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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"secondary data sources"”.
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Struggling for Survival: The United Negro College Fund and Private Black Colleges, 1960-1970
… for conducting this research relies on primary sources, supplemented by secondary data sources. The research is based upon content analysis of primary sources and archives located at the following four sites: the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Tuskegee University Archives, the UNCF Archives, …
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New media, global terrorism and the cyber battlespace: the role of the internet in radicalisation of young Saudi males
… the study's objectives, the researcher collected data using survey questionnaires, online surveys with Saudi experts in the field of radicalisation and jihadism, and secondary data sources. According to the study's findings, the internet and social media have been found to play an enabling role in …
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Understanding Vulnerability in Alaska Fishing Communities: A Validation Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Well-Being Indices
… to corresponding index components created from secondary data sources. This process helps us understand how well predetermined components of the well-being indices represent real-world conditions observed by researchers.
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Carbon management and scenario planning at the landscape scale with GIS
… southwest England) and drawing entirely on secondary data sources (current distributions of soils and vegetation). A series of scenarios for future land cover change have been developed, for which carbon storage, GHG and energy emissions amount have been calculated over the short, medium and …
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Juvenile Prostitution: An Exploration in Gendered Theory
… and prostitution of female juveniles using secondary data sources. This secondary data source is pulled from a survey of 114 adjudicated delinquent girls in South Carolina, which was collected in 2014. A comprehensive review of the literature regarding juvenile prostitution will include …
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"Your business is mine, and mine is mine" : how the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger has affected the live entertainment market
… industry. The research relies on various secondary data sources including government documents, financial statements, academic literature, and media reports to analyze the merger's impact. The findings reveal that while the merger has led to operational efficiencies and a broader market …
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Risk Management and its Implications in the Central Bank and Commercial Banks in Tanzania
… applying questionnaires as an instrument for data collection. Primary and secondary data sources were used too to serve the purpose. Respondents were purposefully sampled. Of the 30 respondents, 26 were working in commercial banks and 4 in the central Bank of Tanzania. The findings show that …
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Three essays on the human capital augmentation strategies of building and acquiring
… To conduct my analyses, I use a longitudinal dataset that I constructed by combining several secondary data sources on the largest U.S. law firms over the last decade.
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Impacts of rural-urban migration on family relationships and gender relations in mother-migrant and father-left-behind families in Vietnam
… within their families. The study employs both secondary data sources and primary data collected through fieldwork. First, to achieve a better sense of the importance of married female migrants who migrate alone in the contemporary migration context in Vietnam, four secondary data sources were …
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Impacts of rural-urban migration on family relationships and gender relations in mother-migrant and father-left-behind families in Vietnam
… within their families. The study employs both secondary data sources and primary data collected through fieldwork. First, to achieve a better sense of the importance of married female migrants who migrate alone in the contemporary migration context in Vietnam, four secondary data sources were …
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Patterns and Associations of Shoreline Erosion and Developed Land Use Change in the Lower Meghna Estuary of Bangladesh
… risk of losing land, households, and economic resources due to the hazards of coastal erosion. Scientific research has indicated that 70% of the planet's sandy coastal environment is being impacted by coastal erosion. Due to the different characteristics of the lands in the coastal zone versus …
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Examining design management in the era of digitalization from eastern and western perspectives
… in two phases of this research. Quantitative secondary data sources were investigated in support of the qualitative data sources (+150 secondary data sources: corporate documents – earnings and annual reports; and public reports on national creativity, innovation and industry ecosystems). The …
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The inaccessible city? : a profile of the Vauxhall ward labour market, Liverpool.
… research also draws extensively on a variety of secondary data sources. The findings of the research are related to existing labour market and social polarisation theories. The thesis reveals that the dual processes of deindustrialisation and counterurbanisation have led to a small, residual …
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Cooperatives as vehicles for community and economic development : a case for alternative ownership and expansion of the solidarity economy in Austin, Texas
… literature, case studies, and analysis of secondary data sources to identify advantages as well as specific areas for intervention in both the productive enterprise and housing sectors. Austin has a small but established cooperative ecosystem that can continue to contribute to the growth of …
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Supermax Confinement: A Descriptive and Theoretical Inquiry
… supermax prisons and units. To accomplish this, secondary data sources were used to collect information about the various correctional institutions throughout the US that utilize this type of confinement. It was also the intent to see what aspects of supermax confinement need to be addressed …
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School-level Factors in Public High Schools that help Raise Academic Achievement for Black Males
… interviews which served as the primary data source, this study aimed to uncover specific school-level factors that were being optimized in public high schools to help increase graduation rates for Black male students. In addition, a review of school documents acted as secondary data …
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Investigating the causes of delays at border posts: A focus on institutional and infrastructural factors at Beitbridge Border Post
… qualitative approach to using primary and secondary data sources to understand issues that contribute to delays at the border post and to come up with a possible policy recommendation. The findings revealed that most institutional problems causing delays at the border are duplication of …
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A Case Study to Determine if Micro-Unit Developments Create Another Step Along the Housing Ladder for Low-Income Homeowners in Soweto
… together with both quantitative and qualitative data. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, posed a significant limitation on fieldwork; therefore, the study relied on secondary data sources. The analysis indicates that the backyard micro-unit developments mimic the formal market, and the backyard …
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Participative Approaches to Hedgerow Conservation
… and Canada, using a diversity of primary and secondary data sources. English hedgerows were important to all groups. Everyone liked hedged landscapes for aesthetic, visual and wildlife reasons. They were important for the way they break up the landscape; provide signs of the changing seasons; …
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Preconception and Interconception Health and Routine Health Service Use Among Women in a Rural Midwestern Community
… age women living in a rural Midwestern area. Secondary objectives were to quantify process measures of health care access and barriers to care, as well as determine disparities in preconception and interconception health status among women in this rural area as compared to statewide estimates. …
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