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Showing 1 to 20 of 701 for “"management and policy"”.
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Four Essays on Decentralized Markets in Management and Policy
Governments often create markets to serve management or policy goals. The creation of these markets requires developing the institutional capacity to disseminate market information in order for the market to achieve those goals more effectively. This dissertation draws on prior work regarding …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… thesis, I conducted behavioral science research and wrote three first- author journal format papers, of which one paper has been published and the other two will be submitted to healthcare management journals after completion of my degree. All three papers introduce new information about either …
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A product lifecycle framework for environmental management and policy analysis : case study of automobile recycling
… of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1995.
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Storage and capacity rights markets in the natural gas industry
… Institute of Technology, Technology, Management, and Policy Program, 1999
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Forecasting outbound tourism from Australia to Greece
… view of stressing the importance of forecasting and discovering underlying patterns in Tourism data series -for the purpose of assisting management and policy makers in the Tourism Industry - a multiple regression model and one classical decomposition model were constructed in order to …
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The Economic Impacts of Forest Pathogens in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach
… in the Western US has created new resource management issues. In this research I employ a dataset of 170,141 housing transactions in twelve Western Washington counties to quantify the impacts of parasitic forest damage on the proxy real estate market. Specifically, I estimate a set of …
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Humanitarian and Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Sector: Donors' Policy and Behavior Analysis
Hamarna, Rami A., Humanitarian and Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Sector: Donors’ Policy and Behavior Analysis. Master of Public Health (Health Management and Policy), December 2004, 170pp, 19 Tables, 41 Illustrations, bibliography, 104 titles. International assistance to the …
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Exploring discourse change in the formulation of coastal management policy in South Africa
The field of coastal management in South Africa, and the discourses which construct and are constructed by it, are in transition. Emerging front a history of a narrow scientific approach with goals related mainly to environmental conservation, coastal management has in the 1990s become far broader …
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Integrative Analysis of Policy Changes for a Coastal Watershed: Implications for Agriculture and Ecosystem Health
… modeling, the effects of sea level rise, and socio-economic factors influencing watershed management in North Carolina, primarily utilizing the Soil and Water Assessment Tool Plus (SWAT+) with four independent publication chapters. The first chapter assesses the effectiveness of various …
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Discursos y resistencia laboral: Los agentes de rentas internas y la propuesta de ley de negociación colectiva de 1975 (Puerto Rico)
The thesis examines the discourses and institutions that shaped the views of the Puerto Rican government, Puerto Rican government employees and, more specifically, the Puerto Rican Internal Revenue Agents regarding labor relations, leading to the filing in 1975 of a draft law on collective …
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Saudisation Rhetoric and Realities: Barriers to Effective Private sector participation in public policy regulatory framework
This thesis is concerned with the method and process of Saudisation policy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The thesis examined the extent to which the Saudusation policy is regarded as a myth or reality and the factors responsible for this position. The study examined barriers to effective private …
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Perceptions of Service Quality: Evidence for the Validity and Inseparability of Customer Reported Experiences and True Quality
… the "true" underlying quality. Researchers and practitioners in healthcare, on the other hand, have long dismissed customer perceptions as a credible measure of service quality. We built a quality framework designed to address this fundamental question: are customer perceptions of service …
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An analysis of the human security implications of alcohol abuse in the Namibian Defence Force (NDF): A case study of 124 Battalion, Karas region
… insights from the human security approach and social cognitive theory to ground the research. The researcher used the qualitative method as the methodological approach of the study, in which case, interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with forty-four (44) participants. Data …
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The geography of the clinic: spatial form, meaning and practice at a Western Cape community health centre
… is an ethnographic study which seeks to understand the functioning of a Western Cape primary health care facility, the Hanover Park Community Health Centre, in terms of the space it occupies, transforms and utilises. The study aims to demonstrate that space as an object of inquiry may provide …
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Estimating hydrologic fluxes, crop water use, and agricultural land use in China from multiple data sources
… altered the terrestrial environment by changing land use (Ramankutty et al., 2008) and by altering the water cycle through both co-opting rainfall and surface water withdrawals (Postel et al., 1996). As the world's population continues to grow and individual diets become more resource-intensive, …
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Bridging the divide : incorporating local ecological knowledge into U.S. natural resource management
For the past 100 years, natural resource management in the United States has reflected a belief that the top-down application of science to predict and control the natural world will, in the words of Gifford Pinchot, the Nation's first head of the U.S. Forest Service, "support the wise use of the …
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Engineering and policy analysis of strategic and tactical options for future aerospace traffic management
Current space launch/landing events are conducted only within Special Use Airspace (SUA), separate from air traffic. This is a strategic traffic management policy because SUA size and duration are set well in advance. It forces space operations to disrupt aviation, which could become costly with …
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