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Combrinck, Jeanette Mildred. "Families at risk : experiences of family preservation services." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53396.
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In the past, social welfare delivery services to families at risk in South Africa focused strongly on statutory intervention, where children were removed from the care of their parents or caregivers and placed in alternative care. The system failed to deliver a full spectrum of services which would include prevention and early intervention services, with the result that many children and their families were exposed to immense trauma. A developmental approach to social welfare had since been adopted and social work service delivery in South Africa is supportive of prevention and early intervention services with the emphasis on strengthening the family, capacity building, and on community and family-based services. Social work services however still have a strong focus on statutory intervention and not enough on the preservation of families and keeping children in the family and community. This issue underlies the goal of the study, namely to explore the experiences of families at risk of family preservation services they have received.
The research followed a qualitative research approach, with applied research as the type of research with the intent that the information obtained through the research could inform family preservation services in practice. A phenomenological research design guided the study and enabled the researcher to obtain rich information from the research participants. Purposive sampling was used to select nine participants who conformed to the sampling criteria for the study. Data were collected by means of unstructured in-depth interviews which allowed the researcher to obtain an understanding of the participants? views of family preservation services.
The research findings indicated that the nature of the helping relationship between the social worker and most of the participants was of major importance in determining the participants? experiences of family preservation services. Clarity on the role of the social worker was a determining factor in the participants? perceptions of social workers and social work services. Where participants were clear about the fact that the role of the social worker was not to remove children in the first instance, they had a more positive experience of the involvement of the social worker and trusting relationship with the social worker. The participants identified a range of support services that they deemed helpful. These services included concrete services, emotional support, educational and recreational services, as well as multi-professional services. Participants who received holistic services expressed more positive experiences of social work intervention than participants who received services of a limited scope.
The researcher reached the conclusion that family preservation services which include comprehensive services to support the family to meet the needs of its members, can be an effective intervention strategy to support families and prevent the out-of-home placement of children. Comprehensive models of family preservation services, such as Systems of Care, multi-systemic therapy and the wraparound process are relevant to addressing the various needs of families at risk. It seems that community-based centers are in a position to provide such comprehensive services to families at risk within their communities, while the provision of intensive family preservation services in the South African context may not be a viable option of service delivery for many welfare organisations due to the shortage of social workers and resources.
In situations where risk is due to poverty and unemployment, family preservation can be an effective strategy to assist families at risk to care for their children and prevent the out-of-home placement of these children. In this sense family preservation services are in support of the principles and practice of developmental social work. It is thus recommended that social workers should not relate family preservation services to an intensive model of intervention only, but also deliver comprehensive services to families at risk that can support them over the longer term. Inter-agency collaboration can enhance the possibility of the provision of holistic family preservation services. Larger research studies on family preservation, conducted in different geographical areas and with diverse populations in the South African context, are recommended.Mini Dissertation (MSW)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Bugaighis, Elizabeth Tyler. "Historic preservation a tool for urban revitalization /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1990. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1990.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2934. Abstract precedes thesis as [4] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-94).
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Denby, Ramona Woods. "Targeting families for family preservation services : the decision-making process." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1232116597.
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Xu, Ge (Toby). "Exploring historical location data for anonymity preservation in location-based services." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Hezaveh, Maryam. "Privacy Preservation for Nearby-Friends and Nearby-Places Location-Based Services." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39234.
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This thesis looks at the problem of discovering nearby friends and nearby places of interest in a privacy-preserving way using location-based services on mobile devices (e.g., smartphones). First, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol for the discovery of nearby friends. In this scenario, Alice wants to verify whether any of her friends are close to her or not. This should be done without disclosing any information about Alice to her friends and also any of the other parties’ information to Alice. We also demonstrate that our approach can be efficiently applied to other similar problems; in particular, we use it to provide a solution to the socialist millionaires' problem.
Second, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol for discovering nearby places of interest. In this scenario, the proposed protocol allows Alice to learn whether there is any place that she is looking for near her. However, the location-based service (LBS) that tries to help Alice to find nearby places does not learn Alice’s location. Alice can send a request to the LBS database to retrieve nearby places of interest (POIs) without the database learning what Alice fetched by using private information retrieval (PIR). Our approach reduces the client side computational overhead by applying the grid square system and the POI types ideas to block-based PIR schemes to make it suitable for LBS smartphone applications. We also show our second approach is flexible and can support all types of block-based PIR schemes.
