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Almatrafi, Riyadh Tuwayrish. "SAUDI FACULTY MEMBERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CAEP STANDARDS". OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1058.
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The purpose of this mixed-methods study was two-fold. It began by exploring the familiarity and perceptions of Saudi faculty members of the CAEP standards. Then it speculated on how these perceptions may influence the outcomes of using CAEP standards on evaluating educational programs in Saudi Arabia. To explore this issue of how educators in Saudi Arabia perceive CAEP standards. The findings from the survey showed that Saudi faculty members at Al-Jouf University were familiar with the Content and Pedagogical Knowledge standards and valued them. They agreed that mastery of the standard items contributes to the improvement of Islamic teachers’ preparation programs. The results concerning the views of participants about the clinical partnerships and practice standard revealed that Saudi faculty members at Al-Jouf University were also familiar with Clinical Partnerships and Practice standards and valued them. They agreed that mastery of the standard items contributes to the improvement of Islamic teachers’ preparation programs. Results from the interviews and focus groups showed that most faculty members in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the sample (77.7%) consider themselves well informed about the CAEP standards. In contrast, most faculty members in the Department of Islamic Studies, in the sample (71.4%), did not have knowledge about these standards. For this reason, many of them responded, “don’t know” to most of the questions. Despite the variety among the participants’ responses about the familiarity or preparedness of CAEP standards, they generally had a favorable outlook towards the CAEP standards. The three major categories and the eleven themes present the Saudi faculty members’ perceptions of the CAEP standards. The findings are reported in three main categories: (a) Positive, (b) Neutral, and (c) Negative.
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Kritzinger, Mieke. "Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential (CAEP) and the chirp Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR) in predicting behavioural hearing thresholds in adults with sensorineural hearing loss". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73231.
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Purpose: To compare the frequency specific Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential
(CAEP) and the chirp-evoked 40 Hz Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR) with
equivalent residual noise levels for behavioural threshold prediction in adults with normal hearing and with SNHL.
Method: The study tested 23 adults with normal hearing and 20 adults with SNHL. The participants were aged between 18–65 years. A repeated measures within-
participant descriptive design was used to collect the quantitative data. The participants underwent behavioural pure tone, CAEP and ASSR testing on the same day.
Results: Similar CAEP difference scores across frequencies for the participants with normal hearing (mean=12.32-14.40 dB) and with SNHL (mean=10.00-16.47 dB) were measured. However, for the ASSR difference scores across frequencies slightly smaller difference scores were measured for the participants with SNHL
(mean=10.17-17.30 dB) than for the participants with normal hearing (mean=11.74- 17.14 dB). CAEP thresholds were significantly closer to the behavioural pure tone thresholds at 500 (p=0.028; mean absolute difference 14.40 dB) and 2000 (p=0.016; mean absolute difference 12.56 dB) Hz for participants with normal hearing. In participants with sensorineural hearing loss, CAEP and ASSR thresholds were measured at similar sensation levels and were not statistically different (p>0.05).
Conclusion: For the purpose of threshold estimation, representing the auditory
function to the level of the auditory cortex the CAEP was closer to the behavioural
hearing thresholds than the 40 Hz ASSR at all frequencies except at 4000 Hz, regardless of the hearing sensitivity.
Keywords: Auditory steady state response (ASSR), Cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP), Auditory evoked potential (AEP), Residual noise, Signal to noise ratio (SNR), objective threshold estimation, awake adults.Dissertation (MA (Audiology))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Almeida, Adriano Del Vigna de. "B-Spline : CAEP - algoritmos culturais para a geração de trajetórias B-Spline de robôs móveis / Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida ; orientador, Leandro dos Santos Coelho". reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_PR, 2005. http://www.biblioteca.pucpr.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=461.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2005Inclui bibliografia
Pode se dizer que a geração de trajetórias é o mote principal da robótica móvel. Um robô, incapaz de percorrer uma trajetória livre de obstáculo, de forma a atingir um objetivo pré-definido, poderia inclusive deixar de ser chamado de robô móvel. A geração
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Popham, Jason Aaron. "Does CAEP Have it Right? An Analysis of the Impact of the Diversity of Field Placements on Elementary Candidates' Teacher Performance Assessments Completed During Student Teaching". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5562.
