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Rine, Dana. "Small Flowerings of Unhu: the Survival of Community in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Novels." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3312.
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This thesis examines the presence of unhu, a process of becoming and remaining human through community ties, in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Dangarembga interrogates corrupt versions of community by creating positive examples of unhu that alternatively foster community building. Utilizing ecocritical, utopian, and postcolonial methodologies, this thesis postulates that these novels stress the importance of retaining a traditional concept like unhu while also acknowledging the need to adjust it over time to ensure its vitality. Both novels depict the creativity and resilience of unhu amid toxic surroundings.
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Mphiko, Benjamin Lesibana. "The oppression of women in the novels of Sembene Ousmane and Tsitsi Dangarembga." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2354.
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Thesis (M. A.(English Studies)) --University of Limpopo, 2016The primary aim of this study is to examine the oppression and repression of African women through the collusion of indigenous African patriarchy and colonial, imperialist values. The selected novels are Nervous Conditions (1988) and God’s Bits of Wood (1960) by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Sembene Ousmane, respectively. The study focuses on the roles played by both African and European values in the class, gender and racial oppression of African women. Using the theoretical frameworks of Marxism and Feminism, the study evaluates issues of women’s oppression, repression and marginalisation. The selected literary texts are closely analysed with a view to exploring and establishing the nature and form of African women’s multiple oppressions through the connivance between African patriarchy and European colonial hegemonic norms. Lastly, the study aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on the topical issue of African women’s oppression. Keywords: Colonial values; African patriarchy; Hegemonic norms; Oppression; Oppression; Marginalisation; Collaboration; Women and the girl child
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Rodgers, Randi Jean. "Representations of women, identity and education in the novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85705.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the representation of women, identity and education in the works of Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1989) and The Book of Not (2006), and Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007) and Spilt Milk (2010), through the lens of postcolonial studies. The arguments presented deal with the complicated factors associated with the formation of new identities in independent Zimbabwe and post-apartheid South Africa. I focus on how African women are represented in the texts taking place at particular socio-historical moments, including implications and interpretations of the literal and cultural shift from the indigenous, rural or segregated environments to Western, urban and racially mixed ones. My argument outlines the ways in which the stories are allegorically the stories of the fledgling democracies from which they emerge. I explore the texts in terms of symbolics of food, language, accents, family, academic settings, and the liberating and limiting elements associated with each. The authors present a complicated reality for the women of the novels, one where education is prioritized although somewhat to the detriment of traditional values and norms. The representation of women in the novels varies, leaving few successful role models for navigating workable identities for the characters as mothers, wives, and autonomous individuals. The novels offer interesting imaginaries for the future of their respective countries. The texts promote education tempered with a respect for home cultures and racial reconciliation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die uitbeelding van vroue, identiteit en opvoeding in die werke van Tsitsi Dangarembga en Kopano Matlwa vanuit die oogpunt van postkoloniale studies. Die voorgestelde argument hou verband met die ingewikkelde faktore van identiteit-vorming in 'n onhafhanklike Zimbabwe en 'n post-Apartheid Suid-Afrika. Ek fokus op die uitbeelding van swart vroue in hierdie tekste wat gedurende spesifiek sosio-historiese oomblikke plaas vind. Dit sluit in die gevolge en interpretasies van letterlike en kulterele verskuiwings vanaf inheemse, landelike en gesegregeerde omgewings tot Westerse, stedelike en veelrassige omgewings. My argument sit uit een hoe hierdie vroue se stories as allegorieë vir die jong demokratiese lande waaruit hul na vore kom, beskou kan word. Ek verken die tekste ook in terme van die simboliek van voedsel, taal, aksent, familie en opvoeding, en fokus verder op die bevrydende en beperkende elemente van elk. Die skrywers bied 'n ingewikkelde werkliheid vir vrouens in die romans aan, een waar opvoeding 'n prioriteit is, maar ietwat tot die nadeel van tradisionele waardes en norme. Die uitbeelding van vrouens in die romans wissel en bied min suksesvolle rolmodelle aan waarvolgens die karakters identiteite soos moeder, vrou en selfstandige individue kan vorm. Die tekste bevorder wel die verkryging van 'n volledige opvoeding, maar nie tot nadeel van tradisionele kulture, of die moontlikheid van rasseversoening nie. Beide die romans bied 'n interessante blik op die toekomste vir die onderskeie lande dur hierdie uibeelding van die vroulike karakters.
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Nyoni, Triyono Johan. ""It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95354.
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Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the embedded criticism of colonialism in the text. The psychological conditions implied by the title play a central role: the essay shows how these conditions relate to the colonial situation and how refusing to consent to subjugation can be understood as radical criticism of colonial, Christian, as well as patriarchal superstructures as well as forming clear opposition to the colonial institution. The analysis is primarily based on Fanon and his comprehension of other theorists. It also draws on the ideas of Homi K. Bhabha, which will provide an additional level of understanding regarding questions about colonial identities in general, and Dangarembga’s characters Tambu, Nyasha, and Babamukuru in particular.
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Bryant, Regina L. "Speaking the invisible : Africana women, black identity, and alienation in the works of Nella Larsen and Tsitsi Dangarembga." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2003. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1.
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This study examines black identity and alienation Nella Larsen's and Tsitsi Dangarembgal’s Passing and Nervous Conditions. The novels demonstrate the authors' interpretation of the conditions within their respective societies of the impact of slavery and colonization on Africana women. As a springboard in the development of these issues, Frantz Fanon's seminal works Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth and the DuBoisian notion of double consciousness were used in analyzing the attitudes and behaviors of the oppressed and oppressor of Africana women. This study was based on the premise that wherever black people are located, the issues of black identity and alienation surface in Africana women's literature. The literary ethnographic method posited by Frederique Van De Poel-Knottnerus and J. David Knottnerus, "Social Life Through Ethnography," was used in the analysis of the selected texts. The results of the research illustrate that the assimilation process causes the Africana women protagonists to be alienated within the general society as well as their own families and culture. The dissertation demonstrates that assimilating within societies brings forth a sense of alienation that results in a black identity crisis for the characters.
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Marima, Tendai. "Suns of the Mbira : a critical exploration of the multiple figurations of femininity in selected fiction by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6530/.
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My thesis is that multiple figurations of femininity challenging traditional Zimbabwean values are articulated in the representations of womanhood, motherhood and sexuality in the writing of Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959-) and Yvonne Vera (1964-2005). Critically, I draw centrally upon Rosi Braidotti (1994) and Donna Haraway’s (1992; 2004) work on figurations as feminist metaphors theorizing how women challenge and transform socially constructed roles that confine females to subservient social positions. In addition, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s (1987) theorization of multiplicity is deployed as a useful conceptualization of the erasure of the binary separating the collective and individual, asserting instead, that subjectivities are pluralistic, connected identities in constant creation. Applying the critics’ ideas with due caution to the African context, through a method of ‘carnivalizing,’ mixing and negotiating theory, my thesis also makes use of selected forms of African feminist theory, to give the necessary cultural context to Zimbabwean femininity. I critically engage with scholarly work that theorizes African women’s historiography and negotiations of power and knowledge. Combining these diverse feminist and post-structuralist voices together with views expressed in the writing, I aim to produce a nuanced reading of the plurality of femininity so that a pattern of simultaneously complimentary and contradictory relations with feminist paradigms of African womanhood begins to emerge as key to interpreting the selected fiction. My thesis develops in three chapters, beginning with an examination of how rebellious women negotiate the domestic, private world culturally assigned to females. I explore how Vera’s unconventional figurations of motherhood undo the cultural and political mores placed on women by essentialist patriarchal and racial ideologies. Further analyzing dissenting femininities, I investigate subversive textual constructions of same-sex relationships in Vera and Dangarembga’s fiction. My readings suggest that some of the ideological contradictions between theory and text provide fertile conditions in which to rethink radical femininities as figurations within African feminism. I propose new, progressive strategies for reading womanhood, and exploring the polyphonic and complex nature of colonial and post-independence Zimbabwean femininity, as expressed in the novels.
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Osmani, Donjeta. "I'm Not One of Them but I'm Not One of You : An Analysis of The Effects of Patriarchy and Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45214.
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This essay examines how the factors that inspire Tambudzai and Nyasha to counter the patriarchy are portrayed and how these factors contribute to the formation of hybrid identities among the younger generation of women in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Both characters are faced with different predicaments which makes it necessary to divide the factors in regard to each character. The factors that are connected to Tambudzai are the following: the death of Nhamo, the patriarchal male figures, and the will to obtain an education. Meanwhile, the factors that are connected to Nyasha are the relationship with her patriarchal father, the desire for liberation and gender equality. Postcolonial and feminist criticism are applied. The main focus of the essay is hybridity, or double identity, where the specific term cultural hybridity is used in order to analyze the effect that the struggle against the patriarchy has had on Tambudzai's and Nyasha's emerging hybrid identities. The feminist-psychoanalytic approach is used to analyze the factors that inspire Tambudzai and Nyasha to counter the patriarchy. The results show that the factors that inspire Tambudzai and Nyasha to counter the patriarchy have been visible and crucial to the formation of their hybrid identities. The struggle that Tambudzai and Nyasha have to face when going against the patriarchal system brings certain predicaments in their lives that affect them and their identity tremendously. One of these predicaments is the realization that patriarchy is universan and, hence, something you cannot escape.
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Steiner, Christina. "Writing in the 'Contact Zone' : the problem of post-colonial translation. A study of the 'Afrikanissmo-Project' and Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Condtions in German." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7887.
