PERCEPTION OF VOWELS AND PROSODY BY CI RECIPIENTS IN NOISE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Speech materials To compare the perception of prosody at sentence level with the recognition of words in a sentence, the recorded speech materials described in section 3.2 of this chapter were combined with...

Influences of land-use types on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and related soil properties in semi-arid area, Pretoria

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Overview of grassland ecosystem in tropical Africa Grasslands represent about 26% and 70% of world land and agricultural areas, respectively. Grasslands also contain about 20% of the world’s soil C and N stocks...

Communities of the Blouberg Nature Reserve

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Phytosociology and Conservation Humans have transformed almost half of the world’s ice-free land surface area into agricultural and urban systems (Chapin et al. 2000). These changes in species composition and ecosystem functioning alter...

Exploring potential irrigation management strategies for annual ryegrass using the SWB-Sci model

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » RATIONALE Irrigation uses about 62% of South Africa’s surface and ground-water resources (DWAF, 2004). Irrigated agriculture is facing fierce competition for this substantial share of water as the water demand for industrial, domestic,...

Plant-browser-soil interactions: nutrient cycling at the ecosystem level

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION The African savanna biome includes more large mammalian herbivores (> 5 Kg) than any other continent (McNaughton and Georgiadis 1986; Owen-Smith and Cumming 1993), as would be expected from the...

Biology and genetic diversity of the latent pathogens of Pine, Diplodia pinea and D. scrobiculata

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Diplodia pinea (Desm.) Kickx (=Sphaeropsis sapinea (Fr.:Fr.) Dyko& Sutton) is an opportunistic, latent endophytic pathogen of Pinus spp. and other conifers. The fungus was identified for the first time in France on...

THE CHANGING AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT – EXTENDING THE GENOTYPE A STEP FURTHER

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE OUTLINE OF THIS STUDY The marketing environment is researched and evaluated in CHAPTER II, whereby the traditional genotype (production driven) is extended to take cognizance of the aspirations and perceptions of the...

GENERAL EFFECTS OF SALINITY ON PLANT GROWTH (Mostly NaCl)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION The disposal of large amounts of gypsiferous water, generated in coal mining operations in the Mpumalanga Highveld region in South Africa, has become a problem of increasing importance. This water is unsuitable...

Fatty Acid Composition of Vegetable Oils

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Project Objective The main objective of this project was to investigate the effect of selected synthetic antioxidants and their blends on the oxidation stability of sunflower oil-based biodiesel. Although the effect of antioxidants...

Dryland maize and irrigated maize/oats rotation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » GENERAL INTRODUCTION Beneficial use of sewage sludge on agricultural lands is a very well known practice around the world. The benefits include; a source of essential crop nutrients (Muse et al., 1991), improvements...