The thesis analysis business environment in Namibia regarding PEST analysis. That means it focuses on detail description of political, economic, socio-cultural and technological environment. Namibia gained independence in 1990 and belongs among the more developed Sub-Saharan countries. The analysis desrcibes the development of namibian economy in last 20 years with accent put on recent years.

Darstellung von Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Maßnahmen sowohl von staatlicher als auch von medizinischer Seite gegen die Lungenpest-Epidemie in der Mandschurei 1910 bis 1914 und Vergleich des Handelns des Staates China damals und bei der SARS-Epidemie 2002. / The abstract gives a detail description on the topic of the lung plaque epidemic in the Manchuria (1910-1914). It depicts the cause, spread and measure both on the part of government and medicine against it and compares the efforts with those China had during the SARS Epidemic 2002.

Mammalian pests are excluded from Maungatautari Ecological Island by an XcluderTM pest-proof fence. Inevitably, the fence integrity will be compromised at some point by mechanisms such as treefall and flood-scour: such events could lead to pest re-invasion. Knowledge of pest activity directly outside the reserve would assist reserve managers in developing optimal breach-response procedures. This thesis described baseline data on the presence, timing of activity and behaviour of mammalian pest animals found directly at the Maungatautari fence. Two seasonal video studies investigated the effects of season (summer and winter), exterior habitat (forest and pasture) and simulated breach type ('tree-fall' and 'flood scour') on the number of pest sightings. Significantly more sightings were recorded in summer (788) than in winter (428), particularly for rodents. Rabbits were sighted significantly more often at pasture sites, but habitat type did not significantly affect sightings of any other species; nor did breach type affect sightings of any species. Ship rats were commonly sighted within the fence hood gutter. Overall, rodent, possum and cat sightings were very high, and mustelid sightings extremely low, in both seasons. Over 95% of non-lagomorph sightings were nocturnal, and the greatest threat of invasion was found to come nocturnally, from mice, and in the summer. A probability model showed that although the cumulative probability of a mammalian pest encountering a fence breach increases dramatically after dark, in reality there is always a threat of encounter, and this is always increasing with time. Over the same two studies, the behaviour of pest mammals sighted was also described. Pests were found to show interest in and enter summer breaches more often than winter breaches (p lt 0.001). Simulated breaches were encountered by pests within the first 24 hours at a very high rate (95% summer, 92.5% winter), and most likely to enter a breach were rodents. Over 7 days, breaches were encountered and entered by increasing numbers of species and possibly by more individuals; all species were shown to be willing to enter. The threat of invasion by ship rats was probably underestimated because of their higher activity within the fence hood than at the fence base; mustelids may also offer a greater threat than the results suggest, because they almost always entered a breach. It was strongly recommended that when the fence integrity is compromised, physical response should be as quick as possible, especially at night. Future research was strongly encouraged, particularly to understand invasion behaviour of animals such as ship rats and stoats, and to describe pest behaviour at real breach events.

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1929 S62

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1952 S42 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1953 S75 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1954 A35 / Master of Science