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Donlon, Enda. "The contribution of a custom-built online learning environment to undertaking and understanding teaching practice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020769/.
Full textSmith, William Noble. "Current State of Practice Associated with the Use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Custom Home Building Industry." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6632.
Full textHepburn, Jasmin Kira Rennie. "Nicolas Bohier (1469-1539) and the ius commune : a study in sixteenth-century French legal practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22048.
Full textHermet, Alexandre. "La convergence des pratiques conventionnelles internationales : Étude du rôle des traités dans la formation de la coutume." Thesis, Paris 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA020037.
Full textThis study seeks to highlight the different rationales which lead to the identification of an international customary rule on the basis of the convergence of international conventional practices. This assumption has been expressly accepted by the International Law Commission in 2018 in its draft conclusions on the determination of customary international law. It has held that "[t]he fact that a rule is set forth in a number of treaties may, but does not necessarily, indicate that the treaty rule reflects a rule of customary international law" (Conclusion 11, para. 2). To carry out this study, two aspects of customary rules are distinguished: on the one hand, their content, that is to say the behaviour they prescribe, and on the other hand, their legal bindingness, that is to say their quality of rules of law. The influence of conventional provisions is indeed different in these two situations: as regards the substance of the custom, this incidence is certain but varies according to the abstraction of the conventional statements in question. By contrast, as far as the legal value of custom is concerned, it is necessary to go beyond the principle of relative effects of conventional commitments so that they can attest to the existence of a customary rule
Vignon, Virginie. "L’imaginaire de la typographie : objets et pratiques d’un appareil d’incarnation." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040032.
Full textAs a daily life object, typography is a sociocultural product and transfer tool that people put between them and the world. How do they organize this mediation ? That is the main issue of our subject.At the crossroads of the doing and acting concepts, typography is the result of a cognitive process, which production and circulation’s methods are based on communication’s principles from the Henri Van Lier’s Anthropogeny. Studying its technical materiality according to its cultural reality, typography is considered as an “embodiment system” – in French, we call “body” the typeface as well as the text – and also as the crucible of this practice. As a sensitive agent and practical method, typography makes typeface invention possible while creating a double regime of interpretations based on its technology and semiotics. Whereas our words are related to trade practices which are then connected to type face design and various contexts of typographical enunciation resulting in a thought about reception. The fact is that uses linked to typography exist as cultural experiments accessible to all who desire it to challenge the world
May, Ester Ruby. "Virginity testing: towards outlawing the cultural practical practice that violates our daughters." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2003. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textLevendal, Josua. "A case study of the Customs Administrative Penalty Provision as contained in the Customs & Excise Act, No.91 of 1964 of South Africa, and a comparison of the South African regime with selected foreign customs penalty regime." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20116.
Full textMasieri, C. M. "L'ACCERTAMENTO DELLA RESPONSABILITÀ CIVILE DEL MEDICO TRAMITE L'UTILIZZO DELLE LINEE-GUIDA E DEGLI ALTRI DOCUMENTI SCIENTIFICI." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/490018.
Full textPHD DISSERTATION - ABSTRACT - THE ASCERTAINMENT OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE THROUGH CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS. This PhD dissertation aims to analyze a specific aspect of Medical Malpractice Law: the use of scientific documents – known as practice parameters, practice patterns, written policies, protocols, standards or clinical practice guidelines – by rule makers (legislators and Courts) in order to identify the standard of care for health care practitioners. In the first chapter, after a short introduction on fundamental notions of medical epistemology, guidelines’ content and their production, some interactions between Science and Law are described, picking the European Union Law, Council of Europe Law and finally Italian Law. Research on guidelines and Medical Malpractice calls for taking the advantage of Comparative Legal Studies. In particular, the legal system of the United States of America has been chosen. This because American scholars have first proposed in the ‘80s to use guidelines in Medical Malpractice trials. The second chapter offers thus a detailed picture of the sources of the law, including the role of state and federal Courts in making American Law. Focusing then on Medical Malpractice, it has to be said that the majority of the States adopted medical custom as the standard of care, which is a matter