It was perceived that an imbalance exists between resource allocations for health care within the Ekurhuleni Health District (EHD). This study consequently used a retrospective, quantitative methodology to investigate health equity in the EHD and to collect information on clinic buildings, staffing and budget allocations. Although clinics were oversupplied in terms of the norms set by the National Department of Health, they were found not to be in keeping with population growth in the Ekurhuleni district. The study highlighted an inequitable spread of nursing staff, which would require that nursing personnel be re-deployed. The per capita spending in the different service delivery regions was also found to be inequitable. It was subsequently recommended that spending on clinics be revised (especially in the populous Southern SDR), that staff be reallocated and that budget allocations be reviewed to achieve equity in Ekurhuleni. / Health Studies / Thesis (M.A. (Public Health))

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / In the recent decision in Kellerman v South African Transport Services 1993 4 SA 872 (C) a claim for the loss of the use of a thing not utilised in the production of income was apparently allowed for the first time in South African law. A number of strict requirements were however set for such a claim. For a considerable time a claim has been recognised in English and German law even where a substitute was not hired and where the article was used for pleasure purposes. It is submitted that this should also be the position in South African law because the loss of the use of a thing per se has an independent value. It is further submitted that the interest on capital value method (as per English law) can be used as starting-point in the determination of quantum. A degree of flexibility is necessary to ensure fairness and equity. / In die onlangse beslissing in Kellerman v South African Transport Services 1993 4 SA 872 (K) is daar klaarblyklik die eerste maal in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg 'n eis om skadevergoeding weens gebruiksverlies van 'n saak wat nie in die produksie van inkomste gebruik is nie erken. Die hof stel egter 'n aantal streng vereistes vir so 'n eis. 'n Eis word al 'n geruime tyd in die Engelse en Duitse reg erken selfs waar 'n substituut nie gehuur is nie en waar sake bloot vir plesierdoeleindes gebruik is. Daar word submitteer dat dit ook die posisie in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg behoort te wees aangesien gebruiksverlies opsigself 'n selfstandige waarde het. Dit word verder aangevoer dat die rente-op-kapitaalwaarde-metode (soos in die Engelse reg) gebruik kan word as 'n uitgangspunt by kwantumbepaling. Ter wille van redelikheid en billikheid behoort die maatstaf 'n mate van buigsaamheid te he. / Private Law / LL. M.

This study is within the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. It focuses on the relationship between diversity management and organisational climate dimensions. The literature review indicates that most of the research conducted on these two concepts, diversity management and organisational climate investigated the concept diversity, not diversity management (Cox, 1993; Hicks-Clarke & Hies, 2003). This study specifically explores diversity management in a retail organisation. The empirical component of the study includes confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis and a correlational study investigating the relationship between diversity management and organisational climate. It was found that there is a positive and strong relationship between diversity management and organisational climate. Diversity management seems to correlate highly with the following climate dimensions: policies and procedures, discrimination, gender issues, equality in conditions of employment and employment equity. The results indicate that younger employees have more positive views regarding diversity management, and middle aged employees have less positive views regarding diversity management. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Admin (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Syfte: Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) är en kundstyrd prissättningsstrategi, där kunden bestämmer priset. Tidigare forskning visar att antalet kunder ökar vid tillämpning av prisstrategin. Studiens syfte är således att analysera samband och förklara ifall variablerna priskänslighet, rättvisa, riskkänslighet och nyfikenhet påverkar konsumentens attraktion till PWYW. Metod: Studien har ett deduktivt tillvägagångssätt för att analysera litteratur och vetenskapliga artiklar. Teorin har deducerat studiens hypoteser för att undersöka samband och kvantitativ metod har används där empirisk data har samlats in med en webbenkät. Resultatet analyseras i SPSS med en faktoranalys och korrelationsanalys. Detta redovisas genom tabeller och figurer samt diskussion. Resultat & slutsats: Studien visar positiva samband mellan attraktion till PWYW och priskänslighet, rättvisa samt nyfikenhet. Sambandet mellan attraktion till PWYW och riskkänslighet visar dock svag korrelation. Däremot indikerar resultatet att det finns fler variabler att ta hänsyn till. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Resultatet indikerar att det saknas faktorer som påverkar konsumentens attraktion till PWYW. Det är av intresse att undersöka hur faktorerna kan nyttjas av företag samt om konsumentens attraktion påverkas ifall prisstrategin inte längre anses ovanlig. Uppsatsens bidrag: Studien är först med att studera konsumentens motivationer till PWYW innan köpmomentet. Studien bidrar med variabler som förklarar varför konsumenter attraheras av en kundstyrd prisstrategi. Studien bidrar likaså med kunskap för forskningen kring PWYW.

