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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Rural Villages"”.
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing developmental outcomes and insufficiently …
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing developmental outcomes and insufficiently …
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An integrated modeling and decision tool for improved drinking water reliability in rural villages of India
Rural community, which constitutes more than 70% of the total population in India, faces an everyday struggle to meet basic water requirements. The challenges in this struggle are numerous: lack of infrastructure, limited access to new water resources, over-dependence on groundwater resources, and …
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The Effects of Potential Resource Allocation Alternatives on Income and Employment for Three Rural Villages in South Central Turkey
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606894.pdf: 7634172 bytes, checksum: 0cedee2918e9743ac9797defec939eb8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Intervention strategies to promote health-seeking behaviour among men in rural villages of selected Districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
… to promote health-seeking behaviour among men in rural villages of selected Districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The objectives were to: Describe Behavioural, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to men’s poor health-seeking behaviour; Explore health system …
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The influence of water, sanitation and hygiene and feeding practices on growth status and antibiotic resistance in infants aged 0-6 months in Dzimauli rural villages
… in infants aged 0-6 months in the Dzimauli rural villages, Limpopo Province, South Africa. A prospective cohort design was used, involving 156 mother-infant pairs who were followed monthly from birth to six months. Data were collected using structured questionnaires assessing …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… by the Mississippian Cahokia polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural villages. I examine the …
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Elements of Memory
… a dwelling that would suit those living in rural villages and up remote hollows. This place is created by a retaining wall to hold back the slope and a generous roof to shelter from the weather. The structure is divided into two seemingly equal halves, one half being enclosed to form the …
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico
… choices. The model is estimated using Mexican rural villages data from the PROGRESA experiment and is used to analyze how the presence of informal risk sharing influences schooling and child labor choices, as well as the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. In particular, …
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Design of a bagasse charcoal briquette-making device for use in Haiti
… intended for small-scale briquette production in rural villages to supply charcoal to local markets. Since little is known about the materials properties and characteristics of bagasse charcoal, several production possibilities have been considered and evaluated. The most important finding during …
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Automated histopathological analyses at scale
… histopathological analyses to settings such as rural villages, mass-screening camps and mobile health clinics. With metastatic breast cancer as our primary case study, we describe how the system could be used to test for the presence of a tumor, determine the precise location of a lesion, as …
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An investigation into the impact of globalization on the intergenerational transmission of oral literature in Namibia: a community based education perspective
… educational setting took place in four rural villages. The latter were crucial in the study in that they were home to research subjects who possessed valuable insights into the pedagogic role of oral literature as a form of community based education. The four schools were purposefully …
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Effect of Heavy Lifting with a Head Strap on the Pelvic Floor across the Menstrual Cycle
… a mean age of 27.4(3.6) years; all were from rural villages and frequently carried with a head strap. Using intravaginal pressure transducers (IVT), the mean change in intraabdominal pressure (IAP) was found to be 37.1(4.3) cmH20 when lifting a load with a mean weight of 19.8(3.2)kg using a …
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Cost comparison of hydropower options for rural electrification in Rwanda
… "Cost comparison of hydropower options for rural electrification in Rwanda" intends to show that the use of a large number of mini hydropower plants for electrification of sparse rural areas in Rwanda is the least cost option when compared to installing either a single small or large …
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Visible communities : designing a socio-spatial map
… in detailed spatial and social maps for four rural villages. With the collected data, we designed a novel socio-spatial map for this community that combines knowledge about household locations, paths, inhabitants of those homes, and social relations between residents. Generalizing from this …
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The Perfect Typhoon: Viewing Taiwan's Typhoon Morakot Through Journalistic Lenses
… burying more than 700 people in several rural villages and causing US$1.5 billion in economic losses. Furthermore, Typhoon Morakot was a political storm and a symbolic crisis because of the government's sluggish and inept response and the identity of the primary victims—Taiwanese …
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Landscape dynamics from 1990--2010 and the human to apex predator (red-tailed hawk) relationship on La Gonave, Haiti
… We implemented a survey (n = 121) in 10 rural villages on La Gonave regarding their perceptions and interactions with the RTH during May--June, 2012. During fieldwork we sighted seven RTHs and found one nest. Many respondents noted the aggressive behavior of RTHs during nesting, …
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Learning for Cambodian Women: Exploration through Narrative Identity and Imagination
… <p>The participants, who live in the rural villages now or have lived there, posit that the Cambodian government lacks solicitude for their education because they are currently the poor inhabitants and farmers of the country. To re-imagine their future life through an education …
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Chinese Speed
… in the changing sense of place and time in rural villages and towns along new and proposed HSR stations within the context of rapid development. This media thesis consists of a collection of multimedia works including a photo book, video installations, and a short film. They are experiments …
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Women’s education and work in China: the menstrual cycle and the power of water
… outcomes. The research context is chosen to be rural China. Two parallel hypotheses that are tested in this study are as follows: (1) Girls have less probability of school enrolment and shorter schooling duration due to the joint impact of poor access to water and menarche presumably because …
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