Author:Szewczuk, S; Von Gavel, S; Verhagen, P; Schreuder, M; Mamphweli, S; McMaster, ADate:Mar 2014There is a genuine opportunity for the developing world and rural areas to leapfrog the conventional Western paradigm of power. Where conventional electricity delivery is reliant on expensive, polluting and centrally controlled generation ...Read more
Author:Kumpaty, S; Akinlabi, E; Reynolds, C; Mueller, R; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Nov 2016This paper presents the characterization studies conducted by Milwaukee School of Engineering senior undergraduate students in South Africa under the Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant EEC-1460183 sponsored by the National Science ...Read more
Author:Kumpaty, S; Paoli, E; Akinlabi, E; Ziemer, A; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Nov 2017This paper presents the follow-up work of research conducted by Milwaukee School of Engineering senior undergraduate students in South Africa under the second year of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant EEC-1460183 sponsored by ...Read more
Author:Chege, L; Ebohon, OJDate:Nov 2004The budgets of many emerging economies are overstretched by competing claims on the available resources, with major implications for infrastructure and service delivery. This is a serious predicament particularly in poorer emerging economies ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn V; Chege, LDate:Nov 2004A defining characteristic of globalisation is the ease of trade. This characteristic has exposed a high degree of diversity and inconsistency in global business practices. As these inconsistencies increase risk, investors are identifying ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn V; Chege, LDate:Nov 2004A defining characteristic of globalisation is the ease of trade. This characteristic has exposed a high degree of diversity and inconsistency in global business practices. As these inconsistencies increase risk, investors are identifying ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Pistorius, MDate:Feb 2006The National Accessibility Portal (NAP), is a five-year research and development project aimed at addressing some of the marginalisation issues of people with disabilities. One of the core areas that NAP is striving to address is the critical ...Read more
Author:Carroll, M; Kotzé, Paula; van der Merwe, ADate:Jun 2010Organisations are faced with a number of challenges and issues in decentralised, multiple-server, physical, non-virtualized IT environments. Virtualization in recent years has had a significant impact on computing environments and has introduced ...Read more
Author:Halland, YDate:May 2004Managing requests for published information within an organisation can be a very cumbersome and difficult process particularly where costs have to be recouped from the client’s own cost centre. Keeping track of the current status of each ...Read more
Author:Venter, KarienDate:Jul 2009Concern about the level of lawlessness and the lack of discipline among South African drivers is prominent among South African authorities, media and public. Although South Africa historically did conduct research into road user behaviour, ...Read more
Author:Jansen van Vuuren, JC; Phahlamohlaka, Letlibe J; Leenen, LDate:Jul 2012This paper investigates different government organisational structures created for the control of national cybersecurity in selected countries of the world. The main contribution is a proposed structure that could be suitable for South Africa, ...Read more
Author:Patrick, MJ; Turton, ARDate:Oct 2006The effective governance of transboundary waters requires an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. In order to make sense of the complexity of systems, such as transboundary river basins, there has been a legacy of rationalising this ...Read more
Author:Hlophe, KDate:31 Aug 2010South Africa plays a major role in the international mining fraternity. Location information will enhance the safety in mines by permitting the realisation of wireless sensor networks (WSN), which are persistent and ubiquitous environmental ...Read more
Author:Govender, Nicolin; Gledhill, Irvy MA; Kok, S; Wilke, NDate:Aug 2013The protection of harbours and coastal infrastructure is of vital importance to South Africa. A major development in the design of packing strategies for breakwaters is numerical modelling, and the use of physics engines and DEM models. For ...Read more
Author:Ramazhamba, Pardon T; Mashiane, Charmaine T; Dlamini, Innocentia ZDate:May 2018In South Africa, the Department of Basic Education commissioned that every school must issue out a report card to every learner at the end of each term/quarter as a standard communication tool between parents/guardians and school. To adhere ...Read more
Author:Wilke, DN; Kok, S; Snyman, JA; Groenwold, AADate:Jun 2013We reflect on some theoretical aspects of gradient-only optimization for the unconstrained optimization of objective functions containing non-physical step or jump discontinuities. This kind of discontinuity arises when the optimization problem ...Read more
Author:Mogale, MM; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Mokgonyane, TBDate:Sep 2020Natural Language Processing (NLP) forms one of the important and fundamental components of speech synthesis while a language grammar forms one of the important requirements for NLP tasks. One of the major requirements in processing speech ...Read more
Author:Roberts, M; Share, A; Johnson, A; Brundrit, G; Rossouw, MariusDate:Dec 2010With a view of implementing operational oceanography in South Africa, the scientific community in 2009 initiated a demonstration project, OceanSAfrica, which integrates ocean modelling, in situ observations, remote sensing, and data dissemination ...Read more