In this study the heat transfer and frictional pressure drop performance characteristics of plate heat exchangers (PHE’s) used as refrigerant liquid overfeed evaporators were investigated. PHE’s have been gaining new ...

This research report is an ex post facto study of the students from the General College of Science in the University of the Witwatersrand who chose to do Engineering Sciences in the College and who then progressed to second ...

Until recently, car-carriers in South Africa operated under abnormal load permits allowing a finite relaxation of legal height and length limits. This practice is being phased out, and exemption will only be granted if ...

South Africa has since the end of apartheid struggled with the issue of poor public sector performance. Performance contracting for public servants, introduced to improve the public sector’s performance, has not borne ...

Unit trust investment looks cosy and attractive from the surface, but a detailed understanding of unit trust and its performance can be daunting. Having discussed the evolution of mutual funds in the US and other industrial ...

Advances in microprocessor technology have resulted in the situation where CPU performance is improving faster than DRAM main memory performance. While it is true that current differences between CPU and DRAM speeds are ...

An efficient public sector is an essential element to unleash the full potential of any economy, and in creating a progressive society. Since 1994, major reforms in the South African public sector have brought about a new ...

Modern portfolio theory dates back to the work of Markowitz (1952), when he first introduced the concept of efficient portfolio selection, suggesting that there is only one combination of shares that would maximise an ...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the performance of the Government Information Technology Officers (GITOs) in the implementation of e-government policy during the last decade. The CIOs in the South African ...

This body of research centres around the notion of masculinity as performed and socially constructed. The study of masculinity is an ever broadening field and highly relevant to South African social discourse as patriarchy ...