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Showing 1 to 20 of 394 for “"Volunteered"”.
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Assessing Uncertainty in Volunteered Geographic Information for Emergency Response
This research project examines data produced by volunteers through the Ushahidi web platform in response to the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Volunteers translated messages submitted by victims in Haiti, categorized each message based on its content, and georeferenced each message …
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From Geo-Social to Geo-Local: The Flows and Biases of Volunteered Geographic Information
This dissertation analyzes the geography of information in the 21st century where BigData, social networks, user generated production of content and geography combine to create new and complex patterns of space, context and sociability. Both online and offline, social networks are creating a space …
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Credibility assessment of volunteered geographic information for emergency management: a Bayesian network modeling approach
An emerging paradigm of volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the field of Geography was resulted from recent advances of GPS equipped mobile devices such as the iPhone, and the amount of geographic information and its promptness has been dramatically increased with the participation of …
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Understanding patterns of outdoor recreation in Canadian parks using volunteered geographic information and big data
… managing ecosystem health and services. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) sources can provide researchers and management groups with valuable insights into human activity in these areas. In this thesis, I study how VGI sources can be used to estimate official visitation statistics …
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An exposition of the nature of volunteered geographical information and its suitability for integration into spatial data infrastructures
This thesis presents an analysis of the nature of volunteered geographical information (VGI) and on its applicability for use in a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to supplement official and commercial sources, particularly given the ease with which ordinary people can document their environment, …
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A Framework for and Design of a Smart Academic Building Using Sensors, Citizen Participation, and Volunteered Geographic Information
<p>Population growth and migration patterns have shown an influx of residents from rural to urban environments. To deal with the problems caused by unprecedented urban influx, cities should plan to use technology in a smart and distinctive way. Tackling at the city scale is hard. But a set of smart …
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Assessing the Functional Accuracy and Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information: A Comparison of Open Street Map and Navteq Road Datasets
<p>This thesis provides a detailed analysis of the functional data accuracy between Open Street Map data and Navteq road data. The analysis revealed that the average accuracy level ranged from 87.3% to 94.9% for buffer distances between 2 and 20 meters. Analyses were also performed to determine the …
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K-12 Public School Teacher Perceptions Regarding their Experiences as Instructors Who Volunteered to Teach in the Online Learning Environment in 2020-2021 (COVID-19)
… A total of 15 K-12 public school teachers who volunteered to provide instruction in the online learning environment during the 2020-2021 school year participated in a one-on-one semi-structured interview. The questions asked during the interview were organized in sections according to themes …
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Geo-Analytics of Citizen-Government Interaction: The Integration of Spatial Data Mining, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), And Geovisualization To Explore Non-emergency Requests in the State of Kuwait
The rapid and continuous growth of population requires simultaneous provision of public services (or commons) at high spatial and temporal scales. In addition to the commons provision, governments are ought to maintain the commons to be at high quality standards. However, the rapid consumption of …
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A Study to Determine the Effects of Facilitating Conditions and Action-Oriented Techniques in Cross-Cultural Counseling
… the Fall term of 1981. A total of 66 students volunteered to participate. Twenty-four were black, twenty-four were white, and eighteen were Mexican American. All of the students except the whites were randomly selected from the Educational Opportunity Program at the university. White students …
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Examining roots of the gender gap: student participation and teacher behaviors in first-grade mathematics lessons
… Contrary to previously reported findings, girls volunteered more than expected. Also, girls who volunteered frequently attempted to answer both high- and low-level questions. On the contrary, some boys answered mostly high-level questions whereas different boys answered mostly low-level …
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The Relation of Teacher and Supervisor Competitive-Cooperative Attitudes and Principal Ratings of Successful Supervision
… in a suburban midwestern metropolitan area volunteered to participate in the study. Each supplied 60 teachers (30 elementary and 30 secondary) and their supervisors. The basic research question was to determine if cooperative-competitive attitudes affected the supervisory relationship.
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To Save the World: The Untold Stories of Memorial Row
… UM campus or at Fort Missoula. Four women who volunteered as nurses and died are also remembered. Contained herein are three stories of individuals memorialized in Memorial Row: James Claude Simpkins, a chemistry graduate of 1916 and second lieutenant in the First Army Air Service; Mrs. Solomon …
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To Save the World: The Untold Stories of Memorial Row
… UM campus or at Fort Missoula. Four women who volunteered as nurses and died are also remembered. Contained herein are three stories of individuals memorialized in Memorial Row: James Claude Simpkins, a chemistry graduate of 1916 and second lieutenant in the First Army Air Service; Mrs. Solomon …
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Organizational settings and profiles of servant leadership
… variables of gender, years worked, years volunteered outside of workplace, years volunteered within organizational site, professional/industry related certifications obtainment, and educational attainment, as these variables related to the servant leadership dimension means. Reference to …
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The Armor of Democracy: Volunteerism on the Home Front in World War II California
… front and overseas. Celebrities and civilians volunteered with the USO. This paper discusses many other ways in which Californian’s volunteered. Each volunteer activity provided an outlet for Americans desperate to aid the war effort in any way that they could.
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An Evaluation of the University of Washington Health Sciences Mobile Health & Outreach Program
… distributed the survey to forty-six students who volunteered with the UW-MHO Program between its inception and December 31, 2021. In total, 9 students responded to the survey (20% response rate) and 7 students participated in the semi-structured interviews. Six key themes were developed from the …
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