of fact, to be proven in front of the jury. According to this, in Medical Malpractice trials expert witness testimony about medical custom became very relevant, but no Court in the U.S. appoints experts. This, and the fact that the plaintiff retains the burden of proof of the breach of duty, makes partisan expert testimony mandatory for the claim of the patient to be heard by the jury. Therefore, Courts and scholars in the United States put guidelines in the Evidence Law frame, looking at how they interact – or sometimes clash – with expert testimonies. So, the chapter ends with an analysis of the Law of Evidence, with a focus on the so called “Daubert test” on expert witnesses, and one on the admissibility of documents. The third chapter demonstrates that the use of clinical practice guidelines in Medical Malpractice trials is way more frequent than American scholars think. Furthermore, it shows that the above-mentioned rules of Evidence are still the most relevant source of the law governing admissibility and relevance of these documents. Evidence Law indeed is far more relevant than the small number of state and federal statutes on Medical Malpractice that mention guidelines as a judicial tool for assessing liability. But these statutes seem to have inspired the Italian legislator seems adopting the so called “decreto Balduzzi” (see art. 3, comma 1 d.l. n. 158 of 2012 – l. n. 189 of 2012). The fourth chapter goes back to the Italian legal system, describing the path that brought Medical Malpractice from Tort Law to Contract Law through the so called “contatto sociale” doctrine. Furthermore, the case law caused some distortions of the rules that are now similar to strict liability. The fifth chapter describes a legal transplant from American Tort Law to the very different Italian legal environment: the idea of giving a defense to doctors who complied with clinical practice guidelines. Anyhow, some American state statutes, not the prevailing traditional Evidence Law pattern, have influenced the Italian legislator. Moreover, the conceptual framing of clinical practice guidelines under Italian Law is very different from the original. In Italy, Medical Malpractice is a branch of Contract Law, according to which the clinician is bound to perform treatments with the due technical expertise (“perizia”). Scientific documents can help Courts to define doctor’s behavior as coping with technical expertise, which is a matter of law. Guidelines cannot prove any fact. Therefore, they are not related to Evidence Law. The core of this PhD dissertation is that Italian Courts have to take judicial notice of clinical practice guidelines in Medical Malpractice trials. This comes out of the “iura novit curia” principle (“The Court must know the law” principle) and art. 3, co. 1 of decreto Balduzzi, which explicitly talks about clinical practice guidelines and iatrogenic injuries. The above-mentioned scientific documents have also to pass muster under a test of applicability to the case and scientific validity. This dissertation suggests taking the advantage of the American experience, in particular of the so called “Daubert doctrine”. However, even this would be a legal transplant, in which the original model would be surely modified, as this work shows. Finally, the fifth chapter describes how Cassazione Court could reverse lower Courts’ decisions that apply clinical practice guidelines in Medical Malpractice cases.
Tshabalala, Sipho Aubrey. "The decline of piston manufacturers in the Southern African Customs Union." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20117.
Full textAusten-Peters, A. O. "Custody of investments : law and practice /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/319230996.pdf.
Full textAusten-Peters, A. O. "Custody of investments : law and practice /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00045293-d.html.
Full textMfune, Moses Lameck. "A case study on customs trade facilitation at Zambia's Kasumbalesa border post." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20080.
Full textHendricks, Mogamat Mahgadien. "A translation, with critical introduction, of Shaykh °Alawåi al-Risåalah al-Qawl al-Ma `råuf fåi al-Radd `alåa man Ankara al-Tasawwuf: A kind word in response to those who reject Sufism." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2152.
Full textThe objective of this thesis was the translation of an original defence of Sufi practice titled "A Kind word in response to those who reject sufism" by Shaykh Aòhmad ibn Muòsòtafá °Alawåi. This book was written in defence of Sufis and Sufism. This research provide some notes on the life, spiritual heritage and writings of the Shaykh °Alawåi in conjunction with a critical introduction to complement the translated text. The Shaykh's methodology applied in his ijtihåad to validate and defend the Sufis and their practices was also reviewed.
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Felix, Amoah. "Customer relationship management practiced by KOSAB." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008046.
Full textWiemann, Dirk. "The boomerang effect of colonial practice : free-born englishmen and cavalier slaves." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5744/.
Full textDixon, John O. "Customer focus: enacted premise and received practice." Thesis, Curtin University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2205.
Full textDixon, John O. "Customer focus: enacted premise and received practice." Curtin University of Technology, Graduate School of Business, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=9626.