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Includes abstract.|Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 91-95).Post-colonial translations are located in 'contact zones'. They mediate in the interface of disparate cultures and languages. The multiple determinations and effects of this decisive mediation process are examined in a close reading of the Afrikanissimo-project and the translation of Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions. They represent an attempt to engage 'Africa' through literature from a German perspective. Such dialogue is caught in the aporetic tension between the preservation of linguistic and cultural difference of the foreign text and the domestication of the cultural other by dominant values in the target-language culture.
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Ford, Na'Imah Hanan. "A theory of Yere-Wolo coming-of-age narratives in African diaspora literature /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5959.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 12, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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McIntyre, Megan. "'Adding wisdom to their natures': British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2093.
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Popular opinion suggests that education is the 'silver bullet' to end poverty, famine, and all the worlds' ills. The reality of education for women, however, is not as easily classified as transformative. This paper seeks to illuminate, through historical research and literary analysis, the connections between the charity education of Victorian Britain, a system examined in Jane Eyre, and the missionary education which comprised the majority of the educational systems in the British colonies, including Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the settings of Emecheta and Dangarembga's works.
Beginning with Charlotte Brontë's Victorian classic, Jane Eyre, and moving through time, space and situation to the colonial experience novels of Buchi Emecheta and Tsitsi Dangarembga, we find instead that education, particularly British philanthropic education, from charity schools for children without means in the 18th and 19th century to the mission schools that comprised the basis for British colonial education in Africa, produces women who benefit only in very limited ways. For Charlotte Brontë's title protagonist, as for many of the characters in Jane Eyre, Nervous Conditions, and The Joys of Motherhood, education represents a new life. Brontë, Dangarembga, and Emecheta all offer education as a possible escape for characters within their novels, but the length of and price for that escape differs based on a character's role within a colonial set of identities, whether the character in question is part of the colonizing power or one of its colonial victims.
When taken together, Jane Eyre and these two African experience novels demonstrate that British education is largely ineffectual in granting female characters the kind of freedom that education is supposed to instill. The price of the hybridity necessary to survive in the colonial situation could very well be the complete loss of self, a disintegration of identity, as it is for Nyasha, who is, according to her own analysis of her situation, neither Shona nor British and therefore is no one at all.
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McIntyre, Megan. "'Adding wisdom to their natures' : British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003220.
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Nyanhongo, Mazvita Mollin. "Gender oppression and possibilities of empowerment: images of women in African literature with specific reference to Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/522.
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This study consists of a comparative analysis of three novels by three prominent African women writers which cast light on the ways in which women are oppressed by traditional and cultural norms in three different African countries. These three primary texts also explore the ways in which African women's lives are affected by other issues, such as colonialism and economic factors, and this study discusses this. An analysis of these novels reveals that the inter-connectedness of racial, class and gender issues exacerbates the oppression of many African women, thereby lessening the opportunities for them to attain self-realization. This study goes on to investigate whether there are possibilities of empowerment for the women in the primary texts, and examining the reasons why some women fail to transcend their situations of oppression. The primary novels will be discussed in different chapters, which explore the problems with which various women are beset, and discuss the extent to which the various women in the novels manage to attain empowerment. In conclusion, this study compares and contrasts the ways in which the women in the primary texts are oppressed and highlights the reasons why some women are able to attain empowerment, whilst others are unable to do so. It also shows that many women are beset with comparable forms of oppression, but they may choose to react to these situations differently. Over and above these issues, the study seeks to draw attention to the fact that women need to come together and contribute to the ways in which they can attain various forms of empowerment.
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Miller, Elvie. "Reading and Teaching Third World Women's Literature in the First World: Colonialism and Feminism in Crick Crack, Monkey and Nervous Conditions." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1410165670.
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Pretorius, Simone Norah. "Sediment yield modelling in the upper Tsitsa Catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60852.
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The Mzimvubu River is the largest river in South Africa without a dam. The Department of Water and Sanitation has identified the Tsitsa River Catchment on the Mzimvubu River as a potential site for a water resource development. The soils in the Tsitsa Catchment are prone to extreme soil erosion, in particular gullying. The sediment generated from these gullies and other forms of erosion will have a detrimental effect on any water resource development. Changing climate and land use will also affect soil erosion dynamics and thus need to be considered before any development is planned in the catchment. Previous studies have mapped the gully systems in the catchment as well as used hydrological models to determine erosion from sheet and rill processes. However, these studies did not account for the effects of change in land use or climate. The mapping of the gullies was also done manually, which is extremely time-consuming and is susceptible to human error.
This study aims to determine the sediment yield in the catchment under current and future climate and land use scenarios as well as develop a methodology to identify and map the gullies automatically in order to determine the rate of gully growth from a time series of images. The study had two main components, the first was to study gully erosion in the catchment. In the second section the sheet and rill aspects of erosion under various climate and land use changes were modelled. Using object-based image analysis (OBIA) on SPOT 5 images a methodology was created to automate the task of gully mapping. This was applied to two SPOT 5 data sets one from 2007 and the other from 2012 in order to determine the rate of gully growth over the five-year period. Various accuracy assessments were also conducted to assess the accuracy of the methodology. It was determined that the methodology had an overall accuracy of 98% for the 2012 image and 99% for the 2007 image. There was an overall increase in gully erosion in the catchment by 28% in the five-year period. The estimated sediment yield generated from the gullies ranged between 7 and 14 t/ha/yr. It was concluded that OBIA resulted in faster processing times and more objective classification results.
The second part of the study used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to determine the sediment yield from sheet and rill erosion. SWAT only considers sheet and rill aspects of erosion and disregards gully erosion thus both methods needs to be incorporated into the study in order to understand the complete dynamics of soil erosion in the catchment. SWAT was used to model the current land use and climate scenario using land cover data and observed weather data for the 2007-2012 period. On average 0.18 t/ha/yr of sediment is generated in the catchment from sheet and rill erosion.
Using climate data from 1969 and projected to 2100, future sediment yield from sheet and rill erosion was estimated. The effects of possible land use change on sheet and rill erosion was also estimated by changing the land use component in SWAT into various crops that may be cultivated in the catchment over the next century. The results of the land use change showed that the current land use is optimal for minimal sheet and rill erosion and converting to maize crops will have the greatest impact on sediment yield
This study aimed to understand the dynamics of soil erosion under current and changing land use and climate scenarios. It was concluded that the majority of the sediment is derived from gully erosion, which accounts for up to 70 times more sediment yield annually than sheet and rill erosion. Gully formation and propagation in the catchment is of critical concern to any land or water developments proposed for the Tsitsa Catchment.Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Mahlasela, Johannes Tsietsi. "Improving comprehension in physical science through mother-tongue subtitling in secondary education /Johannes Tsietsi Mahlasela." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10262.
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Research and the literature show that there is a culture of failure in science subjects in South African schools. Among many factors responsible for this state of affairs, it is assumed that lack of language proficiency in the Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) could be the cause. Studies indicate that mother-tongue learning is key to better academic performance in schools. The question of which language should be used as the LoLT in South African schools is a hugely debated issue. Arguments regarding this debate centre around two main issues, namely, the Language in Education Policy (LiEP) and psycholinguistic theories. Means have to be sought to address the issue of poor academic performance by learners in these schools. One of the central areas which needs attention to improve learners academic performance in these schools is learner comprehension. An empirical research study was done in an attempt to determine whether mother-tongue subtitling would improve learners‟ comprehension of science. A total of 93 Grade 12 learners from two schools in one township were used in this study. The participants were divided into two equivalent groups: one group watched and listened to mother-tongue subtitled science content material, and the other group watched and listened to the same science content material that was not subtitled. Both groups then wrote a physical science comprehension test after watching and listening to the video. This process was repeated over a period of six weeks during which one lesson was given and one video was shown each week. The comprehension test questions were divided into the recall and understanding domains. The results of this experiment revealed that mother-tongue subtitling improved the science comprehension of learners in as far as recall is concerned.MA (Language Practice), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2013
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Hall, David Rodenhurst. "Tsini Tsini, a technological analysis of a biface production centre in the Talchako River Valley, British Columbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37540.pdf.
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Maloma, Tsietsi John. "Entrepreneurship : an imperative tool in the urban misionary work of Vaal Triangle churches / by Tsietsi John Maloma." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2255.
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Banda, Gabriel Tsietsi. "Enabling sustainable service delivery by means of effective demand management in a local municipality / Gabriel Tsietsi Banda." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6946.
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Over the past months, newspapers and news bulletins are riddled by service delivery protests –
to the extent that the President of the country acknowledges these protests. Many reasons were
offered for the protests, but the main reason is cited as dissatisfaction with the level of basic
services delivered by the municipalities. Questions were asked to obtain possible solutions to
the problem. These challenges motivated the researcher to undertake a study to investigate the
possible cause of poor delivery of service by municipalities to the communities. A possibility
was to study and recommend a possible solution that would ensure that service is delivered on
time, at the right price, at the right location and that quantity and quality meet the needs of the
community. The system suitable to address this concern is demand management, the first
element of the supply chain management system. The purpose of demand management is to
ensure that the resources required to fulfil the needs identified during the strategic plan of the
municipality, are delivered at the correct time, price and place, and that quantity and quality will
satisfy the needs of the users.
The research was conducted by means of a literature study and an empirical study. The
literature study entails a literature discussion on three variables identified as crucial in achieving
the objectives of the study, namely sustainability, demand management and change
management. These variables form the basis of the evaluation of the factors which ensure that
effectively used demand management results in sustainable service delivery. Delivering
sustainable service will ensure that the service is delivered on time, at the right price, at the
right location, and quality that meets the needs of the users. These variables were empirically
tested in practise by means of a measurement instrument and subsequently evaluated.
