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Analysis of the post-earnings announcement drift anomaly on the JSE
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The post-earnings announcement drift anomaly has been widely researched and confirmed for several markets around the world. This paper investigates the relationship between the earnings surprise as reflected by the price ...
The Spoken Web Search task at Mediaeval 2012
(Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, 2013)
In this paper, we describe the “Spoken Web Search” Task, which
was held as part of the 2012 MediaEval benchmark evaluation campaign.
The purpose of this task was to perform audio search with audio
input in four languages, ...
A discourse model of affect for text-to-speech synthesis
(Pattern recognition association of South Africa (PRASA), 2013)
This paper introduces a model of affect to improve prosody in text-to-speech synthesis. It operates on the discourse level of text to predict the underlying linguistic factors that contribute towards emotional appraisal, ...
West Africa - a safe haven for frogs? A sub-continental assessment of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
A putative driver of global amphibian decline is the panzootic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). While Bd
has been documented across continental Africa, its distribution in West Africa remains ambiguous. ...
Prototype line crawler for power line inspection
(David Publishing, 2013)
In South Africa, electricity is supplied through thousands-of-kilometers of overhead power cables, which is owned by
Eskom the national energy supplier. Currently monitoring of these overhead power cables are done by means ...
Missionary diaconate: hope for migrated people
(SAMS: Southern African Missiological Society, 2013)
This paper will discuss migration from a missional diaconate ministry with specific focus on koinonia and the importance thereof for the Kingdom, church and society. The point of departure being that migration is not a ...
X-ray and gamma-ray polarization in leptonic and hadronic jet models of blazars
(IOP Science, 2013)
We present a theoretical analysis of the expected X-ray and γ-ray polarization signatures resulting from synchrotron self-Compton emission in leptonic models compared to the polarization signatures from proton synchrotron ...
Appraising coach performance: A qualitative analysis of coaches perceptions
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)
As a result of the proliferation of international competition, increased participation in sport, increased sponsorship, increased visibility of sport and greater levels spectatorship, the management of human resources in ...
An inorganic water chemistry dataset (1972-2011) of rivers, dams and lakes in South Africa
(South African Water Research Commission, 2013)
A national dataset of inorganic chemical data of surface waters (rivers, lakes, and dams) in South Africa is presented and
made freely available. The dataset comprises more than 500 000 complete water analyses from 1972 ...
H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE y-rays from the quasar PKS 1510-089
(EDP Sciences, 2013)
The quasar PKS 1510-089 (z = 0.361) was observed with the H.E.S.S. array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes during high states in the optical and GeV bands, to search for very high energy (VHE, defined as E ≥ 0.1 ...