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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Community-based approach"”.
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A Community-Based Approach for Hub Placements
… transportation systems. This thesis investigates community-based strategies for hub placement within the AAM infrastructure. More specifically, it utilizes network segmentation to decompose a network into communities to simplify the hub selection process into more manageable sub-problems. Our …
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A community-based approach to tourism in Indonesia
… and the environment. This study explores a community-based approach to tourism development in Indonesia. In particular, it examines the extent and nature of local community participation during various stages of the tourism development process in three case studies: in Bali, Yogyakarta, and …
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Self-determination theory in motivation to adopt physical activity in older adults: A community based approach
… of these two factors on the health of the community highlight the need to investigate methods to increase physical activity in older Australian adults. The study reported in this thesis formed part of the PATH (Physical Activity Time for Health) Project, a community-based research trial …
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The Assessment of Community-Based Approach in Implementing Mother and Child Health Project of Immunization in Tanzania: The Case of Arusha Municipality
The study sought to assess the community involvement in Community-Based Approach used by local Non-Governmental Organizations in implementing Maternal/Mother and Child Health Project of immunization in Arusha Region. The study was conducted in four places in Arusha Municipality. The study had three …
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A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques
… are often seen as top-down or outside-in approach that many teachers and past integration efforts have identified as being one of the contributing factors to integration failure. By looking at past integration efforts, as well as through our own initial study and in the field, we recognise …
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From Combat to Community: a Study of how Community-based Approach to Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) can Contribute More Effectively to Peacebuilding: The Case of Sierra Leone
… thus, sometimes it creates divisions among community members and strains the entire peacebuilding process. In view of this limited approach to DDR, academics and practitioners alike are increasingly arguing for a community-based (CB) approach, especially during the reintegration process, as …
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Campus landscape space planning and design using QFD
… into account. This change is influenced by a community-based design concept found in Active Living and Public Spaces design. While Active Living and Public Spaces design emphasizes the importance of user involvement and different techniques in soliciting user input, there is a missing link …
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Developing digital literacies: Engaging technical communication at an urban community technology center
… develop their digital literacies at an urban community technology center (CTC) in the Southeastern United States. By taking an ethnographic and community-based approach to data collection and utilizing grounded theory for analysis, I found that learners engage in all three dimensions of …
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Relational rural geographies, resilience, and narratives of small-scale fruit farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… by globalisation and urbanisation. The study is based on analysis of how urban-rural interactions have affected small-scale farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an area where land-use, economic and environmental policies and urban land speculation have prompted …
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Peacebuilding in the Context of Displacement: Women’s Groups in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Settlements in Kenya
… Kenya. The study uses the human security approach to peacebuilding to examine the activities and initiatives of the women’s groups. It also adopts the African feminisms theoretical framework that focuses on the African context of the settlements, female autonomy and cooperation, the …
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Resettlement & Namibian San communities: prospectives for sustainable community development through empowerment
… to San people as the most marginalised Namibian community. A critical evaluation of the resettlement process, however, reveals that this is simply rhetoric. Project planning and design is centralised and is undertaken on an ad hoc basis. Resettlement is enabled by rigid, prescriptive and …
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Local Commitment to JOBS
… of social services, area businesses, and community organizations to the implementation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. It contends that such a commitment is a necessary pre-condition for JOBS to ever be successful. It then examines the level of commitment these …
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Examining the relationship among physical and psychological health, parent and peer attachment, and cyberbullying in adolescents in urban and suburban environments
… through 12th grades participated in the study. A community-based approach was used to recruit students and collect data from charter schools, recreational centers, church youth groups, and a community organization.</p> <p>Five instruments (The Student Survey; Inventory of Parent and Peer …
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Are people with diabetes on an equal footing? Examining administrative healthcare data for variables associated with diabetes foot-related hospital admissions in Aotearoa New Zealand
… the Feet for Life programme, an Indigenous-led, community-based approach to DFD prevention in Aotearoa reported in 2010. Conclusion: DFD-caused hospitalisations in Aotearoa are a growing burden which disproportionately affects Māori, underscoring the need for culturally responsive Preventive …
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Managing Boundaries, Healing the Homeland: Ecological Restoration and the Revitalization of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, 1933 – 2000
… practices from a paternalistic foundation to a community-based approach resulted in positive consequences for the ecological health of the Apachean landscape and Apache culture. The democratization of science and technology on the reservation, therefore, proved paramount to the reestablishment …
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Empowerment Process Model for Implementing Participatory Strategies: Testing a Model That Describes the Context of Food and Nutrition Problems of Dominican Women
… root causes of the problems, and solutions. This community-based approach used participatory non-written activities and locally developed visual aids to empower Dominican women to develop feasible action plans: a sewing workshop, how to start a business workshop, coffee house project, and women's …
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Exploring the knowledge and attitudes of educational stakeholders and how this influences inclusive education practices in elementary schools: a case study of a rural community in Kasungu, Malawi
… among educational stakeholders in a rural community within Kasungu, Malawi, focusing on inclusive education in elementary schools. A key underlying concern is the pervasive exclusion of children with disabilities from educational opportunities. One of the proposed responses to address this …
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Knowledge Mobilization: Local Community Engagement, Sustainability, and Adaptive Governance
… The key research question considers if and how community social learning can be advanced through ecomuseums within the system of adaptive governance. This project offers several key contributions to both the literature and society by using a community-based approach that addresses major aspects …
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Exploring B vitamin biosynthesis and exchange in understudied marine stramenopiles and their communities
… were limiting for the growth of the microbial community as a whole in this area of the ocean (English Channel), or if growth was co-limited by both B vitamin and macronutrient concentration. The results suggested that none of the B vitamins tested were a limiting factor for growth of the …
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A community modeling approach to understanding the ecology of Lyme disease
… of each host has yet to be quantified. Previous approaches to understanding the ecology of Lyme disease, the most commonly reported tick-borne disease, have been limited to determining the roles that individual wildlife hosts play in the dispersal, transmission, and maintenance of B. burgdorferi …