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Characterisation of two bifunctional cellulase-xylanase enzymes isolated from a bovine rumen metagenome library

Author: Rashamuse, KJ ; Visser, Daniel F ; Hennessy, F ; Kemp, J ; Van der Merwe, MP ; Badenhorst, J ; Ronneburg, T ; Francis-Pope, R ; Brady, D Date: Feb 2013 Ruminant digestive tract microbes hydrolyse plant biomass, and the application of metagenomic techniques can provide good coverage of their glycosyl hydrolase enzymes. A metagenomic library of circa 70,000 fosmids was constructed from bacterial ... Read more
Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages

Author: Badenhorst, J ; Van Heerden, C ; Davel, M ; Barnard, E Date: Aug 2011 The authors describe the Lwazi corpus for automatic speech recognition (ASR), a new telephone speech corpus which contains data from the eleven official languages of South Africa. Because of practical constraints, the amount of speech per ... Read more
Developing speech resources from parliamentary data for South African english

Author: De Wet, Febe ; Badenhorst, J ; Modipa, T Date: May 2016 The official languages of South Africa can still be classified as under-resourced with respect to the speech resources that are required for technology development. Harvesting speech data from existing sources is one means to create additional ... Read more
Hydrolysis of nitriles by soil bacteria: variation with soil origin

Author: Rapheeha, OKL ; Roux-van der Merwe, MP ; Badenhorst, J ; Chhiba, Varsha P ; Bode, ML ; Mathiba, Kgama ; Brady, D Date: Mar 2017 The aim of this study was to explore bacterial soil diversity for nitrile biocatalysts, in particular, those for hydrolysis of ß-substituted nitriles, to the corresponding carboxamides and acids that may be incorporated into peptidomimetics. ... Read more
Microwave assisted green synthesis and characterization of silver/montmorillonite heterostructures with improved antimicrobial properties

Author: Kesavan Pillai, Sreejarani ; Ray, Suprakas S ; Scriba, Manfred R ; Bandyopadhyay, J ; Roux-van der Merwe, MP ; Badenhorst, J Date: Oct 2013 Silver (Ag)/montmorillonite (Mt) heterostructures were effectively synthesized utilising microwave (MW) irradiation technique in the absence of any reducing agent. Compared to conventional thermal reduction processes, this approach is simple, ... Read more
A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages

Author: De Vries, NJ ; Davel, MH ; Badenhorst, J ; Basson, WD ; De Wet, Febe ; Barnard, E ; De Waal, A Date: Jan 2014 Acoustic data collection for automatic speech recognition (ASR) purposes is a particularly challenging task when working with under resourced languages, many of which are found in the developing world. We provide a brief overview of related ... Read more

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