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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Policy Impact"”.
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Civil Rights Groups: Urban Environment and Policy Impact
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System level assessment of uncertainty in aviation environmental policy impact analysis
… from this system level assessment process aid policy-makers by identifying the key drivers of uncertainty in model outputs, among the input factors of the various modules that comprise the system. This knowledge can help direct resource allocation for research to reduce the uncertainty in …
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Quantifying technology infusion and policy impact on low earth orbit communication satellite constellations
Technology infusion and policy implementation bring impacts to the trade space of complex engineering systems. This work describes in detail the frameworks for quantitative analyses on these impacts, demonstrates their use on the sample system, and presents the analysis results. The low earth orbit …
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
… consumer choices and differ from a carbon tax policy. A dynamic, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), is developed to estimate the welfare costs of these policies and to explore the mix of biofuels from corn and various cellulosic feedstocks …
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Measuring institutional change : the application of two theoretical models to two South African higher education institutions
… of higher education institutional change: the policy response and the adaptational model. The policy response model is essentially a measurement of policy impact, and through the application of an indicator framework allows the evaluation of the extent to which a higher education institution …
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Essays on the counterintuitive consequences of labor policies in service industries
… positive effect of predictability. To study the policy impact of these findings, I build a behavioral agent-based model of scheduling in essay two. My model provides a platform to conduct counterfactual analyses and thus increases the external validity of my findings.
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Norms and non-governmental advocacy on conventional arms control : dynamics and governance.
… the emergence of control norms and the role and policy impact of non-governmental actors in the promotion of the norms. It asks whether the normative changes and significance of nongovernmental actors therein challenge the understanding of security governance that underpins many established …
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A transportation approach to urban diffusion modeling
… both present and future transportation policy impact on urban air quality. The Transportation Air Pollution Analysis Procedure (TAPIP) combines a versatile traffic assignment computer program model with an urban diffusion computer program model. TAPAP assesses the air quality impact of …
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Homebuyer counseling : how the informal network supports the formal homebuying process
… system. How does federal and local housing policy impact the delivery of services? What is the "informal system" of counselor-client interaction and negotiations of rules and regulations that either advances or retards "progress" in meeting the goals of homeownership? This analysis provides …
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Inspector Discretion and Industry Compliance in the Street-Level Implementation of Building Codes
… Unique to this study is the examination of policy congruence between building departments and street-level inspectors as a predictor of industry compliance with regulatory policy. In addition, the various effects of building department enforcement philosophies, departmental capacity for …
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An asssessment of development aid to Namibia
… exploration and analysis of the economic and policy impact of development aid to Namibia since independence 1990. Namibia has been receiving a large amount of economic and humanitarian aid, in the form of financial, technical and material support from both bilateral and multilateral …
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PrivacyInformer : an automated privacy description generator for the MIT App Inventor
… international user base, as well as a growing impact on the democratizing of mobile app building. We show that by analyzing source code of mobile apps directly in App Inventor, PrivacyInformer can produce simple and useful privacy descriptions in both human-readable and machine-readable format. …
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Post-Obergefell v. Hodges: How LGBT Contact Can Alter Public LGBT Policy Positions in the U.S. and Arkansas
… identities to determine and alter their LGBT policy positions, how the level of contact with LGBT persons might have differing effects on these positions, and whether LGBT contact holds the same effects across multiple LGBT policy issues. Additionally, the literature surrounding LGBT contact …
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Hospice professionals' experiences with patients : a qualitative study of suicide and hastened death in Washington State
… socioeconomic disparities, and organisational policy impact how patients perceive, accept, or afford legal options. Palliative care professionals need open communication with patients and each other about suicide and hastened death in homecare.
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Advocacy and Community Based Organizations: How to Achieve Policy Development
… and community action agencies, can achieve policy development. Policy development is defined as the proposal of a policy by a community based organization. That policy proposal receives the attention of local decision makers for consideration. This study uses the stages of the policy process …
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Legal and Policy Implications for Early Childhood Professionals in Ontario's Kindergarten Programs
… the early childhood sector. The legal and policy implication of systems integration in Ontario includes the movement of a largely unionized private non-profit sector workforce into the realm of public education in Full Day Kindergarten (FDK). Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada to …
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Pharmaceutical policies used in LMIC countries to enhance pharmaceutical spending efficiency: a review
… data was synthesised thematically to identify policy trends and gaps. Three major themes emerged: (1) Cost-containment policies such as External Reference Pricing (ERP), which are widely adopted in countries like Vietnam and Turkey, though implementation challenges persist due to regulatory and …
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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
… major objective of this study was to analyse the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s main …
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Conundrums of food governance in South African metropoles
… In the second paper, “Digital storytelling for policy impact: perspectives from co-producing knowledge for food system governance in South Africa” (Adelle, Black and Kroll 2022) the focus of problematization is on how vulnerable people unfold agency in adverse food environments. The paper …
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Enforcement Through Voluntary Participation: The Impact of Non-Binding Informal Groups on the International Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
<p>The present thesis analyzes the policy impact of the informal group known as the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a non treaty-bound grouping of states organized to define mutually agreed upon nuclear export controls with the aim of advancing the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, in line with …
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