Author:Van Zyl, MDate:Jul 2002Originally the research was sponsored collectively by the mining industry through the Chamber of Mines, and later through government levies raised and administered by the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (SIMRAC). The CSIR (a ...Read more
Author:Van Zyl, MDate:Jul 2002In the early 1980's, winder ropes research in South Africa gained new momentum when it was decided to investigate the validity of the regulations governing the strength of winder ropes. Although knowledge of, and experience with winder systems ...Read more
Author:Marais, Mario A; Smith, Andrew C; Duveskog, MDate:Apr 2007TekkiKids is a part of the The Young Engineers of South Africa (YESA) programme which is an initiative aimed at increasing the pipeline for the generation of more scientists, engineers and technologists by creating the necessary interest and ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Soogandhree; Barnard, EDate:Jul 2005Telephone-based information services hold tremendous potential as a means of information access in the developing world. However,surprisingly little research has been done on the design of such systems - whether basic Interactive Voice Response ...Read more
Author:Masonta, Moshe T; Kliks, A; Mzyece, MDate:Sep 2013The use of unoccupied television (TV) frequency band (known as TV white space - TVWS) for non-broadcasting services is gaining momentum around the world. Especially in developing countries where the majority of the population are in under-served ...Read more
Author:Keet, CM; Nasubo Ongoma, EADate:Jan 2015Representing data that changes over time in conceptual data models is required by various application domains, and requires a language that is expressive enough to fully capture the operational semantics of the time-varying information. ...Read more
Author:Seotsanyana, MDate:Jul 2010Robotic computer systems are increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life and this has led to a need to develop safe and reliable systems. To ensure safety and reliability of these systems, the following three main verification techniques are ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony KDate:Feb 1988This paper describes a suite of programs that simulates the lighting effects of the sun or moon on the earth's surface. A digital terrain model (DTM) is typically a two-dimensional regular tessellation of some measured phenomenon, the most ...Read more
Author:Gelderblom, H; Kotzé, PaulaDate:Jun 2009The existing knowledge base on child development offers a wealth of information that can be useful for the design of children’s technology. Furthermore, academic journals and conference proceedings provide us with a constant stream of new ...Read more
Author:Fouché, Gerda; Moodley, N; Maharaj, VDate:Nov 2008The bioprospecting group of CSIR Biosciences, focuses on the transformation of African traditional medicines into minimally-processed, scientifically-validated herbal medicines and remedies; the discovery of new pharmaceutical active ingredients ...Read more
Author:Veerasamy, Namosha; Grobler, MDate:Mar 2011The growth of technology has provided a wealth of functionality. One area in which Information Communication Technology (ICT), especially the Internet, has grown to play a supporting role is terrorism. The Internet provides an enormous amount ...Read more
Author:Ramaloko, PM; Van Dyk, JT; Smit, EDate:Sep 2014Protective footwear that mitigates the shock transferred to the victim’s leg during an antipersonnel landmine blast need to be evaluated to verify their protection levels. The Mine Boot Test and Evaluation System which include a surrogate ...Read more
Author:Ortlepp, WD; Stacey, TRDate:Jun 1998This research report discusses the development of a realistic and controllable method of testing support tendons dynamically, which has been achieved in this research project, offers a new and fresh opportunity for improving the design ...Read more
Author:Ortlepp, WD; Stacey, TRDate:Jul 1997The objective of this project was to determine the performance characteristics of containment elements of tunnel support in common use in South African mines under dynamic loading. The magnitude of the energy levels in this testing had to ...Read more
Author:Schlunz, Georg I; Dlamini, Nkosikhona; Tshoane, Alfred; Ramunyisi, Ndivhuwo SDate:Nov 2017Text normalisation in text-to-speech synthesis comprises the segmentation and classification of the incoming text and the subsequent expansion of non-standard words into their standard word, spoken forms. We present a rule-based implementation ...Read more
Author:Edwards, Gareth R; Sefara, Tshephisho JDate:Apr 2024Text summarisation is becoming increasingly important for humans to more quickly understand and analyse documents with large amounts of text. In this paper, we review and discuss approaches and methods used in the development of text summarisation ...Read more
Author:Botha, G; Zimu, V; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006The authors investigate the performance of text-based language identification systems on the 11 official languages of South Africa, when n-gram statistics are used as features for classification. In particular, the authors compare support ...Read more
Author:Giwa, O; Davel, MHDate:Nov 2015Text-based language identification (T-LID) of isolated words has been shown to be useful for various speech processing tasks, including pronunciation modelling and data categorisation. When the words to be categorised are proper names, the ...Read more