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising new feature in LTE-Advanced networks. It is brought up to enable efficient discovery and communication between proximate devices. With D2D capability, devices in physical proximity could be able to discover each other using LTE radio technology and to communicate with each other via a direct data path. This thesis is concerned with the design, coordination and testing of a hybrid D2D and cellular network. Design requirements and choices in physical and MAC layer functions to support D2D discovery and communication underlaying LTE networks are analyzed. In addition, a centralized scheduling strategy in base station is proposed to coordinate D2D data communication operating in LTE spectrum. The scheduling strategy combines multiple techniques, including mode selection, resource and power allocation, to jointly achieve an overall user performance improvement in a cell. Finally the performances of D2D data communication underlaying LTE system are calibrated in a multi-link scenario via system-level simulation.

La thèse délaisse l’étude des biais, des erreurs et des influences externes qui modulent les décisions de justice et formule l’hypothèse que les individus, confrontés à un dilemme normatif (quelle serait la juste peine?), manifestent un souci de justice qu’il est pertinent d’analyser en lui-même. Les résultats de cette thèse indiquent qu’une proportion appréciable des choix et des jugements des citoyens et des acteurs judiciaires interrogés témoignent, en raison de leur cohérence interne et de leur modération, d’un souci manifeste de justice. Les données de la thèse s’appuient sur un sondage sentenciel dans lequel on demandait à des répondants du public (n=297), mais aussi à un échantillon d’acteurs judiciaires (n=235), de prendre des décisions de détermination pénale dans trois histoires de cas bien détaillées. La thèse s’intéresse à la détermination de la juste peine, laquelle incorpore trois prises de décision distinctes. Le premier chapitre de la thèse s’attarde à la qualité des échelles individuelles de sévérité des peines qui peuvent être infligées pour sanctionner un délinquant reconnu coupable d’actes criminels. Les résultats indiquent que les citoyens, tous comme les acteurs judiciaires, n’utilisent pas la même métrique pour statuer sur la sévérité des peines, mais que certains d’entre eux, font usage d’une métrique pénale plus cohérente et plus raisonnable que d’autres. Un test décisif pour jauger de la valeur d’une métrique est son aptitude à établir des équivalences pénales entre les peines de prison, de probation, de travaux communautaires et d’amendes. Le deuxième chapitre s’attarde à la qualité des choix sentenciels des citoyens et des acteurs judiciaires. Deux critères sont utilisés pour distinguer les sentences les plus justes : 1) le critère de proportionnalité ou de cohérence interne (les sentences données sont-elles toujours proportionnelles à la gravité de l’infraction commise ?); 2) le critère de modération ou de cohérence externe (la sentence donnée peut-elle rallier le plus grand nombre de points de vue?). Les deux critères sont importants parce qu’ils contribuent tous deux à réduire la marge d’incertitude du dilemme sentenciel. Le troisième chapitre prend acte que toute sentence fera possiblement l’objet d’un aménagement subséquent. Les formes les plus manifestes d’aménagement pénal sont régies par l’octroi d’une libération conditionnelle qui écourte la durée de peine qui sera purgée en prison. Certains acteurs judiciaires choisiront de tenir compte de cette libération anticipée en gonflant leur sentence, alors que d’autres se refuseront à le faire. Le dernier chapitre s’attarde aux raisons qui motivent leurs choix. / This thesis neglects the analysis of external influences, such as biases and errors, which may interfere in court judgments and propose that when facing a normative dilemma (What is the just decision?), individuals are driven by a concern for justice. This concern has not been properly scrutinized. When studying legal decisions, we note that a large proportion of all judgments and evaluations made by interviewed citizens and judicial actors are coherent and moderated, which demonstrates a concern for justice and equity. The results of the thesis are based on a sentencing survey conducted among citizens (n=297) and criminal justice professionals (n=235) who had to adjudicate upon three detailed case studies and specific sentencing questions. The thesis examines the process of determining the just sanction and is concerned with three types of judgments. The first chapter explores the quality of different penal severity scales that can be used to punish a criminal convicted of a crime. Results indicate that citizens, as well as criminal justice professionals, have different ways of conceptualizing penal severity, and that some of these views are more coherent and more reasonable than others. This chapter shows that one way of assessing penal metrics quality is to look at the exchange rates among qualitatively different sanctions (months of prison, years of probation, hours of community work and dollar amount of fines). The second chapter examines the sentencing choices. Two important judicial criteria are used to distinguish just sentences from unjust ones: 1) proportionality or internal consistency (are sentences always given in accordance to crime seriousness?); and 2) moderation or external consistency (is the sentence able to merge opposite points of views?). Both criteria are important in reducing a portion of uncertainty that is intrinsic to the sentencing dilemma. Indeed the search for the just punishment and strategies for uncertainty reduction are intimately connected. The third chapter takes into account the fact that sentences are not fully determined at the judicial level. This is especially the case for prison sentences since conditional release mechanisms drastically shorten the time actually spent behind bars. We attempt to understand the differential propensity among judges, crown and defense attorneys and probation officers to anticipate the likely impact of conditional release in determining the presumptive duration of the court sentence. Some court players will incorporate parole outcomes in determining their prison sentence while others refuse to do so. The chapter examines the reasons why they do so and also identifies under what conditions anticipation of parole outcomes are more likely

