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Comparing developments in water supply, sanitation and environmental health in four South African cities, 1840-1920
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2010)Environmental health had its modern-day roots in the sanitation and public health movement of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century. The field addresses all human health-related aspects of both the natural environment ... -
Comparing developments in water supply, sanitation and environmental health in four South African cities, 1840–1920
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2010)Environmental health had its modern-day roots in the sanitation and public health movement of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century. The field addresses all human health-related aspects of both the natural environment ... -
Comparing different methods to determine the relationship between environmental performance and economic performance: an empirical study of the South African mining industry
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2011)The study investigated the South African mining industry and estimated the linear association between environmental performance and economic performance and developed a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to estimate the ... -
Comparing grapheme-based and phoneme-based speech recognition for Afrikaans
(PRASA, 2012)This paper compares the recognition accuracy of a phoneme-based automatic speech recognition system with that of a grapheme-based system, using Afrikaans as case study. The first system is developed using a conventional ... -
Comparing imagery in The greedy hippo and Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
(AOSIS, 2012)This article used as point of departure the Ngano song-story entitled The Greedy Hippo as developed by Christiaan van der Westhuizen and based on the Tambani embroidery project. This animated interpretation of The Greedy ... -
Comparing legislative mechanisms for sea screening and decision-making: Austrian and Australian experiences
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Comparing mathematics knowledge of first-year students from three different school curricula
(ASSAf, 2019)Mathematics forms an integral part in the training of scientists and engineers. In recent history the South African school system has experienced several changes in school curricula. In 1994 the traditional knowledge based ... -
Comparing support vector machine and multinomial naive Bayes for named entity classification of South African languages
(PRASA, 2014)In this study, two classical machine learning algorithms, multinomial naive Bayes and support vector machines, are compared when applied to named entity recognition for two South African languages, Afrikaans and English. The ... -
Comparing the effect of modeled climatic variables on the distribution of African horse in South Africa and Namibia
(Wiley, 2015)Africa horse sickness (AHS) is a lethal disease of horses with a seasonal occurrence that is influenced by environmental conditions that favor the development of Culicoides midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). This study ... -
Comparing the porosity and surface areas of coal as measured by gas adsorption, mercury intrusion and SAXS techniques
(Elsevier, 2015)In this paper, we compare the surface area, porosity and other physical–structural properties of four bituminous coals from three different coal fields of South Africa determined using carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen ... -
Comparing the South African stock markets response to two periods of distinct instability the 1997-98 East Asian and Russian crisis and the recent global financial crisis
(Clute Institute, 2014-05)This paper compares the South African stock markets response to two periods of distinct instability, namely the East Asian and Russian crisis of 1997-98 and the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Considering share prices, ... -
Comparing tourists’ and residents’ motivations for travelling to Kruger National Park, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)This study analysed the motivations for visiting South Africa's Kruger National Park, with the aim of identifying similarities and differences between tourists' motives and those of people living near the Park. A factor ... -
Comparing trust levels of male and female managers: measurement invariance of the behavioural trust inventory
(Sage, 2016)Despite the widely acknowledged need for validated trust measurement instruments and the legal obligation to ensure that psychometric tests are unbiased towards different groups in South Africa, no attempt has ever been ... -
Comparing two developmental applications of speech technology
(Conf. on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD2011), 2011)Over the past decade applications of speech technologies for development (ST4D) have shown much potential for enabling information access and service delivery. In this paper we review two deployed ST4D services and posit ... -
Comparing two mass size distributions
(SAIMM, 2012)We consider in this paper the use of a modified version of Hotelling’s statistic in the analysis of particle size distributions. The statistic can be adversely affected by the presence of outliers among the data. We ... -
Comparison analysis of AC PM transverse-flux machines of different designs in terms of power density and cost
(IEEE, 2017)This paper compares four different configurations of PM transverse-flux machines. The permanent magnet transverse flux machines with: internal rotor; outer rotor with magnetic shunts; double coil; and outer rotor without ... -
Comparison analysis of electric motors with two degrees of mechanical freedom: PM synchronous motor vs induction motor
(IEEE, 2016)This paper presents a comparison analysis of two electric motors with helical movement of the rotor. These machines are also referred to as machines with two degrees of mechanical freedom. The machines are designed in such ... -
A comparison between centre-based and expedition-based (wilderness) adventure experiential learning regarding group effectiveness : a mixed methodology
(University of Stellenbosch Department of Sport Science, 2013)The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a centre-based adventure program with an expedition-based wilderness program with regard to group effectiveness. For comparisons, this study made use of a ... -
A comparison between centre-based and expedition-based (wilderness) adventure experiential learning regarding group effectiveness: a mixed methodology
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a centre-based adventure program with an expedition-based wilderness program with regard to group effectiveness. For comparisons, this study made use of a ...