As an item of independent interest, we also propose the idea of adding a machine learning algorithm to our nearby friends’ Android application to estimate the validity of a user's claimed location to prevent users from sending a fake location to the LBS application.
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Sumter, George C. (George Cody). "Privacy preservation and auditing for ubiquitous mobile sensing applications and services." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78501.
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Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The recent proliferation of mobile phones, with their many associated sensors, has opened the door to an entirely new range of insights and applications with a host of accompanying privacy concerns. In this thesis, we explore techniques for privacy preservation, transparency, and auditing for mobile sensing applications and services. We demonstrate the feasibility of privacy-conscious defaults with the deployment of an open-source mobile sensing framework and examine the requirements for this as a basis of a forced-transparency system. This system is then examined within the scope of present legal and policy frameworks and assessed for use in both open and closed source mobile sensing platforms and frameworks. Finally, we highlight the use of a mobile application prototyping service as a means for early trend detection for future privacy research.
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Crisanto, Jaime Antonio, and Russ Eldrige. "A constructivist study of the family preservation program in Riverside County, California." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1080.
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Thomas, Sarah M. "relationship between characteristics and outcomes in adolescents who completed family preservation services." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10137490.
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Community mental health centers are actively pursuing evidence-based practices to help serve adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (Painter, 2012) and maintain adolescents in their homes who are at-risk for placement in residential care facilities (Copp, Bordnick, Traylor, & Thyer, 2007). Family preservation programs attempt to improve family functioning and dissuade future out-of-home placement (Diamond & Morris, 2011). The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the characteristics and outcomes of at-risk adolescents through secondary data. This study used a theoretical approach of the social learning theory developed by Albert Bandura (1973). The overall research question was as follows: Is there a significant difference between age, gender, and the length of treatment among adolescents in family preservation services? The study sampled 79 completed records of adolescents, age 1117, who received family preservation services in a Southeastern state over a five-year period and discharged from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2014. The quantitative research design was intended to examine the relationship between age, gender, length of treatment, and treatment outcomes of at-risk adolescents using archived data from the Child Behavior Checklist and the Global Assessment Functioning. The results of this study were shared with the administrators of the community mental health center. Excerpts of the written report of this study were discussed in detail with the administrators. This study has demonstrated that the participants of family preservation services experience significant differences in treatment outcomes of length of treatment, but not in age and gender. Implications for service delivery, especially successful completion of services, were discussed. Recommendations for future research are suggested at the conclusion of this study.
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Turnbull, Kathryn Irene. "An examination of social workers' knowledge of Family Preservation Services in child welfare." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2502.
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The purpose of the study was to determine how knowledgeable the San Bernardino County Department of Children's Services (DCS) social workers were about Family Preservation Services has been to determine if that intervention works to alleviate out-of-home placements.
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Russ, Thomas Harold. "Evaluation of the impact of farm land preservation on the use and valuation of neighboring property." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1995. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Mosoma, Zodwa. "The formulation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services in South Africa and the experiences of social workers regarding the formulation and implementation thereof." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46178.
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Worldwide, changes in the family have become more evident. Many of the traditional roles that families used to play are now performed by other institutions, such as schools, churches, a variety of welfare agencies and non-governmental organizations. Families in South Africa are no exception, as many South African families are faced with challenges that have a negative impact on their ability to sustain themselves and their members.
The previous Minister of Social Development, Doctor Zola Skweyiya, rightly acknowledged that, in order to address the needs of vulnerable groups in our communities effectively, we need a particular focus on the role of the family, both as a developmental and as a supporting institution. In responding to these challenges, the Department of Social Development developed a new Manual on Family Preservation Services (Department of Social Development, 2008b), with the aim of training social service professionals to deliver family preservation services. In order for the programme envisaged by the developers of the Manual to be implemented efficiently, the Norms and Standards Policy on Developmental Social Welfare Services (Department of Social Development, 2007a:52-57) mandates the roll-out of the training and education by all provinces. Thus all social service professionals are mandated to implement family preservation services as stipulated by the Norms and Standards Policy on Developmental Social Welfare Services (Department of Social Development, 2007a) and the Draft National Family Policy (Department of Social Development, 2008a).
