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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Zhejiang Province"”.
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Does land dispossession equal impoverishment or liberation in rural China?: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China
… such as government agencies in a coastal province in China, this research aims at understanding how urbanization has affected people’s perception of land in rural coastal China and how different levels of government play their roles in this process. To be specific, I aim to understand …
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Home beyond the house: the meaning of home for people living in Yanxia village, Zhejiang Province, China
Under the guidance of a new policy released by China’s central authority in 2006, which calls for “Building a New Socialist Countryside,” newly planned settlements with rows of nearly identical houses have rapidly emerged in rural China. As a result, rural residents, who, for generations, have …
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An institutional approach to the development of the textile and clothing clusters in China: the case of Zhejiang Province
… case studies of textile and clothing clusters in Zhejiang province, East China. The micro case studies are effective in illustrating the interaction between institutional change and industrial development. The research argues that the unique institutional factors leading to the rapid development …
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Rural urban migration and its impact on economic development: a case study in China
… Shuangmiao Village in Qianshan County, Anhui Province, Xlanfeng Village and Kangle Village in Dingxi County, Gansu Province, Tianliao Village and Xiting Village in Changnan County, Zhejiang Province and, Longgang Zhen in Wenzhou Region, Zhejiang Province, where I conducted a questionnaire …
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Factors Influencing Blood Pressure among Rural Adults with Hypertension in China
… sample of rural adults with hypertension in the Zhejiang Province of China. Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model guided this cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study. One hundred sixty-three adults with hypertension in two villages in Zhejiang province participated in the study. Self-report …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions
… aged between 14 and 17 years from Jiande, Zhejiang province in mainland China. Using data from multiple informants, the direct and indirect roles of socio-cultural influences, parenting strategies, smoking-specific parenting behaviors, and smoking-related cognitions on adolescent smoking …
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Harnessing alternative post-growth development pathways in Northampton: learning from innovative green information systems in Bristol and China
… fieldworks in England, Bristol city, and China, Zhejiang province. The researcher has selected and analyzed, in those two fieldworks, different types of IS that have been designed in the name of sustainability, called here green IS. In Bristol she has paid a specific attention to the …
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Essays on contract theory and organizational economics
… bounds on the profit loss for cotton weavers in Zhejiang Province, China. Chapter 2 develops a new method to justify the validity of the first order approach (FOA). We first prove that checking the validity amounts to checking the existence of a fixed point of the agent's best response against a …
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Student conduct systems at public colleges and universities in China
… from twenty-nine four-year universities in Zhejiang province. Documents related to student conduct systems from ten universities were analyzed, and thirteen administrators and one school counselor from nine universities were interviewed. While the findings of this study supported the …
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Exploring the Washback Effects of the Chinese National Matriculation English Test (NMET) on Student Learning and Their Test Anxiety
… the effects of the NMET in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province [hereafter referred to NMET (ZJ)], China on secondary school students’ learning and their test anxiety. A quantitative data analysis (descriptive statistics, factor analysis and regression analysis) was conducted on 406 NMET (ZJ) …
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Agricultural libraries and information centres in China: cooperation, resource-sharing and networking
… within the activity, i.e. two-level allocations. Zhejiang province, one of 29 provinces in the country, is taken as an example of regional (provincial) network model. Twenty-eight nodes Iron: five sectors and three levels, plus more potential nodes, will be configured hierarchically within the …
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Arab Traders Pursuing Chinese Dream in East China
… and North Africa in Yiwu, a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China, has received unprecedented media attention in the context of the Belt and Road initiative. The resident population of Arab traders was over 4,000 in 2016, attracted to the world largest petty …
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Arab Traders Pursuing Chinese Dream in East China
… and North Africa in Yiwu, a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China, has received unprecedented media attention in the context of the Belt and Road initiative. The resident population of Arab traders was over 4,000 in 2016, attracted to the world largest petty …
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Creating local landscape: tidal bores and seawalls at haining (1720s-1830s)
… the Qiantang River flows into China East Sea in Zhejiang province. Before the second half of the eighteenth century, Haining most commonly appeared in reports of local coastal floods caused by tidal bores and requests for famine relief. Following the construction of protective seawalls and the …
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Suitability of energy cropping on abandoned metal contaminated farmland.
… for this project is located near Fuyang in Zhejiang province, People’s Republic of China and is located adjacent to a former copper smelter. The four energy crops trialled at the field site are sweet sorghum, sugar cane, Chinese sumac and vetiver grass. Chinese sumac and sweet sorghum were …