Dissertations / Theses: 'CAP2'

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Eskandarnaz, Ali [Verfasser]. "Entwicklung eines monoklonalen Antikörpers gegen CAP2 und seine Anwendung bei der Analyse der Gehirnentwicklung / Ali Eskandarnaz." Köln : Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1037399501/34.

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VANDERMEULEN, LINA LORNA. "UNDERSTANDING THE EARLY STAGES OF ALZHEIMER¿S DISEASE PATHOGENESIS: CAP2 AS A LINK BETWEEN SPINE DYSMORPHOGENESIS AND THE AMYLOID CASCADE." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/646592.

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La malattia di Alzheimer (AD) è caratterizzata da depositi di beta-Amiloide (Aβ) e di proteina tau iperfosforilata. L’enzima ADAM10 taglia la Proteina Precursore dell’Amiloide (APP) impedendo la formazione di Aβ. L’attività e la localizzazione sinaptica di ADAM10 sono modulate da proteine che interagiscono con la coda citoplasmatica di ADAM10. Ciò considerato, abbiamo condotto un “two-hybrid screening” che ha permesso l’identificazione di cyclase-associated protein 2 (CAP2) come nuovo partner di ADAM10. Le CAPs sono proteine che legano l’actina e sono coinvolte in rimodellamento del citoscheletro e trafficking vescicolare in cellule non neuronali. Un’analisi di microarray ha rivelato come in campioni autoptici da pazienti affetti da AD vi sia una riduzione dell’espressione di CAP2. Pertanto, lo scopo del presente progetto è valutare il ruolo del complesso ADAM10/CAP2/actina nella formazione di Aβ e nella disfunzione sinaptica legata all’AD. I principali risultati di questo progetto indicano che: - CAP2 è in grado di formare aggregati e di interagire sia con actina che ADAM10 - È nell’ippocampo di topi CAP2 knock-out, i livelli postsinaptici di ADAM10 e della subunità GluN2A del recettore NMDA siano drasticamente ridotti, indicando come possibile causa la mancanza di CAP2. Il complesso CAP2/actina influenza l’endocitosi di ADAM10, perciò la sua modulazione è fondamentale per la localizzazione sinaptica di ADAM10. L’analisi di neuroni ippocampali di topi CAP2 knock-out ha evidenziato un’alterazione della morfologia delle spine dendritiche, indicando come la mancanza di CAP2 possa influenzare la plasticità strutturale dei neuroni. Inoltre abbiamo rilevato un aumento dei livelli di Aβ1-42 nell’ippocampo di topi CAP2 knock-out. - Per quanto riguarda AD, nei campioni di ippocampo di pazienti affetti da AD, così come nell’ippocampo di un modello murino di AD, è riscontrabile riduzione di CAP2 e la sua localizzazione sinaptica. In aggiunta, il complesso ADAM10/CAP2/actina è alterato in questi stessi campioni. - CAP2 ha un ruolo importante nei fenomeni di plasticità sinaptica attività-dipendente e nella plasticità aberrante indotta da oligomeri di Aβ, processi in grado di modificare la localizzazione sinaptica di CAP2 e l’interazione con i suoi partner. Alla luce di questi risultati, abbiamo disegnato due approcci terapeutici per modulare la via di CAP2. Nel primo caso, abbiamo overespresso CAP2 in un modello in vitro di AD e abbiamo osservato un aumento della localizzazione sinaptica di ADAM10. In secondo luogo, poiché l’interazione CAP2/Actina è aumentata in AD e questo complesso è importante per la localizzazione sinaptica di ADAM10, abbiamo sviluppato dei peptidi permeabili alle cellule (CPP) in grado di interferire con l’interazione CAP2/Actina. Il trattamento con CPP determina un incremento dei livelli sinaptici di ADAM10 e ne aumenta l’attività nei confronti di APP. In conclusione, dal nostro studio emerge come CAP2 sia potenziale target farmacologico per AD.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by amyloid beta (Aβ) depositions and hyperphosphorylated tau. A disintegrin and metalloproteinase 10 (ADAM10), is responsible for the α-secretase cleavage of Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP), that prevents Aβ generation. The synaptic localization and its activity towards APP are modulated by protein partners, which interact with the cytoplasmic tail of ADAM10. Considering this, we performed a two-hybrid screening that identified actin-binding protein “cyclase-associated protein 2” (CAP2) as a novel binding partner of ADAM10. CAPs are implicated in actin cytoskeleton remodelling and vesicle trafficking of non-neuronal cells, and microarray analysis of AD patient hippocampi specimens revealed a down-regulation of CAP2 in AD patients. Therefore, the aim of this project is to evaluate the role of the ADAM10/CAP2/actin complex in the amyloid cascade and in AD-related synaptic dysfunction. The main results of the project indicate that: - CAP2 is self-aggregating and interacts with both actin and ADAM10. - In the hippocampus of CAP2 knockout mice the synaptic levels of ADAM10 and of the NMDA receptor subunit GluN2A are significantly reduced, suggesting that the lack of CAP2 affects their localization. In particular, the CAP2/actin complex is essential for ADAM10 synaptic localization since it is involved in ADAM10 endocytosis. Additionally, we detect an altered spine density and morphology in hippocampal neurons of CAP2 knockout mice, and they show elevated levels of the toxic Aβ1-42 in their hippocampus. These data indicate the relevance of CAP2 in synaptic function and structural plasticity. - Regarding AD, a reduction in CAP2 protein levels and in its synaptic localization is detected in the hippocampi of AD patients and AD mice. In addition, alterations in the association of CAP2 to actin and ADAM10 are found. - CAP2 has a role in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity mediated by long-term potentiation, and in aberrant plasticity triggered by Aβ oligomers, which regulate CAP2 synaptic localization and association to its binding partners. In light of these results, we designed two potential therapeutic approaches to tackle the CAP2 pathological pathway in AD. First, we overexpressed CAP2 in an in vitro system modeling AD, and we found an increase in ADAM10 synaptic levels after overexpression of CAP2. Secondly, since the CAP2-actin complex is increased in AD pathogenesis and this complex seems to be important for ADAM10 synaptic localization, we designed a cell-permeable peptide (CPP) to interfere with the CAP2-actin association. The interference by the CPP treatment can affect ADAM10 synaptic levels and increases its activity towards APP. Overall these data indicate that CAP2 is a potential pharmacological target to increase ADAM10 synaptic localization as a novel AD therapeutic strategy.

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Kepser, Lara-Jane [Verfasser], and Marco B. [Akademischer Betreuer] Rust. "The Role of the Actin Regulator Cyclase-associated Protein 2 (CAP2) for Mammalian Skeletal Muscle Development. / Lara-Jane Kepser ; Betreuer: Marco B. Rust." Marburg : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220423564/34.

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Kileo, Mercy Kansari. "A capabilities analysis of teachers' perceptions of caps in a Cape Town low-income school community in the Western Cape Province." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6403.

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Magister Educationis - Med
Since the dawn of democracy, the South African government has set up different measures to improve education in schools, inter alia the provision of funding, resources, feeding schemes and the introduction and amendment to different curricula. The current education policy, the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), was adopted in 2012 following three other consecutive education policies that had not delivered to the desired standard in terms of educational outcome. This study focuses on the perceptions of teachers in terms of their freedom to pursue the aims of CAPS in low-income school communities. The teachers' perceptions and freedoms were explored and analyzed using the Capabilities Approach (CA) authored by Amartya Sen which forefronts the capabilities (the ability to achieve) and the functionings (real achievements). Teachers' perceptions were therefore explored and analyzed in terms of freedoms and unfreedoms they enjoy and face in the process of transferring the knowledge to learners. The thesis studied and analyzed the capabilities and perceptions of teachers in terms of their real freedoms through the deconstruction of their experiences.

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Ashgar, Sami S. "Identification and characterisation of two novel autotransporter proteins, designated CapA and CapB, in Campylobacter jejuni." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408625.

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Lynch, Ryan. "High Returns and Low Volatility: The Case for Mid-Cap Stocks." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/450.

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This study examines excess risk-adjusted returns generated by mid-cap firms with an average market equity between $2.4 billion and $5.5 billion in 2017. Researchers have heavily studied the small-firm effect since its identification in the early 1980s, leading investors to overweight small-cap securities. Additional investments in the small-cap segment caused the small-cap anomaly to weaken. This study finds that excess returns of small-cap firms compared to mid-cap firms are not statistically significant in the periods 1946 – 2017 and 1982 -2017. However, mid-cap firms generate significantly higher 3-year average returns relative to small and large-cap firms after the initial identification of the small-cap anomaly (1982 – 2017). Further, mid-cap securities generate a higher risk-adjusted return after the small-cap anomaly was identified. This study hypothesizes the mid-cap anomaly results from greater growth potential for mid-caps relative to large-caps while still being large enough to weather economic storms. This study also hypothesizes that non-size related factors have the largest impact on the mid-cap segment. The results support the existence of a mid-cap anomaly; however, the results suggest the anomaly is not a result of the growth potential of firms within the segment. Additionally, the results suggest non-size related factors such as book-to-market and operating profitability have the smallest impact on mid-cap securities. Therefore, this study concludes excess returns generated by mid-cap securities represent a true anomaly that is not dependent upon non-size related factors.

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Casoni, Giorgia. "Lithiation-borylation methodology : new classes of metal carbenoid precursors for the iterative homologation of boronic esters." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/a23ba6dc-ca82-4390-98df-bd8e5ac940c3.

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The work described in this thesis details the development of new classes of metallated carbenoids to be used in the homologation of boronic esters. 2-Phenyl-azetidinium ylide, generated in situ by deprotonation of 2-phenylazetidinium triflate, reacted with boronic esters to give, after ring-opening 1,2-metallate rearrangement, γ-dimethylamino tertiary boronic esters. The process proved to be not stereospecific, owing to the configurational instability of the generated intermediated ylide, which presumably exists in equilibrium with the open chain carbene species. The use of enantioenriched α-sulfinyl benzoates as precursors to lithium and magnesium carbenoids for the stereoselective reagent-controlled homologation of boronic esters has also been developed. α-Sulfinyl benzoates could be synthesised in very high enantiopurity from racemic lithiated benzoates by transmetalation to the corresponding magnesiated benzoates followed by electrophilic trapping with enantiomerically pure Andersen’s sulfinate. Alternatively, the α-sulfinyl benzoates could be prepared by alkylation of methylene α-sulfinyl benzoate. The carbenoid precursors were subsequently employed in the homologation of boronic esters, a process that proved to be efficient using either t-BuLi or i-PrMgClžLiCl to trigger the sulfoxide−metal exchange, giving the homologated products in high yield and excellent stereofidelity. The development of one-, two- and three-carbon building blocks for the homologation of boronic esters enabling the introduction of diverse functional groups has also been investigated.

