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Showing 1 to 20 of 547 for “"marginalization"”.
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The marginalization project
<p>The vast majority of African American residents in Chicago, Illinois reside in low food access areas particularly on the South and West Sides of the city. There are overwhelmingly high rates poverty, residential segregation, and limitations to quality of food. Through remapping abandoned spaces …
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Neighborhood Transformation Marginalization forOOD Detection
… we propose TraM: Transformation Neighborhood Marginalization, a method to improve the estimation of score functions used for OOD detection by calculating their expectation over a transformation neighborhood. TraM demonstrates improvements on a subset of commonly used OOD score functions in the …
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Marginalization of Fezzan Region in Libya
… to understand and compare the positionality and marginalization of Fezzan relative to the other Libyan regions of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and how this positionality had shaped Fezzan through the Constitutional Monarchy era (1952 to 1969), Gaddafi era (1969 to 2011), and February Revolution era …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
This dissertation addresses the challenge of liberal democracies to deal with fundamental conflicts in society about, for example, political representation and natural resources, and the subsequent transfer of such conflicts into the criminal justice arena when actors fail to deal with competing …
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Infrastructure, sustainability and unevenness : exploring marginalization in Mexico
… in rural and remote areas with high levels of marginalization and poverty. Access to secure, affordable and modern energy is central to poverty reduction as it is a critical enabler of development (IEA, 2017). However, in most cases, rural electrification implementation has not yielded the …
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Council housing sales in Great Britain : marginalization or cooptation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Understanding the Zongo : processes of socio-spatial marginalization in Ghana
The spatial processes of marginalization and ghettoization have been described, labeled, and theorized extensively in the United States and Europe, yet there has been little research dedicated to these processes in the literature concerning urban Africa. Rather than using prescribed Western …
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Substance Abuse, Marginalization, and Homelessness: Bayesian Perspectives on a Persisting Problem
… homeless adults and how the combined effects of marginalization and substance abuse impact service use and housing status changes over time. The concept of marginalization is used to describe how isolated an individual is from basic needs such as supportive social contact, a safe environment, and …
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Ephemeral and forgotten: an archaeological investigation of race, marginalization and historic preservation
This dissertation investigates inhabitants of a ridge near the present-day Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Excavations of this area from 2008-2010 uncovered three clusters of artifacts dating from 1800-1830, during Bushrod Washington’s …
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The process and dimensions of family member marginalization: A mixed-method construct explication
… to uncover and test the dimensions of family marginalization and explore the process of marginalization in families. Study 1 consisted of interviews with marginalized family members (N = 30) between the ages of 25-35 who had felt marginalized by family for at least one year during the past 10 …
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Gifted or Disabled: An Oral Histories of African American Malesdefying Special Education Marginalization
<p>his dissertation examined a marginalized population of African American males who have defied labeling and placement into Special Education programs by productivity in adulthood. A Critical race theoretical framework was utilized and the writings of CRT theorists guided this research study …
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
A critical inquiry was undertaken to explore the role that architecture, development, architectural criticism, and urban intervention played, as representational and ideological tools, in the process of British colonial formation in Lucknow, from 1765 to 1858. Results show: (1) Architecture and …
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Marginalization, Empowerment and Multiple Performances: An Examination of Highly Identified, Displaced Female Sport Fans
… and fanship with respect to empowerment or marginalization. The data was digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically. The findings demonstrated that the participants experienced both marginalization and empowerment. Furthermore, it was found that these women took on …
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Living docility and dissent: U.S. small town girls' social media use within social marginalization
Following in a long history of social panic over females’ lack of safety with new communication technologies, in the US, society has defined adolescent-aged females using social media in a familiar binary fashion: they are either “at-risk” or “reckless” in their involvements (Cassell & Cramer, …
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A question of marginalization coloured identities and education in the Western Cape, South Africa
… Within this analysis the evidence for claims of marginalization is discussed and its nature and intention is assessed. From this basis, the thesis then investigates the reactions of pupils to this perceived marginalization, in terms of their attitudes towards education, their aspirations and …
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The Impact of Neighbourhood-Level Marginalization on risk of Opioid Overdose and Opioid Use Disorder
… the course of several years. Neighbourhood-level marginalization, defined as the degree to which individuals living within a neighbourhood are peripheralized and isolated from society, has been proposed as a risk factor for opioid-related harm, but the relationship has not been well-documented. …
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