Full textbetween organisational intentions and actions. The research design emphasised an interpretive approach by eliciting data from individual points of view within the work setting. A sample of six organisations was selected, and sixty-one interviews were conducted. Focus interviews were conducted with Top Management Teams. Individual interviews were conducted with Workers.Two sets of meanings were construed. One, Top Management Teams, enacted involvement, commitment, communication and relationships. This was related to Top Management Teams practice of control. The other, Workers, enacted the same meanings in the customer focus strategy, involvement, commitment, communication and relationships. This was related to Workers received practice of equivocality.This study reports on two major findings. First, there was harmony in the enacted thinking on the meaning for customer focus across Top Management Teams and Workers. Second, the harmony in the enacted thinking on the meanings for customer focus across the two groups were discordant with the way respondents operationalise what they report they think. Top Management Teams were unaware of the discord between the way they say they think (involvement, commitment, communication and relationships) and the way they operationalise what they think (practices of control). The discord between premise and practice in Top Management Teams was received in practice by Workers as equivocality. Equivocality emerged as discordant with Worker premise taken for customer focus as meaning to create shared understanding.The study emerged a non-alignment between what organisations say they do (Top Management Team enacted premise) and the way they operationalise what they think (Worker received practice).
Jenkins, Giuseppi K. "Implementing IPD Principles on Custom Residential Projects: Tools and Best Practices." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7508.
Full textOsman, Hanaa. "The practice of relationship marketing in hotels." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364714.
Full textAhmad, Rizal. "Customer retention management : influence of context on practice." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493955.
Full textWinston, David R. "A Five State Survey of Heifer Management Practices on Dairy Farms and Virginia Custom Dairy Heifer Growing Operations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46498.
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Botelho, Lynn Ann. "English housewives in theory and practice, 1500-1640." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4293.
Full textNawajesh, Rahat, and Zakir Hossain Muhammed. "Relationship Perspectives on Customer Support Service : Exploring Best Practice for the Telecom Industry." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-11750.
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Lilja, Johan. "Quality practice and customer value: strengthening the ideal linkage/." Licentiate thesis, Luleå : Luleå University of Technology, 2005. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2005/050.
Full textPoirier, Richard B. "Best practices for customer resource management (CRM)." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2005. http://165.236.235.140/lib/RPoirier2005.pdf.
Full textComstock, Mica. "Production systems for mass customization : bridging theory and practice /." Linköping : Univ, 2004. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2004/tek894s.pdf.
Full textSiraj, M. "Child custody dispute resolution : the law and practice in Malaysia." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499502.
Full textAl, Hashdi Manal M. N. "BPR initiatives : the impacts of IT and organisational customs and practices." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5014.
Full textAnvar, Meysam Maleki. "Supply chain integration model: practices and customer values." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10688.
Full textIn order to increase partnership efficiency and truly meet the customers' demands, in today's business environment companies are operating in supply chains. Integration of supply chains facilitates minimizing diferent types of wastes and satisfying needs of the end customer. The first step toward supply chain integration is to understandand the customer values, and to reconfigure supply chain to support those values. The current research addresses supply chain integration through quantifying relations between supply chain practice and customer values. It employs Bayesian network and analytic network process as tools to quantify comparative relations among entities. The proposed approach starts with identifying trade-offs along customer values using Bayesian network. In parallel supply chain practices are comparatively analyzed through interviews with experts which is technically quantified using analytic network process. Thereafter, these two parallel phases join together to form a network of customer values and supply chain practices. The network is able to quantitatively identify relations among nodes; in addition, it can be used to plan scenarios and handle senstitivity analyses. This model is expected to be used by supply chain decision makers to have a quantitative measure for monitoring the influence of practices on preferences of the end customer. A survey and two case studies are discussed which go through aforementioned phases. The survey identifies and analyzes six customer values namely quality, cost, customization, time, know-how and respect for the environment. It makes input for the two cases which develop supply chain integration model for fashion and food industry. Supply chain practices are categorized into two groups of manufacturing and logistics practices. The two case studies include five manufacturing practices as cross functional operations, decrease work in process, implement standards, mixed production planning, and use recyclable materials as well as four logistics practices namely visibility to upstream /downstream inventories, information sharing with customer, implement logistics standards, and just in time.
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Wong, Hon-chung Wilson. "Organizational transformation of a customer service division to cope with technological change in office automation equipment /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18836136.
Full textJackson, Victoria Ann. "The material culture and social practice of dining in England, c.1550-c.1670." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5839/.
Full textVasireddy, Pavan. "Customer Knowledge Management in organisations : developing a practice framework to achieve 360 degree view of customer." Thesis, University of Bolton, 2016. http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/929/.
Full textMafurutu, Rwatida. "A study to clarify the role of customs risk management in facilitating cross-border trade at the Beit-Bridge border post : a case of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority from 2001 to 2014." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20078.
