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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"social disorder"”.
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Neighborhood Conditions, Youth Exposure to Violence, and Substance Use
… use among adolescents, whether neighborhood social disorder impacts substance use, and whether exposure to violence mediates the relationship between neighborhood social disorder and substance use. The test of mediation on these variables has never been conducted before. Findings of these …
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… Those narratives fixated on anxieties of social disorder and degeneration. This work draws from a variety of British scholarship pertaining to media history, labour history and gender studies. Apart from Gramsci, this thesis has been influenced by the gendered scholarship of Billie Melman, …
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A comparative analysis of genocidal rape in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia: Implications for the future
… perpetrators, victims, global economics, social disorder, and militias. Results of this analysis show that Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia possessed common pre-genocidal conditions and displayed similar ideological processes. Uncovering precursors to and generalizable characteristics of …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
… to the commonwealth---war, religious separatism, social disorder, and court corruption---and on how several poems portray God as a responsible, benevolent country aristocrat---in effect, the ideal commonwealth man."
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Prince Albert's Crime/Risk Reduction Approach to Community Safety
… efforts and their results on reducing crime and social disorder after the implementation of the CMPA in 2011. In terms of methodology, two strategies were used. First, a pre-and post-implementation strategy was used to examine whether changes in levels of crime as well as calls for service …
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A Model for Improving the Strategic Measurement and management of Policing: The Police Organisational Performance Index (POPI)
… Agency; Community‟s Feeling of Safety; Crime and Social Disorder in the Community; Misconduct of Local Police Personnel; and Mutually Beneficial Police/Community Relationships. Together, these form a new model for the strategic measurement of police organisational performance (POPI). POPI has the …
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The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949
… imitations, flooded society. In response to the social disorder, many Chinese civilians turned to this new class of weaponry for self-defense. While historians have understood the gun in China in terms of military modernization, this dissertation sets the privately-owned gun in its social and …
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PERCEIVED AND OBJECTIVE NEIGHBOURHOOD BUILT ENVIRONMENT MEASURES AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SEDENTARY TIME IN 9-14-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN IN SASKATOON, CANADA
… report of the absence of neighbourhood social disorder (e.g. threats from scary dogs/people) was associated with increased LPA, while reported concern for crime was associated with decreased MVPA. As expected, the highest level of observed activity friendliness was associated with …
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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… for many Scots-Irish Presbyterians, a period of social disorder. This was especially true in south-central Kentucky, where the local Presbyterian establishment was riven by schism. The Great Revival was a brief but ultimately disappointing creation of an alternate community, a way of escape from …
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Impact Assessment, Detection, and Mitigation of False Data Attacks in Electrical Power Systems
… between nations in near future and lead to social disorder. Within this context, this dissertation investigates the cyber security of PMUs that affects critical decision-making for a reliable operation of the power grid. In particular, this dissertation focuses on false data attacks, a key …
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Impact Assessment, Detection, And Mitigation Of False Data Attacks In Electrical Power Systems
… between nations in near future and lead to social disorder. Within this context, this dissertation investigates the cyber security of PMUs that affects critical decision-making for a reliable operation of the power grid. In particular, this dissertation focuses on false data attacks, a key …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… with the creature being a signifier of social disorder and disrupted identity. <br/> While the emphasis throughout is on the shifting relations between media, comics are the main focus of this study. The symbolism present in the zombie, and the political and cultural ideas stemming from …
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Otrygghetens landskap. En kartläggning av otryggheten i stadsrummet och en analys av bakomliggande orsaker, med fokus på mediernas roll
… large part concern threats associated with social problems, different aspects of society, health and the environment and also international conflicts. On the specific level, people name the same types of places that are found in the theoretical frame by Koskela (1996) used to grasp the …