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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"rhino"”.
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Into the Rhino-verse
… this seemingly infinite digital landscape. Rhinoceros 3D, a popular architectural modeling software, is a force in the digital design market. Over time, its parent company developed a platform that houses a large group of animal-named plug-ins to expand the capabilities of the Rhino …
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RHINO software-defined radio processing blocks
… (SDR) applications and compatibility with the RHINO platform. The RHINO platform has commonalities with the better known ROACH platform, but it is a significantly cut-down and lowercost alternative which has similarities in the interfacing and FPGA/Processor interconnects of ROACH. The purpose …
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36 Yellow Fields to One White Rhino
<p><em>36 Yellow Fields to One White Rhino, </em>a collection of poetry which circles around the northern white rhinoceros facing extinction, interrogates a number of collisions including vulnerability and violence, silence and truth, ugliness and beauty, geography and home, misunderstanding and …
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The rhino horn and ivory trade: 1980-2020
… and an influx of firearms led to heavy rhino and elephant poaching, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. I collected and analysed data to reveal the collapsing numbers of rhinos in Africa. Although we had general trade information, we needed more understanding of the soaring smuggling and …
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RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
… real-world applications are generally expensive. Rhino is an FPGA-based hardware processing platform that primarily supports software-defined radio applications. The final cost estimate for a complete Rhino system is under $1700, cheaper than similar FPGA boards that deliver much lower performance.
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An improved controller for the Rhino robot arm
… access to working robots. The inexpensive Rhino robot arm is one that academic institutions can easily obtain for educational purposes. This thesis presents a new controller that replaces the original Rhino controller, which in many ways was not suited, or was too limited, for …
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White RHINO: a low-cost communications radar hardware platform
… Radar application development, the White RHINO(Reconfigurable Hardware Interface for computation and radio) hardware platform was developed. It aims to fill the gap of low-cost commercial hardware platforms available for Whitespace-based Communications Radar. Being a Communications Radar …
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Development and testing of the RHINO host streamed data acquisition framework
… Hardware INterface for computing and radiO (RHINO) with a Personal Computer (PC) host in order to facilitate the development of Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications built using a hybrid RHINO/multicore PC system. The supporting framework that is the focus of this dissertation is designed …
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The design and development of a pulsed radar block for the Rhino platform
… Hardware Interface for computiNg and radiO (Rhino) Platform is an FPGA based computing platform designed at the University of Cape Town to provide an FPGA resource that is both affordable and easy to learn and use in research and skills development in the areas of Software Designed Radio, …
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Genetic admixture of Kruger National Park black rhino (Diceros bicornis minor): conservation implications
Black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) have been extirpated from most of their historic range with the remaining individuals (ca. 5200) living in geographically isolated populations. Management priorities include creating new populations whilst maintaining genetic diversity and promoting gene flow …
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The ecological effects of grazing by the White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) at a landscape scale
… exclosures in Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park. White Rhino had a large influence in controlling grass biomass in Hluhluwe, a high rainfall mesic savanna. Other smaller species of grazers could not replicate the effect of White Rhino when their grazing was removed. In Umfolozi, a semi-arid savanna, …
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A horn of contention: an analysis of the viability of a legalised trade in rhino horn
Trade in rhino horn is currently banned in terms of CITES, however the last few years have seen the establishment of an illegal trade which supplies the growing demand for rhino horn through poaching. As a result, a rhino poaching crisis has developed in South Africa, this dissertation will seek to …
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Putting the pieces together: the systematic development of a software defined radio toolflow for the Rhino project
This dissertation is concerned with the thesis that it is possible for a software defined radio system that has been described in accordance with synchronous data flow theory to be implemented upon a reconfigurable computing platform.
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When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching
… more effective than others at controlling rhino poaching? Rhinos are being poached to extinction throughout much of the world, yet some weak and poor countries have successfully controlled rhino poaching. This dissertation presents a theory accounting for divergent patterns in the control …
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Modeling population dynamics of rhino-poacher interaction across South Africa and the Kruger National Park using ordinary differential equations
… the population dynamics between poachers and rhino as a predator-prey system in both South Africa (SA) and the Kruger National Park (KNP). The data used in this thesis consists mainly of government and police reports, as well publications from several NGOs and the limitations caused by this …
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Habitat utilisation by the white rhinoceros and status of the species in Namibia
… investigated habitat utilisation of the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) in a semi-arid environment and established the history and current status of the species, following its introduction to Namibia.Most early introductions of white rhinos to private land were not successful due …
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In-Plane Shear Wall Performance As Affected by Compressed Earth Block Shape
… on shear strength, one wall was constructed from Rhino blocks as used by the Center for Vocational Building Technology, while another used V-Lock blocks designed by the Vermeer Corporation. Apart from differences in size and interlock mechanism, the standard Rhino blocks have shear keys at the …
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Protecting our wildlife for life: a discussion on how we have failed to protect our rhino populations in the past and what our future options really are
The poaching of the rhino of southern Africa is not a new debate. In fact, it has been a key area of environmental concern for a number of years. Today, it falls under the rubric of ecological criminology which shall be addressed in this dissertation. I intend to deal with the impact poaching and …
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