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Srihari, Krishnaswami. "Macro-CAPP: a CAPP CIM interface." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87671.

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There exists today a variety of Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) systems that have been designed, developed, and implemented irrespective of the facility's condition and status. It is often found in practice that Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) constituents such as production control, loading, sequencing, scheduling, etc. do not interact with Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), or CAPP. They operate as stand alone techniques that are not interrelated in the CIM scenario. This could be overcome through increased, improved communication between CAD, CAPP, CAM, and other CIM constituents. CAPP has to be tied into the computerization of other CIM functions. An approach in this direction is what this research presents. Its uniqueness is that it relates CAPP in a flexible manufacturing system atmosphere with scheduling, in effect relating CAPP with production control. It integrates process selection and route generation with factors such as facility congestion, work in process, flowtime, machine utilization and dynamic shop conditions. The generation of alternate routes, and the incorporation of this technique in a CAPP system is an unique approach to the problem of interrelating CAPP with other CIM components. This involved the design and development of software that can model facility capacity, understand part construction, maintain and track shop status, reason through the facility capacity to arrive at possible machining sequences and job routes, and apply a heuristic to arrive at the job route through the facility. This results in the introduction and implementation of the concept of dynamic scheduling and alternate route generation in CAPP systems. The objective in global terms was to construct a CAPP system that considers routing and production control for a FMS that consists of several high capacity, modern machines. The concepts mentioned above are combined and coalesced in a CAPP system that truly provides computerized assistance to the process planning function at a macro-level. This research attempts to create a truly integrated CAPP system within a CIM atmosphere.
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Brown, Kristina M. "Cap to Cape| An Examination of CVC Words| The Effects of Response to Intervention in a First Grade Class." Thesis, Trinity Christian College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979329.

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This study focuses on progress monitoring regarding CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words with three first grade students. The aim of this project is to find the most appropriate frequency of assessment in progress monitoring of first grade students who receive Tier 2 response to intervention for consonant vowel consonant words over a three-month period. Three students were chosen to participate in Response to Intervention (RTI) for literacy. These students received twenty minutes of RTI instruction four days a week. Response to Intervention is a process used by educators to help students who are struggling with a skill or lesson. These three students needed additional instruction with consonant vowel consonant (CVC) words. Each of the three students were progress monitored and assessed either twice a week, once a week, or biweekly. Data was collected on each student to show progress during the three-month period. The purpose of this study is to learn which frequency of progress monitoring is appropriate for students to gain progress over a length of time when receiving RTI instruction.

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Faridani, Jacqueline. "Dynamics of nonabelian Dirac monopoles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71be8f51-cab2-48dc-bb7c-fb0274851c97.

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Ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) exist in yeast both as a single chromosomal array of tandemly repeated units and as extrachromosomal units named 3um plasmids, although the relationship between these two forms is unclear. Inheritance of rDNA was studied using two systems. The first used a naturally occuring rDNA restriction enzyme polymorphism between two strains to distinguish between their rDNA arrays, and the second involved cloning a tRNA suppressor gene into rDNA to label individual rDNA units. An added interest to the study of the inheritance of rDNA in yeast was the possible association between it and the inheritance of the Psi factor, an enigmatic type of nonsense suppressor in yeast which shows extra-chromosomal inheritance. In a cross heterozygous for the rDNA polymorphism and the psi factor, tetrad analysis suggested that the psi factor had segregated 4:0. The majority of the rDNA units segregated in a 2:2 fashion, which suggested that reciprocal recombination in the rDNA of psi⁺ diploids is heavily suppressed as was previously shown for psi^- diploids. A heterologous plasmid containing the tRNA suppressor gene was constructed and transformed into haploid and diploid hosts. A series of transformants was obtained and physical and genetic analysis suggested that they contained tRNA suppressor gene(s) integrated into their rDNA. In a cross heterozygous for rDNA-tRNA gene insert(s), 6% of the tetrads dissected showed a meiotic segregation of the suppressed phenotype which could most probably be accounted for by inter-chromosomal gene conversion. This observation could be interpreted in two ways. Firstly, recombination intermediates between rDNA on homologues may occur in meiosis, but they are mostly resolved as gene conversions without reciprocal cross-over. Alternatively, gene conversion tracts in rDNA are rare but very long so that the tRNA gene insert was always included in the event. 3um rDNA plasmids containing the tRNA gene marker were not detected in any of the transformants analysed. An extensive quantitative analysis of the rate of reversion of the suppressed phenotype amongst these transformants identified a particulary unstable transformant group. It was proposed that the mechanism of reversion was loss of the tRNA gene insert by unequal sisterstrand exchange, and the mechanism was shown to be independent of the recombination/repair genes RAD1, RAD52, and RAD51. A genetic analysis of stability suggested that there may have been at least two loci segregating in the host strains with additive effects on stability.

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Chaudhry, Wahid. "Vertical transport through n-InAs/p-GaSb heterojunctions at high pressures and magnetic fields." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:355f36e2-cae2-4dad-8639-ed9f618c98ea.

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The conduction band of InAs lies lower in energy than the GaSb valence band. In order to preserve continuity of the Fermi level across the interface, charge transfer takes place resulting in a confined quasi two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the InAs and a confined quasi two dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the GaSb. This study is an investigation into the vertical transport in an n-InAs/p-GaSb single heterojunction (SHET). Application of a forward bias (InAs negative with respect to GaSb) increases the 2DEG and 2DHG concentrations and, therefore, their confinement energies. Eventually a critical bias is reached where the electron confinement energy moves above the hole confinement energy (the theoretical voltage induced semimetal/semiconductor transition V_c). Any subsequent increase in voltage is expected to result in a current decrease, and a region of negative differential resistance (NDR) should occur. The SHET can be grown with two distinct interface types, 'InSb-like' and 'GaAs-like'. This in turn affects the vertical transport characteristics of each type. Experimental IV traces at various pressures are compared with the corresponding results from sophisticated self-consistent band profile calculations taking into account band mixing effects for the first time through a k.p theory framework. Experimental IV traces of the SHETs under a magnetic field parallel to the interface are also compared with results from calculations that take into account the coupling of the growth and in-plane electron and heavy hole motions. Both sets of analysis support earlier conclusions that NDR occurs after V_c for both interfaces, and that each interface supports a different conduction mechanism. Evidence of multiple phonon processes occurring in both sample types is observed for the first time and is proposed to reconcile the above experimental observations with theory. This data is found to offer explanations for a number of other observations. Field perpendicular to the interface leads to the observation of features beyond the NDR region in both sample types. In samples with an 'InSb-like' interface, applying additional hydrostatic pressure leads to very strong features beyond the main NDR. Through a complex self-consistent decoupled model taking into account electrons and heavy holes, all these features are proposed to be due to a filling of an integer number of Landau levels. The band profile is predicted to alter dramatically at this point. The same model explains the observation of weaker features at 1 bar at high fields (~ 40T). A variation of NDR position is found with a rotation of an-plane field.

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Luccarelli, James Walter. "Conformational control by intramolecular hydrogen bonding." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:48b80a00-cad2-46be-9791-5acab5761ff2.

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Hydrogen bonds are directional, non-covalent interactions between hydrogen and electronegative atoms. Although generally weak, these interactions are critical to the stability of many biological systems including proteins and DNA. This dissertation explores small molecules in which an intramolecular hydrogen bond is the key determinant of conformation. Chapter 1 introduces the protein Grb2 SH3C, details its role in cancer signalling, and delineates the idea of peptidomimetics—small molecules which are functionalized to mimic the structure of a peptide and disrupt protein-protein interactions. Chapter 2 describes a virtual screen for binders to Grb2 SH3C. From a library of 6.3 million compounds, 34 were tested in vitro and two found to bind to the protein in two orthogonal assays. Chapter 3 describes mimics of the polyproline II helix using a benzoylurea scaffold. A small library of these compounds was synthesized and tested for binding to Grb2 SH3C using SPR, a competition assay, and NMR. Chapter 4 describes attempts to mimic a 310 helix using benzamide-based peptidomimetics. The synthesis and in vitro evaluation of these molecules as ligands of Grb2 SH3C is described. Chapter 5 uses quantum chemical calculations to assess the energies of a series of molecular switches. These calculations benchmark a range of modern density functional theory calculations, and attempt to quantify the accuracy of these methods for a large, flexible system. The role of solvation, entropy, geometry, and torsional angles are assessed in accurately calculating the energies of the critical hydrogen bonds.

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Knoetze, Francois. "Cape Mongo." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13695.

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Cape Mongo is an anti-fable to the mythologies of Cape Town’s consumer culture. This anti-fable takes shape through an amalgamation of sculptural, performative and video-montage processes, culminating in five films. Each of these films follows a different Mongo character as it journeys through various urban spaces. Throughout these journeys, the project attempts to construct a form of social commentary on the current spatial, economic and political conditions of the city by exploring the variety of possible contexts and urban spaces that these discarded objects may have inhabited during their life cycles. This process has also involved a great deal of reflection on my personal entanglement with the conditions of living and consuming in the city. The journeys of the commodities that I consume and discard on a daily basis can be traced to reveal the intricate economic networks which underpin the consumer culture of Cape Town. The recyclable packaging of consumer goods is presented as mnemonic vessels of interconnectedness which expose the relationship between myself and the spaces and lives these objects inhabit. As the films follow the Mongo characters through various cityscapes, their journeys conjure up imagery relating both to my childhood as well as to several of the historical trajectories that have lead up to the endemic inequality2 and social alienation which characterise present day Cape Town.

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Ogujiuba, Chinelo. "Profiling the French community in the Western Cape, South Africa : evidences from an innovative survey." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5337.