Full textThis study sought to clarify the role of Customs Risk Management (CRiM) in facilitating cross-border trade at Beit Bridge border post from 2001 to 2014. Qualitative methods of survey questionnaire and face-to-face interviewing techniques were used to gather primary data. Secondary data was collected from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA)'s internal sources such as Asycuda System and internal reports. Externally, sources like internet and research findings from other researchers in the same field were used. An in-depth literature review was done so as to simplify the research problem. Data analysis and presentation was done using diagrams, graphs and tables where applicable. The following research findings were then critically discussed in light of the literature reviewed: On the role of CRiM Training in cross-border trade facilitation, the study revealed that an overwhelming majority had not received any form of specialized training on CRiM or some form of work-related CRiM Training in the last 2 years. There exist a strong demand for CRiM Training in risk intelligence gathering, risk audit techniques and risk profiling. A majority, 93% of the respondents confirmed that ZIMRA's Strategic Plan makes some form of reference to CRiM. However, 73% of this majority, indicated that there is a greater and urgent need for management to provide operational staff with CRiM tactical implementation guidelines for easy of enforcement on the ground. 87% said the main purpose of applying CRiM in Customs procedures was mainly to maximize revenue collection ahead of trade facilitation. 76% expressed the same view with regards to use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in the procedures. 100% said the level of co-operation on exchange of ICT-based risk related information exchange between ZIMRA and other government departments was almost nil. In response to these findings, the study recommends that ZIMRA: continuously offer CRiM Training to its operational staff over short periods of time in a single year, effectively make use of CRiM techniques such as intelligence gathering, risk profiling, risk auditing techniques in identifying high risk cargo, and to eradicate lack of confidence in the flexible use of existing ICT systems among staff by giving them further training. According to this study, benefits of implementing these recommendations will be: increased revenue collection, reduced border clearance time, reduced costs of compliance, rationalized customs controls and predictability in the nature and level of controls all in the best interest of trade facilitation.
Mukadam, Ahmed. "Muslim common religious practices at the Cape : identification and analysis." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14407.
Full textThis dissertation examines the side by side existence of Popular Islam, or Muslim Common Religious Practices, with Official Islam in the Cape of today. Our task is thus primarily to identify the popular movement as no systematic documentation in this field has to date been attempted. Almost all approaches in Islamic Studies have concentrated an Official Islam and mostly from theological perspectives. In those works references to particular common beliefs and practices have been made and sometimes suggestively. Comparatively, however, much more, and perhaps methodologically not enough, has been done in Christian studies under the headings of Popular Religion, African Christology and very importantly, African Indigenous Church movements. The academic study of Islam, however, is still a relative novelty in South Africa and we suspect that the area of research into the popular movement may not gather momentum as rapidly as studies on the official movement. This apathy towards this "invisible institution" is attributable to the marginality it receives as a religious response.
Afari-Twumasi, Lucy. "Traditional and cultural practices and the rights of women : a study of widowhood practices among the Akans in Ghana." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2844.
Full textMisodi, Eseme Jessie. "The law and practice of child custody after divorce in Anglophone Cameroon." Thesis, University of Kent, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386136.
Full textLi, Meng. "An investigation of home cooking practices to deal with food-related anxieties in China : issues of embodiment and intergenerational transmission." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40282/.
Full textChakravorti, Samit. "Customer relationship management : a content analysis of issues and best practices." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2103.
Full textPareigis, Jörg. "Customer experiences of resource integration : Reframing servicescapes using scripts and practices." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-14436.
Full textGomboš, Peter. "Identification of best practices for customer satisfaction at Skoda Auto, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162587.
Full textRumbles, Alison. "A critical evaluation of ITSO smart ticketing policy, practice and outcomes." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10785.
Full textBarrett, R. L. "Customer driven ideation : an exploratory study of empathic designs' impact on industrial design practice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2004. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4551.
Full textJameson, Barbara J. "Child custody and access, the views and practices of psychologists and lawyers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ62519.pdf.
Full textPeacock, Eve Christine. "eARTh : the dynamics of ontological representation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/78686/1/Eve_Peacock_Thesis.pdf.
Full textRazzano, Daniel J. "A comparison : the motives and practices of Western and Maasai culture." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1131.
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Richters, Juliet. "The social construction of sexual practice setting, sexual culture, and the body in casual sex between men /." Connect to this title online, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/352.
Full textRodd, Robin. "The biocultural ecology of Piaroa shamanic practice." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0084.
Full textHammond, Lynne J. "An investigation of micro-business management practices and their links to competitiveness in emerging fashion businesses." Thesis, University of Kent, 2006. http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/1083.
Full textTremper, Kristin. ""When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/74.
Full textCross, Katerina P. S. "From celebration to a "culture of lament" : a practical theological study of responses to suffering through the lens of a "secular congregation"." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236308.
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