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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"development communities"”.
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Cooperation in parallel : a tool for supporting collaborative writing in diverged documents
… of work in the free and open source software development communities to describe "cooperation in parallel" - a mode of collaborative writing among parties with diverged goals and distinct documents. It examines the social and technological requirements of cooperation in parallel for writing …
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Urban Main Street redevelopment : a comparison of the developer-driven and the community-driven approach
… newly found interest of private developers and communities to bring back the urban Main Street has brought with it questions about what the Main Street should be. Private developers see the inner city as the next frontier for retail development. Communities are attempting to redevelop their …
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Prompting meaningful analysis from pre-service teachers using elementary mathematics video vignettes
… theoretically grounded and popular professional development activity. In online professional development communities, however, responses to video are often shallow and lack meaningful commentary about the issues that surround teaching and learning mathematics. Given the lack of apparent …
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Homebrew and the social construction of gaming : community, creativity, and legal context of amateur Game Boy Advance development
… the common social construction of game development, which perceives the activity only within its commercial, corporate realm. As an exemplar of the many thriving amateur development communities, the self-identified "homebrew" Nintendo Game Boy Advance (GBA) development community is …
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Trade facilitation in the Southern African development community: the potential contribution of the world trade organization's trade facilitation agreement
… facilitation of trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It considers the fact that there have been several regional and international agreements that the SADC countries have entered into with the objective of alleviating trade facilitation obstacles in their region. In …
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Graphene Brain on a Chip Platform for the Study of Neurodegeneration
… a new tool for the neuroscience and drug development communities.
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Development, local politics and the "new Europe" in County Donegal : an ethnographic study
… 1997 and January 1998. It is focused upon three "development communities" in the county: development professionals, voluntary activists working for area based community groups, and elected members of Donegal County Council. The primary aim of the study is to examine the social basis for the …
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Critical Programming: Toward a Philosophy of Computing
… as well as guide ethnographers of software development communities. I call my syncretism of these approaches the procedural rhetoric of diachrony in synchrony, recognizing that multiple explanatory layers operating in their individual temporal and physical orders of magnitude simultaneously …
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Opportunities and Challenges of Cultural Heritage Tourism: Socio-economic politics of sustainable tourism in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
… the government to improve the welfare of communities and to maintain cultural identity. Realising the importance of the mandate, different levels of government have adopted sustainability and/or sustainable development in formulating tourism policies and planning. I bring together the …
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The Adoption of Low Impact Development by Local Governments
Low impact development (LID) is an innovative stormwater management technique that was introduced in early 1990s. However, the transition to use of this more sustainable method has been slow due to technical, institutional, and regulatory barriers to LID adoption. The research questions for this …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… take-off to long-term self-sustaining growth and development in recipient countries as Rosenstein-Rodan (1961), Chenery and Strout (1966) and others have hypothesised, it is far from being realised in SSA economies. This has provoked concern for the effectiveness of donor policy and the …
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Improving the Sustainability of Rural Electrification Schemes: Capturing Value for Rural Communities in Uganda
… Africa despite significant investment by the development community. One fundamental reason is that energy infrastructure adoption remains low, as evidenced by the lack of project sustainability. To counter this, the challenge for energy project developers is to achieve sustainable long-term …
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Linking entrepreneurial motivation, attitude, behaviour and sustainable supply chain performance measurement in South African manufacturing small and medium enterprises
… of SMEs in a significant way towards sustainable developments. Lack of resources leads to a negative attitude to sustainability endeavours. Theoretical contribution: The study has contributed to sustainability literature, the interface among entrepreneurial motives, attitudes, and behaviour …
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Redefining Resilience in Healthcare Leadership
… develop, through participation in a leadership communities of practice. The term resilience has been misunderstood within healthcare and is often thought of as an inherent trait that leaders possess, rather than a skill that can be developed. As such, this study explored reimagining resilience …