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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"benefits and burdens"”.
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The benefits and burdens of living beside the Cederberg Wilderness Area
… century. In an era of extinction rates one thousand times faster than ever before, protected areas have emerged as the most widely used tool available to conservationists to curb the loss of species (Child, 2004; Jepson & Ladle, 2010) . The number and extent of protected areas has increased …
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The national board of professional teaching certification: Teacher motivation, benefits, and burdens
The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards process is considered by some to be teacher professional development, which is a vital part of the field of education. This study investigated twelve educators who began the National Board process, studying their motivation to begin, the …
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… Continent for more than thirty years. Economic benefits from coal mining in British Columbia were pitted against the environmental concerns of poor water quality, endangered species protection, and connectivity issues were of particular interest in Montana. This paper examines the course of coal …
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… Continent for more than thirty years. Economic benefits from coal mining in British Columbia were pitted against the environmental concerns of poor water quality, endangered species protection, and connectivity issues were of particular interest in Montana. This paper examines the course of coal …
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Beyond 'justice vs care': Can the ethic of care coordinate with the ethic of justice to support palliative care?
… 20 years, there has been a growing awareness and acceptance of the palliative care concepts of Hospice. Hospice and the concept of palliative care represent a dramatic shift from the traditional medical model of physician-directed, institutional-centered health care; What are the guiding …
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Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies
… Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. Proponents of these collaborations emphasize their potential to expand the reach of public transportation systems, while skeptics caution that transit agencies should not divert resources from core bus and rail networks, and should not …
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Test suite parallelization in open-source projects: a study on its usage and impact
… given the popularity of multi-core processors and native suport from testing frameworks and build systems. This work reports our findings on the usage and impact of test suite parallelization in open-source projects. This study brings to light the benefits and burdens of that approach. It …
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A qualitative study into the communication surrounding the initiation and withdrawal of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in people with Motor Neurone Disease
… that adversely affects the nervous system and muscular control. Eventually respiratory muscles weaken, causing breathing, communication and swallowing difficulties, and ultimately, respiratory failure and death. Improved quality of life and potentially a short extension of life can be …
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Measuring justice in machine learning
… question, we need to know both what justice is and how to tell whether one system is more or less just than another. That is, we need both a definition and a measure of justice. Theories of distributive justice hold that justice can be measured (in part) in terms of the fair distribution of …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
… of rights, (2) moral theories of rights, and (3) political theories of justice. The dissertation argues that duties to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions do not correspond, either conceptually or morally, to ideas of individual rights. An individual experiencing the detrimental effects of …
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Benefits, Burdens, Perceptions, and Planning: Developing a New Environmental Justice Assessment Toolkit for Long Range Transportation Plans
… sometimes divergent interests: those of federal and state bodies enforcing EJ assessment requirements, those of metropolitan planners who face capacity constraints and need guidance on how to conduct these assessments, and, most importantly, those of the protected populations themselves. This …
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Rural Women's Perspectives on Cancer Care in Southern Saskatchewan
… care during diagnosis, treatment, follow up and palliative care. Those living in rural areas in Canada experience additional burdens in meeting supportive care needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women who had been diagnosed with cancer living in a rural area, …
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Globalizing utilitarianism : distributive justice beyond the state
This dissertation develops and defends a utilitarian approach to global distributive justice: that part of political ethics that is concerned with the distribution of benefits and burdens across the members of distinct societies. Surprisingly little has been written by utilitarians, or by welfare …
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The Experiences Of Black American Older Adults Managing Pain: A Nursing Ethnography
… They are less likely to report pain concerns and have voiced pain needs adequately met. To better understand the pain management experiences and concerns of Black elders, an ethnographic study was completed within an urban, low-income, elder housing facility. Methods: 106 participants …
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Benefit or Burden? Exploring Experiences of the Acute Hospital as a Place of Care Amongst People with Palliative Care Needs
… care. Supporting preferences for place of care and enabling death at home surrounded by family and friends remains the pinnacle of good palliative care. Evidence suggests that home remains the preferred place of care and place of death for most people. Yet, many people will spend a significant …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
The global food system, and the production and promotion of less healthy, heavily processed foods pose significant public health challenges. Decades of economic policies that have enabled the concentration of food production and retail among a small number of large, multinational corporations, and …