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The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) has replaced its predecessors, the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) as the new sole accreditor for educator preparation in the United States. As the new accreditor, CAEP has established a new set of accreditation standards and cross-cutting themes by which it intends to measure educator preparation programs (EPPs) worthiness to received accredited status. These new standards and cross-cutting themes are untested and need to be researched in order to determine the degree to which they constitute valid and reliable measures of an EPP's potential to produce quality teachers. To evaluate one aspect of CAEP's new standards and cross-cutting themes (i.e., diversity), this study used hierarchical liner modeling to regress elementary candidates' student teaching performance assessment scores on school- and classroom-level diversity variables to evaluate the impact that being placed in a diverse field experience might have had on candidates' performance during student teaching. The analysis found that the levels of diversity in the student teaching placements had little to no impact on the elementary candidates' performance on diversity items on their teacher performance assessments completed by university supervisors and mentor teachers during student teaching. A confirmatory factor analysis also determined that the diversity related contextual factors of the schools used in the study could not be reduced to a single diversity score. Diversity is clearly a complex multidimensional construct comprised of a variety of interdependent yet distinct constructs. Developing competency in diversity and multiculturalism clearly requires more than simply being placed in a diverse student teaching placement. This does not discredit the practice of providing candidates a variety of field experiences; however the findings from this study call into question CAEP's assumptions regarding diversity and multicultural education embedded in its standards and cross-cutting themes.
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Francis, Joshua C. "Diversity and Social Justice in Teacher Education Accreditation Standards: 1995 to 2013". University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1446284320.
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Prah, Efua. "Children on the move : experiences of children living in a temporary relocation camp in Cape Town, South Africa". Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3622.
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This thesis focuses on six children’s experiences from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. The research was conducted over a three-year period from February 2010 to February 2013, with a one-year field-research period from October 2010 to October 2011. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, marginality and the prevalence of violence in Bluewaters Refugee Camp Site C and Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area. Exploring pathways and patterns of identity, embodiment and experiences of health and illness, and the expressive, revealing quality of theatre, delivered rich data that produced an ethnographic account of children’s experiences in these sites.
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Crudden, D. J. "Alloys-by-design : applications to polycrystalline nickel superalloys for turbine disc applications". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b60e1854-cae4-4dd3-8d6f-cec1351e4c17.
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The nickel-based superalloys have been a key enabler to the development of modern gas turbine engines. Since their introduction the chemical complexity of these alloys has increased significantly, with current generation nickel-based superalloys usually containing over 10 different elements. It is this combination of alloying additions that is responsible for the superior high temperature properties these alloys exhibit. Traditionally, alloy design has invoked considerable use of trial-and-error based approaches involving costly and exhaustive processing backed up by empirical property testing. In this work a computational materials design approach is developed. This method links physically-faithful composition-dependent models with thermodynamic calculations to understand material behaviour. By doing this it is possible to consider large compositional design spaces and isolate alloys expected to have optimal performance for specific applications. The scope of this research has been to apply the computational model to the design of a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy for turbine disc applications in next generation jet engines. The design trade-offs encountered when developing the new alloy are highlighted. Alloy compositions which are predicted to be optimal for turbine disc applications are isolated. These alloys have been manufactured using a scaled down version of the commercial production method. The newly manufactured alloys have been characterised using microstructural evaluation, mechanical testing and corrosion testing. The experimental results have been compared with modelling predictions in order to determine the capability of the computational approach.
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Snyders, Heinrich Werner. "A survival strategy for an existing municipal caravan park in Gordon's Bay, Cape Town". Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/607.
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Camping and caravanning is practiced by a segment of the population in South Africa. Various articles in the caravan and outdoor life magazine published in South Africa have indicated that municipal caravan parks are not providing the same facilities and service as was provided in the past .With this background the hypothesis was established as being, the facilities at municipal caravan parks such as Hendon Park are deteriorating due to lack of government commitment and funds. The objectives of this research was determined as being whether (1) it is economically viable for the municipality to continue to utilise the existing land as a caravan park or, (2) it is more beneficial to the taxpayer for the municipality to sell the prime land to a developer or, (3) it is in the best interest of the municipality and /or the community to sell the property to a private company for upgrading the facilities to meet campers requirements The scope of the investigation was determined and includes questionnaires to campers, as well as interview’s with various stakeholders. The researcher also considered various management strategies suggested by strategist David, Fry, Lambert and Stock and Massey that could be used by Hendon Park management to enhance the operation of the Caravan Park under their control and thus a suggested management strategy was compiled. A specific window period to gather the information was decided as being the Easter Holiday period as this was the period that all caravan parks in Cape Town are at full capacity and thus this was the best opportunity to gather the information as the target (campers) would be camping in great numbers. Finally the results was analysed and a conclusion was drawn. Specific recommendations were then proposed by the researcher to be implemented by the staff of Hendon caravan park.