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:50:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sebastiao Domingues Vargas Neto.pdf: 947636 bytes, checksum: 2bf7b2dd6f11781f92956da1d5af3294 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-08 / This dissertation is devoted to the theoretical examination of sustainable development focused by the justice as fairness theory of John Rawls. The problem of this research is theoretical and it is in the analysis of sustainable development (mainly resulting from the Brundtland Report), highlighted in its social aspect and political, legal and philosophical implication s of the justice as fairness theory, investigating, in axis that relates theory of justice, social justice and liberalism, is its "sustainability" paradigm would be a substantially solid or only formally designed, allowing any filling. For both, there is the assumption that sustainable development, derived from the idea of sustainability is regarded formally in line with the theory of justice, including the courts beyond the human, but is not substantially and made the point to say that is the way most appropriate to achieve a justice policy. It is a discourse that seeks to bring off the environmental dimension to the discussion on justice, warning of the need for attention to the environment in the process of fair balance between natural forces, economic, political and most of the social universe, which results in social justice for present and future generations. Also adds little, since all the objects of the theory of justice already has his concerns of sustainable development. Considering their relative continuity, conciliator practices environmental constraints to development, sustainable development can be either instrument of revolution in the way of thinking, just as efforts to improve the global capitalism of flexible accumulation post-1970's, both used with good faith, and as a fallacy. Still, the justice that promotes the ideas of sustainability requires a social pact that involves changes in the way that men and institutions dealing with each other and the environment. Thus, lack of sustainable development in his quest for justice, a reference to justice, which may be the theory of justice as fairness. The research follows the general aim to examine sustainable development in light of the theory of justice as fairness, permeated three specific objectives: a) explain the theory of justice with careful theoretical review, noting its historical development, elements, importance to the sustainability and insertion of the same law, and demonstrate its suitability as an analytical tool, b) define sustainable development, researching its history, definitions, indicators and ideologies and c) apply the theory of justice as fairness to information on sustainable development raised, especially in its social aspect, to identify and explain, on an axis that relates the theory of justice, social justice and liberalism, the factors that determine and contribute to the phenomenon of sustainability and their potential to achieve social justice. Regarding methodology, it emphasizes a kind of theoretical study, such as literature search with use of the dialectical method-argumentative. The text is organized into an introductory section, three chapters and a section of final comments, where there is confirmation of the hypothesis under there presented, followed by the list of references of the work. / Esta dissertação dedica-se ao exame teórico do desenvolvimento sustentável à luz da teoria da justiça como equidade, de John Rawls. O problema de pesquisa tem caráter teórico e reside na análise do desenvolvimento sustentável (precipuamente resultante do Relatório Brundtland), destacado em seu aspecto social e implicações político-jurídicas e jusfilosóficas, à luz da teoria da justiça como equidade, investigando-se, em eixo que relaciona teoria da justiça, justiça social e liberalismo, se sua "sustentabilidade" seria um paradigma substancialmente sólido ou apenas formalmente concebido, permitindo qualquer preenchimento. Para tanto, levantou-se a hipótese de que o desenvolvimento sustentável, derivado da ideia de sustentabilidade, está formalmente conceituado em consonância com a teoria da justiça, inclusive com as justiças além da humana, porém não está substancialmente bem formulado a ponto de se afirmar que seja a via mais adequada à realização de uma justiça política. Trata-se de um discurso pontual que busca trazer a dimensão ambiental à discussão sobre a justiça, alertando para a necessidade de atenção ao meio-ambiente, no processo de equilíbrio equânime entre forças naturais, econômicas, políticas e o mais do universo social, que resulte em justiça social para as gerações presentes e futuras. Pouco além disso acrescenta, visto que o conjunto dos objetos da teoria da justiça já contém as preocupações do desenvolvimento sustentável. Considerando seu relativo continuísmo, conciliador de