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Balancing rights in education: applying the proportionality test
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Bank productivity and sources of efficiency change: a case of the four largest banks in South Africa
(Clute Institute [for academic research], 2013)The Malmquist productivity index was utilised to estimate the total factor productivity and productivity change of the four largest banks in South Africa for the period 1994 to 2010. Total factor productivity change can ... -
Bank valuation and its connections with the subprime mortgage crisis and basel II capital accord
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2008)The ongoing subprime mortgage crisis (SMC) and implementation of Basel II Capital Accord regulation have resulted in issues related to bank valuation and profitability becoming more topical. Profit is a major indicator of ... -
Banking competition and misconduct: how dire economic conditions affect banking behavior
(Business Perspectives, 2016)Increasingly, in the last decade, largely due to perceived greater shareholder pressures for more profitable performance, compensation maximization has taken center stage in some segments of the banking industry. Banks ... -
Banking customers’ attitudes toward complaining: their likelihood of voicing a complaint and service recovery they consider appropriate
(Academic journals, 2012)This paper measures the attitude of banking customers towards complaining and their likelihood to complain when a service failure is experienced at their current and another bank. Insight is also provided into the service ... -
Banking regulations: an examination of the failure of African Bank using Merton’s structural model
(AOSIS, 2017)The business of banking involves the taking of deposits and the making of loans. Banking balance sheets are typically highly leveraged, with equity capital generally dwarfed by debt capital. Banks are ... -
"Baptised in the Spirit and fire": single or double baptism?
(New Testament Society of Southern Africa, 2016)The Synoptic Gospels as well as John's Gospel contain the words ascribed to John the Baptist, that one is coming who is greater than John who will baptise people "in the Holy Spirit." Matthew and uke add that the baptism ... -
Baptists and the Bible: a Hermeneutical Question
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Bariatric surgery to reduce mortality in US adults. A public health perspective from the Analysis of the American National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey linked to the US mortality register
(Springer, 2018)Background Type II obesity represents a major pandemic and public health threat in high-income countries. Type II obesity increases the risk of all-cause and specific-cause mortality, and it is widely acknowledged that ... -
'Barking’ at texts in Sepedi oral reading fluency: Implications for edumetric interventions in African languages
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Reading development in African languages remains under-researched and under-theorised to date despite a cornucopia of studies showing that successful acquisition of reading is vital for cognitive processes such as attention ... -
Baroreceptor sensitivity, cardiovascular responses and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in men: the SABPA study
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Aim. Research has shown a significant relationship between hypertension and attenuated baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS), which in turn reflects alterations of autonomic control of the cardiovascular system. The objective of ... -
Baroreceptor sensitivity, cardiovascular responses and ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in men: the SABPA study
(Informa Health care, 2011)Aim. Research has shown a significant relationship between hypertension and attenuated baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS), which in turn reflects alterations of autonomic control of the cardiovascular system. The objective of ... -
Barriers to career advancement of women in mining: a qualitative analysis
(UNISA Press, 2017)In recent years, various initiatives, protocols and legislation have been developed globally to promote gender equality and address existing discrimination against women. South Africa is no exception to this trend. In the ... -
Barriers to community participation in crime prevention in low income communities in Cape Town
(The Social Sciences Research Society, 2016)Community participation in crime prevention has been embraced by anti-crime organizations as a panacea for crime problems. This approach gained its preeminent status after governments realised that law enforcement alone ... -
Barriers to internationalisation: firm–level evidence from South Africa
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2012)The internal resource barriers that firms experience influence their capability to export. This, in turn, influences the export performance of the country and the extent to which exports contribute to economic growth. The ... -
Barriers to school sport participation: a survey among secondary school students in Pretoria, South Africa
(2013)The primary aim of this study was to determine factors affecting sport participation among 197 (103 females and 94 males) students aged 15-18 years (mean age: 16.5 years; s = 0.8 years) who were drawn from three secondary ... -
Barriers to small informal business development and entrepreneurship: the case of Emfuleni Region
(Czestochowa University of Technology, 2016)The nature of being an entrepreneur encapsulates the essence of fully embracing opportunities and taking on new challenges and risks. Informal entrepreneurship is often taken for granted and hardly recognised as being a ... -
Barriers to tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus treatment guidelines adherence among nurses initiating and managing anti-retroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal and North West provinces
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: Nurses, as front-line care providers in the South Africa’s health care system, are called upon to deliver integrated interventions for tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (TB and HIV) including ... -
Basel III countercyclical capital rules: implications for South Africa
(University of Pretoria, 2012)The financial crisis has been blamed on many entities, institutions and individuals as well as the Basel II accord which had just begun to be implemented globally when the crisis erupted. The criticisms resulted in the ... -
Baseline bio-accumulation concentrations and resulting oxidative stress in Synodontis zambezensis after an acute laboratory exposure to 4,4′-DDT
(Elsevier, 2019)The use of 1,1′-(2,2,2-Trichloro-1,1-ethanediyl)bis(4-chlorobenzene) (DDT) as a pesticide for the control of insects vectors responsible for the spread of many life threatening diseases was officially banned in 1972 by the ...