Author:Breetzke, K; Jacobs, NDate:Apr 2008There is ongoing debate with regard to the levels of service provision in urban and rural areas. However, progress with respect to the delivery of planned services can only be efficiently and equitably measured once benchmarks for different ...Read more
Author:Ntombela, Cebile; Celliers, LouisDate:2015The growth of urban areas that form coastal cities, especially in the WIO, places an increasing demand on natural coastal extractive and non-extractive resources. The use and conversion of coastal land and catchments is considered a permanent ...Read more
Author:Govender, Ireshyn S; Mokoena, Rethabile; Stoychev, Stoyan; Naicker, PrevinDate:Sep 2023Urine provides a diverse source of information related to a patient’s health status and is ideal for clinical proteomics due to its ease of collection. To date, most methods for the preparation of urine samples lack the throughput required ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Shahen; Dube, CDate:Jul 2008There has been a paradigm shift in recent years from efficient techniques of accessing data to effective information access. The challenge facing researchers working in information access is how to help users easily locate the information ...Read more
Author:Greeff, M; Coetzee, L; Pistorius, MDate:Oct 2008One of the most prominent problems that persons with disabilities face in South Africa, is access to relevant disability related information. To address this need the South African National Accessibility Portal (NAP Portal) was developed, ...Read more
Author:Schlunz, Georg IDate:Dec 2018We report on two sets of perceptual evaluations of our South African text-to-speech voices by language practitioners. In the first evaluation, we measure baseline quality in terms of how understandable and human-like the voices sound. We also ...Read more
Author:Adebesin, TF; De Villiers, MR; Ssemugabi, SDate:Jun 2009Computer applications developed to support learning in the cognitive domains are quite different from commercial transaction processing applications. The unique nature of such applications calls for different methods for evaluating their ...Read more
Author:Steyn, WJVDMDate:Sep 2009This paper focuses on the use and application of Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) for the evaluation of pavement preservation actions. It is based on work done over a number of years and does not focus on the specific performance of any one ...Read more
Author:Nemutanzhela, ME; Roets, Y; Gardiner, N; Lalloo, RajeshDate:2014Global shortages in seafood resources have driven the growth of aquaculture as an economic activity, predominantly in developing countries. As a consequence of space and resource constraints, traditional aquaculture has been intensified into ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, P; Du Plessis, LDate:Sep 2009During the early 1930's the California Bearing Ratio test (CBR) was developed for the testing of material strength in the laboratory for the design of pavements. The test involves the compaction of a potential road-building material into a ...Read more
Author:Dlodlo, N; Montsi, L; Mvelase, P; Krause, CDate:Nov 2013With the advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), physical objects are now augmented with sensing, processing and network capabilities, enabling them not only to intercommunicate with one another, but also to exchange ...Read more
Author:Kgarume, Thabang E; Van Schoor, Michael; Nontso, ZintleDate:Nov 2019Some of the recent advances in ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology are discussed in this paper; in particular the move to, and potential value addition offered by, the 3D approach to surveying over the more conventional 2D approach. ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, Wouter J; Van Blerk, GNDate:Oct 2011A real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay utilizing high resolution melt (HRM) curve analysis was developed and tested for the monitoring of Vibrio cholerae in water samples. The assay utilized previously published primers that are ...Read more
Author:Salmon, BP; Olivier, JC; Kleynhans, W; Wessels, Konrad J; Van den Bergh, F; Steenkamp, Karen CDate:Dec 2011This paper presents a novel land cover change detection method that employs a sliding window over hyper-temporal multi-spectral images acquired from the 7 bands of the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land surface reflectance ...Read more
Author:Van Den Broek, GJDate:May 1984A computer program, developed to predict the separation characteristics of external stores after release from the carrier aircraft, is discussed The aircraft is represented by panel singularity distributions along the line of Woodward's USSAERO ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, P; Pinard, MDate:Jul 2011Although sands cover vast areas of southern Africa, their use as road materials in an untreated state has been generally avoided. An investigation into the properties of various sands has indicated, however, that they can be used as subbase ...Read more
Author:Conradie, Dirk CU; Ras, H; Mentz, FDate:Jul 2008This paper describes the development of an agent based Computational Building Simulation (CBS) tool, termed KRONOS that is being used to work on advanced research questions such as traffic safety assessment and user behaviour in buildings. ...Read more
Author:Mwila, MK; Djouani, K; Kurien, ADate:Aug 2014Localisation or position determination is one of the most important applications for wireless sensor networks since the locations of the sensor nodes are critical to both network operations and most application level tasks. Numerous techniques ...Read more
Author:Oluwatobi, JA; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Mabuza-Hocquet, Gugulethu PDate:Dec 2019Several techniques have been employed to detect glaucoma from optic discs. Some techniques involve the use of the optic cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) while others use the neuro-retinal rim width of the optic disc. In this work, we use the area ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, WHDate:Jun 2010Augmented reality is not completely new technology, but rather an interesting combination of existing technologies, facilitated by the rapid progress made on ultra-portable devices such as smart cellular telephones. It has the potential to ...Read more