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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"limited-resource"”.
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Limited Resource Countries and Agricultural Development: A Methodology Used for the Caribbean
… to determine the optimal patterns of production, resource use and trade flows which would maximize agriculture's contribution to economic development in the smaller Caribbean islands. It is also aimed at outlining an appropriate model for development planning and the policy options consistent with …
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Enhancing Limited-Resource Farmers' Economic, Environmental, and Social Outcomes Through Extension Education
… Cooperative Extension program has helped limited-resource farmers realize economic, environmental, and social outcomes through its 1890 Extension education program. Since1990, there has been little research on recent contributions of 1890 Extension programs for this audience. This inquiry …
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Farm safety and health needs among limited resource farmersin selected counties of North Carolina
… to investigate health and safety problems among limited resource farmers in selected counties of North Carolina. The survey method with a mail questionnaire was used to collect the data. The sample for this study consisted of 297 limited resource farmers in North Carolina. Selected conclusions …
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Implementing a community-based caregiver intervention in limited-resource settings: a focus on implementation strategies
… on the use of implementation strategies in low-resourced settings. The World Health Organization Caregiver Skills Training Programme (WHO-CST) for families of children with developmental disabilities was piloted in a rural setting in South Africa and was called the 'Diamond Families Project'. …
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Dietary Acculturation, Physical Activity and Body Image in Limited-Resource Latino Women in Northern Virginia
… physical activity, and body image in a limited resource Latina population in northern Virginia. Acculturation may be described as a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group. Acculturation has been associated with a variety changes in …
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The Development of a Patient-Specific, Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics Tool to Comprehensively and Innovatively Study Coarctation of the Aorta in a Limited Resource Clinical Context
… data [2]. This emphasises the restricted human resources, as well as diagnostic and intervention capacity of specialists in Africa which leads to delayed treatment, presentation with established severity and, consequently, a worse prognosis. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is seen as the tool …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
… in either a positively or negatively framed limited resource allocation decision. Participants were asked to read medical case files about either a high or low status patient in need of a heart transplant, then assigned the patient a transplant priority rating based on information in the case …
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Computed tomography findings in patients with minor head trauma presenting with a history of loss of consciousness and/or amnesia, Glasgow Coma Scale 15 and no focal neurological deficit
… South Africa is a developing country with limited resources. Currently, in our institution, patients who have suffered a minor head injury with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 15, loss of consciousness (LOC) and amnesia obtain a computed tomography (CT) scan, regardless of the cost that is …
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Factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation practices in Virginia's Piedmont Bright Leaf Erosion Control Area
… expectations, race, and erosion potential. Limited resource farmers face particular constraints to the adoption of conservation practices because of the importance of financial factors. However, they are not so constrained in their use of conservation tillage. For the study sample, the …
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Ego Depletion and Delay of Gratification
… suggests that self-control draws from a limited resource. Therefore, resistance to immediate temptation can be impaired when that resource is depleted. Participants performed a difficult or easy serial subtraction task (cognitive processing) in front of or in the absence of a video camera …
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A quality improvement project evaluating the perioperative implementation of a hypertension management protocol by anaesthesiologists at seven government hospitals in the Western Cape. “a multi-center, cross-sectional quality improvement project: the peri-operative implementation of a hypertension protocol by anesthesiologists”
… in patients presenting for elective surgery. In limited resource environments, patients have poor access to primary care physicians, limiting the efficacy of life-style modification for the initial management of hypertension in the community. In these circumstances, the perioperative period …
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Presidential Fundraising: A Multiple Case Study of Rural Serving Oklahoma Community Colleges
… including continued budgetary shortfalls and limited resource allocation. Review of the academic literature addressing this subject exposed a wide variety of rationales associated with this leadership shift, as well as successful presidential approaches to fundraising in modern higher …
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Swept Neutral Pressure Instrument (SNeuPI): Investigating Gravity Waves In The Ionosphere
… use of a low power instrument, to be used on a limited-resource satellite. The background and theoretical analysis is presented first, followed by descriptions of the mechanical and electrical designs. The laboratory tests are limited to a vacuum chamber setup that simulates the conditions of …
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The Importance of Restraint in Gauging the Effects of Ego Depletion on Alcohol Motivation
… Tice, 2007) posits that self-control draws on a limited resource that becomes depleted following repeated use. The term “ego depletion” is used to refer to this temporary loss of self-control. The current study examined the effect of ego depletion on alcohol-related cognitions to determine if the …
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Efficient data collection strategies for rapid learning in physical environments
… collection, maximizing inference quality under limited resource budget. In this work, we consider efficient data collection strategies in several applications involving physical environments. We study the problem of learning dynamical systems with initial approximated models, where we prescribe …
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Optimal information storage : nonsequential sources and neural channels
… is to preserve as much signal fidelity under resource constraints as possible. The information storage theorem delineates average fidelity and average resource values that are achievable and those that are not. Moreover, observable properties of optimal information storage systems and the …
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Conflict, cooperation, and viability interstate water resources and domestic water use in the Middle East
… over water. However, conflict over scarce water resources is not the only possible outcome. Cooperation between states to share the benefits of this increasingly precious commodity is not only another possibility; it is the more likely outcome. Wars fought over water are very unlikely to end …
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Program Assessment and Curriculum Change in Accredited and Non-Accredited Associate Degree Nursing Programs
… variable of concern. Faculty time is a limited resource and may be attributed to nurse administrators inability to "close the loop" in the assessment process and apply results to curriculum change.</p>
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EXPLORING AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE RESOURCE MODEL OF DEPLETION
… suggesting that self -regulation relies on a limited resource, such that engaging in self-control depletes the res ource, resulting in reduced success at subsequent efforts at self-control (Muraven, Tice, & Baumeister, 1998). Little research has explored this depletion effect in older adults, …
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The Ravenscar-compliant hardware run-time (Ravenhart) kernel
… timing constraints on operational behavior, limited resource availability, and stringent certification standards. The heart of any embedded system is its run-time system (RTS), which provides resource management, task creation and deletion, and manages inter-task communication. The …
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