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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Central areas"”.
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Tourism and the development of 'creative' urban areas: evidence from four non-central areas in London
… experience, the characteristics of visitors to areas with a high concentration of creative industries, and the relationship between the urban form and tourism. In order to investigate these processes, four non-central London creative areas (Spitalfields, Hoxton/Shoreditch, London Fields and …
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Money in the theory of economic growth: an analysis of comparative-dynamic and optimality aspects of growth equilibrium
… development or growth has always been one of the central areas of economic study. The main thrust of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was to develop a theory of economic growth. Economic growth was also the primary concern of the great economist like Malthus, Marx, Schumpeter, and Keynes. Modern …
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High-density parenting : design, policy, and family-oriented urbanism
… explicit policies that target parents in dense central areas. These policies provide building and neighborhood amenities for families with children. The purpose of this single-case study dissertation is to understand both how these policies came to be, and the experiences of parents who choose …
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Habitar o Comércio, uma questão central: a política habitacional no bairro do Comércio em Salvador (1970- 2024).
In recent decades, the central areas of Brazil’s major metropolitan regions have experienced marked processes of population decline and urban depreciation, driven by economic and political transformations as well as shifts in broader urban dynamics. Within Salvador’s Historic Center, the …
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Spatial stratification of street vendors in downtown Mexico City
… downtowns, city administrators of most urban areas have attempted to relocate street vendors from central areas to peripheries, from the streets to indoor public markets. That attempt has almost always found fierce opposition among street vendors, who claim that entering into contact with the …
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Central Florida Educational Leaders' Professional Perceptions of Race to the Top Components Concerning Teacher Evaluation and Compensation
… problems associated with the reforms were the central areas of concern among survey respondents. This study provided follow-up data to Windish's 2012 study and showed a negative general trajectory of the professional perceptions of educational leaders related to this high-profile, national …
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Pietermaritzburg as an Afrikan City: Re-establishing the Identity of the Central Business District
… South and specifically in South Afrika. The central areas in many of our cities, conserve and preserve a colonial and oppressive identity in their built environments, which continues to exclude and restrict marginalised groups from accessing resources, infrastructure and opportunities that …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… for why these disparities arise, I explore the central role of exclusionary institutions that limited access to residential neighborhoods for minority families and how they shape the distributional effects of interstate highway policy. I develop a quantitative model with rich spatial …
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A case study of the use of computer conferencing at the Open University
… then maintained it with conferencing, are the central areas of investigation and analysis in this study. Qualitative data - from interviews, observation and conference content, is used along with quantitative data from user-generated statistics, from surveys and from the course …
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Dynamic Sensing of a Dynamic System: Mobile Water Quality Monitoring at Spring Lake, San Marcos, Texas
… with higher total dissolved solids in downstream areas and lower values in the upstream headwaters. I found that the temperature remains generally uniform but stays warmer and more stable in central areas and slightly cooler along the lake margins. These results demonstrate the sensitivity of …
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Improving comprehension in physical science through mother–tongue subtitling in secondary education
… by learners in these schools. One of the central areas which needs attention to improve learners academic performance in these schools is learner comprehension. An empirical research study was done in an attempt to determine whether mother-tongue subtitling would improve learners‟ …
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A Strategic Approach to Managing Turbulence in the Normative Environment
One of the central areas of focus in organizational theory that has been of particular interest is the organization-environment interface. While various theories have made vital contributions to the study of organization-environment relations, their emphasis on organization adaptation is varied. …
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The Ottoman külltye between the 14th and 17th centuries: its urban setting and spatial composition
… in külltyes can be categorized under four main areas: religious, educational, social, and private. This research project attempted to examine the Ottoman külltye from an urban design point of view. It explored the külltye through two main questions: firstly. what was the relationship between the …
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Wittgenstein and irreducible uncertainty: therapeutic implications for education of a non-local model of mind
… student teachers, and second, in a number of central areas of educational concern.<br/>
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Gestaltung von Interaktionsplattformen als Marketinginstrument zur lebenslangen Kund/innenbindung in der Aus- und Weiterbildung
… requirements of the students' platform. The central areas of the online platform are content, interaction, structure, technology, and functionalities; the research details these in a prototype. The surveyed target group exhibits a predominantly high affinity for digital topics. The use of …
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The sedimentology and lithostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Lourinha formation, Lusitanian Basin, Portugal
The Lusitanian Basin of West-Central Portugal is one of a family of formerly adjacent North Atlantic margin basins. Like others of its type (e.g. the Jeanne d'Arcand Western Approaches basins) early phases of rifting and subsidence occurred as far back as the Triassic.<br></br><br></br>During the …
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Provenance, geochronology and sedimentary characteristics of the Campanian M1 Sandstone, Napo Formation, Oriente Basin, Ecuador
… that all M1 Sandstone samples in both the central and western Oriente Basin were derived from the craton, albeit likely reworked within the basin by tidal currents. This result is surprising because previous stratigraphic models have interpreted some of the uppermost sandstone units, …
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Linking structure and function of complex cortical networks
… topological properties of the cortical areas to their function. We conclude that the cortex possesses a very rich communication structure, composed of a mixture of parallel and serial processing paths capable of accommodating dynamical processes with a wide variety of time scales. The …
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“We are going to turn this place into a place!” Affective politics and everyday life in a pavement occupation in Cape Town
… have focused on land occupation in peripheral areas, a small, but growing area of research focuses on the occupation of existing buildings of the inner and central areas. However, scant attention has been given to the occupation of public space in the inner city to date. This case suggests …
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