Based on the evaluation of the empirical study, the demographical data were analysed and
concluded on. The reliability and internal consistence of the measurement instrument were
determined by means of Cronbach Alpha coefficient. The results of the reliability test revealed
that only change management’s Cronbach Alpha coefficient was less than the cut–off value of
0.7. Despite the results of change management’s Cronbach Alpha coefficient, the reliability of
the other latent variables was found to be reliable and internally consistent.
The variables were analysed and concluded upon by means of a descriptive statistical analysis,
using frequency on the questionnaire responds. The arithmetic mean and standard deviation
per construct was also calculated, using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).
The relationship between the variables was also evaluated through determining the effect size
and correlation of coefficient being calculated. Practical recommendations were suggested to
address the weaknesses found during the evaluation of the questionnaires, in order to improve
future continuity of both municipalities used as unit of measure. Recommendations of future
research needed, were also made.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Maloma, Tsietsi John. "Parallels in portraits of leadership in mega churches of Gauteng (RSA) and Florida (USA) / Tsietsi John Maloma." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10292.
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This thesis, Parallels in portraits of leadership in mega churches of Gauteng (RSA) and Florida (USA), the researcher, studied literature on church leadership with special reference to the leadership of mega churches. He researched issues relating to the nature of church leadership by exploring relevant Bible passages, the lives of certain Bible characters that the Bible presents as good but not perfect leaders, as well as relevant key theological conceptions of leadership. The study accordingly also reviewed different models of church leadership on the hand of a study of some Bible passages and current theological thinking about the matter. The thesis demonstrated that the leadership of mega churches requires certain leadership qualities, values, and competencies. The contribution of the study lies therein that it confirmed and identified through a comparative empirical analysis of
details collected through basic research in mega churches of Florida (USA) and Gauteng (RSA) the qualities, values and competencies that are essential for successful leadership of mega churches in very different contexts and church families. The study therefore recommends a desirable leadership style and essential qualities for effective church leadership of mega churches. The study also makes a contribution to the theological understanding of a new but growing church type in urban settings, the mega church; and is of great value to those that lead and study such churches.PhD, Biblical Studies, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012
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Patchay, Sheenadevi. ""The struggle of memory against forgetting" contemporary fictions and rewriting of histories." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002253.
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This thesis argues that a prominent concern among contemporary writers of fiction is the recuperation of lost or occluded histories. Increasingly, contemporary writers, especially postcolonial writers, are using the medium of fiction to explore those areas of political and cultural history that have been written over or unwritten by the dominant narrative of “official” History. The act of excavating these past histories is simultaneously both traumatic and liberating – which is not to suggest that liberation itself is without pain and trauma. The retelling of traumatic pasts can lead, as is portrayed in The God of Small Things (1997), to further trauma and pain. Postcolonial writers (and much of the world today can be construed as postcolonial in one way or another) are seeking to bring to the fore stories of the past which break down the rigid binaries upon which colonialism built its various empires, literal and ideological. Such writing has in a sense been enabled by the collapse, in postcolonial and postmodernist discourse, of the Grand Narrative of History, and its fragmentation into a plurality of competing discourses and histories. The associated collapse of the boundary between history and fiction is recognized in the useful generic marker “historiographic metafiction,” coined by Linda Hutcheon. The texts examined in this study are all variants of this emerging contemporary genre. What they also have in common is a concern with the consequences of exile or diaspora. This study thus explores some of the representations of how the exilic experience impinges on the development of identity in the postcolonial world. The identities of “displaced” people must undergo constant change in order to adjust to the new spaces into which they move, both literal and metaphorical, and yet critical to this adjustment is the cultural continuity provided by psychologically satisfying stories about the past. The study shows that what the chosen texts share at bottom is their mutual need to retell the lost pasts of their characters, the trauma that such retelling evokes and the new histories to which they give birth. These texts generate new histories which subvert, enrich, and pre-empt formal closure for the narratives of history which determine the identities of nations.
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Tsitali, Anastasia Eleni [Verfasser]. "Submillimeter Studies of Low-Mass Star Forming Regions / Anastasia Eleni Tsitali." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060787377/34.
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Bannatyne, Laura Joan. "Developing a citizen technician based approach to suspended sediment monitoring in the Tsitsa River catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/62593.
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Suspended sediment (SS) in channels is spatiotemporally heterogeneous and, over the long term, is known to be moved predominantly by flood flows with return periods of ~1 - 1.5 years. Flood flows in the Tsitsa catchment (Eastern Cape Province, South Africa) are unpredictable, and display a wide range of discharges. Direct, flood-focused SS sampling at sub-catchment scale was required to provide a SS baseline against which to monitor the impact on SS of catchment rehabilitation interventions, to determine the relative contributions of sub-catchments to SS loads and yields at the site of the proposed Ntabelanga Dam wall, and to verify modelled SS baselines, loads and yields. Approaches to SS sampling relying on researcher presence and/or installed equipment to adequately monitor SS through flood flows were precluded by cost, and the physical and socioeconomic conditions in the project area. A citizen technician (CT)-based flood-focused approach to direct SS sampling was developed and implemented. It was assessed in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness, the proficiency of the laboratory analysis methods, and the accuracy of the resulting SS data. A basic laboratory protocol for SSC analysis was developed, but is not the focus of this thesis. Using basic sampling equipment and smartphone-based reporting protocols, local residents at eleven points on the Tsitsa River and its major tributaries were employed as CTs. They were paid to take water samples during daylight hours at sub-daily timestep, with the emphasis on sampling through flood flows. The method was innovative in that it opted for manual sampling against a global trend towards instrumentation. Whilst the management of CTs formed a significant project component, the CTs benefitted directly through remuneration and work experience opportunities. The sampling method was evaluated at four sites from December 2015 - May 2016. The CTs were found to have efficiently and effectively sampled SS through a range of water levels, particularly in the main Tsitsa channel. An acceptable level of proficiency and accuracy was achieved, and many flood events were successfully defined by multiple data points. The method was chiefly limited by the inability of CTs to sample overnight rises and peaks occurring as a result of afternoon thunderstorms, particularly in small tributaries. The laboratory process was responsible for some losses in proficiency and accuracy. Improved laboratory quality control was therefore recommended. The CT-based approach can be adapted to other spatial and temporal scales in other areas, and to other environmental monitoring applications.
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Hodgson, Danuta Lorina. "Demographic change in the Upper Tsitsa Catchment: the integration of census and land cover data for 2001 and 2011." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57296.
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The purpose of this research was to determine if the integration of census and land cover data could provide evidence of spatial patterns and temporal change for the Upper Tsitsa Catchment. This thesis contributed to academic literature with regards to dasymetric mapping and provided a database for the Ntabelanga and Laleni Ecological Infrastructure Project. The study took place in the Upper Tsitsa Catchment which is located in the north-eastern region of the Eastern Cape and falls within the uMzimvubu Catchment. South Africa National Population Censuses for 2001 and 2011 and the National Land Cover data sets for 2000 and 2013/14 were used to create dasymetric maps depicting demographic changes over time for the catchment area. Spatial statistics were performed on the dasymetric and choropleth map to determine the accuracy of the data that was created. From the results, it was found that although the statistics were skewed, the method was more accurate in displaying the population densities, which was noted during the sampling process of the spatial analysis. It was found that there had been a decrease in the population density within the catchment. This affected the density of several other variables such as population race group, language and employment status statistics as decreases in these values could be due to individuals migrating out of the catchment as well as socio-economic upliftment, such as having better access to services. The use of dasymetric mapping allowed an accurate representation of the population density from the census data to be created. The results of the dasymetric mapping were more accurate as they depicted where the population within the enumeration areas were located, and recognised that some areas were populated while some areas were not. To conclude, it was found that using dasymetric mapping provided reliable and useful data about population density and enables comparison over time.
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Mukabeta, Kelvin. "Does similarity equal relationship? An archaeological study of Tsindi, a Dzimbahwe site in North-eastern Zimbabwe." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30047.
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Traditionally, archaeological sites making up the Zimbabwe culture were studied using old Childean understanding to the extent that all sites that are smaller than Great Zimbabwe were viewed as lesser important places under its hegemony. Using African centred frameworks, this study represents an attempt to revisit the archaeological site of Tsindi, a Zimbabwe culture site near Marondera in northeastern Zimbabwe. Methodologically, the re-assessment is based on a survey of published and unpublished literature, museum archival records and collections, as well as field surveys, excavations and artefact studies. The study reached convergence with earlier studies on the observation that drystone walls and pottery from upper levels in the sequence of Tsindi are closely related to that from Great Zimbabwe and related sites. However, there are some localised differences within the walls and pottery that speak to contextual innovation and ultimately variation. Available chronological information shows that Tsindi has an earlier Harare tradition occupation which is overlain by levels with Zimbabwe pottery. Combined together, the similarities and differences that appear on identical material culture suggest that Tsindi and Great Zimbabwe were authored by related people who may have interacted with each other directly or indirectly. Recourse to Shona anthropology and history suggests the presence of autonomous political formations (e.g. chiefdoms and states) generally within more than hundred kilometres of each other. If local histories that connect the Nhowe people of north-eastern Zimbabwe to Tsindi are correct, then the site was the capital of a Nhowe chiefdom. In broad terms this suggests the presence of multiple but independent polities on the landscape. Future research must, however, explore in more detail the nature of the relationships between individual polities such as Tsindi and similar ones such as Mutoko, Tere and among others Harleigh Farm that are associated with different chiefdoms.
