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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"window of opportunity"”.
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The Window of Opportunity in Sustainability Transitions: An empirical investigation
To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, a rapid and deep reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is required, yet progress remains slow. Electrochemical technologies, combined with low-cost renewable electricity, offer a promising solution for segments of the chemical industry; however, the …
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Exploring Social Learning in Yorkton Following the 2010, 2014 and 2016 Floods
The objective of this study is to explore whether social learning has occurred in Yorkton following the flood events that the City experienced in 2010, 2014 and 2016. The study also aims to understand the factors that impacted social learning’s occurrence, its interrelation with the window of …
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The Development of the Children’s Centre Programme in England: the importance of context in understanding policy development and implementation
… in England and develops an understanding of its development at national and local level by using Kingdon’s (1995) streams model. Central to the thesis is a case study of the Children’s Centre Programme which looks at influential factors in the development at national level and …
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Mega-project politics : the evolution of Lahore's first BRT corridor
… such opportunities have emerged in the form of mass transit mega-projects, particularly BRT mega-projects. Most of the recent research on BRT adoption predominantly attributes these increasing investments to the changing nature of urbanization and associated increases in demand for public …
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Preservation of sperm harvested from the rat, caprine, equine, and bovine epididymis
… endangered species has increased the amount of attention lent to the recovery of functional sperm from the epididymides of deceased males (Foote, 2000). Postmortem specimens have a finite time period before decomposition affects functionality. Determination of this “window of opportunity” to …
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DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF A THEORY-BASED MULTI-COMPONENT SCHOOL-BASED PILOT INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE DIETARY AND ACTIVITY BEHAVIOURS IN EARLY ADOLESCENTS
Adolescence is a key window of opportunity for establishing healthy lifestyle habits, and habits formed during this period can carry over into adulthood. However, increasing evidence indicates that children and adolescents worldwide, including in Singapore, do not meet dietary and activity …
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Physical activity during recess and physical education class in children
Children do not acquire adequate amounts of physical activity (PA), there for it is important to identify opportunities to increase PA. The purpose of this thesis is to characterize PA during the school day, and to determine the effectiveness of a short term recess PA intervention. Children from …
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SOF and conventional force interoperability through SOF reconfiguration
The goal of this thesis was to decide what environmental variables affected past SOF attempts at achieving interoperability with the conventional military, to examine the status of SOF and conventional forces interoperability as it exists today, and to explain why now is the time for SOP to engage …
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Searching for exotic Higgs boson decays using a low mass double b-tagger
… the development, calibration, and application of a newly developed double b-tagger for use in the context of exotic Higgs decays. After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, an effort to measure its properties in detail has ensued. Current measurements only constrain …
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Conceptualizing transnational democratic networks: a case study of world wide views on biodiversity
… may be understood as necessary for conditions of democracy to move beyond the bounds of the nation-state and to incorporate conditions of a globalizing world. As global governance literature recognizes nuanced abilities to regulate through private and public interactions, the democratic voice …
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Groundwater decline and the preservation of property in Boston
… a slow-motion disaster underway below the city of Boston. The levels of groundwater have been steadily decreasing over the past eighty years and the structural integrity of the city's older buildings is in jeopardy. Buildings located on Boston's made land that were constructed prior to 1900 were …
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Demographic Dividend in Central Asia
A short summary of Kurbanova Muyassar’s doctoral dissertation “DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND IN CENTRAL ASIA” During the demographic transition, when the share of the working-age population increases, it presents an opportunity for economic gain, a phenomenon known as the "demographic dividend. This topic …
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Young Children and Nature: Outdoor Play and Development, Experiences Fostering Environmental Consciousness, And the Implications on Playground Design
Play is a pivotal part of a child’s life. Outdoor play fosters opportunities for creativity, imagination, social connections, and learned behaviors. There are two types of outdoor playscapes: natural and constructed. Natural playscapes offer sensory stimulation and physical diversity which is …
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Institutional interplay in global environmental governance
The Rio Conventions stand at the centerpiece of international cooperation within the governance area of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. Due to substantial environmental and political linkages, there are interrelations between the three regimes. This study seeks to examine the …
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Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
… leaders-when they fear that a target is at risk of shifting its alignment toward the state that the intervener considers most threatening. Covert action is a rational response to the threat of realignment. Interveners correctly recognize a window of opportunity: Owing to its circumscribed nature, …
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Utility Stock Splits: Signaling Motive Versus Liquidity Motive
Despite the rich literature on theories of stock splits, studies have omitted public utility firms from their analysis and only analyzed split by industrial firms when examining managerial motives for splitting their stock. I examine the liquidity-marketability hypothesis, which states that stock …
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
… and the New Deal brought together a variety of conditions and social forces that set up a formative clash over the institution of professional journalism. At the heart of that fight was the rise of the American Newspaper Guild and its battle for control over the trusteeship of the freedom of …
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ISOLATION AND CULTURE OF FIBROBLASTS FROM ENDOSCOPIC DUODENAL BIOPSIES OF CELIAC PATIENTS
… is widely used to investigate the diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract as celiac disease. Beside its diagnostic and therapeutic potential, it can be useful as source of primary intestinal fibroblasts through the collection of bioptic specimens. Aim of the study is to isolate and …
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A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: Subsistence cannabis cultivation in the changing legislative context in South Africa
… 2015, Duvall 2019, Khan 2015, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2019). The growing of cannabis is concentrated in three African regions; Pondoland in South Africa, the Mokhotlong district in Lesotho and the Hhohho district in Swaziland, with the majority of farmers growing the crop for …
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School construction in Sierra Leone
After years of British rule and a decade of civil unrest, rural communities in Sierra Leone were left with the residues of a colonial mentality and the psychological, physical and economic ravages of war. As a result, people are trapped in a mindset that discards vernacular architecture as obsolete …
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