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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Policy Assessment"”.
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Transport demand in China : estimation, projection, and policy assessment
… country, in order to support projection and policy assessment. In Essay #1, I study the role that vehicle tailpipe and fuel quality standards ("emissions standards") can play vis-à-vis economy-wide carbon pricing in reducing emissions of pollutants that lead to poor air quality. I extend a …
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Data-Based Urban Heritage Policy Assessment: Evaluating Tel Aviv’s Preservation Plan
… policies. Yet, in practice, data and the proper assessment mechanisms are often lacking. This research presents Tel Aviv’s 2650b preservation plan as a case study to explore possible assessment methods of policy effectiveness. Tel Aviv is the second-largest city in Israel. In 2003 UNESCO declared …
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Integrated passenger transport policy assessment within a computable general equilibrium framework
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Dissertation ist die Entwicklung eines methodischen Werkzeuges, konkret eines allgemeinen rechenbaren Gleichgewichtmodells (Computable General Equilibrium Model, CGE), welches zur Bewertung politischer Maßnahmen den Personenverkehr bzw. die Personenverkehrsleistung in …
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Access to Doula and Midwifery Support for Washington State’s Incarcerated Population: A Qualitative Policy Assessment
… State’s Incarcerated Population: A Qualitative Policy Assessment Background: This thesis assesses perceptions of key stakeholders regarding Washington State RCW 72.09.588 and its impact on the birth support choices and reproductive health of pregnant people incarcerated in the state prison …
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Towards successful policy implementation : a case study of the national resettlement policy of Namibia
The aim of this dissertation is to identify policy-scientific causes underlying the constraints to successful Implementation, and give recommendations In order to improve the attainment of initial goals specified, in 'the resettlement policy. To identify these policy-scientific causes, criteria …
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Behavioral Responses to Congestion Pricing in New York City: Mode Shift, Preference Change, and Effect Persistence
… impacts of New York City’s congestion pricing policy on weekday peak-hour travel into the pricing zone. Using a two-stage Bayesian Multinomial Logit framework applied to monthly aggregate mobility data, the study disentangles underlying preference shifts from observed mode share changes in …
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Click to Agree: Policies Impacting a One-to-One Mobile Learning Environment
… district. The district’s current acceptable use policy is analyzed and it was determined that no modifications are necessary to govern the new one-to-one initiative. A new administrative procedure is proposed to address issues related to iPad use in and out of the district. A Bring Your Own …
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Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana
… in these strategies. Besides, planners and policymakers' continuous oversight to recognise the complexities of the urban everyday survival strategies and the lived experiences of the populace needs to be investigated. Numerous interventions have been introduced to facilitate land and housing …
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Air pollution and early deaths in the United States : attribution of PM₂.₅ exposure to emissions species, time, location and sector
… their potential use as a rapid air quality policy assessment tool.
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Assessing environmental benefits and economic costs of aviation environmental policy measures
… how the inclusion of environmental impact assessment and quantification of modeling uncertainties can enable a more comprehensive evaluation of aviation environmental policy measures. A comparison is presented between the conventional cost-effectiveness analysis and an illustrative …
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Manage illegal dumping of solid waste
… two perspectives: technical management and policy management. This was achieved by: (1) Identifying illegal dumping high-risk areas and their characteristics through technological methods. (2) Investigating and analysing the current policies related to the management of illegal dumping, …
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Secondary English as a Foreign Language Teachers and Teaching: Cultural Practices, Products, and Perspectives
… beliefs and instruction included educational policy, assessment, curriculum, cultural conflicts, teacher knowledge, and instructional expectations. Also, based on one’s prior experiences, learning a language influences how a teacher defines and incorporates culture into his instruction (Paige …
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A neo-Schumpeterian study of the developmental techno-politics of post-socialist Bulgaria and Kazakhstan
The thesis investigates the policy articulation of transformative development pathways from low value-added or resource-dependent economies to ones which are high value-added, knowledge-intensive, and catalysed by innovation in response to global techno-economic trends. Recognising the seminal role …
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Knowledge translation of health research findings at the University of Malawi and its relevance in health policy formulation in Malawi: a study in developing a communication and dissemination strategy to facilitate the use of health research evidence
… ought to play a role in informing health policy formulation. Over the years much health research has been conducted both in developing and developed countries. However, little is known on how health research has informed health policy formulation. The study sought to review health research …
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Justice in Action: Assessing the Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice
… fails to differentiate between having a policy on the books and having a policy which is actually implemented. My project attempts for the first time to measure and assess how well two distinct types of transitional justice policies, truth commissions and ad-hoc tribunals, are designed …
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Physical activity and gross motor skills in rural South African preschool children
… Categories scoring tool, Environmental and Policy Assessment and Observation instrument, and the Early Learning Environments for Physical Activity and Nutrition Environments Telephone Survey. Each child’s height and weight was measured. Physical activity and sedentary behaviour were measured …
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Restoring freshwater quality: an integrated environmental, economic and ecosystem services assessment of reducing nutrient loads to Lake Rotorua
… economic constraints, societal pressures and policy contexts. Research in this thesis was aimed at an integrated assessment covering these aspects to inform future lake restoration action. The overarching objective of this thesis is to evaluate ecological and economic aspects of lake …
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Assessment reform: Higher education faculty beliefs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Transformational Practices in a Culture of Change: Advocating for Culturally Adaptive Practices in Educator Credential Requirements Policy
<p>This policy advocacy document demonstrates the necessity for educator credential requirements policy to reflect the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students with accountability measures to provide state legislators and governing education agencies with a data-informed …