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Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town
Jaglin, Sylvy - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 7, pp. 1394-1414
The multiscalar challenges associated with urban energy policies are the cause of extensive interaction among multiple levels of government and social forces. However, these multilevel systems of action tend to reflect complex and unstable power and resistance patterns rather than stable...
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Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities
Lemanski, Charlotte - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 14, pp. 2943-2960
This paper reveals how urban theories traditionally rooted in northern cities and academies are challenged and redeveloped by southern perspectives. Critiques of urban theory as narrowly northern (or Anglo-American) have recently emerged, spawning the comparative urbanism movement that calls for...
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Condom use consistency among adolescents and young adults in the Cape Area of South Africa: Dynamics and Determinants
Oyedokun, Amos; Odimegwu, Clifford - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
This paper examined the dynamics and determinants of consistent use of condoms among youths in the Cape Area of South Africa. A longitudinal data of 3,210 young people collected between 2002 and 2005 was analysed using Stata/SE version 12 with Generalised Linear Latent And Mixed Model (GLLAMM)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207240
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Hybrid urban transport systems in developing countries: Portents and prospects
Salazar Ferro, Pablo; Behrens, Roger; Wilkinson, Peter - In: Research in Transportation Economics 39 (2013) 1, pp. 121-132
Some South African cities have initiated public transport transformation projects which, in most cases, ultimately envisage the in toto replacement of paratransit operations with formalised BRT systems. There are two likely outcomes: (1) complex negotiations with existing operators and budget...
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Contesting inclusive urbanism in a divided city: The limits to the neoliberalisation of Cape Town’s energy system
Swilling, Mark - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 15, pp. 3180-3197
The struggles to define and implement an inclusive non-racial urbanism in South Africa after democratisation in 1994 occurred during the heyday of world-wide diffusion of unevenly developed neoliberalisation processes. This case study of the complexities of transforming Cape Town’s energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011135179
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Private Services as a Source of Growth?
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
differences also exist between the scalability of different services. Since 2007, employment growth has been the fastest in the …
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The co-occurrence of self-observed norm-conforming behavior, reduction of zero observations and remaining measurement quality
Landsheer, Johannes - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 5, pp. 2647-2656
this study we study the inter-correlations, scalability and reliability of norm-violating responses and their relation with …-report items have limited interrelatedness and are limited in scalability and reliability in the norm-violating sub-population. The … Loevinger’s H coefficient of scalability and scale reliability become unsatisfactorily low, when 35 % or more strict norm …
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A Pearson-Type-VII item response model for assessing person fluctuation
Ferrando, Pere - In: Psychometrika 72 (2007) 1, pp. 25-41
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Robust Learning from Bites for Data Mining
Christmann, Andreas; Steinwart, Ingo; Hubert, Mia - Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, … - 2006
Some methods from statistical machine learning and from robust statistics have two drawbacks. Firstly, they are computer-intensive such that they can hardly be used for massive data sets, say with millions of data points. Secondly, robust and non-parametric confidence intervals for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219831
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Quality Research by Using Performance Evaluation Metrics for Software Systems and Components
BULIGIU, Ion; SOAVA, Georgeta - In: Informatica Economica X (2006) 3, pp. 18-24
, and scalability metrics. Most of the performance metrics covered here can be considered as the application of existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416298