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Pipeline operating companies require skilled employees to operate their pipeline network with safety and meeting the customer’s nominations, seeking to reduce costs and preserve the environment. A useful pipeline operational functionality designed to train, qualify and certificate operators to perform those tasks successfully is the Operator Training Simulator (OTS). OTS reproduces operational scenarios without the necessity of being inside the control room, allowing the trainee to simulate...
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A dissertaion submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy(Adult Education)
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Sub-Saharan Africa combines all the major risk factors commonly associated with the onset of civil war. Accordingly, it is the world’s most conflict-intensive region, with 24 out of 48 countries having experienced civil war over the past 50 years. Yet at the same time, half of its crisis-ridden states have managed to maintain political stability despite the odds. Trying to resolve this puzzle, I begin by reviewing the five most influential theoretical approaches in the civil war literature...
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The traditional approach to agricultural extension in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been based on transfer of technical knowledge. The origins of PNG extension programs lie in colonial structures developed by the Australian Government prior to national independence in 1975, and subsequently administered through national and provincial governments. More recently these programs have been supplemented for some crops, such as cocoa and coffee, by extension programs delivered by commodity-based...
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Both books under review represent illuminating additions to the historiography of South African national liberation. The second volume of the Road to Democracy project lives up to the generally high standards set in the first instalment of this undertaking. Meanwhile, Mxolisi Mgxashe's engaging autobiography supplies an insider's version of the role of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the struggle. This is all the more welcome because it focuses on the PAC's activities in and around Cape Town during the early 1960s.
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There exists no single definition of disability. The multidimensionality of disability demands that more complex, flexible measures that will capture disability in all its manifestations be developed and adapted. The measurement of disability prevalence must be seen in light of the purpose that these data are collected for example, provision of services, assessment of the level of functioning in the population or equalisation of opportunities and inclusion of people with disabilities in...
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The papers of a Nordic research training seminar that took place during a NorFA (currently NordForsk) PhD course in Syria in May 2004. These papers offer an introduction to anyone interested in archaeology, history, art history and ethnography of the neighbourhood of Jebel Bishri. They are written so that they are also approachable by a general reader or a non-specialist of a particular period. They are not scientific reports but contribute as a reference source to the previous and...
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This article examines how European concepts of progress and race transformed relations between non-European Christians in the nineteenth century. The travel narrative of Timoteos Saprichian, an Armenian visitor to Ethiopia from the Ottoman Empire, suggests that some Orthodox Christians set themselves apart from their African coreligionists by using new ideas about the hierarchy of human communities to reorder the Christian ecumene. The article concludes by using Walter Benjamin’s model of...
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Learning and knowledge dissemination using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is becoming increasingly prevalent in schools and universities around the world. Most institutions of higher learning now invest heavily in technologies such as the web and e-mail for students, staff, and faculty. ICT use is set to rise in emerging countries eager to move towards an “information society” where learning and knowledge are accessible to all.
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The policy of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), located at Tervuren, near Brussels, in Belgium in taxonomy and in biodiversity informatics in general is presented, in order to show how early taken choices concerning collaboration were and still are beneficial for its various stakeholders. Taxonomy training for African partners and students (funded by the Belgian government cooperation) is an important aspect of this collaboration with developing countries. Secondly, the...