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Wang, Huei-hsin. "Zhiyi's interpretation of the concept "dhyana" in his Shi chan boluomi tsidi famen." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279913.
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This study is an analysis of Zhiyi's interpretation of the concept of "dhyana" in his Shi chanboluomi cidi famen (An Exposition of Methods to Achieve the Stages of Meditative Perfection, hereafter, The Stages of Meditative Perfection). In the studies of Chinese Buddhism, dhyana , translated into Chinese "chan," is commonly associated with the Chan school (Chan zong ) developed in China in the seventh and the eighth century. In Zhiyi's The Stages of Meditative Perfection, however, dhyana is generally understood as the Four Dhyanas. In the "Four Dhyanas" chapter of The Stages of Meditative Perfection, Zhiyi specifically defines dhyana as "zhilin (dhyana factors)" and "gongde tsonglin (an array of meritorious qualities)." The Stages of Meditative Perfection is Zhiyi's systemization of the various dhyana methods practiced by Chinese Buddhists from the second to the sixth centuries A.D. A general sketch of The Stages of Meditative Perfection is made in the first three chapters of this study. In the first chapter I make a brief textual review and discuss some general features of this text. In chapter two, I discuss some of the important terms related to meditation practices used inThe Stages of Meditative Perfection. The third chapter is an analysis of some of Zhiyi's dhyana classification systems that appear in the first five chapters of The Stages of Meditative Perfection , which comprises Zhiyi's theoretical systemization of Dhyana-paramita . Among Zhiyi's discussion of the actual practice of the fifteen dhyana methods discussed in the sixth and seventh chapters of The Stages of Meditative Perfection, two dhyana practices, the Four Dhyanas and the Tongming guan (The Contemplation Leading to [Six] Supernormal Powers and [Three Illuminating] Insights) are the most crucial for our understanding of Zhiyi's concept of dhyana. Therefore, these two dhyana practices are selected as the subject of detailed analysis. Four aspects of Zhiyi's interpretation of dhyana will be examined in my analysis: Zhiyi's definitions of dhyana, his concepts of "Mundane Dhyana" and "Supramundane Dhyana," the role of intellect and physiology in the meditative states in Zhiyi's interpretation of dhyana, and Zhiyi's method of synthesizing practice and doctrine in his interpretation of dhyana.
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Huchzermeyer, Nicholaus Heinrich. "A baseline survey of channel geomorphology with particular reference to the effects of sediment characteristics on ecosystem health in the Tsitsa River, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58056.
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Fluvial systems are dynamic systems in which variables in a catchment and river channel affect the morphology of river reaches. South African rivers are increasingly being exposed to stresses from a combination of factors, one of the most prevalent being the impacts of damming rivers which result in varying downstream sediment fluxes and flow regimes. The sediment load combined with flow characteristics for respective river channels provides the physical habitat for aquatic ecosystems. The damming of the Tsitsa River, through the construction of the Ntabelanga Dam, will change the overall downstream geomorphology. This creates an opportunity for research in the preconstruction window. The current condition of the Tsitsa River was monitored by completing a baseline survey of the channel geomorphology with specific reference to the influence of sediment on river habitats and ecosystem health. Five sites were established in variable reaches of the Tsitsa River, with Site 1 located above the proposed Ntabelanga Dam inundation and Sites 2-5 below the proposed dam wall. Each site included a range of features that can be monitored for their response to the dam. Physical variables, water quality and biota were monitored seasonally to note changes in habitat quality. A baseline survey of the present geomorphology and associated instream habitats of the selected reaches was set up by conducting cross-sectional surveys of channel topography, water slope surveys, discharge measurements and visual and quantitative assessments of substrate. Level loggers were installed at each site to collect continuous data on variations in depth and temperature. Monitoring surveys, in terms of fine sediment accumulation, were conducted to characterise dynamic habitat arrangements and macroinvertebrate community composition. A taxa related physical habitat score for the Tsitsa River was created. The relationship between water quality, physical and ecological characteristics of the Tsitsa River will aid further research in the area as well as create a better understanding of the influence of sediment on river habitats and ecosystem health. Monitoring sites can be used to monitor the impact of catchment-wide rehabilitation on river health prior to the dam being built. After dam construction, the top site above the dam inundation can still be used as a point to monitor the impact of catchment rehabilitation on ecosystem health in terms of fine sediment accumulation.
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Akamagwuna, Frank Chukwuzuoke. "Taxonomic and trait-based responses of the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Odonata, And Trichoptera (EPOT) to sediment stress in the Tsitsa River and its tributaries, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68082.
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Increased urbanization and industrialisation due to human population growth and associated high demand for food have led to widespread disturbances of freshwater ecosystems and associated resources. A widely recognised consequence of these disturbances is the excessive delivery of sediments into the freshwater ecosystems, which severely affects the functioning and integrity of these systems.. The major water quality impairment in the Tsitsa River and its tributaries, situated in the Mzimvubu catchment in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, is known to be excessive sediment input. In this study, the application of macroinvertebrates taxonomic-based and trait-based approaches was used to assess the responses and vulnerability of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Odonata and Trichoptera (EPOT) species to settled and suspended sediments stress in eight selected sampling sites in the Tsitsa River and its tributaries. The eight selected sites were Site 1 (Tsitsa upstream), Site 2 (Tsitsa downstream), Site 3 (Qurana tributary), Site 4 (Pot River upstream), Site 5 (Pot River downstream), Site 6 (Little Pot River), Site 7 (Millstream upstream) and Site 8 (Millstream downstream). The methods used in this study involved the analysis of water physico-chemical variables as well as sediment characteristics, derivation of five EPOT metrics, EPOT species-level taxonomic analysis, individual EPOT trait analysis and the development of a novel trait-based approach using a combination of traits. The sampling of EPOT taxa was done using the SASS5 protocols. Identification of EPOT was done to genus/species level and all data were subjected to relevant statistical analysis. The results of ecological categories derived for the physico-chemical variables generally indicated the ecological categories A and B, which was indicative of good water quality conditions. The result of sediment particle analysis revealed four distinct site groups: site group 1 (Tsitsa River upstream and Qurana tributary), site group 2 (Tsitsa River downstream and Millstream upstream), site group 3 (Pot River, both upstream and downstream, and Millstream downstream) and site group 4 (Little Pot River). The species-level taxonomic analysis of EPOT revealed that site group 1 was the most sediment-influenced sites whereas site group 4 was the least sediment-influenced. Species such as Paragopmhus sp., Aeshna sp. and Baetis sp. were considered sediment-tolerant with strong positive association with site group 1. The novel trait-based approach developed in this study proved useful in predicting the responses of EPOT species to sediment stress, and further discriminated between the study sites. The approach was used to group EPOT species into four vulnerability classes. The result showed that filter feeding EPOT species that have filamentous gills, preferring stone biotopes and feeding on detritus (FPOM) were mostly classified as highly vulnerable to sediment stress and indicated no significant association with the highly sediment-influenced site group 1. The TBA largely corresponded well to the predictions made with the relative abundance of the vulnerable class decreasing in the sediment-influenced sites compared to the tolerant and highly tolerant classes. Overall, the study revealed the importance of the complementary use of taxonomic and trait-based approaches to biomonitoring.
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Mokola, Tsiyetsi Daniel. "The impact of crime and violence on the morale and productivity of educators at Orange Farm / Tsiyetsi Daniel Mokola." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3101.
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The overall aim of this research is to assist educators and all stakeholders about the impact of crime and violence on the morale and productivity of educators at Orange Farm. The study deals with the programme of activities that can be implemented at schools to overcome the problem of crime and violence. The overall aim was operationalised as follows: to give a theoretical exposition of concepts morale and productivity, to give an overview of the extent of crime and violence at Orange Farm, to investigate the impact of crime and violence on morale and productivity at Orange Farm, and to offer recommendations that may add value for educators to improve morale and productivity. Crime and violence pose a serious threat to the goal of establishing peace and progress in schools at Orange Farm. In order to establish a safe school environment where learners can learn and educators can teach in a warm and welcoming environment, free of intimidation and fear of violence, it is important to find the cause. There is no one determining factor that could be pinpointed as the origin of school violence and crime. There are so many factors involved which make this a very complex issue which needs as much input and thought as possible. Factors contributing to school crime and violence in Orange Farm have been identified as drug and alcohol, sexual abuse, gangsterism, gambling, poverty and unemployment, physical violence, vandalism and burglary.
The empirical method of research was used for obtaining information on the impact of crime and violence on the morale and productivity of educators at Orange Farm. In this study the research is being concluded by a presentation of the findings, the drawing of conclusion on the basis of the findings, and finally, the formulation of recommendations for future research.Thesis (M. Development and Management)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.
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Tsita, Vasiliki [Verfasser], Arne F. [Akademischer Betreuer] Boeckler, Christian R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Gernhardt, and Manfred [Akademischer Betreuer] Wichmann. "Der Einfluss einer künstlichen Lichtquelle auf die Qualität der dentalen Farbbestimmung / Vasiliki Tsita. Betreuer: Arne F. Boeckler ; Christian R. Gernhardt ; Manfred Wichmann." Halle, Saale : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1033790001/34.
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Aspnäs, Frida. "Eliminating Right-Turn-on-Red (RTOR) at Key Intersections in a City Core." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-91323.
