Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Title

The O.F.S. goldfields : planning for an emerging metropolis

Page, Daniel (1969)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to find a planning rationale for the Goldfields Metropolis it has proved necessary to study the emerging metropolitan forms in the older Western countries in conjunction with the contemporary ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania : a phenomenological comparison

Lochner, Christine; Seedat, Soraya; Du Toit, Pieter L.; Nel, Daniel G.; Niehaus, Dana J. H.; Sandler, Robin; Stein, Dan J. (BioMed Central, 2005-01)

Background: Similarities between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and trichotillomania (TTM) have been widely recognized. Nevertheless, there is evidence of important differences between these two disorders. Some authors ...

Obstacles school-going female adolescents in Gweru face in translating HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes into HIV preventive sexual behaviours

Mugari, Sipikelelo (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The vulnerability of female adolescents to HIV/AIDS has been widely documented with little effort being made to investigate the obstacles that these female adolescents actually face in translating HIV ...

OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA, 1880–2000

MARKS, DAAN; BIERMAN, WINNY; LUITEN VAN ZANDEN, JAN (2020-02)

Osamu Saito’s pioneering research into the long-term changes in occupational structure of Japan has inspired scholars to take a fresh look at structural change in other countries. This article offers a case study of ...

Of angels and devils : an interview with Merrick Hoben

Botha, Linda; Lumerman, Pablo; Hoben, Merrick (2015)

Merrick Hoben is the Director of the Consensus Building Institute’s Washington, D.C., Regional Office, a Practitioner Associate at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute ...

Offshore investments from a South African resident's perspective

Grant, David Ronald (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The offshore investment industry has shown tremendous growth (R92,7 billion invested in offshore unit trusts and mutual funds) since the Minister of Finance took the bold step (1 July 1997) availing ...

Omgewingsregeerkunde, die menslike persoon en die sosiale orde : 'n hervertolking

De Wit, Martin (LitNet, 2019)

Die teorie van omgewingsregeerkunde berus op kernaannames oor wat orde beteken en hoe mense besluite neem. Die dissipline van omgewingsregeerkunde maak egter toenemend van die moderne ekonomiese benadering van aansporings ...

Omgewingsvolhoubaarheid met ontwikkeling

Bosch, Johannes Hermanus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The interaction between people and their natural environment, as well as the manner in which it occurs, is of a complex nature. The sustainable use of natural resources should be strived for and our ...

On my watch : a review of the environmental education literature with particular reference to South Africa, and South African teenagers

Murray, Robin Anne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: About half a million students matriculate from South African high schools each year, with limited environmental education and an underdeveloped capacity to live sustainable lives. This does not seem to ...

On the (r,s)-domination number of a graph

Roux, Adriana (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The (classical) domination number of a graph is the cardinality of a smallest subset of its vertex set with the property that each vertex of the graph is in the subset or adjacent to a vertex in the subset. ...

On the convergence of gaussian belief propagation with nodes of arbitrary size

Kamper, Francois; Steel, Sarel J.; Du Preez, Johan A. (Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2019)

This paper is concerned with a multivariate extension of Gaussian message passing applied to pairwise Markov graphs (MGs). Gaussian message passing applied to pairwise MGs is often labeled Gaussian belief propagation (GaBP) ...

On the efficient solvability of a simple class of nonlinear knapsack problems

Visagie, Stephan E. (Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2008)

ENGLISH SUMMARY : In this paper the e cient solvability of a class of nonlinear knapsack problems are investigated by means of the problem's necessary and su cient conditions. It is shown that, from the general theory, it ...

On the existence and enumeration of sets of two or three mutually orthogonal Latin squares with application to sports tournament scheduling

Kidd, Martin Philip (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A Latin square of order n is an n×n array containing an arrangement of n distinct symbols with the property that every row and every column of the array contains each symbol exactly once. It is well ...