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On the Adaptive Strategies of Successional Winter Annuals
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Granular urbanism : adaptive strategies for obsolete downtown neighborhoods
Tackling the problem of obsolescence in North American cities, this thesis interrogates the question of how we should plan for the regeneration of aging office buildings. I argue that current whole-building, coarse-grained office-to-residential conversion results in entire urban neighborhoods …
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Population pressures, environmental degradation and farmers' adaptive strategies in Nakuru District of Kenya
Despite two decades of government-sponsored efforts to reduce population growth, Kenya's fertility level and rate of natural increase still rank among the highest in the world. As a direct result of population growth, some rural areas, such as those in Nakuru District where this study was centered, …
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Profiles and adaptive strategies of owner-managers of medium-sized firms in Kenya
… economy, and (b) to investigate the business strategies used by these managers through the various stages of growth of their businesses. The sample for this study was drawn from medium-sized manufacturing firms in Nairobi. The data was collected through a preliminary fact sheet and structured …
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Memory performance and adaptive strategies in younger and older adults during single and dual task conditions
… which makes engaging in deeper encoding strategies difficult. However, training older adults in using encoding strategies has been shown to successfully improve their performance. Whether these benefits are apparent when performing more than one task at a time is less known. Owing to the …
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Policy making using computer simulators for complex physical systems; Bayesian decision support for the development of adaptive strategies
… improve over time, which may affect downstream strategies and, hence, current policy. Our methods also allow research investment questions to be explored in the context of the wider policy problem. For example, the question of whether or not an improved version of a computer simulator should be …
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Occupational Options and Adaptive Strategies in a Tunisian Town: The Effects of The Tunisian Government's Ideology of Modernization
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
… that this research endeavoured to establish what adaptive and mitigative strategies business enterprises are adopting and to reveal the influence that the lack of comprehensive implementation of climate change policy has had and to establish whether Change Management theories are being applied by …
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
… that this research endeavoured to establish what adaptive and mitigative strategies business enterprises are adopting and to reveal the influence that the lack of comprehensive implementation of climate change policy has had and to establish whether Change Management theories are being applied by …
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Marginality in Appalachian professional women
… (2) consequences of marginality; and (3) adaptive strategies of the marginal person. A continuum conceptualization of marginality emerged from the data with four categories of self-definition: (1) essential marginality; (2) situational marginality; (3) occasional marginality; and (4) …
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ΔΟΜΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΚΛΗΡΟΦΥΛΛΙΑΣ ΣΕ ΑΕΙΦΥΛΛΑ ΕΙΔΗ ΤΗΣ "ΜΑΚΚΙΑΣ" ΒΛΑΣΤΗΣΗΣ
… CONCERNING THE ANATOMICAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES.
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The Effectiveness of Peer Mentoring in Helping First Year Students Develop Occupational Adaptation Skills
… 2) developed academic and social skills, 3) adaptive responses and strategies used, and 4) overall satisfaction with the college experience.</p> <p><strong>Results.</strong> FGS experienced a greater sense of belonging compared to non-FGS (p = 0.012). Mentored students gained more skill over …
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An analysis of defibrillation and cardiac resynchronization therapy strategies in patients with failing systemic right ventricles
… of selection criteria and unconventional adaptive strategies to ensure clinical efficacy. A single centre prospective analysis of adults post atrial redirection surgery (Mustard operation) for dextro-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) presenting with systemic right ventricular …
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Adaptive observations : idealized sampling strategies for improving numerical weather prediction
The purpose of adaptive observations is to use information about individual atmospheric situations to identify regions where additional observations are likely to improve weather forecasts of interest. The observation network could be adapted for a wide range of forecasting goals, and it could be …
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Bridge/Adapt: A Systematic Cognitive Rehabilitation Curriculum
… Research suggested that therapy using an adaptive approach can yield functional improvements. The purpose of this project was to design a systematic cognitive retraining curriculum, Bridge/Adapt, to bridge the gap between memory- and attention-skill gains from CACR to functional …
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A dynamic assessment of adaptive capacity to climate change: A case study of water management in Makondo, Uganda
… people in Sub-Saharan Africa. I examine the adaptive capacity of people at the micro-scale of action and practice in rural Africa, in particular those in Makondo Parish, in the southwest of Uganda. The focus is on the way adaptive capacity emerges from the interaction of community members, …
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