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Throughout history, many diseases have carried considerable stigma, including leprosy tuberculosis, cancer, mental illness and many STDs. Now HIV/AIDS is the topmost in the list of diseases that leads to devastating ...
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The largest part of this thesis is a novel called Still Life, which explores the
mourning process of a mother who loses her baby, and the effect it has on her life
and her marriage. The novel alternates between ...
Chronic pain may be defined as pain which persists in a patient for a prolonged period of time.
Although this period of time may range from 3-12 months, it is most commonly described as pain
which extends beyond the time ...
Popular fiction columns have been among the most resilient and versatile of the newspaper sub-genres in Kenya. Since the 1970s, these columns have remained a permanent feature in the Kenyan newspapers. Among the most popular ...
The South African prison system has, throughout its history, been notoriously exploited as a means for suppressing political
resistance and warehousing criminals as labour commodities. The prison represented a microcosm ...
This thesis follows a direction of research that deals with the theoretical foundations
of stochastic differential equations on manifolds and a geometric analysis of the
fundamental equations in nonlinear filtering theory. ...
Research in the area of stochastic models for actuarial use in South Africa is limited to
relatively few publications. Until recently, there has been little focus on actuarial
stochastic models that describe the empirical ...
Stochastic volatility models have long provided a popular alternative to the Black-
Scholes-Merton framework. They provide, in a self-consistent way, an explanation
for the presence of implied volatility smiles/skews ...
This paper explores the relationship between stock market development and economic growth in
Africa. It provides a theoretical basis for establishing the channel through which stock market
affect economic growth and this ...
The main objective of the study has been to provide new insights into ongoing recent studies
examining the impact of stock market liberalization at both macro and micro (firm) levels. The
study focused on a single country, ...
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the stock price behaviour of firms
listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) around corporate events
relating to final cash dividend change announcements over the ...
Most asset pricing theories suggest that asset prices are forward looking and reflect market expectations of future earnings. By aggregating across companies, aggregate market prices may then be used as leading indicators ...
Stock theft is one of the major crimes affecting Lesotho. The Lesotho
Mounted Police Service has adopted community policing as a crime
prevention strategy in order to combat stock theft through the
establishment of crime ...
The art of storytelling is an age-old phenomenon used in many situations and settings to convey allegoric and metaphoric messages to a myriad of audiences in various forms and genres (Parkinson, 2001). Understanding the ...
This research examines the part that storytelling plays within a leadership role,
with the aim of understanding whether storytelling contributes to a leader’s
efficacy, and should thus be considered a key leadership ...
Until perhaps as recently as a year ago, it would have
been tempting to construct a 'radical' critique of the
Urban Foundation (UF) around the apparent compatibility of
the organization's programme with the objectives ...
If the process in metals results simply in the interchange of pairs of atoms large strains must be set up when a new phase prcipitates in an alloy. The strain energy involved is calculated for particles of precipitate of ...