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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Community Interest"”.
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Community Interest as An Indicator for Ranking
… due, in part, to the dynamic nature of users' interests with respect to a query. We hypothesize that the interests of a given user are similar to the interests of the broader community of which he or she is a part and propose an innovative method that uses social media to characterize the …
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Habitat suitability and recommendation for the reintroduction of the European pond Turtle Emys Orbicularis (Lininnaeus 1975) to the area of community interest "Locknitztal" in Brandenburg (Germany)
… high conservation status, high public interest in Emys orbicularis promoted by the “Freundeskreis Wappentier” (Supporters of the Emblem Animal) and a great voluntary engagement for the maintenance of the conservation area by the “Interessengemeinschaft Löcknitztal” (Löcknitztal …
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Reorganization of the elementary schools in the Linden Union High School District
… district reorganization?; (7) Where are the community interest centers?; (8) What reorganization is educationally sound?</p>
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Designing a wilderness : the legacy of Benton MacKaye and the Appalachian Trail.
… Undervalued for decades in the environmental community, interest in MacKaye's cohesive understanding of a "primeval" environment is growing. An examination of MacKaye's work establishes lasting influence through the history of the Appalachian Trail. Using MacKaye's writing as a basis for …
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The Global 'Political Voice Deficit Matrix': What Role for International Law?
… theorises political voice as an ‘international community interest’, and, drawing parallels from international climate change law, it suggests that states should hold due diligence obligations to prevent, or at least minimise the harm caused by the commercial operations of private ICT companies …
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A Hierarchical Approach to Quantitative Portfolio Optimization for Technology Development Project Portfolios (OPTIM-H)
… and their subcategories, showing the impact of community interest on investment decisions. Furthermore, this work investigates k-means clustering as a tool for classifying technology projects for targeted investment, with the analysis identifying seven clusters and achieving a mean utility score …
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Black Panther Shatters Social Binaries to Explore Postcolonial Themes: How Ancestry, Identity, Revenge, and the Third Space Impact the Ability to Navigate Change and Create New Forms of Cultural Hybridity
… to create and reconstruct a new “nationness, community interest, and “cultural value” (Bhabha 2). <em>Black Panther</em> embraces heritage while shattering social binaries to provide lessons on how to navigate cultural hybridity and continual change.</p>
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The efficacy in the development and implementation of the California high school exit exam and the eighth-grade algebra 1 policy
… because it involved collaboration of various interest groups, educators, local education agencies, and school administrators. Policy makers must learn to work in collaboration with its constituency to develop policies that empower schools to sustain and extend greater individualization on one …
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An Investigation Into Social Impact Practice in Social Enterprises
… on the council for voluntary service and community interest company legal structures to encourage cross-sectoral engagement.
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Status of the freshmen learning community initiative at Iowa State University
… retention rates and GPA performance of learning community students based on five learning community characteristics: (1) lived together in a residence hall; (2) assigned a peer mentor; (3) enrolled in a common set of classes together; (4) experienced curricular innovation; and (5) increased …
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The attitudes and opinions of Indiana school superintendents toward selected components of community education in the public schools
… superintendent:; toward selected components of Community Education in public schools.Review of literature traced development of t)-h philosophy of Community Education from a "one-room schoolhouse" to a multiplicity of components involving all aspects of community life.Studies related to …
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Excessive Stakeholder Evaluation Anxiety (XSEA): Helping Your Stakeholder Find Their Sea Legs with Program Evaluation
… included program staff having a high vested interest in the success of their program, feeling overwhelmed with their everyday work responsibilities and worrying about the extra time and resources evaluation would require of them, feeling concerned about disappointing external audiences, and …
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Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations
… debate and has sought to balance conflicting interests and existing inequities between states within legal arrangements. On a technical-legal design level, these multilateral responsibility sharing regimes are facilitative and flexible, reducing the sovereignty costs of entering into a binding …
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A Comparison Of The Leadership Roles Of Public And Private Elementary School Principals
… strategies, enhancing the strength of community interest and support for the school, and furthering research aimed at a better understanding of the influence of external social and political goals, standards, and accountability on the middle management role of the school principal.
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Use of Stormwater as an Alternative Supply Source
… demand for potable water supplies and increased community interest for sustainable use of fresh water sources have resulted in a new focus on water use and sourcing. New sources are being sought, in conjunction with water demand minimisation strategies, to decrease the pressure on existing urban …
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Vibrated granular matter
… friction for granular materials. In the physics community interest in granular media started to grow considerably around 1990, driven by the fast-growing performances of computer simulations. Since then the number of publications in this field has surged enormously. Because of the dissipative …
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Climate change impacts on habitats and biodiversity : From environmental envelope modelling to nature conservation strategies
… listed in Annex I are protected in ‘sites of community interest’ aiming to maintain or restore them at a favourable conservation status. Due to the projected changes a static nature conservation concept could face problems which particularly concern the coherence of the protected area network. …
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Propuesta metodológica para la planificación y gestión de los espacios protegidos red natura 2000, utilizando teledetección (análisis de imágenes en base a objetos) y sistemas de información geográfica = Methodological proposal for planning and managing protected natura 2000 areas, using remote sensing (object based image analysis) and geographic information systems.
… status of habitats and the species of community interest. These protection requirements were also adopted at Spanish national level. The first part of this thesis looked through all of these topics. This entire framework led to the necessity of a correct management in Natura 2000 …
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Viscoelastic Strain, Viscous Rheology, and Behavior of Experimental Lava Flows
… lava technology, but the potential and community interest for such research directions is steadily growing. The 2018 eruption of Kilauea marked the end of a 35-year period of daily active lava flows in Hawaii; a significant loss for the volcanological community who relied on this region …