Author:De Vries, M; Gerber, A; Van der Merwe, ADate:May 2014Enterprise engineering originated as a practice with most publications focusing on the practical facets without the underlying scientific foundation. Foundational works emerged from different authors in recent years, including Dietz, Hoogervorst ...Read more
Author:Baumbach, JDate:Oct 2009During 1983 DSTO in Australia measured the reflectances of grass, trees and soil in northern Australia, using a custom-build spectroradiometer. During 2002 CSIR in South Africa performed similar measurements in northern South Africa, using a ...Read more
Author:Cannoo, BR; Gledhill, Irvy MA; Cooper, Antony K; Greben, JMDate:Mar 2008The protection of coastal structures is important to South Africa. The dynamics of breakwaters is a topic that is becoming amenable to numerical study, in terms of the motion of multiple interlocking structures under wave action. In this ...Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, MH; Van Heerden, C; De Wet, Febe; Badenhorst, JDate:May 2014The NCHLT speech corpus contains wide-band speech from approximately 200 speakers per language, in each of the eleven of cial languages of South Africa. We describe the design and development processes that were undertaken in order to develop ...Read more
Author:Govender, G; Ivanchev, LHDate:Oct 2005The SSM forming technology has demonstrated that it will be a competitive process for the manufacture of high quality, high volume components for the automotive industry in particular. The new slurry approaches to SSM forming has made the ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, J; Jacob, M; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Sep 2015The South African engineering and manufacturing industries drive employment and growth in the economy, but face a large industrialisation and supplier development challenge in a globally competitive and knowledge intensive market. In order ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Sebake, NDate:Oct 2018South Africa's commitment to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, requires the country to have an understanding of the range of possible, likely and ...Read more
Author:Landman, KDate:Aug 2006This paper is concerned with the relationship between peace and place. It explores how the physical space facilitates or negates the establishment of peace through the manifestation of a specific function and form, as well as its meaning for ...Read more
Author:Bischof-Niemz, T; Milazi, DDate:2015Due to drastically reduced prices for Photovoltaic (PV) systems and significantly increased electricity tariffs in the last five years, embedded PV generators are now attractive for many electricity customers in South Africa as a supplement ...Read more
Author:Sweeney, M; Irwin, Barry VWDate:Sep 2017As networks have grown, so has the data available for monitoring and security purposes. This increase in volume has raised significant challenges for administrators in terms of how to identify threats in amongst the large volumes of network ...Read more
Author:Senekal, FP; Vorster, JSDate:Jul 2007A large computer network such as the Internet contains millions of computers, services and users, interconnected in a complicated and ever changing web. This article provides an introduction to network mapping and usage determination – the ...Read more
Author:Masonta, Moshe T; Kola, LM; Lysko, Albert A; Pieterse, L; Velempini, MDate:Sep 2015Television white spaces (TVWS) refers to vacant channels in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band between 470 and 690 MHz assigned for television broadcast and can be used opportunistically by secondary users (SUs). Research has shown that when ...Read more
Author:Aron, FO; Olwal, TO; Kurien, A; Hamam, YDate:Sep 2008Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is becoming a promising new technology for extending coverage to farflung rural areas. This it achieves by linking the various wireless LANS (WLANs) in distant locations thus providing a vital mode complimentary ...Read more
Author:Marais, Mario A; Vannini, SDate:May 2021A number of studies in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) focus on projects’ sustainability and resilience. Over the years, scholars have identified many elements to enable achievement of these goals. Nevertheless, ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Dec 2019Recent work in sequence-to-sequence neural networks with attention mechanisms, such as the Tacotron 2 and DCTTS architectures, have brought on substantial naturalness improvements in synthesised speech. These architectures require at least ...Read more
Author:Masindi, Vhahangwele; Gitari, WM; Tutu, H; De Beer, Morris; Nekhwevha, NDate:Aug 2014This paper evaluates the potential application of amorphous magnesite for remediation of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD). Magnesite was mixed with simulated AMD at specific S/L ratios and agitated in an orbital shaker and its capacity to remove ...Read more
Author:Mufhandu, Hazel T; Madiga, M; Gray, E; Rotherham, L; Khoza, T; Morris, L; Khati, MDate:Jul 2009This paper present a chemically synthesised derivative of the B40 parental aptamer, called UCLA1 (Cohen et al., 2008), was used for neutralization of endemic subtype C clinical isolates of HIV-1 from adult and paediatric patients and subtype ...Read more
Author:Fourie, CJS; Du Plessis, SJ; Henry, GDate:Nov 2008The Waterberg Coalfield in the Limpopo Province of South Africa contains vast resources of coal that will ensure the country's energy security well into the future. The coalfield is situated in the Karoo-age Ellisras Basin and at present hosts ...Read more
Author:Rens, G; Meyer, TDate:May 2015One way for an agent to deal with uncertainty about its beliefs is to maintain a probability distribution over the worlds it believes are possible. A belief change operation may recommend some previously believed worlds to become impossible ...Read more