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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Absentee"”.
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Absentee Soldier Voting In Civil War Law And Politics
<p>During the Civil War, twenty northern states changed their laws to permit absent soldiers to vote. Before enactment of these statutes, state laws had tethered balloting to the voter's community and required in-person participation by voters. Under the new laws, eligible voters - as long as they …
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Leadership Practices That Influence Teacher Attendance in a Low and High Teacher Absentee School
The impact of teacher absenteeism is all encompassing. Teacher absenteeism affects student achievement and behavior as well as the morale of other teachers. It strains an already overburdened school budget and poorly trained substitute teachers are with students for as much as one whole year of the …
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An analysis of urban growth controls with resident landowners
Instead of using the absentee-landowner assumption which prevails in the literature, this study develops a generalized growth-control model with resident landowners. It is shown that resident landowners have a weaker taste for growth control than their absentee counterparts. The reason is that …
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Non-industrial Landowners, the Incentive to Forego Harvesting, and the Importance of Scale of Activities
… their land, such as preferences, landowner type (absentee vs. resident), site qualities, that function in determining potential scale of harvesting activities. This study examines which of these characteristics are important in landowner decisions regarding timber harvesting. Landowner access to …
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A study of persistent absence from school in Sheffield : Prevalence and associated educational, psychological and social factors.
… schools. The results showed: (a) that persistent absentee rates remained stable between theages 5-12, but rose sharply thereafter; (b) that there was no important association between a secondaryschool's size and its absentee rates; (c) that poverty in the school's catchment area was a reliable …
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An analysis of existing attendance policies and their relationship to secondary school student attendance rates in the Newport News (Virginia) public schools (1977-1978)
… school administrator. and the associated student absentee rates. Four high schools in Newport News, Virginia, each which used somewhat differing attendance policies were examined. The school which used an alternative attendance policy was compared to each of the other three schools. each of which …
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Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Leadership Factors Associated with Teacher Attendance
… of teachers and school leaders at a high absentee school and those of teachers and school leaders at a low absentee school regarding teacher absences with respect to the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Leadership factors. Both qualitative and quantitative methods …
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New Landowners in Virginia's Forest: A Study of Motivations, Management Activities, and Perceived Obstacles
… were used to identify six market segments: Absentee Investors, Young Families, Forest Planners, Preservationists, Farmers, And Professionals. Only the smallest market segment (Absentee Investors, n = 26) reflects motivations and forest management interests that somewhat resemble …
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Understanding social amplification of risk : possible impact of an avian flu pandemic
… concerns of a pandemic include high employee absentee rates, lack of accessibility to the medical facilities, and disruption to the product supply chain. This work introduces social amplification of risk theory to evaluate the potential impact of a pandemic to a business due to heightened …
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
… factors such as bequest motives, tract size, absentee status, and environmental preferences influence the bid acceptance decision for landowners in the sample.
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Federal highway spending and economic growth in Appalachia
… economically due to three main factors: absentee ownership, isolation, and stereotyping. In 1965, Congress created the Appalachian Regional Commission with the mission of providing economic development programs to increase development in the region. Federal highway spending was seen as a …
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The Usability Implications of Long Ballot Content for Paper, Electronic, and Mobile Voting Systems
… approximately 23 million (17.5%), were cast as absentee ballots either domestically or by overseas and military citizens (EAC, 2008). These numbers demonstrate that a demand exists in the United States for less centralized voting procedures. One potential solution, allowing voters to cast …
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Redistribution within a Democratic society : the 'finished business' of he Italian agrarian reform
… the backward production system based on absentee latifundia; has re-vitalized land markets and promoted family farming. The following factors explain the unexpected effectiveness of the Italian agrarian reform. First, the concessions that the government chose to make to the landowning …
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Gentrification and female headed households: tenure, migration and occupational characteristics of two neighborhoods in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1970-1980
… male owner-occupants in one neighborhood and by absentee landlords in the other neighborhood.
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The Short-Term Effects of Student Absences on Student Math Growth and the Moderator Effects of Student Achievement Levels
… between student math performance and absentee data. Correlational analysis revealed a statistically significant negative relationship between the percentage of chronically absent students and student math performance. Similarly, data analysis found a statistically significant positive …
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Short-term employment, income and output consequences of a decline in flue-cured tobacco production: the case of Southside Virginia
… Economic losses for this study area due to absentee tobacco quota ownership are found to be relatively insignificant when compared to the total regional contribution of tobacco. The regional economic impact of a ten percent decrease in tobacco marketing quota, a ten percent decrease in …
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Post-Coal Futures in Central Appalachia: A Critique of the Appalachian Regional Commission and Liberal Economic Development Models
… largely by coal mining that was overseen by absentee proprietors. This mono-economic structure has bred unique political conditions in the region. The economics of coal have historically influenced most political decisions. As the coal industry has declined, the region has been subjected to …
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'The grave and solemn Earl' : a political study of John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassillis during the Covenanting movement, 1637-1651
… Movement can be viewed as a reaction to the absentee monarchy of Charles I and his liturgical innovations designed to bring Scotland into religious uniformity with England. The Covenanters asserted their right to uphold Presbyterian church governance and rebelled against the monarch. John …
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Robert Bruce of Kinnaird and the Resilience of Presbyterianism in Scotland: 1610–1637.
… factors including economic grievance, absentee monarchy, and pervasive fear of Roman Catholic resurgence are considered, yet the evidence suggests that Bruce’s ministry provided a critical locus for sustaining Presbyterian conviction through a period of royal belief in a monarch’s …
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Substance Use Among Female Graduate Students
… married, and 13.5% (n=36) married, but with an absentee spouse. A majority of the respondents (n=178) were employed in a full time capacity. An ensuing analysis of the data revealed generalized substance use among female graduate students in mental health majors, with alcohol being the most …
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