The gas sensing performance of two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets (h-BNNSs) has being studied by means of computational and experimental methods. The structural, stability and vacancies properties ...

Beef and chicken meat play a very crucial role in providing food to South African consumers. However, the rise of food prices in South Africa is viewed to curtail progress and drives consumers into debt and forgone opportunity ...

Our discussion starts with the study of convergence and clustering of filters initiated in pointfree setting by Hong, and then characterize compact and almost compact frames in terms of these filters. We consider the ...

Using the ARFIMA (autoregressive and fractionally integrated moving aver age) model extended with sGARCH (standard generalised autoregressive con ditional heteroscedasticity) and ’gjrGARCH (Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle gen ...

Nature reserves are reservoirs for biodiversity. Their very purpose is to preserve indigenous fauna and flora and thus protect associated ecosystem services. The Schuinsdraai Nature Reserve of rural Sekhukhune District, ...

The unique phytochemical composition of the medicinal plant cancer bush (Sutherlandia frutescens) have made its foliage to gain much attention in South Africa due to its health benefits. In situ harvesting of the plant ...

Avocado fruit ‘Hass’ exocarp changes colour from green to purple and black during ripening. However, uniform purple or black exocarp colour is not achieved during ripening, leading to consumers' rejection of fruit for ...

In South Africa, livestock production is a rapidly growing business in the agricultural sector contributing up to 46.9% of the gross domestic value. The shortage of adequate, good quality forage during the winter months ...

The world is under threat from the devastating effects of the continued depletion of the Ozone layer. Increased global warming is causing catastrophic ecological damage and imbalance due to accelerated melting of glaciers, ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of pre-harvest bagging materials on maturity indices and post-harvest quality of cherry tomatoes. At pre-harvest, fruit were bagged with blue and transparent plastic ...