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An assessment undertaken by the Clothing and Textile Centre in the Western Cape (Clotex) during 2002 revealed that there was a great need for quality in the clothing sector. Furthermore, the research undertaken by the Department of Science and Technology (2004) supports and recommends the...
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Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2004.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Understanding and measuring job performance constructs enables organisations to utilise their human resources more effectively. The job performance of workers can be conceptualised on two levels, namely on a job result or outcome level (e.g. sales figures, units produced) and...
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Australian studies have focused on different dimensions of intra industry trade (IIT) between the manufacturing sector and the rest of the world at the disaggregated level, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 digit levels. The current study seeks to complement the existing literature by examining the IIT and...
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Cultural adjustment is considered to be a prerequisite for expatriate success abroad. One way to enhance adjustment is to provide employees with knowledge and awareness of appropriate norms and behaviors of the host country through cross-cultural training (CCT). This article analyzes the impact...
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This paper reports on the application of a probabilistic forecasting framework to Statistics New Zealand’s 2004-based national population projections. The assumptions of the Series 5 projections (the middle series)were set as the medians of the fertility, mortality and net migration predictive...
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counties, California, USA. Clinic, hospital, and county public health records (1998-2002) were examined to determine direct …
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This article examines the economic impacts of policy alternatives for addressing allocative inefficiencies among agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple incentive-based and command-and-control policies, forms...
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natural gas prices are discussed. In the State of California, the agency responsible for the official forecast is the … California Energy Commission. Every two years, the CEC holds hearings for input into its biennial Fuels Report (FR) which …
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California. The analysis is based on 15-minute interval building load and PV production data for 24 commercial PV installations … in California, spanning a diverse set of building load shapes and geographic locations. We derive the annual bill savings … utilities in California. We identify and explain variation in the value of bill savings attributable to differences in the …
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