Author:Bean, WL; Schmitz, P; Engelbrecht, GNDate:Sep 2009The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model has been widely used as a tool for supply chain analysis in commercial environments, since its creation by the Supply Chain Council. More recently the SCOR model has been used during the ...Read more
Author:Mpofu, K; Kumile, CM; Tlale, NSDate:2008A variety of methodologies have been utilised in the design of reconfigurable industrial machines. Authors consider some of the methods that have been used given the critical aspects of these methods, the commercial off the shelf (COTS) method ...Read more
Author:Schneider, F; Waibel, P; Wallrabe, UDate:Aug 2009In this paper the authors compare the performance and optical quality of two types of adaptive fluidic silicone-membrane lenses. The membranes feature either a homogeneous thickness, or it is shaped resulting in an inhomogeneous cross-section. ...Read more
Author:Masonta, Moshe T; Mekuria, Fisseha; Mzyece, M; Djouani, KDate:Sep 2015Spectrum decision is the ability of a cognitive radio (CR) system to select the best available spectrum band to satisfy dynamic spectrum access network (DSAN) users¿ quality of service (QoS) requirements without causing harmful interference ...Read more
Author:Oxtoby, Oliver FDate:Jul 2012We present an adaptively trained Reduced-Order Model (ROM) to dramatically speed up flow simulations of an oscillatory nature. Such repetitive flowfields are frequently encountered in fluid-structure interaction modelling, aeroelastic flutter ...Read more
Author:Braun, ALDate:Jul 2000South Africa has over 6 million indigenous goats, many of which have two coats of fibre, namely a fine down (cashmere) that is finer than 18,5 micron and a coarse guard hair. These goats are primarily kept for their meat, milk, skin products ...Read more
Author:Sibolla, B; van Zyl, T; McFerren, G; Hohls, DDate:Oct 2014Users of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) increasingly require provision to data holdings beyond the traditional static raster, map or vector based data sets within their organisations. The modern GIS practitioner and Spatial Data Scientist ...Read more
Author:Jacobs, A; Botha, A; Van Zyl, WHDate:Feb 2010The processing of cereals as agricultural crops or biofuels generates millions of tons of byproducts annually. The South African beer brewing industry alone produces approximately 520 000 tons of brewers’ spent grain per year. These residues ...Read more
Author:Ramosoeu, ME; Chikwanda, HK; Bolokang, AS; Booysen, G; Ngonda, TNDate:Oct 2010Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) is one of the new Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) techniques used for producing complex topology components mostly found in medical applications. The work presented in this paper focuses on metallographic ...Read more
Author:Ramaphosa, CDate:08 Oct 2015Thursday, 8 October 2015 - The Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, officially opened the 5th CSIR Conference to a large delegation comprising representatives from government, research councils, academic ...Read more
Author:Pretorius, Cecilia JDate:Sep 2016Personal exposure concentrations to coal tar pitch volatiles (CTPV) were a concern in a workplace and the cause of the exposure was thought to be a particular raw material; as per the conventional belief. All the raw materials were analysed ...Read more
Author:Haywood, Lorren K; Nel, D; Trotter, DDate:Aug 2010Corporate sustainability, as currently practiced, is largely directed at reducing direct and immediate environmental impacts in terms of resource consumption and waste emissions. Despite two decades of engagement with corporate sustainability, ...Read more
Author:Botha, Heila-Marie; Tkachuk, O; Van der Merwe, B; Visser, WDate:Jul 2017Current dynamic analysis tools for Android applications do not get good code coverage since they can only explore a subset of the behaviors of the applications and do not have full control over the environment in which they execute. In this ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:May 2019Food waste is any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain to be recovered or disposed (incl. composted, crops ploughed in/not harvested, anaerobic digestion, bio-energy production, co-generation, incineration, ...Read more
Author:Dawood, Zubeida C; Keet, CMDate:Sep 2013An approach in achieving semantic interoperability among heterogeneous systems is to offer infrastructure to assist with linking and integration using a foundational ontology. Due to the creation of multiple foundational ontologies, this also ...Read more
Author:Ngorima, E; Nkuna, Z; Manase, GDate:Nov 2008Women play a crucial role in providing care and support, and also in the use and management of the water resources and sanitation at the household level. In addition, voluntary community care work is done mostly by women, rather than men, ...Read more
Author:Foko, Thato E; Thulare, Tumiso; Legare, Lebogang L; Maremi, Keneilwe JDate:May 2017ICTs have power to connect or provide access to poor people in remote rural villages. The initiatives to deploy ICTs in rural areas have mostly not been sustainable. The purpose of the paper is to ascertain what factors lead to the unsuccessful ...Read more
Author:Lachman, A; Thevadasan, SDate:Sep 2006Amadiba Road is a 44km-long gravel road, which runs from the R61 between Port Edward and Bizana, down to the sea. It was a community-based, labour-intensive project managed by CSIR Built Environment, with funding from the national Poverty ...Read more
Author:Yoyo, Sonwabiso; Page, Philip R; Zulu, S’Bonelo; A’Bear, FrancesDate:May 2016It is now widely accepted that, although infrastructure problems in the electricity sector are currently the demanding crisis in South Africa, another commanding crisis looms on the medium-term horizon: deteriorating water infrastructure, and ...Read more