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Showing 1 to 20 of 287 for “"scaling up"”.
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Scaling Up and Exploring Marsh (SUEM)
… is a community of plants and animals. They support agricultural needs and provide clean air and water. However, recent environmental changes such as global warming and rising sea level caused a need to study these ecosystems. Ecological problems have the specificity of being dependent on …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
… to these problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. Examining 207 news articles flagged for fact-checking by Facebook algorithms, we compare accuracy ratings of three professional fact-checkers who researched each article to those of 1128 …
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Scaling up VoIP: Transport Protocols and Controlling Unwanted Communication Requests
… disturbing callees since a ringing tone interrupts them before content is sent. Our first approach uses "cross-media relations.'' Calls are unlikely to be unwanted if two parties have been previously communicated with each other through other communication means. Specifically, we propose two …
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Scaling up ART in Rwanda: the financial and economic costs
… treatment (ART) since 2004. This scale up could only be realised through significantly increased funding to the HIV/AIDS sub-account. Funding grew from US$9 million in 2003 to US$43 million in 2004 (UNAIDS, 2006b) and has continued to grow since this time given increased grants from …
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Scaling up 3D imaging, analysis, and culture of complex brain models
… This thesis summarizes a body of work aimed at scaling up 3D imaging, analysis, and tissue culture techniques for large-scale brain models We present a technique termed SWITCH that inhibits probe binding to allow for diffusion without the formation of a reaction front To improve imaging …
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Scaling up a quantum register of dark electronic spins in diamond
… in diamond have only included spins directly coupled to the NV. As this direct coupling is limited by the spin coherence time, it significantly restricts the register's maximum attainable size. To address this problem, this thesis presents a scalable approach to map out and control a network of …
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Scaling Up Network Analysis and Mining: Statistical Sampling, Estimation, and Pattern Discovery
Network analysis and graph mining play a prominent role in providing insights and studying phenomena across various domains, including social, behavioral, biological, transportation, communication, and financial domains. Across all these domains, networks arise as a natural and rich representation …
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Energy-efficient Wastewater Treatment by Microbial Fuel Cells: Scaling Up and Optimization
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are potentially advantageous as an energy-efficient approach to wastewater treatment. For single-chamber tubular MFCs, anode effluent is used as catholyte instead of tap water or buffer solutions. Therefore, exposing cathode electrode to atmosphere could be also …
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Scaling up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Economic Fundamentals and Dynamic Complexities
Contains fulltext : 241560.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Financing nature and development: scaling up private investment in Southern Africa's community-based conservation
… considers whether blended finance helps scale up private investment in southern Africa's community-based conservation. It examines what are stakeholder's perspectives on the opportunities, barriers and risks of using blended finance to help scale up private investment in this context. Further, …
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The National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa : scaling up health care provision: the consumers' perspectives.
Globally, there are major shifts taking place in health care provision to achieve universal health coverage. In 2011, the South African Department of Health released a Green Paper outlining its vision for implementing a National Health Insurance (NHI). The NHI wants to improve the service provision …
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Addressing the adaptation finance gap: scaling up investment in climate change adaptation using blended finance solutions
… an urgent need to find ways to massively scale up funding to adapt to climate change and build the resilience of people and the ecosystems. The private sector is seen as an untapped potential for scaling up investment in adaptation, but there are a number of barriers. To unlock the private …
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Form from within : scaling up self-constructing biological architectures through a novel application of synthetic morphogenesis
… which they have used for centuries to scale up their structures. ASSEMBLE arose from a recognition that in nature, simple building blocks, such as biological cells, self-organize into higher-order, complex structures with no descriptive blueprints at hand and no intelligent designer telling …
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Too legit to quit : exploring concepts of legitimacy and power in scaling-up community development work
Community-based organizations are unique in that their success is based not only on the services they offer, but also their more intangible networks of trust, robust local relationships, and on-the-ground knowledge of community needs. As local organizations grow and seek to replicate themselves, …
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Scaling up multi-tiered systems of support implementation with improvement science: A state-wide effort in school improvement
… concepts in education, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and improvement science, promise new avenues of meeting the diverse needs of all students, but not enough research has been done to evaluate the impact of these practices on improving student outcomes at a large scale. This …
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Development and scaling up of a psychological intervention for common mental disorders among people living with HIV in Zimbabwe
… by lay health workers (LHW) and a strategy for scaling up this intervention to over 50 primary health care clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe. The thesis formed part of formative research leading to a cluster randomized controlled trial(RCT) of a psychological intervention and provides supplementary …
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Development and Scaling up of Oxide Buffer Architectures on Flexible Substrates for Efficient and Application-Derived Growth of REBCO Thin Films
… the Jc and processing efficiency of REBCO to support the fabrication of 5-μm-thick film REBCO tapes using advanced metal organic chemical vapor deposition (A-MOCVD), with three times the critical current of commercial REBCO tapes in high magnetic fields at 4.2–20 K, and more than four times the …
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Constructive integration : changes in uptake and outcomes of reproductive health services during the scaling up of ART and PMTCT in Thyolo District, Malawi
… increasing debate about the impact of scaled-up ART and PMTCT programmes on the uptake and outcomes of reproductive health services, in particular the potential detrimental effects of HIV-care on the overall capacity of fragile health systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate …
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Scaling up collaborative governance for better fit and flexibility: a case study of the Two-Rivers Three-Watersheds Two-States (2-3-2) partnership
… ten years, multiple place-based collaborative groups have partnered across jurisdictional divides to form a unique structure of nested collaborative groups, but little is known about what drives the formation of these umbrella collaborative groups or how they function. Due to the changing climate …
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