Shanghai’s urban environmental management in the past three decades has been focused primarily on the environmental problems at the intra-urban level. While this ‘end of pipe’ approach greatly mitigated domestic and industrial pollution, progresses were much slower in dealing with environmental impacts both at a smaller (i.e., those related to people’s daily activities) scale and at a larger (i...

This paper explores the ways in which resource limitations influence the nature of perceptual and cognitive processes. A framework is developed that allows early visual processing to be analyzed in terms of these limitations. In this approach, there is no one “best” system for any visual process. Rather, a spectrum of systems exists, differing in the particular trade-offs made between performan...

Shanghai’s urban environmental management in the past three decades has been focused primarily on the environmental problems at the intra-urban level. While this ‘end of pipe’ approach greatly mitigated domestic and industrial pollution, progresses were much slower in dealing with environmental impacts both at a smaller (i.e., those related to people’s daily activities) scale and at a larger (i...

Currently a large scale infrastructural mall development of 48000 m is being constructed adjacent to the Mooi River in the central business district of the city of Potchefstroom. This development is facing significant environmental and social challenges due to the highly sensitive environment in which the development is being constructed. In projects like the Mooirivier Mall Development the act...

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During the last decade, employee retention has become a most critical issue for all private sector organisations as a result of the shortage of skilled labor, economic growth and employee turnover. Retention of employees is an important function of the Human Resource Management. Employees are the assets of any organization. The organizations have to strive to retain the talents of the employees...