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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Public events"”.
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Risk management at public events: a case study of a municipality within Southern Ontario
Current literature surrounding risk management at public events focuses on the efforts of municipal officials to reduce the risk of terrorist activity. The literature only focuses on large municipalities that host global sporting events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. The focus tends to …
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The Assessment Of Remote Memory
… the past. The following tests were constructed: Public Events Recall and Recognition Tasks, Public Galton Task, and Autobiographical Galton Task. The tests were administered to a sample of middle-aged and older-aged participants. The test items were revised based on the participants' responses. …
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Location-aware active signage
… a framework for displaying a set of campus-wide, public events of interest to an MIT visitor, including methods for inferring events from public sources and automatically selecting events of interest.
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Building a Better Pedestrian Flow Model for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
<p>Undeniable shifts in how public events are conducted with regard to security have occurred since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Increased security requirements are a product of the paradigm shift in security for Mega-Event locations. This study examined the …
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Involuntary Signal-Based Grounding of Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Civilian Airspace
… affected by a natural disaster, and stadiums for public events. This thesis proposes an early prototype of a hardware-based signal based involuntary grounding technique to handle the problem by immediately grounding unauthorized drones. Research in the development of UAS is in the direction of …
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Crafting Lagrange: A Southern Town's Search For Historical Identity In The 1970s
… By focusing on the planning, correspondence, and public events involving the bicentennial celebrations and the placement of the Lafayette statue this thesis intends to assess how a historical identity created by and perpetuated by the elite results in the concealment of local economic and racial …
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Living the newsmaker story
… medical transplants, amongst other issues and events which come to involve elements of privacy, present peculiar problems for the ordinary people who are the stories' subjects. How ordinary individuals, whose everyday lives and their privacies have been involuntarily swept by means of public …
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Live the Local: Exploring the Relationship between Local News Media and Cities Undergoing Downtown Revitalization
… megaphones " to share updates, stories, promote public events and disseminate information.</p> <p>With qualitative research that includes in-depth interviews with city officials, nonprofit leaders, business owners, residents and former journalists, we discover how city stakeholders in Rogers, …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… part, this study explores the constellation of public events and private concerns that came together in the early 1930s to revive a seemingly moribund dream of Japanese agrarian nationalism, newly focused on Manchuria as a ""New Paradise"" (Shintenchi) for the nation's indigent farming …
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A design project for an urban frontier
… landscape. As a result, large open spaces for public use are either dislocated (to suburbia), restricted (institutionalized where most public), or simply "left over" as remnants of previous programs (abandoned buildings) or the fall-out of large scale construction (highways, public transport, …
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Personal long-term memory aids
… long-term memory problems, I (1) recorded public events and evaluated witnesses' memory-retrieval approaches using these tools; and (2) conducted a longer- term memory-retrieval study based on recordings of several years of my personal and research-related conversations. Subjects succeeded …
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In London, Around 1914
… with popular literary sphere. Two staged public events that happened in January are compared—G. K. Chesterton’s trial of a Dickens character and Ezra Pound’s dinner in honour of the poetic accomplishments of an old man who insisted he was not a poet. Both involved bids for literary …
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Sonic Perceptual Ecologies: Strategies for sound-based exploration,perception and composition in spaces of transient encounters
… hybrid telematic soundwalks, radioart pieces, public events and performances engaging with different sites in London and elsewhere. This thesis presents a constellation of original outputs, essential to creating and understanding the novel conceptual framework of the sonic perceptual ecology. …
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Rocks for the homeless: the health conditions of Spokane homeless people
… with the medical establishments, and the public perception about them. Data was collected beginning in the summer of 2018. A total of twenty homeless individuals were interviewed. I also attended public events and forums where the issue of homelessness in the city was discussed and …
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DeepStream.tv : designing informative and engaging live streaming video experiences
… will explore whether live streaming video from public events, which I call civic livestreams, can be more engaging and informative if relevant contextual information is added to the viewing experience. I focus on the continuing emergence of livestreams as a source of news and information, and …
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Los servicios de Prensa extranjera en el primer franquismo (1936-1945)
… In addition, all intended to combat the Republican propaganda pushed by Europe and America. After completion of the Civil War, the tasks of legitimation and information as a priority followed an intense campaign of Spain's prestige abroad. To achieve such a goal would be used by the …
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Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power
… to create the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika. New Afrikan nationalism proclaims its main goal to be the achievement of black liberation through the establishment of a black-majority nation-state in the Deep South. NAIM also represents a trend of Black Power distinguished …
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Egg Donation in Germany, A Sociological Study
… to countries such as Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, and Spain. Further perspective is given through interviews with 32 German fertility professionals, mostly doctors, gynaecologists, fertility counsellors, lawyers and politicians. Most interviews were conducted in person in …
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The Impact of Standards-Based Reform on Special Education: An Exploration of Westvale Elementary School
… School. I also conducted observations at over 15 public events relevant to the study. Interview and observation data were contextualized through an examination of public documents, such as policy statements or media reports.</p> <p>Findings indicate that the transformation process that Westvale …
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DESIS ON A SPECTRUM: THE POLITICAL AGENDAS OF SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS
… with members and organizational leaders, and at public events and programs. A key finding from this study is that South Asians are not a cohesive political force. The narratives demonstrate that the political agendas and activities of each organization undoubtedly shift and evolve in response to …
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