Author:Broughton, BA; Heise, R; Blaauw, DDate:Oct 2008The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in cooperation with the Stellenbosch University initiated a research project to investigate and demonstrate a number of challenges related to the aerodynamics and handling characteristics ...Read more
Author:Rogers, DEC; Molefe, GS; Gwensa, Q; Van Den Bergh, C; Kristiansen, T; Otto, JBDate:Sep 2006This paper addresses the need for quantitative data for planning health care risk waste (HCRW) management from hospitals and clinics in South Africa. Quantitative estimates of HCRW generation and treatment capacity are determined for hospitals ...Read more
Author:Mouton, H; De Villiers, JPDate:Aug 2012A dramatic increase in rhino poaching, if allowed to continue at current rates, is threatening South Africa's rhino population with extinction. The available detection and prevention systems are not sufficient in solving this crisis. Targets ...Read more
Author:Uys, H; Biercuk, M; Van Devender, AP; Bollinger, JJDate:Sep 2010The authors study pulse sequences that dynamically decouple 9Be+ ions from their decohering environment. The noise environment the ions see is artificially synthesized to emulate a variety of physical systems. By incorporating measurement ...Read more
Author:Land, K; Potgieter, S; Mbanjwa, MDate:Nov 2008The CSIR is developing a new technology, broadly referred to as microfluidics, which deals with the behaviour, precise control and manipulation of fluids - with applications in areas such as micro fuel cells, disease detection, chemical and ...Read more
Author:Jacobs-Mata, Inga M; Nienaber, SDate:01 Sep 2010Creating a balance between natural and social science is critical to developing relevant and impactful solutions to the governance challenges facing the water sectorRead more
Author:Davel, M; Martirosian, ODate:Sep 2009The deployment of speech technology systems in the developing world is often hampered by the lack of appropriate linguistic resources. A suitable pronunciation dictionary is one such resource that can be difficult to obtain for lesser-resourced ...Read more
Author:Modipa, T; Davel, MHDate:Nov 2010This study focuses on the effective pronunciation modelling of words from different languages encountered during the development of a Sepedi automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. While the speech corpus used for training the ASR system ...Read more
Author:Malatji, Tsholofelo M; Willers, Cornelius J; Willers, MSDate:Dec 2018Infrared guided missiles pose a threat to both military and civilian aircraft, and as such, the development of effective countermeasures against this threat remains vital. The effectiveness of various jamming code signals on the tracking ...Read more
Author:Litvin, IA; McLaren, MG; Forbes, ADate:Aug 2008The investigation into Bessel beams has been a topic of immense research during the past 20 years, due to the interesting properties they display. Bessel beams not only exhibit diffraction free propagation, but also reconstruction of the ...Read more
Author:Botha, L; Gaffar, YADate:Feb 2006The study, by CSIR Defence, Peace, Safety and Security is using propagation prediction software to predict the propagation effects of both communication and radar systems. These are the models used in the study: Free Space Model; Rn Model; ...Read more
Author:Rogers, D; Brent, ADate:Feb 2006The most toxic group of substances associated with waste incineration emission controls are the 210 dioxin compounds. Concentrations at which it is required to be measured range are 0.1 ng/m3 in the EU where large 100 000 tonne per annum ...Read more
Author:Salmon, BP; Kleynhans, W; Schwegmann, CP; Olivier, JCDate:Jul 2015An important aspect of research in the remote sensing field is to objectively compare different classifiers. This is the foundation of hundreds of research projects and in this paper we will address some raising concerns when evaluating ...Read more
Author:Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA; Rust, FC; Vos, RM; Visser, ATDate:Oct 1994In view of the increasing traffic volumes in South Africa and especially with regard to the impact of that on noise pollution and wet-weather accident rates in urban areas, the Southern African Bitumen and Tar Association expressed a need for ...Read more
Author:Yalisi, B; Roro, Kittessa T; Forbes, ADate:May 2011Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is a thin-film deposition technique, which uses short and intensive laser pulses to evaporate target material. The technique has been used in this work to produce selective solar absorber (SSA) thin film composites ...Read more
Author:Ditsela, J; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Jun 2011An address assignment scheme identifies the components that make up an address and describes how values are assigned to these components. Address assignment schemes vary from country to country and there is often a strong cultural, religious ...Read more
Author:Grobler, JE; Rust, FC; Molenaar, PDate:Jul 1992This paper addresses the development of a design procedure for large-stone asphalt, the implementation thereof in two sets of trial sections, the correlation of engineering properties obtained in the laboratory with field properties, the ...Read more
Author:Gertenbach, Wian P; Botha, Johannes G; Leenen, LDate:Mar 2024The characteristics of blockchain established a desirable platform for entities to innovate and operate in a secure, transparent, and decentralised manner. However, cybercriminals have increasingly found refuge in the decentralised environment ...Read more