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>Magister Scientiae - MSc
In South Africa, demographics consequently play a prominent role in public policy and the country (rainbow nation) or often called a World in One Country, provide interesting interactions between the whites, coloured and blacks. South Africa remains the highest-ranked country in sub-Saharan Africa and the second-placed among the BRICS economies. Furthermore, the country benefits from the large size of its economy, particularly by regional standards, but the profile of various immigrant groups is poorly understood, thereby creating ambivalence in policy frameworks. A, major weakness of research in this area has been the tendency to study causes and impacts of migration separately, which constitute largely separate strands of migration literature. More in general, the scholarly debate has tended to separate the determinants and impacts of migration artificially from more general processes of socioeconomic contexts. Thus, there is a clear need to study migrant profiles in their wider societal context, which makes this study contemporaneous. Our research profiles both the demographics and socioeconomic dynamics of the French immigrants in South Africa on one hand and highlights the differences between French emigrants in Western Cape, South Africa and their counterparts residing in France vis-à-vis South Africans in Western Cape. In determining, the effect of socioeconomic and demographic profiles of the French immigrants in the Western Cape, a Google web design was used. Prior to this, a pilot study using samples of French and Anglophones persons was done to validate the instrument. Two questionnaires were used for the study; one in English and the other in French. Likert scales, multiple choice, open ended and close ended questions were contained in our instrument. Only registered households with French Consulate were included in the population sample. The population of South Africans is much younger than that of the French in Western Cape or French in France. The latter group is ageing but lives longer than the South Africans because of advancement in health infrastructure. Thus, the French community in the Western Cape are better placed economically, socially, and health-wise compared to the South Africans (WC) and the French in France. However, in few areas like education, rent and medical insurance coverage, the French in France are better placed than the French and South Africans in the Western Cape, because of structural issues peculiar in a country like South Africa. These social issues in France have more optimality than in South Africa. Our results further confirm the validity of the New Economics of Labour Migration Theory, which recognises the role of households as against individuals in jointly making the decision to migrate. Migration of a household member is a way to spread the risk of insufficient household income. Nonetheless, the survey indicates that the Western Cape is a city of choice for French migrants. However, a comparative analysis of the influx of the French to other regions would further show the real reasons for French deciding to pitch tent in a particular region. Analysis suggests an imbalance in the labour supply of the French immigrants which could be a structural phenomenon akin to also to the South Africans themselves. Enlightenment programmes for the target population and host population could help in this regard to balance the labour mix. There is no doubt that the socioeconomic impact of migration has been intensively studied by scholars, but it is still often driven by ill-informed opinions, which, in turn, can lead to public resentment towards migration. This is exactly the case for South Africa that has witnessed rounds of xenophobic attacks on migrants. These negative assessments risk on-going efforts to adapt migration policies to the new economic and demographic challenges facing many countries. Results confirm that labour supply becomes the pull factor for the French immigrants. Furthermore, it is likely that the bureaucratic set up at the Home Affairs is still inhibiting the French Immigrants from processing their documentation. On the average, it takes about 2 to 3 years to process legal permit documents for foreigners in South Africa. This process could be discouraging others from migrating to South Africa. Also, the xenophobic syndrome and inconsistent policy framework could also be a deterrent to foreigners who genuinely want to reside on a permanent basis in the country. The development potential of migrants is not expressed to its fullest extent, partly because of the lack of migration-supporting policies, which pushes many migrants to illegality despite the demand for their labour in certain sectors. Being undocumented not only encourages exploitation in the workplace but also prevents migrants from contributing to the development of the host country by paying taxes. A step in the right direction would be to encourage government service providers to mainstream migration into policies and programmes. This would set the framework for greater respect for migrants' rights, as well as facilitate the integration of migrants and acknowledge their contribution to the development of host and home countries.

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Tavares, Moreira Ana Karina. "Documentation et description grammaticale et lexicale du créole afro-portugais de l'île de Fogo (République du Cap-Vert, Afrique de l'Ouest)." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0028.

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Cette thèse est la première description générale du créole capverdien de l'île de Fogo (Afrique de l’Ouest), parlé par la quasi-totalité des 40 000 habitants de cette île ainsi que par de nombreuses personnes qui en sont originaires. Ce travail détaille la structure linguistique de cette variété à partir de données recueillies lors d’enquêtes de terrain effectuées entre 2016 et 2019. Cette thèse se compose de neuf chapitres : (1) introduction, (2) phonologie, (3), structure syllabique, (4) accent tonique, (5) morphologie nominale, (6) morphologie verbale, (7) syntaxe, (8) particularités lexicales et (9) conclusion. Ce travail apporte de nouveaux éléments pour l'analyse synchronique et diachronique du créole capverdien. Elle fournit aussi des données comparatives et partant des pistes pour la reconstruction de la famille linguistique des Créole Portugais de L'Afrique de l'Ouest (CPAO), dont le capverdien fait partie. Ces données démontrent notamment que la variété de Fogo s'est distinguée précocement des autres CPAO et présente des caractéristiques uniques au sein de cet ensemble.Cette étude apporte également des données historiques sur la découverte, le peuplement, les échanges commerciaux et maritimes, la structure sociale et les caractéristiques sociolinguistiques de l'île de Fogo, et montre comment ces caractéristiques et ces contraintes ont façonné le paysage linguistique de la dite île
This thesis is the first book-length description of the Portuguese Creole spoken on the island of Fogo (Cape Verde, West-Africa), spoken by most of the 40,000 island’s inhabitants as well as by its diaspora. This work provides an insight on the linguistic structure of this variety, based on data collected during fieldwork occurred between 2016 and 2019. This study comprises with nine chapters, namely (1) introduction, (2) phonology, (3) syllabic structure, (4), stress, (5) nominal morphology, (6) verbal morphology, (7) syntax, (8) lexical peculiarities and (9) conclusion.This thesis brings new elements both to the synchronic and diachronic analysis of Cape Verdean Creole. At the same time, it contributes with comparative data for the reconstruction of the Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole (UGPC) language family. These data show in particular that Fogo Cape Verdean emerged quite early as a distinct variety among UGPCs and illustrate the main characteristics of this variety.This thesis also provides historical data on the discovery, settlement, trade connections, maritime interactions, social structure and sociolinguistics of the island of Fogo, and shows the role played by these elements in the development and shaping of Fogo’s unique linguistic makeup

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Nuttall, Alice. "Fur, fangs and feathers : colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2015. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/c2b39c47-ca72-43df-ad6d-615dba4faa49/1.

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Although there have been many postcolonial studies of the portrayals of Native American characters in children’s and young adult literature, the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and non-Native authors, and the impact of authorship on the representations of American Indian characters. I believe that a study of this area of literature is important, as it will serve to examine how the portrayal of Native characters in texts varies depending on the insider or outsider experience of the author. In my thesis, using critical theory around Gothic, gender and queer studies, I analyse three examples of young adult fantasy literature; the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer, the Tantalize series by Cynthia Leitich Smith, and the novel Wolf Mark by Joseph Bruchac. In the first chapter, I study the texts’ portrayals of Native American spiritual beliefs, comparing Meyer’s use of Quileute legends to bolster her series’ mythology with Bruchac’s reinterpretation of Abenaki beliefs in Wolf Mark. In the next chapter, I focus on the role of Christianity in the novels, considering historical contexts of missionary movements and colonisation. Chapter Three analyses the novels from a gender studies perspective, considering the racialised representations of masculinity and femininity in the texts, while Chapter Four studies the theme of sexuality in the novels. Finally, in the fifth chapter, I look at postcolonial Gothic space in the novels, and its connections to frontiers and borders, both physical and psychic. ii As a result of my research, I discovered that the Quileute characters in Meyer’s novels correspond with images of Native peoples as ‘savage’ and animalistic, with Native men portrayed as violent and sexually threatening, and Native women as pitiable and subordinate. Her focus on the ‘treaty line’ established by the vampires, and the ‘civilising process’ the main Quileute character Jacob undergoes during his time with the Cullen family, perpetuate colonialist narratives. By contrast, Leitich Smith and Bruchac write against these stereotypes. Bruchac focuses directly on Abenaki characters, writing from an insider perspective that allows him to create a nuanced, non-stereotypical portrayal of a Native protagonist. Although Leitich Smith does not write directly about Native characters or cultures, her representations of gender, sexuality and race correspond with a counter-colonialist perspective. My direct comparison of texts by Native and non-Native authors shows that an author writing from an outsider perspective is far more likely to use stereotypical portrayals of American Indian characters and cultures than an author with an insider perspective of a Native culture. It also indicates that young adult fantasy literature, with its emphasis on the boundaries between childhood and adulthood, can be used as a site for both conservative and radical narratives on colonialism and postcolonialism.

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Aleksienė, Sandra. "CAPM modelio testavimas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2004. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040604_210631-10316.

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The results of empirical tests of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) are discussed in this paper. A formidable problem here involves setting up an effective method for testing or test methodology. Many conceptual and statistical problems are inherent in tests of capital asset pricing model. It always has to be concerned the possible contaminating effects of the inevitable real-world violations of the model’s assumption. The tests reported in this paper are tests of how well the model fits history. The purpose of this work is to determine whether the CAPM fits the real world and, if it does not, to determine the source and size of the discrepancies between the model and the world. The data of Lithuanian firm’s stocks are used in order to test the model. The asset market of Lithuania is young and unstable. Thus the results are not the best. But recently situation is getting better. It will be shown in this paper that capital asset pricing model could be tested with real data of Lithuanian stock market. The results are quite good. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.3 equipment is used to solve this problem.

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Viegas, Patrícia Cativo. "“K” é capa." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13973.

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Tese de Doutoramento em Design apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Doutor.
A K foi uma revista publicada em Portugal, entre 1990 e 1993, com a direcção de Miguel Esteves Cardoso. Fruto de um encontro de gerações e de quadros de referências com interesses diversificados, a revista foi expressão editorial de uma elite cultural que introduziu um discurso livre e diferenciado na imprensa periódica da época. Com um grafismo elegante e arrojado, da autoria de João Botelho e Luís Miguel Castro, a K distinguiu-se como um objecto editorial sofisticado e bem impresso. Esta investigação tem como objectivo realizar o estudo da K, no âmbito da história do design editorial produzido em Portugal, no início da década de 90, enquanto expressão visual de uma manifestação cultural geralmente designada como “pós-modernismo”. A filiação da K no universo do pós-moderno no design gráfico deve-se ao facto de a revista ter sido fruto da sua época, sendo concebida a partir de outras publicações que, por sua vez, materializavam visualmente esta tendência. Como tal, esta perspectiva temática fornece uma interpretação da revista num contexto mais amplo do que o português. A temática do design gráfico no pós-modernismo é convocada a partir de vários contributos bibliográficos, os quais nos fornecem as linhas de orientação seguidas na interpretação da revista. O estudo procede ao levantamento exaustivo de todas as edições da K, sendo aí aferidos os seus atributos gráficos e editoriais. As publicações que a antecederam são também integradas na investigação, revelando uma rede complexa de autores, de referências gráficas e editoriais que estão presentes na sua genealogia. A recolha de testemunhos dos intervenientes na K colmata a ausência de bibliografia sobre a revista e suas antecedentes. O design editorial da K fica caracterizado pela exploração de recursos formais e técnicos heterogéneos. Desse modo, esta publicação distanciava-se criticamente do despojamento formal e da busca de coerência típicos do modernismo internacionalista, que dominara as décadas anteriores enquanto modelo de referência. Manifestou-se na importância atribuída à dimensão estética, na autonomia crescente dos designers na interpretação visual dos textos, na liberdade com que decidiam alguns títulos e, finalmente, no modo como se estabelecia a interacção entre imagem e texto.
ABSTRACT: K was a magazine published in Portugal between 1990 and 1993, under the direction of Miguel Esteves Cardoso. The result of a meeting of generations and reference frame with diversified interests, the magazine was the editorial expression of a cultural elite which introduced a free and differentiated speech in the periodical press of the time. With an elegant and bold graphics, by João Botelho and Luis Miguel Castro, K distinguished itself as a sophisticated and well printed editorial object. This research aims to conduct the study of K within the history of editorial design produced in Portugal in the early 90s, as a visual expression of a cultural event commonly referred to as “postmodernism”. The affiliation of the K in postmodern graphic design is due to the fact that the magazine was a product of its time, being designed from other publications, which, in turn, visually materialized this trend. As such, this thematic perspective provides an interpretation of the magazine in a broader context than the Portuguese. The theme of graphic design in postmodernism is summoned from several bibliographic contributions, which provide us with the guidelines followed in the interpretation of the magazine. The study proceeds to the exhaustive survey of all editions of K, and then measured their graphics and editorial attributes. The publications that preceded the magazine are also integrated in survey, revealing a complex network of authors, of graphic and editorial references, that are present in its genealogy. The collection of testimonies of those involved in K fills the lack of literature about the magazine and its background. The editorial design of the K magazine is characterized by the exploration of heterogeneous formal and technical resources. Thus, this critically distanced the publication of formal simplicity and the search for typical consistency of internationalist modernism, which dominated the previous decades as a reference model. Expressed on the importance attributed to the aesthetic dimension, on increasing autonomy of the designers in the visual interpretation of the texts, the freedom with which decided a few titles and, finally, in the way they established the interaction between image and text.
Projecto desenvolvido com o apoio financeiro da FCT (SKRH/BD/81720/2011)
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Boyle, Erin Elizabeth. "Capa & Taro." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/967.

