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Development of cooperative behavioural model for autonomous multi-robots system deployed to underground mines
(2015)
The number of disasters that occur in underground mine environments monthly all over the world cannot be ignored. Some of these disasters for instance are roof-falls; explosions, toxic gas inhalation, in-mine vehicle ...
DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2011)
BACKGROUND: Centralised resources such as GenBank and UniProt are perfect examples of the major international efforts that have been made to integrate and share biological information. However, additional data that adds ...
Modelling and Implementation of QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Multiconstrained Traffic Engineering Model
(Springer, 2010)
This paper revisits the problem of Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning to assess the relevance of using multipath routing to improve the reliability and packet delivery in wireless sensor networks while maintaining lower ...
Enabling visually impaired people to use touch screen phones
(2015)
Most mobile applications are not designed for visually impaired people. The concept of universal design is not adopted by most application developers. Therefore, interaction between a visually impaired user and the mobile ...
An application of brain-based education principles with ICT as a cognitive tool: a case study of grade 6 decimal instruction at Sunlands Primary School
(2015)
The larger population of South African learners do not learn effectively and struggle with low academic achievements currently. This can be attributed to various factors such as frequent changes in the curriculum, ...
Fast, realistic terrain synthesis
(2015)
The authoring of realistic terrain models is necessary to generate immersive virtual environments for computer games and film visual effects. However, creating these landscapes is difficult - it usually involves an artist ...
Designing an effective user interface for the Android tablet environment
(2015)
With over 1.3 million applications on the Android marketplace, there is increasing competition between mobile applications for customer sales. As usability is a significant factor in an application's success, many mobile ...
RFI monitoring for the MeerKAT Radio Telescope
(2015)
South Africa is currently building MeerKAT, a 64 dish radio telescope array, as a pre-cursor for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Both telescopes will be located at a remote site in the Karoo with a low level of ...
Ubiquitous intelligence for smart cities: a public safety approach
(2017)
Citizen-centered safety enhancement is an integral component of public safety and a top priority for decision makers in a smart city development. However, public safety agencies are constantly faced with the challenge of ...
A highly accessible application for detection and classification of maize foliar diseases from leaf images
(2017)
Crop diseases are a major impediment to food security in the developing world. The development of cheap and accurate crop diagnosis software would thus be of great benefit to the farming community. A number of previous ...