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Estimating scale efficiency of platinum-mining companies’ environmental performance: a South African perspective

Buys, Pieter Willem; Oberholzer, Merwe; Prinsloo, Toy (Clute Institute for Academic Research, 2011)

The purpose of the study is to develop a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to estimate the relative scale efficiency of platinum-mining companies’ environmental performance. South African platinum-mines were used to ...
Estimating technical and scale efficiency in banks and its relationship with economic value addes: A South African study

Oberholzer, Merwe; Van der Westhuizen, G (SA Journal of Accounting Research, 2009)

For estimating the relative efficiency of banks, income statement data as well as balance sheet data are used. Monthly balance sheet data are readily available from the DI900 reports published by the department of Bank ...
Estimating the birth period of pulsars through GLAST LAT observations of their wind nebulae

De Jager, Ocker C (IOP Publishing LimitedAmerican Astronomical Society, 2008)
Estimating the efficiency of sustainable development by South African mining companies

Oberholzer, Merwe; Prinsloo, Thomas Frederik (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2011)

The purpose of the study was to develop a model, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), in order to estimate the relative efficiency of nine South African listed mining companies in their efforts to convert environmental ...
Estimation of human body concentrations of DDT from indoor residual spraying for malaria control

Bornman, Riana; Bouwman, Hindrik; Fritsche, Lukas; Gyalpo, Tenzing; Scheringer, Martin (Elsevier, 2012)

Inhabitants of dwellings treated with DDT for indoor residual spraying show high DDT levels in blood and breast milk. This is of concern since mothers transfer lipid-soluble contaminants such as DDT via breastfeeding to ...
Ethanol production from tropical sugar beet juice

Brandling, Janine Ellen; Marx, Sanette; Van der Gryp, Percy (Academic journals, 2012)

Starch and sugar resources have been extensively researched to find a suitable renewable source of energy to supplement the world’s ever increasing demand for energy while also abating global warming by stemming the addition ...
An ethical critique of Milton Friedman's doctrine on economics and freedom

Vorster, Nicolaas (Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies (SACRI), 2010)
Ethical decision-making: the doctrine of sin and grace

Giles, Stephen Paul (Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)

Ethical decision-making presupposes the possession of a free will. Central to a discussion on reformed ethics is the question of the bounds of freedom of the will. The reformed tradition, along with the wider Christian ...
Ethical guidelines for HIV and AIDS reporting: the interest-group factor

Froneman, Johannes D; Fourie, Lynnette M; Swanepoel, Thalyta (Unit for Community Communication, Department of Communication and Information Studies, University of the Free State, 2008)
Ethics in economic and mangment sciences: A researcher's resource

Pienaar, Jacobus (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2010)
An ethics of forgiveness

Vorster, Jakobus M (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)

This article investigates the argument that the Christian idea of forgiveness can and should be translated into a socio-political context, from a Reformed perspective. It furthermore endeavors to provide guidelines that ...
The Ethics of retribution in Psalm 37

Marè, Leonard Philippus (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 2010)
Ethnic-specific Correlations of Visfatin with circulating Markers of Endothelial Inflammation and Function

Schutte, Aletta; Huisman, Hugo; Van Rooyen, Johannes; Malan, Leone; Malan, Nicolaas; Schutte, Rudolph (Nature publishing group, 2009)

Sub-Saharan Africa is afflicted by high hypertension prevalence that is expected to rise even further along with increasing obesity rates. The present study aimed to investigate the role of visfatin in obesity and to explore ...
Ethnic and gender differences regarding the insulin-blood pressure relationship

Schutte, Aletta E; Huisman, Hugo W; Palmer, Iolanthe Marike (Elsevier, 2009)

Ageing is associated with increased insulin and C-peptide levels. Due to a lack of data, our first aim was to establish whether this also holds true for Africans from South Africa. Our second aim was to determine whether ...
Ethnicity-specific differences in L-arginine status in South African men

Malan, Leone; Glyn, M.C.; Anderssohn, M.; Lüneburg, N.; Van Rooyen, J.M.; Schutte, R.; Huisman, H.W.; Fourie, C.M.T.; Smith, W.; Malan, N.T.; Mels, C.M.C.; Böger, R.H.; Schutte, A.E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)

The aetiology for an increasing incidence of hypertensive cardiovascular disease amongst Africans in southern Africa is unclear. Hypertension may be induced by inadequate release of L-arginine-derived nitric oxide impairing ...
Etiek en Ou Testament: ’n kritiese bespreking van bybelse grondslae vir moderne etiese vraagstukke

Van Rooy, H.F. (AOSIS, 1997)

This article deals with the use of the Old Testament in seeking answers to modern ethical issues. A distinction must he made between the ethics of the Old Testament - a field for Old Testament scholars and the use of the ...
The eudaimonic and hedonic components of happiness: qualitative and quantitative findings

Brdar, Ingrid; Wissing, Maria Philipina; Delle Fave, Antonella; Freire, Teresa; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne (Springer, 2011)

This paper illustrates a new project developed by a cross-country team of researchers, with the aim of studying the hedonic and eudaimonic components of happiness through a mixed method approach combining both qualitative ...
Eunug in die Antieke Nabye Ooste

Nel, Marius (Faculty of Theology, University of the Orange Free State, 2008)
Euphorbias of South Africa: Two new Phorbol Esters from Euphorbia bothae

Brand, Linda; Davies-Coleman, Michael; Harvey, Brian Herbert; Marais, Eloise; Popplewell, Wendy (South African Bureau for Scientific Publications, 2010)
European perspectives on job insecurity : Editorial introduction

De Witte, Hans; Hellgren, Johnny; Naswall, Katharina; Sverke, Magnus (Sage (Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden), 2010)