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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Self-sustainability"”.
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Web-based GIS modelling of building-integrated solar photovoltaic system for the City of Cape Town
… to reduce their ecological footprint and attain self-sustainability. This made the United Nations to put forward the seventeen sustainable development goals. Three of these goals centre on provision of clean energy and reduction of reliance on fossil fuels. It is therefore important for cities in …
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FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities
… contributed by participating nodes to achieve self-sustainability. A second key contribution of this research is a significant enhancement of search performance by utilizing the novel concept of community evolution. As demonstrated in this thesis, bringing users sharing similar interest …
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unclosure: Workstation for Aquarcheology
… achieve longevity in architecture are explored. Self-sustainability, interrelation of structure and space, lightness, and locality are the issues that are studied pertaining to the question of "temporariness" and "permanence" in architecture.
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Naval additive manufacturing : bridging the gap between research and implementation
… enhance operational readiness and advance unit self-sustainability provides a ripe environment for AM. This research sought to advance the Navy's AM implementation initiatives through the identification of candidate applications, bridging the detected gap between ashore AM research developments …
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Local food access in inner cities: Integrated research through: comparison study, literature review, case studies and design implementation
… a strategy to address a difficult challenge: self-sustainability and the promotion of increasing the availability and accessibility of local food. This strategy has the opportunity to bring nutritious meals into our homes, place money into our local economies and promote self-sustaining …
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Captive breeding programmes for nocturnal prosimians
… slow loris) and determine their demographic self-sustainability. To achieve this aim studbook data was analysed. The difference between birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, age structure and sex composition were investigated. The study concludes populations of aye-aye, fat-tailed …
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Home food gardens and poverty alleviation in the rural area of Macekane, KwaZulu-Natal
… project to address food insecurity and support self-sustainability in the community. The research employed a qualitative approach in which participants with food gardens were purposively selected and interviewed about their experiences of producing food to sustain their households. The findings …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… values, and practices of subsistence farming and self-sustainability; local gift, barter and exchange economies; the čaršija (farmers’ market) as a mechanism for local economies (Lockwood 120); komšiluk (neighbourhood life), halal exchange, and collaborative labour as practices of mutual aid …
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Designing a dynamic sustainable system: 7 strategies to empower fashion SMEs and start-ups
The area of sustainability is enormous and challenging to be covered by one single profession - here I propose a human centered design approach of problem-solving that starts with people and ends with innovative solutions that are relevant and tailor-made for their needs and can go a long way into …
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Evaluating Chongqing Tiandi Project: An Asset Management Perspective
… factors compromised the project's financial self-sustainability and made it particularly vulnerable in Shui On's portfolio, especially when compared to projects in other second-tier cities like Wuhan. The development and subsequent equity sale of Chongqing Tiandi not only provided essential …
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Charismatic leadership of media businesses: a case study of leaders of two media businesses in the post-Soviet states of Russia and Kyrgyzstan (1991-2016)
… were found to meet the criteria of financial self-sustainability without any reliance on state/foreign funds. The data came from 54 in-depth semi-structured interviews with company founders/owners, senior and junior staff, media experts, academics, representatives of competing businesses, and …
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A holistic approach to Mima mound prairie restoration
… often fail to achieve the goal of creating a self-sustaining native plant community. Therefore, a major goal of my thesis has been to explore and test restoration approaches that might help realize such plant communities. These approaches include ecologically based invasive plant management …
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An analysis of factors influencing the level of fundraising for Non-Profit Organisations (NPOS) of the Khomas region of Namibia
… influence of sources of funding on the financial sustainability ofNPOs. A quantitative research design was used as the principal research methodology for the study. The target population was six hundred and ninety six (696) NPOs registered with Business and lntellectual Property Authority (BIPA) …
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Entrepreneurship and the creative industries: a qualitative study of attitudes towards entrepreneurship and enterprise education within Northern Ireland’s visual arts and theatre sectors.
… become more independent in the interests of self-sustainability. The study also coincided with a global economic recession and a reduction in public spending by the UK Government.<br/><br/>The endeavour of this thesis is to demonstrate attitudes towards entrepreneurship within the visual arts …
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Proyecto Aplicado Empresarial (PAE) para la implementación de un programa de atención integral del paciente con dolor crónico y su familia: "Familias sin Dolor"
Proyecto Aplicado Empresarial (PAE) para la implementación de un programa de atención integral del paciente con dolor crónico y su familia: "Familias sin Dolor ". El Programa “Familias sin Dolor” ofertará atención integral del paciente con dolor crónico con enfoque multidimensional involucrando los …
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In the making: an exploration of the inner change of the practitioner
<br/>This is a study at the interface of self, craft, and sustainability. It is a small part of a wider personal and social conjecture on the subject of ‘change ’ involving these three domains. <br/>This research develops the proposal that the success of a profound social change, which in our time …