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" Past the wit of Man": A Midsummer Night's Dream's debt to Praise of Folly

- Birkinshaw, Catherine

Authors: Birkinshaw, Catherine
Date: 1992
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457711 , vital:75672 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_129
Description: There have been several attempts to explore Shakespeare's debt to Erasmus, notably Waiter Kaiser's in Praisers of Folly (1964), which concentrates on the figure of Falstaff. But on account of the Christian-Classical tradition both writers share, and on account also of Erasmus's widespread influence in the sixteenth century, direct borrowing is generally hard or impossible to prove.
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Date Issued: 1992

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"Knowing With": New Rhodes Board Navigates Collaboration, Intimacy, and Solidarity

- Baasch, Rachel M, Fọlárànmí, Stephen, Koide, Emi, Kakande, Angelo, Simbao, Ruth K

Authors: Baasch, Rachel M , Fọlárànmí, Stephen , Koide, Emi , Kakande, Angelo , Simbao, Ruth K
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147514 , vital:38645 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00523
Description: Rhodes University (or UCKAR), based in Makhanda, South Africa, joined the African Arts editorial consortium in 2016 and its first journal issue—vol. 50, no. 2—was published in 2017. Initially the board was run by Ruth Simbao, with the aim of developing collaborations with other scholars, particularly those based on the African continent and within the global south (Simbao 2017: 1). For the second Rhodes issue (Summer 2018), Simbao worked with Guest Board Member Amanda Tumusiime from Makerere University, and for the third Rhodes issue (Summer 2019) she collaborated with Stephen Folárànmí from Obáfémi Awólówò University, Ilé-Ifè, Nigeria, who at the time was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes.
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Date Issued: 2020

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A bi-directional SOAP/SMS gateway service

- Halse, Guy A, Terzoli, Alfredo, Wells, George C

Authors: Halse, Guy A , Terzoli, Alfredo , Wells, George C
Date: 2002
Subjects: Broadband 2 SATNAC 2002
Language: English
Type: Conference paper
Identifier: vital:6600 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008293
Description: Many applications need the ability to do real-time notification when events occur. Often the people who need to be kept aware of events are in a remote location. This paper looks at a bi-directional gateway between networked computers and the GSM short message service. The gateway is implemented as a web service, and uses the Simple Object Access Protocol to facilitate data communication. The service interacts with a database in order to facilitate retrieval of sent or received messages, as well as provide accounting abilities. It is intended as a practical proof-of-concept application demonstrating some ofdemonstrating some of the capabilities of the Simple Object Access Protocol.
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Date Issued: 2002

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A critique of the proposed council for the environment national core syllabus for environmental education in South Africa

- Taylor, Jim, O'Donoghue, Rob B, Clacherty, Allistair

Authors: Taylor, Jim , O'Donoghue, Rob B , Clacherty, Allistair
Date: 1993
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/450119 , vital:74884
Description: The Department of Environment Affairs, in cooperation with EEASA, undertook a broad consultative process, a central feature of which was the recent Dikhololo Workshop (see Clacherty in this issue). The process led to the Environmental Education Policy Initiative (EEPI), the purpose of which is to foster broad-based processes to promote policy change with respect to environmental education in formal education. The EEPI is not a unilateral initiative; it seeks to work within existing education policy development and change processes.
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Date Issued: 1993

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A development stratergy for the fishing industry

- Fishing Industry

Authors: Fishing Industry
Date: 1994
Subjects: Fishing Industry
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250485 , vital:52003
Description: For too long workers and the small fishing communities have been trampled under foot. As a result massive disparities have arisen in the fishing industry. The small fishing communities barely exist. And workers employed by the big fishing companies are still treated as an extra tool. Now is the time to change all this. Our members don't want the crumbs off the table. No, they want to be given the opportunity to participate fully in the economy and in particular in the development of the fishing industry. The industry is, however, still trapped in the past. As a result it cannot make use of the many opportunities we believe there are for it to expand and grow. Before I examine these opportunities perhaps it is wise to set out briefly the principles on which we see the industry established.
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Date Issued: 1994

