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  • Bevan, Blanche (University of Pretoria, 2007-02-21)
    The following dissertation is located in South Africa, Pretoria. The aim is to define the Threshold of entry from the South of Pretoria, passing the University of South Africa and via Elandspoort Road and Mears Street. An ...
  • Macagnano, Marco (University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Salvokop, the site chosen for this project, is due for some major changes in the next few years. Current development on Freedom Park, the future Gautrain initiative as well as a new drive by the local municipality to ...
  • Ismail, Nazir Ahmed; Ihekweazu, Chikwe; Koornhof, Hendrik; Madhi, Shabir A. (Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2012)
    Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the biggest public health challenges of our time, and as epidemiology of the disease evolves in an era of high HIV prevalence in South Africa, so must the response. With exciting ...
  • Asare-Bediako, Godwin A (University of Pretoria, 2007-07-10)
    The building for the centre for youth sub cultural expression focuses on the idea of resistance as form giver in architecture. Resistance [a notion to dislike of or opposition to a plan, an idea] refusal to obey. The aim ...
  • Dukuza, Njengele Kenneth Kennedy (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    In mathematical epidemiology, the threshold theory introduced by W.O. Kermack and A.G. McKendrick (1927) can be expressed in terms of the basic reproduction number R0. This is defined as the average number of secondary ...
  • Okanigbe, Daniel; Olawale, Popoola; Popoola, Abimbola; Adeleke, Abraham; Ayomoh, Michael Kweneojo; Kolesnikov, Andrei (Cogent OA, 2018)
    This research has presented a three level-two factors full factorial experimental design that investigated the process parameterization of a centrifugal concentrator for the separation of a waste copper smelter dust ...
  • Charles, W.W.; Crous, Petrus A.; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023-09)
    Tailings dams have relatively high failure rates throughout the world and the consequences of these failures often result in significant loss of life and damage to the environment and property. However, the triggers and ...
  • Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2012-04)
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  • Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2013-04)
    This paper describes a physical model of a soil nail retained excavation face which was tested in the new geotechnical centrifuge at the University of Pretoria. As centrifuge modelling is new in South Africa, a short ...
  • Van Tonder, Warren Deon (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    Opencast mining has been and continues to be a favoured method for the extraction of the vast coal reserves in the Highveld of South Africa. Previously backfilled and restored open cast areas are generally zoned for ...
  • Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    In geotechnical engineering, the soil type which has had some of the most severe economic implications is that of swelling clays. Swelling or expansive clays form a subgroup within the field of unsaturated soils which ...
  • Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Smit, G.; Osman, A.S. (Canadian Science Publishing, 2024-01)
    A study aimed towards assessing the variation in shaft capacity of piled foundations in swelling clays is presented. At the clay's in-situ water content, the results of pull-out tests on short-length piles revealed no ...
  • Vorster, P.; Grabe, Petrus Johannes; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017-09)
    With past embankment failures on the heavy haul coal export railway line between Ermelo and Richards Bay in South Africa, a study was conducted focusing on the modelling of embankments in a geotechnical centrifuge. This ...
  • Vorster, Paul (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    The study comprised the modelling of embankments on a heavy haul coal export railway line between Ermelo and Richards Bay in South Africa. The design of these embankments is usually done with slope stability analysis? ...
  • Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-03)
    They came in their thousands to pay homage, with many eventually being turned away. As Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918–2013) lay in state, the significance and meaning of the Union Buildings seemed yet again to ...
  • Penzhorn, Barend Louis (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Finding a healthy balance between classical parasitology and clinical veterinary medicine remains a challenge. Veterinary Parasitology, of vital interest in sub-Saharan Africa, has always featured prominently at the Faculty ...
  • Horak, Ivan Gerard (Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2009-03)
    Eighty ixodid tick species, 25 argasid tick species and Nuttalliella namaqua occur in South Africa. Twenty-one of the 80 ixodid species and two of the argasid species occur only in this country, while N. namaqua is present ...
  • Theku, Makoanyane (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Orientation: The level of CEO compensation and its relationship with organisational performance has generated considerable interest worldwide. In light of compromised mining productivity as a result of the recent labour ...
  • Steyn, Benita (Southern African Communication Association, 1999-07)
    The aim of this empirical study was to determine the chief executive's role expectations of the most senior manager or practitioner responsible for the corporate communication (public relations) function in the organisation, ...
  • Shaw, Paul Anthony (University of Pretoria, 2012-09-27)
    Orientation: CEO remuneration has attracted attention over the past two decades, with significant renewed interest in light of the role it is said to have played in contributing to the global financial crisis. At the heart ...