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Showing 1 to 20 of 456 for “"Metro"”.
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Light and the urban form: Eisenhower Metro Center
… is a strategy I explore in the "Eisenhower Metro Center" to combat today's urban sprawl. Architect Steven Holl suggests, "The expanded boundary of the contemporary city calls for the synthesis of new spatial compositions. An intensified urban realm could be a coherent mediator between the …
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Change, restructuring and transformation of Metro District Health Service
… world with a wealth of scientific knowledge. The Metro District Health Services in the Western Cape have undergone major restructuring and transformation. It is with this premise the question is posed, are change agents, leaders, and employees sufficiently empowered to mitigate the challenges and …
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El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion
<p>This dissertation examines how the Mexico City Metro was promoted as something that was technically advanced. In this narrative Mexico City became more like the great cities of Europe by building a Metro. The Metro was also promoted as Mexican. In this narrative each stage of Mexican …
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Computer Technology Utilization by Metro Suburban High School Counselors
… a listserv of 78 high school counselors in the metro-Atlanta area. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The use of computer technology allows high school counselors to spend more time with students rendering services to enhance learning. Using computer technology helped the …
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Maternal near miss audit in Metro West Maternity services
… service Maternal deaths have been audited in the Metro West maternity service for many years but there has been no routine monitoring or evaluation of maternal near misses. Aim of study: The study aim was to perform a near miss audit in Metro West, specifically (a) measuring the near miss rate, …
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Distressed Sales and Housing Prices: a Metro and Regional Analysis
… featuring housing and macro data for 127 metropolitan areas. This thesis constructs hypotheses on the relationships between distressed sales and foreclosures in order to structure potential relationships between distressed sales and housing prices. Using dynamic panel models and time …
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Emergency vs elective surgery ratio in the cape metro area
Background: South Africa is classified as an upper middle-income country based on the World Bank classification. The access and delivery of surgical care in South Africa is only recently being investigated and understood. One study by Chu et al showed that while more than 80% of South Africans had …
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Little Sac Woods Metro Forest, a Land Management Methodology and Plan
The Little Sac Woods Metro Forest is a 772 acre area located in north central Greene County, Missouri. The area has been designated an urban forest by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The urban forest designation provides land use to be based on a wide variety of outdoor experiences. The …
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Metro traffic optimisation accounting for the disbenefit of halting between stations
Computerised regulation for disturbed traffic in metro-type railways is proposed. Previous work has used optimisation techniques to minimise disbenefits to passengers, such as waiting time and journey time, in the objective function. The particular disbenefit of trains being halted between stations …
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Orchestrating economic development: exploring interorganizational networks in the Chicago metro area
… intergovernmental collaboration in the Chicago metro area by exploring the social network structure of cooperation, the conditions under which local governments cooperate and the resulting outcomes of cooperation. The results suggests that communities in the Chicago metro area are spatially …
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Balancing Act: Adams Metro High School's Efforts to Retain Its Identity
… necessary for preserving its identity. Adams Metro High School is a magnet high school that hosts comprehensive Vocational/Technical and Performing Arts programs. Changes in high school graduation requirements threatened the strength of the aforementioned programs. Because the programs were at …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… migrate in response to state-level and intra-metropolitan socio-economic changes. Chapter one uses a Computational General Equilibrium (CGE) model of Illinois to estimate a tax policy’s impacts on labor migration as well as on the wider state economy. In 2011, the Illinois state government …
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Performance information utilisation in The City of Cape Town Metro Municipality
… of senior officials in the City of Cape Town Metro Municipality (CoCT). Inspired by comments around performance information having minimal effects despite its prodigious production, the study sought to determine how performance information is used and how a local government context affects …
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Experiences of violence among with physical disabilities living in Tshwane Metro, Pretoria
… women with physical disabilities in Tshwane Metro, Pretoria. The study was based on a qualitative approach to research and it was applied in nature. Using an instrumental case study design, a sample of twelve women was selected using purposive sampling method. Data was collected using face to …
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Ninth Grade Transitional Program in a Georgia Metro School District: Case Study
… resources. Over the past several years, the metro Georgia high school that is the subject of this study has changed from a small, isolated, suburban high school to a large, highly visible, urban high school. During this time, the high school has experienced substantive administrative, …
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Missed opportunities for immunisation in health facilities in the Western Cape metro
Background: Childhood immunisations are a cost effective public health intervention for prevention of infectious diseases. Immunisation coverage, however, is still sub-optimal which may result in disease outbreaks. Immunisation at every contact with a health facility is a strategy developed by the …
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Impacts of residential developments on local sustainability : case study in Metro Boston
… and decentralization, the sustainability of metropolitan areas is considered one of the most significant challenges worldwide. Transportation-related problems, such as congestion, GHG emissions, and excessive energy consumption, have been imposing tremendous pressure on the sustainability of …
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Preventing Community Violence: A Case Study of Metro Detroit and Interfaith Activism
… organization InterFaith Leadership Council of Metro Detroit and those in the organization's network. It considers how interfaith leaders, through activism and dialogue, can contribute to community violence prevention. By applying the social ecological model and social disorganization theory, …
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Home and away statistical differences in Virginia Tech men's Metro basketball games
… 43 home and 43 away Virginia Tech regular season Metro Conference men's basketball contests from 1979 through 1987. Results from the testing indicated that there were significantly more points scored at home than on the road. Also, testing showed that Virginia Tech had a significantly higher …
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