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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"rural families"”.
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Investing in Children: Study of Rural Families in Indonesia
… pre-existing database with a total sample of 301 rural families with one child aged 2-5 years from three villages of Agam (West Sumatera) and two villages of Wonogiri (Central Java). Interviews and testing were conducted at each sample's home. The data were analyzed using descriptive and …
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Eating behavior of preschool children in relation to control patterns in Iowa rural families
It is believed that one of the best ways to study the personality adequacy of children is through their behavior in situations.
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A study of persons with medical care needs among selected rural families in Pulaski County, Virginia
… study to determine the medical care needs among rural Pulaski County folks in relation to tenure, land class, and occupations which are indicative of income, age and sex, schooling of the homemaking, size of family or household, distance from medical personnel and facilities, and loss of income …
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Going Mobile in Rural America: The Community Effect Rural Trailer Parks on Child and Youth Development
A mobile home park offers lower-income rural families access to the American dream of owning a stand-alone-home. Yet little is known empirically about what is emerging as an increasingly common rural residential form. The dissertation answers whether, for children and youth of working-poor rural …
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Essays on financial frictions, misallocation and development dynamics
… happens, all levels of wages go up and all families accumulate and update human capital. However, the increasing education cost and credit constraint prevent the children from rural families from accumulating human capital quickly. The urban families accumulate human capital faster than the …
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Mystery in a Common Place: A Supporting Paper for a Graduate Exhibition.
… The photographs depict cultural aspects of the rural Smoky Mountains.</p> <p>I begin with a description of the means used to suggest the mysterious aspects of human existence in everyday life. The second chapter discusses the influences of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Graciella Iturbide and details …
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Exploring Women Farmers' Experiences: A Case Study of Gender Inequality on Small Turkish Farms
… Turkey, agriculture is a major component of the rural population income, and in these rural areas women are the cornerstones of the agricultural production. Resources, especially water, land, livestock, crops, and knowledge about agricultural production are crucial for preserving the livelihoods …
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Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses in the Catskill Mountains of New York State
… trace continuities and discrepancies between the rural residents and urban visitors. Boarding on farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showed continuity between the two groups: recent immigrants who lived in New York City and rural families, whether long-established or …
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The effect of school feeding programmes in addressing food insecurity in the Mutale Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province in South Africa
… for securing food for the wellbeing of Mutale rural inhabitants. The major problem identified in this study was the inadequacy of governmental interventions, specifically the social assistance component, to eliminate food insecurity in rural areas. This failure motivated the researcher to …
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"Crimes against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency": Sexual Violence and Jurisprudence in Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931
… for sexual crimes. To access for how Coahuilense families, offended women, and defendants constructed their own notions of sexual honor and morality, I examined 282 criminal cases. In the majority of cases litigants claimed that the sexual crime was an offense against their familial honor. In some …
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Conservancies as a vehicle for achieving sustainable development : with reference to a case study in the Nyae-Nyae area of Eastern Otjozonjupa, Namibia
… slow and even economic growth, a predominantly rural population dependent on the primary production of natural resources for their survival, human-induced loss of rangelands and croplands and a historical alienation from natural resources of residents from communal lands. As a result, Namibia …
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The relationship between selected housing and demographic charateristics and employment status among rural, low-income families
… was a secondary analysis of wave one data of the Rural Families Speak project, a multi-state longitudinal Agricultural Experiment Station project that focused on assessing changes in the well-being and functioning of rural low-income families in the context of welfare reform. Quantitative analysis …
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Influences of stress, individual and family processes on rural low-income children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors
… economic pressure, acculturative stress) places rural children at risk for adverse outcomes. Prior studies using rural samples to understand the stress processes at the individual and family levels have been predominantly dyadic in focus. Given family members are interdependent, it is interesting …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… 'cost of living crisis' has constrained many families in Scotland from securing access to sufficient and adequate food for a healthy diet, challenging the realisation of their human right to food. Food insecurity has become an acute social, political and public health concern, particularly …
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Appalachian couples' perspectives of their family life: a qualitative analysis
The Appalachian family can be considered part of an ethnic group. This is due to the culture's unique, identifiable sociohistorical context, physical boundaries, family traditions, and cultural values. This qualitative study examined ten Appalachian couples' perceptions of their family life. …
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Developing a low-cost ceramic micro-porous water filter for removal of microorganisms that cause common diseases
… bacteria from water sources, especially in rural areas, provides a promising solution to the problem and is therefore important to pursue. The traditional slip casting process was used develop a micro-porous ceramic water filter. The method was found to be more suitable than either extrusion …
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‘The good parent’: education, modernity, and ethnicity in Western China
… studies on the governance of parents and families, this thesis demonstrates how family education discourses in China constitute ‘a pedagogy of Chinese modernity’ through which parents are taught to learn Chinese modernity. In other words, the educational governance of parents operates …
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A study of supply response of jute in Bangladesh
… cent of the population of Bangladesh living in rural areas are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture. Out of 9 million rural families the fate of 5 to 6 million families, mostly small cultivators and rural labourers, is directly associated with jute. Some 50 thousand people are engaged …
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A study of supply response of jute in Bangladesh
… cent of the population of Bangladesh living in rural areas are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture. Out of 9 million rural families the fate of 5 to 6 million families, mostly small cultivators and rural labourers, is directly associated with jute. Some 50 thousand people are engaged …
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