Bedload transport has long been known for its complexity. Despite decades of research, significant gaps of understanding exist in the ability to assess and predict bedload movement. This work introduces a comprehensive bedload database that is a compilation of field samples collected over the past 40 years; compares prediction formulae using a subset of the database; evaluates the influence of the armor layer on stream response to sediment input based on a hypothesis linked to one of the tested formulae, presents a mathematically manipulation of the empirical Pagosa Good/Fair formula for bedload transport into a format similar to the semi-empirical Parker Surface-Based 1990 formula; and addresses the complications of bedload transport by collecting bedload samples on a stream in Central Utah. A comprehensive review of available bedload data resulted in a publicly available database with more than 8,000 individual bedload samples on gravel bed streams. Each measurement included extensive and detailed information regarding channel, site, and hydraulic characteristics. A subset of this database was used to compare four calibrated (a single calibration point of a measured bedload transport rate near bankfull discharge is used to improve formula prediction accuracy) and two un-calibrated bedload prediction formulae. The four calibrated formulae include three semi-empirical (a theoretical treatment adjusted to fit bedload measurements) formulae and one empirical (solely based on regression of bedload measurements) formula; the two un-calibrated formulae are both semi-empirical. Of the formulae compared, the empirical Pagosa Good/Fair formula (a calibrated formula) provided the most accurate prediction results with an overall root mean square error of 6.4%, an improvement of several orders of magnitude over the un-calibrated formulae. The Pagosa Good/Fair formula is cast in a form similar to the Parker 1990 formula, suggesting that criticisms stating that the empirical Pagosa method lacks a theoretical basis are unfounded. The hypothesis of equal mobility that states the gradation of the average annual gravel bedload yield for a given stream matches the particle size distribution of the subsurface material is evaluated with relation to the armor layer. Equal mobility is found to correlate to armor layer such that lower armor ratios indicate a greater tendency to uphold the equal mobility hypothesis and increasing armor ratio values tending to move toward supply limited conditions. This correlation provides an upper limit for lightly armored streams. Bedload sampling efforts described in this work compare the Helley-Smith sampler with the net trap sampler and duplicate previous observations that bedload transport collected using net traps increase more rapidly with discharge than for data collected using Helley-Smith samplers. An alternative, relatively low-cost method for collecting bedload during relatively high discharges on highly urbanized streams is also proposed.

This master’s thesis is focused on description of .NET Framework, versions, architecture, assembly and data formats. Describes programming language C#, his supporting programming processes and architecture. Contains description of ASP.NET, characteristics, used directories, control items and design model Model-View-Controller. Next part describes usability .NET background for creation of aplication and comparsion with PHP. Shortly introduces with ADO.NET, databinding, databases, his types and SQL language and content management system. At the end is desribed database structure of content management system, user administration and his parts and functions.

This work deals with creating an catalogue of active devices. The catalogue enables editing and sorting the devices etc. This work describes briefly databases, choosen programming language and deals with the functions of the catalogue.

The diploma thesis is focused on problematic of management of digital libraries, more precisely it’s focused on standard MPEG-7 ISO/IEC 15938. The thesis defines description of multimedia content, its basic rules and more deeply it describes work with static visual data. The practical part of the thesis is focused on creating standalone application in programming language Java. Its purpose is using XML files to manage, save, search and for general work with visual data and its parameters. An application is focused on Scalable Color and Dominant Color descriptors and propose alternative calculation procedure by variable parameters.

This diploma thesis introduces the definition of plagiarism, distinguishes the types of plagiaries which often take place in praxis and the ways of determining the suspected texts. The means of detection are essential; therefore a whole chapter is dedicated to those. For the detection purposes, it is vital to pre-process the data to reduce the demand factor of the program. There is a preview of some programs which are already being used for the detection of plagiarism. The following chapter introduces some selected indications which have been implemented in the Matlab environment to create a detector of plagiaries in text documents. The created program is described in chapter eight. The applied indications and the detector response are described in a chapter called Indications testing. The testing proved the quality of these indications. The results together with pros and cons of the particular methods are discussed in the conclusion.

The purpose of thesis is optimization information system and its upgrade with some new functions. Optimization is based on users experience and edit using processes. Upgrade will be make new chances and functions which will help company in decision processes and it contributes to more effective work with firm’s data.

This thesis deals with creation of information system for freshly opened bar. It contains business analysis, process analysis and final design of IS. Business processes are described in further detail including responsibilities. Development is recorded since identification of a business activity, its classification till its placement in final system. Design part consists of division of system into modules, description of database schema for each module and design of purposed transactions. There is focus on covering most frequent and useful activities. Information system is not considered as a standalone application, but as a vital part of the company which is still growing.

The aim of this work is to create an application for interconnect diferrences among temporal databases. The main idea of this project is allow user work with languages TSQL2 and ATSQL without user intervention into relation database system. This work also contain implementation of interface JDBC and demonstration application for testing temporal queries.

This thesis deals with the creating, visualization and processing data in a military environment. The task is to design and implement a system that enables the creation, visualization and processing ESM data. The result of this work is a ESMBD application that allows using a classical approach, which is a relational database, and BigData technologies for data storage and manipulation. The comparison of data processing speed while using the classic approach (Postgres database) and BigData technologies (Cassandra databases and Hadoop) has been carried out as well.

Malaria is still one of the most proli c communicable diseases in the world with more than 200 million infections annually, its greatest e ect is felt in the poor nations with-in sub-saharan Africa and south-east Asia. It is especially fatal for women and children where out of the 660 000 fatalities in 2010, 86% were below the age of 5. In the past decade the global fatality rate due to malaria has been signi cantly reduced, primarily due to proliferation of vector control using treated nets and indoor residual spraying of DDT. There have, however, been few innovations in anti-malarial therapeutics and with the threat of the spread of drug resistant strains a need still exists to develop novel drugs to combat malaria infections. One of the major hinderances to drug development is the huge cost of the drug development process, where candidate failures late in development are extremely costly. This is where post-genomic information has the potential of adding great value. By using all available data pertaining to a disease, one gains higher discerning power to select good drug candidates and identify risks early in development before serious investments are made. This need provided the motivation for the development of Discovery; a tool to aid in the identi cation of protein targets and viable lead compounds for the treatment of malaria. Discovery was developed at the University of Pretoria to be a platform for a large spectrum of biological data focused on the malaria causing Plasmodium parasite. It conglomerates various data types into a web-based interface that allows searching using logical lters or by using protein or chemical start points. In 2010 it was decided to rebuild Discovery to improve it's functionality and optimize query times. Also, since its inception various new datasources became available speci cally related to bio-active molecules, these include the ChEMBL database and TCAMS dataset of bio-active molecules and the focus of this project was the integration of said datasets into Discovery. Large quantities of high quality bioactivity data have never been available in the public domain and this has opened up the opportunity to gain even greater insight into the activity of chemical compounds in malaria. Due to conserved structural/functional similarities of proteins between di erent species it is possible to derive predictions about a malaria protein or a chemicals activity in malaria due to experiments carried out on other organisms. These comparisons can be leveraged to highlight potential new compounds that were previously not considered or prevent wasting resources persuing potential compounds that pose threats of toxicity to humans. This project has resulted in a web based system that allows one to search through the chemical space of the malaria parasite. Allowing them to view sets of predicted protein-ligand interactions for a given protein based on that proteins similarity to those existing in the bio-active molecule databases. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Biochemistry / unrestricted