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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"geographic contexts"”.
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Toward a Natural Language Processing-based Model for Workplace Culture Scoring
… perceptions of culture may differ across geographic contexts.
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Boycott Toolkit : collaborative research for collective economic action
… contributed content and by linking specific geographic contexts with potential individual actions. To better understand the needs of a real-world boycott campaign, the author traveled to Israel and the West Bank to meet with human rights advocates, international aid workers, journalists and …
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Understanding the Behavioral Health of Children in Child Protective Services: Prevalence, Community Context, and System Involvement Using Administrative Data
… and disparities by age, race/ethnicity, sex, geographic context (urban vs. rural), and system involvement (CPS investigation vs. foster care). Paper 2 leverages county-level data to examine contextual factors on adolescent behavioral health. It describes how the prevalence of behavioral health …
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Changes in Suid and Caprine Husbandry Practices Throughout Dynastic Egypt Using Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH)
… LEH, possible changes in husbandry practices, geographic, as well as site contexts, and compare it to modern Egyptian pig and caprine data from similar geographic contexts. Results indicate that enamel hypoplasia is common throughout the thirteen different sites throughout Egypt discussed in …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… By exploring the historical, aesthetic, and geographic contexts within the West German fashion media’s normative representation of the ideal German man, this dissertation demonstrates how the popular culture of mass-produced men’s fashion illustration manifested often unspoken and powerful …
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Conceptions of Civic and Community Engagement Across Cultures: A Comparative Case Study of U.S. Universities and Their Branch Campuses in Qatar
… how these models are adapted for transnational contexts. While international branch campuses are often examined through the lenses of globalization and knowledge transfer, their civic roles remain unexplored. This study examined how three American universities—Virginia Commonwealth University, …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
… and design mechanisms; and historical and geographic contexts. Second, through developing and applying a methodology for evaluating how far design and community involvement processes in primary care building projects, built during the 1990s, have been successful in meeting the World Health …
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Listening to urban sound: A mixed-method approach for understanding human mobility, individual sound exposure, and psychological well-being
… a sound is a noise are largely influenced by contexts. However, the processes of how people experience urban sound and the mechanisms of how human mobility influences people’s perceptions of and responses to sound remain unclear. This dissertation analyzes the relationships among human …
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Imagining Un Futuro Digno: Indigenous Youth Striving For Non-Migration In Guatemala
… youth aspirations for non-migratory futures in contexts of extensive migration. This dissertation asks: how does immobility becomes desired and sought after by young people in social-geographic contexts of extensive mobility? What does it mean to live and make futures in these contexts? What do …
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Scale and the Interpretation of Voting Patterns in Virginia, 2003-2006
… Yet most studies do not consider how different geographic contexts can affect the political perceptions of voters. In particular, people who live in close proximity to one another may come to embrace similar beliefs and values, while broader social and economic processes may divide these …
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Knowledge transfer to facilitate industrial symbiosis : a case study of UK-China collaborators
… initiatives to be transferred between geographic contexts is a largely neglected issue in industrial symbiosis literature. Practice replication can be viewed as a knowledge transfer process. In order to address that issue, this study adopts a theoretical framework drawn from the …
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
… with the New Zealand Living Standard Framework. Geographic Information System (GIS)-based analysis is performed following the ILM analysis to spatially illustrate the intersections between climate hazards and vulnerable infrastructure assets. The spatial overlay method utilised in this thesis …
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Examing the new education experiment in China: An exploratory study of participating teachers' changed view of comprehensive efficacy
… of positive TVM was considered: 1) school's geographic contexts, which had been unrelated to positive TVCE, became related not only to negative TVCE but also to positive TVCE; 2) the non-significant variable of professional title became a significant predictor of both positive and negative …
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How Message Framing and Activating Constructs Reduce Psychological Distance: Strengthening Connections Between Supporters and Beneficiaries
… sector that operates across diverse cultural and geographic contexts, hospitality companies are inherently tied to local communities. These deep-rooted connections make social responsibility not only relevant but essential to long-term success and legitimacy in the industry. Traditionally, social …
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Data Science for Multisectoral Water Use Management and STEM Education: A Synergistic Approach
… for different household categories and geographic contexts. Following the demonstrated applications in water resources management, this dissertation derives the principles for integrating data science into established undergraduate curricula through a multi-university research-practice …