African management principles within the Community Bank.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Management (Human Resources).The research exposes a developing African Management model, within a case study framework, and deals with its management approach, structures and processes. Through the qualitative research methodology employed sufficient evidence was found to suggest that African Management is (I) eclectic in nature, embracing Lessem's (1990a, 1990b, 1993a, 1993b) constructs of 'Western' empiricism, 'Northern' rationalism, 'Eastern' idealism and 'Southern' humanism in a dynamic whole: (2) that the natural lnclination of organisations and/or sections thereof operating within an environment of collective consciousness is toward a 'Southern' humanistic orientation as opposed to a 'Western' primal, 'Nortnern' rational, or 'Eastern' developmental bias; (3) that such 'Southerness' is pre-eminently concerned with themes of voluntary subordination of self-interest to communal Objectives, rights and obligations, relationships built on trust, community ownership, inclusive and transparent arrangements, democratic decision making processes, celebration, humanistic values, primacy of language and African humility; further to which (4) the pathological down side of over developed 'Southern' humanism - at the expense of 'Western' emplrlcism, 'Northern' rationalism and Eastern' idealism - is heightened expectation, prolonged consultation, favouritism, patronage, and nepotism.Andrew Chakane 201

Market Power and Regulatory Failure in the Montana Wholesale Electricity Market

This work investigates market power and regulatory failures in the Montana wholesale electrical market after the implementation of deregulation in 1997. It provides a review of the development of the Montana wholesale electrical market, federal and state market power regulation, economic theory, and approaches for regulating market power in electrical markets. The work primarily focuses on the conduct of PPL Corporation, which acquired the generation assets of the Montana Power Company, and its capacity to set prices in Montana. It identifies that the current regulatory scheme, which is managed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is inadequate at deterring and detecting the exercise of market power. Welfare impacts to Montana Consumers are estimated at $722 million. The work includes a significant review of NorthWestern Energy’s re-vertical integration and information about the structure of the Montana electrical market

Design for verification

Increased competition in the aerospace market has placed additional demands on aerospace manufacturers to reduce costs, increase product flexibility and improve manufacturing efficiency. There is a knowledge gap within the sphere of digital to physical dimensional verification and on how to successfully achieve dimensional specifications within real-world assembly factories that are subject to varying environmental conditions. This paper describes a novel Design for Verification (DfV) framework to be used within low rate and high value and complexity manufacturing industries to aid in achieving high productivity in assembly via the effective dimensional verification of large volume structures, during final assembly. The 'Design for Verification' framework has been developed to enable engineers to design and plan the effective dimensional verification of large volume, complex structures in order to reduce failure rates and end-product costs, improve process integrity and efficiency, optimise metrology processes, decrease tooling redundancy and increase product quality and conformance to specification. The theoretical elements of the DfV methods are outlined, together with their testing using industrial case studies of representative complexity. The industrial tests have proven that by using the new Design for Verification methods alongside the traditional 'Design for X' toolbox, resulted in improved tolerance analysis and synthesis, optimized large volume metrology and assembly processes and more cost effective tool and jig design

Prevalence of neurogenetic disorders in the North of England.

OBJECTIVE: Genetic disorders enter the differential diagnosis of common neurologic diseases, but their overall prevalence is not known. We set out to determine their minimum prevalence. METHODS: Meta-analysis of epidemiologic data gathered from the same geographic region in the North of England. RESULTS: Monogenic neurologic disorders affect at least 90.9/100,000 (95% confidence interval 87.6-94.3), or 1 in 1,100 of the population in Northern England. CONCLUSION: As a group, neurogenetic disorders are not rare. These findings have implications for clinical service delivery