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The role of immune-genetic factors in modelling longitudinally measured HIV bio-markers including the handling of missing data.
(2013)Since the discovery of AIDS among the gay men in 1981 in the United States of America, it has become a major world pandemic with over 40 million individuals infected world wide. According to the Joint United Nations ... -
Satellite remote sensing of particulate matter and air quality assessment in the Western Cape, South Africa.
(2016)Particulate Matter (PM) is a health risk, even at low ambient concentrations in the atmosphere. The analysis of ambient PM is important in air quality management in South Africa in order to suggest recommendations for ... -
Scalar perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes in modified gravity.
(2017)This thesis is concerned with the physics related to scalar perturbations in the Schwarzschild geometry that arise in modifed gravity theories. It has already been shown that the gravitational waves emitted from a ... -
Searching for exoplanets using the transit method.
(2017)We present a study designed to detect transiting exoplanets in Kepler light curve data. We developed an exoplanet detection algorithm based on modelling transit light curves and fitting the models to light curve data ... -
Self-adaptive inertial algorithms for approximating solutions of split feasilbility, monotone inclusion, variational inequality and fixed point problems.
(2020)In this dissertation, we introduce a self-adaptive hybrid inertial algorithm for approximating a solution of split feasibility problem which also solves a monotone inclusion problem and a fixed point problem in p-uniformly ... -
A semantic sensor web framework for proactive environmental monitoring and control.
(2017)Observing and monitoring of the natural and built environments is crucial for main- taining and preserving human life. Environmental monitoring applications typically incorporate some sensor technology to continually ... -
Settlement type classification using aerial images.
(2014)In metropolitan and urban areas, the problems relating to rapid transformations that are taking place in terms of land cover and land use are now very pronounced, e.g., the rapid increase and unpredictable spread of ... -
Sexual debut: an analysis of the birth to twenty data.
(2015)According to the literature, it is widely accepted that the early timing of first sex among adolescents is related to long-term health effects and current and future risky sexual behaviour (Sandfort et al., 2008). Despite ... -
Shear-free models for relativistic fluids with heat flow and pressure isotropy.
(2014)We model the interior dynamics of a relativistic radiating fuid in a nonstatic spher- ically symmetric spacetime. The matter distribution takes the form of an imperfect fuid with a nonvanishing radially directed heat ... -
Shot classification in broadcast soccer video.
(2013)Event understanding systems, responsible for automatically generating human relatable event descriptions from video sequences, is an open problem in computer vision research that has many applications in the sports domain, ... -
Singularity and symmetry analysis of differential sequences.
(2009)We introduce the notion of differential sequences generated by generators of sequences. We discuss the Riccati sequence in terms of symmetry analysis, singularity analysis and identification of the complete symmetry group ... -
Solution generating algorithms in general relativity.
(2011)We conduct a comprehensive investigative review of solution generating algorithms for the Einstein field equations governing the gravitational behaviour of an isolated neutral static spherical distribution of perfect ... -
Some amenability properties on segal algebras.
(2017)It has been realized that the definition of amenability given by B. E. Johnson in his Classical Memoir of American Mathematical Society in 1972 is too restrictive and does not allow for the development of a rich general ... -
Some aspects of strong gravity effects on the electromagnetic field of a radio pulsar magnetosphere : solving the Maxwell’s equations.
(2019)The general relativistic (GR) effects of a neutron star play a substantial role on the physics at the stellar surface. These neutron stars also host a very strong magnetic field and spin with periods of a few seconds to ... -
Some Mal'cev conditions for varieties of algebras.
(1991)This dissertation deals with the classification of varieties according to their Mal'cev properties. In general the so called Mal'cev-type theorems illustrate an interplay between first order properties of a given class ... -
Southern African Large Telescope observations of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect selected clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
(2014)We present Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) follow-up observations of seven massive clusters detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE). We conducted multi-object ... -
Spatial analysis and efficiency of systematic designs in intercropping experiments.
(2002)In studies involving intercropping plant populations, the main interest is to locate the position of the maximum response or to study the response pattern. Such studies normally require many plant population levels. Thus, ... -
Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and mapping of self-reported health among individuals between the ages of 15-49 years in South Africa.
(2019)Self-reported health has been commonly used as a measure of individuals health in public health studies. Health presents a complete physical, emotional, and social well-being. It also plays an important role in the ...