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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"REGIONALISATION"”.
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The impact of SADC regionalisation on intra-SADC trade
The subject of international trade is as old as the human race. Countries have always needed goods they were unable to produce either because of lack of resources, lack of skills or just cost related constraints. On the other hand, countries have at one time or the other been able to produce more …
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Regionalisation in Southern Africa : the problem of malign South African hegemony
Includes bibliography.
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A New Direction for Asean Regionalisation in the Changing Global Legal and Economic Environment.
ASEAN is an economic group comprised of the countries of Southeast Asia. ASEAN and Asia Pacific has been the most dynamic and fastest growing region in the world. But the 1997 Asian crisis sent the Asian Tigers' into turmoil. The rise and fall of Asia clearly reflects the interdependence of East …
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The Harmonisation and Regionalisation Obligations of The SPS Agreement and The Issues Facing These Obligations
This dissertation examines the obligations created by Article 3 and Article 6 of the SPS Agreement. It uses Reports accepted by down by the Dispute Settlement Body to find and unpack the interpretation of both Article 3 and 6. These interpretations will be unpacked and examined in detail It further …
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Transnational Sub-regional Cooperation in Practice: Dynamics of Micro-regionalism and Micro-regionalisation in the East Asia Pacific
… of contemporary integration theories including regionalisation, regionalism, new regionalism, and open regionalism; and their application in East Asia. It then evaluated the conditions underlying the transnational sub-regional cooperation for integration. The introduction in the first chapter …
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An exploration of South Africa's wind climate using station records and reanalysis data
… station-scale flows to develop a process-based regionalisation of wind regimes over the country .A thorough inspection of available South African Weather Service (SAWS) wind records is conducted and a quality control procedure is applied. The procedure reveals a large proportion of the data are …
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Regional higher education initiatives lessons for Southern Africa
… Africa specifically. In approaching the issue of regionalisation of higher education, the thesis explores the relationship between regionalisation and globalisation and their respective influences on regional higher education arrangements. International trends, pressures, and tensions in higher …
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Hydrogeology of the Kalahari in north-eastern Namibia
… of process-understanding, quantification and regionalisation. Within the semiarid study area a bimodal surface constitution is prominent: hardrocks areas allow for fast infiltration along karsts and joints, whereas areas covered by unconsolidated sediments receive minor diffuse recharge and …
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Dissecting the spatio-temporal development of the human reproductive tract
… cell signalling events likely involved in the regionalisation of the Müllerian and Wolffian ducts. This analysis led to a refined model of how the HOX code is established across distinct reproductive organs, including the unexpected enrichment of thoracic HOX gene expression in the rostral …
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Provincial government and regional development
… the problems rooted in its partiality and regionalisation. The reform started in the field of political administration and toleration of decentralisation and marketisation in the economic sphere has generated economic prosperity in some regions. But economic reform was not necessarily …
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A security complex in transformation: The case of Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a nascent security community
… towards its consolidation. The nature of this regionalisation, however, is a negotiated process which cannot be fast-tracked without penalties on regional integrity.
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Commuting flows & local labour markets: Spatial interaction modelling of travel-to-work
… and LLMs is explored through the use of regionalisation techniques and spatial interaction models. It is shown that LLM characteristics play a significant role in intra-regional commuting patterns and that a failure to account for LLM conditions may seriously hinder the applicability of …
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Middle iron age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone C.400 BC to c.150 BC
… Age warfare that reflects not only this period's regionalisation but also breaks away from simple ethno-historical comparisons is overdue. By undertaking to produce a model for Middle Iron Age warfare of the HillfortDominated Zone, where the archaeological evidence is extensive, yet seemingly …
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Local air quality management and climate change: tools for joined up policy
… transportation plans. The current trend towards regionalisation of governance brings with it uncertainty and debate. Part of this debate must include determination of the optimum scale for implementing land use and transportation plans to incorporate environmental objectives. This thesis is the …
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Short-term outcomes of inborn vs out-born very low birth weight neonates (< 1500 g) in the Groote Schuur neonatal nursery
… than their outborn counterparts. Perinatal regionalisation is beneficial to our patients, with antenatal care, timeous in-utero transfer and antenatal steroids contributing to excellent outcomes.
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Acting in Time: Transport Nurses optimising critically ill patients for transfer to a regional ECMO centre. A Grounded Theory Study
Regionalisation and centralisation of Intensive Care Units, coupled with demographic changes, have resulted in an increased demand for inter-hospital transport. The Conventional ventilatory support vs Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for Severe Adult Respiratory Failure Trial (CESAR), validated …
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Improving flood frequency analysis by integration of empirical and probabilistic regional envelope curves
… observed discharges of a region are an adequate regionalisation method to provide additional spatial information for the upper tail of a distribution function. Probabilistic regional envelope curves (PRECs) are an extension of the traditional empirical envelope curve approach, in which a …
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Possum magic : exploring colour vision in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
… the retina, I provide the first evidence for regionalisation in both opsin and cell morphology types in an Australian mammal. Finally, I showed functioning dichromatic colour vision with behavioural operant conditioning techniques. Brushtail possums have an innate preference to using …
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