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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"assets-based"”.
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(Un)Bundling the Black Experience at PWIs: Using Assets-based Frameworks to Explore the Lived Experiences of Black Sub-Saharan African-born Graduate Students in STEM
… outcomes, and experiences are unique based on their cultural orientations. Given the within-group differences in this population, prior research has demonstrated the need to disaggregate the experiences in research among different groups for precise research outcomes. This dissertation …
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“I was not meant to be here, and I’m still here”: a feminist, participatory and assets-based exploration of women’s experiences of ageing with HIV in London
This research adopts a feminist and assets-based approach to explore the experiences of women ageing with HIV in London. Building on the foundation of a systematically approached review of the social science literature on ageing, women and HIV, it identifies key gaps in the evidence base and …
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The online identity development of Indo-Caribbean women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
The severe lack of systematically collected race-based data in Canada contributes to the Canadian field of education’s failure to meet the needs of its increasingly diverse demographic of students, resulting in their continued discrimination and oppression. To contribute to the knowledge of the …
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Enabling Compositional Generalization of AI Systems
… tasks, such as generating 2D images and 3D assets based on complicated specifications, or enabling humanoid agents to perform a diverse range of household activities. The implications of this thesis are far-reaching, as compositionality has numerous applications across fields such as …
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A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF TWO PREDOMINANTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH CHORAL ORGANIZATIONS
… staff leaders engaged stakeholders from an assets-based approach, these organizations serve as models for choral organizations engaging with marginalized communities. By involving child singers, their families, and broader stakeholders in decision-making. choral leaders across the United …
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Towards a Multidimensional Model of Adaptation for African American Adolescents Exposed to Racial Discrimination
… and 2) determine Africultural cluster profiles based on indicators of racial socialization, racial identity and culturally relevant coping strategies 3) examine whether cluster profile buffers stress exposed African American adolescents from increased internalizing symptoms, anger and decreased …
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Designing Socio-Technical Systems to Illuminate Possibilities for a Vulnerable Population
… individuals and community already have---their assets---rather than emphasizing "user's needs" as typically postulated by human-centered design. We present details of our four-year-long assets-based engagement with an anti-trafficking organization in Nepal and the sex trafficking survivors …
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Digital asset pricing in the textbook market
… also examines current pricing trends for digital assets based around single "source" textbook products (complete e-textbooks compared to their print-version counterparts). Using this information, with an eye on changing adoption trends and a focus on revenue management, it offers pricing and …
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Aboriginal women in education : Honouring our experiences a vision of access to and success within the university
… Method, participants engaged in a consensusbased vision of accessible education that honours the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical elements necessary for the success of Aboriginal women in university. This study positions Aboriginal women as agents of social change by allowing …
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Visually Accurate Database-Enabled Reconstructions of Scenes (VADERS)
… stylistic diversity or using in-the-wild assets. This constrains expressiveness and often produces results that are visually misaligned. Conversely, pipelines optimized for visual realism neglect semantic correctness, generating outputs that may appear plausible but lack categorical or …
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Dueling markets : capitalizing on the non-institutional and institutional asset arbitrage
… unmet demand for quality, institutional assets. This thesis examines the pricing and yield arbitrage between institutional and sub-institutional grade assets, as defined by valuation parameters, alongside the feasibility of an investment model to capitalize on the aggregation of …
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On the Topic of Portfolio Optimization
… REPO approach to the optimization problem for assets with discrete distributed returns, such as those from a Bernoulli distribution like binary options. Under a discrete probability distribution, portfolios of binary options can be viewed as repeated short-term investments with an optimal …
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Risk Quadruplet: Integrating Assessments of Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence, and Perception for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense
… has proven to be a viable solution for ranking assets based on the four proposed components of risk.</p>
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
… to advance flood resilience planning. GIS-based spatial analysis maps flood-prone infrastructure, prioritising at-risk assets based on exposure and interconnectivity. A culvert criticality framework assesses infrastructure failure risks, ensuring flood resilience strategies account for …
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Airport privatisation and performance
… of unit revenues and work load units to total assets. Their asset turnover is higher but the capital expenditure to total revenue ratio is lower. The increased operating efficiency of partially and fully privatised airports does not, however, translate into higher returns on equity in general. …
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Essays on Applied Macro- and Micro-Econometrics
… the degree of substitutability among monetary assets and to address the issue of optimal monetary aggregation in the United States. I address the problems of dimensionality and nonlinearity, estimating a very detailed monetary asset demand system encompassing the full range of assets based on …
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
Cities are endowed with and accumulate assets based on their unique histories, which in turn define the choice set of the present. These assets range from the natural-sheltered ports, fertile land--to the constructed--concrete and cement, institutions and people. This dissertation examines the …
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An Empowerment Evaluation of Colorado Mountain College’s Mountain Scholars Program via Latino Alumni Aspirational Goals and Outcomes
… with five of its Latino alumni. This study’s assets-based social justice/transformative philosophical framework included David Fetterman’s methodological empowerment evaluation and Tara Yosso’s conceptual community cultural wealth (CCW) theory. This dissertation in practice examined the gap in …
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An empirical study of equity repurchase decisions and market reaction
… to the market-value replacement costs of its assets, based on the Lindenburg-Ross Algorithm for the free cash flow hypothesis (another measure is also used in this dissertation, that is, the net cash flow after taxes and dividends relative to the market value of a firm’s common stock); arid …
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Development of Asset Information Requirements to support Asset Management
The management of physical assets (asset management) is becoming increasingly important, supported by a shift in mindsets that are seeing maintenance moving from a "necessary evil" to a value-adding exercise. This is enforced by the need to achieve greater asset performance within increasing …
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