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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Productive use"”.
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Wait-learning : intelligent systems for making productive use of wait time
… reply. These fleeting moments could instead be used for completing short, concrete microtasks towards accomplishing long-term goals. This thesis presents novel systems and approaches that enable wait-time productivity. First, WaitChatter enables wait-learning, by automatically detecting when a …
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Productive use of energy in women-owned enterprises: A multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding clean energy access in Africa
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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation: Essays on Microfinance, Energy Access and Limits to the Gold Standard in Empirical Economics
… experimental evidence on microfinance. We use this deep literature to highlight challenges in generalizing from empirical research. Chapter 2 and 3 provide empirical insights on the energy access-poverty nexus. We study the long-term adoption of grid electrification and evaluate whether …
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Vacant housing: a non-gentrifying neighborhood revitalization strategy for East Chattanooga
… interest to bring these properties back into productive use and ultimately revitalize their neighborhoods. As a mix methods study, census data and in-depth interviews were used to evaluate the problem and identify solutions. A purposive sampling method was used to recruit participants for the …
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TEACHER-CHILD INTERACTIONS AROUND ACADEMIC ERRORS IN PRESCHOOL
… of errors. To guide teachers toward productive use of errors for instruction and adaptive motivation and prevent maladaptive motivational trajectories for students, we must first understand the nature of students’ errors and how teachers’ respond to them early on in students’ …
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Marginal strips : how best to allow public access to lakes, rivers and the sea?
… survey and management costs while allowing productive use of the land to continue. However, the provisions are unlikely to provide much secure public access to water bodies due to a shortage of funds by DoC, the nature of the transaction costs involved in implementing the policy, and serious …
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Assessing Income Generating Projects as a Strategy to Enhance Livelihoods in Rural Areas. Umzimvubu Local Municipality, Eastern Cape Province
Income generation comprise activities focused at developing opportunities for productive use of available resources to create communities or households that are self-sufficient and not reliant on the state for livelihood generation. The aim of this study was to assess income generating activities …
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Redeveloping Mississippi: A Case Study on Brownfields in Central & Southern Mississippi
… that sites will be purchased and returned to productive use. Collectively, my findings demonstrate the importance of successful Brownfield redevelopment in maintaining environmentally and economically sustainable communities.</p>
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Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
Increasingly, the productive use of land is being demanded by developing cities because of the continuous influx of businesses and population. Meanwhile, because of the relocation of many industries to outlying districts, for the same reason, post-industrial sites near the centers of growing cities …
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Ingredients for Successful System Level Automation & Design Methodology
… design (SLD) methodology based on SystemC more useful to the complex embedded system design community by presenting a number of ingredients currently absent in the existing SLD methodologies and frameworks. The complexity of embedded systems have been increasing at a rapid rate due to …
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How can my use of Team Teaching Methods develop Reading Fluency and Comprehension in the Senior Primary Classroom?
… reading fluency and comprehension through the use of engaging and inclusive methodologies. Station teaching was deemed the appropriate team teaching methodology to address these concerns. Data was collected using a reflective journal, critical friend observations, interviews and questionnaires. …
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Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… of environmental preservation over the human productive use of nature. While its ecocentrism is rejected as the normative basis for green politics, its concern with virtue ethics is held to be an important contribution. In chapter 3, a self-reflexive version of anthropocentrism is developed as …
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
… yet powerful set of conceptual tools, used to rethink existing texts and critical paradigms, allowing the revaluation of literature, film and other fields. Within specific case studies, various aspects of Wellsian texts are used to exemplify a number Deleuzian concepts; for example, …
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The Machine that Lives Forever
… of the harvest and then forward-scheduled it for productive use. Finally, employ natures tricks and experience to introduce essential personality traits, pursuing maximising survival numbers and increasing dispersal target area sizes of large self-sufficient wireless sensor deployments. This …
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Mechanophore activation at heterointerface and surface crowdedness as a determining factor
… from 2005, several research groups reported the productive use of mechanical force in polymer mechanochemistry around the topic of mechanophore, a molecular unit that chemically responds in a selective manner to a mechanical perturbation, design and development. Most of the research is focused on …
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The Go-Between. The Film Archive as a Mediator Between Copyright and Film Historiography.
… to resist. On the other hand, the archive makes productive use of copyright in its involvement in the interplay between the ownership of the physical objects and the ability to control the subsequent use and dissemination of those objects. Some of these resistant and productive practices, such as …
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In her Prime or Past it?: Reconsidering the Male Gaze and Exploring Feminine Monstrosity and Excess in Feminist Performance Art and Film
… art. This is a practice-based PhD that uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the agentive potential of alternative and monstrous femininity that deconstructs women’s relationship to the masculinised gaze. I work to unveil alternative feminist possibilities of utilising female …
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The Development of a Higher Education Consortium: A Case Study of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center.
… education consortium. Case study methodology was used to determine why and how the SVHEC was established, who was involved, and how well it served adult students and the community.</p> <p>Data were collected through interviews, focus groups, observations, and document analysis. The methodology …
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“When do I get to see the dog?”: The communicative environment during animal assisted speech therapy sessions for adults with acquired cognitive-communicative disorders
… Therapy (AAT) as an activity that (while rarely used in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders) is highly reflective of the responsibilities, preferences, and personal lives of patients (i.e. pet ownership and interaction with animals). This study draws on ethnographic methods of data …
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Assessing the effectiveness of reduced parking requirements in facilitating transit-oriented development: a case study of “PT areas” in Cape Town
… provision and improved parking management be used to support the restructuring of the city over time, in support of public transport and of transit-oriented development? Cape Town is used as a case study, by assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of a tool adopted by the City of …
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