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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.Ph. D.
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Bigger, James R. K. "Dislocations in semiconductors". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2be9288d-caee-4070-b535-b8fc6406b4d1.
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A set of codes with 3D periodic boundary conditions has been developed to model dislocations in semiconductors. Several schemes have been used to investigate the atomic structure of dislocations; classical potentials incorporated in a Molecular Dynamics framework, a tightbinding k-space scheme and ab initio pseudopotential codes developed at Cambridge and Edinburgh. An error has been detected in previous work that modelled dislocations using periodic boundary conditions. It is demonstrated, for the 90° and 30° Shockley partials, that a mismatch at the periodic boundaries leads to erroneous atomic and particularly electronic structures. A new approach is proposed which through its geometry obviates this problem. The Stillinger Weber potential has been found to predict a completely new type of reconstruction for the 90° partial. Recent work by other authors confirms this and predicts significantly different results to earlier work. A thorough investigation has been made into the bonding processes involved in the core of the 90° partial. This study has involved reproducing much of the earlier work to understand why there has been such poor agreement between various authors. The reconstruction of the 90° partial is found to involve a symmetry lowering displacement intimately connected to its electronic structure. The band-gap is predicted to be clear of states, except for the possibility of shallow states at both band edges, which contradicts the findings of the most recent work on this partial by other authors. The interaction of phosphorous with the 90° partial has been studied using the tightbinding model. The Hamiltonian has been parameterised by comparing the predictions to an earlier ab initio cluster method study. Good qualitative agreement with the ab initio work is obtained, including the prediction of a strong dislocation locking effect by phosphorous. Preliminary studies on the unreconstructed 30° partial show that phosphorous is strongly bound to the three-fold coordinated sites resulting in no states in the indirect band-gap. The modelling of interstitial copper at the core of the 90° partial has been initiated. The ab initio codes have been used and new silicon and copper pseudopotentials tested. The first attempt to model copper located interstitially in the core was not successful and the reasons for this have been identified. However, it is evident from this investigation that the neutral copper strongly repels and does not form bonds with the surrounding silicon atoms. A review is given of two techniques that have been developed to obtain the thermally averaged structure and concentration of vacancies at dislocations, together with a preliminary investigation on the Frank partial.
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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 Vc). 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 Vc 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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Liu, Yingqi. "The role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:20e6eb35-cae1-42bf-af7a-a029cb0c1998.
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Electricity use reduction is at the heart of an energy policy landscape increasingly defined by climate change, security and affordability. With its potential of peak demand reduction, it can be used as a cost-effective alternative to generation for contributing to capacity adequacy. In many restructured electricity markets, the forward capacity market is established as a solution to ensure capacity adequacy, with some of them allowing electricity use reduction to compete against other resources. To promote electricity use reduction, financial incentives for investment in end-use electric energy efficiency (EE) are crucial. This thesis focuses on one novel approach of relying on the forward capacity market to incentivise electric efficiency investment, which is trialled in the Electricity Demand Reduction (EDR) Pilot in the UK. It aims to examine the role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction, by asking two broad research questions: 1) whether the forward capacity market can serve as a primary policy vehicle to give financial incentives to support electricity use reduction; and 2) whether, as one mechanism for ensuring capacity adequacy, it can promote electricity use reduction as a capacity resource. Case studies are conducted of the EDR Pilot, the Great Britain Capacity Market, ISO New England (ISO-NE), PJM and international electric efficiency schemes. They demonstrate that the forward capacity market, with its focus on peak savings and a savings-based approach for providing financial incentives, only plays a minor role in advancing the objective of incentivising investment in electric EE measures. The general design features of the forward capacity market pose higher requirements of participation, which may create barriers for some key customer segments to access financial incentives or target specific efficiency measure. The capacity payment, under the current market structure, may only provide a lukewarm incentive for customers to strengthen their capabilities to access support from the forward capacity market. However, it is valuable to integrate electricity use reduction in the forward capacity market. It is a viable mechanism to reward the capacity value of electricity use reduction, which requires the appropriate definition of capacity product, regulatory support for electricity use reduction and the removal of participation barriers.
