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Gamifying the industrial engineering profession
(IEOM, 2017)An age-old problem facing higher education institutes is the verification that the knowledge taught in class was actually learnt and internalized. Many consider that the quality of education is to be measured on this basis. ... -
Gamma-gamma absorption in gamma-ray burst environments
(HEASA, 2016)Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the universe, seen primarily as bright, short flashes of g-rays. Long GRBs are most likely associated with the violent death of a very massive star. They are ... -
Gamma-ray and radio properties of six pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope
(IOP, 2010)We report the detection of pulsed γ-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850, and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as ... -
Gamma‐ray pulsar visibility
(AIP, 2005)PSR J0437‐4715 is a millisecond pulsar (MSP) thought to be “pair formation starved” (having limited pair cascades due to magnetic photon absorption). Fortunately the general relativistic (GR) electrodynamical model under ... -
Gender considerations in sustainable rural livelihood planning: engendering rural development planning in a South African context
(WIT Press, 2019)While it may be argued that worldwide women in rural areas are more likely to experience poverty than rural men and urban men and women, it is an even greater challenge for Africa. The impoverishment experienced by the ... -
A generalized additive neural network application in information security
(Tadbir Operational Research Group, 2014)Traditionally spam has been considered as an inconvenience requiring workers to sift through and delete large numbers of e-mail messages per day. However, new developments and the Internet have dramatically transformed the ... -
Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in Yorùbá
(International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ), 2013)We present methods for modelling and synthesising fundamental frequency (F0) contours suitable for application in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis of Yorùbá (an African tone language). These methods are discussed and compared ... -
Generation Y students’ attitudes towards facebook advertising: pilot study results
(The Global Business and Technology Association, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of a pilot study conducted on the determinants and inhibitors of Generation Y students’ attitudes towards Facebook advertising. The findings suggest that Generation Y ... -
A generic approach to integrating energy related data
(IEEE, 2014)The energy management processes of mines and industrial plants differ because of the specialised processes used for mining or production. Therefore, energy management systems typically provide users with specialised tools ... -
Genetic algorithm based PID tuning for optimal power control of a three-shaft Brayton cycle based power conversion unit
(Elsevier, 2012)This paper considers the development of a PID control strategy to optimally control the power output of a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) power plant. A specific type of HTGR called the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor ... -
Geometric modelling of radio and γ-ray light curves of 6 Fermi LAT pulsars
(Sissa Medialab, 2010)The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently reported the detection of pulsed γ-rays from 6 young pulsars (J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742−2822, J1420−6048, J1509−5850, and J1718−3825), all exhibiting single-peaked ... -
Geometry based analysis of an alternative RFID interrogator placement for electronic vehicle identification
(IEEE, 2015)This paper proposes a solution for reliable in-traffic electronic vehicle detection based on UHF passive RFID (ISO/IEC 18000-63 - UHF Type C). The classic overhead placement of an interrogator reading a windscreen or plate ... -
The global galerkin finite element method as applied to the 1d beam equation: a systems approach
(SAAM, 2006)The paper focuses on the finite element solution of the fourth-order differential for an EulerBernoulli beam. In this approach the point point loads and concentrated moments are treated in a natural way as part of the ... -
A global view of the modulation of cosmic ray protons in the heliosphere for the solar minimum period up to 2009
(IOP Publishing, 2016)The heliosphere was in a state of ideal solar minimum conditions for at least three years up to the end of 2009. During this period the highest ever recorded cosmic ray spectra were observed at the Earth. Fortunately, the ... -
Glow-in-the-dark globular clusters: modelling their multiwavelength lanterns
(South African Institute of Physics, 2012)Globular clusters (GCs) are astronomical tapestries embroidered with an abundance of exotic stellar-type objects, including ancient metal-poor stars, planetary nebulae, white dwarfs (WDs), low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXRBs), ... -
The good, the bad and the ugly: using videos to reverse systems analysis and design instruction
(IEEE, 2013)Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) is a second-year subject offered within the Information Technology (IT) course at the Vaal Triangle Campus of the North-West University in South Africa. The diverse environment of this ... -
Graph matching as a means to energy-visualisation of a counter-flow heat exchanger for the purpose of fault diagnosis
(Elsevier, 2017)Energy is a holistic way of analysing multi-domain systems. By using energy, system information can be reduced to essential or dominant dynamics. This could be advantageous for the purpose of fault diagnosis. In this paper, ... -
GRB observations with H.E.S.S.
(Sissa Medialab, 2019)Fermi-LAT observations have proven that GeV γ-ray emission is a relatively common feature for many Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB). However the low effective area of space detectors implies low statistics for high-energy photons ... -
GRB observations with H.E.S.S. II
(PoS, 2017)The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has been searching for counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) for many years. In 2012 the system was upgraded with a fifth 28m diameter telescope (CT5) which is equipped ...
