An assessment of the impacts of invasive Australian wattle species on grazing provision and livestock production in South Africa by Yapi, Thozamile Steve

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Using images to support communication in aphasia rehabilitation

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The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island by Hong, Insoo

“…It is argued that currently heritage-making functions as both value distribution and intentional perception for a people in a nation. …”
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Crop and environmental response to irrigation with mine-affected waters : the development of technical management guidelines

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Systematic conservation planning and South Africa's Forest Biome: An assesment of the conservation status of South Africa's forest and reccomdentations for their conservation by Berliner Derek David

“…The study is broad and integrative, using information from various published and unpublished sources, as well as expert judgements. The general framework of systematic conservation planning was used along with the software tools typically used for irreplacebility analysis. …”
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Measuring the social costs of coal-based electricity generation in South Africa

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Predictive Maintenance of Wind Turbines: Remaining Useful Life Estimation Using a BPSO-Optimized Attention-Based CNN-BiLSTM Approach by Hawas, Eman Khaled

“…The proposed solution also utilizes Bayesian optimization to select specific hyperparameters, including the number of filters in the convolutional layer and the activation functions used in the dense layer of the fully connected layer. …”
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The influence of rockmass properties on the seismic response to miming in a deep level gild mine

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Optimal energy management for a grid-tied solar PV-battery microgrid: A reinforcement learning approach by Muriithi, Grace

“…Unlike the Q-learning method, which updates the Q-function using a lookup table (which limits its scalability and overall performance in stochastic optimization), the DQN method uses a deep neural network that approximates the Q- function via statistical regression. …”
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An interpretative phenomenological study of policewomen’s experiences of policing child abuse

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The pattern, frequency and suitability of informal day care provision for pre-school children in Khayelitsha by Lines, Linda Rosalind

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Active purchasing mechanisms of private healthcare services: experiences of public and private purchasers in Kenya by Chuma, Benson

“…Literature shows evidence that implementation of strategic purchasing can contribute to achieving UHC by: aligning funding and incentives with promised health services to promote access; linking transfer of funds to providers to performance with the goal of promoting quality in service delivery; and enhancing equity in resource distribution. Implementation of strategic purchasing mechanisms is however not a straight forward process as providers can use various sources of power such as: monopoly and bargaining capacity; some provider payment mechanisms such as fee-for-service; and information asymmetry to resist the adoption of strategic purchasing mechanisms. …”
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Service model for libraries in an agricultural environment with specific reference to the library of the ARC-Small Grain Institute

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Development of high temperature fixed points for application in radiometry and thermometry

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NCR-sensitive gene expression and regulation of nitrogen interconversion by VID30 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Van der Merwe, George K., (George Karel)1968-

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The impact of macroeconomic variables on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) indices by Ndlovu, Nkosilathi

“…The data was gathered from various sources such as Bloomberg, and I-Net and was analysed over a period of 20 years from 2001 to 2021 on a monthly basis. …”
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Development of a carrot (Daucus carota) microgreen-based product for use as a supplement in bottled water by Oosthuizen, Meghan

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Exploring the factors at play to make wastewater biorefineries a reality by Verster, Bernelle

“…This leads to the conclusion that while the WWBR is a valuable way to address resource recovery, separation at source and internal process efficiencies are critical to improve overall resource efficiency and environmental protection. …”
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