Author:Madiba, L; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Oct 2023The South African Local Government is currently experiencing a backlog in providing basic services to its citizens due to financial constraints, lack of planning, poor project management and integration between sector departments. The South ...Read more
Author:Young, Gertruida MDate:Oct 2023This paper explores the use of a systems engineering approach to establish a canine system for application as one of the force multipliers to address complex challenges such as illicit wildlife trafficking, policing and border management. ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, S; Khan, Sumaya; Swettenham, T; Ramparsad, SDate:Jun 2023With mining modernisation, the awareness of communities' social and economic needs is important for a sustainable socio-economic environment. Meaningful engagement and communication with communities is critical. This project entailed the ...Read more
Author:Makondo, Ntshuxeko; Kobo, Hlabishi I; Mathonsi, TEDate:Sep 2023Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a computer network paradigm that has the potential to simplify network management and configuration by increasing network programmability and abstraction. In contrast to traditional networks, SDN separates ...Read more
Author:Mtsweni, Jabu SDate:Nov 2023Cybersecurity attacks are classified in the top 10 global risks by the World Economic Forum in 2023. The common cyber-incidents that affect businesses, governments, and individuals across the globe are data breaches. Recent reports indicate ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Aug 2023Digital Transformation in Achieving Defence Information Excellence in the Journey to Greatness with Editor: Dr Louwrence Erasmus Pr. Eng. Introduction: The Command and Management Information Systems (CMIS) Division strives towards Information ...Read more
Author:Mokoatle, Mpho; Coleman, Toshka; Mokilane, Paul MDate:Dec 2023The likelihood that an earthquake will occur in a specific location, within a specific time frame, and with ground motion intensity greater than a specific threshold is known as a seismic hazard. Predicting these types of hazards is crucial ...Read more
Author:Thimiri Govindaraj, Deepak BDate:Sep 2023Background: The Global Biofoundry Alliance (GBA) has been established between countries including the UK, US, Japan, Singapore, China, Australia, Denmark, and Canada through 16 research institutions. GBA plays a key role in the synthetic ...Read more
Author:Simiyu, Donah S; Rakaibe, Tshwanelo K; Pandarum, AradhnaDate:Oct 2023South Africa is currently facing an energy crisis which is affecting businesses and household. As more users install solar panels, some are left behind because the cost of solar panels is beyond their reach. Additionally, as PV installations ...Read more
Author:Heera, J; Pretorius, HC; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Oct 2023The South African Local Government is currently experiencing a backlog in providing basic services to its citizens due to financial constraints, lack of planning, poor project management and integration between sector departments. The South ...Read more
Author:Zheng, Haitao; Shi, Xuan; Jiang, S; Han, X; Wen, LDate:Nov 2023The purpose of the work is to study the thermal behavior of MnO2 (a, ß, ) nanomaterials as well as their performance in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) before/after thermal treatment. After thermal treatment, oxygen vacancies were introduced ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Aug 2023In this work, we explore the use of phonological features incross-lingual transfer within resource-scarce settings. We modify the architecture of VITS to accept a phonological feature vector as input, instead of phonemes or characters. ...Read more
Author:Afachao, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2023In the world of technology, there are several emerging technologies that are driving research towards making the Intelligent Edge suitable for various application growth. Some of these technologies include Artificial Intelligence, the Internet ...Read more
Author:Pandelani, Thanyani ADate:May 2023One of the aims of the South African Ballistic Organisation (SABO) is to organise and host a local ballistic symposium every second year. This year SABO is hosting the 2023 symposium. The SABO 2023 Organising Committee has been overwhelmed ...Read more
Author:Thaba, James M; Mtsweni, Jabu SDate:Jun 2023The evolution of technology in the African battlespace continues to pose a significant challenge to the African militaries. This evolution increases the need for the African militaries to be able to operate in the cyberspace strategically and ...Read more
Author:Nigussie, E; Musumba, G; Tegegne, T; Lemma, A; Mekuria, FissehaDate:Nov 2020Ensuring food security has become a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to combined effects of climate change, high population growth, and relying on rainfed farming. Governments are establishing shared irrigation infrastructure for ...Read more
Author:Dudeni-Tlhone, Nontembeko; Mutanga, O; Debba, Pravesh; Cho, Moses ADate:Aug 2023Hyperspectral sensors capture and compute spectral reflectance of objects over many wavelength bands, resulting in a high-dimensional space with enough information to differentiate between spectrally similar objects. Due to the curse of ...Read more