A retrospective evaluation of attitudinal, behavioural and knowledge change among diverse stakeholder groups was conducted in Limpopo Province of South Africa to assess the effectiveness of a series of values clarification (VC) interventions. Telephone and face-to-face interview (193) results revealed that over two-thirds (70.2%) reported behavioural changes and 93.2% reported increased compass...

Abslra+ln this paper, we present preamble and receiver design for a Q transmit L receive multi input multi output OFDM system. Tasks performed by the receiver are synchronization in time and frequency domains, followed by channel estimation and noise variance estimation. An algorithm is developed such that only Q OFDM symbols of a generalid length are required to perform functions of the preamb...

Six DOF offset sensing between two plates is important for automatic docking mechanisms. This paper presents an easy and inexpensive implementation of such a system using four commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) infrared (IR) light emitting diode (LED) emitters and two COTS IR receivers on each of two docking plates. The angular intensity distribution of an emitter and the sensitivity distribution ...

The Performance of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems degrade due to Doppler frequency or frequency drift between transmitter and receiver oscillator which causes frequency offset and hence leads to a number of impairments in the received signal, thereby making its detection incorrect. In this paper, a threshold-based frequency offset estimation algorithm for orthogon...

In orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communications, carrier frequency offset must be estimated and compensated at the receiver to maintain orthogonality. In this paper, we examine the performance of a blind carrier frequency offset estimation algorithm for OFDM communications. Experiments were conducted on a system operating at close to 2 MBits/s. Insights obtained from these e...

Frequency-domain equalization (FDE) based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) is considered as a promising equalization technique for a broadband single-carrier (SC) transmission. When a square-root Nyquist filter is used at a transmitter and receiver to limit the signal bandwidth, the presence of timing offset produces the inter-symbol interference (ISI) and degrades the bit error rate (BER) p...