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Showing 1 to 20 of 305 for “"Impoverished"”.
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Migration and Residential Mobility Into Impoverished Rural Illinois Communities
… from residentially stable to highly mobile, impoverished places. At the statewide level, this study used block group data from the 1990 Census to test a hypothesized model of migration into rural, impoverished Illinois block groups. The results indicate that even after controlling for …
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Factors Predicting Academic Success for Impoverished Urban High School Freshmen.
<p>The purpose of the study was to identify which factors are most closely related to academic success during the freshman year for low socioeconomic students in one urban high school. This was an ex post facto study conducted in one urban high school in East Tennessee. The subjects were students …
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Restructuring of language from impoverished input: Evidence for linguistic compensation
This study investigates the effects of impoverished input upon a child's language development. Previous literature suggests that when children are exposed to inadequate input they demonstrate robust capabilities of linguistic compensation.
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Drugs, police inefficiencies and gangsterism in violently impoverished communities like Overcome
… Overcome is representative of other violently impoverished Cape Town communities with its high rate of unemployment, low quality of education, domestic abuse, stagnant housing crisis, lack of access to intellectual and material resources or opportunities for personal growth, gangsterism, …
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"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression
… the suffering of children, the voice of the impoverished child in modernist fiction of the Great Depression demands a different type of response as the reader experiences an experimental modernism that is, at once, as political and complicated as highly sentimental images. The fictional …
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Crime that is organized: A Case Study on Gangs in Chicago's Impoverished Ghetto
In this paper, I argue for a paradigm shift against general social groupings of organized criminal groups operating throughout the United States. Using Social Constructionism to drive a literature review conducted by way of Discourse Analysis, I spotlight ways in which broad characterizations of …
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Autonomous navigation and tracking of dynamic surface targets on-board a computationally impoverished aerial vehicle
… servoing system which allows a computationally impoverished aerial vehicle to autonomously identify and track a dynamic surface target. Image segmentation and target tracking algorithms are developed for the specific task of monitoring whales at sea. The computer vision algorithms' estimates …
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Transition to university : perceptions of first year Humanities students from impoverished backgrounds at the University of Cape Town
This study sought to explore the transitional experiences of students from a disadvantaged background at the University Cape Town (UCT). It set out to examine how students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds negotiated hardships stemming from their historically deprived backgrounds in their …
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Concurrent Enrollment Programs and Acquired Social Capital for Students from Impoverished Backgrounds: An Examination of High School and College Outcomes
… may improve academic outcomes for students from impoverished backgrounds. The Colorado concurrent enrollment legislation, provides one opportunity for students to enroll in college level coursework and receive college credits with tuition being paid through state funding while in high school. …
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THE HUMAN FACTORS WHICH ACTED AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR INSPIRING IMPOVERISHED, RURAL STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY PURSUE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
… WHICH ACTED AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR INSPIRING IMPOVERISHED, RURAL STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY PURSUE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Adam E. Lucas</p> <p>This qualitative study explored how students from rural poverty were able to find the motivation from an adult-role …
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Accessing health care in impoverished communities: The experiences of women living with hypertension and related conditions in the townships of Kwatsaduza, Gauteng province
This study explores the experiences of women living with hypertension and related medical conditions in accessing healthcare services in the townships of Kwatsaduza in Gauteng. The objectives of the study are to: understand the effects of hypertension and related conditions on women living in …
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The Rise of Alternative Teaching Certification in Relation to Students Who Are Impoverished, Ethnic Minorities and Change in Teacher Salary in United States Public Schools
… with the proportions of students who were impoverished in each state. On the other hand, the numbers of individuals earning alternative teaching certification had a stronger statistical correlation with the proportions of ethnic minority students in each state. Moreover, change in teacher …
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The Rise of Alternative Teaching Certification in Relation to Students Who Are Impoverished, Ethnic Minorities and Change in Teacher Salary in United States Public Schools
… with the proportions of students who were impoverished in each state. On the other hand, the numbers of individuals earning alternative teaching certification had a stronger statistical correlation with the proportions of ethnic minority students in each state. Moreover, change in teacher …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
… promotion for obesity and chronic diseases in impoverished communities. Obesity and chronic diseases have displaced infectious diseases as the most immediate threat to morbidity and mortality in the United States. As a product of a sedentary lifestyle and a diet of overabundance, obesity and …
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White Students in Urban Schools: The Unheard Voice in the Achievement Gap
… 2006). Research on the academic achievement of impoverished urban White students is limited. The present study investigates achievement gaps that are probably a function of student demographic characteristics, and achievement equity (i.e., the influence of school-level demographic and structural …
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SELECTION VERSUS REJECTION: THE ROLE OF TASK FRAMING IN DECISION MAKING
… a unique type of problem with enriched and impoverished options, which has led to conflicting findings and theoretical explanations. On the one hand, greater preference has been found for the enriched option in the selection task than in the rejection task; this result is explained by a …
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Therapists experiences of working with clients diagnosed with 'Borderline Personality Disorder': An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… - referred to the impact of working within an impoverished Mental Health Service. In line with previous research, this study revealed inherent difficulties involved in working with 'borderline' clients. However, it also highlighted additional challenges relating to working alongside different …
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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa
… farming as a lucrative business in an impoverished community. It is intended to inspire people to transform the landscape of local food production and sustainable agricultural practice. Most impoverished communities tend to feel the effects of a formal food system that is set up to …
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Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer : factors contributing to adherence and non-adherence to surveillance for mutation carriers in rural areas of the Northern and Western Cape Brenda Julie Kruger.
… of South Africa. The study took place in rural, impoverished areas of the Northern Cape of South Africa and used a qualitative, exploratory research design to prospectively study the participants.
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