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A Discussion Of Wireless Security Technologies

- Janse van Rensburg, Johanna, Irwin, Barry V W

Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Johanna , Irwin, Barry V W
Date: 2006
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429852 , vital:72645 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Ir-win/publication/228864029_A_DISCUSSION_OF_WIRELESS_SECURITY_TECHNOLOGIES/links/53e9c5190cf28f342f41492b/A-DISCUSSION-OF-WIRELESS-SECURITY-TECHNOLOGIES.pdf
Description: The 802.11 standard contains a number of problems, ranging from in-terference, co-existence issues, exposed terminal problems and regula-tions to security. Despite all of these it has become a widely deployed technology as an extension of companies’ networks to provide mobility. In this paper the focus will be on the security issues of 802.11. Several solutions for the deployment of 802.11 security exists today, ranging from WEP, WPA, VPN and 802.11 i, each providing a different level of security. These technologies contain pros and cons which need to be understood in order to implement an appropriate solution suited to a specific scenario.
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Date Issued: 2006

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A geopolitical analysis of long term internet network telescope traffic

- Irwin, Barry V W, Pilkington, Nick, Barnett, Richard J, Friedman, Blake

Authors: Irwin, Barry V W , Pilkington, Nick , Barnett, Richard J , Friedman, Blake
Date: 2007
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428142 , vital:72489 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Ir-win/publication/228848896_A_geopolitical_analysis_of_long_term_internet_network_telescope_traffic/links/53e9c5190cf2fb1b9b672aee/A-geopolitical-analysis-of-long-term-internet-network-telescope-traffic.pdf
Description: This paper presents results form the analysis of twelve months of net-work telescope traffic spanning 2005 and 2006, and details some of the tools developed. The most significant results of the analysis are high-lighted. In particular the bulk of traffic analysed had its source in the China from a volume perspective, but Eastern United States, and North Western Europe were shown to be primary sources when the number of unique hosts were considered. Traffic from African states (South Af-rica in particular) was also found to be surprisingly high. This unex-pected result may be due to the network locality preference of many automated agents. Both statistical and graphical analysis are present-ed. It is found that a country with a high penetration of broadband con-nectivity is likley to feature highly in Network telescope traffic, as are networks logically close to the telescope network.
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Date Issued: 2007

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A Geopolitics of knowledge and the value of discomfort:

- Simbao, Ruth K

Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146444 , vital:38526 , https://www.ru.ac.za/fineart/latestnews/alutacontinuadoingitfordaddytenyearson.html
Description: In 2006, the short essay ‘Doing it for Daddy’ by visual artist Sharlene Khan caused controversy when it expressed the opinion that since 1994, ‘transformation’ in the visual arts field in South Africa seemed to have halted at the point of White women replacing White men in positions of power. It questioned this new position of dominance in institutions that remained colonially and racially untransformed. On the 16 and 17th of September 2016, the School of Fine Art at Rhodes University will host a one-day symposium ‘A luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy - Ten years on…’ which seeks to both commemorate that article and those who ‘speak up’, but also, fundamentally, to continue looking at the ways in which various social oppressions intersect in the fields of art history and visual arts in South Africa. Presenters include Khwezi Gule, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Fouad Asfour, Ruth Simbao, Sharlene Khan, students from Wits School of Arts and Rhodes Art History and Visual Culture, as well as a performance by visual artist Sikhumbuzo Makandula.
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Date Issued: 2016

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A kernel-driven framework for high performance internet routing simulation

