THE IMPLICATIONS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE THEORY AND REGULATION FOR SOUTH AFRICAN BANKING INSTITUTIONS By WESLEY NAIDU Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MAGISTER COMMERCII in FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCES In the FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES At the UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA SUPERVISOR: Prof. JOHANNES HvH DE WET November 2011 -i- ABSTRACT The topic of capital structure has been one that has plagued the academic world for a number of years
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“There are controversies surrounding the concept of abnormality.” With reference to this statement‚ discuss the concepts of normality and abnormality. There are controversies surrounding the concept of abnormality. With reference to this statement‚ discuss the concepts of normality and abnormality Psychologists are posed with a difficult task: it is difficult to define and therefore diagnose abnormality because it is‚ to a large extent‚ based on the symptoms people exhibit or report. This paper
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is desirable‚ and anyone else is a social misfit (C.M.‚ 2013). Catharine M‚ a journalist for magazine Teen Ink‚ explains normal as “Normality is an impossible and improbable dream that we strive for all our lives. We strive for it‚ because it will give us that ego boost that we need to reassure us we fit in. Normal is perfection. Normal is the exception.” Normality is a universal struggle for society and what is “normal” changes with changing societal standards. Since the term “normal” varies with
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It is very important for adults who are responsible for children in there formative years to know this. Children are influenced by everything they see. Adults should also be aware of the years in which they have the skills able to identify and do what they see. Children do not all develop at the same rate; therefore‚ making it harder to identify this stage of life. Children are more influenced by people that they respect a lot‚ like parents‚ than they are by people they just know‚ babysitter. Basically
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and physically and to be in a position to perform the roles that the society expects one to perform. Psychologists say that a person’s normality is usually questioned as soon as there are conflicts involving functions. In societies‚ people are known to conform and to do the things that other people are comfortable with. When one fails to do something‚ his normality is questioned. Statistically‚ it means average and lack of deviation from it. It can be defined as the central group of scores when considering
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the director of the film‚ develops upon this point‚ as it is a crucial theme in the film‚ and exposes the viewer to the true consequences of the bias judgment that occurs in our society. Edward Scissorhands also presents the conformity and social normality that society has been adopted. Tim Burton establishes Edward as an outsider who is physically‚ socially and sub-culturally very different from the rest of the community in the stereotypical suburban area. Edward lives in a distant mansion‚
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same for all X; (3) normality – the distribution of Y|X is normal; (4) independence – the observations are all independent. We check linearity by looking at the residual plot. There is no clear pattern in the mean of the residuals as X changes ‚ so linearity appears reasonable. We also check constant variance by looking at the residual plot. There is no clear pattern in the spread of the residuals as X changes‚ so constant variance appears reasonable. We check normality by looking at a normal
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The deviance of premarital sex has changed to a normality in the U.S. A few decades ago premarital sex was widely unaccepted and defined as deviance. Now‚ it is so common that it is considered a normality and you don’t even have to be in a relationship to be having sex. It promotes sex culture and makes children believe that they should be having sex when they are young. It always for people‚ especially women‚ to be raped because sex is a normality in our
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Results: Table: For the SUBJECTS: PART - I Histogram: This is used to see the graph whether it is like a normal curve. Shapiro-Wilks Test: > shapiro.test(Dataset$SEstimated) Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: Dataset$SEstimated W = 0.9436‚ p-value = 0.0292 > shapiro.test(Dataset$SReaction.Time) Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: Dataset$SReaction.Time W = 0.3868‚ p-value = 1.829e-12 As the p-value is less than 0.05‚ we reject the null hypothesis that the data is not in normal distribution. Box Plots:
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this question you will use the calculations you made for question 7: of Homework 3 to support your judgment concerning the normality of the distribution of the data shown in question 2: (also of Homework 3). Give reasons for your answer which might include calculations and/or graphs. Answer: Reasoning/Work: 3: Using normal probability paper‚ determine (judgment) the normality of the distribution of the following data: 2.566‚ 2.565‚ 2.545‚ 2.551‚ 2.550‚ 2.564‚ 2.542‚ 2.561‚ 2.532‚ 2.565‚ 2.569
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