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The City of Fredericton is the capital of New Brunswick, located in eastern Canada. Rightturn-on-red (RTOR) is a general practice at any traffic intersection in this maritime province. Many collisions between pedestrians and vehicles have been recorded at signalized intersections in the downtown area of the city. Due to the number of collisions, the City of Fredericton was interested in investigating how a restriction against RTOR could affect vehicular traffic. The purpose and goal of this project was to develop a calibrated traffic model of the downtown area of Fredericton that could be used for simulation studies. Two main changes were investigated: 1) a restriction against RTOR for each of eleven key intersections in the downtown area, and 2) a restriction against left-turns at one selected intersection. The traffic simulation model was also used for analyzing how factors such as pedestrian volumes, lane channelization, and turning proportions affect the changes in traffic conditions due to permitting, or prohibiting, right-turn-on-red. The traffic simulation model was created in the TSIS/CORSIM software. Several different scenarios were generated for analysis. The results of the simulation show that the traffic conditions in the whole downtown area will be affected when introducing a restriction against RTOR. Certain intersections show a relatively high change while others show no significant change at all. Several different factors were seen to affect the number of RTOR that could be performed at an intersection. One main factor was lane channelization. With a shared lane, the proportion of right-turning vehicles at the intersection was found to highly affect how many RTOR can be performed. Pedestrian volumes prove to be a third factor affecting the number of RTOR at an intersection. Overall results demonstrate that there are only a few intersections where it is suitable for the City of Fredericton to implement a restriction against RTOR.
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Silveira, Andrea Kill. "Caracteriza??o de ecossistemas com potenciais de risco para a infesta??o por carrapatos e transmiss?o de riqu?tsias para humanos no estado do Rio de Janeiro. 2010." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/795.
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Human activities can change the environment and to increase the interaction between domestic animals, wildlife and humans allowing the dispersion of ticks and pathogens. This study aimed to characterize the tick fauna collected in environments with different degrees of human activity and the presence of Rickettsia spp. in these ticks, as well as characterize the environment profile and the distribution of the ixodids and rickettsiae. The work was developed in five areas of the Rio de Janeiro state: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Floresta Nacional Mario Xavier (FLONA), both in the Serop?dica municipality, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia (PNI), in Itatiaia municipality, Dep?sito Central de Muni??o (DCMun) in Paracambi municipality, and the Centro de Adestramento da Ilha da Marambaia (CADIM), in Mangaratiba municipality. Ticks were collected in six sites of each area. For the collecting were utilized the drag sampling, chemistry trap of CO2 and manual collecting on the researcher clothes and body. The ticks collected were identified and submitted to PCR and nested-PCR utilizing genera-specific primers 17k-5 and 17k-3, 17kD2 and 17kD1, respectively. Thus, 5,351 ticks were collected, being 2,261 in UFRRJ, 1,599 in CADIM, 992 in DCMun, 494 in FLONA and only 5 in PNI. Of the total number of ticks collected 4,117 were identified as larvae and 779 as nymphs of Amblyomma spp. The adults were identified as Amblyomma cajennense (93) captured in all areas, except in PNI. Amblyomma brasiliense (3) were collected only in PNI and Amblyomma dubitatum (1) only in FLONA. Also were recovered 248 larvae of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus in FLONA and 63 in DCMUN. The ticks abundance of the genera Amblyomma and of the species A. cajennense increased in areas with high human activity. The presence of R. (B.) microplus was associated to presence of the bovines, its principal host. The species A. dubitatum was recovered in reforestation with anthropogenic pressure while A. brasiliense was found in area under low anthropic pressure. The distribution pattern of developmental stages of the captured ticks was as expected, and the littledifferences may be due to the limited frequency of collection (seasonal). Of the five sites studied, two military areas presented ticks positives for Rickettsia spp. The presence of rickettsia in ticks collected in the ecosystem of interaction among domestic animals, wildlife and humans indicates the need for continuation and intensification of studies of this nature and that prevention measures and control must be incorporated in the routine activities of health workers in military units.
As atividades antr?picas podem modificar o ambiente e propiciar a intera??o entre animais dom?sticos, silvestres e humanos facilitando a dispers?o de carrapatos e pat?genos. Este estudo teve como objetivos caracterizar a fauna de carrapatos coletados em ambientes com diferentes graus de atividade antr?pica e detectar a presen?a de Rickettsia spp. nestes carrapatos, assim como caracterizar o perfil dos ambientes e a distribui??o dos ixod?deos e de riqu?tsias. Foram realizadas quatro coletas em cinco ?reas no estado do Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Floresta Nacional Mario Xavier (FLONA), ambos no munic?pio de Serop?dica, Parque Nacional do Itatiaia (PNI), em Itatiaia, Dep?sito Central de Muni??o (DCMun) em Paracambi, e Centro de Adestramento da Ilha da Marambaia (CADIM), munic?pio de Mangaratiba. Carrapatos foram coletados em seis pontos amostrais em cada uma das ?reas. Nas coletas foram utilizadas arrasto de flanela, armadilha qu?mica de CO2 e cata??o manual sobre as vestes e corpo dos pesquisadores. Os carrapatos coletados foram identificados e submetidos a PCR e nested-PCR utilizando os iniciadores, g?nero/espec?ficos, 17k-5 e 17k-3 e 17kD2 e 17kD1, respectivamente. Foram coletados 5351 ixod?deos, sendo 2261 na UFRRJ, 1599 no CADIM, 992 no DCMun, 494 na FLONA e apenas cinco no PNI. Do total de carrapatos coletados 4117 foram identificados como larvas e 779 como ninfas de Amblyomma spp. Os adultos foram identificados como Amblyomma cajennense (93) capturados em todas as ?reas, exceto no PNI. Amblyomma brasiliense (3) foram coletados apenas no PNI e Amblyomma dubitatum (1) na FLONA. Tamb?m foram recuperadas 248 larvas de Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, na FLONA e 63 no DCMUN. A abund?ncia de carrapatos do g?nero Amblyomma e da esp?cie A. cajennense aumentou com a eleva??o do grau de antropiza??o. A presen?a da esp?cie R. (B.) microplus esteve associada a presen?a de seus hospedeiros principais que s?o os bovinos, a esp?cie A. dubitatum foi recuperada de ?rea de reflorestamento com press?o antr?pica. Em ?rea com pouca press?o antr?pica s? foi recuperado A. brasiliense. O padr?o de distribui??o dos est?dios evolutivos coletados est? dentro do esperado para os carrapatos encontrados, sendo que as pequenas diferen?as podem ser em decorr?ncia da frequ?ncia de coleta (estacional). Das cinco ?reas pesquisadas, as duas ?reas militares foram positivas para Rickettsia spp. A presen?a de riqu?tsia, em carrapatos coletados em ecossistema de intera??o entre animais dom?sticos, silvestres e humanos indica a necessidade da continua??o e intensifica??o de estudos desta natureza e que medidas de profilaxia e controle sejam incorporadas nas atividades de rotina dos agentes de sa?de das unidades militares.
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Huang, Bing. "Understanding Operating Speed Variation of Multilane Highways with New Access Density Definition and Simulation Outputs." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4079.
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Traffic speed is generally considered a core issue in roadway safety. Previous studies show that faster travel is not necessarily associated with an increased risk of being involved in a crash. When vehicles travel at the same speed in the same direction (even high speeds, as on interstates), they are not passing one another and cannot collide as long as they maintain the same speed. Conversely, the frequency of crashes increases when vehicles are traveling at different rates of speed. There is no doubt that the greater speed variation is, the greater the number of interactions among vehicles is, resulting in higher crash potential. This research tries to identify all major factors that are associated with speed variation on multilane highways, including roadway access density, which is considered to be the most obvious contributing factor. In addition, other factors are considered for this purpose, such as configuration of speed limits, characteristics of traffic volume, geometrics of roadways, driver behavior, environmental factors, etc. A microscopic traffic simulation method based on TSIS (Traffic Software Integrated System) is used to develop mathematical models to quantify the impacts of all possible
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Lu, Linjun. "Operational Performance Evaluation of Four Types of Exit Ramps on Florida's Freeways." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3218.
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This research focuses primarily on the analysis of exit ramp performance related to safety and operations. The safety analysis focuses on the impacts of different exit ramp types for freeway diverge areas and different factors contributing to the crashes that occur on the exit ramp sections. The operational analysis is based mainly on simulations by TSIS-CORSIM. Different ramp effects and guidance for selecting optimal exit ramp type are concluded. Issues related to ramp sections and crossroad sections are also demonstrated. Minimum ramp length and minimum distance between ramp terminal and downstream or upstream intersections are calculated. The operational analysis was conducted to determine different ramp effects and to provide guidance for selecting optimal exit ramp type.
Comparisons of the operational performance of different types of exit ramps are made to present a method for choosing the optimal one. Some methods of evaluation (MOEs) are used to approach this objective, such as number of lane changes, average speed, delay time, etc. Data collection at 24 sites in Florida was conducted, and traffic simulations by TSIS-CORSIM were applied for analysis. Mathematical models were built to evaluate different impacts of these ramps based on simulations. All impact analysis is concluded to summarize a model for optimal exit ramp selection. In addition to ramp type evaluation and selection, issues related to ramp section and crossroad section are demonstrated. Minimum ramp length and minimum distance between ramp terminal and downstream or upstream intersections are calculated.
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Tsioli, Christiana A. [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Danne. "Sensorunterstützte Insulinpumpentherapie unter Alltagsbedingungen bei Patienten mit Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 : prospektive Analyse der aktuellen Therapie, Ermittlung von möglichen Defiziten bei der Anwendung und Entwicklung von Konzepten zur besseren Implementierung der Daten in die Therapie / Christiana A. Tsioli ; Akademischer Betreuer: Thomas Danne ; Abteilung für pädiatrische Endokrinologie und Diabetologie des Kinderkrankenhauses auf der Bult, Hannover." Hannover : Bibliothek der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1116733277/34.
