To improve grape yield predictions, automated berry counting has emerged as a crucial yet challenging task due to the dense distribution and occlusion of berries. While grape cultivation is a significant global economic activity, ...
Engineering courses are a popular choice among South African university students. But these courses are also grueling, and the attrition rates are high. The Council on Higher Education reports that half of the engineering ...
Research shows that people with disabilities have always been largely excluded and marginalized in societies across the world.
Teachers wear many hats. They are expected to be subject matter experts, leaders, administrators, managers, lifelong learners—and not just in the classroom, but in their wider communities.
Many academic studies have been centered on Western theories and methodologies for a long time. This approach to research is broadly defined as "universalist." It assumes that "one-size-fits-all" and set norms can be applied ...
There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC's working groups—those focused on climate change impacts ...
Around the world, the introduction of western ways of life has changed indigenous communities. This has often happened by decreasing or by limiting their access to the resources they need. It's been deliberate as well as ...
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
Much of what we hear about public space comes via routine transactional politics, when officials tell us whether or not we can afford, say, parks, schools, and libraries.
Is tech killing indigenous African languages? Prof. Leketi Makalela, head of Languages, Literacies and Literatures in the Wits School of Education talks back.
