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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"DEPOPULATION"”.
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Cultivating Lost Land: Livelihood and Depopulation on São Jorge Island, Azores
… Azores, examines the interconnections between depopulation, people’s practices of material livelihood, and their understandings of their overall historical and social condition. Following decades of transatlantic outmigration and demographic decline, subsistence farmers in my main fieldsite, …
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Depopulation and Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Schools in Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, 1942-2000
… States, has experienced continually diminishing depopulation and school closings since the Bracero Program of 1942, which marked the onset of a pronounced trend of migration to the United States for temporary employment opportunities. The effects of a culture of migration and globalization on …
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DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE IN ITALIAN MUNICIPALITIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND EXPLORING NEW FORMS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COORDINATION TO COUNTERACT DEPOPULATION
… reflection of a profound institutional crisis. Depopulation is not a purely demographic or economic phenomenon, but the result of a structural fragility within the governance system, unable to coherently coordinate the different levels of government, resources, and public policy instruments. The …
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Evaluation of the diving reflex in response to water-based foam vs. carbon dioxide gas depopulation in White Pekin ducks
The mass depopulation of production birds is an effective means of controlling fast moving, highly infectious diseases such as avian influenza and virulent Newcastle disease. While water-based foam as a method of mass emergency depopulation was conditionally approved by the United States Department …
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A State-Level Analysis of Deinstitutionalization and the Impact of Chlorpromazine
… in those states studied. Lastly, the depopulation of US mental hospitals that occurred between 1954 and 1961 occurred among patients below age 55 whereas the depopulation between 1961 and 1966 occurred among patients aged 55 and over. This depopulation of the elderly occurred across …
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A neighborhood for Richmond, Virginia
… stated that man could be protected against the depopulation or the land and the overcrowding of cities, which has been shown in history to have been the cause or decay or civilization. Through this new freedom and hope for the future, man will be able to produce and develop creatively.
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Rural settlement contraction in the East Riding of Yorkshire c.1660-1760 with particular reference to the Bainton Beacon division
… urban expansion suggesting widespread rural depopulation. A comparison of the number of households or families in rural townships in the East Riding in the 1670s and 1740s confirms a substantial drop in the size of many settlements. Using detailed documentary material relating to individual …
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Rebuilding the Edge: The Case of the Sulmona–Carpinone Railway and the Town of Pettorano sul Gizio
… that directly impacts the built environment: the depopulation of small centers in Italy over the last century and its consequences for citizens, and the country at large. The thesis examines how to look at the depopulation of inner and southern areas of Italy, by exploring the interrelations …
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Stream aufwuchs accumulation
… Stroubles Creek near Blacksburg VA (Phase II). Depopulation experiments carried out during Phase I supported my hypothesis that accumulation rates are greater in reference than in depopulated streams. The effects of depopulation on Aufwuchs biomass accumulation disappeared in about two weeks …
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Energy exchange processes in erbium-doped fluoride glasses
… a model, which can explain the population and depopulation processes which are responsible for the spectroscopic behaviour of Er3+ ions in fluoride glass materials. The model particularly concentrates on Er3+ :ZB(L)AN glasses with very heavy Er3+ doping levels. Under these circumstances the …
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L¿ABRUZZO AQUILANO DOPO IL TERREMOTO DEL 2009:TERRITORIO, PATRIMONI, POLITICHE, SVILUPPO
… declining economic growth, ageing population and depopulation, like most Italian marginal areas. Thus, over the past few years, a series of projects were implemented to foster L'Aquila's vocation as a knowledge, smart, innovative, creative, open and inclusive city. Since reconstruction is still …
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Cambios en la gestión del territorio en una montaña media mediterránea y sus impactos medioambientales: hacia un nuevo paisaje (altos valles del Iregua Leza, Jubera y Cidacos; sistema ibérico noroccidental)
… the terracing. Since 1950s it starts a massive depopulation that leads the forlornness of these spaces. They begin new enviromental dynamics characterized well by processes of erosion in abandoned fields and nowadays grazed by extensive cattle or for processes of vegetal resettlement. These …
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Missionary Print Culture and Medical Knowledge in the South Pacific and Britain, ca. 1795-1850
… writing: missionary medicine; disease and depopulation; the medicalisation of sexuality; childbirth; and death and dying. As the missionaries strived to investigate new ways of healing on the ground, their experiences of sickness and death played a significant role in shaping the knowledge …
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Conservatism and liberalism in the American Congress : a selected study of congressional voting ratings, 1947-1972
… Belt conservatized and trended Republican.The depopulation of rural areas and cities and the population plurality of suburbia were disclosed in the 1970 census. The 1966-1972 emergence of congressional Republicans to majority control of suburban constituencies suggests the advent of a suburban …
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Odsun Němců z Přebuzi a proměna města v poválečném období
… of Germans on the town itself, namely its depopulation and attempts at populating it again, are also taken into consideration. Attention will also be paid to the so called...
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Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Regenerating Urban Vacancy: A Case Study of Songkhla, Thailand
… downturns, demographic shifts due to urban depopulation or migration, speculative real estate practices, and disparities in urban development and public infrastructure. These vacancies contribute to urban decay, affecting the vitality and functionality of city centers and leading to economic …
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Essays in development economics
… was substantial during this time due to fear of depopulation and changing ratios of uneducated to educated. Family incomes were divided by family size to determine a final tax bracket. A number of countries have begun promoting similar tax incentives. Economic theory is ambiguous as to what such …
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Greensburg, Kansas : rebuilding a green town
… town that was already struggling with job loss, depopulation, and economic decline. When Greensburg unexpectedly announced it would rebuild green, the town captured national attention as a symbol of a sustainable revitalization strategy. This thesis examines Greensburg's recovery with the hope of …
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The Inserted Order
Appalachia is experiencing depopulation at a rate typically seen in regions affected by natural disasters or war. Part of the reason for this is its dependence on extractive industries, and as they declined, the region followed. These industries have left irreparable damage in their wake, yet as …
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GaAs/AlGaAs far-infrared quantum cascade laser
… proposed design aims to use LO-phonon-mediated depopulation of the lower THz laser level to aid the intersubband laser population inversion. Interband recombination occurs by means of stimulated emission, thus combining an interband (~1550 me V) and intersubband (~16-18 meV) laser. As the …
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