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As political tensions spread across 1930s Europe, photographers and lovers, Endre Friedmann and Gerda Taro, create the persona of American photojournalist Robert Capa to conceal their Jewish identities. Under the guise of Capa, they put their lives on the front line to expose the humanitarian horrors of the Spanish Civil War with a name that will go down in history.

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Plate, Mike. "CAPM-basierte Optionsbewertung." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB9394040.

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Kabrick-Arneson, Evan C. "CAPE FEAR STORIES." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/73.

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The following work is a collection of short stories, each of which is set in Southeastern North Carolina in a particular medium-sized town. The stories are concerned with the idea of place and with what it is like to have lived all of one’s life in one setting. Thus, the characters here range from childhood to old age, they are from various social classes, and they occupy varying roles in both traditional and non-traditional families. The concern of this collection is how people of all stripes occupy a single place for generations, and more specifically what the nature of community is.

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Milosinschi, Marian Alexandru <1991&gt. "An improved CAPM." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10772.

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Brunsdon, Gideon. "A structural study of Witteberg group rocks (Cape supergroup) in the Cape fold belt, Steytlerville district, Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019682.

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A structural study of Witteberg Group Rocks was conducted along the Soutkloof River, approximately 14 km east of Steytlerville, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Here a north to south geotraverse was studied in an attempt at unravelling the structural geology of the rocks belonging to the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Witteberg Group (Upper Cape Supergroup). These rocks are mostly arenaceous and include quartzite, sandstone, siltstone and shale which have been folded, faulted and metamorphosed. Thrust, normal and strike-slip faulting occur in the area. Shallow south-dipping low-angle thrust fault planes are displaced by steep south-dipping thrust planes and subordinate north-dipping backthrusts. Displacement along thrust planes is predominantly northwards. Steeply dipping thrust fault planes are often reactivated as east-west striking normal faults. Strike-slip faulting postdates all observed structural features and displaces normal and thrust fault planes. Open to tight folds are present and are mostly northvergent and often steepened or truncated by steep south-dipping thrust fault planes. South-vergent folds are related to backthrusting and post-fold faulting. The study has revealed that the current geological map and the local stratigraphy were compiled without recognising major structural features such as thrust, normal and strike-slip faulting and their (the map and currently accepted stratigraphy) validity are therefore questioned. The presence of extensive faulting suggests that the conventional stratigraphic interpretation of the Witteberg Group should be revised.

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Neethling, Miemie. "Cape curtains : a study of selected Cape Town theatres, 1843-1916." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52726.

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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to reconstruct the history of the Capetonian theatrical venue of the second half of the 19th century. It explores the many different venues used for theatrical activities. Venues discussed include amateur theatres such as the Hope Street Theatre, Roeland Street Theatre, Haupt's Theatre and the Drury Lane Theatre. Due to the extensive research already done on the African Theatre on Riebeeck Square and the Garrison Theatre they are only briefly mentioned as part of the background to the social dynamics of Victorian Cape Town. Quite often venues such as banqueting halls, drawing-rooms and wine stores doubled as theatrical venues. Halls discussed include the Oddfellows Hall, the Mutual Hall and the Drill Hall. Although the main objective of the study was the theatrical venue, it is impossible not to mention the different drama companies that occupied these venues. Therefore, the activities of the drama companies were also discussed to a certain extent, because of the strong interrelationship between company and theatre house. These include, among others, the companies of Sefton Parry and Disney Roebuck. For the purpose of this study the theatrical venue has been defined as an indoors space, which is divided into two clearly demarcated areas, namely the stage and the auditorium. Because of this definition the early African theatrical activities are not included in this study and it deals rather with the Western theatre tradition, namely that of the early Dutch and English artists. The study deals primarily with the dominant English theatre post-1850 and the shift from amateur to professional theatricals. Professional theatres include the Theatre Royals of Harrington Street and Burg Street, the Exhibition Theatre and the Good Hope Theatre. At the end of the thesis parallels are drawn between the 19th and 20th century theatre houses such as the Opera House and the Tivoli Theatre. Another issue addressed by the study is the quest for a permanent theatrical venue or building in the early Cape theatre tradition.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie poog om die geskiedenis van die Kaapse teaters te herstruktureer. Dit ondersoek die verskillende plekke en geboue wat vir teater aktiwiteite gebruik is gedurende die tweede helfte van die 19de eeu. Amateur teaters wat bespreek word is onder andere, die Hoopstraat Teater, die Roelandstraat Teater, Haupt se Teater en die Drury Lane Teater. Die Afrika Teater op Riebeeck Plein en die Garnisoen Teater vorm nie deel van hierdie studie nie, aangesien daar alreeds heelwat oor hierdie twee teaters geskryf is. Daar word slegs kortliks in die Inleiding na hulle verwys in die agtergrond tot Kaapstad gedurende die Victoriaanse tydperk. Dramas is nie net in formele teaters aangebied nie, maar ook in verskeie informele plekke soos banketsale en dies meer. Sale wat gebruik is vir sulke doeleindes was onder meer die Oddfellows Saal en die Mutual Saal. Alhoewel die hoof oogmerk van die studie die vermaaklikheidsplek (theatrical venue) is, sou dit onvoldoende wees om nie die verskillende drama geselskappe te noem wat in hierdie plekke opgetree het nie. Daarom is die aktiwiteite van die geselskappe ook bespreek na gelang van hul betrokkenheid by spesifieke teaters, onder andere die van Sefton Parry, James Lycett en Disney Roebuck. Die vermaaklikheidsplek word vir die doeleindes van hierdie studie gedefinieer as 'n binnehuise spasie wat verdeel word in twee duidelik afgebakende areas, naamlik die speelarea en die ouditorium. Die definisie hou egter sekere beperkinge in: Dit sluit die vroee inheemse Afrika teater aktiwiteite uit. Gevolglik word die vroee Westerse teater tradisie van die Hollanders en die Engelse bespreek. Die studie fokus hoofsaaklik op die meer dominante Engelse teater gedurende die tweede helfte van die 19de eeu, en die oorskakeling van amateur na professionele drama. Professionele teaters wat bespreek word is die Theatre Royals (Harrington Straat en Burg Straat), die Exhibition Teater en die Goeie Hoop Teater. Aan die einde van die tesis word daar 'n vergelyking getref tussen die 19de en 20ste eeuse teaters, soos byvoorbeeld die Operahuis (1893) en die Tivoli Teater (1903). Nog 'n aspek wat aangespreek word is die soeke na 'n permanente teatergebou binne die vroee Kaapse teater tradisie.

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Bekker, Simon. "Diminishing returns : circulatory migration linking Cape Town to the Eastern Cape." UCT -- University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/73960.

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Friedling, Louise J. "Dental modification practices on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26627.

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The people living on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape have been practicing dental modification for a number of years. A systematic survey of eight adjoining areas in the Northern suburbs was done to investigate the prevalence, motivation and possible historical time depth of this practice. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire. A total of 2167 individuals participated in this study of which 41 % had modified their teeth. More males (44.8%) than females (37.9%) were involved in this practice. Residential area and pay class had an impact on dental modification practices as the incidence increased within lower income areas. Six styles of modification were identified, of these; the removal of the upper four incisors (style 400) was often the style of choice (93. 7%). There were four stated reasons (peer pressure, fashion, gangsterism and medical/other) for dental modification of which peer pressure (in males) and fashion (in females) were the most popular. Dentists did most of the extractions. Three quarters of the entire study sample had family members with dental modifications. More than half (69.8%) of individuals with modifications wore dentures. Not only coloured people were modifying their teeth, some study subjects who had self-classified themselves as black or white also practiced it.

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Giménez, Joan. "Ecology and conservation of cetaceans in southern iberian waters." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/662969.

