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Help or hindrance? : an investigation into learning through web interfaces
(2007)
A usability study was designed with these issues in mind, to determine the influence of interface design on learning in an educational institution in Namibia. A pilot study identified obstacles and served to enhance the ...
Measuring the applicability of open data standards to a single distributed organisation : an application to the COMESA Secretariat
(2008)
This dissertation develops data metrics that represent the extent to which data standards can be applied to an organization's data. The research identified key issues that affect data interoperability or the feasibility ...
Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries: a case study of the DRC cities in Kinshasa and Kananga
(2007)
The digital divide is largely seen as the main problem that developing economies and societies must overcome to gain economic productivity and social welfare. In this document we state that modern western perception of the ...
Force-extension of the Amylose Polysaccharide
(2009)
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disorder in which auto-antibodies directed at the acetylcholine receptors (AChR) of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) block, alter or destroy their targets. The anti-AChR antibodies ...
Introduction to Java programming for the high school student
(2004)
The objective of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching high school students the Java language utilising Java classes. These classes were designed to simplify the syntax of the language and to introduce ...
A lossy, dictionary -based method for short message service (SMS) text compression
(2009)
Short message service (SMS) message compression allows either more content to be fitted into a single message or fewer individual messages to be sent as part of a concatenated (or long) message. While essentially only ...
Optimising information retrieval from the web in low-bandwidth environments
(2007)
The Internet has potential to deliver information to Web users that have no other way of getting to those resources. However, information on the Web is scattered without any proper semantics for classifying them and thus ...
Incompatibility of lognormal forward-Libor and Swap market models
(2005)
The lognormal forward-Libor and Swap market models were formulated to price caps and swaptions. However, the prices computed by these two models, under equivalent measures, are reported to be unequal. This study investigates ...
MIRMaid : an interface for a content based Music Information Retrieval test-bed
(2006)
MIRMaid is an acronym for Music Information Retrieval Modular aid and is an interface that allows different content based retrieval tasks to be compared against each other to find optimal combinations of retrieval parameters ...
Peer-to-peer systems for simple and flexible information sharing
(2009)
Peer to peer computing (P2P) is an architecture that enables applications to access shared resources, with peers having similar capabilities and responsibilities. The ubiquity of P2P computing and its increasing adoption ...