Author:Bischof-Niemz, TDate:Oct 2015Renewables have, until today, been mainly driven by the United States, European and Chinese markets. This presentation reflects on the actual results by the South African Department of Energy on the cost comparativeness of South African solar ...Read more
Author:Modipa, TI; Davel, MH; De Wet, FebeDate:Dec 2013Code switching (the process of switching from one language to another during a conversation) is a common phenomenon in multilingual environments. Where a minority and dominant language coincide, code switching from the minority language to ...Read more
Author:Steyn, Maronel; Genthe, BettinaDate:May 2008This presentation highlights the effect of unsafe water on people's health in South Africa. It looks at the total population of people without access to clean, safe water. A high percentage of deaths in South Africa are attributable to water, ...Read more
Author:Magazi, L; Mohammed, SDate:Jul 2015The freight industry is one of the major players that contribute to the development of the economy of South Africa. About 80% of freight in South Africa is transported by road. As a result, heavy vehicle crashes occurring on South Africa’s ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda KDate:Sep 2006Designing a successful national waste information system (WIS) for an emerging democracy in South Africa requires that the system be relevant, efficient, effective and above all sustainable. To do this, the needs of government and stakeholders ...Read more
Author:NASR, Jean-MarcDate:2017Presentation delivered at the 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October 2017, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. The attachment includes a slideshow and a videoclip.Read more
Author:Pratt, Lawrence E; Roro, Kittessa T; Basappa Ayanna, ManjunathDate:Jun 2018This paper will introduce the new C450 international standard for PV module quality assurance programs. Quality assurance testing has been on the rise in the PV industry following the rise in development of large scale PV plants, sometimes ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, Adelai; De Beer, MorrisDate:Oct 2017The operational forces military context is generally acknowledged as one of the most stressful contexts as it is demanding of members on a physical, psychological, social level with organisational, intra- and inter-personal demands of an ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2007When doing research into or building systems involving spoken language, one invariably relies on relevantly annotated speech data for analysis and incorporation into such systems. The authors investigate methods and parameters for a baseline ...Read more
Author:Nkuna, Z; Mamakoa, E; Mothetha, MDate:Dec 2014Groundwater is one of the most important natural resources globally. In Africa, particularly, groundwater has been the most reliable water supply option for meeting the daily water needs of rural communities. This is mainly due to the fact ...Read more
Author:Jansen van Rensburg, Gerhardus J; Bogaers, Alfred EJDate:Sep 2018Surrogate- or metamodels approximate and so reduce the computational cost associated with evaluating computer experiments of interest over a set of design variables. Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) are a popular metamodel choice due to its ease ...Read more
Author:Sabatta, D; Scaramuzza, D; Siegwart, RDate:May 2010In this paper the authors present a topological map building algorithm based on a Vocabulary Tree that is robust to features present in dynamic or similar environments. The algorithm recognises incorrect loop closures, not supported by the ...Read more
Author:Fatoba, OS; Popoola, API; Fedetova, T; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Mar 2016Surface deterioration by corrosion is one of the complications associated with ageing facilities and components especially under some service environments. The research work examines the corrosion behavior of laser alloyed UNS-G10150 steel; ...Read more
Author:Herselman, PL; De Wind, HJDate:Sep 2008Asymptotically optimal coherent detection techniques yield sub-clutter visibility in heavy-tailed sea clutter. The adaptive linear quadratic detector inherently assumes spectral homogeneity for the reference window of the covariance matrix ...Read more
Author:Brown, Dane; Bradshaw, KDate:May 2016The traditional texture-based fingerprint recognition system known as FingerCode is improved in this work. Texture-based fingerprint recognition methods are generally more accurate than other methods, but at the disadvantage of increased ...Read more
Author:Mlambo, CS; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Mathekga, Mmamolatelo EDate:Nov 2014An improved Hough Transform based fingerprint alignment approach is presented, which improves computing time and memory usage with accurate alignment parameter (rotation and translation) results. This is achieved by studying the strengths and ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, DanielDate:May 2010This paper describes a unique way of setting up a mortar with minimum of extra equipment. A mortar can be set-up, by using the current mechanical mortar sight and a prismatic mirror with a bearing sensor. This concept focuses directly on one ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, DanielDate:Oct 2008Mortars will still play an important roll in modern warfare. This paper describes a unique way of setting up a mortar with minimum of extra equipment. A mortar can be set-up, by using the current mechanical mortar sight and a prismatic mirror ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, JP; Cronje, J; Nicolls, FCDate:Apr 2011Inverse lens distortion modelling allows one to find the pixel in a distorted image which corresponds to a known point in object space, such as may be produced by a RADAR. This paper extends recent work using neural networks as a compromise ...Read more
Author:Maina, JW; De Beer, MorrisDate:Nov 2008This paper presents evaluation of road pavement response under the loading of typical dual and single truck tyre configurations. Locally developed Stress-In-Motion (SIM) technology was used to quantify three-dimensional (3D) shapes of the ...Read more