Mobile government is gaining significant attention worldwide. Mobile phone penetration offers government a number of opportunities, including offering governments services to citizens via these ambiguous devices. This ...

With the proliferation of mobile devices, provision of M-health care services has become feasible even in the remotest villages of Africa. Research however shows that many M-health initiatives have not been adopted and ...

Ti6Al4V is a commonly used biomedical alloy because of its suitable mechanical and biocompatible properties. Infection at the bone–implant interface is the most probable reason for implant failure directly after implantation. ...

In South Africa and developing countries, the base or sub-base layer serves as the main structural element or bearing capacity of the pavement. As a result, more focus is placed on the base or sub-base for accurate designing ...

Considering the merits of road transportation in the economy and communication activities of the modern societies, it is imperative to design a safe, stable, efficient and cost effective road that will lead to increased ...

In the present study, a numerical analysis on free convection Casson fluid flow from a spinning cone in non-Darcy porous medium with radiation, partial slip, cross diffusion and viscous dissipation is considered. The surface ...

It is widely accepted that model predictive control (MPC) with long prediction horizons yields, in general, a better performance than with short horizons. In the context of power electronic systems, the main advantages ...

In this paper, optimal scheduling and energy management concepts are used to demonstrate the operational cost saving achievable using multiple paralleled diesel generators over a “Single” diesel generator unit for ...

Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a manufacturing method with the advantage that it can produce objects of complex geometry. Additionally, it opens great opportunities to synthesize new materials from elemental powder using an ...