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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"barriers and opportunities"”.
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Exploring barriers and opportunities to black nurses’ professional development
… was to explore the lived experience of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) nurses with a particular focus on black nurses, when applying to access training and professional development activities within the existing National Health Service (NHS) structure. Research has shown that BME nurses are …
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Flexible working in charitable organisations: An exploration of barriers and opportunities.
This thesis explores, records, and furthers the embryonic understanding of flexible-working arrangements, formal and/or informal, within the charity sector with focus placed upon medium-sized charitable organizations (income threshold between £500k and £5 million) registered in England …
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Barriers And Opportunities For Provision Of Specialized Programming For Rural, Low-Incidence Students
… dichotomy between increasing accountability mandates and access to appropriate service provision is particularly evident in consideration of mandates pertaining to students represented in special education, Section 504, students who are English learners, migrant students, and homeless …
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Challenges, barriers and opportunities in integrating TB/HIV services in Tsandi District Hospital, Namibia
… generalised Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics. In response to the TB/HIV co-epidemics in Namibia, the Ministry of Health and Social Services approved a policy of TB/HIV collaborative activities at national level and the integration of TB/HIV services at the point …
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Energy efficiency in the South Africa crude oil refining industry drivers, barriers and opportunities
This study has explored a range of barriers, drivers and opportunities to improving energy performance in the South African crude oil refining industry, thus providing information to further support energy efficiency improvement efforts. Energy efficiency is a cost effective means of reducing …
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Sustainable waste management system for market waste in less economically developed cities: barriers and opportunities
… practices, where indiscriminate disposal on land, in the aquatic environment, and poorly designed and maintained landfill sites are now widely acknowledged as contributing to Climate Change and leading to poor health of those living within these areas. In addition to odour nuisance and air …
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Barriers and opportunities for evidence-based practice: Curriculum changes in fieldwork and classroom in social work education
… consider perceptions held by social work faculty and agency-based field instructors to incorporate EBP into social work student classroom and field placement experiences. This study identifies perceptions of social work faculty and field instructors about EBP, determines the extent to which social …
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Understanding barriers and opportunities in agricultural information management in post-Soviet states: a case study of Kazakhstan.
… provided mainly raw materials to the USSR, and agriculture operated under a Moscow-based command and control model. Kazakhstan possesses vast wealth of mineral and energy resources and its agricultural land is well able to ensure national food security. However, after independence the rapid …
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Extensive green roof design in the City of Cape Town : barriers and opportunities for developing a green industry
In today's world of increasing energy costs and rapid ecosystem service decay, a result of direct human disturbance from development, habitat loss and fragmentation and the increasing frequencies of extreme weather events, it is critical that building practices in the next decade adopt a more …
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Teachers' integration of technology in classrooms: a case study of school readiness, barriers, and opportunities in Nelson Mandela Bay District
… problems that public schools face in the Nelson Mandela Bay District of Eastern Cape, South Africa is teachers' lack of technology integration in curriculum delivery. The study explored teachers' Technology Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) to understand the school readiness, barriers, and …
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Exploring Progress, Barriers and Opportunities for the Branded FNV Marketing Campaign to Impact Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Unhealthy food and beverage products marketed through diverse media platforms contribute to poor diet quality, obesity, and chronic diseases in the United States (US). Limited empirical research is available on the effectiveness of integrated marketing communications (IMC) and branded media …
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Exploration of Facilitators, Barriers and Opportunities for Faith-Based Organizations to Implement Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs and Partner with Virginia's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education
Poor diet and physical inactivity contribute to excessive weight and related diseases in the United States. Given the increasing rates of adult overweight and obesity among Americans, there is a need to develop and implement effective prevention and treatment strategies to decrease the public …
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A critical investigation into the barriers and opportunities for environmental management systems ‘EMSs’ implementation for the delivery of environmental benefits to the Industrial City in Jeddah, KSA.
… in line with local environmental regulations and standards. This research critically investigates the scope of the implementation of EMSs in this IC, which necessarily entails assessing the efforts of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME), which is the government agency …
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A nodal governance approach to understanding the barriers and opportunities for disaster governance : a case study on flood governance in an informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa
… as those associated with urban disaster risk and climate change, cannot be managed by individual organisations or hierarchical forms of organisation, but require integrated, inclusive, and multi-actor forms of governance. By adopting the concept of 'disaster governance' and by drawing on …
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Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface
With unprecedented climate change and rapidly shifting wildfire regimes heightening wildfire risk across the Pacific Northwest, our research explores fuel reduction as a holistic wildfire mitigation strategy. Using the Methow Valley in Washington State as a case study, we examine the barriers and …
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Audio for Flow Monitoring in Wastewater
… systems but requires increased sensing and monitoring that can provide actionable information. Audio is underutilised as a sensor input despite fluid flow naturally generating sound through different physical processes. This thesis investigates low-cost non-invasive microphones for flow …
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Intersectionality and employment barriers: analyzing age and gender bias in job advertisements
… by bias in their hiring decisions. Sexism and ageism are among the most prevalent forms; however, detecting hiring discrimination is complex and often unreported. The current study focused on the attraction phase to examine how age and gender intersect to create employment barriers and …
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Systemic impediments to constructing energy-efficient commercial buildings
… faced by financiers, builders, owners, and tenants. In 1992 Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, wrote a paper entitled "Energy-Efficient Buildings: Institutional Barriers and Opportunities". In it, he detailed roadblocks to constructing energy efficient commercial …
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Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Engage Stakeholders in the Search for Solutions to Emerging Environmental Challenges
Inland freshwater salinization is an emerging environmental problem that threatens freshwater ecosystem health, agricultural productivity, and the sustainability, reliability, and safety of drinking water supplies around the world. This body of work focuses on the Occoquan Reservoir in Northern …
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