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Practical challenges to calibrate a heliostat with a multi-copter
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Tracing the Islamic influences on the garden design of nineteenth-century Cairene gardens
Published 2018“…A. le Khedive and Le parc public de l’Ezbékieh au Caire which represent the main textual sources of this research.…”
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Improving the strength performance and economic viability of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis through finger jointing
Published 2020“…Egypt is known with its arid weather and the presence of a very limited space of greenery mainly around the Nile River and mostly for agriculture uses. …”
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The use of recovery modalities by endurance runners
Published 2015“…Personal experience and information from fellow runners were the two main resources that influenced participants' use of different recovery modalities. …”
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Models of self-organization in biological development
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Global versus local brands in South Africa: an empirical analysis of consumer perceptions
Published 2020“…To understand consumers’ decision making process between global and local brands, the signaling theory was applied. …”
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Multiscale patterns of mammal diversity and occurrence in the Karoo
Published 2023“…I found that at the broadest scale wildlife diversity and occupancy was largely influenced by landscape–level abiotic processes, namely longitude and precipitation. None of the wide–ranging large predator (e.g., leopard or brown hyena) or endangered species (i.e., riverine rabbit) known to occur in the region were detected, suggesting the survey design was too coarse, and that protected areas were underrepresented. …”
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Improvement of the approaches to monitoring of reinforced concrete bridges subjected to chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion in bridge management systems
Published 2023“…Reinforcement corrosion in reinforced concrete (RC) bridges has undeniably become the main cause of civil infrastructure durability problems in many countries. …”
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Plankton dynamics of the open Southern Ocean and surrounding the (Sub)Antarctic islands
Published 2023“…The Southern Ocean is a high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll region where primary productivity is limited mainly by iron and light availability, yet it accounts for ~30-40% of global ocean CO2 absorption annually. …”
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The relationship between tackle technique and external load of a simulated tackle
Published 2024“…Coaches play an essential role in the monitoring process, however, the research on coaches in collision sports is not well understood. …”
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Models of self-organization in biological development
Published 2024“…It should be noted that the work is structured so as to be read sequentially, from beginning to end; and that the chapters in the main text were designed to be understood essentially independently of the appendices, although frequent references to the latter are given. …”
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Development and validation of an inventory for Western Cape primary science teachers' conceptions of formative assessment
Published 2025“…The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) analysis of data collected using TCoA-WC revealed the same factor structure as that of the TCoA-IIIA model, confirming the presence of four main conceptions of assessment (i.e., Improvement, School Accountability, Learner Accountability, and Irrelevance) and associated 27 items in the thinking of Western Cape primary science teachers. …”
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Opening pandora's box? Desegregation and Transformation in Six Elite Public Schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Published 2025“…It identifies contextual factors which influenced change in the sample schools, and examines the impact of desegregation on their functioning and ethos over three decades. The main research question considers how and why public schools in similar communities, which followed identical laid-down desegregatory procedures in 1990, emerged with such contrasting demographic patterns and school ethos. …”
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Synoptic weather systems over Antarctic sea ice: understanding the link between extratropical cyclones and extreme variability in Antarctic sea-ice concentration
Published 2026“…To accomplish this, this study is formulated about three main research aims. The first aim is to test whether circulation patterns associated with cyclones or atmospheric rivers may routinely lead to the presence of unusually warm, moist air masses over ice-covered regions. …”
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