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Showing 1 to 20 of 281 for “"public awareness"”.
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Increasing public awareness: a community action group case study
… to determine how a community action group raised public awareness for its cause, and to show the importance of acknowledging the many ways in which people of all ages learn in a variety of settings and circumstances. The research question asked "How are knowledge and attitudes transmitted and …
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Public awareness and risk perceptions of endocrine disrupting chemicals
… and hormone related cancers. EDCs are a serious public health risk and numerous guidelines and risk messages have been disseminated to inform and protect the public. However, little is known about current levels of public awareness and risk perception of EDCs and how the public respond to EDC …
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Public awareness of carbon capture and storage : a survey of attitudes toward climate change mitigation
… and the Environment at MIT conducted a survey of public attitudes on energy use and environmental concerns. Over 1,200 people, representing a general population sample of the United States, responded. The survey asked a representative sample of the American public seventeen questions about the …
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Enhancing public awareness and stimulating co-responsibility for marine litter in Madeira island: a case study
… mais eficiente. A identificação dos trabalhos já publicados e respetivas lacunas foram realizadas através de uma revisão sistemática da literatura, seguida de uma análise bibliométrica e de conteúdo. Os resultados revelaram que desde 2013 existem anualmente publicações sobre lixo marinho e …
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Promoting Public Awareness on the Existing Cultural Heritage Tourism Sites: A Case of Dar es Salaam City
… to identify and assess means and ways to promote public awareness on the existing cultural heritage tourism sites in Dar es Salaam City. Specifically, it sought to assess extent to which available heritage assets were known to general public; to identify means used to promote public awareness on …
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An Investigation of State-Level Child Find and Public Awareness Campaigns to Promote Early Intervention to the Medical Community
… and the medical community, 2) an analysis of public awareness plans as they relate to Child Find and the medical community, and 3) a survey sent to each of the Part C lead agency coordinators in each State and US territory investigating Child Find efforts to the medical community. The results …
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PUBLIC AWARENESS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARD GREEN BURIAL: AN EXPLORATION OF MESSAGING INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ACCEPTANCE OF NATURAL BURIAL PRACTICES
… association between both age and previous awareness and likelihood to consider green burial, as well as a relationship between religion and willingness to consider the option, specifically among Muslim respondents. Both the quantitative and qualitative survey data highlight the many factors …
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Architecture Against Global Warming: A Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
… production, praxis of such ideas and a forum for public awareness and education. The institute will be located on Granville Island, British Columbia. The institute will house innovative agricultural practices, including hydroponics and Clean Meat production. It is hoped that the architecture …
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A framework for key factors affecting compliance with self-help housing standards in Bauchi
… demand, due to the drastic failure of the public housing in the developing countries, has been on top of global debates. Recent researches pointed out the rapid increase of self-help houses in Bauchi with more than 50% against public houses since 1970s, however, with an alarming rate of …
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Glaucoma awareness
… investigates three different aspects of glaucoma awareness using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Patient Awareness: This qualitative study looked at patients perceptions of glaucoma. Participants (N=28) reported low levels of awareness of glaucoma prior to their diagnosis and assumed …
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Measuring built environment technology awareness using time-series analysis
… real estate. This study employs a "technology awareness metric" system to quantitatively trace and analyze the "invention, innovation, and diffusion" process of built environment technologies. The technology awareness metric system contains three parts: 1) research and development awareness, …
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Second language acquisition as the control of non-primary linguistic perception: A critique of research and theory
… developments have served to increase public awareness of the importance and role of language in our lives.
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Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium
… Bay. The thesis proposes by in creasing public awareness of the fragile tenure with nature, modern industrial society is the context, an industrial land scape is transformed into a Living/interpretive aquarium .
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The Role of Stock Exchange to the Economic Growth in Tanzania
… lack of skillfully human resources, and lack of public awareness of DSE. Based on the major findings, recommendation to improve the role of DSE, in order to promote economic growth in Tanzania, were to improve automated system, promote institutional investors, strengthen education, public …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Traffic Police in Preventing Road Accidents in Tanzania
… road accidents as they failed to create public awareness on road safety issues as well as conducting daily roadside inspections which made road users to relax and possibly cause road accidents. Furthermore, the study found that there was a shortage of road safety traffic equipment like …
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The Economic Impacts of Soil Contamination in Wenatchee, WA
… of six contaminated schoolyards demonstrates the public’s willingness to pay for remediated soil as a housing amenity. A qualitative analysis of media coverage of the contamination and cleanups confirms public awareness and categorizes public perception of risk. Results show a significant positive …
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Green Building: Public Opinion, Semantics, And Heuristic Processing
Research on public support for green building has, to date, been incomplete. Understanding the demographics of individuals that support green building has remained secondary to merely determining real opinions on the topic. The identity of supporters and the motivation behind their support is the …
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Examining the Effectiveness of Early Warning System for Disaster Management in Tanzania: A Case Study of Management of Floods in Kinondoni Municipality
… in Kinondoni Municipality was to understand the public awareness, perception of the particular community towards the management of Early Warning System and its response mechanism during the flood and other national disasters. The study used descriptive survey methods and SPSS tools used for its …
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