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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 ... -
Prevalence of household food poverty in a South African Township
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)This study analyzed the prevalence of household food poverty in a township of Kwakwatsi, South Africa. A household was defined to be in food poverty when its monthly food spending is less than the cost of a basic food ... -
Public service (mis)management of the gifts: travesty to fostering integrity and preventing corruption
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper seeks to analyse South Africa’s regulatory frameworks relating to the receipt of gifts in the Public Service in order to assess the mechanisms for management of this practice in Sedibeng District Municipality ... -
Pull-Process-Push: Can a Tweaked Algorithm Improve Database Performance Significantly?
(Czech institute of academic education z.s, 2014)Design science research has two essential processes, design and evaluation, supported by various approaches. Two of these activities, namely problem identification and evaluation, require qualitative data to be gathered ... -
The pursuit of African continental governance: the stone that the builders "forgot"
(SAAPAM, 2014)The African Union is an inter-governmental arrangement aimed at fostering democratic ideals and development on the African continent. The metamorphosis of inter-governmental arrangements has led to the need for the inclusion ... -
Reflective team meetings: a learning experience for first-year engineering students in joint projects
(IEEE, 2018)The aim of this research was to report on reflective team meetings as a learning experience for first-year engineering students in joint projects. To some extent, working in joint projects is new to first-year students ... -
The relationship between income and demand for energy commodities in Malawi: the case of South Lunzu Township
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)This study analysed the effect of household income on demand for electricity and fuel-wood in South Lunzu Township of Blantyre city, Malawi. Survey data was collected through a semi-structured questionnaire. Using Engel ... -
Response Surface Modeling and Optimization to Elucidate the Differential Effects of Demographic Characteristics on HIV Prevalence in South Africa
(Southern Arican Institute for industrial engineering (SAIIE), 2012)In this study, a Central Composite Face Centered (CCF) design was employed to study the individual and interaction effects of demographic characteristics on the spread of HIV in South Africa. The demographic characteristics ... -
Response Surface Modeling and Optimization to Elucidate the Differential Effects of Demographic Characteristics on HIV Prevalence in South Africa
(IEEE, 2012)In this study, a Central Composite Face Centered (CCF) design was employed to study the individual and interaction effects of demographic characteristics on the spread of HIV in South Africa. The demographic characteristics ... -
Self Reported Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in a South African Low Income Neigbourhood
(World Business Institute, 2013)Food security is defined as a state in which all people in a household at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Household food ... -
The semi-automated creation of stratified speech corpora
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)Smartphones provide an efficient means for the collection of speech data; however, the quality of the corpora created in this fashion is not predictable. We describe an approach that allows us to post-process and rank ... -
Spending Patterns Of Food Insecure Households In A Low Income Neighborhood In South Africa
(World Business Institute, 2013)Food security can be defined as a state in which all people in a household at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Household ... -
Spoken language identification system adaptation in under-resourced environments
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)Speech technologies have matured over the past few decades and have made significant impacts in a variety of fields, from assistive technologies to personal assistants. However, speech system development is a resource ...
