Abstract Objective: To measure dietary intakes of young children aged 12–24 months and to determine the impact of poor diets on stunting. Design: A quantitative food-frequency questionnaire was adapted, tested and standardised. Trained enumerators conducted in-depth interviews with the mothers/caregivers of the children. Forty stunted children in urban informal settlements and 30 stunted children in rural areas were selected and pair-matched with controls. The data were captured on the Food Finder Program of the Medical Research Council. Results: In both urban and rural areas, the diet of stunted and non-stunted groups did differ significantly and all diets were of poor nutritional quality. Conclusion: Diets in both areas resembled the recommended prudent diet, i.e. low in fat and high in carbohydrates. Poor quality diets were not the primary cause of stunting.

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Settlement of a structure is a matter of great concern. Both excessive and differential settlement can cause expensive damage to buildings and must be avoided. Most methods used to estimate settlement are both deterministic in nature and are based on elastic analysis of soils. To better estimate settlement, a probabilistic estimate that uses a more in depth analysis of the behavior of soil is required. This thesis develops a new probabilistic model for estimating settlement based on a probabilistic unified soil compression model. The model is then used to estimate the settlement of an embankment. Lastly, a reliability analysis of settlement is carried out on the settlement estimate of the embankment. The new probabilistic unified soil compression model used in this thesis was developed based on a previously developed probabilistic unified soil compression model, accounting for further uncertainties into the model and correcting for errors in the model calibration. This model was calibrated using data from a site on the Venice Lagoon using a Bayesian approach. The model to estimate settlement was developed based on this probabilistic soil compression model and is unbiased in nature. Using this model, unbiased settlement estimates were obtained for an embankment also located in the Venice Lagoon. Using the developed probabilistic model for settlement, reliability analysis was carried out. This reliability analysis involved assessing the conditional probability that, for a specific load and given soil properties, a specified settlement threshold would be reached or passed. Sensitivity and importance analysis were carried out, determining which parameters and random variables have the largest impact on the fragility estimates. Lastly, a closed-formed approximation based on the Central Limit Theorem was developed to allow for easier fragility estimation.

In October 1869, the fledgling Canadian federation was preparing for the transfer of Rupert's Land and the Northwestern Territory when the Métis set up a Provisional Government in order to resist what they saw as a unilateral annexation of their homeland. Although there were multiple references made to 'republicanism' during the Resistance, no scholar has ever explored whether republican conventions were actually present in political discourse in the District of Assiniboia prior to the Resistance and whether they were effectively activated during the Resistance. Working from the Cambridge School approach of discourse analysis, this thesis first identifies the conventions of democratic rhetorical republicanism, which includes positive and negative liberty, the rule of law, the mixed and balanced constitution and citizenship, which in turn involves virtue, the militia and real property. It then looks at the gradual introduction in Assiniboia of republican discourse from multiple sources, including the United States, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Ireland, France and Great Britain and its circulation throughout several practical political struggles during the period from 1835 to 1869. In doing so, it shows that certain 'organic intellectuals' acted as 'transmission belts' of republican conventions and that institutional structures were a factor that rendered the activation of such conventions almost inevitable. By the time the Resistance took place in 1869, a more or less fully developed republican paradigm formed part of the linguistic matrix and was available to political actors in Assiniboia. Finally, the thesis shows that republican discourse was effectively mobilised by identifying fragments of republican conventions that were harnessed in various speechacts during the Resistance. It is argued that republican language was fundamental to the success of the ideological and political manoeuvres of the leaders of the Resistance as it was particularly effective both as an instrument of anti-colonialism and as a pragmatic ideal of self-government that sought to correct the iniquities of colonial government.

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<p>The participation of African countries in the Dispute Settlement System (DSS) of the Worlt Trade Organisation ( WTO) is insignificant. This research seeks to find a suitable model/mechanism which meets the particular needs of developing countries. The practical aim of this reseach was to enhance active participation of various stakeholders in developing countries who may be adversely affected or who face potential damage by unfair trade pracices of other players in the brutal and complex battleground of world trade. Thus the research seeks to suggest a suitable legal framework which can be utilised by stakeholders in African countries as part of the process of trade dispute initiation when their interests are threatened or adversely affected.</p>

Thesis (B.A.Hons. 1979) from the Department of History, University of Adelaide.

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Master of Arts in Gastronomy, 2004. / "December 2003" Coursework. Bibliography: leaves 65-68.