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B-Carotene-a long road to commercial implementation

Author: Gardiner, NS ; Lalloo, Rajesh ; Ramduth, DM ; Dudas, J ; Marcus, M Date: Sep 2006 Oral presentation on commercial implementation of β-carotene at the Bio2Biz Conference Read more
Bacillus spp as a biological control agent against panama disease in banana

Author: Gumede, WHN ; Van Zyl, PJ ; Okole, B ; Lalloo, Rajesh Date: Feb 2006 The decreased productivity levels in crop production as a consequence of disease infection have been a great concern amongst agricultural communities. A similar threat is facing the banana-cultivating community due to Panama disease. Panama ... Read more
Backyard housing in Gauteng: an analysis of spatial dynamics

Author: Shapurjee, Y ; Le Roux, Alize ; Coetzee, M Date: May 2014 This article examines the phenomenon of backyard housing in Gauteng, a prominent driver of urban spatial change in South Africa’s housing market. Backyard housing in South Africa increasingly attracts the attention of policymakers because of ... Read more
Bacterial control of cyanobacteria

Author: Ndlela, Luyanda L ; Oberholster, Paul J ; Van Wyk, Johannes Date: Aug 2017 With the effects of climate change, harmful algal blooms (HABs) have become a global concern, with serious implications in water scarce countries and vulnerable continents such as Africa. A need exists for low-cost, environmentally feasible ... Read more
Bagged stone dust barrier evaluations in a bord and pillar mine

Author: Du Plessis, JJL ; Weiss, ES ; Cashdollar, KL Date: May 2000 The prime objective of this report was to evaluate single bag performance at various positions in the gallery when exposed to different explosions. These methane explosions varied in strength and position to generate varied explosion pulses ... Read more
Barriers & challenges to the adoption of E-Health standards in Africa

Author: Adebesin, F ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van Greunen, D ; Foster, R Date: Jul 2013 Although standardization is seen as the key to ensuring interoperability of healthcare information systems, the large numbers of standards available can make the selection decision difficult especially for a developing nation. This paper ... Read more
Barriers and opportunities for SMME participation in renewable energy industry

Author: Ntuli, Princess N ; Mkhwebane, Sesie E Date: Nov 2018 Renewable energy can be explained as energy that is derived from natural resources and processes, that are not depleted but replenished at a rate that is faster than the consumption thereof (International Energy Agency, 2018). This form of ... Read more
Barriers and opportunities for SMME participation in renewable energy industry

Author: Mkhwebane, Sesie E Date: Jun 2018 Renewable energy can be explained as energy that is derived from natural resources and processes, that are not depleted but replenished at a rate that is faster than the consumption thereof (International Energy Agency, 2018). Read more
Barriers in rural technology integration: A case study from the trenches

Author: Botha, Adèle ; Herselman, Martha E ; Rametse, S ; Maremi, Keneilwe J Date: May 2017 Teachers recognize the importance of integrating technology into their classroom practice and the endeavour has attracted much attention. Teacher Professional Development (TPD) initiatives have focused on enabling and supporting teachers. ... Read more
Barriers to electronic access and delivery of educational information in resource constrained public schools: a case of Greater Tubatse Municipality

Author: Pholotho, T ; Mtsweni, Jabu S Date: May 2016 Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are capable of expanding access to quality education, educational resources and provide teachers with new skills. Nevertheless, a majority of rural public schools have limited ICTs, mainly due ... Read more
Baseline axle load survey in Malawi - 2014

Author: Roux, Michael P ; Lotter, S ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2015 As part of the project to update the Malawian Directorate of Road Transport and Safety Services’ (DRTSS) 2005 Axle Load Control Strategy and to provide a five-year implementation plan, a country-wide axle load survey was undertaken to assess ... Read more
Baseline study of the Mokolo and Lephalala rivers in the Waterberg area

Author: De Klerk, A ; De Klerk, Arno R Date: Jul 2011 A study was conducted in the Waterberg area to characterize the aquatic macro invertebrate community structure and fish assemblages in the Mokolo and Lephalala rivers prior to the onset of increased mining activities and coal fired power ... Read more
Basic principles of solar water heating

Author: Page-Shipp, RJ Date: 10 Sep 1980 This article correctly reflects the principles of Solar Water Heating as they pertain to South African conditions. However, it was written in 1980 and the global energy situation has changed considerably. Furthermore, modern commercial units ... Read more
Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues

Author: Van Heerden, C ; Barnard, E ; Davel, M Date: Sep 2009 Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have great potential for information access in the developing world. However, the realisation of that potential requires the solution of several challenging problems, including the development of sufficiently ... Read more
Battery energy storage systems value chain analysis for the identification of opportunities for enterprise development

Author: Pandarum, Aradhna ; Rakaibe, Tshwanelo K ; Mbam, Vuyo Date: Oct 2023 South Africa is confronted by the triple threat of inequality, poverty, and unemployment and has the highest inequality and unemployment rate in the world. The energy transition to a low carbon economy offers significant opportunity for the ... Read more
A bayesian approach for learning and tracking switching, non-stationary opponents

Author: Hernandez-Leal, P ; Rosman, Benjamin S ; Taylor, ME ; Sucar, LE ; de Cote, EM Date: Feb 2016 In many situations, agents are required to use a set of strategies (behaviors) and switch among them during the course of an interaction. This work focuses on the problem of recognizing the strategy used by an agent within a small number of ... Read more
The Bayesian Description Logic BALC

Author: Botha, L ; Meyer, Thomas ; Penaloza, R Date: Oct 2018 Description Logics (DLs) that support uncertainty are not as well studied as their crisp alternatives, thereby limiting their use in real world domains. The Bayesian DL BEL and its extensions have been introduced to deal with uncertain knowledge ... Read more
Bayesian inference in dynamic domains using logical OR gates

Author: Claessens, R ; De Waal, A ; De Villiers, Pieter ; Penders, A ; Pavlin, G ; Tuyls, K Date: Apr 2016 The range of applications that require processing of temporally and spatially distributed sensory data is expanding. Common challenges in domains with these characteristics are sound reasoning about uncertain phenomena and coping with the ... Read more
BC3I: towards requirements specification for preparing an information security budget

Author: Dlamini, Moses T ; Eloff, MM ; Eloff, JHP ; Hone, K Date: Jul 2009 The entire business landscape finds itself on the verge of a recession because of ongoing global economic turmoil. Thus, there is a heightened need to minimise and mitigate business risk and scrutinise information spending while ensuring ... Read more
BDI agent architecture for a POMDP planner

Author: Rens, G ; Ferrein, A ; Van der Poel, E Date: Jun 2009 Traditionally, agent architectures based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model make use of precompiled plans, or if they do generate plans, the plans do not involve stochastic actions nor probabilistic observations. Plans that do involve ... Read more

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