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Cunha, Davi Gasparini Fernandes. "Heterogeneidade espacial e variabilidade temporal do reservatório de Itupararanga: uma contribuição ao manejo sustentável dos recursos hídricos da bacia do rio Sorocaba (SP)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18138/tde-07012013-090300/.
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Os reservatórios são uma alternativa recorrente para o armazenamento de água destinada a múltiplos usos. O adensamento populacional e a intensificação de atividades antrópicas não planejadas em suas bacias de drenagem representam um risco aos serviços ecossistêmicos por eles oferecidos. Desenvolvida no reservatório de Itupararanga (SP), que possui importância estratégica para os recursos hídricos da bacia do rio Sorocaba e cuja área de entorno tem enfrentado pressões ambientais pela proximidade com a Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, a presente pesquisa avaliou a heterogeneidade espacial e a variabilidade temporal do reservatório e de seus principais tributários, com ênfase na análise do estado trófico e do fitoplâncton. Em treze estações de amostragem e em seis coletas realizadas em 2009 e 2010, diferentes níveis da escala espacial e temporal foram estudados com base em parâmetros operacionais do reservatório, atributos climatológicos e hidrológicos locais e variáveis abióticas e bióticas da água e do sedimento no reservatório e nos rios formadores. Foram observadas heterogeneidade espacial horizontal e variabilidade temporal significativas. As concentrações médias e medianas de fósforo total (45 e 37 \'mü\'g/L), nitrogênio total (669 e 615 \'mü\'g/L) e clorofila-a (18 e 17 \'mü\'g/L), associadas a densidades fitoplanctônicas que atingiram 42,8 \'10 POT.3\' ind/mL, revelaram condição meso-eutrófica do reservatório. A estrutura da comunidade fitoplanctônica e a alternância de Cyanobacteria e Chlorophyceae como os grupos predominantes, principalmente representados por Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii e Monoraphidium contortum, foram associadas à possível colimitação por nutrientes e à disponibilidade de luz em diferentes compartimentos do reservatório, ao tempo de detenção hidráulica, aos padrões de circulação da coluna de água e à interação com o zooplâncton e as macrófitas aquáticas. Os rios Una, Sorocabuçu e Sorocamirim foram reconhecidos como fontes pontuais de poluição e principais responsáveis pela degradação da qualidade da água do reservatório; às fontes difusas (escoamento superficial agrícola), foi atribuída menor importância relativa. Foram propostos subsídios para o manejo sustentável dos recursos hídricos, cuja discussão foi desenvolvida à luz do papel do reservatório para retenção ou exportação de cargas de sólidos e nutrientes, da abordagem das curvas de permanência de qualidade da água e da proposição de um novo Índice de Estado Trófico para reservatórios subtropicais, o IETrs.Artificial reservoirs are a common alternative for storing water for different uses. However, population increase and unplanned anthropogenic activities in their watersheds are playing a negative role on the ecosystem services associated with them. This research was performed in the Itupararanga Reservoir (SP, Brazil), a strategic water source in the Sorocaba River Basin, which is submitted to significant environmental pressure mainly from the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. This study analyzed the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of the reservoir and its main tributaries, with emphasis on trophic state and phytoplankton assessment. During six sampling occasions in 2009 and 2010 and in thirteen sampling sites, different levels of the spatial and temporal scales were investigated, based on operational parameters of the reservoir, climatological and hydrological local attributes and water and sediment abiotic and biotic variables in the reservoir and tributary rivers. Significant spatial heterogeneity (in the horizontal axle) and temporal variability were observed. The mean and median concentrations of total phosphorus (45 and 37 \'mü\'g/L), total nitrogen (669 and 615 \'mü\'g/L) and chlorophyll-a (18 and 17 \'mü\'g/L), associated with phytoplankton densities reaching 42.8 \'10 POT.3\' ind/mL, revealed the meso-eutrophic condition of the reservoir. The phytoplankton community structure and the high abundance of Chlorophyceae and Cyanobacteria as the dominant groups, especially the species Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Monoraphidium contortum, were associated with the possible co-limitation by nutrients and light availability in different spatial compartments of the reservoir, the hydraulic retention time, the circulation patterns within the water column and the interaction with zooplankton and macrophytes. The tributary rivers (Una, Sorocabuçu Sorocamirim) were recognized as point sources of pollution and as the main drivers of water quality degradation in the reservoir. Smaller relative importance was attributed to the diffuse sources (agricultural runoff). In order to aid in the local water resources management, the following topics were discussed: the role of the reservoir for retention or exportation of solids and nutrients, the water quality frequency curves and the proposal of a new Trophic State Index for subtropical reservoirs, the TSIsr.
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Mbatha, P. "A feminist analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions (1988)." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/477.
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Zhou, Sekai. "Colonialism, African Women, and Human Rights in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58744.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1960, with its emphasis on protection and promotion of human rights, signalled a new path for the likely achievement of equality, democracy, and world peace. .However, challenges still exist for African women despite the promise that human rights hold. My curiosity is why this seemingly perfect solution to world problems has not worked and is not working.
The study, firstly, aims at exploring the effect of colonialism on African women's lives in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and how it is still evident in postcolonial present. Secondly, it examines how the text challenges the classic bildungsroman and how this aids as a test to the celebratory human rights story of today. Finally, it investigates the relationship between colonialism and human rights and the role religion and patriarchy plays.
In pursuit of the central research problem, I use Law and Literature in an attempt to understand the inadequacies of Law. Law and Literature allow for a detailed literary analysis of Law and legal systems. Nervous Conditions provides realistic scenarios of the continued oppression of African women in African society. While the celebratory human rights story is triumphant and successful, Dangarembga's subversion of the classic bildungsroman points to the oppressive condition of African women and the inadequacy of human rights. African women in Dangarembga's stories have no successful end as the norm for a classical bildungsroman plot. Colonialism and its legacy, patriarchy and religion still have a hold on African women, rendering promised celebratory human rights narrative unattainable. Literature has the opportunity to expose African women's issues not addressed by Law. .
In a bid to show the effects of colonialism and its continual hold in Africa and specifically for African women, I employ the postcolonial theory that enables me to show a society divided along the lines of gender, race, and material possessions. The postcolonial theory also reflects the Eurocentric ideology that drives the colonial mind-set and its continual existence. I examine Nervous Conditions using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which allows for dissection of the text through searching critically for incidents that display power, control, and authority along gender lines, places, and positions within the society. I also critically look at Dangarembga's language usage that reflects those power differences and structures in Nervous Conditions. As reflected in Nervous Conditions, struggles for African women continue even in post- independent Africa. The presence of human rights remains a promise for many African women.tm2017
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Thomas, Jane McCauley. "Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28932.
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Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the
former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and
Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the
women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a
speaking position; under colonialism, what they want to say cannot be said.
Lessing's first-person stories differ from her more distant third-person works, which
show how white settlers either refuse to recognize their own complicity within the
colonial system or accept living a compromised life. Her younger narrators are as yet
innocent; the stories often focus on the character's discovery of her own responsibility
as a member of the white ruling class. However, these girls have varying levels of self
awareness; some seem unaware of the implications of their stories, while others catch
glimpses of their own complicity, yet are unable to act. Although Lessing herself is
highly critical of colonialism, her stories sometimes risk textually replicating and thus
reinforcing the values she criticizes.
Dangarembga's first-person novel Nervous Conditions (1988) portrays Tambu,
a girl from a poor African family, and her more modern cousin Nyasha. Tambu
narrates the story as an adult, Although Nyasha resents colonialism and her patriarchal
family, Tambu proceeds with her education, attempting to ignore the injustice around
her. Because of the use of an adult narrator, the reader sees what Tambu the child
cannot see. Nyasha is unable to voice her concerns; her protest surfaces as anorexia.
Both Lessing's and Dangarembga's characters have difficulty speaking because
colonialism does not include a space for what they want to say; even if they spoke, their
words could make little difference. Lessing' s characters can "speak" only by leaving
the country, as Lessing herself did. Dangarembga's Tambu may or may not have
"escaped" her situation; by the book's publication, Rhodesia had overcome white rule,
and it may be this political change that allows Tambu to tell her story.Graduation date: 2002
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Sisimayi, Weston. "The representation of marginalized voices and trauma in selected novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25133.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91)My thesis focuses on the representation of marginalized voices and trauma in the selected fiction of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera. I analyze three novels written by the Yvonne Vera—Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue(1996) and The Stone Virgins(2002) set during the Zimbabwe liberation struggle period and postcolonial Zimbabwe dissident era respectively and Nervous Conditions(1988) and its sequel, The Book of Not (1996), by Dangarembga set during the 1960s to 1970s colonial Rhodesia period (the colonial name for Zimbabwe) and during the period of white‐minority rule in Rhodesia to the attainment of independence in 1980. I analyze these novels from the feminist/womanist, gender and postcolonial literary models. The rational for grouping these theoretical models in the analysis in this thesis is that they commonly highlight from a gender perspective the complex factors which oppress and marginalize women in the colonial and postcolonial contexts in which the two authors set their writings. These literary paradigms highlight the oppression of women from an African perspective and all acknowledge the need to address all factors which oppress and subordinate women (gender, race, class) if total emancipation for them is to be achieved. I also posit that Vera and Dangarembga offer discourses that challenge the silencing of narratives of oppression and violation in their novels selected for analysis in this thesis. The thesis has five chapters. In Chapter 1, I set out the argument of the thesis and give a brief history of gendered colonialism and the historical period which provides a setting for the fiction of the two authors. Next, I describe the conceptual framework I will use in analyzing the works of the two postcolonial Zimbabwe female writers. Then I will outline the research questions and hypothesis and expose the research methodology and approach that will serve as my vehicle for data collection, analysis and interpretation. In Chapter 2, I will focus on gender, class and race and discuss the ways Dangarembga explores these factors in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not. I will also discuss innovate ways women explore to champion their freedom and voice in the fiction of Dangarembga. Chapter 3 focuses on the novels of Yvonne Vera— Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The stone Virgins —which articulate narratives of violated subjects and silenced voices. I will discuss the ways Vera explores to show how narratives of violated subjects are silenced by patriarchy, colonialism and masculine narratives of nationalism in these novels. Chapter 4 focuses on narratives of trauma. Using theories of trauma, I will analyze Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The Stone Virgins by Vera and show how these narratives articulate colonial and postcolonial trauma and female child trauma. I will also discuss The Book of Not by Dangarembga and show how the novel articulates colonial and racial trauma. My discussion of the novels of Vera and Dangarembga in this chapter will show that these novels work out traumatic experiences in the colonial and postcolonial eras and will also reveal the challenges of representing tra
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Donga, Jabulani. "Zimbabwean women's writing: a study of the fiction of Barbara Makhalisa, Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2012.
