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Showing 1 to 20 of 651 for “"South African context"”.
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Margin squeeze in the South African context
… of the margin squeeze cause of action into South African competition law jurisprudence, the question arises whether the Senwes decisions, have definitively clarified the criteria against which future margin squeeze abuse cases will be dealt with and whether these criteria have evolved into a …
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Natural Language Financial Forecasting: The South African Context
… prediction, especially in emerging markets like South Africa, is still limited. In this thesis, the process of labelling announcements, the use of a more statistically relevent technique called the event study was used. Classical textual preprocessing and representation techniques were replaced …
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Narrative therapy in the South African context : a case study
… in Australia, and is therefore refreshingly southern hemispheric in contrast to most psychological theories which have originated in northern hemisphere countries. However, its application has mostly been in first-world, white, middle- class, English-speaking contexts. Questions therefore …
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Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context
The notion of portfolio tilting towards fundamental factors has been the subject of many empirical studies over the last few decades. With this being said, there is limited literature on the interaction effects between these individual factors. This dissertation focuses specifically on quality, …
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Substitution in the South African context - constitutional principles in action
… for maladministration in the public procurement context within the modern constitutionalism in South Africa. It considers the role and position of substitution from a technical and theoretical point of view. The cumulative analysis is aimed at illustrating that substitution plays an important …
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Diversified mentoring relationships in the South African context: an exploratory framework
… that mentor and protégé play in transforming South African society in general and the business environment in particular, is important and lends new meaning to “leveling of the playing fields”. Fundamental to the success of any mentorship programme is the relationship between the mentor and …
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Female student-athlete swimmers : lived experiences in a South African context
South African female swimmers have become a frequent feature in online media articles since zero female swimmers managed to qualify for the 2015 FINA World Championships and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Despite this being a valuable area to focus on, majority of the online articles …
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Pricing equity options on multiple underlyings in the South African context
It is well documented that financial asset prices returns are not normally distributed. Historical return distributions exhibit fatter tails and positive skewness that is not explained by a normal distribution. Moreover, the standard Black-Scholes option pricing framework that assumes that asset …
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The relationship between attachment and offending within a South African context
… a link between attachment and offending. Despite South Africa's high crime rate, research within this country's socio-political context has been limited. This current study aimed to fill this gap, by examining the association between attachment and offending within a South African context. It was …
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Traditional healers and mental health care in the South African context
A number of African countries have made attempts to officially recognize traditional healers as health care providers and South Africa is no exception. South Africa has made substantial progress in officially recognizing traditional medicine and its integration into the primary healthcare system. …
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The development of practical psychopharmacological guidelines for the South African context
Includes bibliographical references.
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Tithes and offerings in the South African context: the bible and reality
… to the practice adopted by urban, middle-class, South African Christians in response to the Biblical approach to giving to God's work. This study surveys and interrogates traditionally held views about the Biblical approach to tithes, offerings and giving to God's work, and then compares them to …
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Mitochondrial disorders in the South African context : a clinical and biochemical approach
… (MDs) were identified only phenotypically in South Africa. However, the specific population-related characteristics were unknown and not documented. Up to as late as 1998, no facility was available in South Africa to confirm the diagnosis of MDs. The diagnosis of MDs is challenging under the …
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The Phenomenon of Identity Foreclosure Among Learner-athletes in a South African Context
The main mission for young people in sport is to develop their potential to the highest level of excellence. The need to capture young people and to nurture their potential necessitates specialized sport schools to accommodate this need of young people to pursue excellence in their sport. Tertiary …
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Vocal schizophrenia or conscious flexibility? : owning the voice in the South African context
This thesis questions how and why certain South African performers habitually and unconsciously shift accent in the performance context. I refer to this vocal action as habitual, unconscious accent-based speech adaptation. This examination is made considering that contemporary voice training at the …
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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of Neurodevelopmental Assessment Tools in a South African Context
… and reliability are inextricably tied to the context in which the tool is administered, it is critical that tools, including established “gold standard” tools, undergo ongoing psychometric evaluation. This is particularly important when tools are used in contexts different to that in which the …
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia in neonates; prevalence and risk factors within a South African context
… limited published research on this topic. In the South African context, factors such as poverty, burden of disease and limited access to healthcare may elevate the risk of OPD among neonates. Improvements in neonatal medical care have led to higher survival rates for neonates with complex medical …
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Young adults’ perceptions of community violence experienced in a South African context during adolescence
South Africa is a developing country, characterised by various forms of political struggles and different forms of violence. As a result, the journey from adolescence to adulthood is plagued with community violence. High rates of exposure to community violence result in short-term and long-term …
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Consumers' subjective and objective knowledge of genetically modified food in a South African context
… such, products such as GM foods are now part of South African consumers' daily lives. Soy and maize are two of the most common GM food crops in South Africa. Maize is a staple food in South Africa since it is affordable, readily available and easy to prepare, and soy is an important source of …
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Benefits of a Tree-Based model for stock selection in a South African context
… (CART) models for stock selection within the South African context, with the focus being on the period from when the Global Financial Crisis began in early 2007 until December 2012. By utilising four types of portfolios, a CART model is directly compared against two traditional linear models. …
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