Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering Learning Management System

🌟 Welcome to the Metabolic Regulation! 🌟

Greetings, Trailblazers of Metabolism,

Step into the dynamic realm where molecules dance to the rhythm of life – welcome to our Metabolic Regulation Moodle Page! 🚀

Here, we embark on a thrilling journey through the intricacies of metabolic pathways, where enzymes are the conductors and molecules are the instruments, playing the symphony of life. 🎶

Uncover the mysteries behind energy production, discover the secrets of signal transduction, and navigate the pathways that govern the delicate balance of metabolic harmony. Our Moodle page is your passport to a world where cells are the maestros orchestrating the ballet of biochemical reactions.

🔬 What to expect on this exciting expedition:

• Engaging lectures that demystify metabolic pathways
• Interactive quizzes to test your metabolic prowess
• Discussion forums to share insights and learn from fellow explorers
• Resource-rich materials to deepen your understanding

So, buckle up and get ready to explore the intricacies of metabolic regulation. Whether you're a seasoned biochemist or a curious novice, there's something for everyone in our virtual laboratory.

Let the metabolic adventure begin! 🌌💡

Best regards,

Dr Nokulunga Hlengwa

Bioflocculation Project

This course introduces students to the core principles and practical applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using ArcGIS Pro, the leading desktop GIS platform. Students will gain hands-on experience in managing spatial data, creating advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D visualisations, and performing spatial analyses relevant to environmental and water-related fields. Emphasis is placed on GIS as a decision-support tool in hydrology and geography, with a focus on real-world problem-solving and data sharing across the ArcGIS ecosystem. The course combines theoretical concepts with practical exercises to build proficiency in using GIS for hydrological and spatial analysis.

Lecturer: Andrew Hall

email: halla@unizulu.ac.za

The purpose of Ethos and Professional Practice Module is to equip a first-year nursing student with knowledge, skills and attitude required to achieve an acceptable level of competence when dealing with general communities. Understanding and application of the ethics and practices of the nursing profession. In order to achieve competence, you are required to interrogate multiple sources including various stakeholders during your placement at the hospital and clinic settings. You are expected to take responsibility and accountability during your planning and decision making in your studies.

This module serves to enable learners to develop knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to address health issue in nursing through application of relevant ethics and practices of nursing to identify, analyse apply and evaluate each community using ethical approaches. While being self-critical on your own shortfall and learning needs you will be equipped to use effectively relevant strategies to address your learning academic and professional learning needs in an on-going manner. Lifelong learning is the way to go because the current world system is too unpredictable and unstable which further affects stability of healthcare. Furthermore, as a first-year student nurse you will learn how to always conduct yourself professionally during and after working with patients and in the communities in general. You will further learn how to observe the rules and regulations that governs the nursing profession.

The aim of this module is to use conventional drawing techniques to develop the skill of reading, interpreting and creating engineering drawings using drawing instruments and free hand sketches

Lecturer: Mr C Mundenguma

Email: mundengumac@unizulu.ac.za

Consultation: Room A2 - 36

LECTURE & TUTORIAL VENUE: ENGINEERING BUILDING BLOCK A

Introductory course to engineering design and a requirement to understand how engineers communicate effectively in the ever advancing technological world.

Every idea starts in the mind and scientists interprete in sketches which are perfected in engineering drawings computationally in AutoCAD 2D sketches.

In dry countries as South Africa rural economic and environmental benefits depend on ecosystems. Rural areas rely on wetlands since they provide moist, nutrient-rich soil for food production and grazing. These traditional livelihood-security and production chains are degraded due to non-sustainable land use and global change, and wetland degradation actually accelerates climate change. This trend can be mitigated by restoration of degraded wetlands and construction of new wetlands, but also by introduction of innovative environmentally friendly solutions such as wetland farming.

The project WetEcon aims at the investigation of economic and environmental benefits which can be provided by wetlands. The overall economic benefits are still underappreciated because their economic quantification is complicated. The reason is the lack of market prices both for wetland agriculture and for non-market ecosystem services. The objective of the project is to investigate the economic and environmental benefits of restored and constructed wetlands. This is essential for African regions facing substantial problems regarding food, energy and water supply. The project outcomes will also provide benefits for developed countries, inclusive Germany and other EU member states.

WetEcon has a bi-modular structure to achieve ambitious objectives: Module 1 (Research) comprises the experimental testing and proof of broad bio-economic benefits of restored and constructed wetlands will be carried out, while Module 2 (Postgraduate training and continuing training) addresses this innovative topic in higher education of the participating universities and research institutes by means of newly developed courses and training, participation of students in research and utilisation of the research findings in short and medium term.

The module introduces science students majoring with BSc Geography and other students who elected the module to the occurrence and movement of energy and water vapour fluxes in the atmosphere and on the land surface, develops quantitative approaches for the measurement of the surface energy fluxes and evapotranspiration using various hydrometeorological methods, and discusses the measurement and processing of data sets necessary for hydrologic modelling.

The Faculty of Science and Agriculture held a virtual orientation for postgraduate students on returning to campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The orientation was to equip students with much-needed guidance on the support that is available to them from the university and at the faculty level. The speakers also addressed the availability of professional counseling services, support from the library, guidelines on using the labs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and demonstrating the use of PPE. 

In recent years, large distributed systems have taken a prominent role not just in scientific inquiry, but also in our daily lives. When we perform a search on Google, stream content from Netflix, place an order on Amazon, or catch up on the latest comings-and-goings on Facebook, our seemingly minute requests are processed by complex systems that sometimes include hundreds of thousands of computers, connected by both local and wide area networks. Distributed systems help programmers aggregate the resources of many networked computers to construct highly available and scalable services.

Recent research in the field of Distributed Systems have described several solutions for managing large-scale data and computation. However, building and using these systems poses a number of more fundamental challenges: How do we keep the system operating correctly even when individual machines fail? How do we ensure that all the machines have a consistent view of the system’s state? (and how do we ensure this in the presence of failures?) How can we determine the order of events in a system where we can’t assume a single global clock? Many of these fundamental problems were identified and solved over the course of several decades.

This class provides an overview of influential research that provided the basis of most large-scale, cloud infrastructures today. Students read, review, and discuss papers on important distributed systems topics, including distributed consensus, consistency models and algorithms, service-oriented architectures, large-scale data storage, and distributed transactions, big-data processing frameworks, and distributed systems security.