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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Local Factors"”.
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Transferability of Productivity Loss Costs in Non-Communicable Diseases: Local Factors and Regional Adjustments
… specificities of each disease are some of the factors contributing to the complexity of the costs’ transferability across countries. We chose to work specifically with the V4 given the converging local variances in income levels, reimbursement capacity as well as the recent experience of member …
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Somatic regulation of germ cell development in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea: the role of systemic and local factors
The student, Amir Saberi, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-12 at 15:54.
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Foreign direct investment in the United States: The effects of multinational firm characteristics and local factors on the location decision
… of other firm-related characteristics and other factors in location decisions has been overlooked. This dissertation looks into the factors affecting the location decision of manufacturing FDI in the U.S. The objectives of this study are fourfold: (1) to identify the significant location-specific …
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Modelling an island landscape in the North Atlantic Iron Age. The interpretation of monuments and resources in order to understand local factors influencing settlement and social organisation.
An area of Shetland is examined in order to identify how Iron Age settlements might have related to each other. The study area contains two brochs. An inter-disciplinary approach is used to identify evidence for other Iron Age settlements and the information is presented as a model illustrating the …
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How important is the local when thinking global? : Internationalisation at a research-led university
This thesis examines the importance of local factors associated with a research-led university’s move toward greater internationalisation. The study explores the university’s rationales for internationalisation along with forces acting to enable and constrain successful internationalisation. …
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USING PRECEDE-PROCEED AT THE INITIATON OF OUTREACH COLLABORATION ADDRESSING MATERNAL MORBIDTY AND MORTALITY IN CUSCO, PERU
… use the PRECEDE-PROCEED logic model to identify local factors affecting maternal health in the remote areas surrounding Cusco city, Peru which would more likely build a sustainable collaboration compared to a traditional educational conference alone.
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Dowel load transfer systems for full-depth repairs of jointed Portland cement concrete pavements
… environmental considerations, and other local factors are also presented. This procedure is based upon analyses of the results of laboratory tests of single dowel systems, measurements of the performance of field installations, and the results of previous laboratory and field studies, as …
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'A Peculiar Diversity': Public Health in Inverness County 1845 - 1912
… period but effective implementation was left to local government.<br/>Scholarship on public health problems and achievements has concentrated<br/>primarily on larger towns and cities. This thesis shifts the focus to smaller towns,<br/>villages and scattered communities within a large geographical …
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"Much Depends on Local Customs:"The WPA's New Deal for New Orleans, 1935-1940
… the relief embodied in the WPA was influenced by local factors that reinforced the existing social order at first but that left a framework through which that order could be challenged. The business of providing WPA relief also was attended by scandal and criticism. In spite of these inherent …
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Pathophysiology of Small Testes in Beef Bulls: Histopathological Features of Testes and Epididymides, Seminal Characteristics, and Endocrine Profiles (Testicular Hypoplasia, Degeneration, Breeding Soundness, Scrotal Circumference)
… Leydig cell structure and function was caused by local factors, either the factors that caused the tubular damage or those consequent to the tubular damage. Hence, Leydig cell failure in these bulls may not be the primary cause of germinal epithelial loss but an effect.
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The changing face of the Constantia Valley a temporal study of land use change in a heritage landscape
… are needed to gain an understanding of the local factors that are driving land use change and forming urban landscapes. This study will provide a temporal perspective on land use change in the Constantia Valley, a high income suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town. It will contextualise the …
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Η ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΕ ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΙΚΟ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΔΙΑΡΘΡΩΤΙΚΗ ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΩΝ
… OF THE DECENTRALIZATION OF INDUSTRY, LOCAL FACTORS AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL LEVEL OF A NUMBER OF PROVINCES IS ALSERVED. HOWEVER, THE DURABILITY OF THE INDUSTRIES INSTALLED IN THE REGIONS AND WHETHER THEIR DEVELOPMENT HAS REACHED SELF- SUFFICIENCY IS NOT KNOWN. FINALLY, IT IS NOTED THAT …
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Covering the bases : variations in the arguments to justify publicly-funded baseball stadiums
… were used in different ways based on contextual factors. The results suggest that local factors are more important in stadium debates than national trends.
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The Influence of heat transport on Arctic amplification
… much of this Arctic amplification is caused by local factors, such as changes in surface albedo, versus remote factors, such as changes in heat transport from the midlatitudes. This thesis focuses mainly on the role of poleward heat transport on Arctic amplification. Most of the previous studies …
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Death on the Warwickshire Coalfield: an examination of the contribution of miners, coalowners and the state to the decline in mining fatalities in the British coal industry in the period of expansion 1840 to 1913
… and national data, this thesis will reveal how local factors influenced safety in the mines. The individual miner had little influence upon mine safety in the period 1840 through to the mid 1870's when the sub-contracting butty system removed owners from the responsibilities of production. The …
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CAD oriented database for integrated circuit layouts
… queries, and location of empty space depend on local factors and are independent of overall layout size. The above mentioned features should make it possible to design tools that operate incrementally.
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V- Shaped Defects – Epidemiology, Clinical Picture and Obturation Opportunities // Клиновидни дефекти – епидемиология, клинична картина и възможности за обтуриране
… of v-shaped defects. The leading role of local factors - tooth brushing frequency and hardness of the toothbrush in the aetiology of wedge defects - has been confirmed. Their prevention is aimed at changing the patient's oral hygiene. Deepening them requires fitting with appropriate …
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Patterns of Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Diversity, and Ecological Drivers of Stream Fish Assemblages in East Texas
… by different combinations of regional and local factors (e.g., stream order, wetted width, different land cover types). The ecological niche model created using random forest algorithms outperformed the maximum entropy approach, and factors related to channel morphology (e.g., stream order, …
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