24 research outputs found
Kryptowährung als Alternative zu herkömmlichem Geld – Aus ökologischer Sicht
No full textSeit 2009 das erste Mal der Bitcoin als Open-Source-Software veröffentlicht wurde, sind neue Kryptowährungen stetig dazu gekommen und weiterentwickelt worden. Einige Jahre später folgten Währungen wie Litecoin, Ripple und Ethereum. Inzwischen sind Kryptowährungen im Großteil der Welt legal und gelten in einigen Ländern bereits als offizielles Zahlungsmittel. Betrachtet man die weitere Entwicklung, stellt sich die Frage, ob Kryptowährungen eine funktionierende Alternative zu herkömmlichen Währungen bieten können, und ob diese unter aktuellen ökologischen Bedingungen tragbar wäre.
Ziel ist es, die Frage zu beantworten, welche Kriterien Kryptowährungen erfüllen müssten, um weiterhin einen hohen Stellenwert einzunehmen. Es wird eine Literaturrecherche durchgeführt, welche die Funktionsweise und Problematik verschiedener Mining-Konzepte erklärt, und ökologische Daten analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es Ansätze zu ökologischen Kryptowährungen gibt, die noch in der Entwicklung sind. Kryptowährungen, die diese Aspekte nicht berücksichtigen, werden
langfristig als Alternative ökologisch nicht tragbar sein
Sako Beke
No full textNon-Malian vocal style and multilayered singing accompanied by traditional Malian instuments played with a modern edg
DAR: Courtyards and chinampas for urban water management in Dar es Salaam
No full textThe biggest city of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, faces increasing floodrisk, causing frequent sickness, loss of life, and widespread damageto property. Dar es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in theworld. More than 70% of the residents live in informal settlements.Many of them are located in flood prone areas like river valleys andfloodplains, which flood annually. Because of their limited coping capacity,residents are not able to recover from the impacts of this flooding.Due to the change of precipitation patterns, the flood risk islikely to increase in the future, putting even more people and assets atrisk during more frequent and intense floods. This graduation projectseeks to answer the main research question: How can urban formand landscape help to mitigate the effects of floods on citizens in Dares Salaam, Tanzania?For areas with a high density of buildings, multifunctional courtyardsare proposed. The existing building structure is strategically densified,and filled with new buildings to shape courtyards. Inside, a variety ofinterventions reduce the water run-off into the river valley, treat wastewater and generate income via urban agriculture and aquaponicsystems. For the river valley the construction of “chinampas” is beingproposed, which creates a high retention capacity for storm waterwhile enabling agricultural activities and connectivity across the rivervalley throughout the wet and dry seasons. At the edges of the valley,different interventions are located in order to reduce and cleanrun-off water before entering the valley. The combination of spatialinterventions to reduce the flood risk with urban agriculture reducesthe impacts and increases the ability of residents to deal with futurehazards.The design proposals are supported by a implementation strategyand complimenting policies which reduce pollution, steer future urbandevelopment and introduce new renting models to host a higher diversityof lifestyles with different economic abilities.Urbanism students for AfricaDesign of the urban fabricArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Design of the Urban Fabri
Assessing Compliance to the World Health Organization Schedule for Antenatal Care in Swaziland : a retrospective analysis
No full textDissertation (MPH)--University of Pretoria, 2014.In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed to developing countries a different approach to antenatal care (ANC) service delivery called the “Goal-oriented” or “focused ANC” (FANC) approach. Since then, a number of countries have adopted this approach and Swaziland is one of the countries. Fundamentally, this model helps in reducing the number of ANC visits women need to make during pregnancy, placing more emphasis on birth planning, emergency preparedness and identification, prevention and management of life threatening complications during pregnancy, labour and delivery.
Swaziland like many African states has encountered several challenges in implementing this approach. About 97 percent of pregnant women visit health facilities during pregnancy, close to 80 percent make at least four ANC visits (Swaziland Demographic and Health Survey 2006/7) but the challenge is the country does not have empirical evidence on compliance to the WHO focused approach.
To assess compliance with the Focused ANC approach among women in Swaziland, a retrospective desk review of ANC records was be undertaken in 17 ANC facilities identified as ANC sentinel sites. The review used records of pregnant women attending ANC from 2010 to 2012.
The primary objective was to assess compliance with the WHO FANC approach, using data from 2010-2012. The limitation of the study approach is that only existing information collected for patient monitoring was used, therefore additional information that would have been necessary for the analysis was unfortunately unavailable. There was no contact made with the women during data collection process.
Epi-info was used for electronic data capturing. Data was then imported to STATA version 12 for analysis. A p-value of 0.05 was considered for statistical significance. The total sample size used was 1264 records. Descriptive statistics were generated to compare demographic information. Compliance was estimated by combining the four visits made by each woman and comparing visits with the WHO schedule for visits. Fishers exact test was used to test for probable demographic and health factors associated with compliance. The multivariate logistic regression model was used to estimate the coefficients for ANC compliance according to demographic and health factors and to control for potential confounders.
Ethical clearance to conduct the study was sought from the Ministry of Health Scientific and Ethics Committee in Swaziland as well as the University of Pretoria. Permission to access data was also sought from the Strategic Information Department in the Ministry of Health.