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This thesis fills important gaps of knowledge that will help to develop a proper conservation strategy for cetaceans in southern Iberian waters. We were able to define different ecological management units for bottlenose dolphins (Chapter 3) that may assist in the implementation of specific conservation strategies for each of the units. Dietary information of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Cádiz (Chapter 4) as for common dolphins in the Strait of Gibraltar and Alboran Sea (Chapter 6) is now firstly available. With this information, we assessed the prey consumption by common dolphins in the Alboran Sea (Chapter 6), highlighting the potential competition with local fisheries. Hence, new marine protected areas were proposed in conjunction with a threat-based strategy to preserve the endangered common dolphin population of the Alboran Sea (Chapter 7). In addition, this thesis revealed that cetacean species can partition their trophic and spatial niche to allow them to coexist (Chapter 5). Further, we provide essential values for the reconstruction of cetacean diets through stable isotope analysis that can be used worldwide to properly assess assimilated preys (Chapter 1), making also available a great amount of otolith-fish size relationships (Chapter 2), extremely useful for predator-prey studies. Overall, the importance of this thesis mainly resides in providing important information for a better conservation of cetaceans in southern Iberian waters, but also applicable to other locations where marine top predators are under study. This is an important step forward in the study of ecology and conservation of cetaceans and at the same time, opens new questions to be solved.
Esta tesis constituye una mejora sustancial en el conocimiento sobre la ecología de los cetáceos al sur de la península ibérica que permitirá desarrollar estrategias de conservación más adecuadas para este grupo de especies. Pudimos definir diferentes unidades de manejo ecológico de delfines mulares a través de un enfoque multidisciplinar (Capítulo 3) que permitirán la implementación de estrategias de conservación específicas para cada unidad. Por primera vez determinamos la dieta de los delfines mulares del Golfo de Cádiz (Capítulo 4) así como la de los delfines comunes del Estrecho de Gibraltar y el Mar de Alborán (Capítulo 6). Con esta información, evaluamos el consumo de presas por los delfines comunes en el Mar de Alborán (Capítulo 6), destacando la potencial competencia con las pesquerías locales. Para la correcta conservación de la amenazada subpoblación de delfines comunes del Mar de Alborán se propusieron nuevas áreas marinas protegidas junto con una estrategia basada en combatir las amenazas a nivel de cuenca (Capítulo 7). Además, esta tesis reveló que las especies de cetáceos pueden dividir su nicho trófico y espacial para permitir la coexistencia (Capítulo 5). Asimismo, proporcionamos valores esenciales para la reconstrucción de la dieta de cetáceos a través del análisis de isótopos estables que se pueden utilizar a nivel mundial para una correcta evaluación de las presas asimiladas (Capítulo 1). Paralelamente hacemos disponible una gran cantidad de regresiones entre el tamaño del otolito y el tamaño del pez que nos permite reconstruir la longitud de las presas ingeridas por los cetáceos (Capítulo 2). Esta información no tan solo es útil para la reconstrucción de la dieta ingerida por cetáceos sino que es extremadamente útil para el estudio de la dieta de otros depredadores. En general, la importancia de esta tesis reside principalmente en proporcionar información clave para mejorar las estrategias de conservación de los cetáceos al sur de la península Ibérica, pero también dicha información es aplicable a otras zonas de estudio. Este es un importante paso adelante en el estudio de la ecología y la conservación de los cetáceos y, al mismo tiempo, abre nuevas preguntas por resolver.

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Domínguez, Carrió Carlos. "ROV-based ecological study and management proposals for the offshore marine protected area of Cap de Creus (NW Mediterranean)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663093.

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Aiming to improve the conservation status of the European seas, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was adopted in 2008, establishing a general framework for all EU countries in the field of marine environmental policy. The MSFD enforces all Member States to adopt an adaptive management strategy in their territorial waters grounded on (1) an ecosystem-based approach, (2) the creation and management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as essential tools to reach a (3) previously designed Good Environmental Status (GES), to which they must evolve as the result of (4) policy measures that would only be enforced after the launching of a (5) monitoring program based on (6) previously selected indicators/parameters. In the case of the Spanish State, the MSFD was legally transposed as a state law in year 2010, leading to the designation of 10 new offshore MPAs. One of these 10 areas, evaluated under the framework of the Life+ Indemares project, sets the spatial limits of this PhD thesis: the offshore area of Cap de Creus. This thesis begins by evaluating the structure of the megabenthic invertebrate assemblages present on the continental shelf and submarine canyon based on 60 underwater video transects performed by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and a manned submersible. 9 different assemblages were identified: (A) shelf assemblage with Eunicella cavolini; (B) soft-bottom shelf assemblage with pennatulaceans; (C) soft-bottom assemblage with Sabella pavonina; (D) sandy bottom shelf assemblage with Leptometra phalangium; (E) deep shelf and shelf-break assemblage with Lanice conchilega; (F) cold-water coral assemblage with Madrepora oculata; (G) ‘Roche du large’ assemblage with sponges; (H) slope assemblage with Cerianthus membranaceus; and (I) aggregation of the brittle star Ophiothrix fragilis. Depth, current speed and substrate type were identified as the main factors determining the spatial patterns observed at the scale of the study area, although fishing intensity played a predominant role in the soft-bottom areas of the shelf, where fishing is known to occur. This information was used to elaborate predictive distribution maps of benthic assemblages using the algorithm Random Forest. Increasing levels of bottom trawling intensity had a negative impact on species richness, diversity, and also on the structure of the community dwelling on the continental shelf. Based on the response of key megafauna species to increasing levels of fishing effort, 4 species were chosen as indicators for a monitoring program. A detailed monitoring protocol together with quantitative baseline data is provided in order to assess the future evolution of the benthic ecosystem once management measures are put in practice. The proposed protocol extensively describes the sampling methodology to be applied at sea, the video analysis, the processing of the data and the interpretation of the results. Two fish assemblages were identified in the video images: (A) shelf assemblage with highly-mobile small-sized fishes (Trisopterus spp., Serranus cabrilla, triglidae and Scorpaena species) and (B) canyon assemblage with less mobile and larger fishes (Helycolenus dactylopterus, Lepidopus caudatus, Conger conger and Phycis phycis). The low number of fishes identified in the ROV footage made us very pessimistic with their use in the monitoring protocol as indicators of fishing activity. Finally, this thesis provides the amount of marine litter accumulated on the seafloor of the study area. The results of this PhD thesis have to be considered an attempt to simplify the implementation of the MSFD in offshore areas by providing the necessary tools to implement an ecosystem-based approach to management using imaging techniques, which should lead to a continuous monitoring of the benthic ecosystem, as demanded by the MSFD.
Amb l'objectiu de millorar l'estat de conservació dels mars europeus, es va adoptar la Directiva Marc de l'Estratègia Marina (MSFD) l'any 2008, que estableix un marc general per a tots els països de la UE en l'àmbit de la política ambiental marina. La MSFD demana a tots els Estats Membres que adoptin una estratègia de gestió adaptativa en les seves aigües territorials basada en (1) una gestió ecosistèmica, (2) la creació i gestió d'àrees marines protegides (AMP) com a eines imprescindibles per assolir un (3) un bon estat ambiental, al qual han d'evolucionar com a resultat de (4) mesures de gestió que només s'aplicaran després de la posada en marxa d'un (5) programa de seguiment basat en (6) indicadors seleccionats prèviament. En el cas de l'Estat espanyol, la MSFD es va transposar jurídicament com una llei estatal l'any 2010, conduint cap a la designació de 10 noves AMP mar endins. Una d'aquestes 10 àrees, avaluada en el marc del projecte Life+ Indemares, estableix els límits territorials d'aquesta tesi doctoral: l'àrea marina del Cap de Creus. Aquesta tesi comença avaluant l'estructura de les comunitats de fauna invertebrada presents a la plataforma continental i el canó submarí en base a 60 transectes de vídeo submarins. Les imatges van permetre identificar fins a 167 espècies, que formen un total de 9 comunitats bentòniques diferents. La fondària, la velocitat de la corrent i el tipus de substrat es van identificar com els factors principals que determinen els patrons espacials observats a l'escala de l'àrea d'estudi, tot i que la intensitat de la pesca juga un paper preponderant en les zones de fons tou de la plataforma. Aquesta informació es va utilitzar per elaborar mapes de distribució predictius de comunitats usant l'algoritme Random Forest. Altes intensitats de pesca d'arrossegament tenen un impacte negatiu en la riquesa, la diversitat i també en l'estructura de les comunitats a la plataforma continental. A partir de la resposta a nivells creixents d'esforç pesquer de diferents espècies clau de la megafauna, es van triar 4 espècies com a indicadors per a un programa de seguiment. La tesi proporciona un protocol de seguiment detallat, conjuntament amb dades de base quantitatives, per així poder avaluar l'evolució futura de l'ecosistema bentònic una vegada que es posin en pràctica les mesures de gestió. El protocol proposat descriu la metodologia de mostreig que s'ha d'emprar al mar, l'anàlisi de les imatges de vídeo, el tractament de les dades i la interpretació dels resultats. Es van identificar també dues comunitats de peixos a les imatges de vídeo, però el reduït nombre d’individus que s’observen ens fa ser molt pessimistes amb el seu ús com a indicadors de l'activitat pesquera en el protocol de seguiment. Finalment, aquesta tesi proporciona també la quantitat d'escombraries marines acumulades al fons marí de l'àrea d'estudi.

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Shirvanpour, Keivan, and Daniel Soume. "Köp, Sälj eller Behåll - En kvantitativ studie om aktierekommendationer som investeringsstrategi." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172724.

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Sammanfattning Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka huruvida det är möjligt att uppnå riskjusterad överavkastning, genom att tillämpa aktierekommendationer som investeringsstrategi. Studien ämnar även att undersöka vilken grad av marknadseffektivitet som råder på Stockholmsbörsens Large Cap-lista. Metod: Vi har inhämtat samtliga utfärdade rekommendationer för Stockholmsbörsens Large Cap-lista genom att använda databasen Refinitiv Eikon, rekommendationerna är inhämtade på månatlig basis och illustreras av den aggregerade, procentuella andelen för respektive typ av rekommendation. Den valda tidsperioden är 2015-01 till 2019-12. Tre portföljer har bildats som representerar köp, behåll och sälj. För att bedöma vilka aktier som platsar i de respektive portföljerna, så använder vi oss av en rekommendationsgrad (60%), detta för att en rekommendation ska kunna betraktas som entydig. Den totala avkastningen för respektive portfölj mäts därefter i relation till rådande riskfri ränta, vilket möjliggör att undersöka eventuell förekomst av riskjusterad överavkastning. Det statistiska programmet Stata har därefter använts för att bedöma huruvida avkastningen för respektive portfölj, såväl som ytterligare variabler som är inkluderade i värderingsmodellerna, är av statistisk signifikans. Värderingsmodellerna som tillämpas är Fama French Trefaktormodell och Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Resultat: Studien kommer fram till att det är möjligt att uppnå riskjusterad överavkastning, detta genom att tillämpa säljportföljen. Signifikanta resultat (95%) uppvisades både vid tillämpning av Fama French Trefaktormodell och CAPM som värderingsmodell. Övriga portföljer uppvisade ej signifikanta resultat. Slutsats: Slutsatsen från studien är att är möjligt att generera riskjusterad överavkastning genom att använda sig av aktierekommendationer som investeringsstrategi. Detta resultat är dock endast möjligt att uppnå genom att använda säljportföljen. Signifikant riskjusterad överavkastning kunde ej påvisas för köp- och behållportföljen, vilket indikerar att det inte finns något mervärde för en investerare att tillämpa dessa porföljer givet denna strategi. Resultatet från studien indikerar även att det råder en marknadseffektivitet av den medelstarka graden på den svenska aktiemarknaden. Dock gäller detta antagande ej för säljportföljen vars resultat strider mot den medelstarka graden av marknadseffektivitet. Nyckelord: Aktierekommendationer, överavkastning, investeringsstrategi, portföljstrategi, effektiva marknadshypotesen, marknadseffektivitet, Fama French, CAPM, Large Cap

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Migozzi, Julien. "Une ville à vendre : numérisation et financiarisation du marché du logement au Cap : stratification et ségrégation de la métropole émergente." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020GRALH007.

