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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Centre of Excellence"”.
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A Stakeholder Analysis of the Creation of High Seas Marine Protected Areas within the Antarctic Treaty System
This study evaluates the utility of stakeholder analysis for understanding the relationships among actors involved in creating a marine protected area (MPA) in the Southern Ocean. It relies on the Australian Centre of Excellence on Risk Analysis (ACERA) method of critical stakeholder analysis, a …
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An investigation into the practice of the project management office (PMO) concept in the German developer, contractor and project management sectors
… look for strategies that help them to achieve 'excellence' and 'maturity' in PM and help formally "manage" this intellectual property gained on projects (Kerzner 2003). One of the strategies that many companies are adopting for the structured collection, distribution, and updating of the …
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Experimental and numerical investigation of the dynamic seat comfort in aircrafts.
… comfort in aircrafts specifically during takeoff, landing and cruise through turbulence flight conditions. The experiments are performed using a multi axis shaker table in the Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology subjected to sample …
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At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa
The following thesis traces one year of ethnographic research within a contemporary Tuberculosis (TB) treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa. Brooklyn Chest Hospital (BCH) is considered to be a provincial TB centre of excellence in the Western Cape (Parsons et al 2010) and as such, caters to …
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Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria
Nigeria is one of the countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, third only to India and South Africa. With about 10% of the global HIV/AIDS cases estimated to be in the country, the public health and socio-economic implications are enormous. This thesis has two broad aims: the first is to …
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Prevalence and correlates of sexually transmitted infections among female survivors of sexual assault at the university teaching hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Sexual assault contributes to the burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in women and children of all ages. In children, the isolation of a sexually transmitted organism may be the first indication that sexual assault has occurred whilst in adults, the risk of acquiring a sexually …
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An appraisal of the role of Project Management Offices (PMO) in promoting Knowledge Management (KM)within KSA construction companies
The evolution of the construction industry and the increasing complexity of its projects, alongside the global economic crisis and concerns about repeating unsuccessful experiments in construction, have resulted in significant pressure on construction organisations, forcing them to establish new …
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Expectations and Preferences of Parents and Adolescents Regarding Feedback of Individual Genetic Findings in an HIV-TB Genomic Research Project in Botswana
… There has been tremendous progress in the use of genomics1 in biomedical research and medical care since the launch of the Human Genome Project in 1990. However, it has also introduced new ethical challenges regarding the feedback of findings generated in genomic sequencing. While some would …
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Training for the whole person : an exploration of possibilities for enhancing the spiritual dimension of police training
… organisations emphasised the importance of its employees and phrases like "Our people are our most important asset" were common. The author suggested that if people were to be motivated and committed to that organisation, these phrases had to refer to whole people, and the organisation …
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Contribution to the uncertainty evaluation in the measurement of the main antenna parameters = Contribución a la evaluación de la incertidumbre en la medida de los principales parámetros de antena
New technology demands the improvement of measuring techniques, developing tapered anechoic chambers, compact and extrapolation ranges, near-field testing techniques, improved polarization techniques and swept-frequency measurements, indirect measurements of antenna characteristics and automated …