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Energy utilization in the domestic sectors.
In South Africa the domestic sector is an important energy user. Information is available on how much energy is supplied to this sector but little is known about how this energy is utilized. The purpose of this thesis is to try and gather information on this area of domestic energy utilization. As …
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Probing hidden sectors with early universe cosmology
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Signals from portals to non-minimal hidden sectors
Hidden Sectors (HS) that exclusively contain particles that are neutral under the Standard Model (SM) gauge groups can address some of the problems of the SM, such as the origin of neutrino masses, the little hierarchy problem, and the nature of dark matter. In these scenarios, interactions of the …
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Social Networks, Sectors and Occupational Attainment in Urban China
… the private sector, two parallel while competing sectors, the state sector and the private sector have coexisted since then. China has been a “relationship based” society since ancient times, social networks as an efficient channel have been frequently used during job searching process. Do social …
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Energy utilisation in selected industrial sectors in South Africa
… in South Africa. Energy use in all economic sectors, from 1964 to 1974, was surveyed in the report "Energy Utilisation in South Africa", published by the Department of Planning and the Environment in 1978. As this report showed the major primary industries to be the largest single users of …
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PAID AND UNPAID LABOR ACROSS SECTORS, A THREE PAPER DISSERTATION
… research on how people engage with different sectors of the economy and the resulting implications this holds for society. To ground this case, the first article systematically analyzes extant literature that asks whether similar workers performing similar tasks receive varied pay between …
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Identifying Most Significant Geothermal Related Policies in Different U.S. Sectors
… not all policies have the same impact on all sectors in which the geothermal energy is applied; in other words, the utilization of geothermal energy in the different sectors is promoted by different policies in distinguished ways. Moreover, the discussion in this thesis highlights the …
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Harmonization of SACU trade policies in the tourism & hospitality service sectors
… of GATS Commitments, especially in the service sectors being investigated, by improving market access, and to recommend minimal infrastructural development levels to be attained for such sectors' support. To make recommendations to harness the challenges faced by the said industries into a …
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Epilepsy: an exploratory study of the business sectors perceptions of employability
The research aimed to explore the perceptions of employers in employing people with epilepsy. The context of the topic of enquiry was that people with epilepsy often experienced difficulties in finding and maintaining regular employment and this had been recognised as an area with significant …
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Exploring skills development within the interface of public and private sectors
Designed to be in line with the then government's apartheid policy, the manpower training system created a highly polarised national skills development system characterised by huge socio-economic inequalities, and an unemployment and poverty problem that was defined along racial lines (McGrath, …
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Trade liberalisation and market discipline : evidence from South African manufacturing sectors
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68).
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Cross-sector policy research: insights from the UK energy and transport sectors
… to the study of the UK energy and transport sectors. A range of geneIic policy developments in the energy sector are identified including: the development of efficiency indicators, scenario analysis, and the establishment of energy efficiency programmes. Such developments have not, as yet, …
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Federal Government Recruiting: a Comparative Study of the Public and Private Sectors
Federal government agencies are currently experiencing recruiting difficulties and the future may be even more problematic. Because human resource recruiting is vital to organizations, this thesis examines federal government agencies, under the direction of the Office of Personnel Management, as …
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Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
… participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. The metatheoretical part draws the conclusion that the ontology of critical realism, combined with a problem-subjectivist tenet, is a particularly fruitful basis for the social …
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Corporate social responsibility in all sectors of the economy: towards responsible macrobehaviour
‘Corporate Social Responsibility in all Sectors of the Economy’ wants to show that CSR should be practiced in all the sectors of the economy and not only in large corporations. The ‘all’ in the title is intended to say that CSR should be extended to public administration whose social responsibility …
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An Investigation Into the Factors Determining Digital Transformation’s Success in Government Sectors
… transformation (DT) success in government sectors, emphasizing the strategic alignment between IT and business strategies. This focus is driven by the high failure rate of DT initiatives, often resulting from misalignment and the delayed recognition of IT's strategic importance by non-IT …
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Cross-sector policy research: insights from the UK energy and transport sectors
… to the study of the UK energy and transport sectors. A range of generic policy developments in the energy sector are identified including: the development of efficiency indicators, scenario analysis, and the establishment of energy efficiency programmes. Such developments have not, as yet, …
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Mapping sectors for high employment and low carbon growth in South Africa
… in South Africa and elsewhere. Previously, sectors have been characterised according to either their employment or carbon intensity, but have not been mapped based on both measures. This dissertation fills this gap by mapping sectors for a prospective high employment and low carbon growth …
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