UWC Electronic Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Understanding organisational culture: validating an organisational culture assessment tool
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)For decades, social science scholars have sought one, all-encompassing framework with which to describe and measure organisational culture. Recently, this search led one particular government institution to create its own ... -
Service quality in leisure program delivery : a case of the Salomon Puffer endurance trail run
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)In a demanding and diverse corporate market any organization wanting to make a profit should adhere to certain business principles in order to stay economically competitive. The product of the leisure service organization ... -
Cooperative learning for Interracial Interaction: An action research study
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)South Africans are challenged daily by the legacy of apartheid. The racial divisions of the past continue to haunt South Africans, nine years into its democracy. This mini-thesis reports on an action research project that ... -
Popular history in South Africa in the 198Os: the politics of production
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)Popular history, like indeed other histories, is informed by different ideas about the relationship between the past, the present and the political uses of history. However, a major problem in trying to explore these ideas ... -
Computing Mislin genera of certain groups with non-abelian torsion radicals
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)In this mini-thesis we present some generalities of non-cancellation and localization and we compute non-cancellation groups. We consider groups belonging to the class X0 of all finitely generated groups that have finite ... -
Left versus right canonical wiener-hopf factorization for rational matrix functions: an alternative version
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)It is an established fact that both canonical and non-canonical Wiener-hopf factorizations of matrix functions play an important role in various aspects of mathematical analysis and its applications. Indeed, for instance, ... -
A critical analysis of aspects pertaining to the teaching of the ecology section of the standard eight biology syllabus.
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)In this study an attempt has been made to investigate how the Ecology section (suitable for fostering awareness and concern for the environment) of the standard eight Biology syllabus is taught. Since fieldwork and ... -
Hydro geochemical characteristics of the basement aquifers in namaqualand
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)At the onset of this research programme it became apparent that there is a dearth of research studies focusing on the groundwater resources of the region. As a result, a conceptual representation of the hydrogeological ... -
The synthesis of methoxy-2-hydroxy-1,4- naphthoquinones and their reaction with aliphatic aldehydes under basic conditions.
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)Although literature reports on the synthesis of variously substituted 2-hydroxy-1 ,4- naphthoquinones appeared to be reasonable; in our hands difficulty was experienced in duplicating much of the work. In order to address ... -
Thiolato schiff base complexes of nickel and palladium as mesogens and molecular wires
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)Thermal analysis data of compounds A, C, F and I established that they were nonmesogenic while E and G were found to be mesogenic. The lack of mesogenic behaviour of A could be attributed to hydrogen bonding. The ... -
An investigation of the plants used medicinally In self-care in the Bredasdorp / Elim region
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Much of the traditional medicinal plant knowledge is to a large extent known by the older generations. This knowledge is at risk of disappearing due to not being passed down to younger members of the respective families ... -
Inclusion by exclusion? an assessment on justiciability of socio-economic rights under the 2005 interim national constitution of the sudan
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This research is an attempt to ascertain whether or not socio-economic rights provided for in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(CESCR), ( and by implication all other international human ... -
The african commission on human and peoples' rights and the promotion and protection of prisoners, rights an analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)There is an estimated one million prisoners in Africa and most of them are detained in overcrowded prisons and conditions that well below internationally accepted standards.'These prisons hold both sentenced prisoners ... -
An assessment of the virulence of listeria spp. isolated from raw milk and raw chicken
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)Listeria a f~rn__e pathogen is the etiological agent of the deadly disease listeriosis. Although, the virulence traits of international isolates of Listeria are well studied, nothing is known about the virulence traits ... -
Generalization of a theorem of fitting on the product of two normal nilpotent subgroups of a group
(University of the Western Cape, 1977)Fitting proved that if H and K are normal nilpotent subgroups of G, then so is HK (t1 l'Hilfssatz 10, p. 100). The question arises if this result could be generalized to other group theoretical properties -
Triterpene glycosides chemically defend the south african kelp bed sea cucumber, Pseudocnella insolens (echinodermata : holothu roidea), against predation.
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)The small, subtidal sea cucumber, Pseudocnella insolens appears to have no obvious protection from predation, yet it occurs in dense colonies covering rocky areas and appears to have few predators. Laboratory-based feeding ... -
Palladium surface-modified rare earth metal-based ab5 type hydride-forming materials
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)Driven by mounting standards of living and a growing population, South African energy consumption is expected to increase dramatically within the next decade. The increased demand for more energy will require enormous ... -
lnterrogating the competence of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights to review the African Union Assembly's decisions for compliance with human rights
(University of Western Cape, 2010)Globalisation and the transfer of powers from state constitutional systems to international organisations (lOs) have led to several deficiencies, especially with regard to checks and balances in global governance.l The ... -
Genetic variation among verticillium dahliae isolates using pathogenicity and aflp analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)Soilborne plant pathogenic fungi have had an important economic and social impact on humans since the evolution of agricultural societies (Stakman, 1959). In South Africa, the soilborne pathogen Verticillium dahliae Kleb, ...