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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Friendliness"”.
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Child Friendliness of Restaurants: A Pilot Study
… to develop an instrument to measure the child friendliness of restaurants using a combination of previous literature and focus groups. The pilot study consisted of a thirty-six item survey instrument that was distributed to forty individuals. Among the forty individuals who received the survey …
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Cross flow control with weighted fairness and TCP friendliness
… they have raised the discussion of fairness and friendliness among flows in the bottleneck link. Meanwhile, large companies or clusters have considerable needs for shaping their own flows while maintaining friendliness to other flows in the network. This thesis proposes a novel cross flow …
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Family-friendliness of working time provisions in Australian enterprise agreements
… according to whether they promoted family-friendliness. Two of the most important principles for workers with family responsibilities are the ability determine the amount and schedule of working hours and the ability to vary working hours. Workplaces can assist employees in the balance …
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Liberty, peace, and friendliness: the political ideas of Auberon Herbert
… Voluntaryism as the system of liberty, peace and friendliness, applied these principles to a range of situations from street maintenance, to collective property purchase, and, finally, to the voluntary support of the state. Voluntary taxation was the most controversial component of Herbert’s …
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How Age Friendly is This City? Strategies for Assessing Age-Friendliness
… require the measurement of the baseline age-friendliness of the community. The objectives of this thesis are: 1. Determine the best available assessment tools for measuring the age-friendliness of a community, and 2. Establish the baseline age-friendliness of London, Ontario. A scoping review …
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Three essays on product design: incorporating capacity, remanufacturing, and environmental friendliness
… effect on either profitability or environmental friendliness. Examining social and environmental welfare, we find that considering environmental welfare benefits the environment due to both lower quality and a smaller sales volume. In contrast, considering consumer welfare hurts the environment …
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A qualitative exploration of children's understanding of indiscriminate friendliness - and research portfolio
… potential danger associated with indiscriminate friendliness this group of young people demonstrated a trust of new people and a craving for kindness from others. Through their descriptions of social interactions, and the experience of the interviewer during her interactions with these young …
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The Deaf Community and Accessible Website Design: How User-Friendliness Augments Organizational Legitimacy
This study examines the accessibility of the Internet for members of the deaf/hard-of-hearing (D/HH) community, an overlooked population in mainstream society. Fifty adult participants, with and without documented hearing loss, were recruited from several audiology and otolaryngology practices in …
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Perceptions and Evaluation of an Urban Environment for Pedestrian Friendliness: A Case Study
Public health is an increasingly important issue addressed from both environmental and public health sectors for the future development of urban environments. From a planning perspective, one possible solution is to increase walkability throughout the cities. Many assessment methods are being …
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Pedestrian environment as an urban indicator : developing a GIS model for measuring pedestrian friendliness
… GIS model proposed for measuring pedestrian friendliness of an area is developed and applied to the City of Boston. The proposed method uses already existing data to measure performance with respect to the condition of pedestrian facilities and their attractiveness to walkers. Unlike other …
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The Next Generation of Residential Construction: Adoption of Green Building Programs, Environmentally Certified Wood Products and the Transparency of Environmental Friendliness
… To help determine the environmental friendliness of wood-based building materials, comparisons were made with similar products made from steel and concrete through a life cycle analysis (LCA). By comparing the results of products’ LCA’s, we can assess whether renewable materials …
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LGBT-friendliness & the Promise of Inclusion: A Queering Ethnography of Inclusion in the ‘Diversity World’ of Business and the Social World of ‘Queer Activism’ in London
… perspective to explore how the discourse of LGBT-friendliness and its promises of inclusion are experienced by the subjects to whom these are supposedly intended to speak to. It does so by drawing on over eighteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork carried out in London in the ‘diversity …
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Use of Strategic Intentionality in Becoming Military Friendly
… the strongest indicator of intentional military friendliness. Nine best practices were identified and included: effective human resources practices; gaining organizational commitment; developing a military friendly culture; supportive leadership and administration; conducting outreach; focusing …
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Green Behaviors in the Laboratory, Environmental Donations in the Field
… factors such as individuals' environmental friendliness. Are participants in laboratory experiments responding to the context of the experimental setting and not merely to a profit motive? Using a preliminary analysis, I draw evidence from data collected in a two-stage laboratory experiment …
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Neighborhood Influences on Diet and Physical Activity
… self-efficacy, and perception of neighborhood friendliness were self-reported. Main outcome measures: Minutes of physical activity, self-efficacy towards physical activity, where residents exercised, and perception of neighborhood friendliness towards physical activity. Statistical Analysis …
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Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
… then fundamentality inherits this `deflationary-friendliness'. Hence, hyperintensional manoeuvres fail to preserve the substantivity of threatened disputes. My thesis is structured into three parts. The first introduces deflationary heuristics and hyperintensional manoeuvres. The second argues …
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The Adoption of the National Traffic Information System (NaTIS) by the Citizens during the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa
… These themes include - the significance of user-friendliness and robust support mechanisms, adaptability to new technologies, working experience, awareness, trust, user preferences, and the role of social influence in technology adoption. Underpinned by the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of …
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Design and performance evaluation of multicast congestion control for the internet
… fairness, intra-session fairness and TCP-friendliness) as well as feasible implementation. This thesis is concerned with the design and performance evaluation of multi-rate multicast congestion control. We aim to address the problems faced by the previous proposals. In doing so, we have …
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Rural Teachers’ Perceptions Of School Principals’ Leadership Behaviors Affecting Motivation To Improve Professional Practice.
… teachers’ well-being, accessibility and tempered friendliness, consequential dialogical discourse, articulated communication of school-based expectations and initiatives, avoidance of dogmatic micromanagement on classroom-based matters, perceptible consistency, and appreciable predictability. …
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Performance evaluation of active network-based unicast and multicast congestion control protocols
… protocols are presented. We investigate the TCP-friendliness behaviour of an AN-based single rate multicast congestion control called Active Error Recovery/Nominee Congestion Avoidance (AER/NCA), which uses active services to recover from loss at the point of loss and assists the congestion …
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