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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Urban or Rural"”.
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… and an individual's feelings and helping behavior towards the homeless population. This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness. Respondents were …
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Survey of injury rates in Nevada high school athletic programs
The purpose of this study was to gather information regarding injury rates in high school athletics in the state of Nevada. A survey instrument was developed to assess the type and severity of injuries relative to school size, geographical location, and sport. Fifteen secondary schools representing …
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Life with HIV in a suburban community: an exploration of experiences pertaining to health and social care service access
Literature examines HIV within urban or rural contexts; the suburban gradient is not sufficiently described, despite how an overwhelming proportion of Canadians live in this form of community. This inquiry investigated how people living with HIV (PLWH) in a suburban, Ontario, Canada community …
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Perceptions and Predictions with School Climate: Analyzing the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory
… data from the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory was used to understand the following: 1.) the predictive ability of student perceptions of safety on overall school climate; 2.) the relationship between geographic location and school climate; and 3.) the predictive ability of geographic …
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A Comparative Study of Religious Vocations of Women from Various Types of Schools
Since the scope of the Church’s activities for the salvation of souls has expanded beyond the man power of Its Religious men and women, the subject of vocation recruitment Is gaining more and more attention in religious and ecclesiastical circles. Writers Interested In the problem have listed many …
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From Country to Country Club: the Landscapes of Walker Percy
… 1961, the American landscape had begun to transform in new and dramatic ways. As more and more Americans moved from city centers to suburban developments, Percy found that, in more ways than one, the center would not hold. This American cultural transformation was well underway when Percy wrote …
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The Quakers of County Tipperary 1655-1924
… County Tipperary lasted from their arrival shortly after the middle of the seventeenth century to the closure of their last meeting houses in Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel in 1924. This thesis examines their history and attempts to evaluate the contribution they made to their adopted county. …
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Urban design for small town regeneration: A socio-ecological approach
… and with their own unique spatial character. Unfortunately, most small towns are in distress. The focus of investment to bring about spatial transformation has typically been in either cities, or villages; i.e. urban or rural. However, Arndt, Davies and Thurlow (2018) suggest that a 3rd way would …
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Milner's Theory of Status Relations and Cyberbullying Among U.S. Adolescents
… between several status variables and three categories of involvement in cyberbullying: bullies, victims, and non-participants. Utilizing Milner's (2016) theory of status relations, it was hypothesized that cyberbullying is a means by which high school students attempt to gain status among their …
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Language Maintenance and Shift in Sardinia: A Case Study of Sardinian and Italian in Cagliari
… of contact contexts where latent resources favoring minority language maintenance and heritage language revitalization are spontaneously activated by the social dynamics at play among the interlocutors. Besides, some degree of meaningful variability in the patterns of language use depends on …
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Cross-National Fear of Crime Among Women: An Examination of Structural and Individual-Level Causes
… age, income, education, whether one dwells in an urban or rural area, and prior victimization have been shown to have effects on fear. This dissertation set out to answer several research questions related to prior findings: 1) How does gender equality affect women's fear of crime across nations?; …
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The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Adolescent Leadership in Colorado Public High Schools
… of students in education based on gender, race, or disability. Few examine the indicator of socioeconomic status (SES), particularly in relation to student leadership participation. This study examined the occurrence of low SES adolescents in positions of leadership among Colorado public high …
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Alternative suburban settlements
… As architects: I. We assume responsibility for the built environment. II. We should perceive and address change in society. The focus is an exploration into possible solutions to the paradigm of the suburban settlement. 1995 The condition of life in suburbia is currently drifting away from …
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1990 m. gimusių vaikų fizinės būklės ypatumai, raidos takai ir veiksniai augimo laikotarpiu (išilginis auksologinis Vilniaus miesto ir rajono vaikų tyrimas) /
Physical status of children born in 1990 in Vilnius city and region from birth up to the end of puberty, the variety of individual growth tracks, ethnic and socio-economic growth factors, the epochal changes in growth and growth patterns of the “generation of independence” were investigated. This …
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Contributing Factors to the Prevalence of Student Truancy among Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania: A Case Study of Schools in Mbeya Districts
… was conducted to determine the contributing factors to the prevalence of student truancy in community secondary schools in Tanzania. Descriptive survey design was undertaken with a sample of 166 respondents. Research tools employed to obtain information include questionnaires, interviews, focus …
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Adaptive Healing: Exploring therapeutic architecture and the integration of addiction rehabilitation into the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain
This dissertation explores therapeutic architecture and the integration of addiction rehabilitation into the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain area. This project ultimately introduces the concept of an integrated community rehabilitation and wellness centre in one of the most notorious, unhealthy urban …
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Social Deprivation, Political Alienation and Community Empowerment. The geography of voter turnout in Ireland,1997-2002, and its Association with Social Deprivation.
… by very low turnouts in a number of areas and for certain elections types. This thesis addresses this context through analysing turnout variations in recent election using a spatial framework and focussing particularly on how these spatial patterns in turnout are associated with levels of social …
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Connecting the Continent: the drivers of participation in Africa's digital economy
… and ‘unconnected' countries and individuals. For technology to fulfil its economic and social potential (creating jobs, access to health, etc.), the foundation for a digital economy must be present: digital infrastructure, basic and higher education, digital literacy and skills, social …
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Veiksniai, sąlygojantys sprendimų, susijusių su savo sveikata, priėmimą /
The bachelor thesis analyses the factors that influence the decisions made by individuals regarding their health. This research is important in order to find out the determinants of health-related behaviour of individuals, so that we can better understand their behaviour and, based on the findings, …
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Self-efficacy and instructional leadership: Does mentoring make a difference?
… and 1970s school leaders were expected to be organizers and managers of schools and to serve as buffers to the organization to protect a weak technical core. Standards-based reform, beginning in the 1980s, was in direct conflict with this mindset. Instead of protecting a weak technical core, …
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