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Regional Factors Affecting Farmland Values in Illinois
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Regional factors governing performance and sustainability of wastewater treatment plants in Honduras : Lake Yojoa Subwatershed
Lake Yojoa, the largest natural lake in Honduras, is currently experiencing eutrophication from overloading of nutrients, in part due to inadequate wastewater treatment throughout the Lake Yojoa Subwatershed. Some efforts are being made to address the issue of wastewater treatment, but they …
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Developing Leadership Values in Learners of Electrical Engineering
… leadership qualities, considering cultural and regional factors. Insights were gained through interviews with trainers, lecturers, and consultants. Using narrative-rich methods, I created a blend of factual and fictional storytelling to communicate the findings. This thesis establishes a …
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Ruling the Dead: Rulership, Spirit Pacification, and the Water-Land Retreat in Fourteenth-Century East Asia
… East Asia, we see the rise to one measure to regional significance. This was the ritual known as the Water-Land Retreat, the performance of which had reached unprecedented scale and grandeur under the Yuan court. Where previous research has centred on individual polities, this dissertation …
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The Present Past - a Middle Swabian Dialect in the 21st Century
… influence of Standard German along with other regional factors. Medium-sized towns seem to be at the center of this dialect-standard continuum, as speakers from both rural and more urban areas come together in these towns. This study sought to investigate the state of the Middle Swabian dialect …
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THE EFFECT OF VOLATILITY IN U.S. AND EAST ASIAN STOCK MARKETS ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THEM
… East Asian markets, which depended on local regional factors, saw higher volatility. Moreover since all investments in the region came from the same pool of funds, increases to one market meant a corresponding decrease in another thus contributing to the transmission of volatility. This …
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Strategic management and entrepreneurship as economic development tools
… developed for publication. Case 1 features a regional scale biodiesel operation utilizing a flexible feedstock process technology with used cooking oils as a primary input. Case 2 presents a biomass opportunity with algae being harvested from a large wastewater treatment facility. Case 3 …
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Modeling the impact of complexity on transportation
… rates, length of haul, frequency of loads and regional factors) changed the most during a new product launch. The analysis showed that the main driver of transportation costs during a new product launch (for our case study) is the length of haul. This finding was used to further investigate how …
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Size spectra and temporal synchrony patterns in temperate and tropical river networks
… and species interactions. Temporal and regional trends in biomass are less understood. To investigate how regional climatic variables shape temporal and spatial distribution of biomass in stream ecosystems, we sampled benthic macroinvertebrates across a gradient of stream sizes in one …
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Strong Interactive Species in Metacommunities: The Interaction Between Dispersal and Daphnia magna in Zooplankton Communities
… are molded by two sets of processes: local and regional. Local factors are those that directly impact a single local community, such as environmental conditions, competition, and predation. On the other hand, regional factors affect communities across a landscape and include mechanisms such as, …
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A discrete choice model of housing selection by low-income urban renters
… (2) identify the demographic, socioeconomic and regional factors which influence housing outcomes, (3) use the resulting model to estimate the probability that an individual household faces a particular combination of housing problems, and (4) consider how the receipt of housing assistance alters …
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Multilevel Analysis of Physical Activity Among US Adults Across US Census Regions: The Role of Environmental Contexts
… are modified by geographic region. Determining regional factors that influence physical activity is essential to planning appropriate physical activity interventions.</p> <p>The dependent variable is adult physical activity (PA). The measure of PA is dichotomized as either meeting current …
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An analysis of firm dynamics and seedbed role
… which examine firm interrelationships, the regional determinants of firm births and deaths, and how the seedbed role influences the performance of new start-ups. This analysis provides several contributions to the literature. Firstly, the competition and multiplier effects set out by Johnson …
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Dissolved organic matter dynamics in diverse freshwater ecosystems across Canada: long-term trends, transformations, and explanatory factors
… ecosystems across Canada and determines the factors that best explain them. Rivers play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by connecting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and serving as important sites for DOM processing. However, DOM dynamics in semi-arid northern plains rivers are …
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Empirical Essays on Migration and Remittances in Pakistan
… internal or international migration. From these factors, it may be concluded that household level characteristics and regional factors are the important determinants for the probability of remittances. The second hurdle deals with the determinants of remittance amounts, conditional on being a …
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Investigating the significance of reputational risk In banks' financial performance
… of a global perspective, revealing significant regional variations in the impact of reputational losses. The study's conclusions contribute significantly to the understanding of reputational risk in the banking sector, offering both theoretical and practical insights. The rejection of the null …
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Effects of diversity on community assembly dynamics in newly formed pond communities
… of the focal species D. pulex. Local abiotic factors or differences in dispersal rates among taxa may have a larger influence on community assembly dynamics in freshwater zooplankton metacommunities.