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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Local Perception"”.
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Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location
… experience through an empirical study, at a local level, examining how people experience and perceive antisocial behaviour. Anti-social behaviour legislation and centralised policy was initially based on the notion anti-social behaviour was easy to define. Innes’s (2004) signal crimes …
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Chinese 'loan-for-oil' deals in Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador : local concerns and perceptions
… for geopolitical interests in the region. The local perception has drawn from the leading assumptions about China and China's international behaviour embedded in the Latin American hybrid perspective of international relations, namely that China is a unitary and homogeneous actor with a …
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It will rain if god wills it : local perceptions of climate change in the Futa Tooro of northern Senegal
… to regional vulnerability. This project explores local awareness of environmental change to evaluate the vulnerability of the Futa Tooro, a Sahel region in Northern Senegal, to climate change. Using semi-structured open-ended interviews of four Futa villages, local understanding of CCV and …
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Indigenous culture and nascent tourism in Muanenguba, Cameroon
… a narrative on the emerging relationship between local culture and nascent tourism. The research was carried out through a fieldwork process that can best be described as being sensibly native, through ethnographic interactions with the hosts - indigenes (villagers and elites), developers …
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Perception-Action Loop for Multi-Robot Systems with Deep Learning
Perception-action loop is a fundamental concept in robotics that involves the iterative cycle of perceiving the environment and taking actions based on those perceptions. Various sensors and actuators are used in this process, and deep learning techniques have shown remarkable performance in …
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Autonomous driving control strategies for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles with active safety system
… deviation calculations to mimic the driver’s local perception of vehicle position and reference path. If the so-called driver neuromuscular delay is set to zero, the driver model may perform as an autonomous human-like controller for vehicle lateral motion control. The devised longitudinal …
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Assessing sustainable urban forms in Erbil city of Iraq
… makers to enhance an understanding of the local perception of urban sustainability. A random sampling process is applied for the quantitative survey when distributing the questionnaires. The successful sample size, which was analysed, was 252 respondents. Using comparative analysis of …
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Power, legitimacy and sovereignty in Hadramawt, Yemen
… in the political landscape of Yemen and their local perception reflects this as it significantly differs from the international one. As such, the group’s takeover of the Hadrami towns of Mukalla and Al Shihr between 2015 and 2016 was not seen as disastrous by the local population and the …
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Complexity + Connection: Looking at Harare Square in a Context of Transformation
… on the sole basis of it's own individual and local perception of it's immediate environment.2 “... and the thousands of fishes moved as a huge beast, piercing the water, They appeared united, inexorably bound to a common fate. How comes this unity?” - Anonymous poet, 17th century A bird …
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Ethnoprimatology of Urban Cebus Yuracus: An evaluation of Human-non-human interactions and local perceptions in Misahualli, Ecuador
… on the human-nonhuman interactions and the perceptions of the local people about the capuchin group. Behavioral interactions were examined using all-occurrence sampling, and the local perceptions of the Misahuallí people were assessed using semi-structured interviews. In total, 2,103 …
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The benefits and burdens of living beside the Cederberg Wilderness Area
… recognition of the impact of protected areas on local people has given rise to international consensus is that there is a dearth of knowledge surrounding these implications which needs to be addressed (Brockington et al., 2006; Igoe, 2006; West et al., 2006) . It is this gap that this study sets …