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Showing 1 to 20 of 487 for “"Social conditions"”.
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Predicting mining company-stakeholder conflict and incorporating social conditions into mining project valuation
… protections.A statistical examination of the social and environmental variables as indicators of company-stakeholder conflict: Prediction of company-stakeholder conflict remains a weak point in mine design and planning. This research statistically examines a database of mining properties and …
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Social conditions leading to Scrum process breakdowns during Global Agile Software Development: a theory of practice perspective
… further hinder collaboration, and give rise to social challenges. Given the existence of these social challenges, there is a need to further investigate the human-centred aspect of collaboration during GASD. Following an extensive literature review on the application of Scrum and other agile …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
… succor for rural people grappling with negative social conditions, such as isolation, poverty, crop failure and alcoholism, in the New York frontier. Religious adherence became especially important for women, who were more isolated than men. Religious adherence and revivalism allowed rural …
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The social determinants of alcohol abuse in Canadian Inuit
Increased social problems among circumpolar peoples have been the subject of much academic, political and community discourse. The Inuit have been described as being overrepresented in terms of numerous psychopathologies. However, it is alcohol abuse which is considered to be the most serious …
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Implementing a Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool at a Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract Social determinants of health (SDOH) are social conditions, forces, and systems shaping individuals’ daily lives. Education, employment, income, safety, social support, and access to healthy food items and exercise are all social conditions that impact individual and community health …
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An analysis of the perceived organized structure and sociometric application in a region
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology, 1965
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On Someone Else's Dime
… a never-ending cycle of poverty, crime, and the social conditions that the two conspire to create. Therefore, I consider my work to be an extension of literary naturalism, which explores how social conditions, heredity, and environment shape the individual. While the characters in my collection …
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A Set Design for the Play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey
… to the play, its historical period, and social conditions of the characters, (3.) aligned with the demands of stage presentation, in that it provides the necessary space for stage movements, and traffic, (4.) practical for construction within the limits imposed by the stage of McConnell …
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Revolutionary Every Day: A Dramatic Exploration of Women and Their Agency in The Black Panther Party.
… women around the world. In addressing the social conditions that impacted female Panther activism and agency, together the capstone project and play operate as a commentary on power, gender relations, and society in and around the Black Panther Party.</p>
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Poverty mapping in Namibia
… dissertation draws its analysis from "Living conditions in Namibia: a household income and expenditure survey" conducted in 1993/94 and published in 1996, for the spatial presentation of the selected indicators. The result of the mapping exercise was a useful tool to identify the location of …
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Labour migration and its impact on non-capitalist social formations : a comparative study of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka in Malawi, circa 1880 to 1940
… the impact of immigrants on the non-capitalist social formations of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka under colonial-capitalism .until 194-0. It is an attempt to locate and analyse transformations of the major social. Relations which structured and organised the lives of the Tonga and Ngoni ... …
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Images of Chinese women in Pearl S. Buck's novels : a study of characterization in East wind, west wind, Pavilion of woman, Peony, The good earth, and The mother
… this is that it reveals, in an artistic way, the social conditions under which Chinese women at Buck's times lived. Chinese women had been very much oppressed. In order to survive, they had to act in ways acceptable by their society. However, they had, just as their male counterparts, the desire …
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Resident Involvement in the Landscape Architectural Redesign of Public Housing: Creating Opportunities for a Sense of Ownership, Control, and Efficacy through a Participatory Design Process
… low-income families. However, the physical and social conditions have deteriorated since its inception, resulting in housing environments that are isolated and disconnected from surrounding neighborhoods and often plagued by crime and violence. This study explores opportunities for enhancing …
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Through a glass darkly?': An enquiry into HIV prevalence on Stellenbosch wine farms
… complex and often highly specific nature of the social aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, many projects working in the field do not base their strategies on local evidence, given the paucity of suitable local-level data as well as the presences of organisational constraints. A project offering HIV …
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"Documenting" East Texas: Spirit of Place in the Photography of Keith Carter
… by Carter and these photographers comment on social and cultural values of a region. This thesis demonstrates that many of Carter's black and white photographs continue, contribute to, and expand traditions in American documentary photography established in the 1930s. These traditions include …
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Social Context and the Pathways to Happiness
… that the determinants of happiness vary across social contexts. Chapter one tests the hypothesis that relationship between religiosity and happiness depends upon economic conditions; chapter two examines the impact of unemployment on happiness across four countries; chapter three explores the …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of …
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Childhood Memories of Post-war Merseyside: Exploring the Impact of Memory Sharing Through an Oral History and Reminiscence Work Approach
… transcripts were analysed to identify the social conditions which impacted on childhood experiences. Then, the researcher created a Memory Tree Model (MTM) and revisited the same participants to focus on the reflective aspect of the reminiscence process itself; thus, each participant was …
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Discursive strategies for political survival : a critical discourse analysis of Thai no confidence debates
… Analysis, the thesis presents discourse as socially constituted as well as socially constitutive. The research employs a two level analysis to explore this hypothesis. At the macro level, Critical Discourse Analysis and the Sociocognitive Approach are operationalised to investigate the …
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