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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Urban Populations"”.
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Children, Attention, and Nature: Evidence From AD/HD and Poor Urban Populations
The studies here are among the first to provide evidence for a systematic positive link between nature and attention in children. This work also contributes to Attention Restoration Theory, and the literature on the benefits of views of nature. Implications for design of children's spaces are …
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Multi-stakeholder study of the Malaysian mental health policy implementation within urban populations
Global studies investigating scaling-up of mental health services have highlighted mental health policy development and implementation as a priority area, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This research aimed to investigate Malaysia’s National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) development …
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NATURE RELATEDNESS: INVESTIGATING DIFFERENCES AMONG RURAL, SUBURBAN, AND URBAN POPULATIONS IN CONNECTION TO NATURE SCORES
… Relatedness scores of people from rural, suburban, and urban populations to investigate differences among these populations. Survey participants also reported on whether or not they were currently raising children under the age of 18 in their home, how many outdoor activities they …
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Communicative Design: Transit Architecture for Growing Cities
<p>Increasing urban populations are currently magnifying the importance of the transit station in the context of its surrounding systems. In order to prepare our cities for higher population densities in the future, an examination of the relationships between station form and individual experience …
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Cooking Together: Form & Function of Community Kitchen as Urban ‘Third Place’ Promoting Community Wellbeing
… are increasingly grappling with challenges as urban populations expand and urban food systems are affected by various systemic factors including geopolitical conflicts, economic crises, environmental anomalies, and epidemics. Urban planning and physical characteristics of the urban built …
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Africanized honey bee colonization in the human domain: Issues of environmental anthropology in southern Nevada
… that may marginalize the concerns of certain populations. Africanized Honey Bees created both environmental and policy consequences in southern Nevada. Identification of the issues was accomplished with literature review, participant observation, informal interview, and conferencing with …
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Neurobiology, empathy and social cognition: the potential benefits of theatre in traumatised communities
… the same time, the relentless densification of urban populations enforces proximity among strangers, with routine encounters increasingly bereft of emotional nourishment. The affective numbing that ensues shares many characteristics of post-traumatic stress disorder. The current study explores …
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The Creation of Metropolitan Amazonia: Genetic Consequences of Migration and Urbanization
… view of the establishment of a modern Amazonian urban center. Yurimaguas, like many cities in the Global South, continues to experience the multifarious effects of accelerated migration and urbanization on population architecture. Biodemography and population genetics are used to assess …
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Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers
… better understand the many challenges that rural populations endure in rural Cauca. Chapters four and five will explore some resistance strategies and movements that rural communities in Cauca and other Colombian regions have developed to fight against corporate agro-industrial dominance so they …
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Examining Adolescent Drinking and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Monitoring, Communication, and Parenting Style in a Rural Setting
… substance use is highly prevalent in both urban and rural populations and that parenting processes can affect adolescent substance use. The majority of the research pertains to adolescents in urban populations, however. This study explores how adolescents' perceptions of parental …
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ADAPTATION TO FLOODING IN LOW-INCOME URBAN SETTLEMENTS OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: A CASE OF DHAKA EAST, BANGLADESH
Low-income urban settlements in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) present an extreme case where catastrophic hazards (natural events) and chronic hazards (developed through lack of basic services) overlap. These low-income urban populations often occupy informal settlements that are particularly …
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Contracting for disaster reconstruction
… powerful and unpredictable storms and growing urban populations have led to increasing demands for disaster response and an opportunity for the logistics community to provide meaningful evaluation and expertise. In the United States, FEMA is continually updating their disaster response methods …
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Voluntary physical activity : measurement and relationship to selected health parameters in rural black South Africans resident in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.
… accelerometer counts when contrasting rural and urban populations. Thirdly, we demonstrated novel approaches to pedometry data from a rural African setting, such that volume-intensity effects could be inferred, and using estimated energy expenditure whether current physical activity guidelines …
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Understanding Urban Resilience through Post-Disaster Human Mobility Patterns and Recovery Dynamics
This dissertation investigates urban resilience through post-disaster human mobility patterns and recovery dynamics, offering insights into the complex interdependencies of urban systems in crises. Utilizing extensive mobility data, this study examines how urban populations adapt and recover from …
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a garden in the sky
We live in an increasingly urbanized world as people migrate to cities for employment and cultural benefits. Growing and dense urban populations contribute heavily to water pollution and energy waste contributing to global biodiversity extinction. At the same time, contemporary urban areas deliver …
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Dynamics of Economic Corruption
… have floundered. This dissertation argues that urban population density is a major underlying factor of economic corruption that previous studies have never considered before. Increased population density communicate bribe success information rapidly and resistance to it becomes muted as more …
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Telecommunications law and regulation in Lesotho - A critical analysis
… that bring affordable services to the rural and urban populations alike must be developed and implemented; complimentary policies that encourage the use of the services and investment in the sector, like investment, consumer protection and competition policies must be adopted; alternative dispute …
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Telecommunications law and regulation in Lesotho: a critical analysis
… that bring affordable services to the rural and urban populations alike must be developed and implemented; complimentary policies that encourage the use of the services and investment in the sector, like investment, consumer protection and competition policies must be adopted; alternative dispute …
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