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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"local support"”.
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Implementing environmental policies in Developing Countries : responding environmental impacts of tourism development by creating environmentally protected areas in Bahia, Brazil
… policies mainly because they lack political support, they have insufficient financial resources, they have not developed adequate institutional capacity, and they tend to overlook the importance of cooperation at the local level. However, the Bahia State government in Northeast Brazil was …
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Community drama as medium in community social work
… by the social worker (enabler) to enlist local support in working on community needs. Within community social work, the medium consists of the following phases: the introduction and preparation, performance, audience involvement and the follow-up phase. The enabler is viewed as an …
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A system dynamics approach to educational technology introduction in Developing countries
… infrastructure, the presence of strong local champions and a local support ecosystem. Interviews were conducted with stakeholders involved in two pilot implementations in Nigeria. A system dynamics model was used to investigate into the relative effects of relevant factors on the speed …
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Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment
… the social construction and distribution of local knowledge & resources within a contested urban location. Through the identification of global and local issues, new perspectives developed through the consideration and incorporation of local socio-educational networks act as crucial points of …
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Parents Speak: An Ethnographic Study of Autism Parents
… The parents described are all members of a local support group, and together, they engage in practices of self-education, advocacy, and activism. By recounting parents' stories, this ethnography demonstrates the difficulties of the early moments of becoming an autism parent: the official …
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Fracked Perceptions: Changes in Perception Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Among Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania.
… as mineral rights acquisition, land-leasing, and local business development. However, economic benefits diminished as Dimock advanced through a boom period resulting in a current economic and ecological bust. Two months of data collection occurred in the summer of 2016 using semi-structured …
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Perceptions of educational professionals regarding the goals and implementation of the school cluster system reform in Namibia: a case study of one cluster in Caprivi region: 1999-2011
… a SCS seeks to enhance education quality through localised decision-making, interschool cooperation and community participation in education. One of the key assumptions of the SCS reform is that it seeks to achieve cost-effectiveness by allowing schools to pool educational resources. The focus on …
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Individuals with Parkinson's disease and their experiences with changes in communication and behavioral speech therapies
… with the reduced movement in the muscles that support breathing, vocal loudness, and articulation (Parkinson Foundation, 2023). Current treatment options for the management of these symptoms include medication therapy or behavioral speech therapy. Individuals living with Parkinson's disease …
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On the Construction of Linear Prewavelets over a Regular Triangulation.
<p>In this thesis, all the possible semi-prewavelets over uniform refinements of regular triangulations have been studied. A corresponding theorem is given to ensure the linear independence of a set of different pre-wavelets obtained by summing pairs of these semi-prewavelets. This provides …
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Capability of Zambian industries to manufacture grid-scale wind turbine blades and towers.
… studies did not investigate the capability of local support industries, this research intends to bridge that knowledge gap. The purpose of this study was to investigate and profile the capability of Zambian industries to manufacture wind turbine (WT) blades and towers. The study used a …
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Motivations and Attitudes for Pursuing Anonymous Genetic Testing for Huntington’s Disease
… and in-person at the UTHealth HD clinic and a local support group. Responses (N=135) were analyzed via descriptive statistics, Kruskal-Wallis test, and a multinomial logistic regression with significance values of p﹤0.05. Most participants (79%) reported that anonymous testing should be offered …
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Analysis of the labeling discourse between the Jamaat ud Dawa and its critics seen through the Pakistani print media
… context of a sympathetic society that provides support to an allegedly terrorist organization. Firstly, it reveals whether the GWOT alliances' public messages declaring that an organization is terrorist are culturally resonant in Pakistan, where the organization has its social base. Secondly, it …
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The origins, patronage and culture of association football in the west of Scotland, c. 1865-1902
… why the game was played, but also determined the local support and patronage that each club received from local establishment figures. Victorian football organisations were as much social clubs as they were organisations dedicated to the playing and winning of the sport, and the sociability and …
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Insurgent armies : explaining military loyalty after rebel victory
… bind field commanders to political elites, and local governance systems that tie field commanders to rebel-controlled communities. These institutions shape postwar outcomes through two intervening mechanisms: a) ex-rebel commanders' expectations of reciprocity from political rulers, and b) …
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Evaluating ecotourism in Mexico’s biosphere reserves – whale watching activities in the World Heritage Site of Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 1994-2002
… changes, and the economic viability of the local and regional operators. This approach led to a detailed understanding of the underlying, and often complex, inter-related factors that shaped the ecotourism development in LSI between 1994 and 2002. It identified strengths and weaknesses of …
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Impact of Personal and Family History of Huntington's Disease on the Decision and Ability to Obtain Life, Long-term Care, and Disability Insurance
… from various HD organizations, conferences, and local support groups. Forty-six responses were analyzed through descriptive statistics as well as Fisher’s exact test and Mann-Whitney U test in which statistical significance was set at <em>p</em> < 0.05. Additionally, thematic analysis was …
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Context and Place Effects in Environmental Public Opinion
… and mixed evidence for a relationship between local pollution risks and support for environmental protection. In the second chapter, I argue that focusing events can induce self-interested responses from people living in communities whose economies are implicated by the event. I leverage a …
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An exploratory study of stakeholders' perspectives of a mega event in Barbados: The Golf World Cup 2006
… that specific stakeholder groups (including local tourism officials, international tourists and local residents) have of the Golf World Cup. The 85 participants in this study highlighted a diversity of views. From the tourism authorities' perspective, the reasons for staging the Golf World …
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"It gave me relief...it gave me confidence" - the online health information seeking experiences of adults with chronic health conditions.
… – One hundred participants were recruited from local support groups for various chronic health conditions. The participants in the first stage of the study completed one of two questionnaires, depending on whether or not they had sought OHI in the past. The design and focus of stage two of the …
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The influence of white-tailed deer on plant communities in West Virginia and stakeholder attitudes toward deer management with respect to plant conservation
… distribution. That is, they exist in a series of local populations, due either to natural distribution or to the effects of human disturbance that are linked by dispersal. Many rare or declining species exist in non-equilibrium metapopulations in which the rate of colonization is not sufficient to …
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