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Assessing the effect of imbalance correction through oversampling in the prediction of injury prevalence in distance runners
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Prediction of injury prevalence in distance runners
A clustering smart phone users based on the digimiter survey and mobile application data
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Digimiter Survey
Investigation of telecommunication recommender systems for curated post-paid products
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Telecommunication recommender
systems
Structural tectonic evolution of the Buffels river shear zone, Namaqua sector, Namaqua-natal metamorphic province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The Buffels River shear zone is located in north-western Namaqualand within the
Bushmanland Subprovince, approximately 50 km south of the town of Springbok in the
Namaqua Metamorphic Province in South Africa. The Buffels ...
Identification and prioritization of areas for riparian buffer restoration in the Sout River catchment, Overberg District, Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
River catchments in areas dominated by agricultural activities are prone to contamination by
nutrient-rich sediments whereby phosphorus is most concern. Phosphorus binds to fine
sediments and gets transported to the ...
Handwritten alphabet character recognition using audio signatures and machine learning
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
This research investigates the creation of an audio-based character recognition system
that is able to segment, process and recognise uppercase English letters continuously
drawn by the user on a given writing surface ...
Radon exhalation studies for applications in low background environments.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a rare process that is yet to be observed. Observation of neutrinoless double beta decays would imply lepton number violation, and that the neutrino is its own antiparticle (a
Majorana ...
Factors affecting the pharmacokinetics of vancomycin in children admitted to the intensive care unit (icu) of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH).
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic that inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis by binding to the D-alanyl-D-alanine terminal end of cell wall precursor units preventing the elongation and cross-linkage of the ...
Understanding mangrove dynamics in range edge populations in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Mangrove distribution along the East African region occurs from Somalia to South Africa, including Madagascar and other islands. It comprises approximately 10 species, including Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh, Bruguiera ...
Supervised machine learning techniques for radio source classification
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Classification is one of the most fundamental aspects of scientific investigation. Astronomers have thus developed several classification schemes to try and make sense of the evolving properties of planets, stars and ...