Abstract
Background
South Africa has made great progress in the development of HIV/AIDS testing, treatment and prevention campaigns. Yet, it is clear that prevention and treatment campaigns ...
Abstract
Background
The prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program in South Africa is now successful in ensuring HIV-free survival for most HIV-exposed children, but gaps in ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the intensity and
direction (i.e., perceived effect) of anxiety and self-confidence among
elite South African crawl stroke swimmers as well as its relationship
to the performance ...
Van Der Heever, Z.Grobbelaar, H. W.Potgieter, J. C.(2007)
The purpose of this study was to compare junior netball players,
from successful and less successful provincial teams, regarding their
sport psychological skill (SPS) levels. One hundred and forty four
female South ...
Massively multi-user virtual environments
(MMVEs) face scalability challenges, one being the large number
of concurrent users interacting in the virtual environment (VE).
Spatial partitioning addresses this problem by ...
This paper aims to quantify and evaluate congestion
in Stellenbosch, a historic university town located approximately 50
kilometres east of Cape Town, South Africa, using probe data. It is
known that Stellenbosch ...
Over the past decade, the South African
transportation environment has actively started to adapt a
technology-driven setting. Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) applications such as Advanced Traffic Management
Systems ...
The ever-increasing existence of electronic systems
and devices within the residential environment, along with the
human desire to simplify life and daily routine, is generating
increased interest in the field of Home ...
Nel, P. J. C.Booysen, Marthinus J.Van Der Merwe, B.(2014-12)
Pervasive and ubiquitous technologies that include
mobile device applications, machine to machine communications,
and cloud computing, are increasingly used for cost-effective data
aggregation and information dissemination. ...
The Faculty of Forestry and Woodscience at Stellenbosch
University has a requirement to monitor and record
water resources and environmental data at remote sites, not
within reach of any mobile services. The current ...
This paper presents the development, implementation
and verification of a flight control system for the automated
landing of an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in
crosswind conditions.
There is an increasing ...
The ubiquitous presence of smartphones provides
a new platform on which to implement sensor networks for
ITS applications. In this paper we show how the embedded
sensors and GPS of a smartphone can be used to ...
With South Africa’s energy grid currently under severe
pressure due to a lack of planning, electricity prices have escalated.
This has forced consumers to look toward finding innovative ways
to reduce their consumption.
The ...
In online discussion forums, comment moderation systems
are often faced with the problem of establishing the value of
an unseen online comment. By knowing the value of comments,
the system is empowered to establish rank ...
Minibus taxis provide affordable alternative transport
for the majority of urban working population in Sub-
Saharan Africa. Often, these taxis do not follow predefined routes
in their endeavours to look for passengers. ...
Briante, O.Campolo, O.Iera, A.Molinaro, A.Paratore, S. Y.Ruggeri, G.Booysen, Marthinus J.(2014-12)
The recent advances in sensing and communication
technologies pave the way for interfacing cars with smartphones
to offer value-added services to users on the road. Kinematics,
automotive diagnostics, passengers load, ...
Ebot Eno Akpa, N. A.Booysen, Marthinus J.Sinclair, M.(2014-12)
Speeding is considered to be a major contributing
cause of road fatalities in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa
in particular. The minibus taxi industry is a vibrant yet partly
informal sector of public transport in ...