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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Administrative boundaries"”.
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Presentation And Understanding Of Mortality Through Geospatial And Administrative Boundaries: An Examination Of Rates And Correlates Of Mortality In Texas Census Tracts
This capstone project analyses Texas vital statistics data through visual and tabular presentation of county-level age-adjusted mortality rates for all-cause and cause-specific mortality (including heart, cancer, and stroke) and through multilevel regression analyses of deaths at the census tract …
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Cluster-based Delineation of Megaregions in the United States: Identifying administrative boundaries that reflect meta-communities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government
… comprehensible to a degree that the resulting boundaries are well suited to administrative implementation. The process developed leverages a combination of cluster analysis and metropolitan planning organization locations to identify sub-regions that share morphological characteristics and …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848--1914
… and maps states could redraw political and administrative boundaries to match perceived lines of ethnic difference, while nationalist organizations could develop actionable strategies to intervene in nationality conflicts across the globe. In this way, my work contributes to longstanding …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
… and maps states could redraw political and administrative boundaries to match perceived lines of ethnic difference, while nationalist organizations could develop actionable strategies to intervene in nationality conflicts across the globe. In this way, my work contributes to longstanding …
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Learning to Burn, Burning to Learn: Transforming Professionals and Organizations through the US Fire Learning Network
… to ecologically informed fire management. Administrative boundaries, professional specializations and organizational incentives and funding mechanisms have stalled the adoption of landscape scale ecological fire restoration as a guiding paradigm. Using a case study approach, this …
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Public Health Governance at the Watershed Scale: Exploring Opportunities for Multi-sector Governance to Advance Planetary Health in Northeastern Massachusetts
… apply only within specific political or administrative boundaries, creating a mismatch between the spatial scale of natural systems which impact health and the spatial extents of relevant regulations. For example, in Massachusetts, local Boards of Health govern specific public health and …
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Impacts of coastal flooding on watersheds in Hampton Roads, VA
… ignoring the propagation of water across its administrative boundaries. Impact assessment at the watershed scale identifies areas where municipalities will need to collaborate to mitigate the flood impact. The main purpose of this project was to evaluate the impact of flooding among watersheds …
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Critical Digital Infrastructure Protection: An Investigatoin Into The Intergovernmental Activities Of Information Technology Directors In Florida Counties
… cyber criminals do not respect geographic or administrative boundaries, local leaders must be prepared to instantly interact with other governments, agencies, and departments to suppress an attack. Guided by the theory of intergovernmental management (IGM), this exploratory research …
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Analysis of referrals to a cancer genetics service
… data on deprivation, GP practices, postcode and administrative boundaries to produce a more complete dataset, enabling analyses to include factors beyond just the service database. This is a secondary analysis of a service database, using analyses performed by standard statistical techniques …
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The geographical data science of population flows
… research based on interaction data for census administrative boundaries indicates urban – rural patterns in the propensity to travel which are exasperated in peripheral areas. These findings are considered to be an effect of the spatial structure of zonings and thus an unsuitability of the …
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Impact of urbanisation on vegetable cultivation and supply for the traditional markets in Zambia: a case study of selected markets in Lusaka District
… Lusaka while 27% were produced within the administrative boundaries of the city, particularly those classified as peri-urban areas s. Despite the city relying on regional food systems, there was lack of clear policy by the local authority to promote urban food security including lack of …
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The role of scientific evidence in collective action decision-making
… which are often public goods that cross administrative boundaries. Stakeholders whom make collective action decisions typically work with limited resources, and as such it is important they work with adequate information to lead to an increase in efficiency and ultimate success. The …
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Kaupunkimaisuuden mittaaminen : Suomeen soveltuva alueluokittelumenetelmä
… develop a classification which is independent of administrative boundaries but which is in further analysis applicable to municipalities as well. The method developed in this paper was based on the idea that the areas which are classified into the same urbanity class can contain different features …
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VALUING CHANGES IN THE PROVISION OF A PUBLIC GOOD: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ECONOMICS
… due to the aggregation of data into predefined administrative boundaries (such as Census tracts) are addressed in chapter 3 by using micro-data with a sample of matched wage-earner housing units. Chapter 4 uses survey-based data to address changes the in provision of a different good with public …
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Urban-Scale Decomposition of Carbon Peaking Targets in the Yangtze River Delta from a Consumption-Based Responsibility Perspective
… aligns with production activities within administrative boundaries. Traditional production-based accounting fails to comprehensively reflect the true carbon responsibility of cities. Therefore, it is necessary to re-examine the emissions responsibility and equitable distribution among 41 …
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The Regional Communities of Viking Age Norway and their Contribution to Socio-Political Dynamics, c. 900 - 1050
… by relating these dynamics to the appearance of administrative boundaries towards the end of the period, focusing in particular on the Frostuþing and Gulaþing legal assemblies, arguing for the regional social developments that contributed to their foundation. This thesis concludes with the …