Do the words ‘a public official or other person acting in an official capacity’ in s 3 of the Prevention and Combatting of Torture of Persons Act 13 of 2013 conflict with s 12(1)(d) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa?

Master of Laws. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2017.No abstract provided

Business Warehouse Modeling Using SAP: Simulating A Business Case To Apply Strategic Enterprise Management To Accounting

The goal of this research project is to develop a simulation model specifically for the Management Accounting Information Systems course – an SAP enabled course for junior Accounting majors at Saint Joseph's University. The purpose of this simulation is to present students with a set of business scenarios, and have the students make a knowledgeable decision using SAP Business Warehouse software. The scenarios will act as a simplified replication of the business environment; thus, they will provide the students with an integrated learning experience. They will make business decisions to ensure the profitability and cash flow of a corporation. While making these decisions, students participate in the application and analysis provided by PC4YOU, which is a simulated company within SAP for demonstration and education purposes. Eventually, the students will need to justify the existence of their strategic plans by evaluating benefits of the system using the reporting tools available within SAP. To provide a “learning by doing” experience, the scenarios will be used to demonstrate the reporting functionality within PC4YOU, the simulated company integrated into the SAP SEM system. Today’s global economy is putting a premium on the ability of students to evaluate a broad range of decisions in collaboration with adaptive supply chains. A critical component of the evolving accounting curriculum lies in the ability to extend students beyond the numbers to evaluate the effective and efficient delivery of these supply chains

Early Middle Pleistocene sediments at Sidestrand, northeast Norfolk, yield the most extensive preglacial cold stage beetle assemblage from Britain

Fluvial sediments (Cromer Forest-bed Formation) at Sidestrand, northeast Norfolk, have yielded the most extensive preglacial early Middle Pleistocene cold (arctic) stage beetle assemblage known from Britain. The assemblage is composed of 59 taxa indicating severely cold and continental climatic conditions. Mutual Climatic Range reconstructions suggest that the mean temperature of the warmest month (July) was between 10 °C and 13 °C and the mean temperature of the coldest months (January and February) between −17 °C and −10 °C, although the actual palaeotemperatures were probably towards the lower end of these ranges. Associated pollen and macroflora remains were poorly represented but all are known from other cold stage contexts. Excavations reveal that this freshwater arctic assemblage occurs within units between two important stratigraphic marker horizons, the Sidestrand Hall Member of the Cromer Forest-bed Formation and the first lowland glacigenic deposit (Happisburgh Till Member) in eastern England, although the ages of both remain equivocal. Recent amino-acid chronologies of molluscan faunas from the Sidestrand Hall Member indicate a MIS 13 age, with by inference a MIS 12 age for the overlying arctic units with cold beetle fauna and for the Happisburgh Till Member. However, the arctic units are separated from the two stratigraphic marker horizons by shallow marine deposits (Wroxham Crag Formation) demonstrating at least two intervening phases of marine transgression and a cold climate marine regression. The climatic significance of these marine transgressions and their chronostratigraphic implications are currently uncertain

Kinetic theory of Coulomb drag in two monolayers of graphene: from the Dirac point to the Fermi liquid regime

We theoretically investigate Coulomb drag in a system of two parallel monolayers of graphene. Using a Boltzmann equation approach we study a variety of limits ranging from the non-degenerate interaction dominated limit close to charge neutrality all the way to the Fermi liquid regime. In the non-degenerate limit we find that the presence of the passive layer can largely influence the conductivity of the active layer despite the absence of drag. This induces a non-trivial temperature behavior of the single layer conductivity and furthermore suggests a promising strategy towards increasing the role of inelastic scattering in future experiments. For small but finite chemical potential we find that the drag resistivity varies substantially as a function of the ratio of inelastic and elastic scattering. We find that an extrapolation from finite chemical potential to zero chemical potential and to the clean system is delicate and the order of limits matters. In the Fermi liquid regime we analyze drag as a function of temperature $T$ and the distance $d$ between the layers and compare our results to existing theoretical and experimental results. In addition to the conventional $1/d^4$-dependence with an associated $T^2$-behavior we find there is another regime of $1/d^5$-dependence where drag varies in linear-in-$T$ fashion. The relevant parameter separating these two regimes is given by $\bar{d}=T d/v_F$ ($v_F$ is the Fermi velocity), where $\bar{d} \ll1$ corresponds to $T^2$-behavior, while $\bar{d}\gg1$ corresponds to $T$-behavior.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figure

