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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"Rural/urban"”.
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Codependency Among Nurses: A Rural Urban Comparison
… gensis of professional codependency and compare rural and urban samples of nurses using those parameters. The nursing literature presents us with two contradictory explanations of the relation between codependency and nursing. Some see it emerge when a nurse’s wish to care for others is motivated …
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Rural/urban dwelling environments : Gujarat State, India
Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Essays on Rural-Urban Migration in China
… world's largest peacetime out-migration of its rural labor force to urban areas. The temporary nature of the labor migration complicates the control on this mobile population, and its multi-faceted influence on the whole economy makes the migration policy controversial. Based on cross-sectional …
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Human geographies of the rural-urban fringe: Social dynamics of land development in the Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya
The process of urbanization is one of the most important dimensions of economic, social and physical change. It is almost a truism that the planet’s future is an urban one and that the largest and fastest growing cities are primarily in developing countries. As in other parts of the developing …
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Well-Being of Elderly Women: Rural-Urban Differences
… and well-being of elderly women. Fifty-five rural and fifty-five urban females living in the community comprised the sample whose mean age was 75 years. The overall level of well-being of these women was high. Hardiness was associated with greater social support and well-being. Self-esteem …
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Rural-urban migration in Nigeria : Implications for social welfare
Thesis (M.S.W.)--Michigan State University. School of Social Work, 1967
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No More Shade: Deforestation and Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria
… new motivating factor for migration as those in rural communities seek other avenues of obtaining those vital resources. Subsequently, Nigeria is also experiencing a housing crisis within its rapidly growing urban centers; obtaining and keeping adequate housing is becoming more difficult as …
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Composition and bioavailability of DOC across a rural-urban gradient
… of this thesis was to examine the impact of urbanisation on the composition, and bioavailability and retention of organic carbon in streams. Changes in composition, and bioavailability of organic carbon in stream water were investigated across rural-urban gradients in sub-catchments of the …
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Rural-urban contextual data triangulation for international engineering project work
… especially prominent for projects attempted in rural communities. The current emerging solution to address this community exclusion and resulting project failure is the application of contextual engineering. This involves a thorough and purposeful on-site study of community conditions with …
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Bridging the Rural - Urban Digital Divide in Residential Internet Access
… dissertation explores the persistent gap between rural and urban areas in the percentage of households that access the Internet at home (a discrepancy commonly known as the "digital divide"). The theoretical framework underlying a household's Internet adoption decision is examined, with emphasis …
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Decolonizing Frontline Healthcare in a Rural-Urban Indigenous Community Health Center
Acknowledging ongoing inequitable access to healthcare for Indigenous Peoples and answering the call for frontline healthcare workers to be continually more decolonizing in their practices, this study seeks to understand the experiences of providers in their decolonizing journey at Central Interior …
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African rural-urban migration in South Africa : Empangeni Richards bay area
The study deals with African rural urban migration in Empangeni Richards Bay area, where the concern is on the people already in the towns. The purpose of this investigation is to attempt to come up with some possible remedies to the problem of rural-urban migration in South Africa. Therefore, the …
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An empirical study of ethnic linkages in Kenyan rural-urban migration
<p>The supply of urban labor has been a central concern of the development efforts of low-income nations. Earlier development theories emphasized the benefits of removing labor from peasant agriculture—where labor-intensive techniques and traditional economic organization kept productivity low—and …
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Rural-urban migration and subjective well-being the South African experience
This paper gives a detailed account of rural-urban migration in South Africa. Using data from the recent National Income and Dynamics Study (NIDS) it defines the determinants and nature of rural-urban migration in South Africa before providing a thorough analysis of changes in a range of economic …
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Zoned out: Conflict and perceived threat in a rural-urban fringe area
… reasons for support and opposition to zoning in rural-urban fringe county. Findings illustrate how perceived threat is associated with what individuals in the community recognize the goals and consequences of zoning policy to be. Implications of the findings and future research are also discussed.
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Rural-urban migration in Bihar : a case study of the Village Saurath
… per capita, are significant inducing factors of rural-urban migration in Saurath. Any organization or individual interested in understanding the phenomena of rural-urban migration may find compelling insights from this thesis, and it is hoped that further exploration of the topic occurs in the …
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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : lessons from West Africa & India
… to examine how economic networks spanning the rural-urban divide condition conflict dynamics between an urban-based state and its rural-based challengers. In some cases of such violent internal conflict, the combat frontier is messy and erratic, as insurgents target cities as their economic …
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Supply response and the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe
… it related to the land conversion process in the rural-urban fringe. Emphasis was placed on the derivation of the farmer's dynamic supply-response curve of agricultural land for urban uses since the nature of this curve has important implications for land-use policy alternatives in fringe areas. …
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