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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"civil sector"”.
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Multi-scale regional transportation governance : evaluating cooperation and decision-making at New York Penn Station
… also government officials, private companies and civil sector organizations. Through interviews with twenty-five senior officials from public, private, academic and civil sector organizations, we explored current regional governance structures and the reality of decision-making, as well as the …
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The conversant community : HIV health promotion work at Action Séro Zéro
… paradigm, as a self-organizing, grassroots civil sector well placed to address fundamental health issues. Such conceptions pose problems for undertaking prevention work within the complex, contested, and far-from-ideal terrain of 'the gay community.' Practices that encourage conversation, …
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Transnational networks and nation-building: the protest of Barágua and the transition from plantation societies to the modern nation-state in Cuba and the Americas
… and historically alongside the emergence of a civil sector that included the growing importance of locally developed social institutions. The proliferation of political clubs, literary salons, and other civic organizations, analytically results in the reformulation of interdisciplinary …
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Simulazione energetica di scenari per la produzione combinata a servizio di edifici civili in area mediterranea
… boosted construction and architecture sectors. Recent European directives (2010/31/UE e 2012/27/UE) promote the reformulation of energetic planning rules and the adoption of environmental-friendly models including the nearly zero-energy buildings, which can be realised through increased …
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The partnership of peacebuilding: A case study of justice development in Haiti.
… emerged is examined in the context of justice sector development in Haiti. Issues that tended to complicate the peacebuilding process, and impact on the success of the intervention: multilateralism and donor self-interest, the need of systems development, the role of the civil sector, success …
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Red transnacional de defensa para la democratización de los medios de comunicación: el papel de la sociedad civil en las reformas en Argentina y Uruguay
… los medios no solo como espacio para el uso del sector privado o estatal sino que reconoce la necesidad de reservar un tercio del espectro para el uso de la sociedad civil, sector que previo estaba explícita o tácitamente excluido. (…). La exclusión le dio una razón al activismo. Esto era una …
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Exploratory study to evaluate the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Namibia's manufacturing sector
… small businesses operating in the manufacturing sector in Namibia. The objectives were to establish whether there exists a conducive business environment – that is an environment conducive for small businesses in the manufacturing sector to develop networks and build new institutional …
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How differences in heavy civil project set-up practices impact performance
… of pre-construction planning in the heavy civil sector. Data utilized was derived from a national survey developed specifically for this research. A mailed questionnaire was sent to 1,334 senior executives nationally, of whom 121 responded. Participants were asked to respond to questions …
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Robust GPS-based timing for phasor measurement units based on single-receiver and multi-receiver position-information-aided vector tracking
… Since power systems are considered part of the civil sector, PMUs must utilize the civil GPS signals to obtain the time reference. However, the low received signal strength and unencrypted nature of the civil GPS signal leaves PMU reliability susceptible to both non-malicious and malicious …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Personal, Schooling and Structural Factors Contributing to High School Learner Dropout in Philippi
… in Philippi, strategic partnerships among civil sector, government departments, parents and schools as well as enhanced teacher support constitute part of the recommendations.
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Collaboration and Conflict: Organized Labor, Business, and the State in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
… to the streets. In the interest of preserving civil order and conveying an international image of stability in Mexico, authorities opted to confront dissent firmly. Skirmishes between student-led groups and government forces escalated until culminating in the killing of hundreds of protestors …
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FRP-Based High-Performance Building Envelopes - An investigation on the environmental performance of GFRP sandwich panels
… review on FRP applications in the civil sector with focus on architectural projects. The literature review focusses on the long-term performance of FRP materials subjected to ageing parameters comparable to the natural weathering, which corresponds to the load regime the targeted …
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Towards sustainability in South Africa : a study of local government sustainability planning in the Cape Metropolitan Area
… especially amongst the marginalised and poor sectors of society. These legacies must be understood and addressed in order to carry-out successful sustainability planning processes. Since 1994 sustainability in South Africa has received significant attention in the legislation which has …