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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Urban cities"”.
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How Do Urban Cities Manage Road Traffic Congestion?
… section of the transport system. South African cities are facing traffic congestion characterised by dense origins and destinations with activities located in different cities. The roads and streets have congestion within the areas where individuals are attracted and benefit from economic …
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Regionalism and the design of low-rise building envelope systems
… envelopes for low-rise affordable housing in urban contexts: construction cost estimating, building performance modeling, and cradle to grave life cycle assessment. Two climate regions were investigated: hot-humid and hot-dry, in two large urban cities: Phoenix and Miami. The envelope systems …
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Selection and Evaluation of Potential Stormwater Harvesting Sites in Urban Areas
Urban cities are universally becoming water stressed due to combined pressures of increasing urbanisation, growing populations, and fluctuating climate change regimes. Therefore, water resource managers are globally developing strategies to ensure water security and associated long term sustainable …
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A Model Institute: The Mansouria Agricultural Learning Laboratory and Community Center
… a mass migration from rural areas into overtaxed urban centers in Egypt. Unable to sustain their families on increasingly smaller and less productive agricultural plots of land, families migrate to the cities in search of a better quality of life, economic opportunity, and services that are not …
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Examining the Prevalence of Bullying Among Biracial Children in Comparison to Single-Race Children
… Study. The original study took place in 20 urban cities across America with mothers and fathers of newborns (N=4,898). This study looks at the prevalence of bullying made possible from the 9 year follow up child survey (N=3,266). After analysis, results show that race is not a significant …
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“The Impact of Attitudes, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioral Control on Whistleblowing Intention in Pakistani Banks: The Indirect Effects of Organisational Cynicism and Religiosity”
… Pakistani bankers based on their subclasses of urban cities. The proposed sample collection was 200; 166 questionnaires are included in the study, a response rate of 83%. The study finds that attitudes and subjective norms have a direct relationship with whistleblowing intention, while perceived …
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Squeegee Punks reunite: safe streets for all: an insider qualitative study
… were a fixture on many busy street corners in urban cities in Canada in the mid to late 1990s. During the height of the squeegee kid phenomenon, multiple studies were conducted on how squeegee work impacted street kids and their subsequent criminalization through the Ontario Safe Street Act. …
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Vertical School of Art
… they challenge the way we live. Currently urban cities are becoming more and more dense. Lack of space is a big issue and now buildings are being torn down and are replaced by skyscrapers. And these new skyscrapers are being redefined to house a living and working environment. Cubism …
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Democracy, Citizens' Media, and Resistance: A Study of the New River Free Press
… into citizens' media has focused on media from urban cities, this thesis offers discussion and analysis of a progressive citizen's paper, the New River Free Press, located in a rural, Appalachian community that is home to a large technical, military, state university. After first reviewing …
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Lateral systems for tall buildings
… structures are the consequence of increasing urban densification and economic viability. The modern skyscraper has and will thus continue to feature prominently in the landscape of urban cities. The trend towards progressively taller structures has demanded a shift from the traditional …
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Investigating solid waste management strategies in developing countries using Nigeria as a case study
… waste management always poses challenges across urban cities in developing countries. The presence of uncollected solid waste in neighbourhoods, roadsides, and drainage is a common sight in these countries. In urban cities, the presence of uncollected waste is more predominant in the outskirts of …
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Cuidate mija: power in everyday discourses about adolescent pregnancy in urban Ecuador
… with sex, sexuality, and pregnancy in the urban cities of Quito and Cuenca, Ecuador. Drawing upon interviews with young women who have experienced pregnancy and professionals working with pregnant adolescents, as well as a survey distributed to male and female adolescents, I identify …
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Rural-urban contextual data triangulation for international engineering project work
… community-specific data is largely uncommon, urban-level data is examined and interpolation is performed. By selecting the three urban cities, where data is plentiful, in closest proximity by travel distance to the rural community in question and weighting them accordingly, it is hypothesized …
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The Power and Postcolonial Meanings of Lingerie for Urban Professional Indian Women Living In India
… power and postcolonial meanings of lingerie for urban Indian professional women (UIPW) living in India to better understand the consumer behaviour of lingerie consumption. This critical marketing studies thesis adds to the existing studies of lingerie to argue that little is understood about the …
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An economic history of the Scottish electricity supply industry 1878-c.1930
… the former concentrated in the larger urban cities and towns and the latter in the less industrialised areas; the promotion of power companies complicated this simple analysis. Hostility between these sectors inhibited progress and lack of co-operation necessitated more positive …
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An Alternative Approach to Child Rescue: child emigration societies in Birmingham and Manchester, 1870-1914
… expense of poor law relief, social problems in urban cities and the need for empire strengthening. To persuade people that transplanting children overseas was an alternative form of child rescue, the two societies in Birmingham and Manchester presented a self-created image of their work, which …
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Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District
Urban tourism transforms not only the economic and physical landscape of cities but also the affective, symbolic, and perceptual dimensions of place. This dissertation examines the tourism milieu of Budapest’s District VII, focusing on Inner Erzsébetváros, the historically Jewish Quarter, as a site …
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Assessing Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) In Rural Maine As An Approach To Increase Transportation Options
… rural transit systems operating outside the more urban cities of Bangor and Ellsworth.</p> <p>A review of the literature on transportation challenges and barriers, particularly in respect to the sparsely populated region of Eastern Maine, provided the basis for this grounded theory qualitative …
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Organizational Capacity to Absorb External Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of Public and Nonprofit Decision Makers' Perceptions of Impediments and Facilitators
… with youth-serving missions located in three urban cities. These interviews constituted a secondary data set for this study and were drawn from a larger set of 38 interviews after a review for suitability. The learning process model of absorptive capacity was used as an a priori framework for …
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A Secondary Analysis of County Health Statistics for the Galveston County of Texas Report
… (as is common with many areas outside large urban cities) is not fully summarized in a single report; however, a descriptive analysis would benefit community partners such as the Research Education and Community Health coalition who are interested in developing community health plans and for …
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