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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Social program"”.
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Social Program Evaluation as a Reconstructive Hermeneutic
"This thesis sets forth a conception of social program evaluation as a reconstructive hermeneutic. Its purpose is twofold: to situate current discussions about evaluation's normatively grounded social action agenda within a more fundamental consideration of knowing and to explore the implications …
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Designing a Well-rounded Social Program for a Small College Campus to Meet the Social Needs of All Student Participants.
… certain key concepts and ideas regarding the social life on a small college campus; to recognize existing problems; to give the students’ reactions to these problems and their proposed ways of solving them; finally, to find the needs of the students not reached by the existing program and to …
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The Benefits of a Person-centered Social Program for Community-dwelling People with Dementia and Caregivers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… the experience and impact of a person-centered, social program on community-dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers. I conducted semi-structured interviews with five dyads, each with a person with dementia and that person’s caregiver, 7-8 months after the program ended to assess …
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Hyperdensity : revival of social fabric
… of rapid urbanization, much of the existing social and urban construct are continuously challenged and removed in order to embrace new profit-driven developments resulting in functional separation. This leads to a homogenized and highly commercialized yet low density fabric. The ambition is …
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Good Pandemic People: Citizenship and Ethical Striving During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario
… it analyzes how the introduction of CERB, a social program that targeted un- and underemployed Canadians, renewed public discourse about the purpose of welfare and how the program served as a technology of government that encouraged applicants to reflect on their receipt of the benefit.
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Waterscape
… geometric scale and rates of change, informs a social program by creating public pools as a 'destination' for the water that is drained through the landscape surface. The level and quality of water in the pools is dictated by the variation of the global topography of the site, and is reflected …
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discovered by the Process: A Methodology for Twentieth-Century Moral Fiction
… reductively for guidelines to live by or for a social program to implement, my dissertation is designed to model a method of inquiry that approaches literary texts of the twentieth century as "moral fiction," i.e., as explorations of the moral enabled through deployment of form, narrative …
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Modelagem dos registros de nascimentos com as condições de vida no semiárido brasileiro
… bene ciary or having income monthly from the Social Program Bolsa Família or Child Labor Eradication Program, and Bank 2, without considering this variable. For both banks, the level of signi cance was p<0.05. For the Bank 1, the signi cant variables were housing (sanitary sewage and water), …
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Predictors of successful outcomes of U.S. Coast Guard construction contracts
… not simply as a matter of conformance to a social program, but because the expected results are higher. In addition, the following recommendations apply in order to maximize the probability of positive performance outcomes on U. S. Coast Guard construction contracts: 1) Improve the …
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Municipal performance: does mayoral quality matter?
… municipal performance in terms of delivering social services and fiscal performance. While the existing literature explains governmental performance with political, institutional and socio-demographic factors, I suggest that the greatest influence on municipal performance comes from having …
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THE UTILITARIAN - ASSOCIATIONIST TRADITION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISHPSYCHOLOGY, 1855-1903 (VOLUMES I AND II) (ALEXANDER BAIN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, JAMES WARD, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
<p>The Utilitarian-Associationist program formulated by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill shaped the framework of British psychology throughout the nineteenth century. These thinkers believed that an associationist and hedonistic science of mind provided a sound foundation for a …
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The science of social reasoning and decision making: foundations of a new social-liberal theory.
… to current debates – libertarian theory and social-liberal theory. In particular, it examines how representative theories on both sides are based on claims about our human nature as reasoning, self- determining, individual agents; and claims about how this nature may be fulsomely expressed or …
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Social safety nets in presence of weather shocks: three essays on development economics from village economies in Kenya
… understanding of the important role played by social safety net programs in supporting poor households mitigate the effects of weather shocks, reduce poverty and vulnerability, and increase consumption of healthy food. In achieving this, we undertake an in-depth analysis supported by …
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Exploring ‘People’ as the key element in enterprise architecture implementation: A Critical Realist Perspective
… a strong governance element EA has significant social implications and social dependence, yet many implementations wrongly treat EA as solely a technical program. This thesis argues that the lack of focus on the ‘people’ element of EA could be the reason why many organisations still struggle …