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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Socio-economic deprivation"”.
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Socio-Economic Deprivation, Culture and Extremism in Britain
… in the UK, and to assess whether or not socio-economic deprivation, and/or culture encourage/s such extremism. Through the utilization of both statistical and cultural analyses, this thesis asserts that the roots of home-grown extremism in the UK are linked both with socio-economic …
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PREGNANCY, WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION: A PARTICIPATORY QUALITATIVE STUDY
… and material factors. The local context of socio-economic deprivation is a significant influence on women’s mental health and service demand, capacity and resources. Recommendations are made in relation to community and service developments, staff support and training, and future research.
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… inter-relationships between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the twentieth century, there is an initial consideration of immediate post-war discourses on poverty and education focusing on the impact that these …
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An evolutionary AI-based decision support system for urban regeneration planning
… urban districts suffering from high levels of socio-economic deprivation and sustainability problems is one of the key research areas in urban planning and regeneration. Subject to a wide range of social, economical and environmental factors, decision support for an optimal allocation of …
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
… of neighborhood characteristics, including socio-economic deprivation, residential turnover, and racial/ethnic composition on gun crime. There have been limited efforts, however, to examine the extent to which these effects might vary based on the nature of gun crime—particularly in …
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Confronting black low cost housing delivery in the Western Cape Metropolitan Area : a critical appraisal
… conditions, environmental degradation and the socio-economic deprivation of the households living within them. The Reconstruction and Development Programme and the National Housing Policy have recently been introduced by the new Government in response to this problem. The purpose of this study …
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The impact of a nurture group on an infant school: a longitudinal case study.
… that had a turbulent history in an area of socio-economic deprivation. Despite its rural setting, the school had all the issues facing some of the toughest inner city environments. This thesis is the culmination of an in-depth longitudinal case study looking at the nurture group and its …
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Young people's perceptions and management of cyberbullying in secondary schools : an exploratory study using a socio-ecological lens
… students across two schools in areas of socio-economic deprivation. Qualitative data consists of transcriptions of the YPAR meetings, interview data and a focus group conducted by the YPAR group. Research into cyberbullying has been mainly quantitative to date. This study provides insight …
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Sexual health in relation to religious beliefs: perceptions of young women living in Khayelitsha
… religion within the context of uncertainty and socio-economic deprivation. How their sexual health-decision making unfolds given the tensions that arise between religious expectations and socio-economic realities and how they perceive the partnership between religious organisations and public …
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Jugenddelinquenz im interethnischen Vergleich : Erklärungsmöglichkeiten delinquenten Verhaltens einheimischer und immigrierter Jugendlicher
This study examines the socio-economic conditions of youths from ethnic minority groups and compares the social correlates of delinquent behaviour in these ethnic groups. The aim of this analysis is to prove the generality of theories across ethnic boundaries explaining delinquency, and to identify …
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Spatio-temporal patterns of human mobility from geo-social networks for urban computing: Analysis, models & applications
… this can be used as a proxy to track and predict socio-economic deprivation changes as government financial effort is put in developing areas by supervised machine learning methods. We then study how to extract latent patterns from collective user-venue interactions with the help of a …
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Dominance and Subordination: A Case study of Race, Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
… away any inequalities on other grounds such as socio-economic deprivation, SEN (Special Educational Needs) or, personal choice.<br/><br/>This study concludes by recommending that the primacy of race should be acknowledged, whilst recognising intersectionality. That the endemic nature of racism …
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Single-handed general practice in urban areas of Scotland
… concentrated in rural areas and areas of urban deprivation. This gradual decline of single-handed practice has resulted partly from the continued advocacy of partnership by the government, but is also indicative of NHS modernisation itself focusing on the delivery of high quality of care. …
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The effects of an individualized laboratory approach on the teaching of mathematics to third grade students achieving below grade level
… designated as ESEA, Title I schools in terms of socio-economic deprivation. From these two schools, an experimental group was selected consisting of 62 third-grade students achieving in the lower three stanines as measured by pretest scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Test. A control group …
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Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning
… adjacent areas remain imprinted by acute socio-economic deprivation, volatile identity politics, spatial segregation and entrenched enmity. This raises important distributional issues regarding the public interest and how it is operationalised and understood by planning.<br/><br/>While …
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Social exclusion and mental health challenges: exploring the experiences of mental health challenges among university students from marginalised backgrounds
… understand the effects of a university student's socio-economic background and circumstances on their mental health, as well as their access to the necessary mental health resources and services. South Africa continues to be plagued by high levels of poverty and inequality. The legacy of Apartheid …
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Homelessness and deprivation in Glasgow: a 5-year retrospective cohort study of hospitalisations and deaths
… Homelessness shares many similarities with other socio-economically deprived circumstances. It was not known whether the health of homeless people was similar to that of other deprived non-homeless populations. Aims To describe hospital admissions and deaths in a cohort of homeless Glasgow adults …
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Vindicating indigenous peoples' land rights in Kenya
… at redressing past injustices and continuing socio-economic deprivation and inequality. This thesis further argues that measures aimed at redressing past injustices and alleviating current socio-economic inequality should take into account the particular circumstances of the groups targeted. …