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Training civic bridge builders: Outcomes of community leadership development programs
As rural communities experience rapid economic, demographic, and political change, program interventions that focus on the development of community leadership capacity could be valuable. Community leadership development programs have been deployed in rural U.S. communities for the past 30 years by …
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Builders of the vision : technology and the imagination of design
This dissertation identifies and documents a "technological imagination of design" emerging around the reconfigured discourses of design and design representation by the culture of technology production in the Computer-Aided Design Project, a Cold War era research operation funded by the US Air …
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The City Builders: Chicago Businessmen and Their Changing Ethos, 1871-1909
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Risk management with residential real estate derivatives : strategies for home builders
… paper examines why and how publicly-traded home builders might use index-based residential property derivatives to manage risk. After describing a number of alternative reasons for hedging, I argue for a paradigm for risk management proposed by Kenneth Froot, David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein …
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Builders, craftsmen and tradesmen in Montgomery County, Virginia, between 1850 and 1900
The purpose of this study was to identify, through historic documents, the craftsmen of a specific region, Montgomery County, that may have contributed to the construction of area buildings between 1850 and 1900. Data from Population Census reports and Birth Registers were used to create a matrix …
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Constructing professional knowledge: the Neighborhood Unit concept in the community builders handbook
This dissertation concerns the diffusion of Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept between 1929 and 1969. It is grounded in a discourse analysis of the use of the Neighborhood Unit concept in the literature of twenty professional and governmental organizations. In the middle decades of the …
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Task and environmental uncertainty and adoption of technological innovations by home builders
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Diet, body weight patterns and menstrual status of competitive female body builders
… (BW) patterns of 6 competitive female body builders (x age = 27) before, during and after a competition. Precompetition (-28 to -26 d); (-9 to -7 d), competition (-2 to 0 d) and post competition (+1 to +3 d); (+26 to +28 d) 3-d diet and BW records were recorded. Diet records were analyzed …
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Affordable housing and upward mobility : bridging the divide at The Community Builders, Inc.
… nonprofit housing developer, The Community Builders, Inc. The process of integration, known as 'Ways & Means', remains in its nascent stages - programmatic goals remain undefined, making it difficult to provide a complete evaluation. What this thesis offers instead, however, is a formative …
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The effect of alternative detergent builders on the nutrient removal activated sludge sewage treatment process
Phosphate is an essential nutrient for photosynthetic plant growth. However if over-supplied in a water body, it leads to excessive algal growth, a condition is termed eutrophication. Eutrophication is not only unsightly, but renders the water less usable. Most of the highly eutrophied water bodies …
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The Idea Melting Pot (IMP) : an openly-editable web-based community learning resource for builders
… web-based community learning resource for builders. The idea for a resource such as this and how it might be structured stems from Seymour Papert's vision of a Constructopedia: [...] a browsable, interactive database, designed to help children build structures, mechanisms, and computer …
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Religious dialogue as a peace building tool between India and Pakistan : the Ulema as peace builders
Religion played a critical role in the creation of the State of Pakistan. However, religious dialogue has never been considered as a means of peace building between India and Pakistan. This dissertation probes the rationale and possibility of religious dialogue as a peace-building tool between the …
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An Analysis of the Accounting Methods Used by Builders Producing Twenty-Five or Fewer Homes per Year
… in any given year. Although small-volume home builders make up 70 percent of the membership of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), a trade association of the home building industry, little is known about the accounting practices of these builders. This thesis undertook to study …
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Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of the Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning
An interdisciplinary project situated at the intersection of workplace writing, network theory, rhetorical theory and the study of public discourses, this dissertation argues for how these areas of inquiry intersect productively so that we can better understand the effects of workplace writing on …
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The Builders versus the Birds: Wetlands, People and Public Policy in the United States, Florida and Hillsborough County
This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of humans' relationship to the natural environment, specifically how wetlands are reflected in our legislative decisions. Our perceptions of wetlands and our relationship to the environment are influenced by our locality, history, and inter-generational …
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Fair work Austin : a study of consumer willingness to pay for premier community builders certified construction in Austin, Texas
… stakeholders to create the Premier Community Builders (PCB) certification program. Certification programs, which require businesses to meet minimum set of standards in exchange for a seal or trademark that publicizes their commitment to corporate social responsibility, have become a popular …
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The effects of varying protein/carbohydrate ratio of a hypocaloric diet on body composition and muscular function in body builders
The effects of two hypocaloric diets on body weight (BW), percent body fat (%BF), lean body mass (LBM) and static muscular endurance were studied in college aged experienced male weightlifters for 7 days. Nineteen (X age = 20.6) volunteers were randomly assigned to one of three groups: control …
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Innovation and the big builders : barriers to integrating sustainable design and construction practices into the production homebuilding industry : the case of Pulte Homes
… they are having on large scale production homebuilders, what I will refer to as mega-production builders, are leading to a period in which this ever-growing segment of the industry will be ripe for more innovative practices. To test this hypothesis, I have undertaken a case study of two …
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