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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Department of Defence"”.
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The nature and extent of child care problems at the Department of Defence : Area Military Health Unit North West
… problems addressed by Military Social Work Officers (MSWOs) at AMHU NW, child protection problems - referred to as child care issues - rated second highest on casework interventions for the year 2016. This increase in child care issues and their variety and complexities has left MSWOs …
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The implementation of a front end processor for a subset of ADA
… language sponsored by the United States Department of Defence primarily for use in real-time systems. It has all the structures present in modern algorithmic languages with additional features for tasking. This thesis discusses the University of Cape Town implementation of a front end …
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The USA maritime enforcement regime: a model for South Africa?
… especially since 1994, concerning the role of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) now that peace is the order of the day. Coupled to this is the perennial issue of insufficient funds to pay for all the services the government is expected to provide, and at the level with which …
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United States Detention Policy in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Operations: 2001 to 2011
… conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the use of Guantanamo Bay as a key node in detention operations between 2001 and 2011, when the US was engaged in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations against various transnational and radical religious extremists. The purpose of this thesis is …
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Assessing the people's navy : gender transformation and the South African Navy
… Navy is required to implement the principle of gender equality as part of its transformation. This forms part of a broader project of transformation in South Africa, the Navy is one aspect of this. The dissertation is located in the field of Civil-Military Relations. The assessment of …
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Comparative private law: online defamation and service provider liability- a comparative study
"The Internet is a unique and wholly new medium of world-wide human communication." 1 It enables people to communicate with one another with unprecedented speed and efficiency and is rapidly revolutionising how people share and receive information. From the time when the first vacuum tube computers …
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Public sector facility management at military unit level: an exploratory study
The purpose of this research is to explore the scope and understanding of facility management (FM) in the public sector, and specifically at military unit level, and compare it to a normative model. The principles of applied research are used in a single exploratory and instrumental case study with …
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Characterization of the Multipath Environment of Ionospheric Scintillation Receivers
… time and velocity all over the world at any time of the day. Currently there are four operational GNSS and one of them is GPS (Global Positioning System) that is developed and maintained by U.S Department of Defence (DoD), which is widely used and accessible all over the world. The accuracy of the …
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The Search for Continental Security: The Development of the North American Air Defence System, 1949 to 1956
This dissertation examines the development of the North American air defence system from the beginning of the Cold War until 1956. It focuses on the political and diplomatic dynamics behind the emergence of these defences, which included several radar lines such as the Distant Early Warning (DEW) …
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From apartheid to democracy: the civil-military relations in the Republic of South Africa
… the civil-military relations in the Republic of South Africa as of the end of apartheid. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of Charles Moskos et al. Based on the development of the civil-military relations in the US as of the end of the Cold War, the Moskos paradigm uses a …
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The Giant Next Door: The evolution of Australian Government threat perceptions of Indonesia within the policy development process, 1957-1965
… the Australian Government’s threat perceptions of Indonesia changed from viewing it as a weak but relatively friendly country, to eventually see it by 1965 as posing a ‘direct threat’ to Australia’s security. This thesis analyses how this transition in threat perception occurred within the …
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The Giant Next Door: The evolution of Australian Government threat perceptions of Indonesia within the policy development process, 1957-1965
… the Australian Government’s threat perceptions of Indonesia changed from viewing it as a weak but relatively friendly country, to eventually see it by 1965 as posing a ‘direct threat’ to Australia’s security. This thesis analyses how this transition in threat perception occurred within the …
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Bandwidth management and quality of service
With the advent of bandwidth-hungry video and audio applications, demand for bandwidth is expected to exceed supply. Users will require more bandwidth and, as always, there are likely to be more users. As the Internet user base becomes more diverse, there is an increasing perception that Internet …
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An analysis of shift working rosters used within the Australian Army component of the Defence Integrated Secure Communications Network (DISCON)
… performance, behaviour, sleep, quality of work and family life. The shift roster plays an important role in moderating the influence of non standard working hours on the individual and the group though it is well documented that shift work does affect everyone differently. Aspects of …
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System level simulation of digital designs : a case study
… and simulation language. Many designers make use of the language's synthesis ability but hardly tap into the power of its simulation abilities. This dissertation primarily investigated the feasibility of VHDL simulation during the design process. Secondary goals were to document the design …
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Sustainable human capital strategy for White youth in a transformed South African Navy
… accordance with the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.