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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"restitution"”.
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Restorative Justice, Apology, Restitution, and Forgiveness
Operating from a retributive approach, the current criminal justice system (CJS) often does not appear to value the well-being of victims. As an alternative approach, restorative justice values the well-being of victims and provides opportunities that can foster forgiveness compared to a …
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Hitler’s musical 'Tabula Rasa' - Restitution - Restoration
… All three sections address the means by which restitution of the musical legacy lost after 1933 may be conceived, mapped out and implemented by musicians and scholars; they may hopefully provide a reference for the restitution of interrupted and truncated cultural narratives in the future.
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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
… and fix the terms of the statutory land restitution process in District Six, Cape Town, during the period from 1996 to 2012. Utilizing French philosopher Michel Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative concepts …
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Perspectives on Urban Land Restitution: what constitutes good enough?
The amendment of the Restitution of Land Rights Act (no. 2 of 1996) has reopened the period for lodging a land claim in South Africa until 2019. The previous period for lodging a claim closed in 1998 but claims lodged over 20 years have still not been attended to. There exists a concern that with …
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Investigating the coefficient of restitution of major league baseballs
… In this thesis, large scale coefficient of restitution (COR) testing is performed on baseballs from before (2014) and after (2016) the alleged change. No evidence is found to suggest that the baseball was altered between 2014 and 2016. The investigation nevertheless revealed telling …
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Spatial Variation of Cardiac Restitution and the Onset of Alternans
… and that the spatial variation in some cardiac restitution properties is correlated statistically with the onset of alternans, a possible precursor to fibrillation in the human heart.</p><p>An optical imaging system using novel illumination based on LEDs is used to determine the spatial …
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Post-settlement challenges on land restitution beneficiaries in the Vhembe District
… of post-settlement challenges faced by land restitution beneficiaries in the Vhembe District in the Limpopo Province. Whilst it can be assumed that the government is attempting to address the challenges regarding the management of land reform processes in South Africa, with the aim of …
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The Neural Correlates of Guilt and Restitution During a Social Decision Making Task
… individual to take reparative actions, known as restitution. The neural regions that are involved in guilt and restitution, however, are not currently known. To identify these regions, we employed a novel social decision-making fMRI paradigm involving donations to charities. There was a …
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An Approach to Concept Development for Compliant Mechanisms Possessing High Coefficients of Restitution
… impacting object to maximize the coefficient of restitution (COR), resulting in large rebound velocities. The use of traditional rigid-body mechanisms to achieve high-COR mechanisms is limited by issues of friction, durability, poor strain-energy distribution and others. Compliant mechanisms do …
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Repair and restitution in the gastrointestinal tract after exposure to a cancer chemotherapy drug.
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy target neoplastic cells. However, they also adversely affect progenitor cells throughout the healthy alimentary tract, resulting in severe ulceration and pain. This affects around 500,000 patients annually. The aims of the present research were to identify the main …
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Impotence and omnipotence : problematising the articulation of anthropological perspectives within the land restitution process
… internship which I served at the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (Western and Northern Cape), working on the Ndabeni Land Restitution Claim. Through reflecting upon my own inability to appropriately incorporate anthropological perspectives within the Ndabeni Land Restitution process, I …
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Examination of socio-economic benefits of land restitution in the Makuleke community of Limpopo Province
Institute for Rural Development
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Corporate social investment and the state of environmental restitution in the Western Cape, South Africa
This dissertation seeks to investigate why finns in the Western Cape province of South Africa do not pay sufficient attention to environmental concerns, when conducting corporate social investment (CSI) programmes. As a result of thins investigation, the research will also give attention to the …
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Restitution as justice : historical redress and distributive justice in New Zealand and other settler economies
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Relevant, important and credible: reflections on applying anthropology in the South African land restitution process
… the country's land reform is the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, through which people may seek restitution for land rights lost under racially discriminatory legislation and practices of the past eight decades. The dissertation explores the contribution which applied anthropology can …
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Stories of war and restitution Curating the narratives of the !xun storyteller Kapilolo Mahongo (1952 – 2018)
Southern Africa's San people have embodied the sub-human other in colonial and Apartheid historiography and has lived fractured, often traumatised lives as a result. The aftermath of dispossession, genocide and war has echoed down the generations and still manifests itself in visible and intangible …
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The impact of monetary compensation as a land restitution redress mechanism in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… compensation, within household claimants of two restitution communities in Vhembe District, South Africa. It involved a simple random sampling of 183 claimants from Phaphazela and Ribungwani communities. Collected data were captured into Excel spread sheets and the SPSS version 21 IBM programmes …
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Technique for Measuring the Coefficient of Restitution for Microparticle Sand Impacts at High Temperature for Turbomachinery Applications
… interactions and the Coefficient of Restitution (COR) is a fundamental property of these interactions. COR depends on impact velocity, angle of impact, temperature, particle composition, and wall material. In the first study, a novel Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) / Computational …
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