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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"social and environmental factors"”.
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Influence of Social and Environmental Factors on FEMA Claims During Flood Disasters in St. Louis, MO.
Environmental and social factors are thought to be potential risk factors of flooding, one of the most significant climate hazards, yet quantitative evidence based on empirical data remains limited. This study investigates factors that influence the association between precipitation of three …
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Exploring the social and environmental factors of teenage pregnancy in Matshana rural area, King Cetshwayo District
… of circumstances, including the interaction of social and environmental variables. Studies have found that community perceptions, cultural norms, and economic realities all have a substantial impact on teenagers’ experiences and decisions. This qualitative, interpretivist case study investigates …
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Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Patterns of Parasitic Infection in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus imitator)
<p>Parasites, and the infectious diseases they carry, are thought to have significantly impacted our evolutionary trajectory for millennia. Exploring how parasites are acquired and transmitted by their hosts in wild, natural populations is integral to understanding how similar processes may have …
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Reflections on Lgbtq in Adolescence: Impact of Social and Environmental Issues on Early Identity Development
… study is designed to attain an in-depth understanding of the question: What are the social and environmental factors that affect the identity development of LGBTQ youth? Designed as a convergent mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) study, the research seeks to examine the perspective of …
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Biblical Literalism And Implications For Learning
… we learn is scaffolded onto prior knowledge, how and what we learn is infinitely complex. There are many factors influencing learning, including environment, social and institutional attitudes, access, conditioning and biases. Among the social and environmental factors, religious affiliation is a …
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Exploring The Market Potential Of Non-Timber Forest Products In The United States
… for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), and the challenges and opportunities associated with their commercialization, based on the following questions: (1) What are the barriers and enabling factors affecting the value chains of NTFPs, and what are the opportunities to enhance marketing …
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The Life Cycle of Dams: An Analysis of Policy Change on the Rogue River, Oregon
… characteristics, human created infrastructure, and stakeholder user groups. This thesis utilizes Lowry’s (2003) “Theoretical Framework for Policy Changes” to provide an analysis of fundamental policy change that occurred on the Rogue River in southwest Oregon through a comparative case study of …
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Surviving Oncology: Living With Cancer in the Wake of Integrative Care
… how this approach to cancer treatment unsettles and reconfigures existing biomedical ideas about bodies and cancer. Informed by twelve months of multi-sited ethnographic study conducted in the state of California, it examines the attempts made by integrative practitioners to provide whole patient …
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Human Dimensions of Young Forest Conservation Programs: Effects of Outreach, Post-Program Management, and a Coupled Systems Perspective
… incentive programs requires an understanding of both the ecological and social components of these programs. Landowner program experiences and management decisions after program participation are important for long-term conservation, but these aspects of conservation programs are not …
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Reducing Private Vehicle Dependency in Metro Vancouver: Overcoming Car Culture Through Mobilities Justice
This study seeks to understand the cause of ongoing car dependence and the socio-economic and cultural barriers to shifting travel behavior in Metro Vancouver. It also aims to identify potential solutions that reduce reliance on automobiles, support regional Green House Gas (GHG) reduction targets, …
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International displacement and state compliance with international human rights standards: the current protection of internally displaced persons' right to physical security in Nigeria
… globally. A wide range of political, economic, social, and environmental factors, including poverty, corruption, and internal armed conflict, affect the population in Nigeria and contribute to internal instability. Thus, as Nigeria represents a complex and multi-layered situation of internal …
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Towards developing an understanding of factors influencing care giving provided to children between birth and 6 years within the Groblershoop community
This thesis explores the personal, social and environmental factors of caregivers from the Groblershoop community to determine whether these factors influence the caregiver’s ability to provide care to children from birth to six years. Using the Human Capabilities Approach and the Ethics of Care …
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Predictors of student outcome in a Baccalaureate nursing program
… of student attributes, academic, psychological, social, and environmental factors. Using the Jeffreys’s (2015) Nursing Undergraduate Retention and Success (NURS) Model, the purpose of this research was to determine the individual student profile characteristics, academic characteristics, and …
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Perceptions of Weight Reduction Surgery: The Role of Stigma and the Attribution of Responsibility
… of shedding the negative stigma of being obese and improving their life. The purpose of this study was to investigate how society views individuals who have elected to undergo weight reduction surgery. A questionnaire assessing the influence of three variables (Responsibility, Acceptability, and …
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Challenges in the teaching of reading in English, to grade 3 Venda speaking learners in rural areas of Soutpansberg east circuit
… first home language. This affects their understanding of other subjects. This study aimed to investigate the challenges in the teaching of reading in English, to Grade 3 Venda-speaking learners in rural areas of Soutpansberg East Circuit. One of the main objectives was to further find out what …
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Employee empowerment practice for sustainable manufacturing performance: mediating role of quality of work life
… pressurizing manufacturers to integrate the social and environmental factors within their production process to protect the society and environment from the negative effects of the manufacturing process As a result, manufacturing processes experience continuous adaptation that significantly …
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An examination of technology as a food security solution: boundary work in the co-production of science and politics
… these concerns. It draws on aspects of science and politics to ask where these fields come together, where they divide and what impact this has on food security. <br/><br/>The concept of food security encompasses the interaction of multiple dimensions including technical, political, economic, …
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Developing volunteering as an intervention for social isolation in those with long-term neurological conditions
… (pwNC) is often restricted due to physical, social and environmental factors. Social isolation is common and has been associated with increasing feelings of depression and apathy and reduced life expectancy. Opportunities for altruism, such as volunteering, support the sense of self-efficacy, …
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The Relationship of Environmental, Social and Individual Factors and Physical Activity Participation Level in Young Adults
… To explore the relationship between individual factors (i.e. affect, self-efficacy, and self-regulation), social and environmental factors, and their effects on the level of participation in physical activity (PA). Design: Undergraduate and graduate students (N = 386) completed 11 online …
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Factors associated with substance use amongst secondary school learners in the Thulamela Municipality of the Limpopo Province
… use of substances such as illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco cigarettes by secondary school learners is considered as a health risk behavior worldwide. The use of substances continues to predispose the young generation to the risks of mental illness, depression, physical illness, and academic …
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