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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"bridge building"”.
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Bridge building : afterschool activities, youth social networks, and community development
In recent years, U.S. cities have dramatically increased funding for afterschool activities. These afterschool programs may contribute to community development by expanding social networks, providing new channels for the flow of information and resources to low income neighborhoods. Drawing on …
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The progressive synthesis of architecture and engineering in modern bridge design
… The architect appeals to the plastic form of a building before tending to its structural behavior while the engineer tends towards the opposite. While both are striving for a workable structure, their priorities are mismatched. Bridge building, through history usually was considered an …
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Bridging River's Edge Sports Complex
… issue of revealing the structural integrity of a building through the design of a recreational sports facility. The designated site for this sports facility is the River's Edge Sports Complex located in Roanoke, Virginia. A unique setting because the Roanoke River nearly cuts through the center of …
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Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization
The One America Movement is a nonprofit, bridge-building organization founded after the 2016 presidential election. The organization is committed to combating toxic polarization all over the country. On January 27, 2019, One America organized a meeting in South Jordan, Utah in which Latter-day …
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Toward A Life-Changing Application Paradigm in Expository Preaching
… principle, and then to formulate a four-bridge application paradigm based on four distinguished processes--exegetical, doctrinal, homiletical, and transformational--aiming at transforming the lives of listeners for the glory of God. Chapter 1 analyzes the indispensability of a …
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The odyssey of intuition : a non-reductive interpretation of technology through a case study of bridges
… the varying perceptions and definitions of the " bridge" are established. Two levels of definition are proposed: first, the architects' and engineers' framework for defining "bridge," and secondly, the ontic-ontological dimensions of the "bridge." The case studies provide the facts to which these …
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Teaching English in Saudi Arabia Through the Use of Multimedia
… vocabulary. Finally, It will serve as a bridge-building tool to complex reading through the use of graphic novels.</p>
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Reconfigurable Autonomous Surface Vehicles : perception and trajectory optimization algorithms
… enabling use cases such as ASV docking and bridge-building on water. These methods increase the potential of urban and non-urban ASVs in the field. The underlying planners in turn contribute to the motion planning and trajectory optimization toolbox for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), …
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The Influence of Identity on Art and How it Can Connect Us to Our Community
… art teachers might contextualize their work as bridge-building between students and the larger world, ways in which administrators and districts might help facilitate art as an academically integrative and publicly facing core discipline, and as a call for policy makers to prioritize arts as …
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Valuable bridges : cable-stayed bridges and value engineering in American civil engineering culture, 1969-1979
A history and theory of cable-stayed bridges in the context of a cultural discourse on civil construction projects' value, this thesis studies the significance of cable-stayed bridge designs to 'value engineering' objectives for major highway bridge projects of the 1970s. This study of preliminary …
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Design and performance of Thomas Telford's Bonar Bridge and Mythe Bridge
This paper assesses two cast-iron arch bridges of Thomas Telford (1757-1834) - Bonar Bridge (1810-12) and Mythe Bridge (1824-26) - to draw a broader conclusion about his career in bridge building. The bridges are introduced and Telford's design influences are investigated. While Telford was …
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Growing Your Own And Growing Social Cohesion? A Study of the Social and Civic Dividends of Urban Agriculture (UA) Initiatives: Dublin and Belfast
… explicit attempt by urban dwellers to engage in bridge-building across the community divide, ameliorate residual ethno-religious/national divisions in the city and transcend the politicization of everyday urban life. Indeed, in both cities, allotment gardening creates a form of social levelling …
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Do increases in task difficulty lead to corresponding increases in group efficacy, cohesiveness and performance?
… cohesiveness and group performance, a Leonardo`s Bridge Building exercise (Metalogs, 2010) was set. A small pilot study compared efficacy collection methods and was adjusted accordingly. Both pilot and main studies confirmed that, as task difficulty increases, there is a corresponding increase in …
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Interest Group Politics in U.S. "Social Housing" Experiments
… social housing represents an opportunity for bridge-building and collaboration across the housing movements. As interest in these models grows, this research offers practical insights for advocates and policymakers seeking to design locally tailored, politically viable approaches to …
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Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… is that it is possible to construct a bridge spanning the divide between constitutional economists and deliberative democrats, and that Dewey and Bentley's transactional view can facilitate this bridge-building project. Pursuant to this end, the points of opposition between the research …
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Exploring Cultural Competence in the Lived Experience of Instructional Designers
… involved. From this research, I present a bridge-building metaphor as a description of how an increased sensitivity to cultural differences influences can change the practice of instructional designers. Additional efforts are needed to educate and get buy-in from other stakeholders to …
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Behaviour and analysis of a flexible concrete arch
… 20,h century led to a decline in masonry arch bridge building. Traditional masonry arch construction is time consuming and involves considerable formwork usually in the form of timber centring, as well as traditional skills. It is also limited by the spans at which the design is efficient. As a …
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A methodology for the expository narrative preaching as applied to the Old Testament narrative : from text to sermon presentation
… the homiletical process, the author examines the bridge-building model and the merging model and suggests a full 360 degree model as an alternative model. This model is then applied to the Old Testament narrative genre. Throughout this dissertation, the author tries to show the full process of the …
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An action research evaluation to understand and inform the role of the Integrated Care Pharmacist across health and social care
… pharmacists include participant empowerment and bridge building between health and social care professionals.Furthermore, this study contributes to existing knowledge by identifying enablers and showing how they can optimise these outcomes. A key enabler was to fully embed the IC pharmacist role …
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