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Cette thèse porte sur la numérisation et la financiarisation du marché du logement dans la métropole émergente du Cap, en Afrique du Sud. M'inscrivant dans les champs croisés de la sociologie économique et de la géographie urbaine, je propose la notion d'agencement de marché du logement pour étudier dans un même mouvement les structures actorielles et institutionnelles du marché immobilier au Cap, ainsi que ses conséquences sur les mécanismes de stratification sociale et sur les formes et processus de la division sociale de l'espace dans une métropole émergente. À cet effet, je mobilise une méthode mixte fondée sur l'intégration des approches qualitatives et quantitatives, qui associe une enquête de terrain de 18 mois menée auprès des acteurs du marché (agents, promoteurs, courtiers en crédit, banquiers, investisseurs, ménages), reposant sur les méthodes de l'entretien et de l'observation participante, avec l'analyse spatiale et statistique d'une base de données de 900 000 transactions résidentielles. Je démontre ainsi comment le marché du logement a été reconfiguré comme un flux continu de données par le déploiement de plateformes numériques et par la construction progressive du logement en actif financier, aussi bien sur le marché de l'acquisition que sur le locatif, tout en retraçant l'évolution spatiale des prix et du crédit dans l'espace urbain. Le marché génère ainsi deux mécanismes de filtrage qui recomposent les structures de l'espace social et urbain : i) l'abordabilité du logement, qui est déterminée par l'inégale distribution spatiale des prix et celle, sociale, des revenus et du patrimoine, dans un marché caractérisé par des pratiques de prêt socialement et racialement sélectives ; ii) les technologies du credit scoring, qui permettent la classification automatisée des citoyens sud-africains par un filet informationnel d'une sophistication et d'une ampleur inédites aussi bien pour le Global North que le Global South. Les banques et les "corporate landlords", qui ont récemment investi le marché locatif en pleine résurgence du fait de l'inflation immobilière, utilisent les plateformes du credit scoring pour sélectionner les demandes de prêts et les locataires, dans une société urbaine caractérisée par l'endettement et le maintien d'une forte ségrégation raciale. Le marché du logement se définit ainsi comme une économie spatialisée de la classification, où les individus, les logements et les quartiers sont évalués et catégorisés selon des indicateurs et métriques de mesure de profit et de gestion du risque. La distribution spatiale et sociale du crédit constitue ainsi un facteur primordial pour comprendre l'évolution des inégalités, des mécanismes ségrégatifs et des structures résidentielles de la métropole sud-africaine, en sortant du référentiel du "post-apartheid". Afin de penser la stratification depuis le marché, je propose de définir la classe moyenne comme une "classe filtrée" et de comprendre l'émergence métropolitaine comme une mise en ordre de l'urbain par des agencements de marché numérisés et financiarisés, qui renouvellent les logiques de classe, de ségrégation et de production de l'espace urbain
This thesis investigates the digitalization and financialization of the housing market in Cape Town, South Africa. Borrowing from economic sociology and urban geography, I develop the concept of "housing market assemblage" to both analyze and conceptualize how the evolution of market structures renews contemporary patterns of social stratification and urban segregation in an emerging global city. To do so, I use mixed methods that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches. Over 18 months of fieldwork, I conducted interviews with market professionals (real estate agents, property developers, mortgage brokers, bankers, investors) and households, while engaged in participant observation of a local estate agency in Cape Town's largest black township (Khayelitsha). Furthermore, I built a database of 900,000 residential real estate transactions and employed multivariate statistics and spatial analysis to track the evolution of prices and mortgages across the post-apartheid urban space. The thesis demonstrates how the housing market was reconfigured as a continuous flow of data through the adoption of digital platforms and the progressive making of housing as a financial asset on both the buyer's and rental markets. The market creates two filtering mechanisms with deep stratifying effects : (i) housing affordability is determined by the unequal spatial distribution of housing prices, on the one hand, and the social and racialized distribution of income and family assets, on the other, in a context of highly selective lending practises (ii) the hegemonic use of credit scoring technologies that allow the automated classification of South African citizens through an information dragnet of unprecedented sophistication and depth, both for the Global North and the Global South. Banks and newly formed corporate landlords use credit scoring to classify & select mortgage recipients and tenants, in a context of household indebtedness and enduring racial inequalities. The housing market operates therefore as a spatial economy of classification, whereby individuals, properties and neighborhoods are valued and classified according to profit and risk factors. Focusing on the market allows to engage more fully, but think beyond, prevailing concerns of the "post-apartheid" city: the spatial distribution of credit thus constitutes the main contemporary factor for both understanding and mapping the evolution of enduring inequalities and residential structures in the emerging South African city. In order to conceptualize this form of market stratification, I define the new middle class as a "filtered class", and processes of global urban integration through the ordering of financialized and digitalized housing market assemblages that both engender new urban forms and renew social-class patterns across the emerging city

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Witte, Warren. "Abalone stock enhancement at Cape Recife, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/45695.

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The potential for restocking depleted natural reefs with hatchery abalone, Haliotis midae, to support a commercial ranching venture in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa was investigated. A baseline stock assessment and analysis of historical fishery data provided compelling evidence of significant declines in the abalone stock, attributed to uncontrolled illegal fishing over the last 20 years at the study site. A ranching pilot study was undertaken where small-scale replicated seeding experiments were set up which quantified the effect of seed size, density and habitat on survival and growth of hatchery-reared abalone. Thirty-six experimental plots were seeded with 8400 abalone spread evenly over two broad habitats. Mean retrievals of seeded abalone were 17% ranging from 4 - 42% after a minimum of eight months at large. Release density and large-scale habitat had no significant effect on seed survival, but smaller seed size (40.0 ±3.7mm shell length) achieved higher (F1, 22 = 4.64, p = 0.042) retrievals than larger seed size (53 ±3.7mm). Growth rates were an average of 30% higher in the shallow sites compared deeper sites (t1, 1091 = -2.79, p = 0.005). There was seasonal component in growth with a 0.55 ± 0.04 mm per month higher rate in summer than during winter (t1, 1091 = -12.45, p < 0.001). Abalone seed releases were also conducted on a larger scale, which focused on the economic potential for commercial-scale ranching. Over 160 sites were seeded with 1.4 million hatchery reared abalone or 30 metric tonnes. Seventeen sites underwent long-term monitoring of survival with repeated sampling events on sites over a period of up to 666 days. Nine of these sites were seeded with 140800 small abalone (29 – 40 mm), three sites with 25100 medium abalone (30 – 46 mm) and five sites with 14700 large abalone (60 – 84 mm). There was a significant difference in survival between the seed sizes (F4,6329 = 304.3, P < 0.001). The Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) calculation estimated the instantaneous apparent mortality rate for small, medium and large abalone at 1.19 yr-1 , -0.9 yr-1 and -0.67 yr-1 , which equated to a survival rate of 21%, 28% and 36% per year respectively. The weighted mortality rate calculated according to the seed size differential mortality and the number of seed released for those sizes was 1 yr-1 or 25% survival. In conjunction with a conservative somatic growth rate of 1.2mm.m-1 and plausible emigration rates, a range of biomass harvesting estimates were obtained. Movement and mortality were investigated using video analysis which showed that hatchery seed had the ability to move considerably once released onto natural reefs and confirmed that mortality immediately following releases was due to the heavy predation pressure as confirmed by shell collections. This project has demonstrated that potential exists for ranching in South Africa and highlights critical factors that need to be addressed if ranching is to be an economically viable operation.

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Ho, Chow-lai Barrie. "Necrotecture at the Cape." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31982657.

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Sidestål, Jesper, and Johnny Sjöholm. "IT - Bubblan och CAPM." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-359.

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Meyer, Björn. "STUDY OF TRUNNION CAPS." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-16122.

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This thesis compiles information of a kind of bracket named “Trunnion cap” which is used at some of the loaders and trucks that are developed at Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB in Örebro, the information is needed to create a technical guideline for design of new trunnion caps. The thesis is limited to investigate trunnion caps that are used to attach steering cylinders on six different vehicles, MT436B, MT5020, MT6020, ST1030, ST14 and ST1520. It investigates what angles the force generated by the steering cylinders acts from, which varies from a range of 6 to 96 degrees depending on which vehicle and frame it is. The forces generated by the steering cylinder have also been calculated regarding the maximum pressure which is between 21,5 and 30 MPa for the different vehicles. Any kind of useful information from customers has also been searched partly by asking employees at Atlas Copco customer centres around the world if they are aware of any occasions were trunnion caps or bolts to trunnion caps have broke down. The results indicate that no problems exist today and that old problems had to do with lack of service. Even the internal databases for service reports have been searched for failures that regard parts to trunnion caps but no relevant information was found. The tolerances for the holes in the trunnion caps and to the pins that are assembled to the trunnion caps has also been identified with a result that vary, some assemblies have a tight fitting while others have a loose fitting. Finally has the availability of bolts with property class 8.8 and 10.9 been investigated where it has been noticed that the lead time for bolts with property class 8.8 more often is shorter than it is for bolts with property class 10.9.
Detta examensarbete sammanställer och tar fram information om en typ av fäste som kallas “Trunnion cap” som används på några av de truckar och lastare som utvecklas på Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB i Örebro. Informationen behövs för att skapa en konstruktionsriktlinje för trunnion caps. Arbetet är begränsat till att undersöka de trunnion caps som används vid infästning av styrcylindrar på sex olika fordon, MT436B, MT5020, MT6020, ST1030, ST14 och ST1520. Det undersöker från vilka vinklar kraften som genereras av styrcylindern verkar från. Dessa vinklar verkar inom ett intervall från 6 till 96 grader. Själva kraften har också beräknats med avseende på maximalt styrtryck vilket varierar från 21,5 till 30 MPa beroende på fordon. Värdefull information från kunder har också eftersökts delvis genom att fråga anställda vid några av Atlas Copcos marknadsbolag runt om i världen om de är medvetna om några tillfällen då trunnion caps eller bultar till trunnion caps har havererat. Svaren på denna fråga tyder på att inga problem existerar idag men att de problem som funnits tidigare berott på bristande service. Även Atlas Copcos interna databaser för servicerapporter har genomsökts på rapporter som rör delar till trunnion caps, dock utan att någon relevant information hittats. Examensarbetet har även sammanställt de toleranser som hålen i trunnion caps:en samt axeln som monteras dit har. Resultatet varierar då några sammanställningar har greppassning medan andra har spelpassning. Slutligen har även tillgängligheten på bult med hållfasthetsklass 8.8 och 10.9 undersökts där det har noterats att ledtiden för bult med hållfasthetsklass 8.8 i allmänhet är kortare än för bultar med hållfasthetsklass 10.9.