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Quansah, Ekua A. "Women of African ancestry's contribution to scholarship: Voices through fiction (Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, Dionne Brand)." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=370494&T=F.
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Patchay, Sheenadevi. ""The struggle of memory against forgetting" : contemporary fictions and rewriting of histories /." 2007. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1296/.
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Thobejane, M. M. "Tsiri : padinyana ya Madiba /." 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232010-173709/.
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Pasi, Juliet Sylvia. "Theorising the environment in fiction: exploring ecocriticism and ecofeminism in selected black female writers’ works." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23789.
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Text in EnglishThis thesis investigates the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world or natural environment in selected literary works by black female writers in colonial and post-colonial Namibia and Zimbabwe. Some Anglo-American scholars have argued that many African writers have resisted the paradigms that inform much of global ecocriticism and have responded to it weakly. They contend that African literary feminist studies have not attracted much mainstream attention yet mainly to raise some issues concerning ecologically oriented literary criticism and writing. Given this unjust criticism, the study posits that there has been a growing interest in ecocriticism and ecofeminism in literary works by African writers, male and female, and they have represented the social, political (colonial and anti-colonial) and economic discourse in their works. The works critiqued are Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). The thrust of this thesis is to draw interconnections between man’s domination of nature and the subjugation and dominance of black women as depicted in different creative works. The texts in this study reveal that the existing Anglo-American framework used by some scholars to define ecocriticism and ecofeminism should open up and develop debates and positions that would allow different ways of reading African literature. The study underscored the possibility of black female creative works to transform the definition of nature writing to allow an expansion and all encompassing interpretation of nature writing. Contrary to the claims by Western scholars that African literature draws its vision of nature writing from the one produced by colonial discourse, this thesis argues that African writers and scholars have always engaged nature and the environment in multiple discourses. This study breaks new ground by showing that the feminist aspects of ecrocriticism are essential to cover the hermeneutic gap created by their exclusion. On closer scrutiny, the study reveals that African women writers have also addressed and highlighted issues that show the link between African women’s roles and their environment.
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Thobejane, Mamphofore Mack. "Tsiri : Padinyana ya Madiba (Sepedi)." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30598.
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In his monograph on Sepedi/North Sotho, Groenewald (1993:19) describes Moses Josiah Madiba as one of the first authors of didactic or moral tales. He also points out that Madiba’s contribution includes other kinds of works, such as poetry and school readers. Groenewald (1993:19) emphasises Madiba’s pioneering role in the development of literature in Sepedi. Because he was one of the earliest writers in Sepedi, his influence on the development of this literature should not be underestimated. In this study, the focus is therefore on the writing of Madiba as an author, but only his novelette Tsiri (1953) is selected for specific analysis. In the analysis, the content and structure of the work are discussed in detail and they are interpreted against the historical background of Sepedi literature in order to highlight Madiba’s place in this literature. The descriptive model used in this study is an adaptation of the narratological model. It requires a comprehensive definition of the relevant concepts. In this case a distinction is made between the theme and topic as concepts. The elements of the content, namely the characters, the action, the milieu and historical time, are defined precisely. The novelette deals with the difficult life circumstances encountered by the protagonist, which result in his falling into a life of laziness. The relationship that develops between the various characters is highlighted in terms of the topic. The historical course of the facets of the action is described. The various time aspects are closely examined, after which the milieu is discussed. The entire discussion is situated in an historical framework in order to reveal the importance of Madiba in the history of this literature. The structure of the work is discussed in four sections. First, the theme of the story, the narrative strategy, the title and the pillars on which the structure rests are discussed. Second, characterization is explored, with particular emphasis on Tsiri and his father, Madubaduba, who respectively represent the negative and positive poles in the novelette. This includes a discussion of the various narrative techniques which are used to persuade the reader to accept Tsiri after he repents. Third, the milieu is described in as far as it supports the theme. It contributes to the rationale for the turning point in Tsiri’s life. The milieu is functionally incorporated by means of a multitude of techniques. Fourth, the study focuses on the action, which presents the events in terms of an exposition, the development, climax and dénouement. Once the author has indicated the conflict between the main characters, he uses a variety of narrative moments to increase tension. In particular, he uses changes of the point of view and focalisation extensively. As can be expected in the early works in any literature, there are some bothersome structural flaws, and in this case they are related specifically to the use of the different points of view, where there is no clear rationale for the presence of the author’s moralisation. Although this flaw is pointed out, this does not imply a negative critical analysis of the work. The fact remains that Madiba writes in a flowing narrative style and that his Sepedi language usage is impeccable, which makes him an important pioneer in the history of Sepedi literature. His pioneering work in the educational arena positions him as a champion of the Sepedi language. Further studies could evaluate his other novelettes and poems against this background. AFRIKAANS : In sy monografie oor die Sepedi/Noord Sotho letterkunde beskryf Groenewald (1993:19) Moses Josiah Madiba as een van die eerste skrywers van die didaktiese of morele verhaal. Hy wys ook daarop dat Madiba se bydrae ander werke insluit, byvoorbeeld gedigte en skoolleesboeke. Groenewald (1993:19) beklemtoon Madiba se baanbrekerswerk in die Sepedi letterkunde. Omdat hy een van die vroegste skrywers in Sepedi was, mag sy invloed op die ontwikkeling van hierdie letterkunde nie onderskat word nie. In hierdie studie word die ondersoek derhalwe op die skrywerskap van Madiba toegespits, maar slegs die novelle Tsiri (1953) word vir spesifieke ontleding uitgesonder. In die bespreking word die inhoud en die struktuur van die werk indringend beskryf en dit word teen die historiese agtergrond van die Sepedi letterkunde geïnterpreteer om sodoende Madiba se plek in hierdie letterkunde duidelik uit te lig. Die beskrywingsmodel wat in hierdie studie gebruik word, is ‘n aanpassing van die narratologiese model. Dit vereis ‘n volledige omskrywing van die begrippe wat ter sprake kom. In hierdie geval word daar tussen die tema en die onderwerp as begrippe onderskei. Ook die elemente waaruit die inhoud bestaan, naamlik die karakters, die handeling, die milieu en historiese tyd, word presies omskryf. Die novelle handel oor die hooffiguur se moeilike lewensomstandighede, wat daartoe bydra dat hy in luiheid verval. Die verhouding wat tussen die verskillende karakters ontwikkel, word ten opsigte van die onderwerp uitgelig. Die historiese verloop van die fasette van die handeling word beskryf. Die verskillende tydsaspekte word onder die loep geneem, waarna die milieu bespreek word. Die hele bespreking word binne ‘n historiese raamwerk geplaas sodat die betekenis van Madiba in die geskiedenis van hierdie letterkunde na vore kom. Die struktuur van die werk word in vier afdelings behandel. Eerstens word die tema, die vertelstrategie, die titel en pilare waarop die struktuur staan, bespreek. Tweedens word karaktertekening nagegaan; en hier val die kollig op Tsiri en sy vader Madubaduba, wat onderskeidelik die negatiewe en positiewe pole in die verhaal verteenwoordig. Dit sluit ‘n bespreking in van die verskillende verteltegnieke waardeur die leser oorgehaal word om Tsiri, na sy berou, te aanvaar. Derdens, word die milieu beskryf en wel in soverre dit die tema ondersteun. Dit dra daarom by dat die keerpunt in Tsiri se lewe gemotiveer word. Deur ‘n veelheid van tegnieke word die milieu funksioneel ingespan. Vierdens val die klem op die handeling wat onder vier hoofde aan die orde kom, te wete die eksposisie, die ontwikkeling, die klimaks en die ontknoping. Nadat die outeur die botsing tussen die hooffigure aangedui het, kom hy met ‘n verskeidenheid vertelgrepe vorendag om die spanning uit te bou. Daar word veral gebruik gemaak van gesigspuntwisseling en fokussering word ekstensief aangewend. Soos te wagte in enige vroeë werk in ‘n letterkunde, kom daar hinderlike struktuurfoute voor, en in dié geval lê dit juis by die aanwending van die gesigspunttegnieke, waar die teenwoordigheid van die outeur se moralisering nie duidelik gemotiveer word nie. Hoewel die gebrek uitgewys word, lei dit nie na ‘n kritiese ontleding van die werk nie. Die saak is dat Madiba ‘n vloeiende vertelmanier het en dat sy taal in onbesproke Sepedi is, wat hom in die geskiedenis van die Sepedi letterkunde ‘n belangrike baanbreker maak. Sy pionierswerk op die gebied van die onderwys plaas hom as taalstryder voorop. In verdere studies sou sy ander novelles en gedigte teen hierdie agtergrond beoordeel kan word. CopyrightDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Morebodi, Tsietsi John. "A public participation strategy for Community Policing Forums : the case of Tlokwe Local Municipality / Tsietsi John Morebodi." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15936.
