $260 million by 2010. Whilst successful applications ...Read more
Author:Brunke, EG; Labuschagne, C; Scheel, HEDate:2001During the continuous monitoring of atmospheric parameters at the station Cape Point (34 degrees S, 18 degrees E), a smoke plume originating from a controlled fire of 30 year old fynbos was observed on 6 May 1997. For this episode, which was ...Read more
Author:Dalton, A; Feig, Gregor T; Barber, KDate:Dec 2018A site assessment was conducted at a coal fired power plant in South Africa to determine whether surrounding soils were being enriched with trace metals resulting from activities at the power plant. It was found that deposition of fly ash ...Read more
Author:Van der Merwe, LJ; De Villiers, JPDate:Jul 2013In order to stitch tracks together, two tasks are required, namely tracking and track stitching. In this study track stitching is performed using a graphical model and message passing (belief propagation) approach. Tracks are modelled as nodes ...Read more
Author:Wright, CY; Oosthuizen, MADate:01 Sep 2010Health surveillance is presently not an integrated part of air quality management in South Africa, although ambient air pollution standards are derived from epidemiological studies of personal exposure. A growing number of studies have shown ...Read more