práticas desenvolvimentistas a limitações ambientais, o desenvolvimento sustentável tanto pode ser instrumento de revolução no modo de pensar, quanto mero esforço de aprimoramento do capitalismo global de acumulação flexível após a década de 1970, tanto empregado com boa-fé, quanto como um sofisma. Ainda assim, a justiça que as ideias da sustentabilidade promovem requer um pacto social que implica em alterações no modo com que os homens tratam-se mutuamente e na maneira com que interagem com o meio-ambiente. Assim, falta ao desenvolvimento sustentável, na sua busca por justiça, um referencial de justiça, o qual pode estar na teoria da justiça como equidade. A investigação segue no objetivo geral de analisar o desenvolvimento sustentável, à luz da teoria da justiça como equidade, perpassando três objetivos específicos: a) expor a teoria da justiça com revisão teórica cuidadosa, anotando sua evolução histórica, elementos, importância para a sustentabilidade e inserção da mesma no Direito, e demonstrando sua aptidão como instrumento de análise; b) delimitar o desenvolvimento sustentável, pesquisando sua história, definições, indicadores e ideologias e c) aplicar a teoria da justiça como equidade às informações sobre desenvolvimento sustentável levantadas, mormente em seu aspecto social, identificando e explicando, sob um eixo que relaciona teoria da justiça, justiça social e liberalismo, os fatores que determinam e contribuem com o fenômeno da sustentabilidade e com seu potencial para realizar justiça social. Quanto à metodologia, enfatiza-se um tipo de estudo teórico, com pesquisa bibliográfica e emprego do método dialético-argumentativo. O texto segue organizado em uma seção introdutória, três capítulos e uma seção de considerações finais, em que se constata a confirmação da hipótese levantada, nos termos ali apresentados, seguidos do rol de referências bibliográficas da obra.

O tema do acesso à justiça é aquele que mais diretamente equaciona as relações entre o processo e a justiça social, entre igualdade jurídico-formal e desigualdade socioeconômica. A consagração constitucional dos novos direitos econômicos e sociais e sua expansão paralela à do Estado-Providência transformou o direito ao acesso efetivo à justiça em um direito-chave, um direito cuja denegação acarretaria a de todos os demais. Daí a constatação de que a organização da justiça não pode ser reduzida à sua dimensão técnica, socialmente neutra, devendo investigar-se as funções sociais por elas desempenhadas e, em particular, o modo como as possibilidades técnicas no seu seio veiculam opções a favor ou contra interesses sociais divergentes ou mesmo antagônicos. Desde a década de 70 do século passado, diversos pesquisadores e analistas sociais têm contribuído para colocar em questão as formas de resolução de conflitos características do Estado Moderno, bem como para apontar caminhos e problematizar as experiências concretas de informalização, desjudicialização, mediação e arbitragem que vão surgindo. Pensando no acesso à justiça como um direito primordial sem o qual os demais direitos não se concretizam e nesses meios de resolução de conflitos, o objetivo desse trabalho é analisar se a Justiça Restaurativa é capaz de ampliar o acesso à justiça em sua dimensão material e formal. Atualmente, a importância da Justiça Restaurativa é reconhecida inclusive pela ONU, já que sua prática tem possibilitado a pacificação social, na medida em que sugere uma reavaliação do fenômeno criminológico desde suas causas, passando pela aplicação da justiça ate suas consequências futuras. Para chegar ao objetivo do trabalho, a teoria de John Rawls sobre a justiça como equidade é importante para, por meio do instituto do equilíbrio reflexivo, a Justiça Restaurativa ser pensada justamente como um mecanismo de adequação aos princípios essenciais de uma sociedade cooperativa. / Access to justice is the theme that more directly equates the relations between process and social justice, formal-legal equality and socioeconomic inequality. The constitutional praise of the new economic and social rights and their expansion alongside the Welfare State turned the right to effective access to justice into a key one, a right whose denial would lead to the denial of all other rights. Hence the conclusion that the organization of justice cannot be reduced to its technical, socially neutral dimension; instead, its social functions must be investigated, particularly in regard to the way technical possibilities convey options in favor of or against social interests that may diverge or even antagonize. Since the 1970s, many researchers and social analysts have contributed to question the ways of conflict resolution that characterize the Modern State, as well as to point ways and problematize concrete experiences of informalization, non-judicialization, mediation and arbitration that emerge. Considering access to justice as a primordial right without which the other ones do not materialize and taking into account these ways of conflict resolution, this work aims to analyze whether Restorative Justice is able to extend the access to justice in its material and formal dimensions. Currently, the United Nations recognizes the importance of Restorative Justice, since its practice enables social pacification by means of suggesting a reevaluation of the criminologic phenomenon already in its causes and also of the application of justice and its future consequences. To get to the central point of the work, John Rawls\' theory on justice as fairness, by means of the institute of the reflective equilibrium, is important for Restorative Justice to be thought exactly as a mechanism of adequacy to the essential principles of a cooperative society.