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Ho, Chow-lai Barrie, and 何周禮. "Necrotecture at the Cape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982657.

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Honiball, Wallace. "Erf 217, Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13130.

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Laugier’s Primitive Hut from 1755 depicts reason as a muse enthroned upon the ruins of the classical orders, pointing towards nature as a way forward. Similarly, in 1841 Joseph Paxton designed a glass conservatory at Chatsworth for the tropical Victoria regia water lily, which literally referenced the lily pad veins as structural system. This preoccupation with nature as a design generator continues in the 20th century with digital tools that derive architectural form using biomimicry, in the work of R & Sie. All these projects are based on a dialectic relationship between architecture and nature, where the particular model of nature is translated into form. This relationship in landscape architecture is discussed through the idea of the biomorphic. Applied as a guiding principle to investigate vegetation and plant form in the 17th Century Company’s Gardens arguing that the generation of the biomorphic can be adjusted to serve as a mechanism to understand plant form in terms of effect.

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Lewis, Colin A. "Eastern Cape bells (letter)." The Ringing World, 1997. http://www.ringingworld.co.uk.

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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa. This correspondence was sparked by the author's article: "Bells and Bellfounders of the Eastern Cape, South Africa" which appeared in The Ringing World No. 4477. 14th February 1997, pp. 161-162.

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Ruhode, Estery. "ICTS for empowering women in SMEs in the Cape Metropolitan area, Western Cape." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1774.

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Thesis (MTech( Business Information))-- Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011
Women, being important stakeholders of the community, are lagging behind in terms of economic empowerment. Their opportunity to participate actively in business in the past was hindered by various discriminatory policies that were in place. ICTs have the forte to empower and increase the knowledge base of the women in SMEs through information dissemination. The argument is that women in South Africa and indeed in many other developing countries have not embraced technology in their everyday businesses as much as their male counterparts. This study therefore explores how women in SMEs in the Cape Metropolitan, Western Cape are utilising ICTs to empower themselves to overcome the economic discrimination they have suffered in the past.In order to collect relevant data and obtain deep insights about the utilisation of ICTs by women in SMEs, a qualitative research method was applied enabling respondents to articulate their experiences concerning the use of ICTs in their businesses. Women of all races were selected using the snowball sampling method and were interviewed. The population involved women in SMEs from the five suburbs of Claremont, Rondebosch, Gardens, Pinelands and Mowbray.The findings of the study are that women in SMEs in the Cape Metropole are utilising various ICTs to empower themselves in their businesses. They are exchanging business documentation with other business resulting in marketing of their entities. Women in SMEs are taking advantage of the fast growing social and business networking technologies such Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Skype and blogs to promote marketing of their various products and services, gaining mileage in publicity and also managing their expenditures.ICTs enable women to work anytime, anywhere affording them the opportunity to take care of their families which they could not do while they were employed in the corporate world. Some of the women in SMEs reported that they can now independently negotiate business deals due to increase in their self-esteem and also have access to available information in their areas of expertise.

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Sitoyi, Zandisile Mawethu. "Teacher and learner experiences of violence in a cape flats school, Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7957.

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This study aimed to ascertain in what ways violence and crime influence the teaching and learning programme in schools in a disadvantaged community. The context is a primary school in an informal settlement in Samora Machel, Philippi, in the Cape Flats, where violence is endemic. The study shows that violence does not occur in school playgrounds and areas around the school only; classrooms are becoming common sites for violence. This study sought to establish teacher and learner experiences of violence at school, and the role of school management and parents in dealing with it, with a specific focus on school policies on discipline and how violence affects teaching and learning. The investigation also included learner behaviour during recess.

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Holt, Robert Anthony. "Cape crusaders : an ethnography investigating the surfing subculture of Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/510.

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Surfing is a byzantine phenomenon. With a global army surpassing 30 million participants, the wave riding culture has escalated from an underground lifestyle into a mainstream colossus. This thesis investigates a unique population of the surfing culture, the Cape Naturaliste surfing subculture. Located in the South West of Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste is home to the Cape Crusaders.

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Grek, Åsa, and Abdi Jimaale. "Testing CAPM for the Swedish Stock Market In Order to Capture the Price Expectations - A Comparison Between Conditional CAPM, and Unconditional CAPM." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-47697.

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Furtado, Clémentina. "Les migrations de l'Afrique occidentale au Cap-Vert: attitudes et représentations." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209573.

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D’un pays d'émigrants, le Cap-Vert a commencé dans les années 90, en particulier dans la seconde moitié, à recevoir les étrangers, en particulier ceux des pays voisins de la CEDEAO, suite à l'accord de la libre circulation des personnes inscrites dans le Protocole de la libre circulation ratifié par le Cap-Vert. Le pays est devenu un pôle d'attraction de travailleurs étrangers suite à l'essor du tourisme et des activités connexes, notamment la construction civile et les travaux publics, le commerce, l´hôtellerie et la restauration.

L´objectif de ce travail vise à analyser la construction des images de l'immigration en provenance de pays membres de la CEDEAO au Cap-Vert, les représentations et les attitudes réciproques à l´égard de ce phénomène et les contextes dans lesquels elles se produisent. L'hypothèse de base est qu´on est dans un pays où les autochtones ont toujours vécu avec des étrangers, pas dans leur pays d´origine, mais dans des nombreuses destinations d'émigration. De même, cette coexistence, que fut la plupart du temps avec les Européens et les Américains blancs, commence à s´établir avec les voisins du continent, non pas dans un pays tiers mais au Cap Vert. Par conséquent, l'objectif est de comprendre les relations entre les groupes sociaux, nationaux et immigrés, à la suite de la fixation et l'insertion des immigrés dans les secteurs socio-économiques nationaux, particulièrement dans le marché du travail, où on trouve un taux de chômage élevé.

Cette étude est fondée sur un dialogue avec les théories des migrations internationales et les théories des représentations sociales et qui soutiennent la thèse.

From a country of emigrants, Cape Verde transformed into a country of immigrants during the 90’s, mainly in the second half of that decade. The country started receiving immigrants especially from the neighbourhood countries of the ECOWAS region, due to the free movement of people subscribed in the Protocol of movement of people ratified by Cape Verde. The country has been a focus of attraction of labour workers following the boom in tourism and related activities, including construction and public works, commerce, hotels, and restaurants services.

This work has the main objective to analyse the construction of the images of the people coming from the ECOWAS countries members in Cape Verde, the representations and reciprocal attitudes in relation to this phenomenon and the contexts in which they occur. It is assumed that we are in a country where the local population always interacted with foreigners not in their origins but in the various migratory destinations. Similarly, this coexistence that happened mainly with white Europeans and Americans is happening with the neighbours of the continent. Consequently, it is intended to understand the relationships the social groups, nationals and immigrants establish among them as a result of establishment and insertion in the national socioeconomic sectors, mainly at the labour market, where, along with high unemployment rate, it is, verified a massive inclusion of the ECOWAS foreigners.

The current study is based on a dialogue with the international migration theories and the social representation theories that will support the thesis.

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Evora, Da Cruz Daniel. "Compétence langagière et parcours personnel. Le cas des Cap-Verdiens de l'archipel et de la diaspora." Thesis, Orléans, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ORLE1149/document.

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État insulaire situé au large des côtes sénégalo-mauritaniennes, le Cap-Vert a été peuplé à partir dela fin du 15e siècle de colons européens et d’esclaves africains. Il a hérité de cette histoire, unesituation diglossique où le portugais est la langue officielle alors que le créole, aujourd’hui dénommé« langue cap-verdienne », – né des contacts linguistiques luso-africains – est le véhicule del’expression quotidienne. L’histoire de la société cap-verdienne plonge aussi ses racines dans cellede l’émigration et de la mobilité nationale et internationale. Si les conditions climatiques ont pousséde nombreux Cap-Verdiens à l’exil, aussi bien en Afrique qu’en Europe ou aux Etats-Unis, leshandicaps d’ordre structurel ont, par ailleurs, favorisé les migrations constantes des îliens à l’échellemondiale.À partir d’enquêtes menées aussi bien au Cap-Vert qu’en France, sont étudiées les différences decompétences langagières entre des Cap-Verdiens ayant acquis leur(s) langue(s) dans chacun deces pays. L’analyse s’appuie essentiellement sur leurs parcours personnels et accorde une attentionparticulière aux formes de bilinguisme des uns et des autres. Les observations, qui portent a priorisur le créole, le portugais et le français, prennent en compte des productions orales spontanées etprovoquées et des productions écrites, car elles sont révélatrices de la compétence orale
Island state located off the Senegalese-Mauritanian coast, Cape Verde was inhabited from the late15th century by European settlers and African slaves. He inherited this story, a diglossic situationwhere Portuguese is the official language while Creole, now called « Cape Verdean language », -born of Luso-African language contacts – is the vehicle of everyday expression. The history of CapeVerdean society is also rooted in that of emigration and national and international mobility. If weatherconditions have prompted many Cape Verdean to exile, both in Africa than in Europe or the UnitedStates, structural handicaps have also favored the constant migrations of islanders worldwide.Through surveys conducted both in Cape Verde and France, are studied differences in languageproficiency between Cape Verdean who acquired their languages in each of these countries. Theanalysis is based primarily on their personal journeys and pays particular attention to the forms ofbilingualism of each other. The study, which focuses at first on Creole, Portuguese and French,include spontaneous and induced oral productions, and written productions, which are indicative oforal proficiency

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Henderson, Andrew Reid Johnston Carol Eileen. "Habitat use of larval and juvenile Cape Fear shiners (Notropis mekistocholas)." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1457.

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Allergren, Fredrik, and Alvin Wendelius. "CAPM - i tid och otid : En portföljbaserad studie av CAPM på den svenska aktiemarknaden." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1081.

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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) är den prissättningsmodell som mest frekvent används av aktörer på den finansiella marknaden samt i litteratur för att förklara sambandet mellan risk och förväntad avkastning. Teorin grundades under 1960-talet av William Sharpe och tidiga empiriska tester av modellen visade att den med hög förklaringsgrad kunde estimera en framtida förväntad avkastning givet en viss risknivå. På senare år har dock CAPM fått stark kritik eftersom nya empiriska undersökningar demonstrerat att modellen inte längre verkar visa en rättvisande avkastning i förhållande till risk.

