Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Direct aqueous mineral carbonation of cementitious fines derived from hardened ready-mix concrete waste: Process performance and carbon accounting

The growing need to mitigate anthropogenic CO 2 emissions is driving the development of low-energy carbon capture and utilization technologies. Hardened ready-mix concrete waste represents an underexplored alkaline feedstock for direct aqueous mineral carbonation, offering opport...

The Role of Parmedics in Addressing the Health Insecurity of Older Adults in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Systematic Review

Older adults are disproportionately exposed to greater risk of harm and adverse outcomes in humanitarian emergencies. This systematic review explores and evaluates contemporary evidence on the role of paramedics in responding to humanitarian emergencies, with a specific focus on...

Activity shapes large herbivores’ ecological influences

The ecological effects of large herbivores are shaped by their spatial and temporal patterns of activity (i.e. where, when and how intensely they use specific locations). When large herbivores' ecological influences are perceived to be undesirable, the traditional approach has be...

Cultivating critical global citizenship education through defamiliarisation and collaborative online international learning

Abstract This study employed Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional approach to critical discourse analysis to investigate the potential of defamiliarisation, supported by collaborative online international learning, to help pre-service teachers in South Africa and Germany challen...

A Review on Image Steganography Techniques: Evolution from Classical to Adaptive Methods

Image steganography is an information-hiding technique, aiming to achieve confidentiality and data privacy while transmitting the data in a digital environment. Over the last two decades, steganography has evolved from classical spatial domain embedding to intelligent and adaptiv...

Metabolomic Profiling of Agathosma betulina Leaves, Under Wild, Field, and Glasshouse Conditions Using UPLC-QTOF-MS and Multivariate Analysis

Agathosma betulina (P.J. Bergius) Pillans is an aromatic medicinal shrub endemic to South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region, widely used in traditional medicine to treat urinary tract infections, gastrointestinal disorders, colds, and wounds. Despite its commercial importance, limit...