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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Local policy"”.
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Foundations for Policy Innovations: Exploring Local Policy Diffusion
… factors outside the county that influence policy adoption. Particular attention is given to external factors, or the possible ways that counties respond to the policies of their neighbors. This study focuses on the multiple external processes involved that contribute to policy adoption. …
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The Effects of Community Quality of Life on Local Policy Decisions
… extensive debates on the factors that influence local policy decisions. Although many researchers have contributed to uncovering various influences such as political, economic, institutional, and demographic factors on local policy decisions, however, the concept of QoL rarely has used in extant …
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Local Policy Making for Education in Agriculture in Selected Public Schools of Illinois
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A review of the green economy in Cape Town: local policy in the light of international approaches
… it was found that there were some significant local deviations: political parties play an important role in leading and shaping the local green economy; there is a particular need to balance green economy interventions against the preservation of municipal income from tax; the city's …
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Lost in translation? : transformations of federal policy intentions for effective professional development in statewide policy
… Teacher professional development is a key policy lever to redress ongoing concerns about teacher quality and student academic success. This policy lever has been and continues to be employed by the U.S. federal government despite modest and uneven results of federally sponsored professional …
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Alignment Of School Improvement Plans With District Professional Learning Plan: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>This paper advocates for a local policy connecting a standards-based district professional learning plan to individual school improvement plans for the purpose of improving targeted instructional behaviors and student learning outcomes. Currently, my district’s school improvement plans follow a …
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Policy analysis relative to the employment of teacher aides in Virginia
… aides, which proved to be a stimulus for several local school districts in the state to develop limited personnel policies relating to the employment of teacher aides. This study was designed to present descriptive data concerning areas of existing local teacher aide personnel policy. The study …
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Cultural Values and Risk and Benefit Perceptions: An Examination of the Mediating Roles of Trust and Knowledge Hubris
… that cultural value predispositions guide policy elites’ perceptions of trustworthiness. Further, this trust, in turn, guides perceptions of risks and benefits of HVPL installations, partially mediating the effects of cultural value predispositions on risk and benefit perceptions. For …
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Designation : the use of information-based strategies in planning and preservation
… action - information - and its influence on local policy and planning. This thesis is not a comprehensive account of information-based strategies, which would require far-reaching analysis. Instead, this thesis explores designation as one example of an information-based strategy that is used …
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Property Rights as a Precondition to Development: A Case Study of Jamaica
… 3. explore how the current international and local Jamaican policy environment is positioned to address an absence of property rights.</p><p> This research confirms that there is a significant proportion of Jamaicans who do not have access to property rights, that this is related to social and …
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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Policy on the Requirements for the Selection of Principals, 1983-2008
… efforts had on school leadership policy in Chicago. It verified a roster of</p><p>superintendents in Chicago during 1983-2008, established a chronology of school reform</p><p>events and assembled an inventory of reform policies, theories and directives that</p><p>potentially may …
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Silos to symphonies: social work and its contribution to student wellbeing programs within a Victorian Catholic School
… the social, economic and cultural life of their local, national and global communities. Alongside a vocational role schools have another role. This role is to provide a health promoting setting within which students can develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to live healthy lives …
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A Future Once Deferred: Re-envisioning Men Who Have Sex With Men as Prospective Blood Donors
… in New Zealand, at a time when international and local policy is shifting toward individualised assessments. Three overarching aims guide this work: to descriptively characterize MSM with different donation experiences; to build empirical evidence on predictors of MSM donation behaviour; and to …
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Benchmarking climate change strategies under constrained resource usage
… evidence based research into climate change policy. The research technique of political economy is used to investigate policy development. A major change in the Anglo-American growth paradigm from unconstrained to constrained growth is identified. The implications of this change for climate …
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“Perennial Growth” in a Shrinking City: A Case Study of Urban Agriculture Policy and Planning in Cleveland, Ohio
… presence of vacant land and the need to find new policy and planning strategies for managing this land. This paper examines the role of urban agriculture as one such strategy within the local context of Cleveland, Ohio. This paper presents an analysis of the city’s growing urban agriculture …
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Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
… currents have created conflict within the local policy subsystem of rezoning in the Crooked Creek neighborhood in Indianapolis. My analysis spotlights the consequences of devolution one of which is the shift from government to neighborhood governance; I examine these issues by mapping out …
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Van ID naar 3D: besluitvormingsprocessen en beslissingsmacht bij stadsontwikkelingsprojecten
… led to insights usefully for academicians and local policy (in particular in Flemish cities). The qualitative research is done in the city of Kortrijk. By means of dozens interviews (i.c. with politicians, civil servants and other actors who have an impact on the policy of the city) and …
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Policy search approaches to reinforcement learning for quadruped locomotion
… a quadruped robot. We then evaluate different policy search approaches to reinforcement learning. To solve the Partially Observable Markov Decision Problem (POMIDP), a deterministic simulation is developed that generates a model which allows us to conduct a direct. policy search using dynamic …
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The domain of the 'Disconnected' : struggles against cost recovery mechanisms on water delivery - a study of the low income community of Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain
… pervasiveness captured in national and local policy papers. The policy and empirical expressions of this ideology have emerged as particularly stark in South African water distribution, with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry implementing intensified practices of cost-recovery …
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六朝志怪小说“厉鬼成神”故事研究 = A STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF GHOSTS WHO ACQUIRED GODHOOD FOLLOWING UNNATURAL DEATHS: ZHIGUAI TALES FROM THE SIX DYNASTIES
… reasons. The phenomenon was caused partly by local shaman (wu) who devoted efforts to promote their cults, and partly by the state regulation and local policy. At the same time, literati in the Six Dynasties also greatly contributed to the spread of the stories. Furthermore, this thesis …
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