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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Regional context"”.
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Climate change vulnerability assessments in the regional context
… climate change requires an understanding of regional vulnerabilities. Conceptually, vulnerability is defined as a function of sensitivity and exposure, which determine climate impacts, and adaptive capacity of a system. Vulnerability assessments for quantifying these components have become a …
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Early language learning within a Greek regional context
… Language Leaming philosophy within the Greek context. This part of the research was achieved in a frodistirio in classes of students aged 7-11 in order to improve current language learning clas ses and use the data for cross-sectional comparative purposes. Data collection included open-ended …
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
… between official and popular religions. In the context of an examination of these interactions in the Humber Region Lowlands during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, this thesis illustrates the roles that laity had in the construction of official and popular cultures of medieval …
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Transmigration and its centre-regional context : the case of Riau and South Kalimantan Provinces, Indonesia
… transmigration policy in Indonesia within the context of centre and regional relationships. The evidence from Riau and South Kalimantan suggests that as a consequence of the unequal relationship between the centre and the regions, the implementation of transmigration policy has suffered from a …
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Transmigration and its centre-regional context : the case of Riau and South Kalimantan Provinces, Indonesia
… transmigration policy in Indonesia within the context of centre and regional relationships. The evidence from Riau and South Kalimantan suggests that as a consequence of the unequal relationship between the centre and the regions, the implementation of transmigration policy has suffered from a …
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Implementing and administering the New Poor Law in the industrial north: a case study of Preston union in regional context, 1837-1861
… by setting Preston union within a broader regional and sub-regional framework. The approach reflects recent historiography which has argued that, in spite of local differences, Poor Law administration varied considerably by region, with a particularly marked distinction having been drawn …
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Styx Basin Reserve : a study of the reserve in its regional context : submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture at Lincoln College, University of Canterbury
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Franz Josef, township of Waiho Gorge : an alternative extension proposal
… of the existing village with regard to its regional context. This is undertaken in order to identify characteristic features. Given that future growth has already been planned for, an alternative plan more sympathetic to the environment is proposed. The study concludes with a proposal for …
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Sea shells ashore : a study of the role of shellfish in prehistoric diet and lifestyle at Eland's Bay, Southwestern Cape, South Africa
… Eland's Bay (18°19'E 32°19'S). To give a wider regional context, available data on seven other sites along the southwest coast of South Africa have been included. The quantification, analysis and comparison of the faunal data from all these sites have proved informative on the adequacy and …
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The effects of family planning type and prevalent use on fertility and under-five mortality in Tanzania.
… across regions. This study accounts for the regional context in which contraceptive choices -- and reproductive outcomes -- occur. Its research question, then, is: what is the effect of the regional context on total fertility rate and under-five mortality rate? This study employs the 2010 …
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Using conceptual modeling to advance an integrated watershed management approach in the Aishihik drainage basin
… Management appear to be well suited to the regional context but additional tools are needed to synthesize data from two distinct systems: western scientific methods and traditional knowledge. This study showed the tools and techniques from conceptual modeling advance integrated watershed …
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Flood of Change: the Vanport Flood and Race Relations in Portland, Oregon
… close the paper. The paper also addresses larger regional context such as the effects of World War II in the western United States and the Second Great Migration.
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Considerations for developing a sustainable agriculture research and education centre at Agua Blanca, El Salvador
… information for second submission: sector and regional context, sustainability, gender, beneficiaries, performance measures, and environmental impacts. Seven recommendations are included to move project forward.
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Extracting Prototypes From Lexical Feature Norms for Settlement Concepts
… resemblance structure. To probe the effects of regional context on conceptual structure, subsequent cluster analyses used a subset of participants who were long-term residents of Canada or the United States. Prototypical features varied regionally, suggesting an effect of geographical region on …
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The history and development of Spanish-language initiatives in public libraries: a case study
… Hispanic history and current demographics of the regional context as a foundation, as well research supporting both multilingualism and the role that libraries play in creating community cohesion in multicultural and multilingual communities to evaluate the findings. The findings, based on …
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Economic theory and development planning in the Arctic regions: A study in plural economy
… practical development planning in a peripheral regional economy. This is done in the form of a case study on the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. There are four main sections. First, the regional context of planning is proposed, leading to the consideration of questions about capital and …
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Popular newspapers in post-Mao Guangzhou: toward a social history of Southern Weekend, 1984-2010
… out to understand the Chinese press within a regional context during the post-Mao reform era. As an extension of the Party press, post-Mao popular newspapers grew from within the Party-state bureaucracies in response to the economic and social reform since the late 1970s and early 1980s. …
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Local experience of the 1798 rebellion: a comparative context
… to investigate the Rebellion of 1798 in a local context in exhaustive detail per se, rather it is intended to examine the structure of the selected areas in the late eighteenth century and to evaluate, at a time of conflict, the nature and workings of these societies. By investigating these …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Individualizing Climate Action Plans in Southern California
… to neighboring cities’ plans to understand the regional context. Multiple policy recommendations across different scales are then made for the city itself, the state of California, the U.S. federal government, and the Mexican government. These recommendations include further community …
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TO KILL AND TO BE KILLED: THE TRANSFERENCE, TRANSFORMATION AND USE OF THE SMITING POSE IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN DURING THE BRONZE AGE
… this study focuses on the smiting motif in its regional context to explore how power was constructed and represented through violence to fit their concepts of ruling and kingship.
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