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Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Despite the strategic importance of community parks for low-income areas where residents are often confined into densely occupied living areas, these parks remain neglected and research about the sense of connectedness or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The study uses cross-sectional data to test whether FSPs improve technical efficiencies (TEs) of smallholder maize farmers. Using plot level data collected from 30 FSP and 66 non-FSP farmers drawn from Mgojweni, Mabetshe, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)A report issued by the FAO has warned that, on a global scale, most nations are not progressing towards the achievement of the goal to eliminate hunger before the end of the year 2030, as outlined in the Sustainable ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Climate change requires the urgent and effective implementation of climate change mitigation measures. These provide the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to limit global warming to 2°C or less ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Natural water resources are globally under pressure due to increasing population numbers and associated global change drivers, such as land-use and climate change. South Africa has a semi-arid climate, with variable patterns ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-07)Aquaculture has become a significant global food-producing sector, where, with the traditional capturing fisheries being depleted, it offers a good opportunity to supplement supply in order to meet the increasing demand ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-10)In this mini-dissertation we utilize population mobility data and COVID-19 case data in a variety of formats, from a variety of sources, in order to formulate a model for the spatial spread of COVID-19. The study region ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The volume of big data increases daily. Big data poses challenges in storage, management, processing, analysis and visualisation. One technique of handling big data is the use of subset or sample that is good representation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Dietary quality has significant implications for health, nutrition and quality of life. Yet, most people in developing countries, such as Malawi, consume inadequate diets due to the high cost of healthy and nutritious food. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)Rural areas in South Africa are predominantly characterized by the presence of subsistence farming households, many of which face challenges related to limited asset ownership. While historical poverty reduction efforts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The international trade in agriculture and food markets are characterised by extensive use of regulatory measures. Most of the measures used comprise Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11)Agriculture is one of the largest contributors to the economic growth in South Africa and plays an important role in the socio-economic development of South Africa, particularly in rural regions like the Eastern Cape, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The interest in the study and modeling of the strength within material science has continuously been of interest within engineering and the built environment, with the Weibull distribution frequently being the model of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In this mini-dissertation the importance of having an automated object classification procedure for classifying nanoparticles in nanoscale images (or referred to as nanoimages in this mini-dissertation) is discussed, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In the field of biology, gene expressions are evaluated over time to study complicated biological processes and genetic supervisory networks. Because the process is continuous, time-course gene-expression data may ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Within the Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) process, Environmental Assessment Practitioners are expected to gather information or evidence in order to formulate decisions on the suitability of development projects ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The need for statistical tools capable of addressing high-dimensional data is ever-growing. One such tool is that of differential networks, which have become increasing popular within various branches of science. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-08)If a known distribution on a real line is given, it can be wrapped on the circumference of a unit circle. This research entails the study of a univariate skew-normal distribution where the skew-normal distribution is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017-06)Please read abstract in the document
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