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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Index Development"”.
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The positive health index: Development and psychometric assessment.
The positive health index: Development and psychometric assessment.
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Probabilistic Models for Droughts: Applications in Trigger Identification, Predictor Selection and Index Development
The current practice of drought declaration (US Drought Monitor) provides a hard classification of droughts using various hydrologic variables. However, this method does not yield model uncertainty, and is very limited for forecasting upcoming droughts. The primary goal of this thesis is to develop …
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Indices of Social Vulnerability to Hazards: Model Uncertainty and Sensitivity
… used in the most common social vulnerability index designs. Global uncertainty analysis is performed to assess the robustness of index ranks when reasonable alternative index configurations are modeled. Global sensitivity analysis is employed to evaluate which index construction decisions have …
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Geomorphology and rehabilitation of erosion-degraded areas using soil bioengineering in the Rio Bacanga basin, São Luís, Maranhão State
… of the hypsometry, slope, land use, rainfall index and geomorphology of the Bacanga basin, along with analysis of the morphostructure and morphosculture of the Gulf of Maranhense and environmental fragility mapping. 3. Establishing an experimental station with two replicate erosion plots and …
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A growth monitoring and promotion index to improve child health in Umguza District in Zimbabwe
… system. This study seeks to develop a new index combining caregiver behaviours, attitudes and CHW growth monitoring and promotion activities. A sequential design will be conducted in three phases. Phase one will comprise a scoping literature review. The second phase will comprise a needs …
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Rurality and the people-centric approach to public service delivery in the digital age–a study of South African rurality as a proxy for low- and middle-income country contexts
… of ICTs as a driver of transformation and development. Additionally, recent studies have pointed to the importance of rurality measures that reflect peripherality, adjacency, contextuality, and demographic characteristics. South African rurality measures in particular could be enhanced by …
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Correlation of early leafspot disease in peanut with a weather- dependent infection index
Development of early leafspot, caused by Cercospora arachidicola Hori, was monitored on' Florigiant' peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) at two field sites in Suffolk, Virginia. In one study, plants in 27-cm-diameter plots were inoculated with 20,000 conidia and inoculation dates were replicated in five …
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Doorways to Development: Foreign Direct Investment Policies in Developing Countries
… a new set of data: The Foreign Equity Index. I develop a theory and model of FDI in developing countries framed by the logic of two-level games. FDI requires agreement between developing states and international firms, and therefore agreements are reached with influence from …