Author:Murambadoro, MDate:Nov 2011The South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology's Global Change Grand Challenge under its ten-year Innovation Plan for South Africa. Implemented by the CSIR, the Atlas draws on a ...Read more
Author:Raschke, AM; Burger, AECDate:Jan 1997A preliminary study undertaken by the CSIR in July 1993 on the health effects of aerial crop spraying of pesticides in the Vaalharts irrigation area in South Africa indicated that potential health risks could exist for the inhabitants of this ...Read more
Author:Zuma, K; Gouws, E; Williams, B; Lurie, MDate:Dec 2003The authors investigate the prevalence of, and risk factors for, HIV infection among women in an urban South African setting. A random sample of 834 women was recruited into a community-based cross-sectional study. HIV prevalence was 37.1% ...Read more
Author:Schreiner, GO; Snyman-Van Der Walt, LuanitaDate:Jun 2018The scientific assessment of shale gas development was compiled by over 200 authors and peer reviewers from around the world. Novel assessment methods were used based on the concepts of risk, scenarios and predictive landscape modelling. Three ...Read more
Author:Huizinga, PDate:1995The study of the effect of the Wolwedans Dam on the Great Brak Estuary and the development of the management plan to maintain a healthy environment yielded many interesting results. The general conclusion is that developments in a catchment, ...Read more
Author:Oberholster, Paul J; Botha, A-M; Hill, Liesl; Strydom, Wilma FDate:Dec 2017Rising environmental pressures on water resources and resource quality associated with urbanisation, industrialisation, mining and agriculture are a global concern. In the current study the upper Olifants River catchment as case study was ...Read more
Author:Whitfield, AK; Harrison, TDDate:Jun 2003The ichthyofauna of the Thukela Estuary, a small (55 ha), shallow (<1_5 m) system on the KwaZulu-Natal coast (mean annual river runoff of 3865_106m3, from a large catchment of29 000km2, is seasonal: peak inputs occurring between November and ...Read more
Author:Abia, ALK; Ubomba-Jaswa, Eunice; du Preez, M; Momba, MNBDate:Dec 2015Purpose
Sediments have been shown to contribute to the microbial quality of the water column during resuspension and serve as reservoirs for potentially pathogenic organisms. Currently, definitive guidelines regarding microbial indicators ...Read more
Author:Ashton, PJDate:Jul 2007South Africa is richly endowed with an array of natural resources, with one exception - water. In South African water law, a river system and its associated riverine biodiversity - i.e. the entire aquatic ecosystem - is regarded as the ‘water ...Read more
Author:Smit, KP; Van Niekerk, Lara; Harris, LR; McQuatters-Gollop, A; Shannon, LJ; Sink, KJDate:Jun 2022Despite the increasing number of tools and indicators to measure biodiversity status and trends, many developing countries struggle to initiate and advance coastal and marine assessments needed to monitor and track national and international ...Read more
Author:Mtshali, Mbali; Engelbrecht, ADate:Jan 2010In the development of mobile robotic systems, a robotic architecture plays a crucial role in interconnecting all the sub-systems and controlling the system. The design of robotic architectures for mobile autonomous robots is a challenging and ...Read more
Author:Utete, S; Green, J; Liddiard, A; Burger, Chris RDate:Sep 2013Second in the series of articles focusing on the state of robotics and automation in the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, this article provides an overview on South Africa written by researchers from the Council ...Read more
Author:Brunner, T; Roux, FSDate:Jun 2013The entangled quantum state of a photon pair propagating through atmospheric turbulence suffers decay of entanglement due to the scintillation it experiences. Here we investigate the robustness against this decay for different qutrit states. ...Read more
Author:Karsten, Carike; Bean, WL; Van Heerden, QuentinDate:Feb 2023There is a lack of dynamic facility location models for developing countries that consider the changes in the problem environment over time, such as patient population and population migration. Therefore, this paper focuses on using optimization ...Read more
Author:Lavery, MPJ; Dudley, Angela L; Forbes, A; Courtial, J; Padgett, MJDate:Sep 2011The authors have developed an interferometer requiring only minimal angular alignment for the routing of beams carrying orbital angular momentum. The Mach–Zehnder interferometer contains a Dove prism in each arm where each has a mirror plane ...Read more
Author:Seid, R; Majozi, TDate:Jan 2012Several scheduling techniques exist in literature based on continuous time representation. The models based on unit specific time points have shown better solution efficiency by reducing the number of time points and problem size. In this ...Read more
Author:Smith, Andrew CDate:May 2014The Internet of Things (IoT) holds the promise of improved programmatic user control over domestic appliances. The developed world dominates the design of programming environments, assuming letteracy and computer literacy on the part of the ...Read more
Author:Henrico, S; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Oct 2021The benefits of free and open-source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to ...Read more
Author:Taylor, JRN; Dewar, JDate:Nov 1994The cause of the high glucose to maltose ratio in sorghum malt worts was studied. Mashing temperature and pH strongly affected both the amount of glucose and the proportion of glucose relative to total fermentable sugars. The relative proportion ...Read more
Author:Geyer, JJ; Bruwer, RDate:2006The efficient design and manufacturing of injection moulds (and other tooling) requires collaboration between multi-disciplinary, geographically separated units and companies, including the company that orders plastic parts, the ones that ...Read more