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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Contributory factors"”.
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The contributory factors in drug errors and their reporting
The aim of this thesis is to examine the contributory factors in drug errors and their reporting so as to design an enhanced reporting scheme to improve the quality of reporting in an acute hospital trust. The related research questions are: 1. What are the contributory factors in drug errors? 2. …
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Contributory Factors to Teachers' Sense of Community in Public Urban Elementary Schools
<p>CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS TO TEACHERS' SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN PUBLIC URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to teachers' sense of community within public, urban, elementary schools. Becauseprevious research has touted the benefits of …
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Gender Segregation In Educational Choice - Contributory Factors and Subsequent Implications for Women
… with looking at some of the contributing factors, if it did exist, in particular in the light of young women entering the labour market. I discovered that my task was in fact quite a challenging one due to the numerous combinations of factors that influence one's subject choice. One of the …
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Influencing water consumption at South Staffordshire Water PLC : a disaggregated behavioural analysis of contributory factors
This research identifies factors which influence the consumption of potable water supplied to customers' property. A complete spectrum of the customer base is examined including household, commercial and industrial properties. The research considers information from around the world, particularly …
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Bird strike risk assessment at commercial airports: sub-model development accounting for strike occurrence and severity with strike contributory factors
… and severity, quantifications of bird strike contributory factors have been quite limited because of the absence of data, especially bird movement data on airfields. The goal of this study is to provide additional insight into this important problem by combining a number of databases, …
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Factors leading mental health care users to use modern and traditional medicine in rural areas of Makhado Municipality in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa
… population. This study investigated the contributory factors leading mental health care users to use a combination of traditional and modern medicine in rural areas. The study was conducted using qualitative research methods. The population of this study were MHCUs, Mental health …
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An investigation of driver attitudes towards road safety in Kuwait
… and driver error were considered to be the main contributory factors, as has been found elsewhere. A questionnaire survey was undertaken to obtain a more in-depth understanding of driver behaviour and attitudes towards traffic regulations, which might relate to road accidents, and the potential …
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A profile of workers who are HIV/AIDS positive at Portnet Richards Bay during the year 1998/1999 and implications for health education
… study which aimed at: ❖ Determining individual's contributory factors to the spread of HIV/AIDS. ❖ Identifying areas to be covered when giving health education to the community. The study was done at Portnet industry in Richards Bay. A structured interview schedule was designed to determine the …
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Confined space fatalities
… pertaining to confined space fatalities such as contributory factors, mechanisms of injury and other data of an epidemiological nature.
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Student sexual harassment at a Rural University in South Africa: a case study of the University of Venda
… harassment occurs in the university, to explore contributory factors influencing sexual harassment among students, and to explore the effects of sexual harassment on students. The methodology that was applied in this study is was qualitative in nature. The researcher used open ended questions in …
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Cirque du Pan : panic circuit : an exploration of the accelerative effects of information communication technology
… and the digital communication revolution as contributory factors to this hypermodern or globalised state.
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An exploratory study of GIS based analysis of Health and Safety related information
… to information analysis mainly focus on factors within construction health and safety information during analysis and do not shed light on the influencing socio-economic and spatially influenced issues within which the industry’s accident contributory factors are rooted. It is also clear …
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Context Aware Pre-Crash System for Vehicular ad hoc Networks Using Dynamic Bayesian Model
… environment, taking into consideration the contributory factors necessary to predict the likelihood of a crash with different levels of severity. Designing an accurate and effective pre-crash system to avoid front and back crashes or mitigate their severity is the most important goal of …
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Corporate Governance as a Transformation Tool in Sustaining Nigeria’s Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
… and lack of access to capital as the significant contributory factors to the constraints the companies face. In addressing the issues of low managerial skills and lack of access to capital, this thesis examines the causal reasons for low managerial skills, and lack of access to capital as well as, …
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Significance of variation in concentration of chlorides, acid, and pepsin, in the gastric contents, with particular reference to the control of gastric acidity
… of gastric acidity is dependent upon several contributory factors. The suggestion is made that the gland -cells of the pyloric segment of the stomach represent the principal source of secreted neutral chiorids.
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Perceptions of caregivers regarding factors contributing to malnutrition among children under five years in this Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
Malnutrition is globally considered the key risk factors of illness and death which affect over 90 million children under the age of five. The study aim was to determine the perception of caregivers regarding factors contributing to malnutrition in children under 5 years in the Vhembe District of …
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Ways of reducing accidents on South African roads
… of road accidents can be categorised into human factors, vehicle factors and road factors. In South Africa, road accidents are primarily caused by human factors and to a lesser degree, vehicle and road factors. December is the month of the year with the highest number of road fatalities in South …
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Factors contributing to mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV at Sehego Zone Clinics, Capricorn District in South Africa
… This study investigated the contributing factors that increase the MTCT of HIV in Seshego Zone Clinics.The study adopted a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory design, wherein eighteen semi structured interviews were conducted among female nurses who were purposively sampled from four …
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The zone of "becoming": game, text and technicity in videogame narratives
… years. Their versatility has made them key contributory factors in social, literary, cultural and philosophical discourse; however, critics also tend to see videogames as posing a threat to established cultural parameters. This thesis argues that videogames are firmly grounded in older media …
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