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Ruane, Sharon. "Investigating the molecular regulation and morphological dynamics of the Visceral Endoderm". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:32708af1-cae3-4587-b29a-c5bc08762864.
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Cell migration is of huge importance in the field of development, where the correct positioning of signaling centers and functional structures is of paramount importance. An example of this occurs within the Visceral Endoderm (VE), an extra-embryonic epithelium that is involved in patterning the embryo. A specialized subset of VE cells known as the anterior visceral endoderm (AVE) is induced at the distal tip of the egg~cylinder, and is responsible for specifying anterior embryo pattern. AVE cells migrate in a stereotypic manner towards the prospective anterior. Failure of this migration leads to dramatic mis-patterning of the primary body axis and renders the embryo unviable. The main aim of my D.Phil is to investigate cell movements throughout the VE, in order to understand the behaviour of both the AVE and non-AVE cells and to give insight into the global cell dynamics of reorganizing epithelial tissues during development. After using DIC and fluorescence microscopy to visualize migratory processes I then applied cell-tracking analysis to the resultant data. Confirming and furthering work that quantified cell movement on the anterior face of the embryo, I performed time~lapse microscopy to visualize the entire surface of the embryo as the AVE migrated, in higher temporal and axial resolution than has been demonstrated to date. Cell~tracking analysis of this data indicates that these areas exhibit different cell behaviour to that previously quantified for the anterior side of the embryo. Further to this, I have developed a novel method of imaging the distal tip of the egg~cylinder embryo. Using this technique, I have generated high definition time~lapse sequences of induced AVE cells prior to migration, allowing previously uncharacterized behavior to be described. In order to fully understand the cell dynamics of the VE, I took extremely high spatial resolution fluorescence microscopy of the VE from live embryos in culture and manually segmented the tissue in 3D. This allowed the description of regional differences of cell shape within the tissue. The Wnt/PCP pathway has been implicated in coordinating AVE migration. The second major aim of my project is to investigate how Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signaling controls the behaviour of cells in the VE. I investigated the PCP core component Vangl2 using mice that contain a dominant negative version of this protein, and determined that there was no overt AVE migration defects in mutant embryos. In order to investigate the role of the Vangl2-binding PCP component Dvl-2, specifically examining whether localized recruitment of Dvl-2 in the VE is obligatory for normal AVE migration, I have generated genetic tools for use in transient transgenics. Further to this, I have demonstrated a role for the Dvl-2-binding protein β- arrestin2 in AVE migration, using mice null for this protein.
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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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Väänänen, Joe, e Jonas Ronnby. "Base Camp". Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18814.
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Syftet med detta examensarbete har varit att ta fram handlingar åt räddningsverkets internationella avdelning, så att de på ett mer effektivt och ekonomiskt sätt kan leverera 10 fots sanitetscontainrar på internationella uppdrag. Kravet som ställdes var att de skall ha en livslängd på minst tre år i extrema väderförhållanden samt att de skall vara lätta att bygga om och anpassas för de etniska behoven. I examensarbetet har vi arbetat med ett antal skisser på toalettcontainer och duschcontainer som räddningsverket har fått granska och lämna synpunkter på, ut ifrån dessa skisser har vi arbetat fram ritningar. Rapporten beskriver hur vi har arbetat och jämfört olika material. Hur beräkningar har gått till för att hitta optimala lösningar på isoleringen och ytskikt. Examensarbetet utgör en bra kunskapsdokumentation som bör ligga som grund för nyframställning av sanitetscontainrar. Rapporten innehåller en del terminologi som kräver ett visst byggtekniskt kunnande och vana från ritningsläsning.Uppsatsnivå: C
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McKnight, Sarah. "Diabetes Camp". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/708.
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Every summer Camp Hopewell in Oxford, Mississippi hosts its annual summer camps. Over the course of a week, kids between the ages of seven and fifteen run, play, hike, and canoe. It's the pretty standard summer camp fair, but there is something that makes a week at Camp Hopewell different. Every child that comes to camp has been diagnosed with Type I Diabetes. Some have had it for years and consider camp their second home while some have just been diagnosed and still live in fear of their condition. For this one week, however, they all have something in common, and while they eat, sleep, and play, they learn to take care of their own Diabetes. Diabetes Camp is a 25 minute documentary film that is meant to show audiences the remarkable occurrences at Camp Hopewell through the eyes and voices of the campers and the staff that work there.
