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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"formal networks"”.
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Nongovernmental Organizations, Formal Networks and Barrier Mitigation in Humanitarian Relief: A Case Study of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
… is to examine the role and effectiveness of formal network organizations in mitigating barriers to disaster relief. I address this larger focus by examining the impacts of one formal network organization, the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) on its twelve NGO members. …
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Social Protection for Well-Being. The effectiveness of social protection programmes in Bangladesh
… social protection benefits positively affect informal and formal networks and institutional trust and norms of behaviour. It also reveals that the educational status of beneficiaries can mediate informal and formal networks, interpersonal trust, and norms of reciprocity. The process evaluation …
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Traditional revolution : formalizing the informal : a proposal for the "periphery urbanite" Lagos, Abuja & Port-Harcourt
… of colonial urban development. Within these formal networks of roads and infrastructure, there exist a dynamic relationship between the excluded and the included. An informal network permeates the system with an aim to constantly push against barriers and force their way further in amidst the …
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Help-Seeking for Depression in Rural Women: A Community Portrait
… functioning in help-seeking, and 4) role of informal and formal networks in help-seeking. Tentative conclusions were reached based on the findings that suggest depression and help-seeking may be experienced in distinctive ways by rural dwelling women in this particular community. Further …
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Re-crafting Architecture in Philippi + the everyday - Developing the urban potentials and sites of production in the Cape Flats
… to surface relevant ongoing development of the informal economies and micro-industries shaping Philippi. This provides valuable information aiding in the understanding of the existing conditions of Philippi. The focus area of the Philippi Industrial Precinct sits on the eastern periphery of Cape …
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Managing secrecy and disclosure of domestic violence in affluent communities: a grounded theory ethnography
… culture of affluence, their interactions with informal and formal networks, and how those networks responded to mothers’ disclosures. Informed by community social organization, communication privacy management, and postmodern feminist theories, the resulting grounded theory demonstrates that this …
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Understanding Hospital Nurse Experiences in Coping with Stress Associated with Work-Family Conflict
… within the prep time prior to the shift; and d) formalizing the role of the nurse partner as a support structure. Although the role pressure and role demands typically leading to work-family conflict will not disappear, the solutions proposed in this study will allow leaders to strengthen the …
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… technologies, but largely disconnected from formal networks of biocapital reveals biomedical imaginaries of physicians in tension with severely limited material and symbolic resources. The instability that characterizes biomedicine in Gelel, Ethiopia, is evident in physician practices and …
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Neighborhood Attachment Among Latinos in Low-Income Communities
… factors, neighborhood conditions and social networks on six distinct components of neighborhood attachment. To expand on the survey findings, I conducted in-depth interviews with a subsample of Latino households that participated in the survey in San Antonio. I use a grounded approach to …
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Gender and career advancement in the sciences: a Thai case study
… qualifications; joining each other through formal networks; adopting a male working style; deploying a conflict avoidance strategy; relying on rules and regulations; being single; and drawing on support from family and colleagues. However, it is noteworthy that some of these strategies seem …