Noah, Olugbenga Olanrewaju; Slabber, Johan F.M.; Meyer, Josua P.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023-07)
The development of an accident tolerant nuclear fuel for water-cooled reactors would redefined the status of these reactors from traditional active safety to passive safety systems. As a possible solution toward enhancing ...
Hassanlue, Sina; Mukhtar, Azfarizal; Yasir, Ahmad Shah Hizam Md; Eldin, Sayed M.; Nazari, Mohammad A.; Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein; Sharifpur, Mohsen(Elsevier, 2024-03)
Exhaust gases from the smelting furnace have high temperature and mass flow rate, and there is huge potential to use them for energy-related purposes such as electricity generation, cooling and heating. Utilization of the ...
Bandeira, Monica; Graham, Marien Alet; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel)(Frontiers Media, 2023-08-17)
INTRODUCTION : Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are exposed to several
challenges and risk factors, linked to historical legacies. Sub-Saharan Africa has
one of the highest rates of poverty and inequality in the ...
Hamid, Abdul K.; Mbungu, Nsilulu Tresor; Elnady, A.; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Ismail, Ali A.; AlShabi, Mohammad A.(Sage, 2023-11)
Solar energy is the powerhouse where all potential and classified renewable energies lug their sources. The energy transformation from the Sun to electricity requires an adequate control scheme to maximise the generated ...
Ever-increasing bandwidth requirements from various industries drive the need for the ever-increasing bandwidth of antennas used for testing. Broadband Double-Ridged Guide Horn (DRGH) antennas are used extensively in antenna ...
The use of genetic algorithms (GAs) to evolve neural network (NN) weights has risen in popularity in recent years, particularly when used together with gradient descent as a mutation operator. However, crossover operators ...
Neural architecture search (NAS) is a rapidly growing field which focuses on the automated design of neural network architectures. Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been predominantly used for evolving neural network architectures. ...
Mosaka, Thabang B.M.; Unuofin, John Onolame; Daramola, Michael Olawale; Tizaoui, Chedly; Iwarere, Samuel A.(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-16)
The discovery of antibiotics, which was once regarded as a timely medical intervention
now leaves a bitter aftertaste: antimicrobial resistance (AMR), due to the unregulated
use of these compounds and the poor management ...
Akinsomi, Omokolade; Bangura, Mustapha; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim(Emerald, 2024)
PURPOSE :
Several studies have examined the impact of market fundamentals on house prices. However, the effect of economic sectors on housing prices is limited despite the existence of two-speed economies in some ...
Tshuma, Brighton; Van Waveren, Cornelis Cristo; Steyn, Herman(Inderscience, 2024)
Project management offices (PMOs) play both mediating (facilitating) and moderating (supporting) roles in knowledge transfer (KT) between projects. The mediating role of the PMO has been addressed elsewhere while this ...
How African countries manage transitions to decarbonised, environmentally and socially acceptable energy systems is a topical issue in public policy, politics and academic spheres today. There is recognition that technology ...
Yu, Gang; Ye, Xianming; Xia, Xiaohua; Chen, YangQuan(Elsevier, 2024-08)
Public charging infrastructure developments are the top agenda in both industrialised and developing countries during the global transition from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Currently, the fast deployment ...
Kat, Cor-Jacques; Grabe, Roland Peter; Van Staden, Paul Jacobus; Botha, Tanita; Els, P.S. (Pieter Schalk)(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Not only is it important to know how large the overall change in vibration should be for occupants to perceive an improvement in comfort, but also how large this change should be in specific frequency bands. Relative ...
Anochie-boateng. J.K.; Malisa, John T.(American Society for Testing and Materials, 2023-09)
Tanzania was faced with high incidences of premature rutting failures on their asphalt pavements. Some pavements experienced failures within one to two years after construction/rehabilitation. The objective of this ...
The South African pavement community has shown a keen interest in the use of imaging techniques to characterize the morphological characteristics of aggregates used in road and railway construction. This interest arises ...
Pavement condition evaluation plays a crucial role in assisting with the management of the highway infrastructure. However, the current methods used for assessing pavement conditions are costly, time-consuming, and subjective. ...