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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Community impact"”.
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Community Impact of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Rural Uganda
… objective of this study was to investigate the impact of a long-standing Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-G) program for the treatment of depression in rural Ugandan communities as perceived by local people, and to assess its effect on broad outcomes related to health, and economic and …
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Mating disruption in apple orchards: dispenser release rates, generic blends and community impact
… flavedana, P. idaeusalis and A. velutinana. The impact of a low spray mating disruption program upon the ground dwelling arthropods was investigated. It was determined that a low spray mating disruption program may be more compatible with populations of natural enemies. More taxa, species and …
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Aviation Effects on Local Business: Mapping Community Impact and Policy Strategies for Noise Remediation
… intersection of economic and environmental impact. Using geospatial analysis of Boston and Chicago, two metropolitan areas which experienced flight path changes, this thesis assesses the extent to which businesses near airports relocate or close in response to noise increases. Business …
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Community Impact of School Closure: Implications for Access to Socially Valued Resources and Services in an Urban Community
… case study explores the lived experiences of community members in Central Bay, California, as Central Bay High School faces the prospect of consolidation or closure. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, the study examines how the potential loss of a …
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Bay Area Student Involvement in the Environmental and Food Justice Movements: A Narrative of Motivations, Experiences, and Community Impact
… destruction, and other environmental injustices. Community organizations and university programs are filling this much-needed gap in student environmental education, as they involve youth in understanding the principles of environmental activism, justice, and sustainability. But who are these …
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Community Engagement: Impacts of community perceptions on community service participation
… attitudes of high school seniors regarding their community and participation in community service activities to determine what relationship exists between community attitudes and motivation to engage in the community. The study will address this relationship within the context of functional theory …
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How New Markets Tax Credits are Contributing to Recovery and Community Development in New Orleans
… to capital. In addition to its use to foster community development, after Hurricane Katrina it was put to use as a disaster recovery resource as part of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act. The program has successfully attracted investors, but gauging the community impact of NMTC projects is …
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Determining the Financial Feasibility of a Wood Products Industrial Park
… analysis include market and technical analyses. Community impact analysis was also acknowledged as an important component of an overall feasibility analysis. A case study was performed that consisted of an economic feasibility analysis for a wood products industrial park in Southwest Virginia. …
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Teaching Politics: A Study of High School Government Courses and the 2008 Presidential Election
… on teachers by schools and the surrounding community impact the political message presented in the classroom. From these findings, I use Foucault's (1978/1991) notion of govemmentality as a way of better understanding the political socialization that occurred in each of these classes. I then …
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Appalachian Church Leaders: An IPA Study to Understand Their Experiences with Substance Misuse
… a history of abuse from large corporations, the impact of the decline in coal mining and generational poverty, the region is currently on a road toward recovery. Substance misuse rates are disproportionality high, and there are limited resources available to address the issue. Literature suggests …
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Strategic Transformation through Collaborative Innovation: Fostering Dynamic Capabilities at a Regional College Campus
… ethical foundation that explicitly commits to community engagement enhances innovation. By enhancing dynamic capabilities, the campus can better sense emergent trends, seize on insights and intelligence, and transform opportunities into sustainable outcomes. This DiP integrates …
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Exploring the Support Networks of those Caring for Loved Ones on Texas Death Row
… and religious organizations. Understanding the impact experienced by the supporters under study will allow professionals to make more informed decisions regarding the death penalty and illuminate the ripple effects of trauma suffered by innocent members of Texas’ communities. Restorative justice …
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Supply Chain Sustainability Opportunities in the Utility Industry
The impact of COVID-19 has shed a spotlight onto global supply chains. There is a renewed focus on both the effectiveness of supply chains, as well as how to operate them sustainably. Governments, corporations, and policymakers around the world are pushing for more sustainable procurement and there …
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Community-Based Education through a Paraprofessional Model: An Experiential Learning Perspective of Peer Education
In community-based peer education models, it is necessary to understand the relationship between learning, context and paraprofessional identity construction. Social relations are important in community education program implementation (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007); impacting power …
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Creating public dialogue: bridging the divide between television policymakers and citizens
… and citizen representatives to enable community opinion to inform and benchmark policy decisions. The research programme first considers the twin narratives of social power and the restrictions of public participation in policy dialogue. This is addressed through data gathered from a …
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Human response to railway vibration in residential environments : exposure-response relationships and modifying factors
… vibration policies and regulationsfocusing on community impact need to explore specific scenarios and new vibrationindices in order to facilitate an optimal assessment of railway effects on residentialenvironments.
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Letting the Village Be the Teacher: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of Community-Based Learning in Northern Thailand
… with outsider visitors while minimizing unwanted impacts. Through my research, I challenge the hidden narrative in U.S. higher education practice and discourse that a study abroad destination's main value is as a site for the benefit of U.S. higher education students; a site where they can accrue …
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Forgiveness in Northern Ireland : a qualitative approach to building a theoretical model
… of the relationship between empathy, cross-community contact, and religiosity and the impact on forgiveness for Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Based on the existing literature, three distinct guiding questions emerged: 1) "How are members from the Catholic and Protestant …
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Evaluation of the impact of the Northern Medical Program : perceptions of community leaders
… The NMP is also hypothesized to have wider impacts on the community. This study aimed to describe perceptions of the broader impacts of the NMP. Methods. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with community leaders in various sectors of Prince George. The …
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Producing the Global Classroom: Exploring the Impact of US Study Abroad on Host Communities in San Jose, Costa Rica and Florence, Italy
… utilizes qualitative interviews with 57 host community members in the popular study abroad destinations of San Jose, Costa Rica and Florence, Italy, to focus on how those who engage with US study abroad students understand and are impacted by those encounters. Each descriptive case explores: …
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