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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"behavioural factors"”.
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Taxpayer behavioural factors influencing entrenched tax gaps
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Accounting: Taxation, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Understanding the human behavioural factors behind online learners’ susceptibility to phishing attacks
… security awareness programs overlook human behavioural factors as a root cause of exploitation in Phishing (Proctor et al 2009, Anttila et al 2007). This research aims to better understand the human behavioural factors behind online learners’ susceptibility to Phishing attacks (Luo et al, …
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Determinants for the use of financial services in Tanzania: A study of behavioural factors
… Tanzania with respect to the role of household behavioural factors. This is achieved by attempting three interrelated research questions: i) What are the financial experiences of households in Tanzania? ii) What are beliefs held by households in Tanzania about the use of financial services? iii) …
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An examination of the influence of cognitive, motivational, and behavioural factors on children's reading skill and development
… is to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing children’s reading skill and reading development. In particular, the experimental studies were designed to investigate the influence of cognitive skills, motivational factors, and behavioural factors on children’s reading …
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A retrospective study exploring clinical, biological and behavioural factors contributing to changes in body weight following early breast cancer diagnosis.
… could result in poor long-term BC outcomes. The factors associated with these changes and the biological mechanisms underlying them remain unclear. Aims, methods, sample and data analysis: A longitudinal retrospective study was conducted to explore weight change post- diagnosis and its …
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Development of a framework to evaluate the impact of behavioural factors on the performance of strategic railway alliances in the UK
… this research seeks to explore the impact of behavioural factors on the performance of strategic railway alliances.This research investigates the impact of behavioural factors, namely the behavioural success factors and behavioural negative factors, which impact on the performance of strategic …
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Health Literacy Among Pacific Mothers in New Zealand: Exploring the Associations of Demographic and Behavioural Factors With Health Literacy of Pacific Mothers in the Context of Pacific Health and Well-being.
The physical and social factors related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, stroke, metabolic syndrome and some cancers, are multifaceted and complex (Ministry of Health [MoH], 2012a, 2012b, …
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An Analysis of Grey Theory for Personal Affective Computing
… analysis, which returns important contributing factors to a given sequence. Grey modelling is applied to a novel affective dataset, collected using behavioural and mood data from 7 different participants. Grey incidence analysis is performed on this dataset using two different mood sequences (a …
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Examining the feasiblity of informal settlement flood early warning systems : focus on the urban flood-risk experience of Kosovo and Masiphumelele residents, Cape Town South Africa
… communicating flood risk were investigated and factors influencing flood warning processes and behavioural factors influencing response to flood-risk and flood warning, examined.
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The epidemiology of hospital admissions in a general population: record linkage of hospital episode statistics to the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk) cohort
… period and to examine related demographic and behavioural factors. Patterns of hospital usage are described using two main hospital usage measures: admission numbers and length of stay. Socioeconomic factors such as education, occupational social class and residential area deprivation that may …
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Methamphetamine use and HIV risk among severely mentally ill inpatients
… burden. Due to a variety of social, economic and behavioural factors, mentally ill patients are more likely to engage in high risk sexual behaviours. In turn, co-morbid substance use which is present in up to 75% of mentally ill patients is a leading risk factor for sexual risk behaviours. …
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Epidemiology of oral cancer from a socioeconomic perspective
… favour of pursuing genetic and 'lifestyle' risk factors. The over-arching aim of this thesis was to investigate the epidemiology of oral cancer in relation to individual socioeconomic status (SES), area-based socioeconomic circumstances, and socioeconomic inequalities. Descriptive epidemiology …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… context, economic, linguistic, cultural and behavioural factors that play a role during the decoding phase.
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An Investigation of Cryptocurrency Owners: Examining the Role of Fallacious Gambling Beliefs and Conspiratorial Thinking
… conspiratorial thinking, along with gambling and behavioural factors, predict cryptocurrency ownership and identification as a trader. Methods: Participants (N = 574; n = 278 cryptocurrency owners; n = 278 non-owners) were recruited to participate in a cross-sectional online survey through …
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A Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Road Safety in a Low- and Medium- Income Country: Gauteng Province South Africa
… and winter nights, underscoring visibility and behavioural factors. The spatially aware model achieves superior performance (R²=0.958, MAE=0.031), highlighting intersection proximity and time-of-day as dominant predictors. Through spatiotemporal hotspot analysis (Moran's I=0.2684), the thesis …
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Household Food Waste
… such as promotions and package sizes. Key behavioural factors include the use of shopping lists, cooking frequency, trust in best-before dates, and willingness to pay more for quality. The findings also reveal strong socio-demographic differences: household size, age, and education …
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Residual momentum and investor sentiment on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
… deducting returns attributable to common risk factors, when selecting portfolio constituents. This prevents concentrated exposure to common risk factors in any one portfolio. The method is known as residual momentum and has shown great promise to improve risk-related returns. Investor sentiment …
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Determinants of overcrowding in the regional hospital of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… that shortage of resources, institutional factors, patient’s behavioural factors and disease outbreaks contribute to overcrowding. The impact of patient overcrowding includes patient-and staff-related effects. Recommendations: The study recommends providing adequate equipment and employing …
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The development of new products in the personal financial services sector
… attention is paid to the organisational and behavioural factors that influenced its development and eventual market outcome. Such factors are given very little consideration in the existing literature supporting NPD activity, yet it is shown that the consequences that they can have for the …
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Towards Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Tuvalu
… study investigates the types of plastic waste, behavioural and systemic drivers of disposal practices, and opportunities for integrated waste management in Tuvalu through national, regional, and international lenses. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, including household surveys, interviews …
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