The human settlement issue in South Africa has posed a great challenge to the post apartheid government. Due to apartheid, South African human settlements are characterised by spatial separation of residential areas according ...

Architecture, and the concept of produced space, cannot be divorced from the basic notion of society and, with this, social integration and social interaction. This thesis considers the massive potential, and missed ...

Ochre is a ubiquitous artefact in Middle Stone Age (MSA) contexts throughout Africa and the Near East. Archaeological evidence for the abrasive processing of ochre to extract pigment powder becomes increasingly prevalent ...

Conservation laws for nonlinear partial di erential equations (pdes) have been determined through di erent approaches. In this dissertation, we study conservation laws for some third-order systems of pdes, viz., some ...

Abstract In this dissertation both smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystals are discussed. A dynamic equation for modeling the behaviour of smectic-C liquid crystals under the effect of an electric field is derived. The ...

In this thesis a Lane-Emden equation of the second-kind is investigated. The equation is considered with arbitrary parameters with the intention of obtaining a solution without referring to specific cases. The shape ...

ABSTRACT Chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous system, via β-adrenoreceptor (AR) stimulation, contributes toward progressive heart failure. However, in this regard there are some outstanding issues which require ...

Shaft voltages and currents are an unavoidable characteristic of rotating machines, though they are typically a nuisance this work shows that shaft signals can be used for fault diagnosis. This work focussed on shaft ...

This document seeks to discuss how the role of the church in Johannesburg inner-city has changed through time. The fi rst sections trace the establishment of churches in the inner-city. This is followed by a discussion ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country that has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Future development is going to be hampered by the enormous shortage of fresh water in the country. It is critically ...