- Herbert, Alan, Irwin, Barry V W

Authors: Herbert, Alan , Irwin, Barry V W
Date: 2013
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429585 , vital:72624 , 10.1109/ISSA.2013.6641048
Description: The ability to provide the simulation of packets traversing an internet path is an integral part of providing realistic simulations for network training, and cyber defence exercises. This paper builds on previous work, and considers an in-kernel approach to solving the routing simulation problem. The inkernel approach is anticipated to allow the framework to be able to achieve throughput rates of 1GB/s or higher using commodity hardware. Processes that run outside the context of the kernel of most operating system require context switching to access hardware and kernel modules. This leads to considerable delays in the processes, such as network simulators, that frequently access hardware such as hard disk accesses and network packet handling. To mitigate this problem, as experienced with earlier implementations, this research looks towards implementing a kernel module to handle network routing and simulation within a UNIX based system. This would remove delays incurred from context switching and allows for direct access to the hardware components of the host.
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Date Issued: 2013

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A multi-threading approach to secure VERIFYPIN

- Frieslaar, Ibraheem, Irwin, Barry V W

Authors: Frieslaar, Ibraheem , Irwin, Barry V W
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429244 , vital:72570 , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7802952
Description: This research investigates the use of a multi-threaded framework as a software countermeasure mechanism to prevent attacks on the verifypin process in a pin-acceptance program. The implementation comprises of using various mathematical operations along side a pin-acceptance program in a multi-threaded environment. These threads are inserted randomly on each execution of the program to create confusion for the attacker. Moreover, the research proposes a more improved version of the pin-acceptance program by segmenting the pro-gram. The conventional approach is to check each character one at a time. This research takes the verifying process and separates each character check into its individual thread. Furthermore, the order of each verified thread is randomised. This further assists in the obfuscation of the process where the system checks for a correct character. Finally, the research demonstrates it is able to be more secure than the conventional countermeasures of random time delays and insertion of dummy code.
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Date Issued: 2016

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A naive salience-based method for speaker identification in fiction books

- Glass, Kevin R, Bangay, Shaun D

Authors: Glass, Kevin R , Bangay, Shaun D
Date: 2007
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/432627 , vital:72888 , https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10350927/
Description: This paper presents a salience-based technique for the annotation of directly quoted speech from fiction text. In particular, this paper determines to what extent a naïve (without the use of complex machine learning or knowledge-based techniques) scoring technique can be used for the identification of the speaker of speech quotes. The presented technique makes use of a scoring technique, similar to that commonly found in knowledge-poor anaphora resolution research, as well as a set of hand-coded rules for the final identification of the speaker of each quote in the text. Speaker identification is shown to be achieved using three tasks: the identification of a speech-verb associated with a quote with a recall of 94.41%; the identification of the actor associated with a quote with a recall of 88.22%; and the selection of a speaker with an accuracy of 79.40%.
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Date Issued: 2007

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A new species of Pogonophryne (Pisces, Artedidraconidae) from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

- Eakin, Richard R, 1946-, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Eakin, Richard R, 1946- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1988-01
Subjects: Pogonophryne -- Antarctica -- Queen Maud Land
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70280 , vital:29641 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45 , Pogonophryne platypogon is described from a 61.0 mm SL juvenile specimen collected near Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. This species belongs to the dorsally spotted group of Pogonophryne but is distinguished from other known species of the group in having a smoothly flattened terminal expansion on the mental barbel and a very narrow snout and jaws (jaw width less than 13% SL). It also has a very narrow interorbital region (less than 5% SL).
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Date Issued: 1988-01

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A New Synthetic Method for Tetraazatricyclic Derivatives and Evaluation of Their Biological Properties

- Odame, Felix, Betz, Richard, Hosten, Eric C, Krause, Jason, Isaacs, Michelle, Hoppe, Heinrich C, Khanye, Setshaba D, Sayed, Yasien, Frost, P Carminita, Lobb, Kevin A, Tshentu, Zenixole R

