Education in South Africa faces many challenges; among them is the betterment of teaching and learning in order to improve the performance in schools, particularly in township schools where the results of learners are still not up to the required standard. For schools to function effectively, the School Management Teams (Principal, Deputy Principal, HODs), need to understand the importance of the effective management of human resources. The proper and effective management of people cannot be neglected if the schools as organisations want to attain their goals. School Management Teams as managers of schools are accountable for the effective running of the schools and the task of proper management of human resources rest on their shoulders. In this study an investigation into human recource management in selected township schools in the Gert Sibande Region (Mpumalanga Province) was done. Central to the study is the School Management Team's (SMTs) understanding of the concepts management and leadership, human resource management and related aspects. An investigation was also done regarding the knowledge, skills and strategies needed to improve education in township schools. With regard to the proper training of SMTs, various recommendations are made to expose them to more rigorous training, especially in Human Resource Management as this is the cornerstones of effective school management. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.

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Bakgrund: Revisionens syfte är att genom en oberoende granskning minska den informationsasymmetri som finns mellan ägare och företagsledning. Nya regler angående bland annat innehållet i revisionsberättelsen trädde ikraft 2016 med syfte att bland annat minska det informationsgap som finns på marknaden. Vår studie har sin utgångspunkt i om mängden informationsasymmetri påverkar revisionskostnaden och om den nya lagändringens syfte uppnåtts.   Syfte: Studiens syfte är att förklara sambandet mellan informationsasymmetri och revisionskostnad i svenska börsbolag. En jämförelse görs även mellan år 2015 och 2016 för att se om de nya kraven på revisionsberättelsen har någon inverkan på informationsasymmetri och revisionskostnad samt sambandet dem emellan.   Metod: Studien har en deduktiv forskningsansats där agentteorin varit utgångspunkt för att härleda hypoteser. Urvalet i den kvantitativa forskningsmetoden har varit svenska bolag listade på small-, mid- och largecap åren 2015 och 2016.   Resultat: Studiens resultat har visat på att det det finns ett negativt samband mellan informationsasymmetri och revisionskostnad. Det kan också konstateras att den nya revisionsberättelsen inte bidragit med en minskad informationsasymmetri och inte heller en ökad revisionskostnad. / Background: The aim of audit is to independently review and reduce the information asymmetry that exists between the owners and management of the firm. A new law about the content of the audit report was implemented 2016 with the purpose of reducing the information gap on the market. Our study is based on whether or not the amount of information asymmetry affects the audit fee and if the purpose of the new law has been reached. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explain the relationship between information asymmetry and audit fee in Swedish companies listed on the stock exchange market. A comparison between the years of 2015 and 2016 is made to investigate if the new requirements on the audit report have any affection on the information asymmetry, audit fee and the relationship in between. Method: The study has a deductive research approach with the base of agency theory to deduce hypotheses. The sample in the quantitative research methodology consists of Swedish companies listed on small-, mid- and largecap 2015 and 2016. Conclusions: The result of the study concludes that there is a negative relationship between information asymmetry and audit fees. It can also be concluded that the new audit report does not contribute to a reduction of information asymmetry nor an increased audit fee.

