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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Public exposure"”.
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The effects of educational intervention on the myths surrounding Alzheimer's disease
… population, creating the need for increased public exposure to the accurate information currently known about Alzheimer's. Toward this end, 58 undergraduates participated in an investigation aimed at examining the amount of accurate information obtained through the use of an educational video …
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A new sphere of vigilantism in South Africa in the age of social media? Operation Wanya Tsotsi- an analysis of prospects for collaboration with the Police
… – online shaming. Considering that online public shaming has become prevalent both globally and locally, the focus of this dissertation is the public exposure of people alleged to have committed crimes. The paper shows that small changes to the method of public shaming could enable …
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A risk management model for environmental remediation projects
… and evaluation is performed for organizational, public exposure, remediation alternative and cost risks. Given a certain threshold from this evaluation, the owner should either accept or transfer the risks. If the risks are accepted, the model suggests certain mitigation techniques which are …
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Open to the public! : a new network of communal recreation waterfront space in Bangkok
… their backs onto the waterfront, the diminishing public exposure and access to the Chao Phraya River means it is quickly losing its historic role as an valuable asset and resource for the capital. This thesis proposes the establishment of a green network along the Chao Phraya River by opening up …
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The evolution of the tuba quartet and its repertoire
… chamber ensembles, which have an elevated public perception because of their rich history and works by well-known composers, tuba quartets are challenged with educating their audiences about the tuba and overcoming negative biases about their instruments and repertoire. Established in the …
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Integrated electronic waste management in Mexico : law, technology and public policy
… Why is it considered a problem? What are the public health implications of its mishandling? The electronic industry, a sector that has experienced one of the highest growth rates of the last decade, has had a great success in growing the mass consumer market for personal computers, cell …
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Impact of urban form on concentration of air pollutants within street canyons at pedestrian level
… mitigations are needed to reduce individuals’ exposure to harmful air pollutants. In this respect, governments around the world developed and published a number of air quality plans and frameworks. However, they either ignored or paid less attention to microclimate and urban form attributes and …
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Processing Writing: From Text to Textual Interventions
… presses have encouraged and ensured the public exposure of my textwork in its many forms. Because textual placing and typographical games are important to the arguments of my work, some of these pieces can only be submitted in original format or by providing reference to their active …
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South African industrial training discourse and policy from 1977 to 1982
… training ideas were formulated and given public exposure by significant reformist groups within the state and the capitalist class during a period of general ideological, economic and political change and contestation. The historical context is traced in order to situate the emergence of …
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The water line : research into the peculiar place of the Namib Desert coast
… as well as attempting to incorporate a more public exposure to this form of technology and the water resource potential it provides. Before design within this landscape could be considered, both a more poetic and pragmatic understanding of this peculiar place and its extreme conditions was …
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Security Research for the Public Good: A Principled Approach
… vendors betraying user trust, exposing the public to exploitable code, data leaks, and invasive privacy practices. Undirected security research may be insufficient for preventing such foreseeable and preventable failures, as these problems are often the result of misaligned vendor incentives …
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The Transition of Methods of Execution in North Carolina: A Descriptive Social History of Two Time Periods, 1935 and 1983
… in time. However, findings also indicate that public exposure to an existing method of execution as well as historically relative ideologies concerning state-sanctioned death greatly affect how the negotiation of meaning transpires.
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Detection and Characterisation of Airborne Carcinogenic Erionite Fibres in New Zealand Roadside Environments Using a Novel Integrated Methodology
… has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen and exposure to erionite is strongly linked to the development of malignant mesothelioma, one of the most aggressive cancers known. Although the geological occurrence of erionite has been reported worldwide, including in populated areas of New Zealand, …
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Understanding the beliefs and behaviours of low-skilled adults as they re-engage with mathematics
… devices that recorded private and public utterances as learners participated in lessons. The survey and interview findings showed that most low-skilled adults believed mathematics to be procedural, performance-oriented, and learned by adopting passive strategies. Many held …
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Radionuclide concentrations and radiation hazard assessment in the soil of Otjiwarongo, Namibia
… Protection (ICRP) reference level for public exposure control. Furthermore, the mean effective dose rates in seven of the areas are relatively low and below 0.2 mSv/y while those in the other three areas are relatively high and above 0.2 mSv/y. These results indicate that the level of …
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Exposición pública y malversación de fondos: un análisis experimental
Este trabajo busca probar si la exposición pública afecta la propensión a tomar decisiones de malversación de recursos públicos. Se plantea un experimento de laboratorio donde las personas pueden participar de una "actividad criminal" (robar dinero de un fondo público) y donde cada sujeto toma esta …