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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"rationalisation"”.
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Demobilisation, reintegration, rationalisation and peacebuilding in South Africa
Bibliography: p. 173-189.
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La rationalisation dans l'industrie belge de l'Entre-deux-guerres
… des pays voisins, a été étudié sous le nom de rationalisation, ou en a-t-elle été empêchée par la prépondérance en son sein d'activités anciennes, nées de la Révolution industrielle? Pour répondre à cette question, ce livre fait le choix de donner un très large aperçu de mesures d'organisation, …
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Rationalisation of design cost estimation in the construction industry
… work is described, namely that the potential for rationalisation of design cost estimation is severely limited in design organisations because current design management practice has restricted the availability of relevant historic data. However the success of the data collection and cost modelling …
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Constitutional rationalisation of legislation dealing with traditional justice system
My thesis addresses the question of whether an imposed traditional justice system operating through traditional courts is still relevant in South Africa. I interrogate whether traditional courts are necessary in a constitutional democracy outside of the existing western type courts system. The …
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Rationalisation of antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infection in primary health care.
The main objective of this research was to investigate patient and prescriber factors that contribute to consulting and prescribing behaviour in the area of suspected upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). Stage 1 Qualitative interviews identified patient and prescriber factors that are …
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Rationalisation of Namibia's civil service: An impact analysis of public policies, 1993 to 2003
… review of the implementation of the Namibian rationalisation policies during the period 1993 - 2004. The main objective of this study was to analyse the rationalisation policies and to assess the extent to which they had an impact on the structure, shape, (and to a lesser degree) the …
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Teacher responses to rationalisation in the Western Cape Education Department : implications for administration planning and policy
… education system, interestingly, the term rationalisation is absent from the international literature. The high level of impact that the economics of education has in the provision of education presupposes that, in the "Global Village", world trends and access to international financial …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: the Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story
… 'solutions' and green economic growth rationalisation. If energy transitions are not engaged with critically, ongoing injustice and extractive relationships are likely to be perpetuated. The aim of this thesis is to show that alternative renewable energy transitions as responses to …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: The Tsitsikamma Community Renewable Wind Farm Story
… 'solutions' and green economic growth rationalisation. If energy transitions are not engaged with critically, ongoing injustice and extractive relationships are likely to be perpetuated. The aim of this thesis is to show that alternative renewable energy transitions as responses to …
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Risk and Rationalisation in Paradise : Cognisant Exposure to Sexually Transmitted Infections amongst Heterosexual Male Sex Tourists to Thailand.
Each year large numbers of Western men travel to Thailand in order to engage in paid-for sex with female sex workers, a practice referred to as 'sex tourism'. While many male sex tourists use condoms during these sexual encounters, there is also evidence that some do not, potentially exposing …
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School leadership: an examination of the role of the Irish primary school principal in a period of change and rationalisation
This thesis is set against a backdrop of major rationalisation in primary education in the Republic of Ireland which has heralded unprecedented change in the working lives of primary school principals.Anecdotal evidence suggests that the role of the primary principal, framed as it currently is in a …
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Sentencing reforms in a postcolonial society: a call for the rationalisation of sentencing discretion in Nigeria, drawing on South Africa and England
This thesis investigates measures to ensure that sentencers introduce proportionality to sentencing and refrain from imposing penalties that infringe constitutional rights. The investigation involves two stages of analysis. First, the thesis examines the socio-historical context in which the …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… theorists to enable resistance to the further rationalisation and disenchantment of the world. This research, first, addresses Weber's analysis and critique of the rationalisation process, focusing in particular on his account both of the rise of instrumental rationalism in the West and of the …
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A post-structural analysis of perceptions and experiences of continuity and change within the UK automotive supplier base
… automotive supply chain, and the means for its rationalisation proposed by the major car manufacturers and their partner-suppliers. Post-structuralist approaches are introduced as part of an attempt to establish and appropriate research methodology that can explore and deconstruct the discourses …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… by these processes has been exacerbated by the rationalisation of the local fisheries - there are fewer jobs in the formal industry and small-scale fishing rights have become circumscribed. In the neighbourhood of Laingville, historically-contingent racial categories have become reinvigorated in …
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A Materials Handling Project: To Minimise the Cost and Complexity of the Handling Systems at the Cable Products Division of Standard Telephones and Networks, Newport
This project arose due to the need for rationalisation and a medium to long term strategy for materials handling at Standard Telephones and Cables, (S.T.C.) Cable Products Division, Newport. The project was initiated through a teaching company programme set up by The Polytechnic of Wales and S.T.C. …
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The applicability of activity-based costing to Employment and Training Corporation's training schemes
… continuously faced with instances which require rationalisation of funds being allocated to their agencies and departments. Within these situations, various public institutions introduced Activity-Based Costing to be able to cost their services and as a support tool for their decisions. This …
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Strategies for the regional planning of the minerals industry in Southern Africa : the case of the SADCC
… for regional agricultural sector, the regional rationalisation of the iron, steel and ferro-alloys sector to provide the basic inputs for an indigenous capital goods sector; the retention of further value-added in the region through cross-border mineral beneficiation and mineral transformation …
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