Author:Snyman-Van der Walt, LuanitaDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the scientific assessment of shale gas development in South Africa by Luanita Snyman Van der Walt at the 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October 2017, CSIR International Convention ...Read more
Author:Herselman, Martha E; Foko, Thato E; Nungu, A; Ng'amba, P; Mgeni, MDate:Nov 2015The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the specific lessons that were learnt when Tanzanian and South African Living Labs (LL) collaborated to support one another. It was a scientific collaboration which focussed on Living ...Read more
Author:Delport, JPDate:01 Sep 2010Atmospheric turbulence is a naturally occurring phenomenon that can severely degrade the quality of long-range surveillance video footage. Major effects include image blurring, image warping and temporal wavering of objects in the scene. ...Read more
Author:Thulare, Tumiso; Maremi, Keneilwe J; Herselman, Martha EDate:Dec 2023South Africa and the world had been adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. It became nearly impossible to host face-to-face interviews for data collection as meeting in person increased the risk of infections. It was difficult to ...Read more
Author:Iyawa, GE; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:May 2017Digital health innovation ecosystems describe the need to incorporate the components of digital health, innovation and digital ecosystems in administering healthcare services. Reviewing the evidence of digital health, innovation and digital ...Read more
Author:Van Schalkwyk, A; Grobbelaar, S; Herselman, Martha EDate:Sep 2020Method: Five stages of conducting a scoping review are implemented: 1) identifying the research questions 2) identifying the relevant studies 3) study selection 4) data charting and 5) collecting, summarising, and reporting the results. ...Read more
Author:Thulare, Tumiso; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Aug 2020Poor data integrity hinders health information exchange, research, and reporting. Lack of standardized documentation guidelines will lead to further data integrity issues due to inaccurate, inconsistent, or incomplete information. The lack ...Read more
Author:Motheeram, Preia; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Nov 2016A scoping review was conducted towards supporting the conceptualization of a Digital Open Badge Ecosystem for South Africa. The scoping review intends to address the conceptualization of a digital Open Badges ecosystem for South Africa by: ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, RO; Strydom, M; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Sep 2021This systematic scoping review proposed examining issues connected to TB medication non-adherence among TB patients over a long time in South Africa. Wide electronic databases and online digital libraries were searched, including medical ...Read more
Author:Maremi, Keneilwe J; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Mar 2020The main purpose and focus of this paper is to determine the aspects and capabilities of the South African School Administration and Management System (SA-SAMS). This is necessary to assist and inform schools on how this system can support ...Read more
Author:Ntuli, Princess N; Helgenberger, S; Jacobs, DDate:Nov 2017The purpose of the study is to analyse social and economic development impacts of renewable energy deployment in South Africa. Renewable energy technology is new in South Africa and presents opportunities for the country to spread the benefits ...Read more
Author:Goncalves, DP; Britz, JDate:Jul 2009In this paper, the authors focus on the human dimension of Systems Engineering by addressing the need for the development of systems engineering potential in candidate engineers. Specifically, the authors propose a research design for a systems ...Read more
Author:Gonçalves, D; Britz, JDate:01 Sep 2010Systems engineering is one of the tools with which the CSIR can make an impact. However, systems engineering skills are in short supply. In order to address the shortage of systems engineering (SE) skills in South Africa over the long term, ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NDate:Dec 2013The building industry consumes 50% of the raw materials extracted from the Earth’s crust annually and also plays a leading role in environmental pollution. Replacing synthetic materials with bio-composites has been shown to yield environmental ...Read more
Author:Mahlangu, Vusi J; Pretorius, Cecilia J; Ndibewu, PPDate:Sep 2016This paper presents qualitative analysis results of diesel particulate matter (DPM) from various mining commodities in South Africa. The objective of this work was to determine the concentrations of elements in DPM samples. For this screening ...Read more
Author:Hanslo, Ridewaan; Mnkandla, EDate:Sep 2018Scrum has been the most widely adopted Agile methodology over the past decade with Scrum and Scrum variants offering alternatives to the old software development methods. While Scrum plays an important role in the success of Agile development, ...Read more
Author:Maharaj, A; Paige-Green, PDate:Sep 2013The standard testing procedures for the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Double Hydrometer test, the Pinhole Test, Crumb test and chemical analyses for the identification of potentially dispersive soils have recently been studied and ...Read more
Author:Ravhuanzwo, Lusani; Lysko, Albert A; Nyandeni, TDate:Nov 2016Large dynamic wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) networks based on the distributed control mechanism are susceptible to routing information inaccuracies. Factors such as non-negligible propagation delays, infrequent network state updates, ...Read more
Author:Mamushiane, Lusani; Lysko, Albert A; Dlamini, Sabelo VDate:May 2018The paper quantifies the importance of network resource sharing in leveraging Software Defined Networking (SDN) in mobile network infrastructure and reducing operation costs between multiple operators, especially critical to extend broadband ...Read more
Author:Fischer, TD; Mabin, MJT; Lochner, Paul ADate:May 2016The design of the future transmission grid in South Africa is undergoing a major change as the generation mix in the future will be very different to the existing situation (DoE, 2011) The biggest impact from a transmission grid aspect is the ...Read more