Competitive manufacturing enterprises seek to efficiently coordinate the manufacture and distribution of products and are therefore required to integrate plant and business systems. A key enabler of this aim is Information ...

Abstract Tungsten carbide-cobalt powder is pressed before sintering into a compacted form using punches and a die cavity. After the powder has been pressed to a specific shape, it is sintered and shrinks a certain amount ...

Geometric optimisations are presented for the UTD in SuperNEC which is a commercial electromagnetic software package. Path finding optimisations rapidly find propagation paths of electromagnetic waves by using back face ...

Since the industrialization of platinum group metals (PGMs), particularly platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) and rhodium (Rh), the control of trace impurities in these metals has become vital. Reliable analysis of impurities ...

Conversion of biomass to useful bio-products is a lengthy and often inefficient process. Research has looked at the conversion of cellulose to ethanol by means of termite bacterial consortium in fluidized bed bioreactor, ...

Agriculture is a crucial sector for most of sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya for instance agriculture is the largest sector in the Kenyan economy, generating a quarter of the gross domestic product and two-fifths of export ...

Oral drug delivery is perceived by many as the ideal method of drug delivery due to its versatility, ease and convenience. However, the bioavailability of drugs delivered via the oral route remains questionable. Typically, ...

The oral health knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary school children and teachers in Mofolo, Soweto were determined. The enabling and inhibiting factors for oral health promotion in the school environment were ...

ABSTRACT The orally transmitted tradition of Lobolo is a common and widely practiced cultural tradition and an established marriage institution within African societies in Southern Africa, differing only in terms and minor ...

Acquisition pattern analysis (APA) of nancial services is a fairly new eld with most of the empirical research having been conducted in developed economies, and few research in developing economies. These studies looked ...