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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Socio-cultural aspects"”.
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The socio-cultural aspects of the housing typology, Nairobi, Kenya, 1972
Thesis (M.Arch. A.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1974.
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A framework for energy-efficient housing satisfying socio-cultural aspects in the Kingdom of Bahrain
… for low-energy houses that satisfies social-cultural needs in a hot, humid climate with reference to the Kingdom of Bahrain. The main social culture requirements in Bahraini houses is privacy which forms the house design. Added to that, the privacy requirements is consist of four layers which …
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Urban and socio-cultural aspects of the collective garden phenomenon. The case of Soviet Lithuania /
… - collective gardens were a space of specific cultural and social practices that transcended the boundaries of official ideology. The aim of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of collective gardens in Lithuania, the preconditions for its emergence and its development from 1944 to the …
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Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women’s Solo Domestic Travel Pursuits: A Mini-Ethnographic Case of Iranian Culture
… Using thematic analysis, the study examines the socio-cultural aspects that limit solo travel, the travel decision-making process for women who travel solo, and the empowering aspects of solo leisure travel. The research question addressed is the role of family and friends in Iranian women's solo …
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The Nature of Information: an analysis of the historically situated socio-cultural assumptions concerning the nature of information under changing technological conditions of its production, reproduction, dissemination and use
… technological change has transformed the social, cultural and professional contexts in which information is embedded and used. This change has epistemological, ontological and socio-cultural aspects, each of which is addressed within the research. The research is broadly situated within a …
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Fononga 'A Fakahalafononga: Tongan Students' Journey to Academic Achievement in New Zealand Tertiary Education
… achievement of Pasifika students derive from the cultural differences between Pasifika and the dominant Pālangi culture. Since Tonga has a unique culture that is not the same as any other cultural group in the Pacific, this research set out to explore specific Tongan socio-cultural aspects that …
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Applying system theoretical process analysis method to change programs in integrated enterprise
… Through alignment of the info-logical and socio-cultural aspects of integrated enterprises led by change program management, potential flaws in organizational structures and information systems are identified and proposed for resolution. A qualitative and visual approach using 2 change …
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The Creation and Illustration of Quality of Life: A Conceptual Model for Examining Welfare Reform Impacts
… to strive for greater understanding about the socio-cultural aspects of people's lives that create the whole person, aspects such as health, family and friendship networks, housing situations, public and private support service and program use, conditions of work, and so forth (Erikson, 1993). …
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A framework for adopting solar energy governance in the Nigerian power sector
… electricity from all sources has impacted the socio-economic growth over a long period of time. This research explores the drivers, barriers and benefits of implementing solar energy strategies. In doing so, a framework for adopting solar energy governance in the Nigerian power sector was …
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Liminality, cancer and art therapy: autoethnographic exploration - living with the tiger
… moves “back and forth” to include individual and socio-cultural aspects.<br/><br/>The discussion extends earlier integrated discussion and critically evaluates the findings., strengths and weakness of the research. The research highlights the shifting meanings and the conscious and non-conscious …
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The role of gender, patriarchy and culture in the Asian female travel experience.
… separate women’s travel experiences from their sociocultural living situation. Social and cultural interactions are gendered, hence gender plays a crucial role in travel experiences. Considering the rapid growth of tourism in Asia, there has been a shift in academic interest in recent years in …
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Towards sustainable architecture and urban form
… and are being developed on the basis of concrete socio-cultural factors and environmental rationalities. Spatial and morphological patterns of traditional environments have exceedingly evolved to fulfill and accomplish the social and cultural needs of the populace in their dialectical interplay …
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A Framework for Designing Bioclimatic Homes in Hot Arid Climates: A Case Study of Ghadames, Libya
… a message of understanding and addressed the socio-cultural aspects and needs in today’s housing designs. These social and environmental aspects have been successfully transformed into a framework and design for bioclimatic housing that will have an impact on future housing development in hot …
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A web of relations: co-production arrangements in urban sanitation infrastructure provision in informal settlements in Arusha City, Tanzania
… and to explore co-productive processes, socio-cultural aspects and other complexities shaping sanitation provision in the two selected informal settlements. Case study methodology was used with a range of data collection methods (household surveys, focus group discussions, document review …
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Developing a localised school safety and health manual for Sefula secondary school in Western Zambia
… managed because some of them were influenced by socio-cultural aspects of the Sefula environment. The study concludes that a localised school safety and health manual is more responsive to the needs of an individual school like Sefula secondary as opposed to a generic manual prepared at national, …
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Analysis of the Forest Dwelling Household System in the Terra Firme and Várzea communities, Pará State, Brazil, following the Farming Systems Approach
… and forest extraction, financial and marketing aspects, were analyzed in 60 households (48 in Terra Firme and 12 in Várzea communities). Data concerning demography, socio-cultural aspects, labour force, land tenure were also gathered and analyzed. For this purpose households and key informants …
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The potential of smart home for comfort and energy use optimization in residential buildings
… a systematic literature review that delves into socio-cultural aspects. Adopting an interdisciplinary “learning by doing” approach, it deepens the topics of user-centered monitoring, the human-building interactions, and the wide-ranging resources and potential challenges that come with domestic …
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Engineering Students at Typically Invisible Transition Points: A Focus on Admissions and the Sophomore Year
… is used in this section to focus on the socio-cultural aspects of the second year in college. With a historical emphasis on and increasing positive results of increasing first-year retention, attention is now turning to the sophomore year. Understanding sophomore students' experiences in …
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Semantic prototypes in EFL children’s and adolescents’ lexical output and vocabulary input in EFL textbooks
… have focused on determining how these linguistic aspects might be analyzed in terms of tense aspect, transfer, and speech perception and production through prototypical constructions, prototypical meanings, and prototypical models (Housen, 2000; Ellis, 2013; Gabriele et al., 2015; Järnefelt, 2018; …
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Moderately-rapid assessment of alkaline desiccation environmental systems
… matter, the finished waste had limited agricultural value, however, the treatment process did efficiently remove nitrogen in many samples and eliminate the pathogens in all of them. Mean Specific Oxygen Uptake Rate (SOUR) values of 1.4 ± sd 1.1 mg O2 / gram total solids were substantially …