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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Host Community"”.
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Agroforestry Preferences, Identity, and Collaboration Potential Among CAR Refugees and Host Community Cameroonians
… can produce ecological and social challenges to host communities. While conflict is often a result, there is also an opportunity for collaboration and successful integration. Agroforestry, the intentional incorporation and management of trees in agricultural systems, provides a tool that can …
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Perceived intercultural impacts of tourism in the Dominican Republic: A rural host community perspective
… in regards to the tourism industry, perceived community attitudes towards tourism, and host-guest relationships in the tourism context. Two groups of Dominicans were studied, those who worked in the tourism industry and those who did not, teachers, respectively. Data was extracted from …
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The interplay of elements affecting host community resident attitudes toward tourism: a path analytic approach
… of tourism. Achieving the goal of favorable community support for the tourism industry will require an understanding of how residents formulate their perceptions of the impact of tourism and their attitudes toward tourism. The purpose of this study was to examine the interplay of elements …
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Concepts of displacement and home: seeking asylum and becoming a refugee among the host community of Northern Ireland
Discourses surrounding the debate on asylum-seekers and refugees continue to be a polemical and topical issue in the UK and other Western democracies. This thesis investigates the meaning of home and belonging from the perspective of refugees and asylum-seekers in Belfast. Individuals who seek …
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The social and cultural impact of internally displaced persons, IDPs’ camps on the host community in Nigeria: a sociological evaluation
… future. The primary concern of the international community, governments and international aid agencies typically is the humanitarian needs of those displaced, as well as how best to resolve the major sources of threat that drive displacement on an ongoing basis. Resolving these and attendant …
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Enhancing B2Com relationship quality: a research study investigating the oil producing company to host community relationship in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
… of continuous conflicts and violence between the host communities and the oil producing companies. Despite the effort of the government and practitioners, none have looked at the relationship elements and/or the quality of relationship between these two key stakeholders within the context of the …
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Contesting sustainable community development through the Olympic Games in the era of globalization: The case of Daegwallyeong-myeon, host community of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games
This study examines community development of a small town in South Korea, PyeongChang, host community for the 2018 Winter Olympics, focusing on the global and local interaction between the Olympic Games and Daegwallyeong-myeon, the local host community. Using qualitative method, namely critical …
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Social and learner-specific factors in the acquisition of nativelike phonetic contrasts by study abroad students in Paris, France
… French proficiency, ideologies about the host community, contact with the French language in the host community, and locally-specific nasal vowel perception. These instruments included a cloze test and an elicited imitation test for proficiency, a battery of motivational and attitudinal …
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An Exploration into the Perceived Effects of International Volunteering and Service on Host Communities in the Global South
… around the impacts IVS has on receiving host communities in developing countries is highly controversial. This study utilizes ethnographic research, involving a combination of participant -observation and semi-structured interviews, to gain the perspectives of the Fijian Highland …
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Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
<p>This thesis is an exploration of host community perceptions of volunteer tourism in the context of a small community in the highlands of Guatemala called San Juan Comalapa. Voluntourism acts as a bridge between development aid and traditional tourism and therefore voluntourism organizations …
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Tourists' voices : a sociological analysis of tourists' experiences in Chalkidiki, Northern Greece
… different types of tourists experience the same host community in different ways. Analysis of qualitative data obtained from eighty-six participants have been clustered into five types - the Cultural Heritage, the Raver, the Shirley Valentine, the Heliolatrous and the Lord Byron. Each of these …
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Asylum seekers in the UK: a social psychological understanding of a moral panic
… explore psychological processes underpinning UK host receptivity to moral panic discourse, and the social and psychological impact on the asylum seekers labelled as 'folk devils'. The research was based on a quantitative content analysis of 415 UK national newspaper articles, a qualitative …
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Changes in Resident Perceptions Over Time: A Theoretical Examination of a Mega-Event
… and improve the international standing of the host community. Benefits are actively promoted by the organizing committees, but these large-scale events also create significant economic, environmental and social costs for the host community. Measuring resident support is necessary because their …
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A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic CSR: A Case Study of ExxonMobil and a Capacity Development Initiative in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
… In-depth interviews with two groups of host community members were conducted. They consisted of direct beneficiaries of the initiative and host community members considered to be opinion leaders. Field observations were made and other relevant documents were sourced to provide differing …
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Strategic relational communication in crisis : the humanitarian example
… cycles between aid organizations and the Haitian community, and to compare the effects on the execution of projects during and after the crisis. The objective is to gain entry into the psyche of both the helpless and the helper, and to show that sociocultural immersion makes for better trust …
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POSTTRIAL CLINICAL ACCESS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES SUPPORTING THE POSTTRIAL ACCESS FRAMEWORK AND A DETERMINATION OF WHETHER THE UNITED STATES CAN DEVELOP A GUIDANCE MANDATING THE PROVISION OF POSTTRIAL ACCESS
… obligation to trial participants, the host community, or the host country at the conclusion of a clinical trial. One of the most controversial obligations is the provision of posttrial access after a clinical research trial. This thesis summarizes the principles and guidelines that …
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The Effect of Within-host Virus Population Growth and Interspecific Competition on Aphid Transmission and Population Structure of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus
… similar in that they share aphid vectors and host species, but in agricultural fields in New York State we found that the prevalence of PAV was three times greater than that of PAS. To determine if differences in within-host population growth rate affect vector transmission efficiency, disease …
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The Fashion Choices of Expatriate Western Women in Hong Kong from 1960 to 1997
… used as a means to display familiarity with the host community to compatriots and in their home countries. As I show in this thesis, contrary to the precepts of Orientalism, it was not possible to live in Asia and retain an Orientalist viewpoint: increasing familiarity with the strange …
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A critical assessment of corporate community engagement (CCE) in the Niger Delta.
… social responsibility in the area of corporate community engagement (CCE) and public relations in the area of organization-public relationships (OPRs). The thesis focuses on the Nigerian oil and gas industry community relationship in the Niger Delta region. This study provides valuable insights …
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