Results from this study will be used as a baseline since no other study on compliance has been done in Swaziland. The results will also be used to inform future FANC implementation as Swaziland has already reviewed the focused ANC guidelines. On the other hand, WHO is reviewing the focused ANC guidelines which will be shared with countries for adaption. This study has come just at an opportune time as results can also be used to inform the finalization of the new FANC guidelines at the global level.
The findings will be presented at the University of Pretoria School of Health Systems and Public Health seminar and also at a national stakeholders’ meeting, as well as local and international conferences. Findings will also be published in the WHO Bulletin.
The study found that women in Swaziland did not comply with the Focused ANC schedule. Overall compliance was 0.87% (CI: 04-1.4). There was however an observed improvement in compliance over the years, where women who presented for ANC in 2012 were four (4) times more compliant than those who presented in 2010 (OR: 3.8).
These findings are presented as a journal article in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of Pretoria. Miss. Nomsa Mulima is the first author and Professor Andy Beke and SAS Shade Ajayi Steve Olorunju are the second and third authors respectively.tm2015School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)MPHUnrestricte
The role of emotional intelligence in effective management
No full textEmotional intelligence is crucial in management because it enhances interpersonal relationships, team collaboration, decision-making, and leadership effectiveness. It refers to the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and those of others. In management, emotional intelligence helps leaders navigate complex social interactions, foster a positive work environment, and handle conflicts more effectively. The author reviewed Scopus articles about the topic between 2011 and 2024 and used Bibliometric analysis to structure the retrieved data
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Litigation Communication ::Crisis and Reputation Management in the Legal Process /
No full textThe book is a brief journey through centuries and jurisdictions and expands on examples of enactment practices of states that support, challenge or even reject communication during pending litigations. England, as the main representative of a jurisdiction, suggests communication solutions potentially different than the practice in the United States where litigation communication first time occurred. Accordingly, the author offers a comprehensive analysis and detailed historical narrative of the positions of various jurisdictions in relation to communication in the legal process. As a kind of applied legal history, the book provides an exploration of historical events that were significant in a legal communication context and addresses their implications for modern enactments. The account looks at the history of regulations to allow a better understanding of the strict rules that have often been cited over the years support or restrict communication in the legal process. The author provides the reader with proper contexts on different judicial and communication considerations, as well as the collaboration of legal and public relations experts, in a particular form of crisis and reputation management, in the litigation process. As such, this book is an attempt to present an accurate and thoughtful account of the theory and history of litigation communication, which is directly relevant in various debates such as the work on the meaning and context of the Contempt of Court Act in England or the American First and Sixth Amendments in different centuries
International Management Accounting Standards Promote Business Growth
No full textThis paper traces the benefits of international management accounting information systems and their contribution to standardization and harmonization in business practice. In this review, the goal is to describe and summarize how the management accounting standards promote management decisions and influence the business environment in a global scale. It is expected that the unified, standardized accounting information system will lead to new types of analysis and data, furthermore with the possible integration of new indicators from the business management practice of certain countries. The author analyzed and valued the effects of international standards on the business economic environments. There was shown that uniform management accounting standards will increase market liquidity, decrease transaction costs for investors, lower cost of capital, and facilitate international capital formation and flow. Reduced costs will also result in more cross-listings and cross-border investments
Character Education of the Elementary School Child A Survey
No full textIn writing this thesis, it is the aim of the author to investigate more fully that which seems to her to be the most important factor in all education - Character Education. It is a personal aim. She seeks to gain a greater understanding of childhood, a greater understanding of the factors underlying all training - but especially those factors which deal with the problems of building the innate tendencies into that which we call character
Módosított eljárás tartósított élelmiszerek homoktartalmának gyors meghatározására
No full textVerfasser modifizierte das zur Bestimmung der Sandgehaltes der konservierten Lebensmitteln dienende , ,auswaschende” Verfahren. Die mit dem alten und dem modifizierten Verfahren erhaltenen Ergebnisse stimmten vollkommen überein. Die Modifikation bedeutet bei dem langwierigen Verfahren eine grosse Zeitersparnis. The conventional ’’washing” method for the determination of sand content of foods was modified by the author. The values obtained by the modified method agreed with those yielded by the original procedure. The modified method is, however, much shorter than cumbersome original procedure. L’auteur a modifié la méthode par davage» employée pour le dosage la teneur en sable des denrées alimentaires conservées. Les résultats du procédé ancien et nouveau ont donné les mémes résultats. La modification signifie une grande épargne de temps dans ce procédé leng
Migrating Scholars and Ideas The Prague School and Scandinavia
No full textThe Prague Linguistic Circle was founded over 80 years ago. Its merit is to define the language as a structure, as well as structuralism as a method of research, which continues to be the most important theory of linguistic, literary and aesthetic. The author focuses on the history of structuralism in Scandinavia and its impact on Europe and the United States in the interwar period and during the Second World War, as well as describes the Czech structuralism in Scandinavia after World War II. The key figure in the relationship between the Prague school of structural linguistics and Nordic is undeniably Roman Jakobson. His influence – as well as his colleagues – is most evident in the case of Danish scholars and Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. But there he argues that the Czech structuralism and functional linguistics dominate the Scandinavian linguistics to the present day, although in some cases, their influence continues to give noticeable results of research
