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MA RESEARCH REPORT Prepared for the Department of Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg June 2016 / This research argues that food sovereignty offers a plausible alternative to the current unjust, unsafe and unsustainable food system in South Africa. In addition, it argues that food sovereignty provides important solutions to hunger and the brutalities of the food system which current policies and interventions fail to address. Food sovereignty is an ideal that originated amongst a peasant movement in the global South. This ideal and framework to address hunger has since evolved and spread to international movements, and is making great strides in advocating for change in the current broken food system. Food sovereignty has lately been adapted in South Africa as a grassroots led initiative promoted by the nascent South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC). This research uses the SAFSC as a case study to explore food sovereignty alternatives in South Africa. It does this by using in-depth interviews and participant observation in the campaign to draw out understandings of food sovereignty particular to South African activists. It further assesses tactics and strategies the SAFSC uses, and compares these to current state, business and civil society organisations’ solutions to show how a more grassroots-led approach, using the food sovereignty framework, has the potential to address the roots of hunger. These roots of hunger are shown to be at the corporate food regime level, as has been indicated by the literature and confirmed in this research. As food sovereignty is pursued by various actors in South Africa it provides important examples of approaches by which power in the food system can be reclaimed to benefit the majority instead of a few elites, as is currently the case.

1 The Czech Environmental Inspectorate Abstract This Master's thesis describes and analyses the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, a specialized supervisory authority that oversees compliance with legal regulations and administrative decisions rendered by the public administrative authorities in the area of the protection of the environment. The partial aim of this thesis is to introduce the Czech Environmental Inspectorate and to highlight its irreplaceable role at environmental protection in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the supervision activity of this authority and its follow-up measures, which are assigned to this authority by the legal regulation, and to highlight the changes brought by two fundamental legislative changes, namely the adoption of Act No. 255/2012 Coll., on administrative control (Control Code) and Act No. 250/2016 Coll., on administrative offenses, that influenced this authority. This thesis consists of four main chapters. The first and second chapters of this thesis are the introductory chapters. The first chapter highlights the current importance of environmental protection and specifies the role of administrative supervision as an essential tool to protect the environment. The second chapter presents the basic historical context of the...

With the majority of bridges in the country aging, over capacity and costly to rehabilitate or replace, it is essential that engineers refine their inspection and evaluation techniques. Over the past 130 years the information gathering techniques and methods used by engineers to inspect bridges have changed little. All of the available methods rely on one technique, visual inspection. In addition, over the past 40 years individual bridge inspectors have gone from being information gathers to being solely responsible for the condition rating of bridges they inspect. The reliance on the visual abilities of a single individual to determine the health of a particular bridge has led to inconsistent and sometimes erroneous results. In an effort to provide bridge inspectors and engineers with more reliable inspection and evaluation techniques, this thesis will detail the case for development of a new inspection tool, and the assembly and use of one new tool called Fringe Interferometry

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<p>Real time systems, used in most of the day-to-day applications, require time critical exection of tasks. Worst Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET) is performed to ensure the upper bound on the time they can take to execute. This work aims to perform a static analysis of the industry standard code segments to provide valuable information to aid in choosing the right apporach towards WCET analysis. Any code segment can be analyzed syntactically, to gain some insights to the effects that a particular coding syntax format may have. With focus on the functions and looping statements, vaulable information regarding the code segments inspected can be obtained. For this purpose, the code segments from CC systems, Vasteras , were inspected. Scope graphs generated by SWEET, the Swedish Execution Time tool were used extensively to aid this work. It was found that syntactical analysis could be performed effectively for the code segments that were analysed as a part of this task.</p>

Real time systems, used in most of the day-to-day applications, require time critical exection of tasks. Worst Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET) is performed to ensure the upper bound on the time they can take to execute. This work aims to perform a static analysis of the industry standard code segments to provide valuable information to aid in choosing the right apporach towards WCET analysis. Any code segment can be analyzed syntactically, to gain some insights to the effects that a particular coding syntax format may have. With focus on the functions and looping statements, vaulable information regarding the code segments inspected can be obtained. For this purpose, the code segments from CC systems, Vasteras , were inspected. Scope graphs generated by SWEET, the Swedish Execution Time tool were used extensively to aid this work. It was found that syntactical analysis could be performed effectively for the code segments that were analysed as a part of this task.

As humans seek to explore and exploit underwater environments and resources the need for tools and techniques to assist in this is critical. An important component of working in any environment is understanding dimensional information about that environment. The predominant inspection techniques in an underwater environment are sonar and video systems, However, these do not provide fine detail and often critical geometric measurements about small features and defects. Underwater laser scanners have been investigated for underwater measurements and demonstrated to operate with success; however, the current deployment options of these systems are limited. Through this thesis, an easy to deploy underwater laser scanner was developed, overcoming mechanical integration and sensor calibration challenges not previously dealt with. By integrating the laser, sensor and rotary actuator into a single housing, the calibration of the sensor is successfully maintained through multiple deployments of the scanner into a variety of applications. The developed scanner has been successfully deployed for a variety of applications, from Underwater Archeology and Biology in the Dominican Republic and Antarctica to Offshore and Inland asset inspection in the Gulf of Mexico to the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.