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Caring and resources in older age (2003)
Thesis
Due to the high incidence of ill health and disability amongst their contemporaries, older people are likely to be involved in informal caring relationships. Due to the limited nature of post-retirement incomes, such carers are also likely to be rela... Read More about Caring and resources in older age.
A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference (2003)
Thesis
Consensus conferences evolved as a response to the public's increasing dissatisfaction with technocratic decision-making processes that are judged to have repeatedly failed to serve its interests. The staging of the first Australian consensus confere... Read More about A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference.
Genetic algorithms for multiple-choice problems (1999)
Thesis
This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems. It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of information... Read More about Genetic algorithms for multiple-choice problems.
A small-scale study was conducted within a historic and traditional, independent, all-boys secondary school in the Western Cape, the focus of which is the exploration of subject positions potentially available to the black male students of the "Black... Read More about Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape.
Analysis of HIV-1 and foraminiferal molecular evolution (1997)
Thesis
This thesis presents work examining aspects of both HIV- 1 and foraminiferal evolution. The thesis is set out accordingly into two sections, each of which contains an introduction with individual chapters presented as a series of papers. In section... Read More about Analysis of HIV-1 and foraminiferal molecular evolution.
Between functions and relations in calculating programs (1992)
Thesis
This thesis is about the calculational approach to programming, in which one derives programs from specifications. One such calculational paradigm is Ruby, the relational calculus developed by Jones and Sheeran for describing and designing circuits.... Read More about Between functions and relations in calculating programs.