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Showing 1 to 20 of 15028 for “"communities"”.
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Communities for liberation.
… community activist groups in the United States. Communities Organized For Public Service (COPS), founded in 1973 in San Antonia, Texas, is the largest and most successful of these groups. COPS recruits and educates mainly lower class, hispanic people in Alinsky style confrontational tactics and …
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Communities of Tweeple: How Communities Engage with Microblogging When Co-located
… findings lead us to conclude that collocation of communities, like conferences, has a substantial effect on online microblogging behaviors.
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Online Communities and Health
People are increasingly turning to online communities for entertainment, information, and social support, among other uses and gratifications. Online communities include traditional online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook but also specialized online health communities (OHCs) where people go …
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Healthy Stores For Healthy Communities
… (HSHC) campaign through their Tobacco Free Communities program. This campaign, previously conducted in 2013, is a statewide campaign that assesses product availability and marketing of tobacco, alcohol, healthy/unhealthy food and beverages in local communities. While there are other …
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Microreactor for remote Canadian communities
Remote Canadian communities rely on diesel generators for their electricity needs. Providing such generators with fuel year-round presents challenges because of inclement weather and long transportation distances involved. This work presents the conceptual design of a 10 MWth microreactor that can …
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School readiness in urban communities
<p>The purposes of this exploratory investigation were to (a) ascertain school readiness influences of young children ages birth to three in the New Jersey Early Intervention System, (b) to analyze race and ethnicity trends of the children within the program, (c) and to see if individual …
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Building Partnerships With Indigenous Communities
… researchers embark on research with indigenous communities with good intentions but can unintentionally continue to oppress. While existing research shows building partnerships with indigenous communities, requires researchers to work “with” not “for” communities and walk side-by-side, and to do …
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
… of recent years – the plan to create sustainable communities via Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders (HMRP). Announced as a ‘step change’ in urban policy to overcome problems of low demand and abandonment experienced most acutely in nine former industrial towns and cities in the north and midlands …
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Interfaith Communities: Relationships in Thirdspace
… impacts on individuals within interfaith communities, as well as orientation towards religious communities. While there are common struggles, interpretations, and socializations that hinder the participation of women and non-binary individuals in institutional interfaith spaces, observing …
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Strategies for engineering microbial communities
Understanding how microbes assemble into communities is a fundamental open question in biology, with applications to human health, environmental sustainability, and metabolic engineering. Although it is known that the competition and exchange of nutrients (i.e., metabolic interactions) shape …
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Multiscale modeling of microbial communities
… exist in nature primarily in the form of complex communities, participating in a vast array of social interactions through regulatory gene networks. The social interactions between individual cells drive the emergence of community structures, resulting in an intricate relationship across multiple …
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Competence, Expertise, and Linguistic Communities
This difference in requirements for the two groups hinges upon a distinction between belief and attributed belief, or what one actually believes versus what one is thought to believe. I argue that expertise involves playing a social role and thus is not simply a matter of having many relevant …
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Essays on Craft and Communities
… one of the oldest forms of informal organizing – communities. The three studies in this thesis all explore questions surrounding the motivations of individuals and collectives for continuous engagement with the social structures they are part of. Paper 1 investigates how historical dependence on …
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Emergent behaviors in microbial communities
… and symmetries at larger scales. Microbial communities, which play indispensable roles in nature, are complex active systems that naturally pushes us to the unexplored frontier of emergent phenomena. During my PhD, I studied how some behaviors of microbial communities can be simple at …
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Planned communities for coal miners
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1952.
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Environmental modulation of microbial communities
Microbial communities are crucial to the health of all ecosystems, and their vast diversity constitutes the majority of species on Earth. A single sample of such a community immediately reveals its complexity, but simultaneously the challenges to understanding its form and function. First, a sample …
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