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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Title
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Prinsloo, Timothy
(University of Pretoria, 2011)
Monitoring of structural integrity is critical in many fields today, and particularly so in the civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering industries. In the aerospace industry, appreciably sized and almost exclusively ...
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Adandonon, Appolinaire
(University of Pretoria, 2006-01-14)
The damping-off and stem rot disease syndrome is harmful to many cultivated crops. Damping-off and stem rot caused by Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. on cowpea results in yield losses with serious socio-economic implications. The ...
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Annandale, Celeste Margaret
(University of Pretoria, 2024-03)
Dance is largely an intangible form of art and knowledge. The fleeting nature of its performance makes the circulation and archiving of this type of knowledge quite challenging. It is difficult to capture its essence in a ...
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Green, Alida Maria
(University of Pretoria, 2008)
This study deals with the history of ballroom dancing in South Africa. While reference will be made to the founding of ballroom in the early eighteenth century in South Africa, the study will mainly focus on the period ...
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Green, Alida Maria
(University of Pretoria, 2024)
This doctoral study uses social dance as a lens to reflect on race relations and class divisions in the greater Johannesburg region. It offers a new perspective by exploring why and how communities chose and recreated ...
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Motena, Matsobane Steven
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
When the global protests of Black Lives Matter commenced, it showed that the future of what this dissertation terms ‘extreme dissonant heritage’ sites is uncertain and are thus often questionable items on tour itineraries. ...
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Tselapedi, Thapelo
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
This study concerns itself with the constitution of ‘the International’ and the resistance to it. It contends that international relations (IR) constituted ‘the international’ through coloniality. This is the fundamental ...
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Falk, Samuel
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Under the heading "sustainability development", new ways out of the crisis of the capitalist, global economic system and a future-oriented, just and sustainable economy and society are being sought. The most recent symptoms ...
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Anders, Christopher Godfrey Theodore
(University of Pretoria, 1957-09)
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Ramotsoela, Tsotsope Daniel
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Wireless sensor networks have become increasingly popular in many applications such as environment monitoring and law enforcement. Data aggregation is a method used to reduce network traffic but cannot be used together ...
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Du Plessis, Chanel
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
In the context of South Africa, there is an increasing interest in the provision of a TSA to be made available at a region level (Ragab, 2014). The satellite accounting approach and its regional extension are likely to be ...
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Da Silva, Isabella
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Mortality data are a cornerstone of public health initiatives and interventions and has been used to implement preventative strategies to reduce the burden of diseases and injuries in society. A subset of mortality data ...
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Du Toit, Benjamin David
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Data Compression
Due to limitations in data storage and bandwidth, data of all types has often required compression. This need has spawned many different methods of compressing data. In certain situations the fidelity of ...
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Ponelis, S.R. (Shana Rachel)
(University of Pretoria, 2002)
Customer knowledge plays a vital part in organisations today, particularly in sales and marketing processes, where customers can either be channel partners or final consumers. Managing customer data and/or information ...
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Van der Walt, Christiaan Maarten
(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-09)
We have a wide-range of classifiers today that are employed in numerous applications, from credit scoring to speech-processing, with great technical and commercial success. No classifier, however, exists that will outperform ...
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Naude, Adrian
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Historically, when it comes to protection for individuals in respect of the processing of their
personal data, South Africa has been lagging behind international trends. The South African
legal framework recognised some ...
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Patterton, Louise Hilda
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
This study, comprising a case study at a selected South African research institute, focused on the creation of a workflow model for data rescue indicating the roles and responsibilities of the research library. Additional ...
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Fei, B.K.L. (Bennie Kar Leung)
(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-09)
As digital crimes have risen, so has the need for digital forensics. Numerous state-of-the-art tools have been developed to assist digital investigators conduct proper investigations into digital crimes. However, digital ...
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Beyers, Hector Quintus
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
The use of databases has become an integral part of modern human life. Often the data
contained within databases has substantial value to enterprises and individuals. As
databases become a greater part of people’s daily ...
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Lutu, Patricia Elizabeth Nalwoga
(University of Pretoria, 2010-11-15)
Data mining has become a commonly used method for the analysis of organisational data, for purposes of summarizing data in useful ways and identifying non-trivial patterns and relationships in the data. Given the large ...