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Showing 1 to 20 of 530 for “"Service provision"”.
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Remote service provision for connected homes.
This research study proposed to view a remote service delivery system from three distinct perspectives: connected home environments (user perspective), remote service delivery platform (service enabler), and remote service providers (service provider perspective); to establish a holistic view on …
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Investigating UK renal psychosocial service provision
… renal care models that include psychosocial services. In the UK, there is a dearth of empirical studies and clear policies to guide the implementation of these services. Methods: This thesis used a critical realist, mixed-methods approach to examine processes and outcomes of psychosocial …
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Ecosystem service provision in dynamic heath landscapes.
… time there is a move to incorporate ecosystem service protection into conservation policy. Understanding the synergies and trade-offs that exist between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision is therefore an important priority. Few studies have examined the influence of …
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Essays on the political economy of service provision
Service provision has often been studied as an outcome of political decisions and processes. This dissertation examines how the distribution of service provision and its electoral outcomes are also contingent on local social structures. It contributes to theoretical knowledge on the political …
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Language support for service-level agreements for application-service provision
… practical language support can be provided for Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) for Application-Service Provision (ASP), which is better than that provided by pre-existing languages in that: it provides greater assistance in expressing conditions that mitigate the risks inherent in ASP; and …
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Statutory-voluntary collaboration in service provision for adults with disabilities
… for coordinating statutory and voluntary services by examining the nature and extent of collaboration between voluntary and statutory providers of services to adults with disabilities in a sample of local authority areas, and to consider whether and in what way this partnership affected …
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The Politics of Local Service Provision in the United States
… spend more than $1.6 trillion annually on public service provision. Access to reliable public services is essential for health and wellbeing. But there are large disparities in access to services across the country. This dissertation asks why. Specifically, I examine the incentives and constraints …
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Challenges and opportunities in service provision for Mwansabombwe town council, Zambia.
… by a devolution model in order to take public services closer to the people. The study sought to evaluate the capacity of the new Mwansabombwe Town Council in the delivery of services and development in the district by focusing on four objectives. The first objective assessed the financial …
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Woodland Restoration on Landfill Sites: Earthworm Activity and Ecosystem Service Provision
The addition of composted greenwaste (CGW) into soil-forming materials during land reclamation may improve tree growth, alleviate certain negative soil properties and provide an effective waste management solution. CGW addition may also assist the establishment of sustainable earthworm populations, …
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Active power ancillary service provision of commercial building energy storage resources
The aim of this thesis is to propose new control strategies of building energy storage systems and analyze their effects on operations of power grids and electricity markets. Specifically, novel control schemes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and variable speed heat pumps (VSHPs) are proposed …
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A comparative study of dementia-related service provision and configuration in Canada
… of this study was to describe and compare the provision of dementia-related services throughout the disease trajectory. Previously collected interview data from family physicians, geriatric specialists, and case managers in Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa (n=34) using a standardized interview …
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Effective utilization of flywheel energy storage (FES) for frequency regulation service provision
… resulting in less than ideal performance in the provision of the second-by-second supply-demand balance – the so-called frequency regulation service. This service, also known by the technical term of automatic generation control (AGC ), is absolutely essential to maintain the frequency of the …
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Adequate service provision as the guide for energy transitions and international development
… and materials), which in turn provide the `services', either to cover needs or desires by people. The delivery of services requires multiple resource transformations, with inefficiencies at each transformation. Developing countries face the challenge to deliver services and increase …
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Data-driven coordination of assets in power distribution systems for ancillary service provision
… power distribution systems to provide ancillary services including active power provision and reactive power regulation. The proposed frameworks generally consist of three components, namely (i) an input-output (IO) model of the system describing the relation between the variables of interest to …
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Intersectionality and feminist service provision: Power and difference in gender-based violence services
… and analysis of violence, (2) the design of services, (3) the caring relationship between staff and service users, and (4) organisational structures and dynamics. I draw on two case studies of feminist organisations supporting “domestic”, asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant women in Serbia …
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The anatomy of access: re-imagining essential service provision in complex urban neighbourhoods
… difficult for access by the state for effective service provision in these neighbourhoods. This project looks at this reality of access for people living in Dunoon, a dense residential area that sits immediately south of the junction of the N7 and Malibongwe Drive. Dunoon is investigated in …
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Increasing performance in Force Directed Graphs: an application in cancer support service provision profiling
This thesis aims to show the progress made in the development and testing of a 3D data visualisation tool using Force Node Graphs (FNG). This project was run with stakeholders from the Digital Health and Innovation Centre (DHI) and Macmillan Cancer Support (Macmillan). It uses the FNG to display …
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EXPLORING THE CONTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL QUALITIES TO THE EFFECTIVE DELIVERY OF SPORT PSYCHOLOGY SERVICE PROVISION
… have been afforded much attention, and provision has developed to provide clear routes to sport psychologist registration. It is clear that aspiring practitioners must be appropriately educated and trained to be able to provide high quality sport psychology support, and as such there …
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An Investigation into the Needs of Men Experiencing Domestic Abuse and Current Service Provision (Wales)
… men experiencing domestic abuse’ and ‘Is current service provision meeting those needs?’ From a policy, research and practice perspective, domestic abuse has largely focussed on heterosexual women. Knowledge, awareness and understanding of male victimisation is largely absent within policy and …
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Changes in the pattern of public mental health service provision since 1950 and their causes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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