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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Allegheny County"”.
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Planning Release: An Evaluation of the Allegheny County Jail Project
The goal of the Allegheny County Jail Project is to allow inmates to maintain social bonds by obtaining meaningful employment and reduce the rate of recidivism. The rates of recidivism were evaluated for the Allegheny County Jail Project and then compared to the rate of recidivism of the general …
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Reading Specialist Practices at the Third Grade Level in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
… the practices of the reading specialists in Allegheny County conform to the Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised, 2003 (IRA, 2004) with specific reference to third grade settings. The total research population was 381, 127 each of the subgroups. However, 71 total participants returned …
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A Higher Public Spirit and a Better Social Order: The Civic Club of Allegheny County, 1895-1930
The Civic Club of Allegheny County was an organization created in the Progressive era that confronted urban issues that plagued early twentieth century Pittsburgh. Although the club's origins were part of a long tradition of women's reform groups, this organization was a mixed-gender organization, …
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Providing Culturally Appropriate Services to Immigrant Children and Families Involved with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services
In the last decade, the immigrant population in Allegheny County has doubled and currently accounts for approximately seven percent of the general population. This number, despite being low, especially compared to other counties and states, is very diverse from an ethnic point view and includes …
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Parental Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Outcomes: A Study of Biological Mothers and their Children in Out-of-Home Placement in Allegheny County
… branch child welfare responsibilities for Allegheny County, which includes the city of Pittsburgh, PA. The sample in this study included children who had been removed from the home for the first time in 2012, and was split by age, creating two models. Parental drug abuse was found to make …
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Perceptions of Opportunity Among Youth Served by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services: A Program Evaluation Study of the Partnership for Youth Transition
The Allegheny County Department of Human Services implemented the Partnership for Youth Transition Program (PYT) to provide services for transition aged youth in Allegheny County who suffer from Severe Emotional Disturbance. One of the goals of this program was to enhance the perceptions of …
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System Transformation in the Context of Building an Integrative System in the Child Welfare System in Allegheny County through Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment
In the last decade, the Allegheny County constituents could witness the transformation of a widely criticized system of divided services into a single Department of Human Services. As an attempt to improve service planning DHS moved to a common assessment (CANS Comprehensive) shared across the …
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From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier
… death of Tarleton Bates, third Prothonotary of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Bates was born in Virginia, but he left in 1794 as a soldier in the Virginia militia to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Bates decided to remain in Pittsburgh, where he became an influential leader of the local …
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Migration as a Constrained Decision Process
… from two metropolitan counties, Champaign County, Illinois and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?: Child Abuse in a Community Context
… a neighborhood context based on the analysis of Allegheny County in Southwestern Pennsylvania that is divided into 98 zip codes. Based on data on child abuse reports obtained from ChildLine from 1994 to 2004, this research tests a relationship between variables traditionally associated with child …
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untitled, ambiguity and architecture
… is a steel town downriver from Pittsburgh, in Allegheny County. The town's dualities are manifest in the narrative tensions between past and present, mind and body, growth and decay.
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Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes
… I study the 2012 court-ordered reassessment in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to identify systematic variations in effective tax rates. Allegheny County had not been reassessed for many years, so the reform resulted in dramatic changes in property tax burdens for individual homeowners. Without …
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Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models
… were collected manually using ArcGIS Pro from Allegheny County, PA USA.</p> <p>Different preprocessing techniques were applied to the dataset, such as image resizing, image extraction from bounding boxes, and image mapping to actual class label. Due to the class imbalance nature of the dataset, …
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Foster Mothers' Experience of Parenting a Foster Child with Attachment Problems: An Empirical Phenomenological Investigation
… years was sent by seven foster care agencies in Allegheny County to all of those agencies' foster mothers. Foster mothers were not told in advance that the study involved attachment-disordered foster children. Six foster mothers volunteered. The Kinship Center Attachment Questionnaire (KCAQ), …
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Preserving the ethos of industry at the Carrie furnaces: the redevelopment of an industrial heritage site and the interpretation of manufacturing culture
… Valley. The Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County intends to redevelop this 168-acre former industrial site in the near future. In anticipation of this regionally important redevelopment project, this thesis considers the philosophical commitments of historic preservation, weighs …
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An Investigation of Technology Implementation through the Lens of Student Centered Learning and the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Paradigm
… science classroom. The greater Pittsburgh and Allegheny County educational district was selected for this study. Results were examined through the lens of the Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) paradigm and Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition (SAMR) model, …