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Second law analysis for MHD permeable channel flow with variable electrical conductivity and asymmetric Navier slips
(De Gruyter, 2014-11)The inherent irreversibility in a steady hydromagnetic permeable channel flow of a conducting fluid with variable electrical conductivity and asymmetric Navier slip at the channel walls in the presence of induced electric ...
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Testing and implementation of a transportable and robust radio-element mapping system
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2015-09-25)Gamma ray spectroscopy has been successfully applied as a survey tool in the fields of morphology, geology and mineral exploration. Gamma ray surveys are regularly done at ground level, which frequently requires transecting ...
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Optimal control of HIV/AIDS in the workplace in the presence of careless individuals
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-06-26)A nonlinear dynamical system is proposed and qualitatively analyzed to study the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace. The disease-free equilibrium point of the model is shown to be locally asymptotically stable if the ...
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Computational dynamics of arterial blood flow in the presence of magnetic field and thermal radiation therapy
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-04-22)We conduct a numerical study to determine the influence of magnetic field and thermal radiation on both velocity and temperature distributions in a single blood vessel. The model here assumes that blood is a Newtonian ...
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Application of successive linearisation method to squeezing flow with bifurcation
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-01-02)This paper employs the computational approach known as successive linearization method (SLM) to tackle a fourth order nonlinear differential equation modelling the transient flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between ...
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Unsteady hydromagnetic flow of radiating fluid past a convectively heated vertical plate with the Navier slip
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-04-17)This paper investigates the unsteady hydromagnetic-free convection of an incompressible electrical conducting Boussinesq’s radiating fluid past a moving vertical plate in an optically thin environment with the Navier slip, ...
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Analysis of heat transfer in Berman flow of nanofluids with Navier slip, viscous dissipation, and convective cooling
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-03-31)Heat transfer characteristics of a Berman flow of water based nanofluids containing copper (Cu) and alumina (Al2O3) as nanoparticles in a porous channel with Navier slip, viscous dissipation, and convective cooling are ...
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Last night I dreamed of peace : an extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)Many people’s view about war and its impact was changed by a woman named Dang Thuy Tram. Her diaries, which she kept as a practicing medical doctor during the Vietnam War, were published some forty odd years after her ...
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Taking the lonely walk in Iraq and Afghanistan
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)"Eight lives down", "Extreme risk" and "Bomb hunters" all contain the personal accounts of British soldiers who served as bomb-disposal operators during the recent armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The books were ...
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The South African military in transition : part 2 - from strategic culture to strategic reality
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)The analysis reported here focused on the dynamic interaction between a preferred strategic management model of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) on the one hand, and the SANDF’s acquired strategic culture ...
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The South African military in transition : part 1 - from strategy formulation to strategy formation
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)By 2013, sufficient evidence had become publicly available to confirm what defence analysts had been suspecting for a while now: the military effectiveness of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is deficient. ...
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Success and failure along the Modder River during the Anglo-Boer War : the influence of terrain
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)The influence of terrain on military operations is a well-known and well-researched topic. In a South African context, the body of literature about this topic is, however, not as well developed. This article strives to ...
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Terrain analysis in the course curricula of the South African Army Engineer Corps
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)The research reported here examined the engineer occupational course curricula presented by the South African Army School of Engineers. Methodology involved examination of all enabling learning objectives for the Corps ...
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The background radiation and exposure levels at various South African west coast military units
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)The West Coast of South Africa between St Helena Bay to the north and Langebaan Lagoon to the south is characterised by numerous granite protrusions. These outcrops are elements of the underlying Cape Granite Suite, which ...
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Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk : two South African military disasters revisited 1941-1942
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are the largest disasters suffered by South Africa in its military history. Yet, despite their enormity, Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are little understood and hardly remembered. South ...
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Armoured warfare : the South African experience in East Africa 1940-1941
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Following South African entry into the Second World War on 6 September 1939, the Union Defence Force (UDF) transformed from an ageing peacetime defence force into a modern armed force capable of projecting ...
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Turning the tide : revisiting African maritime security
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2013)Maritime security appears to be assuming an increasingly more prominent place on the African security agenda. Although the growing scholarly debate and international responses seem to attend to more than piracy, the latter ...
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South African naval diplomacy since 1994
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the beginning of naval power, navies have been used by their states as instruments of foreign policy. In South Africa, the political transition since 1994 originated the evolution of the country’s ...
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Fighting Springboks : C Company, Royal Natal carbineers : from Premier Mine to Po Valley, 1939 - 1945
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Germany’s declaration of war on Poland on 1 September 1939 and the consequent war in Europe not only found the Union of South Africa politically divided but militarily unprepared to fight a modern war let ...
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South African defence policy and capability : the case of the South African National Defence Force
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Armed forces the world over have three primary functions — force development, force deployment and force employment. Defence policy plays a guiding role in all of these, but is especially important in ...
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The suppression of internal unrest in South West Africa (Namibia) 1921-1933
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)In 1915, the Union of South Africa was requested to administrate South West Africa (SWA) (today Namibia) on behalf of the British Crown and approved the South West Africa Mandate. The policies of the Union strongly ...
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Multi-detector registration system for the study of multi-body decay of heavy body nuclei
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)Nuclear ssion is commonly known as a process where a heavy nucleus such as Uranium or Thorium decays into two fragments of roughly equal mass. On occasion however, instead of decay into two parts a process known as ...
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Weak states and child soldiering in Africa : contextual factors
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last forty years Africa has been one of the most conflict-ridden regions in the world, resulting in untold human suffering. It has been estimated that between 1955 and 1999 some nine to ten ...
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Challenges of arms transfers facing the emerging supplier states in the new international political economy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The fundamental motivation for emerging arms suppliers to produce arms was the desire to overcome their position of dependence in the system of arms production and transfers. However, their predicament ...
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Optimal objective achievement via balance of control
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations need assurance that strategy is executed as planned and objectives are met, when matching organisational capabilities with the opportunities in the market. Control can give management ...
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Perceptions of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the operational capability of the infantry section
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV/AIDS is spreading through Africa in epidemic proportions. Hundreds and thousands of people are infected on a daily basis. This pandemic destroys the emotional and physical strength of individuals. ...
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An Australian war correspondent in Ladysmith : the siege report of Donald Macdonald of the Melbourne Argus
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2000)Some one hundred years ago, South Africa was torn apart by the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). To mark this cataclysmic event, Covos-Day is publishing a series of books. The first is a facsimile of Donald Macdonald's ...
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Bambatha at Mpanza : the making of a rebel
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2004)Bambatha is widely known as the chief who led a group of men to confront the Natal colonial government in protest against poll tax. He lived in a broken, sandy and stoney area known as Mpanza valley, to the north of Greytown, ...
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Akademiese steun by die militere akademie : die aanspreek van andershede in die SA Weermag
(Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, 1992)Die Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskap is blootgestel aan snelle veranderinge wat noodwendig 'n neerslag vind in die SA Weermag en die Militêre Akademie op Saldanha. Dit is egter nie net die veranderinge wat hul invloed laat geld ...
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