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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"free state"”.
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Beliefs on Heredity in Welkom, Free State
… in the Matjhabeng municipality area in the Free State, where genetic counselling services are not available and currently no educational intervention on heredity has been done. The study population was foster parents from two of the prominent geographical areas in the area, namely Thabong …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive examination of Devenport’scomplete work. I ask how her writing and artistic status within her social milieu represents her cultural and political position, or more specifically, …
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Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
With O'Nolan's novel The Poor Mouth (1941) as a guide, Chapter 4 looks at the importance of the language revival and peasant literature to constructions of Irishness. Drawing on popular peasant autobiographies and Revival literature, the novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a …
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Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
… bookended by the establishment of the Irish Free State and the enactment of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Constitution of Ireland) in 1937. It aims to assess the efficacy and consistency of the translation strategies and Irish legal terms employed by Rannóg an Aistriúcháin, and to investigate …
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… In it, I tell the stories of people in the Free State Province, South Africa, who face food insecurity within abundance, and their critical consciousness and agency as they struggle to survive in their democracy. Poverty is a rawness...Poverty is struggle... Poverty is shame...these were …
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Farmers, agriculture and politics in the Irish Free State area, 1919-1936
… of agriculture in the early years of the Irish Free State, it is surprising that the development of organisations representing farmers has not received the attention it deserves from historians. While the issues of government agricultural policy and the land question have been extensively …
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Investigating popular fiction development at the University of the Free State academic Library
… fiction collection at the University of the Free State's Sasol Library. The purpose of the study is to examine what these perceptions and experiences mean for the future expansion and development of the leisure collection. The Social Learning Theory guided the study. The study adopted a …
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The nitrogen nutrition of maize on dryland soils of the central Orange Free State
1. Central Orange Free State soils vary considerably in the nitrogen supply to dryland maize. In some localities the soil supplies adequate amounts of nitrogen so that nitrogen fertilizer does not lead to any growth response. In other localities soils are poor in nitrogen and require nitrogen …
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The effectiveness of PMTCT in the Free State - An anonymously linked cord blood survey
[ Background ] PMTCT has become freely available in many African countries however the impact of these interventions at the population level has not been widely estimated. [ Aim ] The aim of this study was to estimate the proportion of HIV infected/exposed mother and infant pairs who received the …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
… Later Stone Age sites at Erfkroon in the Western Free State, South Africa, yielded several partial grinding stones, possibly indicating an increase in the reliance on plant resources and signifying the economic, technological, and social shift from the Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age. From …
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"The Free State of New Orleans": Local Law Enforcement and Illegal Gambling in the 1920s
This thesis examines illegal gambling in New Orleans and surrounding parishes in the 1920s. It will focus on a series of raids mounted by the Louisiana National Guard to end illegal gambling in both St. Bernard and Jefferson Parishes in August and November of 1928 and again in February of 1929. …
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Perceptions of young males at the Free State School of Nursing with regards to teenage pregnancy
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree in Masters of Technology in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.
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Identifying the factors that affect the provision of water to households in the Free State Province
… probability of water supply disruptions in the Free State Province. It also used a survey questionnaire to assess the perceptions of senior municipality officials involved in the water division with regards to the causes of frequent water disruptions. The study found out that poor maintenance, …
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The Impact of Ex British Soldiers on The Irish Volunteers And Free State Army 1913-1924
… to negotiate. This is also true for the Free State Army and its defeat of the IRA during the Civil War. The Irish Volunteers and IRA was a guerrilla force combating a conventional army in many cases by using British military skills learned from ex-British soldiers. The Free State Army …
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Effects of HIV exposure on child growth in the Free State & Western Cape Provinces, South Africa
… in children less than two years of age in the Free State (FS) and Western Cape (WC) Provinces, South Africa.
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Environmental change and soil organic carbon storage in a dust emission hotspot, Free State, South Africa
… on the dustiest parts of South Africa in the Free State Moreover, the study wished to establish land management strategies suitable for enhancing the storage of soil organic carbon and associated ecosystem services. To investigate how the shift in land cover or land use affects the occurrence …
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Suicide prevention among learners in the Northern Free State schools : the views of the youth at risk
… as perceived by youth at schools in the Northern Free State. This was an explorative qualitative research which employed to data collection strategies: draw and write technique and structured interviews. A literature conducted revealed key aspects: that suicide can be prevented especially if …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… which asserts that it protects only the states' right to maintain a National Guard force. Both positions cater to contemporary political agendas, display excessive presentism, lack lucid historical analysis, and ignore federalism and its bearing on the Second Amendment's original meaning. …
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A comparative geological study of some major kimberlite pipes in the Northern Cape and Orange Free State
In the first part of this thesis the petrological status of 'kimberlite' is defined and mineralogical and textural classifications which allow systematic documentation and collation of these complex rocks are evaluated. Quantitative mineralogical classification based on the modal abundances of the …
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Barriers to MSMEs growth and performance in the Free State Province: a focus on DFI funded enterprises
… the performance of MSMEs funded by the Free State provincial DFI. This dissertation collected primary data through structured questionnaire from 50 MSME owners to analyse the effect of financial literacy, digital literacy, human capital, post-funding support and MSMEs financial …
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