Author:Taylor, NJ; Annandale, JG; Vahrmeijer, JT; Gush, Mark BDate:Dec 2012The quantification of water use of citrus orchards is important in order to prevent stress developing in the orchard and to avoid wasting precious water resources. Measurement of citrus orchard water use is not possible under all environ-mental ...Read more
Author:Veerasamy, Namosha; Eloff, JPHDate:Jul 2008Information warfare has surfaced as an emerging concept that affects not only military institutions but ordinary organisations as well. Information warfare in itself consists of various components ranging from its electronic and psychological ...Read more
Author:Moodley, K; Land, K; Muzenda, EDate:Oct 2015The use of multiplexed paper sensors for health and environmental monitoring applications continues to rise. Multiplexed devices are capable of detecting multiple disease biomarkers or contaminants from a single sample. These devices make ...Read more
Author:Musango, JK; Amigun, B; Brent, ACDate:Jul 2010This paper presents a Bioenergy Systems Sustainability Assessment and Management (BIOSSAM) model. The BIOSSAM model was developed as a means to provide insights into the implications of expanding bioenergy programmes in South Africa, which ...Read more
Author:Botha, Natasha; Coetzer, R; Inglis, H; Labuschagne, JDate:Nov 2020Polymers are used in various industrial applications due to their ease of production, light weight and ductility. Adding fillers, such as clays, improves a range of thermo-mechanical properties, however manufacturing parameters may have an ...Read more
Author:Opoku, F; Govender, Krishna; Van Sitter, CGCE; Govender, PPDate:2017A first principles study of the Titania is done as used in photo-catalysis to generate charge carries. Models of titania, silica, graphene, epoxy graphene monoxide, single wall Carbon nanotubes and their respective layer were studied in order ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:May 2011The Department of Environmental Affairs with the assistance of the CSIR, developed the National Domestic Waste Collection Standards, which contain a range of service standards appropriate to different contexts. The standards, which came into ...Read more
Author:Nortje, Karen; Claassen, Marius; Funke, Nicola S; Jacobs-Mata, Inga M; Steyn, MaronelDate:Jan 2011The social processes embedded within the ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’ of humans in relation to the use of common property resources such as the natural environment has been proven to be essential for both a holistic understanding as well as mutually ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda K; Strydom, W; Muswema, Aubrey P; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Roman, H; Mange, MDate:Oct 2014The results of the South African Waste Sector Survey (for 2012) show that the formal waste sector employs a minimum of 29,833 people. The majority of these employees are situated within large enterprises (77.5% of private waste sector employees) ...Read more
Author:Opoku, F; Govender, Krishna; Van Sittert, CGCE; Govender, PPDate:Sep 2017Although TiO2 is an efficient photocatalyst, its large band gap limits its photocatalytic activity only to the ultraviolet region. An experimentally synthesized ternary Fe/C/S-doped TiO2 anatase showed improved visible light photocatalytic ...Read more
Author:Meissner, Richard; Funke, Nicola S; Nortje, Karen; Steyn, MaronelDate:Nov 2018This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa. Based on qualitative research conducted through face-to-face structured interviews and focus group discussions with individuals, traditional leaders, ...Read more
Author:Moganedi, Mapoung SDate:Jun 2018The introduction of Internet of Things (IoT has revolutionized the healthcare sector through the digitalization with an enormous amount of patient data that is collected, processed, stored and shared amongst different healthcare stakeholders. ...Read more
Author:Wang, K; Kang, X; Zhong, Y; Hu, C; Ren, Jianwei; Wang, PDate:Nov 2014Nanoconfinement has been widely employed as a promising strategy to improve dehydrogenation kinetics, reversibility, and equilibrium pressure of complex metal hydrides. In this paper, we report a careful study of the influence of nanoconfinement ...Read more
Author:Adekola, O; Stamp, JD; Majozi, T; Garg, A; Bandyopadhya, SDate:May 2013A unified framework providing for the simultaneous reduction of energy and wastewater in multipurpose batch plants is presented in this paper. Unlike many current methods, the schedule is not predefined. Time is treated as a variable leading ...Read more
Author:Mtsweni, Jabu S; Gcaza, Noluxolo; Thaba, James MDate:Sep 2018Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) present a number of vulnerabilities, threats and risks that could lead to devastating cyber-attacks resulting into hugh financial losses, legal implications, and reputational damage for large ...Read more