Author:Venter, KarienDate:01 Sep 2010Road safety is a core problem that governments battle with year after year. One of the areas in which South Africa has been lagging behind is the field of road and traffic psychology. This is despite the fact that some 90% of road accidents ...Read more
Author:Nortje, KarenDate:Mar 2011Working with people is a priority for SANParks' (www.SANParks.co.za). In the last few years SANParks have, with statements such as these, made a public commitment to include local communities as well as the local knowledge they have, in their ...Read more
Author:Heyns, Johan A; Oxtoby, Oliver F; Malan, AGDate:Sep 2012This study presents the development and extension of free-surface modelling techniques with the purpose of improving the modelling accuracy for liquid-gas sloshing. Considering high density ratio fluids under low Mach number conditions, the ...Read more
Author:Camagu, ST; Govender, G; Möller, HDate:Jul 2013A method for producing metal matrix composites MMC was successfully implemented for mixing nano and low micron (“Hybrid”) sized SiC reinforcing particles in an aluminium alloy matrix. Due to the improved specific modulus and strength, MMC’s ...Read more
Author:Masango, Mfundo G; Mouton, Francois; Antony, Palesa; Mangoale, Bokang CDate:Sep 2017Websites have become a form of information distributors; usage of websites has seen a significant rise in the amount of information circulated on the Internet. Some businesses have created websites that display services the business renders ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Viviers, IDate:Nov 2008Many factors impact on the ability to create a digitally inclusive society in a developing world context. These include lack of access to information and communication technology (ICT), infrastructure, low literacy levels as well as low ICT ...Read more
Author:Sibolla, B; Vahed, Anwar; Engelbrecht, F; Naidoo, M; Mtsetfwa, M; Simonis, IDate:Oct 2012Climate change poses a major threat to environmental sustainability. In Africa, sectors which face projected vulnerability include, food security, public health and water resources. A general increase in extreme weather events is also predicted ...Read more
Author:Strik, H; Palumbo, L; De Wet, Febe; Cucchiarini, CDate:Sep 2015The European ‘Lifelong Learning Programme’ (LLP) project ‘Games Online for Basic Language learning’ (GOBL) aimed to provide youths and adults wishing to improve their basic language skills access to materials for the development of communicative ...Read more
Author:Pearson, D; Irwin, Barry VW; Herbert, ADate:Sep 2017Malicious entities are constantly trying their luck at exploiting known vulnerabilities in web services, in an attempt to gain access to resources unauthorized access to resources. For this reason security specialists deploy various network ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, HeidiDate:Aug 2022Purpose of our project: 1. Improve the mapping of the extent and types of wetlands of the Maputaland Coastal Plain: To verify the location and type of wetlands on the Maputaland Coastal Plain and to understand where wetlands are degraded and ...Read more
Author:Khuluse, S; Das, Sonali; Debba, Pravesh; Elphinstone, CDate:Apr 2009When events occur outside the range of acceptable fluctuations, they may result in either (a) the events being more favourable than usual, or (b) the events being less favourable than usual. The latter has serious implications if their ...Read more
Author:Booth, R; Casini, G; Meyer, T; Varzinczak, IDate:Mar 2015We continue recent investigations into the problem of reasoning about typicality. We do so in the framework of Propositional Typicality Logic (PTL), which is obtained by enriching classical propositional logic with a typicality operator and ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jaco; Tshoane, Alfred; De Wet, FebeDate:Dec 2016This paper reports on an analysis of isiXhosa speech produced by adult language learners. The learners whose speech was recorded were all acquiring isiXhosa as an additional language and the majority of the students had beginner level oral ...Read more
Author:Rosman, Benjamin S; Ramamoorthy, SDate:Nov 2012The computational complexity of learning in sequential decision problems grows exponentially with the number of actions available to the agent at each state. We present a method for accelerating this process by learning action priors that ...Read more
Author:Karsten, AEDate:Nov 2008For effective laser treatment it is very important to provide the correct dose at the required treatment depth. In South Africa we have a richness of ethnic groups contributing to a large variety in skin tones. Effective laser treatment of ...Read more
Author:Goldbach, ODate:01 Sep 2010Increased levels of seismicity are known to occur when water enters cracks in the Earth’s surface. This so-called “fluid-induced seismicity” is a phenomenon that has been observed in many non-mining settings (e.g. filling of dams and fluid ...Read more
Author:Goga, T; Harding, Kevin; Russo, Valentina; Von Blottnitz, HDate:Aug 2022Global production and consumption of plastics have increased significantly in recent years. The environmental impacts associated with this trend have received growing attention internationally with single-use plastic packaging responsible for ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NLDate:Jul 2009The green building movement aims to foster the environmental sustainability of construction products by maximising resource efficiency while minimising concomitant pollution throughout the building life cycle. However, green building principles ...Read more
Author:Annamalai, LeeandranDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses how SMART technology can influence the industry of the future. Topics touched on are software enabled machines able to respond relevantly to real world events, the industrial Internet of Things, and machines ...Read more