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Salvi, Naiane Cristina. "Design camp". reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2017. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/176789.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Design, Florianópolis, 2017.Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-27T04:21:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 345837.pdf: 2392058 bytes, checksum: b7ed30c6480e3fb09ad97b5d635b1f5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017
Design Camps são modelos de evento que compreendem uma gama de atividades voltadas ao ensino e difusão do Design. Estes modelos são difundidos e aplicados internacionalmente e atuam na promoção do Design como ator diferenciador nas atividades cotidianas e organizacionais. Nesta perspectiva surge o SCMC Design Camp, que além de promover o Design na geração de estratégias, prima pelo fomento da inovação. Neste contexto, este modelo incentiva a interação entre a academia e o mercado, capacitando alunos para atuar em colaboração com empresas na geração de soluções eficientes para problemas enfrentados no dia a dia das organizações. Este fator é o principal diferencial do modelo perante os demais. Para fins desta pesquisa é eleito o termo imersão cocriativa, para definir duas vertentes construtivas do modelo: a imersão criativa e a cocriação. O objetivo do trabalho se define portanto, por propor direcionamentos para potencializar a inovação por meio da cocriação e imersão criativa aplicados ao modelo SCMC Design Camp, a partir da análise das duas edições nas quais o modelo foi aplicado. O estudo tem enfoque nos processo utilizados pelo modelo, e na interação dos atores na sua construção. As descrições e observações apresentadas são frutos de investigação e participação imersiva nas duas edições do modelo, o que oportunizou uma compreensão completa do processo, bem como a identificação de intervenções para o seu aprimoramento. Este trabalho possui como contribuição a percepção acadêmica sobre os processos de Design Camp, trazendo a imersão cocriativa como uma importante vantagem na promoção de inovação.
Abstract : Design Camps are models of event that comprise a range of activities aimed at teaching and diffusion of Design. These models are internationally applied and disseminated and act in the promotion of Design as a differentiating actor in daily and organizational activities. In this perspective the SCMC Design Camp emerges, emphasizing the promotion of innovation in addition to promoting Design in the generation of strategies. In this context, this model encourages the interaction between the academy and the market, enabling students to work in collaboration with companies in generating efficient solutions to problems faced in the day to day of organizations. This is the main differential of this model in front of the others. For the purposes of this research, the term co-creative immersion is chosen to define two constructive aspects of the model: creative immersion and co-creation. The objective of the work is therefore to propose directions for enhancing innovation through the creative immersion and co-creation applied to the SCMC Design Camp model, based on the analysis of the two editions in which the model was applied. The study focuses on the processes used by the model, and on the interaction of the actors in its construction. The descriptions and observations presented are results of research and immersive participation in the two editions of the model, which gave a full understanding of the process, as well as the identification of interventions for its improvement. This work has as contribution the academic perception about the processes of Design camp, bringing the creative immersion as an important advantage in the promotion of innovation.
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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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Schuyler, Michael T. "Setting up Camp: Identifying Camp through Theme and Structure". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/113537.
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Mass Media and CommunicationPh.D.