Authors: Odame, Felix , Betz, Richard , Hosten, Eric C , Krause, Jason , Isaacs, Michelle , Hoppe, Heinrich C , Khanye, Setshaba D , Sayed, Yasien , Frost, P Carminita , Lobb, Kevin A , Tshentu, Zenixole R
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123189 , vital:35413 , https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201802930
Description: Herein, we propose novel quinolones incorporating an INH moiety as potential drug templates against TB. The quinolone-based compounds bearing an INH moiety attached via a hydrazide–hydrazone bond were synthesised and evaluated against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (MTB). The compounds were also evaluated for cytotoxicity against HeLa cell lines. These compounds showed significant activity (MIC90) against MTB in the range of 0.2–8 μM without any cytotoxic effects. Compounds 10 (MIC90; 0.9 μM), 11 (MIC90; 0.2 μM), 12 (MIC90; 0.8 μM) and compound 15 (MIC90; 0.8 μM), the most active compounds in this series, demonstrate activities on par with INH and superior to those reported for the fluoroquinolones. The SAR analysis suggests that the nature of substituents at positions −1 and −3 of the quinolone nucleus influences anti-MTB activity. Aqueous solubility evaluation and in vitro metabolic stability of compound 12 highlights favourable drug-like properties for this compound class.
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Date Issued: 2018

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A possible relation between dietary zinc and cAMP in the regulation of tumour cell proliferation in the rat

- Skeef, Noel S, Duncan, John R

Authors: Skeef, Noel S , Duncan, John R
Date: 1988
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6473 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006154 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/BJN19880052
Description: The possibility of an effect of zinc on the rate of tumour cell division, mediated through a regulation of cellular cAMP concentration, was investigated in the present study in rats. Dietary Zn deficiency (< 1·5 mg Zn/kg) but not Zn excess (500 mg Zn/kg) resulted in an increased cAMP concentration in transplanted hepatoma cells. Neither treatment had any effect on the cAMP concentration in regenerating liver or normal resting liver. Both the deficient and excess Zn diets resulted in a small reduction in tumour growth (not statistically significant). The results seem to indicate that the relation investigated in the present study does not apply in the cell line used.
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Date Issued: 1988

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A qualitative analysis to determine the readiness of rural communities to adopt ICTs: A Siyakhula Living Lab Case Study

- Gumbo, Sibukelo, Jere, Norbert, Terzoli, Alfredo

Authors: Gumbo, Sibukelo , Jere, Norbert , Terzoli, Alfredo
Date: 2012
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431396 , vital:72771
Description: Rural schools have a pressing need for ICT and Internet services, for them-selves and the surrounding communities. Educators can play a crucial role of fulfilling this need. But how ready are schools, educators and communi-ties to engage with ICT and use it for their empowerment? This paper re-ports the findings of an e-readiness assessment and promotion drive by re-searchers from the Siyakhula Living Lab in parts of the Mbashe Municipali-ty, in South Africa. The Siyakhula Living Lab is a multi-disciplinary, multi-year initiative to foster grassroots innovation in marginalized communities with the aim of improving their lives and economies. The drive was con-ducted to support the expansion of the network of Digital Access Nodes, ie ICT points-of-presence of the Living Lab in the community: this network rep-resents the structural backbone on which all other activities rest. The as-sessment shows that, while the practical difficulties are many, the communi-ties are very eager to engage with ICT and understand fairly well the con-nection between ICT availability and the possibility of improvement in their life conditions.
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Date Issued: 2012

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A quantitative analysis of microplastic pollution along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa

- Nel, Holly A, Froneman, P William

Authors: Nel, Holly A , Froneman, P William
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68032 , vital:29187 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.09.043
Description: Publisher version , The extent of microplastic pollution (< 5 mm) in the southern hemisphere, particularly southern Africa, is largely unknown. This study aimed to evaluate microplastic pollution along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa, looking at whether bays are characterised by higher microplastic densities than open stretches of coastline in both beach sediment and surf-zone water. Microplastic (mean ± standard error) densities in the beach sediment ranged between 688.9 ± 348.2 and 3308 ± 1449 particles·m− 2, while those in the water column varied between 257.9 ± 53.36 and 1215 ± 276.7 particles·m− 3. With few exceptions there were no significant spatial patterns in either the sediment or water column microplastic densities; with little differences in density between bays and the open coast (P > 0.05). These data indicate that the presence of microplastics were not associated with proximity to land-based sources or population density, but rather is governed by water circulation.
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Date Issued: 2015

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