Despite the strategic importance of community parks for low-income areas where residents are often confined into densely occupied living areas, these parks remain neglected and research about the sense of connectedness or ...

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Natural water resources are globally under pressure due to increasing population numbers and associated global change drivers, such as land-use and climate change. South Africa has a semi-arid climate, with variable patterns ...

The volume of big data increases daily. Big data poses challenges in storage, management, processing, analysis and visualisation. One technique of handling big data is the use of subset or sample that is good representation ...

Rural areas in South Africa are predominantly characterized by the presence of subsistence farming households, many of which face challenges related to limited asset ownership. While historical poverty reduction efforts ...

The interest in the study and modeling of the strength within material science has continuously been of interest within engineering and the built environment, with the Weibull distribution frequently being the model of ...

In the field of biology, gene expressions are evaluated over time to study complicated biological processes and genetic supervisory networks. Because the process is continuous, time-course gene-expression data may ...

The need for statistical tools capable of addressing high-dimensional data is ever-growing. One such tool is that of differential networks, which have become increasing popular within various branches of science. The ...

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Analysing unstructured data with minimal contextual information is a challenge faced in spatial applications such as movement data. Movement data are sequences of time-stamped locations of a moving entity analogous to text ...