Camp scholarship remains vague. While academics don't shy away from writing about this form, most exemplify it more than define it. Some even refuse to define it altogether, arguing that any such attempt causes more problems than it solves. So, I ask the question, can we define camp via its structure, theme and character types? After all, we can do so for most other genres, such as the slasher film, the situation comedy or even the country song; therefore, if camp relies upon identifiable character types and proliferates the same theme repeatedly, then, it exists as a narrative system. In exploring this, I find that, as a narrative system, though, camp doesn't add to the dominant discursive system. Rather, it exists in opposition to it, for camp disseminates the theme that those outside of heteronormativity and acceptability triumph not in spite of but because of what makes them different, othered or marginalized. Camp takes many forms. So, to demonstrate its reliance upon a certain structure, stock character types and a specific theme, I look at the overlaps between seemingly disparate examples of this phenomenon. These include a documentary film (Grey Gardens), a one-woman show (Elaine Stritch: At Liberty), a pop concert (Cher: The Farewell Tour), a diva (Vanessa Williams), a horror film (Carrie), a biopic (Ed Wood), an episodic television procedural (Charlie Angels), and a serialized television dramedy (Desperate Housewives). Then, I take what I find in those chapters and apply it to a non-canonical camp text when I look at theatrical and novelistic depictions of a sport: baseball. This reading suggests that baseball can actually serve as a form of camp. Throughout, by employing structural analysis, queer theory and postmodernism, I uncover camp mythological potential. In addition to demonstrating something which no critic has done previously, namely, that we can, indeed, identify camp via structure, character and particularly theme, this investigation results in several other discoveries. For instance, it reveals that most academics incorrectly label or dismiss camp as a gay only discipline. As becomes evident here, its theme has built into it widespread appeal, as opposed to appeal solely the domain of gay males. Also, it demonstrates camp continued relevance and vitality. Some scholarship in the last two decades or so has proclaimed camp dead, dying or insignificant. By showing our continued need for this form, by using up to the minute examples and by illustrating that critics often wholly misunderstand and misidentify this phenomenon, this dissertation challenges those assertions head on. History demonstrates a longstanding tradition of and a continued need for people to camp. Yet, the scholarship surrounding this form limits, dismisses or misidentifies it, its audience, its relevance, its appeal, its history, its power, and so forth. By asking if we can identify a timeless and necessary theme, one illustrated via character and structure, and in finding that we can, I hope to lay these problems and misconceptions to rest once and for all. In the end, camp exists. And, it exists as a
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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 - MScIn 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 îleThis 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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Warrier, Sunita. "cAMP BIOSENSORS AND SPATIOTEMPORAL cAMP SIGNALING IN ADULT CARDIAC MYOCYTES". Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1175718415.
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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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Aleixo, Hugo Miguel Júlio. "Kids nature camp". Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10049.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsKids Nature Camp is an ambitious project that has the intention of improving children’s life style using what Mother Nature (through Agriculture) has to offer, through the delivery of information and training concerning the adequate eating habits to have. Secondly, the objective is to, also capture the influencers’ interest to this project, not only for their children wellbeing but also bur their own, filling in all “areas” a gap that competitors don´t fill. KNC will have all the tools in its working area to reach this objective, by having available diverse products and services, such as, Fitness Class for Kids, Nutritional Appointments and harvest with vegetables; all with the assistance and help of qualified staff. This offer is designed to reach a broad target, but mainly children that the firm is hoping to be influenced by parents, teachers and doctors… As it will be possible to observe, the number of over weighted children has been increasing in the last years (one in every three, with ages between 7 and 9 years old), consequence of the unhealthy eating habits at school and even while parents supervision that tend to choose fast food chains to compensate their children (guilty market). For this initial phase of the Project, Lisbon is the area chosen to start, in a field with the right conditions to plant and accessible to the largest number of users possible (during the week and weekend), having a prediction of launch of 4 months. Observable along the Business Plan is also, the fact that this is a project with a small investment (90.000 Euros) that, according to the Financial Analysis, may be recovered in less than a year.
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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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Hung, Ching Yee. "Survival strategies of common carp, cyprinus carpio, during prolonged starvation and hypoxia /". access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-bch-b19887346a.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2005."Submitted to Department of Biology and Chemistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-269).
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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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Mongwe, Robert. "Rural migrants and their social networks in an urban setting : the case of Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49785.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the nature and purpose of migrant social in Marconi Beam Informal Settlement, and Joe Slovo Park. The study found that migrant social networks served both economic and cultural functions. Through their social networks migrants seek to maximise their remittances to their areas as well as to convey information about the availability of jobs and housing conditions in the city. Newly arrived migrants depend on their kin and village mates for food, shelter, and sense of belonging in an environment that can otherwise be hostile. Similarly in times of crisis such as redundancy, property losses migrants can call on the support within their immediate area of residence or from other members based in their rural areas of origin. Furthermore, migrants visit their rural areas of origin to partake in marriages, initiation ceremonies, and funeral service. And many of the migrants who die in the city are transported to the rural areas for burial. Migrant social networks demonstrate the complex interconnectedness of the urban and rural spheres of life in both the economic and cultural aspects of life.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie het die aard en doel van sosiale netwerke onder migrante werkers in die Marconi Beam informele nedersetting en Joe Slovo Park ondersoek. Daar is gevind dat hierdie netwerke ekonomiese en kulturele funksies vervul. Op ekonomiese vlak fasiliteer die netwerke die twee-rigting vloei van goedere en dienste tussen stedelike huishoudings en die landelike tuiste. D.m.v. netwerke onder migrante werkers word inligting oor die beskikbaarheid van werk, behuising en dies meer versprei. Gebasseer op die ideologiese aanname dat die landelike tuiste meer belangrik is as die stedelike huishouding, word materiële goedere en geld, wat in die stad verdien word, na die landelike tuiste oorgeplaas. Daarmee saam word stedelike uitgawes tot In minimum beperk. In die geval van gebeurlikhede kenmerkend van die stedelike situasie, soos verlies van werk of eiendom, wend migrante werkers hulle na die landelike tuiste vir hulp en ondersteuning. Op In kulturele vlak besoek migrante die landelike areas om deel te neem aan begrafnisse, troues en inisiasie seremonies. Baie van diegene wat tot sterwe kom in die stad, word na die landelike areas oorgeplaas vir hul begrafnis. Hierdie besoeke dien as bewys van die migrant se lojaliteit teenoor die landelike tuiste en gemeenskap. In die geheel gesien bevestig die sosiale netwerke onder migrante werkers die inter-afhanklikheid van die stedelike en landelike lewenssfere.
