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Showing 1 to 20 of 257 for “"shelters"”.
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Elemental shelters for nomads
… synthesize a series of alternative, speculative shelters addressing the needs of various dispossessed populations today.
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Homeless Mothers' Perceptions of Parenting in Shelters
… from nine single mothers housed in one of two shelters in a major southwestern border metroplex. Case study methodology was used to obtain their perspectives on parenting in this unique context. Content analysis was used to organize and analyze emerging themes. Major themes that emerged from …
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Supporting Breastfeeding Among Women Residing In Homeless Shelters
… this population. Women who reside in homeless shelters are likely to have minimal access to breastfeeding support services and thus low rates of sustained breastfeeding. The purpose of this DNP capstone project is to examine current breastfeeding support within homeless shelters in Brooklyn, …
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Identity Construction and Maintenance in Domestic Violence Shelters
… self-concept. As a result, domestic violence shelters have been recognized as sites of identity repair and construction, as well as an emergency refuge for women and their children. However, shelters are microcosms of the larger society, and the inequality and bureaucracy that exist in society …
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Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters
… of displaced people self-assembling at emergency shelters, where the social composition may appear somewhat random, this research introduces algorithms incorporating graph and hypergraph partitioning to reunite displaced people with their friends, family, and communities within shelters without …
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Application of plastic design in steel table shelters
… of steel frames into the design of Morrison shelters that employed ductility and continuity, which are key principles of plastic theory. Although Morrison Shelters have been praised for their life saving capability and use of plastic theory, a technical analysis of its design process has been …
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Arriving through Infrastructures: Berlin's institutional shelters for refugees 2015-2019
… newcomers have arrived in the city. Refugee shelters have primarily been understood in the context of the rich literature that has developed in recent decades around the ‘camp’ as a complex socio-spatial and political phenomenon. Yet the proliferation of different forms of refugee shelters …
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The Maze: Understanding Information Journeys of Women in Second-stage shelters
… journeys of women residing in second-stage shelters in Alberta, Canada, with a focus on understanding their evolving needs for support, services, and information. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive global issue, deeply rooted in structural inequalities, and significantly affects …
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Cyclone shelters and cyclone resilient design in coastal areas of Bangladesh
… cyclone mitigating measures. Although cyclone shelters have proven to be effective, they are currently not adequate, which requires more research and development for a more resilient future. This thesis has five chapters: an introduction that defines the problem, a broad review of settlement …
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Tax shelters for the rich to rehabilitate housing for the poor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. M.C.P.
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A location-allocation model and algorithm for optimally locating shelters to minimize evacuation times
Location â allocation models are designed to seek the concurrent location of a set of service facilities and an allocation scheme to satisfy the demands of a set of customers or users of a given system. If the location-allocation model is based on a graph-theoretic formulation, then the …
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Down and Out on the Kaw: An Examination of Emergency Shelters in Lawrence, Kansas.
… members of advisory boards associated with the shelters, and 17 were shelter employees. The central claim of this thesis is that beliefs about the causes of homelessness, and constructions of the homeless person, contain two distinct discourses: the systemic and the individual-based. Embedded in …
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Improving the Utility of Artificial Shelters for Monitoring Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis)
Artificial shelters show great promise as novel, non-invasive tools for studying hellbenders, but their use thus far has faced several challenges. During initial trials in multiple river networks, artificial shelters routinely became blocked by sediment and dislodged during high stream discharge …
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Experiments on the Response of Arch-Supported Membrane Shelters to Snow and Wind Loading
… investigate pressurized arch-supported membrane shelters that would be large, lightweight, and easily erected in a short amount of time. These shelters are proposed for a variety of purposes, including aircraft hangars, vehicle maintenance shelters, and medical aid stations. The specific …
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Exploring the individual and organizational effects of formerly homeless employee inclusion within North Carolina shelters
… used to gather interview data from six homeless shelters in North Carolina. The interviewees included five shelter directors, three formerly homeless employees, and seven shelter residents. Professional boundary development was correlated with the impact of formerly homeless employee inclusion …
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Picking up the pieces : transitional shelters for disaster relief in the northern mountainous regions of Pakistan
… of shelter design: 1) the need of transitional shelters in a particular disaster situation (the October 8, 2005 Pakistan earthquake), 2) the design criteria for the shelters in this specific setting and a systematic way of evaluating shelter designs, and 3) a specific transitional shelter design …
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Sustainable shelters for post disaster reconstruction : an integrated approach for reconstruction after the South Asia earthquake
… impact have resulted in the construction of shelters that do not directly address the improvement in living conditions and remain vulnerable to future disasters. This thesis presents an overview of an integrated approach towards making the reconstruction in the earthquake affected areas of …
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