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Showing 1 to 20 of 684 for “"Human Development"”.
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Open Source Hardware for Human Development
Human Development is not a term used in casual conversation, it describes the current approach used by large aide international development organizations like the United Nations; but most people are familiar with the terms “emergency relief” and “humanitarian intervention”. Emergency relief focuses …
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Cell Memory and Fate in Human Development
<p>Development of a single cell, the fertilized egg, into an entire organism is a fascinating example of biological organization that gives rise to many forms of multicellular life. Cell-cell signaling is central to development, particularly in organisms such as vertebrates, where embryonic cells …
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The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development
… dissertation examines the relationship between development aid and human development in recipient countries. The primary function of this research is to determine which types of aid are most effective in improving human development. To accomplish this goal, I use a fixed effects regression …
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Governance and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… governance, democracy, resource dependency, and human development in Africa. Specifically, the Human Development Index (HDI) and six governance indicators from the WGI database are employed to estimate a dynamic panel model on forty-eight sub-Sahara African countries throughout 1996 to 2019 using …
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Human Development in Populorum Progressio: Challenging Uganda's Development Claims
This study investigates and questions Uganda's development claims and choice between confrontation and mutual respect among the people, using Paul VI's notion of integral human development in Populorum Progressio and the requisite development principles, virtues and conditions or factors presented …
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Lineage tracing of normal human development and childhood cancers
From fertilisation onwards, the cells of the human body continuously experience damage to their genome, either from intrinsic causes or from exposure to mutagens. While the vast majority of DNA damage is repaired and the genome is replicated with extremely high fidelity, cells steadily acquire …
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Investigating the impact of ICT investments on human development
… Investigating the impact of ICT investments on human development requires appropriate methods that can provide a deeper understanding and which are based on IS perspective theory. Of particular importance are different aspects of ICT investments and the components of human development. For …
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Essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development
… on inequality of opportunity in health and human development. Chapter 2 proposes an empirical implementation of the concept of inequality of opportunity in health and applies it to data from the UK National Child Development Study. Drawing on the distinction between circumstance and effort …
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Bronfenbrenner's Ecology of Human Development
… (1977) system theory describing the ecology of human development will also be used to investigate the impact that different levels of society possibly have on the growth and development of ADHD and how this disorder has become institutionalized in our society with suggested norms and routine …
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Human Development and Regional Inequalities: Spatial Analysis Across Brazilian Municipalities
… conclusions concerning the relationship between human development and public intervention. First, the tendency to allow an uncontrolled decentralization process, common in many developing countries, may need to be replaced with some coordination mechanisms. Second, if there is a willingness to …
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Intergenerational Facilities: Designing Intergenerational Space through a Human Development Lens
… on children's cognitive, social, and emotional development as well as effects on elder's health and well-being. Knowing the profound influence of the built environment on elders (Garin, et al., 2014) and children (Bradford, 2012), the design of intergenerational spaces therefore has the …
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The Importance of the Prioritization of Human Development through Governmental Policies
<p>This thesis examines the prioritization of human development through governmental policies. Education and gender equality are two of the most fundamental indicators of human development that have far reaching impacts on other human development indicators. This thesis uses the case studies of …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… as one of the main strongholds of the concept of human development is measured through the application of nine gender relevant capabilities in a Case study conducted within selected municipalities in the country. Through the analysis of the Macedonian constitutional and legal framework and the …
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Spatiality and Human Development in the Western Cape of South Africa
This study explored how spatiality influenced human development in the Western Cape and specifically Cape Town, in the post-apartheid era. It argued for the incorporation of the spatiality dimension into the traditional Human Development Index (HDI), while focussing on pertinent strategies to …
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Epistemological and Ontological Elements of Transpersonal Human Development in the Qur'an
… framed the study: the hierarchical stages of development, spiral path, and participatory. I offer a philosophical hermeneutic reading of the Qur'an to trace the development of human collective consciousness as a construct of the interaction between the autonomous and homonomous self at the …
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Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism
… as well as embryologists, the notion that the development of any individual organism repeats in compressed, miniaturized form the entire history of its species enjoyed broad (if not uncontested) acceptance through the early twentieth century. The author reexamines the origins of this theory in …
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The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political Behavior and Human Development
… large literature examines the effects of CCTs on human development, the political behavioral consequences remain underexplored. In the dissertation, I address this gap by analyzing the effects of CCTs on political participation and policy. I also explore the implications of these effects for human …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian’s responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency to marginalise …
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Beyond the Caring State: Civic Ideals and the Architecture of Human Development
"This study offers a constructive critique of the treatment we accord some of the most vulnerable members of society: children who have become ""wards"" of the governmental apparatus. I explore some of the routine material practices whereby the State attempts to manage collapsed or deviant family …
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