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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Income group"”.
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A study in housing for a low-income group
… study of the environment of a selected low-income group of families on a comparative basis with low-income families of similar characteristics. 2. To relate the knowledge acquired from this study to the analysis and planning of a housing project. 3. To design dwellings for this project with …
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"Shelter within my reach" : medium rise apartment housing for the middle income group in Karachi, Pakistan
… private formal sector, catering to the middle income groups in Karachi, Pakistan. Middle income housing production is constrained due to the lack of support and a passive attitude adopted by the local public agencies, leaving a limited number of private builders as the key suppliers for this …
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Do the rich speak louder? : examining whether U.S. Senators differentially respond to their constituents by income across issues
… and how this "responsiveness" might vary across income groups. The independent variable of interest, state-level income group preference, is estimated using multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) analysis. This is an improvement over earlier methods, particularly when modeling income …
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Housing for the poor: A case study of the Johannesburg inner city
… sector is accessible to the households in the income group referred to as the gap market. The lowest income group is left to resort to the informal sector to seek shelter. The lack of adequate housing supply for this group has given rise to illegal occupation of buildings, often run by …
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The effects on memory and self-reported behaviour of four types of information about water conservation
… from four Perth suburbs (two upper-middle income suburbs, and two lower-middle income suburbs). Brochures containing the four different types of information (all including action information) were randomly distributed to participants who were then asked to rate the perceived importance of …
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Exploring strategies to fund and manage school development funds in public secondary schools in the Khomas region in Namibia
… school each was randomly selected from the low income group, the average income group and the high income group, using the maximum variation sampling method, whereby financial information from previous years was used. The major findings of this study were that principals do not have the …
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The association between socio-economic status and healthcare utilization and health behavior by the progressive stage of metabolic syndrome
… assessing the health utilization in the group of metabolic syndrome has been also emphasized in the aspects of effective resources distribution in community. The objectives of this research are to classify the metabolic syndrome into several groups based on the severities of clinical …
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Demographic, Psychosocial, and Educational Factors Related to Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Adults
… was completed to assess differences between low-income and high-income adults in psychosocial, demographic, and educational factors related to fruit and vegetable intake. Significant differences in self-efficacy, awareness/knowledge, and cost and availability of fruits and vegetables were found …
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Mean reversion in macroeconomic and financial data
… essay studies the convergence of per capita income across the world. The recent literature on "convergence" of cross-country per capita incomes has been dominated by the two hypotheses of "global convergence" vs. "club-convergence". Utilizing new measures of "stochastic stability", we …
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The availability of acute care resources to treat major trauma in different income settings: a self-reported survey of acute care providers
… of resources to manage major trauma between high income, and low- to middle-income countries, as self-reported by delegates at the 2016 International Conference on Emergency Medicine held in Cape Town, South Africa. Materials and methods: A survey was distributed to delegates at the International …
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Market solutions to the low-income housing challenge – a case study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… affordable and well-located housing for low-income communities has been an intractable problem, especially for developing countries. The empirical puzzle that motivated this study is that, despite the adverse macro environment in Zimbabwe, there appears to be private-sector developers who are …
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A Study of Social Sustainability of High-Rise Living in Kolkata, India
… characteristics of the residents such as income, religion and life-cycle stage. Three zones in Kolkata were selected based on the above-stated categories: North Kolkata, South Kolkata I and South Kolkata II. The empirical findings show a significant disparity between the incomes of …
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Incorporating Socio-Economic Factors in Traffic Management and Control
… outcome of each strategy at different household income group in the city. The attention are drawn to the importance of taking socio-economic impact in traffic management decisions. Some of the control strategies presented in this thesis have different impacts on different income groups in the …
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Identification of centers of influence for urban areas
… population by race, and population by income group. The method is empirically developed and verified for restricted spatial distributions using artifically generated census tract information. These spatial distributions are compatiable with population distributions that are most readily …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… I explore the business cycle regularities of low-income countries in comparison to those observed in middle- and high-income countries. The data reveals several distinguishing features of the business cycle in low-income countries compared to the other two income groups: acyclical trade balances; …
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An investigation on body composition, dietary intakes and physical activity in girls aged 8-11 years in Saudi Arabia
… in the mean daily energy intake between the BMI groups with the obese group having the highest energy, fat, carbohydrate and protein intake (obese group: 2677 ± 804 kcal/d; healthy weight group: 1806 ± 403 kcal/d, p< 0.001), but the percentage contribution of the macronutrients to energy intake …
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Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Physical Activity Disparities in the U.S
… in these questionnaires are biased against a subgroup in the population. It is also not clear to what degree the disparities in PA are affected by the biased items if there are any. In addition, the elimination of PA disparities should result in better health for subpopulations. An effective PA …
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The Association Between Early Menarche and Preterm Birth
… to delivery. Conversely, those in the highest income group were at a decreased risk of a preterm birth. Recognizing risk factors is an important step to aid healthcare providers mitigate the risks associated with preterm birth. Future investigations are needed to probe deeper into the field and …
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Do Finances Determine Our Fate?: Understanding the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Inflammation, and Cancer Recurrence Risk
… This study explored associations between SES (income, educational attainment) and inflammatory markers related to cancer recurrence while seeking to determine if health behaviors (diet, exercise, sleep) moderate this relationship. Income was significantly associated with CRP (F = 4.484, …
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Moderate Shocks to Wealth and Health: Estimates of Their Impact on the Mortality of Elderly
… examine evidence for a causal connection between income and mortality. There is widespread and longstanding agreement that life expectancy and income are positively correlated. However, it has proven much more difficult to establish a causal relationship since income and health are jointly …
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