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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Fuelling"”.
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Fuelling the fires : the political economy of conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-116).
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Fuelling the Fire: The effects of Instagram discourse about farm attacks on levels of fear of crime and victimisation
Farm attacks are a contentious issue in South African crime discourse. 1 Despite having similar characteristics to home invasions or hijackings in urban areas, popular and academic narratives around farm attacks are woven with broader concerns relating to identity politics, land restitution, …
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Vertical compact torus injection into the STOR-M Tokamak
Central fuelling is a fundamental issue in the neat generation tokamak – ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). It is essential for optimization of the bootstrap current which is proportional to the pressure gradient of trapped particles. The conventional tokamak fuelling …
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Accounting for employee stock options
… has grown dramatically in recent years, fuelling a significant amount of research. The current accounting standards (IFRS 2 and IAS 33) do not reference this research and as a result the accounting records do not accurately reflect the economic nature of these transactions. This study …
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A life cycle based energy and greenhouse gas emission assessment of C&D waste and container glass recycling in the City of Cape Town
… for the global society to find alternate ways of fuelling human activity. Along with greater energy use, global development is also generating ever-greater quantities of waste. Landfill space is becoming increasingly scarce and the assimilative capacity of Earth is reaching its limits. Society's …
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The forgotten plan: the Czechoslovak two year plan in a European context, 1939-1989
My dissertation, The Forgotten Plan: The Czechoslovak Two Year Plan in a European Context, 1939-1989, zeroes in on the Two Year Plan, a form of socialist economic planning and national reconstruction that was put in place in Czechoslovakia from 1946 to 1948. I argue that the Two Year Plan was a …
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Implications of the market and regulatory environment in China on multinational water companies
… realized the critical role water played in fuelling China's continued economic growth, and implemented a series of water policy reforms in the 1990s which opened up Chinese municipal water services to multinational water companies. In this paper, we track the development of the Chinese …
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Investigating the feasibility of characterising gasoline autoignition using a motored engine apparatus
… adjusted and n-heptane was tested in the device. Fuelling was controlled with an injection system which was calibrated for n-heptane use in the engine. A range of inlet conditions were determined that would enable peak conditions in the engine to result in autoignition of the fuel. The …
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SACCOS and Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Areas: A Case Study of Meru District Council
… their status and make them sustainable and be fuelling tool for Community Economic Development.
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An evaluation of the net breeding capability of heterogeneously-fuelled pressure-tube heavy water reactors with the thorium fuel cycle
… and well-known operating margins. Homogeneous fuelling was found to be impractical for breeding, and heterogeneous fuel bundles were found to not offer significant improvement while increasing complexity. As a result, heterogeneous core configurations using homogeneous bundles were investigated …
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Community policing in Nigeria: an ethnography of police experiences, actions, and practices
… to have a deeper understanding into the issues fuelling negative interactions between the police and the citizens, there is a need to incorporate ethnographic measures and to focus directly on the police themselves, how they support the initiative, how they conceive and perceive the initiative …
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Marginal strips : how best to allow public access to lakes, rivers and the sea?
… marginal strip legislation and the one that is fuelling current public debate about marginal strips. It is suggested that proposed marginal strip provisions are a compromise between access and conservation objectives, and a desire by the Government to reduce survey and management costs while …
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The Post-Westphalian State in transition : a case study : transnational organized crime and Russia's Mafiya
… co-opting civil society's institutions, and fuelling the forces of disintegration. As in Italy and Columbia, the Mafiya is grafting itself upon the body politic of newborn Russia.
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A prospective comparative lifecycle assessment for green and grey hydrogen production and utilisation in the South African context
… application considered for the assessment is the fuelling of heavy-duty truck transportation. The systems considered are local utilisation for fuelling heavy-duty trucks and hydrogen exportation to Germany also to fuel heavy-duty trucks. These two systems were expanded to include conventional fuel …
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Energy efficient core optical IP networks
… has become an integral part of modern societies fuelling ever growing opportunities for the provision of new advanced services which better respond to quickly changing societal needs. Previously the deployment of such services have led to significant increases in energy consumption which is in …
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A study of the relationships of power between humanitarian workers and local leaders in Haiti
… humanitarian and local leaders, contributing to fuelling negative emotions such as regret, sadness, sense of failure, disappointment and anger. Negative emotions in this study affect the collaboration between humanitarians and local leaders, diminishing the positive influences and impact of …
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The evolution of mobile industry : modular to integral
… Americans owns a smart phone. Smart phones are fuelling the growth of the mobile web and an ecosystem of mobile applications. As innovative applications and services capture the marketplace, which factors ensure greater user adoption is essential to building attractive services. Despite …
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Mental health professionals' attitudes toward borderline personality disorder and their experiences of co-produced dialectical behaviour therapy training
… data generated three main themes: 1) EBE as fuelling hope and innovation in therapy; 2) translators of wisdom; and 3) challenging conventions. EBE inclusion was viewed as supporting the integration of theory and practice, providing motivation and enthusiasm, and as a novel approach to …
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Feasibility studies of the exhaust-gas reforming of hydrocarbon and alcohol fuels
… emission levels for reformed and conventional fuelling strategies. Conclusions of the theoretical studies were sufficiently encouraging to warrant a practical investigation, and hence the design, construction and commissioning of a prototype reforming reactor and test rig are described. A test …
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Agriculture, farm labour and the state in the Natal Midlands, 1940-1960
… Midlands. The importance of urban factors in fuelling the post-war boom is examined, as is the way in which different groups of farmers reacted to these developments. The second chapter discusses the position of farm workers. The system of labour tenancy is considered and stress is laid on the …
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