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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Movers"”.
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A comparative analysis of movers and non-movers to a retirement community
… whether significant differences exist between movers and non-movers to a retirement community in the areas of demographic characteristics, residential characteristics of the most recent age-integrated community dwelling, and residential satisfaction. A personal interview schedule was developed …
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Area classification and types of movers in the Boston SMSA; the use of an information system for the analysis of areas and movers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1968. M.C.P.
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Environmental policy implementation networks : who are the movers and shakers?
The current UK Government policy implementation framework, which directs the structure of partnership involvement in the environmental area, has introduced an implementation model which encompasses both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ theoretical typologies, consequently, there is an opportunity to …
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THE IMPACT OF LABOUR MARKET POLICIES ON INTEGRATION OF RECENT MOVERS IN ITALY
… regarded as the first approach to integrating movers in Western Europe since the First World War. Britain took this approach in 1914 to resettle Belgian movers who were fleeing their country after the German invasion. The waning unpopularity of the assimilationist approach led to the adoption …
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Imagination Movers: The Creation of Conservative Counter-Narratives in Reaction to Consensus Liberalism
The purpose of this study was to explore what exactly bound post-Second World War American conservatives together. Since modern conservatism's recent birth in the United States in the last half century or more, many historians have claimed that both anti-communism and capitalism kept conservatives …
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Tra locale e translocale: disuguaglianze, mobilità e legami di stayers e movers di un’area marginale del Mezzogiorno.
… semi-strutturate a stayers (residenti) e movers (migranti), la ricerca indaga come risorse personali, reti sociali e contesti territoriali influenzino le scelte di mobilità geografica, le traiettorie di vita e gli esiti occupazionali. Il primo focus della tesi riguarda il ruolo dei legami …
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Child and Youth Experiences within Shaking the Movers Workshops: A Discourse Analysis of Canadian UNCRC Implementation Efforts
… this by establishing their annual Shaking the Movers (herein, STM) workshops. These workshops have engaged young Canadians by providing research and education about children’s rights. Over 14 years, these workshops have produced and published 40 reports which consist of the unfiltered and …
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Understanding Residential Relocation and Travel Behaviour: Mechanisms, Inequalities, and Implications
… Consequently, many evaluations exclude movers from analyses or simply adjust for the occurrence of a relocation in statistical analyses. In contrast, research from geography and demography treats relocation as a key process, examining why people move, the characteristics of movers, and …
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Career decisions and destinations of beginning teachers : what factors contribute to decisions to move, leave or stay in teaching?
… stay teaching (Stayers), why others move (Movers) and some leave teaching as a career (Leavers). Participants in their first five years of teaching (n=402) contributed to the study as Movers, Leavers or Stayers. They came from the teacher population working in Western Australian public and …
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Development of novel energy systems for LNG locomotives
… locomotives are developed with different prime movers and fuel combinations. The systems are analyzed energetically and exergetically, and their performances are compared for evaluation purposes. The environmental impact and the fuel cost for each system are considered in the comparison. The …
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Hybrid power-system architecture for micro-grid
Load-independent, fixed-speed operation of prime-movers, such as gas turbines and diesel engines, leads to degraded efficiency at part-loaded conditions. This thesis looks at a hybrid power-system architecture that can boost fuel economy through coordinated variable-speed operation of both …
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Contributors to Lifelong Moderate Physical Activity in the Lives of Women
… examined the life stories of lifelong physical movers, especially females. Procedures. Two in-depth life history interviews of eight women were conducted to identify and understand the contributors to sustained physical activity and the role physical activity has played in the lives of lifelong …
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Towards an explanation and prediction of residential movement: An examination of the concept of sectoral movement, Adams restricted image causal hypothesis, and the initial development of a predictive statistical model of restricted lateral movement
Adams (1969) argues that movers possess a restricted sectoral image of the city based upon their home sector. This image operates to restrict a household’s movement to its home sector. This research examines that particular causal hypothesis in terms of its theoretical basis and tests its …
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Migration of the elderly in New South Wales : patterns and implications
… and socio-economic characteristics of movers in the preponderant migration streams. While a large proportion of moves occur within the local environment, large numbers of elderly migrants have been leaving the major cities, particularly Sydney. These out-movements have been mainly …
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Migration of the elderly in New South Wales : patterns and implications
… and socio-economic characteristics of movers in the preponderant migration streams. While a large proportion of moves occur within the local environment, large numbers of elderly migrants have been leaving the major cities, particularly Sydney. These out-movements have been mainly …
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An examination of older people's experiences of moving to residential care
… various social actors and identifies successful movers. In identifying 'successful' movers the research critiques earlier research that has assumed residential care to be a default choice and has not accounted for the range of qualitative experiences of moves and their outcomes.
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The Good Sport: Physical Literacy and a Moral Self
… sense of self. They are to develop as proficient movers capable of exemplary self-expression, self-presentation, and interactions with others. But this conception of ‘self’ is incomplete absent the recognition that we are not only beings-in-the-world, but rather socially situated embodied beings …
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Review and Evaluation of Grain Marketing and Hedging Strategies for Virginia Grain Producers
… were outstanding economic or fundamental market movers that affected basis in Virginia is also offered. The feasibility and process of hedging using futures is explained and evaluated in a case study. Possible marketing decisions based on the findings are presented in an easy and accessible …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… changes players' expectations, that first movers are largely deterred by the threats and second movers' threats are credible. Threats lead to deterrence and greater propensity for costly punishment. Chapter 4 investigates the neural basis of individuals' charity donation behavior in a …
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