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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Public Programs"”.
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Shared Equity Homeownership in Korea: Analysis of the First Public Programs
Korea's public housing policy has reached a turning point, with an emphasis on alternative housing tenure types. Based on the notion of intermediate housing, three homeownership programs—land-lease housing for sale, profit-sharing housing for sale, and accumulated equity housing for sale—have been …
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Park and chill : redesign parking garage in Hong Kong
… less prominent locations in cities. In addition, public programs nowadays is mostly tied with consumption of goods, services and cultural activities. If urban infrastructure is one of the necessities in center of urban environment and lack enough human consideration while we all share experience …
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From Outreach to Engagement: An Actor-Network-Theory Analysis of Attracting Spanish-speaking Participants to Public Programming
… the process of developing new partnerships among public service agencies and making more durable connections with local Spanish-speaking families that seeks to answer the question: “What forces motivate and demotivate members of this minority community to participate in public programs designed to …
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Religion and Crime: A Study of Inmates in State and Federal Prisons in the United States.
… country have provided support for the need for public programs that help in reducing crime rates through effective interventions. Spirituality and religion are considered to play a major part in determining an individual's attitude towards committing a crime. This study analyzed if inmates in …
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Venture capital and innovation in information technology : evaluation of the French public policy
… government has been undertaking an intense public program to initiate innovation in France. The following investigation comes from a request of individuals within the French Ministry of Finance. It will examine the specific aspects of the French public program, that promotes innovation in …
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The Job Training Partnership Act and "New Federalism" : a strategy for state-substate decision making in the Texas environment.
… New Federalism -- a shift in responsibility for public programs from the federal government to the states. Congressional supporters and public and private sector supporters of JTPA view this legislation and the key role of the states as a new beginning for employment and training policy in this …
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Teaching Young Children Science: Early Care and Education Teachers' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Classroom Practices
… and beliefs and classroom practices. Teachers in public programs reported higher scores on child benefit and classroom practices than those in private programs. Implications for future direction are presented including providing early care and education teachers with science-specific professional …
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Through the Eyes of Our Neighbors: A collaborative model for cultural, educational, and community organizations to meaningfully address homelessness in San Francisco
… design exhibition, along with a series of public programs and education initiatives, to raise awareness regarding the issue of homelessness, empower members of the homeless community, and encourage museum-goers to take action. Furthermore, the project aims to partner with the City of San …
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Behavioral responses to public insurance programs: Three essays
<p>Evaluating the effectiveness of public programs requires an understanding of how these programs affect the choices of individuals and households. For example, the program design of Social Security and Medicare may affect how much people work. While these effects are not intended goals of the …
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Exposing the Data Center
… the digital society and proposes a new type of a publicly accessible data center. The thesis starts with a brief overview of the history of data centers and the Internet in general, leading to a manifesto for making data centers into public facilities with an architecture of their own. After, the …
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Essays in Health Economics
… It examines how these policies as well as public programs affect behavior and outcomes. These programs and policies have the potential to impact behavior directly at the individual level and could also have indirect effects at the household level. In addition, the effects on healthcare use …
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The Turtle : an American school of architecture : a radical mediocracy
… and out of campus, in order to place greater publicity on the output of MIT both within and beyond the Institute. This provides theses candidates with a prop for their respective presentations allowing for more informed contributions to the MIT School of Architecture. The Turtle ultimately …
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Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape
… Adirondack Park includes six million acres of public and private land that compromise over 85 % of all wilderness lands east of the Mississippi. Unique in many ways, the Adirondack Park remains a model for sustainable living and wilderness land management. This dissertation explores the way …
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The Lake Chapel at Somerset Plantation and Religious Instruction in the Antebellum South
… estate. And owing to many years of research, public programs, and archaeological digs, Somerset has become one of North Carolina's most celebrated antebellum slave plantations; and it remains highly regarded as a national model of historic reconstruction, interpretation and preservation.
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The Work-Related Roles and Identities of Older Canadians
… that older people should be retired and the public programs that enable their retirement, ideals about the makeup of meaningful social roles have not changed very much, and so are applied to this population in a similar manner as to their younger counterparts. In other words, people are not …
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Aging and the labor market
… reaches retirement age, demographic pressures on public programs such as social security may cause policy makers to cut benefits and encourage work at later ages. This chapter reports on a labor market experiment to determine the hiring conditions for older women in entry-level jobs in Boston, MA …
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Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… this dissertation is to analyze the effects of public programs and parental labor market outcomes child health and human capital accumulation. The first chapter studies the effects of attending state pre-kindergarten programs on child development and health up to eight years after preschool age. …
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QUALITY OF PROGRAM INDICATORS IN UNITED STATES ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION: A STATISTICAL SURVEY (VOLUMES I - III)
… the quality of 78 of 80 accredited architectural programs in the United States. Statistical data were gather to analyze, score, and rank individual programs based on eight carefully selected components: educational; environmental; fiscal, physical, and human resources; advancement; communications; …
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Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… essays that investigate how family structure and public policy are linked to health and developmental child outcomes. Each essay employs two or three waves of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) as the primary data source. The first essay broadly investigates how family structure, …
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Teamwork makes the artwork : a qualitative case study examining how adult museum visitors experience aesthetic development through visual-thinking strategies (VTS) at a contemporary art museum.
… experiences with art, and educators must design programs for all experiences levels. Non-visitors feel their lack of art knowledge is a barrier to visiting a museum (Waltl, 2006). Visitors expect more engagement from museums and are challenged with where to begin. I applied Housen's theory of …
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