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Identifying elements of social identity development for mathematics teachers in the Western Cape, South Africa for professional online engagement
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2014)This paper reports on the analyses of a custom-made questionnaire distributed to systematic random selected teachers in 179 schools in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The purpose of the analysis was to enquire ... -
Implementing the uses of ict in agro - products to improve market information services: challenges and opportunities for Tanzania
(Global business and technology association, 2012)The need to provide agricultural information for improving agro products market information has led to emergence of numerous ICT-based projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of ... -
Implications of residential electricity theft, detection and enforcement: Corruption of consumers and agents
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper analyses the economic impact of residential electricity theft. Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft form part of the revenue protection objectives in ... -
Implications of Sepedi/English code switching for ASR systems
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)Code switching (the process of switching from one language to another during a conversation) is a common phenomenon in multilingual environments. Where a minority and dominant language coincide, code switching from the ... -
Improved transition models for cepstral trajectories
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)We improve on a piece-wise linear model of the trajectories of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, which are commonly used as features in Automatic Speech Recognition. For this purpose, we have created a very clean ... -
Innovative Teaching in Systems Analysis and Design - an Action Research Project
(WASET, 2012)Systems Analysis and Design is a key subject in Information Technology courses, but students do not find it easy to cope with, since it is not “precise" like programming and not exact like Mathematics. It is a subject ... -
Interaction between socially responsible investment (SRI) sector and selected macroeconomic variables in South Africa
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)The South African Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index was launched in 2004 in order to encourage JSE listed companies to comply with issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability. This study analysed ... -
Interactive serious games as electronic engineering capstone projects
(IEEE, 2018)Capstone projects are projects that engineering students undertake in their final year of study. The capstone project gives the student the opportunity to showcase what she has learned during her studies, and gives the ... -
An investigation into measurements and determinants of energy poverty: evidence from cross-section data in Malawi
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)Using economics approaches of measuring energy poverty, the findings of the study suggest that over 90 percent of the households sampled were energy poor. The Logit model of energy poverty reveal that household expenditure ... -
Kernel bandwidth estimation for non-parametric density estimation: a comparative study
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)We investigate the performance of conventional bandwidth estimators for non- parametric kernel density estimation on a number of representative pattern-recognition tasks, to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of ... -
Learners’ perceptions of mobile devices for learning in higher education - towards a mobile learning pedagogical framework
(WASET, 2013)The dramatic effect of information technology on society is undeniable. In education, it is evident in the use of terms like active learning, blended learning, electronic learning and mobile learning (ubiquitous learning). ... -
Location based games as the bridge between capstone students, junior students and the public
(IEEE, 2018)This paper reviews recent attempts by researchers at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to increase the level of interaction between students, faculty and industry stakeholders by creating an alternate reality game (ARG) ... -
Making data structures and algorithms more understandable by programming sudoku the human way
(WASET, 2013)Data Structures and Algorithms is a module in most Computer Science or Information Technology curricula. It is one of the modules most students identify as being difficult. This paper demonstrates how programming a solution ... -
Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages
(SLTU, 2012)We report on the development of speech-recognition systems that are able to perform accurate recognition on mediumvocabulary tasks (i.e. tasks that require distinctions between approximately 200 different terms). We are ... -
Mobile phone addiction among students’s at a South African university
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)The paper presents the results of research carried out to examine mobile phone addiction among students at a South African University. The results suggest that students exhibited addiction tendencies. Of the top sources ... -
Multilingual pronunciations of proper names in a Southern African corpus
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2012)We present our process for the development and analysis of a multilingual names corpus, called Multipron-split. It is derived from Multipron, a corpus collected in previous work [1], where names and speakers were drawn ... -
Municipal resources for enhancing communication and Information services
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper examines the norms and standards for using municipal resources. Managing resources forms part of internal procedures. the paper specifically analysis the strategies implemented for upholding municipal employees ... -
N-gram based language identification of individual words
(PRASA, 2013)Various factors influence the accuracy with which the language of individual words can be classified using n-grams. We consider a South African text-based language identification (LID) task and experiment with two different ... -
“No more going to Nandos”: Rudimentary statistics and venal public servants in tender adjudication
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper advances the notion that corruption in public service is perpetrated by the corruptibility of functionaries. The psychopathology of corruption demonstrates that hominids are inherently venal and will thus ... -
Number pronunciation in a multilingual environment and implications for an ASR system
(PRASA, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies. We give a brief statistical analysis of the ...
