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Feasibility of solar-powered groundwater pumping systems in rural areas of greater Giyani municipality (Limpopo, South Africa)
(MDPI, 2023)Rural areas in Limpopo Province (South Africa) are in urgent need of interventions for safe and secure water supply to adapt to climatic changes and the increased frequency of droughts. A feasibility study was conducted ... -
Feature guided training and rotational standardization for the morphological classification of radio galaxies
(Oxford University Press, 2023)State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process ... -
Feeding and vertical migration of the chaetognath Sagitta friderici (Ritter Zahony, 1911) in the southern Benguela during spring 1987, with notes on seasonal variability of feeding ecology
(NISC and Taylor & Francis, 1994)The feeding biology and the vertical migration of Sagitta friderici were examined over 24 h at two stations in the southern Benguela during spring (October) 1987. Together with studies conducted during summer (February ... -
Felicia douglasii (Asteraceae-Astereae), a distinctive new species from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)Felicia Cass. (Asteraceae) is the largest of the African members of tribe Astereae, and comprises ±90 species from southern and tropical Africa to Arabia. As currently circumscribed, it is rather weakly diagnosed by the ... -
Female preference for blue in Japan blue guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
(Springer Verlag, 2013)Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are widely used as a model species in mate choice studies. Although native to South America, guppies have been introduced to natural water bodies in disparate regions of the globe. Here, for ... -
Few-layer binder free graphene modified mercury film electrode for trace metal analysis by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry
(ESG, 2013)A binding agent free graphene modified glassy carbon electrode in combination with an in situ plated mercury film electrode (Gr-GC-HgFE) was used as a highly sensitive electrochemical platform for the determination of Zn2+, ... -
FHMIPv6-based handover for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2012)This paper shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. Mesh topology tends to be an unplanned graph and routes change dynamically and in this ... -
Fiber type and metabolic characteristics of skeletal muscle in 16 breeds of domestic dogs
(Wiley, 2023)The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) species comprises hundreds of breeds, each differing in physical characteristics, behavior, strength, and running capability. Very little is known about the skeletal muscle ... -
The fibre of a pinch map in a model category
(Springer Verlag, 2013)In the category of pointed topological spaces, let F be the homotopy fibre of the pinching map X ∪ CA → X ∪ CA/ X from the mapping cone on a cofibration A → X onto the suspension of A. Gray (Proc Lond Math Soc (3) ... -
Fifth order two-stage explicit Runge-Kutta-Nystrom method for the direct integration of second order ordinary differential equations
(Academic Journals, 2012)In this paper a direct integration of second-order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) of the form using the Explicit Runge-Kutta-Nystrom method with higher derivatives is presented. Various numerical schemes are derived ... -
Figure rotation of dark haloes in cold dark matter simulations
(Oxford University Press, 2007)We investigate the figure rotation of dark matter haloes identified in cold dark matter (CDM) simulations.We find that when strict criteria are used to select suitable haloes for study, five of the 222 haloes identified ... -
Finding universal relations in Subhalo properties with artificial intelligence
(The Astrophysical Journal, 2022)We use a generic formalism designed to search for relations in high-dimensional spaces to determine if the total mass of a subhalo can be predicted from other internal properties such as velocity dispersion, radius, or ... -
Fine structure of the isovector giant dipole resonance in 142-150Nd and 152Sm
(American Physical Society, 2020)Background: Inelastic proton scattering at energies of a few hundred MeV and very-forward scattering angles including 0 ∘ has been established as a tool for the study of electric-dipole strength distributions in nuclei. ... -
Fine-scale multi-temporal and spatial analysis of agricultural drought in agro-ecological regions of Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)This study utilised multi-temporal satellite data to characterize droughts across the five Agro-ecological zones (AEZ) of Zimbabwe at monthly, seasonal, sub-seasonal and annual scales (2000 to 2018) using a combination of ... -
First ground-based observations of sprites over southern Africa
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018)Sprites are the optical signatures of electrical discharges in the mesosphere triggered by large lightning strikes associated with thunderstorms. Since their discovery in the late 1980s, sprites have been observed ... -
First HETDEX Spectroscopic Determinations of Lyα and UV Luminosity Functions at z=2–3: Bridging a Gap between Faint AGNs and Bright Galaxies
(The Astrophysical Journal, 2021)We present Lyα and ultraviolet (UV)-continuum luminosity functions (LFs) of galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z = 2.0–3.5 determined by the untargeted optical spectroscopic survey of the Hobby–Eberly Telescope ... -
First observation of the coexistence of multiple chiral doublet bands and pseudospin doublet bands in the A ≈ 80 mass region
(Elsevier, 2022)Two nearly degenerate positive-parity bands with the π g2 9/2 ⊗ ν g−1 9/2 configuration and three nearly degenerate negative-parity bands with the π g9/2(p3/2, f5/2) ⊗ ν g−1 9/2 configuration have been identified in ... -
First Observations of E-Region Near Range Echoes Partially Modulated by F-Region Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed by the Same SuperDARN HF Radar
(Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2022)We present the first observations from SuperDARN HF radar data of E-region Near Range Echoes (NREs) whose amplitudes are partially modulated by Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs) propagating in the ... -
First Observations of E‐Region Near Range Echoes Partially Modulated by F‐Region Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed by the Same SuperDARN HF Radar
(American Geophysical Union, 2022)We present the first observations from SuperDARN HF radar data of E‐region Near Range Echoes (NREs) whose amplitudes are partially modulated by Medium‐Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs) propagating in the ... -
First record of epizootic ulcerative syndrome from the Upper Congo catchment: an outbreak in the Bangweulu swamps, Zambia
(Wiley, 2017)We report on the first outbreak of epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) amongst wild fish populations in the Bangweulu swamps, an inland delta, in the north of Zambia during 2014. The area supports a large and diverse ...