Author:Powell, Christopher BeresfordDate:2012The success of the Standard Model of particle physics in describing a large variety of experimental results has been supported by the prediction and subsequent discovery of the charm, bottom, and top quarks, and the Z, W±, and Higgs bosons. ...Read more
Author:Nattrass, Nicoli; Conradie, BeatriceDate:2013This paper discusses the historical roots of, and scientific evidence for, rival 'jackal narratives' about the problems posed by black-backed jackals (canis mesomelas) for sheep farmers in the Karoo, South Africa. The jackal recolonized farms ...Read morecbnd
Author:Platts, AdrianDate:2012This thesis searches for that which is sacred to Jacques Derrida and ultimately concludes that if anything is sacred to him it is the other. This concern for the sacred is an attempt to ascertain Derrida’s relevance and value for religious ...Read more
Author:Lamb, GuyDate:2017Social and territorial boundaries have been fundamental to the approaches and practices of policing bodies in South Africa for centuries, from the mounted colonial paramilitary forces of the 1800s to the 21st century professional police. ...Read more
Author:Syndercombe, Elizabeth JDate:2003This research determines that the Green Building Tool (GBTool) may be sufficiently flexible to be implemented in Japan. Even so, the locally developed system has been adopted as the preferred building environmental assessment method for Japan. ...Read more
Author:Zimmer, NiklasDate:2012South African jazz photography, both as a particular instance of visual history and as a local site for an international photographic genre is largely under-researched. In consequence, its iconic trajectory, with its interconnected sets of ...Read more
Author:Lilley, AndrewDate:2006The study embraces a need to document the jazz piano style through analytical representation of key players in the jazz tradition. While there are several educational books outlining method, there is little material discussing jazz style in ...Read more
Author:Schwellnus, Martin; Derman, EltonDate:2010The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be held in South Africa in June/July 2010. This is the largest international sports event ever to be held in this country. At this time 32 international football teams, with their management and supporters, will ...Read more
Author:Blyth, Sarah-LouiseDate:2004This thesis presents first results on jet reconstruction in simulated Pb+Pb collisions using the ALICE detectors and a UAl-based cone jet finding algorithm which has been modified and optimised to reconstruct high-PT jets on an event-by-event ...Read more
Author:Kriel, ElliDate:2017Set in a small minority community in South Africa, the Orthodox Jewish com-munity in Johannesburg, this study explores why a person would actively and volun-tarily seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. ...Read more
Author:Katz, Myer EllisDate:1973Essentially, this history recounts the endeavours of a comparatively small Jewish Community, distant from the main centres of culture and population, in its search for assurance of continuity expressed in terms of an educational response to ...Read more
Author:Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, JairoDate:28 May 2015Analysts of the South African labour market have predominantly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more di fficult to explore labour demand from the firm side, as a result of limited data from relatively small ...Read more
Author:Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, JairoDate:28 May 2015Analysts of the South African labour market have mainly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more difficult to explore the labour demand of firms, as a result of limited data availability. We use the Quarterly ...Read more
Author:Nattrass, N; Seekings, JDate:2014From its establishment in 2002, the National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry (NBC) was used by the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) and mostly Cape Town-based employers to raise wages in ...Read more
Author:Nattrass, Nicoli; Seekings, JeremyDate:2013For ten years, the National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry (NBC) has been used by the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu) and by largely Cape Town-based employers to impose higher labour costs ...Read morecbnd