In the light of present problems with stress related illness in organizations, often affecting women working in health care, the purpose of the current study was to examine proactive and malleable factors that could influence nurse’s perception of work stressors. Based on a model, self-efficacy and grouped organizational factors were examined as antecedents to the outcome of anxiety and stress via cognitive appraisals. The mediating role of the cognitive appraisals was further examined. The sample consists of 117 nurses and assistant nurses of which 112 were females working at a hospital in southern Sweden. The analyses were conducted with simple and multiple regressions. The result revealed that self-efficacy and the organizational factor together serve as antecedents to cognitive appraisals of stress, however, contrary to previous research, not to all appraisals. The mediating role of the cognitive appraisals showed that the harm appraisal mediate the relation between the organizational factor and the outcome of both anxiety and stress. The threat appraisal is found to partly mediate the relation between the organizational factor and the anxiety outcome as well as the stress outcome. The result further showed a none mediation role for the challenge appraisal between any of the antecedents and the outcomes, which suggest that the challenge appraisal do not serve as an underlying mechanism in either relationship. Other relations in the model are further shown and discussed in the study together with limitations, implications and suggestions of future research.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alberto Antonio Zvirblis.pdf: 726911 bytes, checksum: 7f111ee7f1a3adefaac48dcf56f2630b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-28 / This dissertation is based on the distributive justice theory of John Rawls. It has the purpose of stressing that the theory of justice as fairness supports, in contemporary world, the maximization in the distribution of primary goods which are essential to human dignity in favor of the least fortunate, who are in the worst position in the social ladder, without jeopardizing the inviolability of individuality, which for Rawls is essential: ―Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.‖ Rawls equitable justice stems from original position, which is contractualist, in that the parties are placed behind the veil of ignorance, with no knowledge of the external world and the social position of each participant, in order to permit the founding of principles of justice that are impartial. , the present dissertation seeks to contribute to the understanding that the theory of justice establishes, in the original position, the principles of justice which all agree with and accept to live under a cooperative liberal democratic system, convinced that the primary goods, increasingly scarce in the face of a growing demand and nobody willing to accept a smaller share, will be distributed in an equitable manner, maximizing the distribution to the least endowed in society / A presente tese é alicerçada na justiça equitativa de JOHN RAWLS. Tem a finalidade a destacar, na atualidade, que a teoria da justiça como equidade procura maximizar a distribuição dos bens primários, essenciais à dignidade humana, em favor dos menos afortunados, que estão na pior posição da escala social, sem prejudicar a inviolabilidade da individualidade, que para RAWLS é de suma importância: ―cada pessoa possui uma individualidade fundada na justiça que nem mesmo o bem-estar da sociedade como um todo pode ignorar‖. A justiça equitativa tem sua origem na posição original, posição esta contratualista, em que as partes são colocadas sob o véu de ignorância, com desconhecimento total do mundo externo e da posição social de cada participante, a fim de que sejam estabelecidos os princípios de justiça de forma imparcial. Portanto, a presente tese tem o escopo contributivo de que a teoria da justiça estabelece, na posição original, os princípios de justiça com os quais todos concordam e passam a conviver em um sistema cooperativo liberal democrático, convictos de que os bens primários, cada vez mais escassos em frente de uma demanda cada vez maior, por ninguém se contentar com uma fatia menor, serão distribuídos equitativamente, maximizando a distribuição aos menos favorecidos