Studier kring rekommendationsmotorer är ett område med större signifikans i en växande digital verklighet. Mängden med information ökar och med mer information blir det svårare att hitta det som för individen är av intresse. Vissa specifika områden med tillämpning av rekommendationsmotorer är mer välstuderade än andra, domäner som sysslar med försäljning hamnar i den mer studerade kategorin. Andra domäner som är i behov av rekommendationsmotorer, som inte är lika välstuderade är verksamheter som tillhandahåller möjlighet för lärande via internet. En av dessa verksamheter heter Nomp och erbjuder ett läroverktyg för barn och ungdomar inom matematik. Målet med denna studie är därför att implementera en rekommendationsmotor inom denna mindre utforskade domän. Målet är även att undersöka nyttan med rekommendationsmotorn för applikationens användare. Studien har baserats på ett ramverk inom designforskning, vilket inkluderar olika typer av experiment samt en undersökning. Resultaten från dessa aktiviteter utgjorde empirin för den analys som sedan genomfördes. Resultatet ger visst stöd för att det är möjligt att implementera en rekommendationsmotor för denna domän. De visade däremot inget entydigt svar i vilken omfattning dess nytta har för slutanvändaren. Studiens målsättning uppfylldes till viss del, däremot kunde nyttan för slutanvändaren utforskats i större omfattning. Förhoppningen är att denna studie ska ha effekter i form av praktiska konsekvenser, där användare kan spendera mindre tid på att leta efter information som kan vara till nytta. Det som skiljer sig i denna studie från tidigare liknande studier är att rekommendationsmotorn är implementerad för att passa en verklig verksamhet. I jämförelse med andra studier är denna studie även baserad på data direkt från verksamhetens användare. Vissa liknande artefakter har blivit implementerade, men då är de ofta mer generella eller har använt sig av data som inte är relevant för domänen. Det är också vanligare att liknande rekommendationsmotorer använder sig av direkt användarfeedback för att göra rekommendationer, vilket inte används i denna studie. / Studies regarding recommendation engines have gained greater importance in our reality of the digital community. With regards to the continuously growing amount of digital information it has become harder to find information that’s of importance to the individual. Some specific domains with enforcement of recommendation engines are more studied than others, domains that distribute services or items usually end up in this category. Other domains that are in need of recommendation engines, that’s not as well explored is business which enables learning through the internet. One of these business is called Nomp and provides a learning tool for kids and young teenagers in mathematics. The goal with this study is therefore to implement a recommendation engine for a business that is within this lesser explored domain. The goal is also to explore the advantages a recommendation engine would provide for its users. The study is based on a framework within design science research, which included various kinds of experiments and a survey. The results from these activities represented the empirics for the analysis that was conducted. The results show some signs that it’s possible to implement an artifact for this domain. However, it does not clearly show to what extent it’s valuable for the end user. For some part, the objectives for this study was met. Although, the advantages for the users could have been explored in greater depth. The overall prospects by conducting this study is that it will have some practical consequences, that the user can or will spend lesser time to search for important information. Differences between this study and other similar studies is that the recommendation engine is implemented to fit the needs of a real business. Also, compared to others, this study is based on data collected directly from the end users. Some similar systems have been implemented but the artefact is often more general or might have used data that’s not relevant the domain. It’s also more common that similar recommendation engines are using direct user feedback to make recommendations, which is not used in this study.

The thesis investigates potential improvements of the competitiveness of accommodation in the tourism in the context of sustainability and responsibility based on an analysis of internal and external business environment. The theoretical part deals with the tourism market, a company in tourism, the business environment of the company and its analysis and the reader is also presented with the process and the types of marketing research. In the practical part the selected accommodation is presented and subsequently examined by means of the individual analyses of its internal and external business environments. One analysis also includes the survey conducted among business customers. Analyses of business environment showed that the company has a great potential for further development. Its strengths outweigh the weaknesses. The practical part includes a structured interview with the owner of the company. The research showed that customers are generally very satisfied and recommend the company further. Despite these positive facts it was estab- lished that the occupancy of this accommodation is much lower than it could be. There- fore the measures were suggested that should help the company to solve this problem and also to further develop in the future. It was recommended for example to introduce an online contextual advertising, to use modern volunteer tourism, or crowdfunding.

The study was a descriptive quantitative survey which endeavoured to identify challenges experienced by IMCI trained registered nurses in implementing the guidelines and procedures of the strategy when tending children under 5 years in Gaborone health district. The study also solicited for recommendations on how to address the identified challenges. The research population comprised of all the IMCI-1 trained registered nurses and systematic sampling was employed to randomly select study participants. Data were collected using a questionnaire and was analysed using Excel Advanced software package. Study findings identified challenges related to political support, cost of IMCI training, training coverage, health systems and features of the IMCI strategy. Recommendations for improving use of the strategy included garnering for more political support, adopting short duration training courses, scaling up both pre-service and in-service training as well as addressing the challenges related to health systems and the unique features of the strategy / Health Studies / M.A. (Public Health)

