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Simple holographic model of nonlinear conductivity
(Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2013-12-03)
Software Support for Podcasting Mobile Lecture Content for Education in Sub-Sahara African Universities
(2013-11)
Podcasting is fast gaining traction in developing regions as a means to augment classroom instruction. Commercial podcasting tools such as Apple’s Leopard Server, Tele-task and OpenEya, despite being successfully used in ...
Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
(2013)
This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely ...
A weather related causal analysis on consolidated delay at Newark Liberty International Airport
(2013)
The closure of the European airspace due to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 proved a major challenge for airlines and aviation authorities on a global scale. In contrast, more seasonal adverse ...
A study of mobile phone ad hoc networks via bluetooth with different routing protocols
(2013)
The growth of mobile computing is changing the way people communicate. Mobile devices, especially mobile phones, have become cheaper and more powerful, and are able to run more applications and provide networking services. ...
Simple digital libraries
(2013)
The design of Digital Library Systems (DLSes) has evolved overtime, both in sophistication and complexity, to complement the complex nature and sheer size of digital content being curated. However, there is also a growing ...
Cloud computing for digital libraries
(2013)
Information management systems (digital libraries/repositories, learning management systems, content management systems) provide key technologies for the storage, preservation and dissemination of knowledge in its various ...
Faces as a "Model Category" for Visual Object Recognition
(2013-03-18)
Visual recognition is an important ability that is central to many everyday tasks such as reading, navigation and social interaction, and is therefore actively studied in neuroscience, cognitive psychology and artificial ...
Asynchronous Failure Detectors
(2013-01-30)
Failure detectors -- oracles that provide information about process crashes -- are an important abstraction for crash tolerance in distributed systems. The generality of failure-detector theory, while providing great ...
Securing Deployed RFIDs by Randomizing the Modulation and the Channel
(2013-01-12)
RFID cards are widely used today in sensitive applications such as access control, payment systems, and asset tracking. Past work shows that an eavesdropper snooping on the communication between a card and its legitimate ...