Parental Views on Sexual Education in Public Schools in a Rural Kentucky County Eastern Kentucky University

Despite Kentucky having almost twice the national birth rate with 50 births per 1,000 female population ages 15-19 (County Health Rankings, 2015), the implementation of comprehensive sexual education in Kentucky public schools remains a controversial topic. This study examined parental attitudes regarding comprehensive sex education curriculum in a rural Kentucky middle school. A survey was distributed to a convenience sample population of parents (N=100) whose children were enrolled in a rural Appalachian middle school in grades 6th thru 8th. Data were analyzed using Chi square and multi-variate techniques. Of the 63 participants, 58.7% believed that sex education should begin in middle school. Of the 73% (n=46) of respondents who believed abstinence-plus should be taught, 58.7% (n=27) were between the ages of 26 and 35, and 28.3% (n=13) were between the ages of 36 and 45. Differences in attitudes towards sex education was strongly influenced by both age and education level

Evaluation: Programme to Support Palliative and Hospice Care in the Republic of Ireland, Final Report

Investment in end-of-life care has made Ireland a world leader in advancing palliative and hospice care but regional inequities persist, according to an evaluation by Professor Mary McCarron and colleagues at Trinity College Dublin.This evaluation examined The Atlantic Philanthropies' End of Life programme -- which aimed to improve the care and quality of life for patients dying from an incurable illness and to ensure they and their families received excellent end-of-life care and services. From its first grant in 2004 through its final grant in 2010, Atlantic invested 25 million in the programme

Adoption and Abandonment of Precision Soil Sampling in Cotton Production

Technology adoption in precision agriculture has received considerable attention, while abandonment has received little. Our objective was to identify factors motivating adoption and abandonment of precision soil sampling in cotton. Results indicate younger producers who farmed more cotton area, owned more of their cropland, planted more non-cotton area, used a computer, or used a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) were more likely to adopt precision soil sampling. Those with more cotton area or who owned livestock were more likely to abandon, while those who used precision soil sampling longer, used a PDA, or used variable-rate fertilizer application were less likely to abandon.Crop Production/Industries,

York ISL Supported Living Service Evaluation

A service evaluation of ISL's Living Service in the city of York. Mixed methods data were collected from among residents, staff, and parents. Findings indicate the diversity of residents and detail the largely positive experiences of living independently in the service. The Report offers recommendations for continued development

Multi-classifier prediction of knee osteoarthritis progression from incomplete imbalanced longitudinal data

Conventional inclusion criteria used in osteoarthritis clinical trials are not very effective in selecting patients who would benefit from a therapy being tested. Typically majority of selected patients show no or limited disease progression during a trial period. As a consequence, the effect of the tested treatment cannot be observed, and the efforts and resources invested in running the trial are not rewarded. This could be avoided, if selection criteria were more predictive of the future disease progression. In this article, we formulated the patient selection problem as a multi-class classification task, with classes based on clinically relevant measures of progression (over a time scale typical for clinical trials). Using data from two long-term knee osteoarthritis studies OAI and CHECK, we tested multiple algorithms and learning process configurations (including multi-classifier approaches, cost-sensitive learning, and feature selection), to identify the best performing machine learning models. We examined the behaviour of the best models, with respect to prediction errors and the impact of used features, to confirm their clinical relevance. We found that the model-based selection outperforms the conventional inclusion criteria, reducing by 20-25% the number of patients who show no progression. This result might lead to more efficient clinical trials.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, 10 table

A climate network-based index to discriminate different types of El Niño and La Niña

Funded by German Federal Ministry for Education and Research via the BMBF Young Investigators Group CoSy-CC2. Grant Number: 01LN1306A Planetary Boundary Research Network (PB.net) Earth League's EarthDoc DFG FAPESP Acknowledgments M.W. and R.V.D. have been supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research via the BMBF Young Investigators Group CoSy-CC2 (grant 01LN1306A). J.F.D. thanks the Stordalen Foundation via the Planetary Boundary Research Network (PB.net) and the Earth League's EarthDoc program for financial support. J.K. acknowledges the IRTG 1740 funded by DFG and FAPESP. NCEP Reanalysis data are provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their website http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/. Parts of the analysis have been performed using the Python package pyunicorn [Donges et al., 2015b] available at https://github.com/pik-copan/pyunicorn.Peer reviewedPublisher PD