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An assessment of the age reporting in Tanzania population census
(Academic Research Publishing, 2012)
The objective of this paper is to provide data users with a worldwide assessment of the age reporting in the Tanzania Population Census 2012 data. Many demographic and socio-economic data are age-sex attributed. However, ...
Meat trade: need for international standardization?
(Elsevier, 2013)
Extensive substitution and undeclared species have been recently detected in meat products in South
Africa, Europe and Asia. Here we review the methodologies utilized in the identification of species in red
meat products ...
Development consortium: HCI across borders
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)
Though every country and context is unique, and much
of HCI research aims to design for situatedness, there
are lessons to be learned across borders, across
contexts. Questions we ask include: What are common
themes ...
Empowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologies
(ACM, 2011)
This paper discusses how to empower rural farmers to do business by means of inexpensive mobile technologies. In particular, the aim is to take advantage of the inexpensive features of low-end mobile phones to access market ...
Tuning a mid-range rural WiFi-based mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Little is known about how mid-range, or several km, dis- tances a ect multipoint-to-multipoint links when single ra- dio nodes with omnidirectional antennas are used. In this poster, a real network with these characteristics ...
Information protection in video relay services
(ACM, 2013)
This work in progress paper reports on initial research into the protection of information of the individuals that make use of video relay services. Our research team has developed an application called SignSupport, to aid ...
Characterisation of the arsenic resistance genes in Bacillus sp. UWC isolated from maturing fly ash acid mine drainage neutralised solids
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)
An arsenic resistant Bacillus sp. UWC was isolated from fly ash acid mine drainage (FA-AMD)
neutralised solids. A genomic library was prepared and screened in an arsenic sensitive mutant
Escherichia coli strain for the ...
Molecular evolution of key receptor genes in primates and non-human primates
(Science Publishing Group, 2014)
African primates remain an unexplored source of information required to complete the origin and evolution of many human pathogens. Current studies have shown the importance of several receptor human genes implicated in ...
State-of-the-art review on relevance of genetic algorithm to internet web search
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
People use search engines to find information they desire with the aim that their information needs will be met. Information
retrieval (IR) is a field that is concerned primarily with the searching and retrieving of ...
The impact of ICT Investments on human development: a regression splines analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Despite the worldwide growth in investments in information and communication technology (JCT), few studies have investigated the complex interactions between components of JCT investments and different dimensions of human ...