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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"public acceptance"”.
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The Future of Direct Potable Reuse in California: Overcoming Public Acceptance Barriers
… water resource providers. This paper focuses on public acceptance challenges that may be encountered. By evaluating best practices employed by six different potable water reuse case studies, recommendations for future direct potable reuse projects are developed. It is recommended that future …
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Geologic Storage of carbon dioxide : risk analyses and implications for public acceptance
… about CCS is whether it will be accepted by the public. In the past, construction of large facilities such as nuclear power plants has been prevented or delayed by public opposition, and CCS proponents would like to know whether it will provoke similar public opposition. Since the Geologic …
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Public acceptance and user satisfaction of a prototypic housing unit in Blacksburg, Virginia
… 1982. The purpose of this study was to evaluate public acceptance of the unit as evidenced at open house sessions, to evaluate user satisfaction as evidence of livability, and to make recommendations for design changes before replication. An 80 item questionnaire, with a five point …
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Public acceptance of facial recognition technology: Surveying attitudes, preferences, and concerns to inform policy development
… application of artificial intelligence (AI) in public sector governance is facial recognition technology (FRT), which is used to identify or discover individuals by comparing an image of their face to a database of known faces for a match. Along with these applications, however, concerns …
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Public Acceptance of Medical Screening Recommendations, Safety Risks, and Implied Liabilities Requirements for Space Flight Participation
… flight crewmembers. This research addresses public acceptance of current Federal Aviation Administration guidance and regulations as designated for civil participation in human space flight.</p> <p>The research utilized an ordinal linear regression analysis of survey data to explore the …
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Public acceptance of alternative building technologies for rural housing development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
… to secure tenure." The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996 mandates the state to take reasonable legislative and other measures in ensuring that everyone enjoysa right to adequate housing, social security and appropriate assistance. Since 1994, South African governments have …
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Acceptance by proxy : analyzing perceptions of hydraulic fracturing to better understand public acceptance for geologic storage of carbon dioxide
… about how the technology will be accepted by the public, which is difficult to predict for relatively unknown technologies such as CCS. As such, this thesis explores the use of a similar but better known technology-hydraulic fracturing-as an analogue for learning lessons about public acceptance of …
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Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources
… community recreational opportunities and gain public acceptance and appeal.
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Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728 - 1765
… between those engaged in science and the public. It explores the issue of the origins of science and the press in America and characterizes the public role of enlightenment science in articles and advertisements pertaining to matters of health, invention and the natural world. The focus is …
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3D Visualization of Highway Corridors: The I-77/81 Case Study near Wytheville, VA
… progressing and there is an increased need for public acceptance of transportation projects. This thesis presents a visualization process framework that is applicable to highway corridor visualization, and the I-77/81 Relocation Study Visualization project is discussed along the lines of the …
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Opportunities and Challenges for Using Modular Buildings to Support Affordable, Low-Carbon Housing in British Columbia
… regulatory misalignment, and limited public acceptance. This thesis investigates these opportunities and challenges through a qualitative approach grounded in previous literature reviews and case studies from Canada and internationally. While existing studies have examined individual …
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Violent teeth: The validity and scientific basis for bite mark evidence
… the last 10 years due to the fact that greater public attention to dental hygiene and professional dentistry record keeping has increased the number of dental x-rays used for compariSon Dental evidence is accepted in courts, but its validity and the scientific basis for its use as evidence, has …
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An examination of public attitude toward fiscal aspects of Keynesian economic policy expressed in the Revenue Acts of 1962 and 1964
… historians and economists alike the genesis of a public acceptance of Keynesian economics. No longer would the public expect the Federal Government to remain inert during the vacillations of the business cycle but would instead anticipate the use of the Government's taxing and expenditure powers …
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Performance analysis of iris based recognition system at the matching score level
… research groups and government organizations. Public acceptance of this biometric grew substantially too. Modern cameras used for iris acquisition are less intrusive compared to earlier iris scanning devices and public awareness of system reliability is slowly developing. A typical iris system …
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Effective Messaging for Tackling NIMBY to Accelerate Decarbonization
… of communication strategies in changing the public perceptions of energy and other facilities that are typically perceived as environmental and health risks. We use the existing US-wide survey data in which the participants were asked about the risks of living near nuclear power plants and …
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Public perception of alternative water sources and water usage : a case study of desalination and recycled Water facilities
The importance of public acceptance within the decision-making process for large-scale, municipal water projects is widely understood and documented. In order to assess the role of public perception on the acceptance of alternative water sources, this paper broadly evaluates public preference for …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
<p>There is incontrovertible evidence, public acceptance and mounting alarm that the fossil-fueled growth economy is at the root of global warming. Yet, reducing fossil fuel use remains beyond the boundaries of a certain political reality, one apparently distinct from “the reality of climate …
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Essays on choice modeling
… concludes with a CE application dealing with public acceptance of wind farms, where the indications drawn from the Monte Carlo analysis are used to inform model selection.
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Understand acceptance and opposition to geothermal energy in Iceland
… the world. Energy projects, however, often face public opposition even if they are renewable, particularly from the communities in which they are being developed. This research investigates the successful development of geothermal energy in Iceland through a literature review of energy …
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Alternative health care in the 1990's: the influence of legal constraints on the locational behavior of acupuncturists, chiropractors, and homeopaths
… toward legitimation. The variables of public acceptance and legal constraints on location were plotted on the model to identify particular levels of progression. The importance of this research is highlighted by impending health care reforms, the need for access to professional health …
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