Magister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM) / At public sector health facilities in Cape Town, South Africa, patients experience very high waiting times, with a medium waiting time of 3 hours which prevailed at the study facility being common. So the question arose as to why waiting times are so very high and what could be done to reduce them? While for the facility under investigation the immediate causes of the high waiting times were known, the underlying causes were quite opaque. A concern expressed therefore, was that if the underlying causes were not uncovered then efforts to reduce waiting times might not be successful, as they would just address the immediate causes. The legitimacy of the concern derives from the view that if underlying causes are not addressed, then they will continue to exert an influence on the immediate causes, and therefore perpetuate the environment which creates fertile ground for immediate causes to arise and persist, with resultant persistence of high waiting times. Hence, my interest to undertake research to explore the underlying causes of high waiting times. / 2018-12-14

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:27:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T13:56:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Os critérios de qualidade de imagem mamógrafica publicados pela European Commission foram implementados em três mamógrafos de um mesmo departamento de radiologia de um hospital na cidade de São Paulo. Dentre os mamógrafos dois apresentam o sistema tela-filme e um deles apresenta o sistema digital indireto. Durante o período de coleta de dados, foi observada a necessidade de realizar um estudo sobre índice de rejeição de imagem em cada mamógrafo. Portanto, este estudo foi realizado e, em seguida, foram feitas comparações, entre os mamógrafos, do índice de rejeição de imagem e da porcentagem de imagens que atendiam a cada critério de qualidade de imagem. Paralelamente a esses estudos, foi realizado o estudo das doses na entrada da pele e glandular média. Essas doses foram estimadas, baseando-se em diferentes metodologias apresentadas por diferentes grupos de estudiosos, para todas as combinações anodo-filtro apresentadas pelo equipamento. Para estimar a dose na entrada da pele pelo método publicado no guia da ANVISA e a dose glandular média pelo método de Wu, foi desenvolvido um manequim no formato bem próximo ao de uma mama, em diferentes espessuras de PMMA. Por fim, associou-se a qualidade da imagem com a dose recebida pela paciente. O equipamento digital apresentou melhores resultados na avaliação dos critérios de qualidade, menor índice de rejeição de imagem e menores valores de dose glandular média e na entrada da pele em todos os métodos estudados. Porém não é suficiente, pois não atende às pacientes que possuem mamas grandes. / Dissertacao (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP

Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:51:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T14:10:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / No presente trabalho serão apresentadas as diretrizes e os testes necessários para a implantação de um programa de controle de qualidade para o Eclipse 7.3.10 da Varian no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, de acordo com a mais recente publicação da AIEA o TRS 430. Os testes recomendados pelo TRS 430 são basicamente divididos em testes de aceitação, comissionamento (testes dosimétricos e não dosimétricos), e testes rotineiros. O documento da AIEA está sendo implementado para o Eclipse no HC para os feixes de fótons de dois aceleradores lineares da Varian, Clinac 600C e Clinac 2100C. Os testes de aceitação verificaram parâmetros de \"hardware\"; integração do sistema \"network\"; transferência de dados, e \"softwares\". Os resultados obtidos mostraram boa concordância com as especificações do fabricante. Para os testes dosimétricos de comissionamento, foram realizadas medidas de dose absoluta para diversos arranjos experimentais. Esses valores foram comparados com os valores de dose gerados pelo SPTC. A grande maioria dos testes apresentou cerca de 90% a 80% dos pontos comparados, dentro dos níveis de tolerância, ou seja, uma boa concordância entre os valores experimentais e os valores gerados pelo SPTC. Somente arranjos de campos assimétricos apresentaram discordâncias grosseiras, mostrando a necessidade de uma investigação mais apurada para esses casos. Os testes de comissionamento não dosimétricos também apresentaram resultados excelentes, com praticamente todas as ferramentas e desempenho geral do sistema de acordo com as recomendações estipuladas no TRS 430. Foram aplicados também critérios de aceitabilidade para a comparação entre os valores de UMs gerados pelo sistema e os valores de UMs calculados manualmente. Os feixes no Eclipse foram caracterizados com dados transferidos do CadPlan e com dados provenientes do recomissionamento dos aceleradores, assim sendo, para esses testes encontrou- se uma diferença de até 3% para campos conformacionados para os dados de feixe provenientes do recomissionamento dos aceleradores, e de até 4% para os dados de feixe transferidos do CadPlan, sendo que o nível de tolerância estabelecido pelo TRS 430 para o arranjo era de 3%. / Dissertacao (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN/CNEN-SP