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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Title
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Rossouw, Esther Alet
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
The resurgence of the discussion and practice of performance art in the past thirty
years has moved towards the digital age and consequently has been met with a
new dimension for exploration: YouTube. This paper investigates ...
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Madanha, Sesuai Yasha
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This work is a contribution to the classification of finite groups with an irreducible
character that vanishes on exactly one conjugacy class. Specifically, in this thesis we study finite non-solvable groups G that satisfy ...
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Jooste, Alta
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
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Vermeulen, Marilu
(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-20)
Health centres, like hospitals and clinics, tend to be unwelcome, sterile environments. This dissertation is about the making of a conventional and complementary health centre that aims to be a place-making building. This ...
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Nherera, Kudzai Varaidzo
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-01)
This study focuses on popular and scholarly perceptions of Zimbabwean Cross Border women traders from 2000 -2020 by highlighting the experiences of Zimbabwean women who engage in informal cross-border trade between ...
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Maombera, Pamela
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This paper explores the implications of South Africa‘s amended regulations to the cross-border movement of children on migrant parents working in South Africa and their children who remain in neighboring countries. The new ...
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Mangwanda, Khombe M
(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-30)
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Strobos, Johannes Gerhardus
(University of Pretoria, 2006-11-01)
During the production of ferrochrome in electric arc furnaces, a dust is captured in baghouse filters as a means of air pollution control. This dust contains various metals such as chromium, zinc, iron, aluminium and ...
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Alawad, Bilal Abbas Bilal
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
In this thesis,zirconium carbide (ZrC) layers were deposited on graphite substrates using a CVD reactor at temperatures ranging from 1250 °C to 1450 °C in steps of 50 °C. The deposited layers were characterised by XRD, ...
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Alves, Joel Mnandi
(University of Pretoria, 2021-05)
Objective To compare the immobilisation time and cardiopulmonary effects of zolazepam-tiletamine-medetomidine (ZM) and butorphanol-azaperone-medetomidine (BAM) in captive leopards (Panthera pardus).
Study design ...
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Van Sittert, Lambert Petrus
(University of Pretoria, 2011)
To seek the essence of architecture in the provision of physical control would be to reduce architecture to mere building1. This dissertation questions the accepted pre-eminence of the rational over the intuitive in ...
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Engelbrecht, Marissa
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
This dissertation explores the experiential quality of zoological garden enclosures and the threshold between man and animal. This exploration manifests within the context of man’s act of demarcation represented in zoological ...
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Fraser, Lu-Marie
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This study analyses the faunal remains of four Iron Age sites from eastern Botswana, namely Phoenix 17, Phoenix 18, Thabadimasego and Dukwe 25. Phoenix 17, Phoenix 18 and Thabadimasego date to the 9th century AD, and Dukwe ...
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Saunders, Dusty Wood
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
The project originated as a means to find a solution to the lack of legibility that the National Zoological Gardens’ entrance expresses where it is situated on the Northern gateway into the Pretoria CBD. In order to develop ...
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Burger, Josias Eduard
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The exploration manifests in the idea of coexistence where indigenous animals, nature and people could live in harmony. The dissertation questions the ethical aspects of a Zoo and the relationship between man and nature. ...
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Nel, Johannes Gerhardus
(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-04)
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Scheffer, C J
(University of Pretoria, 2006-11-30)
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Botha, Darryn Nicolas
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
This dissertation addresses the relationship between life, time and architecture. It places the notion of memory within a changing landscape that stimulates remembrance; manipulating physical, functional, and sensorial ...
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Scheffer, Bianca
(University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
The cultural landscape has long been the indigenous language of man and the original inhabitancy of all living things. Humans evolved amongst animals, under the sky, upon the earth and near water resources.
We have touched, ...
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Wittmann, Suné Alet
(University of Pretoria, 2021-12-04)
Die belangrike rol van woordeboekgebruik en -onderrig vir die bevordering van grammatika-onderrig in die Intermediêre Fase word onder die loep geneem deur verskeie outeurs. Woordeboekonderrig wat geïntegreerd plaasvind met ...