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In any democratic dispensation public participation is a wide spread concern and highly topical to guide a discourse on openness, transparency, and inclusiveness in government. The importance and contribution of public participation to a healthy and developing democracy should not be underestimated. There are various forms of public participation that are known in the literature. They range from general consultation, submission of comments to public institutions, to direct negotiations and interaction.
In the South African Police Service, the notion and principles of public participation are embedded in a modern community policing approach. This approach was adopted by the South African Government post-1994. The concept Community Policing is generally about making policing more community-centred through the active engagement of community members in the affairs of the police. Community policing is multidimensional in addressing social problems such as crime and poverty. It also involves community empowerment to guide the community in addressing their own challenges.
To give operational impetus to a community policing approach, Community Policing Forums (CPFs) have been established as a mechanism to foster public participation in general and active community engagement in policing matters in particular. The roles of CPFs are entrenched in national legislation and a comprehensive regulatory framework further guide the functioning of these structures.
The functioning of these CPFs is, however, not without challenges. By following a qualitative case study design, this study investigated the particular challenges associated with public participation in the CPFs of the Tlokwe Local Municipality (TLM). The study has been conducted in the three police stations of TLM, namely Potchefstroom, Ikageng and Buffelshoek. The aim of this study was to present the need for the development of a comprehensive strategy to enhance public participation in CPFs in TLM. Such a strategy is suggested as main solution to address the variety of challenges identified.MA (Public Management and Governance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
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Tsitas, Steven R. "I. The effect of volcanic aerosols on ultraviolet radiation in Antarctica. II. A novel method for enhancing subsurface radar imaging using radar interferometry." Thesis, 1998. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/7456/1/Tsitas%201998.pdf.
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The theory of radiative transfer is used to explain how a stratospheric aerosol layer may, for large solar zenith angles, increase the flux of UV-B light at the ground. As previous explanations are heuristic and incomplete, I first provide a rigorous and complete explanation of how this occurs. I show that an aerosol layer lying above Antarctica during spring will decrease the integrated daily dose of biologically weighted irradiance, weighted by the erythema action spectrum, by only up to 5%. Thus after a volcanic eruption, life in Antarctica during spring will suffer the combined effects of the spring ozone hole and ozone destruction induced by volcanic aerosols, with the latter effect only slightly offset by aerosol scattering.
I extend subsurface radar imaging by considering the additional information that may be derived from radar interferometry. I show that, under the conditions that temporal and spatial decorrelation between observations is small so that the effects of these decorrelations do not swamp the signature expected from a subsurface layer, the depth of burial of the lower surface may be derived. Also, the echoes from the lower and upper surfaces may be separated. The method is tested with images acquired by SIR-C of the area on the Egypt/Sudan border where buried river channels were first observed by SIR-A. Temporal decorrelation between the images, due to some combination of physical changes in the scene, changes in the spacecraft attitude and errors in the processing by NASA of the raw radar echoes into the synthetic aperture radar images, swamps the expected signature for a layer up to 40 meters thick. I propose a test to determine whether or not simultaneous observations are required, and then detail the radar system requirements for successful application of the method for both possible outcomes of the test. I also describe in detail the possible applications of the method. These include measuring the depth of burial of ice in the polar regions of Mars, enhancing the visibility of buried features and, most importantly, the ability to map soil moisture in arid regions of the earth at high spatial resolution.
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Mmutle, Tsietsi Jeffrey. "Internal Communication as a key driver of employee engagement and organizational performance : a case study of LG Electronics, South Korea / Tsietsi Jeffrey Mmutle." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15622.
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This research stems out of the desire to uncover and learn the impact and influence
of internal communication as a strategic function that enhances productivity,
organisational growth, employee engagements and above all organisational
success 1
. Internal communications is a body of knowledge that is gaining momentum
throughout the world. It is a global discipline that organisations have adopted as their
instrument to measure the effectiveness of their communication campaigns,
programmes and strategies both internal and external. Internal communication has
been forced to adjust to numerous changes in the workplace.
Macleod and Clarke (2009) argue that good quality internal communication
enhances engagement and emphasise that employees need clear communication
from senior management to understand how their own roles correspond with the
leadership vision.
The overarching aim of this investigative study was to examine the influence of
internal communication as a key driver of employee engagement and organisational
performance. In doing so, the research study employed qualitative approach method
to investigate the extent in which internal communication as a strategic function
enhances employee engagement and promotes organisational performance.
This qualitative exploratory study relied on the experiences, thoughts, behaviours,
and the understanding of the research respondents to articulate their knowledge
about the phenomenon under investigation; therefore data was collected by means
of various processes, including semi-structured interviews, and focus group
discussions.
The study was carried out amongst employees of LG Electronics2
, Seoul in South Korea to establish the extent to which internal communication influences or drives employee engagement3. The study adopted content analysis as a well-tested
method of data analysis to better understand the data collected. Through content
analysis, thematic connections were made and data was categorised in different
themes that emerged systematically from similar characteristics mentioned in the
conversations with the respondents. Inferences were drawn from the similar
characteristics and presented in the data analysis and interpretations chapter of the
research study.
The results revealed that a deep awareness of internal communication existed
among the respondents of the study. They also revealed high levels of
consciousness of factors that contribute immensely to internal communication as a
strategic function that enhance engagement, organisational culture, goals and
values.
The results revealed that a strong sense of identification and ownership was given to
employees as part of programmes that intensified employee's contributions, level of
engagement and understanding of goals and culture of the organisation. The
empirical findings further postulated that employees were incorporated into the
dominant coalition of the organisation and were also regarded as change agents,
through which their inputs and suggestions were valued and recognised.
The empirical study also revealed that employees were engaged because of the
organisational culture shared by the strong leadership and management philosophy;
LG-way was implemented as a framework to guide open and transparent
communication. The results indicated that there was no salary gap between males
and females, employees were rewarded according to their performance targets and
capabilities and were also encouraged through coaching to improve their targets
where necessary for the successful growth of the organisation.
Through the empirical findings, the study recommended that a well coordinated
internal communication function which is aligned and guided by the fundamental
principles of the organisation will produce rewarding results for the organisation. There is a greater need for the organisation to conduct an intensified research on the
impact and contributions of proactive internal communication strategies.
Such research will guide and direct the coordination and implementation of proper
and relevant programmes to assist the organisation to be more engaged and
embedded among employees. LG Electronics must also come to terms with the fact
that internal stakeholders make or break the organisation. The organisation needs to
treat all employees equally and monitor the value of employees in the organisational
growth and success. Management needs to know that the internal stakeholders are
important as they provide the foundation of the organisation as well as acting as the
liaison between the organisation and the external stakeholders.Thesis (M.A (Communication) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2014
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cho, che chung, and 卓琪程. "Use Hosmer method under Tsiatis model, discuss goodness-of-fit for Logistic regression model by Wald statistic." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47536563893708202670.
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Chen, Chia-Hui, and 陳佳惠. "Studies of Religious Implications of Hsing Lin Tsi’s Prose－Focus on“Suffering”And“Love”." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pzmxpe.
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碩士國立臺南大學
國語文學系國語文教學碩士班
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Religion plays an essential role in Hsin Lin Zi’s works, whether they are about her everyday life, her reflections on the physical challenges, or the founding and management of Eden organization. In this paper, two themes of her essays are tackled from the religious perspectives—suffering and love. The chapters in this thesis are as follows. Chapter 1: Introduction. First, the motivation and purpose of this paper is presented. Then a literature review is rendered, followed by explaining the scope of the study and the research methods applied. Chapter 2: Hsin Lin Zi's Life Course. This chapter delineates the significant points of her life: contracting Rheumatoid Arthritis, converting to Christianity, committing to writing and establishing Eden organization. Each point is led and provided by God to equip her to compose the masterpiece with suffering and love. Her faith in God is the key. Chapter 3: Biblical References in Hsin Lin Zi's Essays: Her prose works are first briefly probed. Then the biblical scripture references and citations are listed and analyzed according to the characters, stories and verses. Chapter 4: Reflections on Suffering. This chapter defines what suffering is, and explores the victorious purposes of suffering. It sheds light on how Hsin Lin Zi faced suffering with humor, courage and gratitude, as well as how she lived a joyful, graceful, contented and devotional life. Chapter 5: Discussion of Love. This chapter first discusses the definition of love. It explained how Hsin Lin Zi, followed the example of Jesus Christ, lived out a life of love to glorify God. She embraced her own life and extended this love of life toward people and things around her. Love passes on. Chapter 6: Conclusion. The life of Hsin Lin Zi is a life of severe sufferings and a life of surpassing magnificence as well. Her transcending life of suffering and love is like a grain of wheat in the ground, which brings out many seeds of life. It is deeply believed that blessed are those who explore and meditate from reading Hsin Lin Zi’s writing works.