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Showing 1 to 20 of 1584 for “"Sustaining"”.
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Sustaining intergenerational well-being
This PhD thesis comprises two published papers and four working papers (which are already in the process of publication) on multi-dimensional, interrelated and complex subjects of sustainability and well-being. The thesis covers the history of sustainability and well-being as independent subjects …
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Sustaining development in Detroit
The intent of this thesis is to propose a strategy for stabilizing and increasing the disparate pieces of development that form the traces of the once great industrial city of Detroit. It focuses primarily on Fordism as a type of modernist urbanism in which a powerful socio-economic agenda …
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Sustaining Change Through Individualized Coaching
<p>This study reveals educators’ journey through a change process as an innovation was being infused throughout their instructional practices. Traditional professional learning is not fashioned to address the ongoing concerns teachers have and the structure to sustain change. There is evidence to …
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Sustaining accelerated rates of improvement
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering; and, Thesis (M.S.)--Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Strategic Considerations or Sustaining Nonprofit Organizations
This thesis provides strategic considerations related to the internal and external environments of a domestic, U.S.-based, small to medium size nonprofit organization. Specifically, the nature and importance of a nonprofit organization?s mission statement, the board responsibilities and …
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Mnemonic textiles: Sustaining life-long attachment
… memory through material and the consequences for sustaining both identity and objects. This research argues that existing sustainable design methodologies cannot focus only upon the physical longevity of an object. By incorporating and encouraging mnemonic association through a sustainable design …
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Rebuilding the Past, Sustaining the Future
By researching natural disaster displacement and the process in which we rebuild, I have found that by creating a modular prefabricate unit that is both cost efficient and easy to construct, we can significantly reduce the rebuild time, reduce people from leaving, as well as encourage new residents …
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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Sustaining in Organizational Memory
… used to develop and test a theoretical model, “Sustaining in Memory” (SIM) model, to explore how organizations disperse or distribute newly transferred knowledge in knowledge reservoirs situated in the organization. Three hypotheses were generated from the theoretical model and tested with data …
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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
… uses the theoretical frameworks of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) (Paris, 2012), Intergroup Contact Theory (Allport 1954), and Social Constructivism (Smagorinsky, 2007) to evaluate how 7<sup>th</sup> grade students at a Title I middle school in the Southeastern United States experience …
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
This research project examined the psychosocial wellness of Family Child Care Providers (FCCPs) using a mixed methods approach.The two main goals of this study were to explore psychosocial influences upon FCC workforce participation and psychosocial influences upon professional development …
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Sustaining data quality - lessons from the field: creating and sustaining data quality within diverse enterprise resource planning and information systems
… surrounding the process of improving and sustaining the quality of data within enterprise resource planning and information (ERP) systems. The study not only established firmly that quality data is an absolute necessity for all organisations, none more so than those operating ERP systems, …
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INTEGRATING CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGY TO DISRUPT OPPRESSIVE PRACTICE
I present a plan for addressing and remedying a history of institutionalized racism at a midsized elementary school in British Columbia. Mountainview Elementary was designed 25 years ago to serve a White, Christian demographic seeking an elite educational ethos. The school now finds itself serving …
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Sustaining Independence: an architectural proposal for fostered youth
<p>The social aspect of sustainability is often neglected when environmental and economic targets in architectural practice and education are prioritized. This thesis investigates how architecture can have a positive impact on the life of those experiencing the most inequitable position of society: …
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The Henry Ford : sustaining Henry Ford's philanthropic legacy
This dissertation argues that the Edison Institute (presently known as The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan) survived internal and external challenges through the evolution of the Ford family’s leadership and the organization’s funding strategy. Following Henry Ford’s death, the museum complex …
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Sustaining a Cultural Change in the Discharge Process
<p>Hospital readmission rates continue to be increasing at an alarming rate, and have cost billions of dollars in expenditures in the health care system. Recent research shows that these incidents are reflective of the lack of discharge preparation, discharge education, and communication within the …
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A study of sustaining growth in petroleum industry
With slowdown in the growth rate of petroleum product consumption, petroleum business is maturing and becoming commoditized. In maturing industries, cost leadership and operational excellence is important, but it is not sustainable. Inevitably, competition will squeeze margins, even for the cost …
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Enterprise social networks : engaging employees and sustaining participation
Social relationships pervade every aspect of human life and development of social networks at work is inevitable. Enterprise social networking solutions provide a platform for employees to formally foster these professional relationships and put them to constructive use. Enterprise social network …
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Critical Success Factors for Sustaining Kaizen Event Outcomes
A Kaizen event is a focused and structured improvement project, using a dedicated cross-functional team to improve a targeted work area, with specific goals, in an accelerated timeframe. Kaizen events have been widely reported to produce positive change in business results and human resource …
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