761 research outputs found
Book Review: Evolution’s Chimera: Bats and the Marvel of Evolutionary Adaptation
No full textBook Title: Evolution’s Chimera: Bats and the Marvel of Evolutionary AdaptationBook Author: David Jacobs2016, University of Cape Town Press, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 14373, Lansdowne 7779, Cape Town, South Africa Softcover, 204 pagesISBN 978-1-77582-212-7. Price R29
An analysis of construction related contractual issues (risk, time and claim related) in the context of the construction related contractual obligations of the contractor and the employer in fidic yellow (plant and design-build) general conditions of
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-169)
Santam Limited v Dial Direct Limited and Joe Public (Pty) Ltd : unreported Western Cape High Court case number 13278/11 (WCC)
No full textThe dispute in Santam Limited v Dial Direct Limited and Joe Public (Pty) Ltd (unreported Western Cape High Court case number 13278/11), ended via a settlement, and judgment was given without any reasons being provided. Nevertheless, the facts raise a number of interesting questions, some of which are considered below. The facts were that Santam had a television advertisement produced (described in the court papers as “the Real McCoy” - available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJWdpKATP0 (accessed 2011-12-10)). Sir Ben Kingsley is shown walking on the beach, talking about how consumers should discern between insurance companies, and in the end four look-alike men are shown. Dial Direct, a competitor of Santam, produced a commercial in response (available at http://www.alonberman.com/dial-directs-take-on-sanlams-ben-kingsley-ad (accessed 2011-12-10)). This commercial depicted an entity with a hand as the upper “body”, walking on a beach, saying “yada yada”’, and at the end four similar entities appear. The words “less yada yada, more ching ching” then appear on the screen. In the applicant’s founding affidavit the similarities were said to be, more in particular, that both advertisements had the same backdrop; the “persons” involved had the same dress style; the composition, grading and camera angles of the shots in the adverts are virtually identical; and similar music and lighting is used to create the same mood (par 24)
Santam Limited v Dial Direct Limited and Joe Public (Pty) Ltd : unreported Western Cape High Court case number 13278/11 (WCC)
No full textThe dispute in Santam Limited v Dial Direct Limited and Joe Public (Pty) Ltd (unreported Western Cape High Court case number 13278/11), ended via a settlement, and judgment was given without any reasons being provided. Nevertheless, the facts raise a number of interesting questions, some of which are considered below. The facts were that Santam had a television advertisement produced (described in the court papers as “the Real McCoy” - available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJWdpKATP0 (accessed 2011-12-10)). Sir Ben Kingsley is shown walking on the beach, talking about how consumers should discern between insurance companies, and in the end four look-alike men are shown. Dial Direct, a competitor of Santam, produced a commercial in response (available at http://www.alonberman.com/dial-directs-take-on-sanlams-ben-kingsley-ad (accessed 2011-12-10)). This commercial depicted an entity with a hand as the upper “body”, walking on a beach, saying “yada yada”’, and at the end four similar entities appear. The words “less yada yada, more ching ching” then appear on the screen. In the applicant’s founding affidavit the similarities were said to be, more in particular, that both advertisements had the same backdrop; the “persons” involved had the same dress style; the composition, grading and camera angles of the shots in the adverts are virtually identical; and similar music and lighting is used to create the same mood (par 24)
Fighting for the forests: a history of the Western Australian forest protest movement 1895-2001
No full textAs the first comprehensive study of Western Australian forest protest the thesis analyses the protest movement's organisation, campaigns and strategies. Its central argument is that the contemporary Western Australian forest protest movement established a network of urban and south-west activist groups which encouraged broad public support, and that a diversity of protest strategies focused public attention on forest issues and pressured the state government to change its forest policies. The forest protest movement was characterised by its ability to continually adapt its organisation and strategies to changing social and political conditions. This flexible approach to protest not only led to victories in the Shannon River Basin, Lane-Poole Reserve and old growth forest campaigns, but also transformed forest protest into an influential social movement which contributed to the downfall of the Court Liberal Government in 2001
SOFTWARE: FROM PRODUCT TO SERVICE THE EVOLUTION OF A MODEL
