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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"centralisation"”.
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Evaluating Centralisation in Healthcare Supply Chains
… and control, and struc-tural redesigns such as centralisation are commonly considered as a response. Their effectiveness, however, depends on organisational, informational, and governance conditions that are often underdeveloped. This thesis evaluates how, and under what conditions, different …
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Examination of centralisation practices in South African local government
Democratic decentralisation in South Africa was undertaken as part of post-apartheid restructuring. This signified a shift on local government's status from being a tier to being a sphere with its own and powers functions. The empowerment of local government is evident in five tested indicators, …
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Trend and Impact of Nephrectomy Centralisation on Renal Cell Carcinoma Survival
… was published in 2002, recommending the centralisation of oncological resections for urological cancers to high volume centres. During the same period, advancements in surgical technology such as laparoscopic and robotic surgery were emerging together with the adoption of nephron-sparing …
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Local government policy in South Africa 1980-1989 (with specific reference to the Western Cape) : devolution, delegation, deconcentration or centralisation?
… examination of the National Party's policy of decentralisation of powers to local authorities in the 1980s. The thesis concentrates primarily on urban local government and its objectives are: 1. To trace the evolution of the south African state's policy of devolution of powers to local …
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Industrial relations in the road passenger transport industry-a political-economic analysis.
… and mechanised buses), the concentration and centralisation of ownership, the decline of competition, changing market position, municipal and state regulation, ownership and control. The tram industry, as a consequence of electrification, is almost wholly municipally owned and the history of …
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Modelling the effects of speech rate variation for automatic speech recognition
… which can be described in more detail as a centralisation effect and an increase in coarticulation. Centralisation means that the formant frequencies of vowels tend to shift towards the vowel space center while increased coarticulation denotes the tendency of the spectral features of a vowel …
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Foreign exchange risk management in UK multinational companies.
… a subsidiary level revealed that the degree of centralisation may be underestimated by HQ treasurers, since divisional personnel may influence the practices in foreign subsidiaries. The degree of centralisation was explained by the presence of transaction costs in foreign exchange markets, and a …
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Beyond party politics : to what extent, if any, are there unexpected democracy deepening consequences of one-party dominance in South Africa?
The degree of centralisation and monopolisation of power by the African National Congress (ANC) is raising concerns about the long-term prospects for democracy in South Africa. Conventional party politics cannot at present provide the mechanism to check tendencies towards authoritarian domination: …
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Information management and the holistic, process-oriented enterprise
… attention to the global metrics and the centralisation of the management of the process model are critical to its success. 2. The role of the information management process within the context of a process-oriented enterprise is to provide flexible and cost-effective applications, …
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An investigation of staff performance management systems and productivity in the Department of Home Affairs: case of Richards’s Bay office
… to be broken due to poor communication and the centralisation of services was found to have created a challenge with regards to provision of effective and efficient service delivery. The poor performance planning and less training, ineffective performance appraisal, poor communication and …
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Continuity and Change in Botswana’s Democracy: An Assessment of the Presidency
… dynamics that have facilitated the centralisation of power in the presidency. It further explores the relationship between the presidency and institutions established to deepen Botswana's democracy. Lastly, it explores each President's tenure. It concludes that the presidency remains …
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Operational Military Violence: A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices
… are other aspects that contribute to the growing centralisation of military violence. The increasing military sensitivity about public and media criticism regarding casualties and ‘collateral damage’ underlines the need for Western military organisations to take central control of military …
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Ethnic specific associations between body composition and metabolic risk and the role of sex hormones and aromatase among black and white South African women
… glucose concentrations were associated with centralisation of body fat in black but not white women, whereas TC and LDL-C concentrations were associated with centralisation of body fat in white but not black women. In addition to body fat distribution, MVPA was associated with IR in the white …
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The Impacts of Health Care Reconfiguration on Patient Access to Services: A Case Study of Nenagh General Hospital
… and the attitudes of the two groups towards centralisation of care. The interviews conducted with medical professionals also focused on access to health care and the recommendations that participants had for a safer service. The hospital statistics studied were for used for the purpose of …
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Determinants of body composition changes over 5.5 years and the associated cardio-metabolic risk factors in free-living black South African women
… improved sanitation over the follow-up period. Centralisation of body fat was associated with a lower BMI and being nulliparous at baseline only. Being younger at baseline was also associated with larger increases in body weight and centralisation of fat mass, but was not independent of the …
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Secure decentralised storage networks
… an ongoing basis. This has led to the increasing centralisation of both services and storage, where users are reliant upon a small number of cloud-based providers to hold their data, and provide them with services they use. Recent events have shown that security breaches of centralised data stores …
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A Critical Analysis of Key Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing Processes: A Case Study of Bahrain Public Security Forces
… donating (KD), organisational structure centralisation (SC), personal benefit (PB) and organisational structure formulisation showed the most significant and positive relationships. However, reciprocity (RC) and rewards (RW) were found to have an insignificant relationship with KD. On the …
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Investigating the mechanisms and the temporal regulation of the first cell polarity establishment in the mouse embryo
… Further results showed that the apical protein centralisation step required a proximate transcriptional input that was induced by two transcription factors, Tfap2c and Tead4. RNAi and Genetic depletion of these two factors prevented apical protein centralisation and the final apical domain …
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