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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"public values"”.
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Public Values in Design and Planning for the Boneyard Creek in Champaign-Urbana
… strategies with contingent valuations to obtain public input into these interacting factors.
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.
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Artificial intelligence in law enforcement: a critical analysis of the EU AI Act’s framework for protecting public values and fundamental rights
… These risks directly implicate the core values enshrined in Article 2 TEU and demand a robust and coherent regulatory response. Against this backdrop, the present Thesis examines whether the existing European legal framework, most notably Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, is adequate to ensure …
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Participatory dynamics and public values in World Heritage sites: the case of the World Heritage serial site Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and the Monreale (Italy).
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Asymmetrical Information Market Failure Triggered by the Chicago School's Profit Motive Paradigm: A Case Study of Virginia's Public Higher Education Market and Media Identification of Public Value Failure
… examination of the Commonwealth of Virginia\'s public higher education market and the use of asymmetrical information flows between providers and consumers by college and university institutions to intentionally create market failures to maximize brand building through increased revenue …
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Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal
… An Emancipatory Policy Proposal analyzes the public participation guidelines for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The author argues that four challenges must be addressed before the goal of environmental justice can be achieved. These challenges include the challenge of citizen …
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Values Public Managers Hold, Organizational Environments, and Public Service Characteristics in Explaining the Choice of Public Service Delivery Modes: Focused on County and City Governments in Virginia
… several decades, local governments have provided public services through a dynamic process including direct public delivery and market contracts. These public service delivery modes have been influenced by the dominant paradigms in contemporary public administration such as New Public Management …
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How Organizational Communication Shaped the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement
… compromises, funding mechanisms, and public values.</p> <p>This study analyzed public documents from seven different organizations that provided input in the public consultations regarding the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement, which completed in 2005. This study concluded that one of …
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Type Checker for Annotated Assembly Programs
… utilizes software and hardware in tandem. Data values are marked as secret or public using type inference, and the veracity of inference is checked using a type checker. Then, hardware can separate the secret and public values. My contributions were to the type checker, as well as some scripting …
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Corporatisation in local government: Exploring subsidiary governance in local authorities – a critical review and multi- level case study
… the impact of corporatisation in stewardship of public resources, subsidiaries’ perspectives on governance mechanisms, and the use of a holding company to increase political control and accountability. The latter two case studies use data drawn from semi-structured interviews involving …
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The Motivation of Voluntary Sector Employees: A Study of the Relevance of Public Service Motivation
This thesis uses Public Service Motivation (PSM) as a mechanism to explore the values and motivations of voluntary sector employees. It does so in the context of increased outsourcing of public service delivery to the voluntary sector and questions regarding the existence of distinctive motivations …
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Evolution of water supply mechanisms to reflect changing values: a case study of the Massachusetts water management program
… their available water supplies. As fundamental public values have changed over time, public opinion concerning the way in which water supplies should be managed has changed as well, especially in recent years. Consequently, many eastern states have restructured the institutional mechanisms …
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Evolution of stakeholder knowledge, attitudes, and opinions throughout a participative process to develop a management plan for black bears in Virginia
… processes include: balance science and public values in management, use multiple public involvement techniques, establish collaborative forums among stakeholders, reach out to all stakeholders, and nurture relationships with constituents during implementation.
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EXPLORING THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE POLICY APPROACH IN A NORTHERN UK CITY.
… City Region (LCR): key decision-makers and the public living within LCR. Both are stakeholders within the commentary surrounding green infrastructure within the region. The project broadly aims to explore stakeholder (both public and private) perceptions of urban greenspace within the LCR. It …
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The U.S. Forest Service : business as usual
… "right" view, each position comprising a set of values by which we make decisions and choices about using our natural resources. The "dominant world view," is anthropocentric and agriculturally based, with a strong belief that we can "fix" environmental problems through the use of technology. The …
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Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
… Each of these presidents’ style responded to the public values and political shifts of their time to encourage public trust and civil discourse. This study examines how civil discourse is essential to civil society and argues that a) United States presidents have practiced Stoic principles of …
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Public value of e-Government investments in the developing countries: empirical exploration of the public sector in Kenya
In private and public sectors, Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a phenomenal asset of resource in strategic management. In developed countries, ICTs are critical tools in the public sector strategy. In specific, Electronic Government has been identified as one of the major …
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City Image: a dynamic perspective using machine learning and natural language processing
… that can be perceived and interpreted by the public. The broader one’s understanding of the city image, the better urban design we will have. Over half a century ago, Kevin Lynch innovatively introduced this idea and summarized five physical elements – node, path, edge, landmark, and district, …
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Sustainable development: political/ideological aspects and implications for planning
… its inherent future orientation and focus on public values, is well situated to deal with the kinds of problems raised in the discourse regarding sustainability. Examination of mainstream land use planning practices, however, reveals a reactive, reformist incrementalism that responds to …
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