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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Structural drivers"”.
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What shapes instruction in course-based undergraduate research experiences? & Spatial, temporal, and structural drivers of soil microbial communities in regenerative agricultural systems
<p>CHAPTER 1 Course-based undergraduate research experiences, also known as CUREs, integrate authentic scientific investigations into STEM curricula. These experiences prioritize scientific practices, discovery, real-world relevance, collaboration, and iterative experimentation. CUREs offer a more …
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Determinants of output prices formation in local sheep markets - the case of Amathole and Joe Xabi (Ukhahlamba), Eastern Cape
… price formation in local agricultural markets - structural drivers, institutional factors and livelihood shocks - to account for the variations in prices that smallholder farmers receive. Data were collected from 134 households that were selected using purpose sampling and preceded by key …
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Higher male mortality in Russia : a synthesis of the literature
… I reviewed the prevalent behavioral and social-structural drivers that explain the causes of higher male mortality in contemporary Russia. Especially, I looked at how the conceptualization of the male social role and related norms that shape masculine behavior contribute to high male mortality …
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Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan
… comprehensive approach in order to address its structural drivers. Furthermore, it demonstrates that while the Taliban utilize the drug trade to finance part of their insurgency, opium production facilitates instability in other ways as well, primarily by disrupting a rural livelihood strategy …
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Household Food Waste
… campaigns toward behaviour-oriented and structurally informed interventions. Promising approaches include activating social norms, creating feedback loops through digital stock-management tools, and regulating market incentives that encourage over-purchasing. Retailers should also bear …
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Fatal Restrictions: Exploring State-Level Abortion Laws, Sociodemographic Contexts, and Maternal Mortality in the United States
… Roe v. Wade, understanding the policy and structural drivers of maternal mortality is increasingly urgent. This study independently examines how state-level abortion laws and key sociodemographic factors, including race, immigration status, poverty, health insurance coverage, public …
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The Elimination Model versus The Protection Model: Analysis of Child Labor Policies in Peru and Bolivia (2014-2026)
… often fail to address the underlying structural drivers of poverty and can inadvertently push child labor into unregulated, more dangerous informal sectors. This thesis argues that the 2018 legislative reversal in Bolivia, while satisfying international donor expectations, may have …
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How professional nurses’ experiences and explanations of traumatic stress exposure influence nursing practice in the Western Cape
… exposure in nursing requires attention to the structural and sociopolitical conditions of production, not only to individual factors. The study contributes locally generated knowledge on nurses’ practice after trauma exposure highlighting the need to address this to sustain compassionate …
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Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Engagement in Zambia
… and rights and the extent to which it addresses structural barriers. It makes three arguments: 1) Canada's aid approach in Zambia only tangentially addresses the underlying structural drivers of sexual and reproductive health risk, such as poverty, violence and under resourcing in health …
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The Political Economy of the Overdose Crisis in Western Canada: An Exploratory Case Study
… need for better understanding of its underlying structural determinants. The crisis has emerged in an era of neoliberal capitalism which has deepened health and social inequities and brought changes to the organization of work leading to increased precarity. Such broader economic influences have …
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MPOX 2022: Strategic Management During a Public Health Emergency
… vision, and mandates to better address the structural drivers of downstream health inequity.</p><p dir="ltr">This case study utilizes a multi-methods approach. While quantitative data can help to delineate some federal organizational capacity elements, strategic management performance in …
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Canopy transpiration of beech forests in Northern Bavaria – Structure and function in pure and mixed stands with oak at colline and montane sites
… results of transpiration on different spatial-structural scales (within-tree, whole-tree and stand level) as estimated from xylem sap flow measurements, in two mixed stands in the colline-submontane Steigerwald, a pure beech plot in the Steigerwald and a montane pure beech stand in the …
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Navigating conflicting mandates and interests in the governance of the commercial determinants of health: the case of tobacco in Fiji and Vanuatu.
… be taken into account and addressed as major structural drivers in order to successfully govern the commercial determinants of NCDs in these countries. Secondly, the dominant causal ideas must be altered to support the governance of commercial determinants of NCDs. This research has started to …
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Navigating conflicting mandates and interests in the governance of the commercial determinants of health: the case of tobacco in Fiji and Vanuatu.
… be taken into account and addressed as major structural drivers in order to successfully govern the commercial determinants of NCDs in these countries. Secondly, the dominant causal ideas must be altered to support the governance of commercial determinants of NCDs. This research has started to …
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Liminal Boundaries and Vulnerabilities to Radicalisation in the Context of Securitisation of Migration
… dynamic that summons a range of actors and drivers in securitised speech-act. By examining the interface of pre-encampment, encampment and post-encampment, the thesis demonstrates that the camp is a social entity that interacts with other systems. Notably, the continued adoption of …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… tariffs and exchange rates to uncover the structural drivers of pass-through, the markup elasticity and the marginal cost scale elasticity. I derive and quantify the scale channel of pass-through, which can be decomposed into a bilateral scale and the novel "shock span" scale effect. The …