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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"eviction"”.
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Eviction Behaviour in the Kalahari Meerkats
Evictions are common in a substantial number of social species, yet they have seldom been studied in detail, and we know relatively little about the causes and consequences of eviction. While previous research has largely focused on the profiles of subordinate females (evictees) that make them most …
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Video Popularity Metrics and Bubble Cache Eviction Algorithm Analysis
… In this thesis we introduce a novel cache eviction strategy called ``Bubble,'' as well as two variants of Bubble, that can be applied to any-cast protocols to aid in optimising video delivery. Bubble, Bubble-LRU and Bubble-Insert were found to greatly reduce the quantity of video associated …
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CPHASH : a cache-partitioned hash table with LRU eviction
… - a scalable fixed size hash table that supports eviction using an LRU list, and CPSERVER - a scalable in memory key/value cache server that uses CPHASH to implement its hash table. CPHASH uses computation migration to avoid transferring data between cores. Experiments on a 48 core machine show …
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Mélange: Multi-tenant scheduling with adaptive eviction for graph processing clusters
… jobs. Mélange supports job priorities and eviction, while attempting to avoid starvation. We propose novel ways of exploiting domain-specific knowledge to achieve better scheduling decisions for graph processing jobs. We evaluate static eviction policies and design Mélange to adapt to the …
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Eviction or inclusion? : the politics of resettlement in Calcutta's squatter settlements
… Many of these projects will require the eviction of vast numbers of already impoverished squatters living in unrecognized slums. In this milieu, residents of unrecognized areas face the very urgent and real threat of eviction without any form of rehabilitation, due to their "illegal" …
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A new dream : redefining homeownership through the Post Foreclosure Eviction Defense Campaign
… stay in their homes. In addition to preventing evictions, this network has reformed law to better protect low-income homeowners, created programs that address the root of historic problems, and advocated for policy change. Collectively their model is referred to as the Post Foreclosure Eviction …
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Smiling in the face of precarity: housing and eviction in Hangberg, South Africa
Much has been written about housing and eviction in South Africa, and they are issues present throughout most of South Africa's recent history. The demolition of places such as Sophiatown or District Six has become some of the most common imagery reflecting the brutality of apartheid South Africa. …
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A Dream Denied: The Fight Against the Mass Eviction of Families in Chicago and Jacksonville, USA
The foreclosure crisis that followed the depression 2007–08 created a number distressed communities in two of the hardest hit cities across the United States, Chicago, and Jacksonville. Homeownership has long been the primary means for households to accumulate wealth within American society. Owning …
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Using machine learning to identify populations at high risk for eviction as an indicator of homelessness
… the homeless population continues to grow. Eviction, which has been proved by research to have a strong correlation with homelessness, is getting more attention in recent years. The U.S. government has also shifted strategies from providing emergency care to the homeless population to …
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The power of the court to grant alternative accommodation orders: an investigation into when an alternative accommodation order as a condition to the eviction of unlawful occupiers in terms of PIE would comply with the court's constitutional mandate
In an eviction matter, the court is required to consider all relevant circumstances and grant an order that is just and equitable. An important relevant circumstance to be considered is whether the unlawful occupiers have alternative accommodation. Courts are reluctant to grant eviction orders that …
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"Don't Destroy Our Neighborhood": Neighborhood Imaginaries and the Politics of Upzoning / Displacement through Development: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Residential Eviction and Capital Investment
… between building permit activity and residential evictions in Seattle and Tacoma, pointing to a robust pattern in which evictions immediately precede demolition and remodeling activity. Additionally, permit activity in the surrounding neighborhood is associated with an increased risk of eviction, …
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'Não são tijolos; são histórias': The Favela Housing Rights Movement of Rio de Janeiro
… of fourteen months of fieldwork following anti-eviction activity within informal settlements called favelas on public land in Rio de Janeiro. In the dissertation, I make a series of arguments. The first is that despite a lack of scholarly attention post-2016 Olympics, Rio is experiencing its own …
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"Every day is difficult for my body and my heart." Forced evictions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Women's narratives of risk and resilience
… analysis to explore the question: How do forced evictions impact the psychosocial health of displaced women in Phnom Penh, and what sources of risk and resilience frame how they manage the exigencies of displacement? I use Stress and Coping Theory to frame analysis of the narratives of evicted …
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We shall not be moved : advocacy and policy in a rapidly changing Boston
… perceived as contributing to a displacement and eviction crisis in Boston, organizations within the Right to the City Alliance proposed legislation that they felt would "slow down" the processes leading to eviction of tenants in larger buildings and former homeowners in their foreclosed …
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“NÃO ÀS REMOÇÕES: PELO DIREITO À MORADIA”: EXAMINING THE FANTASMA(S) DE REMOÇÃO/GHOSTS OF EVICTION AND THE INSURGENCE OF NETWORKED FAVELA HOUSING ACTIVISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO
… unprecedented challenges in the light of renewed eviction threats and displacement connected to real estate development and speculation. The right to remain has become ever more complex as favela communities wrestle with and against dispossession and the political contexts which underpin its …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… for low-income households. The first chapter, "Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market" (co-authored with Evan Soltas), studies the causes of evictions from rental housing and the welfare impact of policy interventions to address them. Court …
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Automating Accountability Mechanisms in the Judiciary System using Large Language Models
… jury selection for criminal trials and housing eviction cases. We find that while LLMs are well-suited for information extraction from eviction forms that have more structure, court transcripts present a unique challenge due to disfluencies in transcribed speech.
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ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POLICIES ON HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME INEQUALITY
… assistance, in preventing households from facing eviction. I examine this question using newly-available public data on the universe of court-ordered evictions in the United States and exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in historical housing voucher allocation. I find that every four to six …
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The Use of Force in Mass Evictions
… dissertation focuses on the use of force during evictions, particularly in the context of mass evictions (where mass evictions are defined as the eviction of a group of people from unlawfully occupied property). The South African approach to the use of force during evictions is evaluated through …
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