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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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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 urbainThis 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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Hoffmann, Tracy. "Ein Camp in Chemnitz". Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-130323.
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Frei verfügbare wissenschaftliche Publikationen sind ein Anliegen, das die Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz seit vielen Jahren untestützt und vorantreibt. Die Idee, ein Camp für die Überarbeitung des Open-Access-Lehrbuchs für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien, kurz L3T, zu veranstalten, wurde deshalb begeistert von der Bibliotheksleitung unterstützt. Vom 20. bis 28. August 2013 wurde das neue Lehrbuch L3T 2.0 geschrieben.
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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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Mosinyi, Ishmael Innocent. "Nancefield, camp to community". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ31623.pdf.
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Ho, Chow-lai Barrie, e 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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Chevallier, Sophie Guéroult Nadine. "La Bibliothèque de Caen". [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2004. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dcb/rschevallier.pdf.
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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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Bonifonte, Anthony. "Optimal summer camp layout". Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1350314765.
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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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Includes bibliographical references.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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Cheng, Zhang. "Use of food waste feeds for culturing low trophic level fish (grass carp, bighead carp and mud carp): persistent toxic substances". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/76.
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This study aimed at using different types of food wastes as major sources of protein to replace the fish meal used in fish feeds to produce quality fish. The major objectives were to (1) investigate the variations of metalloid/metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the fish ponds (pond mud and water), and food wastes used as fish feeds; (2) analyze bioaccumulation and biomagnification of pollutants in the food chains; and (3) evaluate the potential health risks of exposure (to these pollutants) via dietary intake of fish fed with food waste feeds. The traditional fish farming model was used to culture low trophic level fish: a filter feeder (bighead, Aristichthys nobilis), a herbivore (grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idellus) and a bottom feeder (mud carp, Cirrhina molitorella), which are more environmental friendly as they can utilize more solar energy. Furthermore, low-trophic level fish are less susceptible to the accumulation of toxic chemicals. Two types of food wastes (mainly containing cereal (Food Waste A) and meat waste meal (Food Waste B)) were used as the major source of protein to replace the fish meal in fish feed to culture fish. The concentrations of metalloid (arsenic (As)), metals (mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) and nickel (Ni)) in water, suspended particulate matter and sediment of the 3 experimental fish ponds located in Sha Tau Kok Organic Farm were monitored (bi-monthly during the first half year and tri-monthly during the second half year) and the results were similar to or lower than those in the commercial fish ponds around the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. Results of the health risk assessments indicated that human consumption of grass carp (a herbivore) which fed food waste feed pellets would be safer than other fish species (mud carp, bighead carp and largemouth bass). There were no or lower magnifications, and low concentrations of metalloid/metals contained in the ponds indicated that the practice of traditional pond management by draining pond water regularly can provide a better fish pond habitat for birds and other wildlife. Furthermore, the use of food waste instead of fish meal (mainly consisted of contaminated trash fish) further reduced Hg accumulation in the cultured fish. During October 2011 - December 2012, the concentrations of PAHs and OCPs in three experimental fish ponds were monitored (bi-monthly during the first half year and tri-monthly during the second half year). The results were similar to or lower than those obtained in commercial fish ponds around the PRD region. The mean concentrations of .PAHs and .OCPs in sediment and fish collected from the experimental fish ponds during the 2nd half year (May 2012 to December 2012) were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those in the 1st half year (October 2011 to April, 2012). .PAHs and .DDTs in the two species of fish (grass carp and bighead carp) were significantly increased (p<0.05) with time, and PAHs and DDTs in grass carp and bighead carp fed with commercial fish feed pellets (control group) were significantly higher (p<0.05) than the fish fed with food waste pellets (Food Waste A and Food Waste B). Fruit, vegetables, bone