För att undersöka om den över 40 år gamla modellen fortfarande visar någorlunda rättvisande beskrivningar av verkligheten har vi ställt oss frågan: Går det att med hjälp av historiska data förutspå en riskfylld tillgångs avkastning på den svenska aktiemarknaden?

Vid besvarade av denna fråga har studien syftet Att med hjälp av portföljer studera huruvida sambandet mellan risk och avkastning, vilket postuleras av CAPM, stämmer på den nutida svenska aktiemarknaden.

Vi har utifrån vår kunskapssyn kritisk rationalism använt oss av en kvantitativ metod för att försöka ge svar på problemställningen, vilken angreps med ett deduktivt tillvägagångssätt. Den teoretiska referensramen behandlar teorier som portföljval, den effektiva marknadshypotesen och CAPM. Det empiriska materialet består av historiska aktiekurser vilka bearbetades och användes till att komponera flertalet portföljer. Dessa portföljer har sedan analyserats genom regressionsanalys och jämförts med ett aktiemarknadsindex i syfte att besvara vår problemställning.

Det som framkommit genom studien är att det till viss del med hjälp av historiska data går att förutspå en riskfylld tillgångs avkastning på den svenska aktiemarknaden. Även om vi delvis kan ge stöd åt den testade modellen anser vi inte att betavärdet, som ensamt förklarande variabel och mått på risk, bör tillämpas vid beslutsfattande av investeringar, något som CAPM förutsätter att det ska göra. Det linjära samband som CAPM postulerar bedömer vi vara bristande i tillämpbarhet på dagens komplicerade aktiemarknad eftersom fler variabler än historiska data påverkar aktiekurserna.

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Mitchell, Sharrone CJ. "Women's negotiation of alternative sexualities in the Western Cape: A Cape Town case study." University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8435.

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This mini thesis is an exploratory study of the lived experiences of bisexual and lesbian women in the Western Cape with regard to how they claim agency and negotiate their individual sexualities. Using mixed methodologies this study aims to look at the ways in which bisexual and lesbian women negotiate their sexuality in a landscape dominated by heterosexual discourses. Also considered are the contradictory ways in which these women assert their roles as lesbians and bisexual individuals and how these roles serve to simultaneously reinforce and challenge the dominant order of heterosexuality. The conflicting views of the respondents are documented which further demonstrates the complexities surrounding sexuality. This research identifies and explores both international and local research already conducted on alternative sexualities and address the lack of black researchers' conduct of these studies on the African continent. The study also records an acknowledgement of the researcher's reflection that she too holds contradictory views on some of these issues.

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Lekena, Mamello. "Youth employment in the Cape Town area: Insights from the Cape Area Panel Study." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14385.

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In South Africa today, one of the most urgent economic, social and political challenges is the extraordinarily high and increasing level of unemployment. While the economy has been growing steadily, unemployment levels have continued to rise. A large part of the problem is the fact that the number of new entrant~ outstrips the creation of new jobs (Ashton, 2005; Chichelo et aI., 2003). Since most of the new entrants are people making the transition from school and other education institutions into the labour market, it is not surprising that the problem of unemployment is more severe among the youth. Young people as a group are disproportionately affected by unemployment - whereas the unemployment level for adults is in the region of 26%, the rate for youth is 50%, while 58% of the unemployed are young people (Mlatsheni & Rosphabe, 2002). This paper looks at the factors that affect employment among the youth in the Cape Town area. Using data from the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Cape Area Panel Study, cross-sectional and panel probit regressions have been employed to investigate the role of individual, household and schooling characteristics in the probability of employment. The results suggest that although household income and the presence of employed people in the household were important in a cross-sectional setting, previous labour market experiences were more important in a dynamic setting. While quantity of schooling is found to be very import ant, the impact of quality of schooling could not be determined. The usual race and gender patterns in employment were found.

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Millar, David J. "Instructional leadership of principals in high performing secondary schools in Cape Town, Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13354.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the extent of instructional leadership of principals in high performing secondary schools in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, Western Cape. A mixed methods design of quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken. For the quantitative phase, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) was administered to 5 principals and 136 teachers. One sample t-tests found statistically significant differences between the mean scores of principals and those of teachers. Data analysis of the PIMRS indicated that principals were most active in protecting instructional time, promoting professional development, providing incentives for learning and framing the school’s goals and least active in supervising and evaluating instruction, maintaining a high visibility and providing incentives for teachers. In the qualitative phase, interviews with the five principals yielded a result that underscores the value which principals place on professional accountability, trusting teachers to deliver the curriculum, building coherence, promoting professional development, giving professional autonomy and fostering relationships. The study found that the principal’s role is multi-faceted and complex and is neither limited to the instructional leadership behaviours of the PIMRS nor to the job description of the Personnel Administration Measures (PAM). Instructional leadership functions not measured by the PIMRS, such as the appointment of teachers, selection of pupils, engaging with stakeholder groups, establishing internal coherence and building trust by sharing instructional leadership practises with senior teachers were very important. School leaders internalize the expectations embedded in accountability systems and have woven these into an internal set of expectations and responsibilities that represent the school’s internal accountability systems. The thesis concludes with the view that both shared leadership and instructional leadership are important as they are indirectly related to pupil achievement.

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Cia, Josilmar Cordenonssi. "Saving-capm: uma proposta de solução para o equity premium puzzle do consumption-capm." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/2587.

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Em 1985, Mehra e Prescott levantaram uma questão que até hoje não foi respondida de forma satisfatória: o prêmio de risco das ações americanas é muito maior do que poderia ser explicado pelo “paradigma neoclássico de finanças econômicas” (financial economics) representado pelo modelo C-CAPM. E, a partir de então, este problema não resolvido ficou conhecido como o “Equity Premium Puzzle” (EPP) ou o “Enigma do Prêmio (de risco) das Ações”. Este enigma estimulou a produção de uma série de artigos, dissertações e teses que tentaram ajustar os modelos intertemporais de utilidade esperada aos dados dos mercados financeiros. Dentro deste contexto, esta tese busca (i) revisar a evolução histórica da teoria dos modelos de maximização da utilidade intertemporal dos agentes, (ii) analisar os pressupostos e conceitos chaves desses modelos, (iii) propor um novo modelo que seja capaz de solucionar o EPP, (iv) aplicar este modelo proposto aos dados históricos anuais entre 1929 e 2004 e (v) validar a lógica deste modelo através das metodologias Mehra-Prescott e Hansen-Jagannathan. Esta tese faz uma crítica de que os estudos até aqui desenvolvidos tentaram explicar a dinâmica de um mercado financeiro altamente sofisticado, através de um modelo de economia não-monetária e de subsistência. Assim, a sua contribuição consiste na alteração desse pressuposto de uma economia de subsistência, considerando que a renda disponível do setor privado não seja integralmente consumida, mas que também possa ser poupada. Assumindo que as pessoas obtêm satisfação (utilidade) tanto pelo consumo atual como pela poupança atual (que será o consumo futuro), será deduzido que a utilidade marginal de consumir é igual à de poupar, em todo e qualquer período. Com base nisso, a utilidade marginal a consumir é substituída pela utilidade marginal de poupar dentro do modelo básico do C-CAPM. Para reforçar a idéia de que o modelo desta tese usa dados de poupança em vez de consumo, ao longo do trabalho ele será chamado de Sanving-CAPM, ou S-CAPM. Este novo modelo mostrou-se capaz de solucionar o EPP quando submetidas às abordagens Mehra-Prescott e Hansen-Jagannathan.
In 1985 Mehra and Prescott raised a question that has not been answered satisfactorily: the equity premium of American shares is much higher than it could be explained by the "neoclassical paradigm of financial economics" represented by CCAPM models. And, since then, this non-solved issue is known as the Equity Premium Puzzle (EPP). This puzzle has stimulated the production of a series of articles, theses and dissertations that tried to adjust the intertemporal expected utility models to the financial markets' data. In this context, this doctoral dissertation aims to (a) revise the historical evolution of model theory of maximization of intertemporal expected utility, (b) analyze the key assumptions and concepts of these models, (c) propose a new model that can solve the EPP, (d) apply the proposed model to the historical data between 1929 and 2004, and (e) validate the logic of this model through the MehraPrescott and Hansen-Jagannathan methodologies. This doctoral dissertation criticizes that the studies so far formulated have tried to explain the dynamics of highly sophisticated financial markets through a model of non-monetary exchange economy. Hence, its contribution consists of the changing of this assumption of a exchange economy considering that the available income of the private sector is not fully consumed, but rather also saved. Taking into account that people can obtain satisfaction (utility) with the present consumption as well as with the present savings (that will be the future consumption), it will be deduced that the marginal utility of consuming is replaced by the marginal utility of saving within the basic C-CAPM model. To reinforce this idea that the model of this doctoral dissertation uses data of savings rather than consumption, throughout the study it will be called Saving-CAPM or S-CAPM. This new model has proved to be capable of solving the EPP when submitted to the Mehra-Prescott and HansenJagannathan approaches.

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Itoba, Tombo Elie Fereche. "Land-use on water quality of the Bottelary River in Cape Town, Western Cape." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/812.

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Freshwater scarcity and river pollution has become a serious challenge for governments and scientists. Worldwide, governments have a responsibility to provide their populations with enough clean water for their domestic needs. Scientists will have an enormous task to find a way to purify polluted water, because of its vital role in human lives and an increasing demand for water consumption due to population growth. Although the water from the Bottelary River is used on a daily basis for farming activities, its pollution level as well as spatial distribution of effluents in the catchment is unknown. In the present study, I took monthly water samples from six sampling points for laboratory analysis. The laboratory determined concentration levels of phosphorous, chloride, nitrate, and nitrate nitrogen (N03N), as well as the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and suspended solids from the samples. On the same occasion's pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity and temperature were measured in-situ using a multi-parameter reader. The results were then compared with the South African Water Quality Guidelines for Aquatic Ecosystems and for irrigation (DWAF, 1996a, 1996c). The non-point pollution source (NPS) model was used to generate predictions of the pollution level from the land-uses and use the data obtained from the field to validate the model predictions. Finally, I performed a two-factorial A One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) without replication to assess the spatial and temporal variation of the measured variables along the river. The findings of the study have shown that the concentration levels of some compounds are below the Target Water Quality Range (TWQR) set by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF, 1996a, 1996b, 1996c) while, the concentrations of chloride, total nitrogen and water quality variables such as electrical conductivity, suspended solids, are higher than the TWQR (DWAF, 1996a, 1996b, 1996c). Based on the above findings water of the Bottelary River can have negative effects on the environment and human lives because of the concentration level of these compounds. It was therefore recommended that, environmentally friendly measures and practices must be undertaken in order to decrease the pollution and avoid further pollution of the river.

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