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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"social stability"”.
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919
… World War public library aimed to help deliver social stability by diffusing humanistic culture and by assisting individual and national economic prosperity. These ostensibly divergent preoccupations achieved a high degree of compatibility within the context of the local municipal library. It …
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Europos Sąjungos 2007 – 2013 m. paramos poveikio verslo sektoriui vertinimas /
… economic development, job creation and social stability. Small, medium and large enterprises - dynamic, constantly changing group of companies, which has a decisive impact on economic growth and social stability of their relationship. Work apibūdininamas the objective of EU support for …
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A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
… aid approach and identified housing, social institutions and local leadership, economic systems, religious belief and practice as primary focuses. Examples detail how cultural beliefs and practices - as well as cultural heritage - may be vehicles for social stability and advance …
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Mother's little helper : minor tranquilizers and women in the 1950s
… explores the Miltown phenomenon in the broader social, economic, and political climate of the 1950s, arguing that there is a direct link between the widespread use of Miltown, especially among middle class women, and the decade's obsession with anxiety, gender role conformity, and social …
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Conflict and compromise in the southern Philippines : the case of Moro identity
… guerrilla war that prevented economic growth and social stability. The analysis suggests that the decentralization policies of the Ramos administration (1992-1998) and the compromise between his administration and the Moro National Liberation Front (the dominant Muslim faction) may have finally …
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The erosion of public policies which support workplace justice: A review of the Davis-Bacon Act
… conflicting interests within society to achieve social stability and harmony.
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A Comparative Analysis of Weibo and Xinhua in Framing Chinese Civic Engagement
… approach to examine how the popular Chinese social media Weibo and government-run news website Xinhuanet cover three Chinese civic events: the Guo Meimei Event (2011), the Wenzhou Train Crash Event (2011), and the Kindergarten Abuse Event (2012). The findings indicate that Xinhua is more …
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Beyond the Pages: The Significance of the Social Self Proposed in Jane Austen's Persuasion
… a view based in eighteenth-century notions of social networks, mutual responsibility, and the moral function of emotion. Persuasion links Romanticism’s self, which was popular at the time that Austen was writing, with the breakdown of society, arguing that not just social stability but …
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INTERFACIAL THERMAL MANIPULATION FOR WATER-ENERGY HARVESTING
Water and energy serve as the bedrock of social stability, economic growth, and human civilization worldwide. Converting solar/waste heat via efficacious heat harvesting technologies promises to offer clean water and energy with minimal environmental impacts. This thesis aims to explore interfacial …
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Demographic trends in the European Union: political and strategic implications
… and EU cohesion, governmental effectiveness, and social stability. Absent remedial measures, social programs in some EU countries will be unsustainable due to the mounting financial burden of pensions and health care for growing elderly populations. Such financial obligations hinder funding other …
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Opportunity in Haiti : women as agents of resilience in post-disaster reconstruction
… on January 12, 2010, caused severe spatial and social disruption of many communities. Over the past sixteen months, as international and national institutions struggled to respond in an effective and efficient manner, Haitian women, and their organizations, have served a central role in …
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Marxian and Weberian theory as explanations of the effects of industrialization on town development: A case study; Denison, Texas.
… this case, the emergence of the railroad) on the social structure of Denison, Texas which was created by industrialization. It is an attempt to combine Marxian and Weberian theory to produce a multi-dimensional theory that can explain town development without the usual economic bias as evident in …
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Religious belief and social control, with special reference to patterns of stability and change in classical Athens and ancient Egypt
The social sciences are vitiated by the perennial problem of social order. Questions concerning the nature and possible determinants of social formations are often intriguing and necessarily conjectural, but the problem of how such structures are then kept in being constitutes one of the …
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Erotic Love and the Development of Proto -Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy
… and to pair the gratification of desires with social stability. After the king in The Shoemaker's Holiday divorces and remarries Lacey and Rose, he then challenges the disgruntled guardians of the lovers with the statement, ""Which of you all mislikes this harmony"" (5.5.96). However, the …
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Moving towards a more sustainable model of energy production & consumption: a case for Indonesia
… of policy, technology, economic development, social stability and environmental conservation. It starts by providing historical context regarding the development of Indonesia as a country, looking at the influence of different civilizations over the land that is known today as Ibu Pertiwi. …
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Improving Buffalo City's sub-transmission reliability
… in electrical service deeply impacted both social stability and economic development in affected communities and caused lower levels of reliability performance. The prevention of such catastrophic incidents poses huge challenges for reliability study and operational practices in Buffalo …
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REITs for residential rental markets in China
… created potential risks for the financial and social stability. To cope with these challenges, the Chinese government initiates several reforms in real estate and financial markets. First, it promotes the residential rental market to meet residents' housing demand. Second, it conducts …
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"Revolution can be avoided" : Le Corbusier and Taylorism in France, 1914-1929
… in Modern architecture. Taylorism promised social stability through the rationalization of the factory, increased profits and workers' wages. The adaptation of Tayloristic standardization and modularity formed the aesthetic basis of Le Corbusier's architecture of the 1920s. Taylorism endowed …
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Characteristics to Complement Requisite Managerial and Leadership Attributes to Effectively Manage a Multinational Corporation: a Study based in the Thai Automotive Industry
… following the low-wage labour market and social stability, Thailand has grown to be one of the top five countries targeted for Japanese investment. More importantly, with the support of both governments establishing the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement in 2007, strong economic …
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