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Public health surveillance systems "Evidence informing practice"
Surveillance is as an essential function of a public health system. This thesis contains three discrete examples of public health surveillance, each utilising different methods and data sources to inform relevant areas of public health practice in NSW. The first study, which investigated the …
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Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Snakes: Informing Conservation Education
Public aversion to snakes poses a challenge to conservation efforts. This study explored how sociodemographic factors, emotional responses, and personal experiences influence attitudes toward snakes and willingness to engage in conservation education programs. A quantitative survey of 369 Canadian …
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Informing the theory of collective entrepreneurship: investment choice
Olson's seminal work on the logic of collective action predicts that individuals will not act collectively to further common economic goals except under certain conditions. This work utilizes transaction cost economics, an ownership cost framework, and the concept of entrepreneurial spawning to …
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Pediatric Microarray Testing: The Process of Informing and Consenting
… pediatric genetic counselors' current methods of informing and consenting families for microarray testing. We sought to understand barriers to informing and consenting families, as well as to learn from the first-hand experiences of pediatric genetic counselors offering microarray testing to …
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Informing design decisions : an approach to corporate building design
This thesis is an investigation into design methodologies. How do we, as designers, prepare ourselves for decision making and evaluate our assumptions and decisions? The intent is to employ this information as a basis for integration of architectural design processes with economic principles, …
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Risk-informing decisions about high-level nuclear waste repositories
Performance assessments (PAs) are important sources of information for societal decisions in high-level radioactive waste (HLW) management, particularly in evaluating safety cases for proposed HLW repository development. Assessing risk from geologic repositories for HLW poses a significant …
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Informing Data-Driven Recyclable Aluminum Design with Phase Constraints
The design of new aluminum alloys for recycling constitutes a large, multi-dimensional composition space. Within a Bayesian optimization blending model, phase or composition constraints are necessary to narrow the design space within and focus on regions that may contain viable alloys. This thesis …
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Healthy Food Access and Consumption: Informing Interventions Through Analytics
In the U.S., about 19 million people reside in low income food deserts--neighborhoods where the majority of the population does not have access to large grocery stores. These areas are associated with less healthy diets and higher rates of poor health outcomes such as obesity and heart disease. …
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Evaluating and informing reformulation strategies to achieve healthier Australian diets
Unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are the leading cause of death and disability in Australia and globally. The World Health Organization recommends a suite of policies to address diet-related NCDs, including governmental regulation of the food …
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Shakespeare and King Henry V: Historical Research Informing Artistic Decisions
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) remains simultaneously the most produced and most studied playwright in the English-speaking world. With so many Shakespeare festivals spread across Canada and the United States, it seems that there would be ample opportunity for the artistic and academic communities …
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Informing decision-making in single-objective, mixed-variable design problems
Data-driven decision-making in mixed-variable design problems presents a variety of challenges and opportunities, especially in the increasingly data-rich field of emissions in architectural and structural design. Designers can benefit from an underlying knowledge about, for example, whether …
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The Everyday: Informing the realm of routine practice through design
… something that is experienced. When it comes to informing and interpreting the everyday through design, early contemporary theorists Michael De Certeau, Henri Lefebvre and Georges Perec to contemporary advocates of landscape architecture, such as Walter Hood and Laurie Olin, have provided a …
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Informing Vocabulary Interventions using Principles from the Science of Word Learning
Vocabulary knowledge is essential for children’s reading success (Dickinson & Porche, 2011; Ouellette, 2006). Unfortunately, even before formal schooling begins, glaring differences in language ability exist between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their more advantaged peers (Hart & …
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Informing public health policy and practice in populations with diverse needs
In Australia there is a gap between those with the best and poorest health, which has implications for the health outcomes of some of the most disadvantaged groups in the community. In this thesis, I present four applied research projects that were undertaken across a broad range of public health …
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Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen
<p>Desire informs the good and examined life by giving meaning to and requiring training for human drives. In investigating Plato’s dialogues for how desire informs philosophy, comparison gives way to a genealogical hermeneutic; the obvious want to find changes or discrepancies in Plato’s texts, …
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Social representations informing discourses of young leaders: a case study of Tanzania
This dissertation is a theoretical and textual analysis of the discursive practice of young leaders in Tanzania, as a means to understand the dominant representations of a group that plans to take over the leadership of the country In the future. Representations are collective discursive formations …
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Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans
Given South Africa's ethnic complexities, comparatively little has been written about the group known as white English-speaking South Africans, or WESSAs. This is partly because of the lack of collective sentiment shared by people categorised as WESSAs, partly because the group boundaries are not …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
Data-driven approaches hold immense potential for improving public health decision-making in complex, uncertain, and high-risk environments. Yet, there are several key challenges that stand in the way of successfully leveraging large-scale, heterogeneous, and noisy data into timely and actionable …
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Informing Royal Navy People Strategy: Understanding Career Aspirations and Behaviours of Naval Personnel
Following a series of imposed redundancies in the Royal Navy (RN) there was a need to understand the career desires of remaining personnel and how these interact with important organisational behaviours and turnover. Taking a social psychology perspective, this thesis addresses criticisms over the …
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