No full textAmong the consequences of the Enterprise 2.0 family technologies’ growingpopularity, we can observe the rise of a set of new business models for the use and employment ofsoftware applications, some of them also applicable for infrastructure components. The mostpopular of these models is by far Software as a Service (also called SaaS). SaaS is a softwaredistribution model assuming the software applications are hosted and maintained by the vendor orthe distributor, the user access being granted exclusively by means of the Internet. The paper athand is a literature review and also an action research, meant to provide an objective and unbiasedcomparison of the two major software distribution models, and also to identify the strengths, theweaknesses and the favorite areas of applicability for each model. The paper is a part of a largerresearch performed by the author in the field of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.Organizational knowledge, Enterprise 2.0, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, Semantic Web
Erratum: What are the parenting experiences of fathers? The use of household survey data to inform decisions about the delivery of evidence-based parenting interventions to fathers
No full textThe Triple P-Positive Parenting Program is owned by the University of Queensland (UQ). The University through its main technology transfer company UniQuest Pty Limited has licensed Triple P International Pty Ltd to disseminate the program worldwide. Royalties stemming from this dissemination activity are distributed to the Parenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, UQ; Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at UQ; and contributory authors. No author has any share or ownership in Triple P International Pty Ltd. Matthew Sanders is the founder and an author on various Triple P programs and a consultant to Triple P International
Author identification from opposing perspectives in forensic linguistics
No full textIn this article, two cases of crimen iniuria are reported in which the suspect could be identified, on the basis of a forensic linguistic analysis, as the author of defamatory documents – one which resulted in litigation and an eventual conviction, and one which was dealt with intrainstitutionally by the authorities concerned subsequent to the submission of the analyst’s report. The investigations took the form of a comparison, as is usual in cases of this nature, between documents known to have been authored by the suspect and contested documents, which were either anonymous or sent under a pseudonym. From a methodological perspective, the investigation was partly done deductively, by attempting to falsify the hypothesis of independent, or separate, authorship through a quantitative (stylometric) analysis, and partly inductively, by subsequently undertaking a stylistic analysis to compile a linguistic profile of the author concerned. In this way, the deduction that the texts for which separate authorship could not be proved, were indeed produced by one and the same author, could be corroborated. Finally, the reports of both cases are compared to determine to what extent the method of analysis was influenced by case-specific variables. It is hoped that the experience gained here will contribute to the principle of scientific rigour underlying the credibility and acceptance of expert evidence submitted by linguists in court.Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 2010, 28(2): 185–19
Holidaying with the family pet: No dogs allowed!
No full textThis paper assesses the extent to which dog owners located in Brisbane, Australia, wish to holiday with their pets, and whether there is a gap between this desire and reality. The paper also examines the extent to which this demand is being catered for by the tourism accommodation sector. The need for this study reflects the increasingly significant role dogs are playing in the lives of humans, and the scale
of the dog-owning population. The results suggest that, although there is a strong desire among dog owners to take holidays with their pets, the actualisation of this
desire is comparatively low. A significant obstacle to the realisation of this desire appears to be a dearth of pet-friendly accommodation. This has implications for the
ability of the tourism industry to benefit from this potentially lucrative market, that is, the dog-owning population
Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails
No full textThis paper reports on some aspects of a research project aimed at automating the analysis of texts for the purpose of author profiling and identification. The Text Attribution Tool (TAT) was developed for the purpose of language-independent author profiling and has now been trained on two email corpora, English and Arabic. The complete analysis provides probabilities for the author’s basic demographic traits (gender, age, geographic origin, level of education and native language) as well as for five psychometric traits. The prototype system also provides a probability of a match with other texts, whether from known or unknown authors. A very important part of the project was the data collection and we give an overview of the collection process as well as a detailed description of the corpus of email data which was collected. We describe the overall TAT system and its components before outlining the ways in which the email data is processed and analysed. Because Arabic presents particular challenges for NLP, this paper also describes more specifically the text processing components developed to handle Arabic emails. Finally, we describe the Machine Learning setup used to produce classifiers for the different author traits and we present the experimental results, which are promising for most traits examined.The work presented in this paper was carried out while the authors were working at Appen Pty Ltd., Chatswood NSW 2067, Australi
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