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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Public Holidays"”.
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Trauma Unit volumes: Is there a relationship with weather, sporting events and week/month-end times? An audit at an urban tertiary trauma unit in Cape Town
… locations and results, and information regarding public holidays and long weekends were obtained for the relevant shifts. Average daily attendances for interpersonal violence (IPV)-related injuries and motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) were compared across the various external factors described. …
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A retrospective analysis of the circumstantial factors contributing to drowning incidents reported in the South African media
… occurred in coastal provinces. Weekends and public holidays accounted for the highest frequency of reported incidents. Forty percent of reported fatal drowning victims were children under the age of 16 years. Approximately half (48%) of fatal drowning victims were swimming at the time of the …
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Human recreational activity and its impact on a metropolitan coastline
… utilization in the Western Cape peaks on the public holidays of 26 December, 1 and 2 January, beach attendances reaching levels of 2 to 10 times higher than attendances on other days during the summer holidays. The greatest proportion of visitors to the beach (94%) engage in non-exploitative …
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Quantification of budget improvement methods for utilities at platinum mines in South Africa
… were focused on were: • Reduced energy costs on public holidays. • Budget accuracy of using historic monthly data compared to an hourly daily consumption profile for energy. • Budget accuracy of using historic monthly data compared to an hourly daily consumption profile for cost prediction. • …
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Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
… institutional ownership. Additionally, using public holidays in foreign news media's home country as exogenous events that reduce the activities of foreign investors from those countries, I find that the effect of foreign media coverage on the stock market reaction to earnings news of U.S. …
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Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
… institutional ownership. Additionally, using public holidays in foreign news media's home country as exogenous events that reduce the activities of foreign investors from those countries, I find that the effect of foreign media coverage on the stock market reaction to earnings news of U.S. …
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Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil War
By examining the celebration of the Fourth of July during the Civil War, this thesis will highlight the regional distinctiveness of both sides of the war. This work is divided into two main parts, one focusing on the Fourth of July in the Union, the other on the Fourth of July in the Confederacy. …