meal and meat products were the major sources of PAHs and OCPs contamination for producing Food Waste A and Food Waste B. No significant increases in PAHs and DDTs concentrations with trophic levels were observed in the experimental ponds, showing that PAHs were not biomagnifed in the omnivorous food chains (plankton, grass carp, bighead carp and mud carp). DDTs were lower magnifications than those predatory food chains (plankton, trash fish, and largemouth bass) in farmed ponds. There was a very low cancer risk for PAHs and DDTs exerted on humans via consumption of bighead carp, grass carp and mud carp (fed with food waste and commercial pellets). Furthermore, the use of food waste instead of fish meal (mainly consisted of contaminated trash fish) further reduced accumulation of PAHs and DDTs in the cultured fish.PAHs and DDTs exerted on humans via consumption of bighead carp, grass carp and mud carp (fed with food waste and commercial pellets). Furthermore, the use of food waste instead of fish meal (mainly consisted of contaminated trash fish) further reduced accumulation of PAHs and DDTs in the cultured fish. The present results revealed that recycling of food waste for cultivating low trophic level fish (mainly bighead carp and grass carp) is feasible, which will also ease the disposal pressure of the large volume of food waste, a common problem encountered in densely populated cites such as Hong Kong.
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Alexander, Eapen. "An investigation into the implementation of Computer-Assisted Education (CAE) in the inderprivileged areas of the Eastern Cape a case study of Butterworth High School /". Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09052005-142457/.
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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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Magister Educationis - MEdThis 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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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, 2011Women, 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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Fitzpatrick, Amy Diane. "An Assessment of Expenditures by Camp Henry Patrons in Newaygo County". DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2012. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/702.
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This thesis evaluates expenditures made by Camp Henry patrons during the 2005 summer camp season while traveling to and from the residential camp located in Newaygo County, Michigan. A purposive random cluster sample was collected via self-administered questionnaire on the arrival days of weeks 3, 7, and 8 of the 8 week summer camp season. The data revealed expenditures in each of the categories on the instrument; lodging expenses, food and beverages, private auto expenses, retail shopping, recreation activities, and “other”. Expenditures for the 55 participants and the individuals traveling with them totaled $4,558. The category with the greatest reported expenditures was food and beverage, totaling $1,645 and the category with the least reported expenditures was lodging, totaling $170.
First summer camper group expenditures and returning camper group expenditures were evaluated to determine if a relationship exists between inexperienced and experienced campers, a one-factor ANOVA was run with the logarithm of total expenditures and, with a P value of 0.077, no statistically significant relationship is found. A one-factor ANOVA was utilized to evaluate the relationship between participants residing within 35 miles of the residential camp facility and those living further away. With a P value of 0.101, it is determined that hometown does not have an effect on patron expenditures. A regression analysis of the logarithm of total expenditures and income ranges was performed to determine if an individual’s annual income has an effect on expenditures; with a P value of 0.626 no relationship was found. Lastly, a regression analysis of the logarithm of total expenditures and participant age was run to determine if a relationship between a participant’s age and the amount spent exists. With a P value of 0.574, no statistically significant relationship exists.
Limitations of the study include a small sample size, the inability of participants to accurately predict return trip expenditures, and the close proximity of participant residences to the camp facility.
Although no statistically significant relationships were found, the expenditure information can be used to develop partnerships between local businesses and the residential summer camp. The possibility of exploring the camp going population and their monetary value to host communities is a worthwhile subject for further scrutiny. The information presented here can be used as a starting point for future studies on expenditures of residential camp patrons.
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Perrot, Jean-Claude. "Genèse d'une ville moderne, Caen au XVIIIe siècle /". Paris : Éd. de l'EHESS, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37221735x.
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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.
Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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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.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Thesis (MTech (Environmental Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010Freshwater 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.