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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Residential area"”.
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Copying strategies to chronic floods in Kuku residential area in Lusaka district, Zambia: a hermeneutic phenomenology study.
… been sparing the residents in Kuku, a low cost residential area in the urban District of Lusaka. It has been attributed by both natural and manmade factors such as the inability of the residential area to drain water, change of rainfall pattern, increase of built environment without sustainable …
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Exploring the relationship between the water-energy-food nexus and livelihoods at the local scale: a case study focussed on a low-income residential area in Velddrif, South Africa
… local level through a case study of a low-income residential area in the small urban fishing town of Velddrif on the west coast of South Africa. The primary empirical focus of the study is the household where availability, access, and affordability of WEF resources, as well as the linkages to …
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The church as a moral agent in society: a case study of residents' perspectives of the role the church has played in the Kraaifontein residential area over the last ten years: 1994-2004
… how residents in Kraaifontein, a semi-rural area in the Cape Peninsula vicinity, perceive the moral role that the church has played over a period of ten years from 1994 to 2004. The clergy and pastors of two mainline churches and two evangelical churches in Kraaifontein were chosen as the …
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An oral history of Tramway Road and Ilford Street, Sea Point, 1930s-2001 : the production of place by race, class and gender
… performed by residents of the enclave in their residential area, activities that reflected the changing political economies and through which the residents themselves produced and reproduced their residential area. From the 1920s through to 1961, the enclave was both a product and a response to …
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The impact of public attitudes and behaviour on the effective valorisation of household organic waste into agricultural compost: case study Limbe and Douala - Cameroon
… waste generation (0.86 kg) in the high income residential area (HIRA) and the highest (1.38 kg) in the low income residential area (LIRA) of Douala in the wet season. In the dry season, the medium income residential area (MIRA) had the highest (1.11 kg) with the lowest (0.71 kg) in the HIRA. …
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption in pregnant Ugandan women
… women who work as farmers, living in rural areas. We found that 14% of the study participants consumed alcohol while pregnant. Both the univariable and multivariable regression found that age, residential area, married polygamously and married monogamously were significantly (p-value < 0.05) …
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Extended family housing: On suture in the formal and social construction of housing
… formal analysis of commercial development in the residential area of Montrose shows the mixed fabric of the city, both in scale and type. This analysis is the basis of an alternate strategy of suture in the development of the block in the fabric of the city and is applied to housing design. In …
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Use of Artificial Nesting Cavities By Wood Ducks (Aix Sponsa) and Other Species in an Urban Environment
… months of 1989 and 1990 on a lake located in a residential area of Springfield, Missouri. Data were collected on nesting and non-nesting species, predation, and competition among species from boxes placed in various habitat areas. To increase a breeding population of Wood Ducks, proper box …
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Depois das fronteiras: a formação dos espaços de pobreza na periferia norte de Natal-RN
… urbanization of Natal`s North Zone, the largest residential area in the city where 40% of the population lives. This urban space is characterized as a space of poverty because of its majority of low income dwellers as well as lack of infrastructure. The main objective here is to identify and …
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Context and change : a neighborhood block in Cambridgeport
… of developing continuity between an existing residential area and a design of a medium density housing development. An identification of architectural patterns in the area of the site yields an abstract model of a typical block involving different building types on different zones of the …
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A Villa in Virginia
… form through sketching. The site is located in a residential area in McLean, Virginia. It is a relatively flat site as there are no major slopes. The three acre lot is generous in size and was not meant to drive the design of the house by providing limits. Trees on three sides of the site provide …
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Nonpoint source pollution during dry and wet weather flows in an urbanized watershed
… and to determine the quality of runoff from residential areas and parking lots during WWF. DWF samples were collected from storm channels on a weekly and monthly basis. WWF samples were collected when the precipitation was at least 1mm. DWF water quality results indicated that monitoring …
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FROM STRAWBERY BANKE TO PUDDLE DOCK: THE EVOLUTION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD, 1630-1850 (URBAN COMMUNITY, MARITIME; NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… century it became a thriving commercial area in the seaport town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; after 1820 it became an old waterfront neighborhood serving primarily as a residential area. The study first places the site within the context of the larger community, and then looks at spatial …
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Evaluation of Nutrients and Suspended Solids Removal by Stormwater Control Measures Using High Flow Media
… HFM Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) in a residential area were monitored over 11 months to assess the removal of Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in First Flush (FF) stormwater runoff. Excellent removal of TSS and particulate-bound nutrients was noted, but, in most …
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Cultural construction of psychiatric illness : a case of amafufunyane
… a psychiatric community clinic in Guguletu, a residential area for Blacks in Cape Town). Psychiatrists have always been faced with the problem of having to deal with patients who present with this condition. The concern was to do an exploratory research in this area using the Explanatory Model …
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Settlement patterns in the eastern coast of Maracaibo Lake, Venezuela : evaluation of existing settlements and model for a low income sector of El Menito new town
… The First part is the physical analysis of residential settlements in the Eastern Coast of Maracaibo Lake, Venezuela. The work is based on surveys, evaluations and comparisons of four identifiable housing systems of the area which are Old settlements, Oil Company Housing, Squatter …
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Student's Under utilization of the University of Zambia Counselling Centre
… monthly income, classification of parents residential area and culture. Moreover, knowledge, attitude and awareness of the students about the existence oft he counselling centre.The study end by giving recommendations on what can be done to improve the turnout of the students at the centre.
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Student's Under utilization of the University of Zambia Counselling Centre
… monthly income, classification of parents residential area and culture. Moreover, knowledge, attitude and awareness of the students about the existence oft he counselling centre.The study end by giving recommendations on what can be done to improve the turnout of the students at the centre.
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Epidemiology of stroke in an urban population - aspects of time, place and person
… stroke show substantial differences between the residential areas in the city. Areas with high incidence are characterised by less favourable socioeconomic circumstances. We explored whether the survival among the stroke cases similarly was related to the residential area. The 28-day mortality, …
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Relationship between urinary levels of organophosphate metabolites and pesticide exposures among rural school boys of the Western Cape
… (DMTP)) among boys living in the rural areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. Methods: This was an analysis of data collected during a cross- sectional study of 183 boys from three agricultural intense areas in the Western Cape of South Africa between April 2007 and March 2008. …
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