In her role as one of the trainers on family preservation services who was also responsible for monitoring and evaluating these services in the provinces, the researcher observed the inadequacy and inconsistency of the concept of family preservation services in reporting among social service professionals despite the training and capacity-building carried out by the Department of Social Development.
The researcher therefore investigated, first, whether the formulation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services lacks clarity relating to the theoretical framework and operational definition of key concepts which are supposed to assist social service professionals in rendering effective family preservation services. Second, she interviewed 20 social workers regarding their experiences on the formulation and implementation of the Manual. This is a small sample in terms of representing social workers in the country. In total, 37 social workers were originally interviewed, but, because it transpired that they had never attended any training on the Manual for Family Preservation Services, their data were excluded from the empirical study, even though they are implementing these services. The researcher was therefore interested in analysing the formulation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services and also analysed the experiences of social workers regarding the formulation and implementation of the Manual, with the aim of identifying gaps and improving service delivery to families.
The researcher reviewed prior literature on systems theory, which is fundamental in addressing family dynamics, the family life cycle and its stages. She also considered literature on family preservation services on four levels of service delivery, the stages of the policy cycle and the overview of the Draft National Family Policy, as well as the Manual of Family Preservation Services. In this study, the researcher adopted an explanatory design, which is a form of mixed methods research. The overall purpose of an explanatory design is to gather qualitative data that help to explain or build upon initial quantitative results from the first phase of the study. In order to collect quantitative data, the researcher used a checklist for a content analysis of the formulation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services. She then conducted semi-structured interviews to collect qualitative data about social workers’ experiences regarding the formulation and implementation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services in eight provinces.
The researcher did a pilot test of the semi-structured interview schedule, which helped her to refine two questions that were understood differently by the two social workers who participated in the pilot test. After latent coding, the quantitative data were analysed manually, while the qualitative data were coded according to Creswell’s model for qualitative data analysis.
The quantitative empirical results revealed some limitations in the formulation of the Manual on Family Preservation Services. Such limitations include an unclear definition of the concept of family preservation services, the omission of objectives from the Manual, confusion with regard to the theoretical frameworks applied, a lack of clarity on the role of volunteers, the process of providing training and capacity-building to social service professionals, monitoring and evaluation plan. These findings were confirmed by the social workers who were interviewed. They exposed the confusion that exists on the definition of family preservation services, the objectives, the theoretical frameworks, the role of volunteers, high case-loads, which they linked to a shortage of social workers and the fact that resources, training and capacity-building on family preservation services are not prioritized.
It was therefore recommended that the issues highlighted above be addressed and be included in a revised Manual, and that relevant material also be provided to social service professionals who need to implement family preservation services.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Van, Huyssteen Josane. "The utilisation of group work by social workers at NGOs in the implementation of family preservation services." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96794.
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Thesis (M Social Work)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Social workers that render child protection services are, according to The White Paper for Social Welfare (Ministry of Welfare and Population Development, 1997) and the Integrated Service Delivery Model (Department of Social Development, 2006), required to render family preservation services through mainly preventive services and early intervention services. This implies that during the implementation of family preservation services, the social worker should focus on preventing the unnecessary alternative placement of children through immediate intervention that defuses the crisis situation, stabilizes the family, and teaches family members new problem-resolution skills, so they can avoid future crisis. A social work intervention method that could effectively enhance family preservation services is group work. Social workers rendering family preservation services, however make limited use of group work. Various studies done with regards to group work showed a definite decrease in the utilisation of group work by social workers at child and family welfare organisations, possible reasons for the decrease in the utilisation of group work were noted but no definite conclusions were drawn. Therefore a gap exists within research on the view of social workers with regards to the utilisation of group work during the rendering of family preservation services. The research study therefore investigated the perspective of social workers on the utilisation of group work during implementation of family preservation services. A combined quantitative and qualitative research methodology was used to involve social workers employed at non-governmental organizations in the Western Cape Metropole area in the study that was based on both an explorative and descriptive research design. For the aim of the research study, the researcher used purposeful non-probability sampling. Twenty social workers that met the inclusion criteria of the research study were selected according to their willingness to participate. A semi-structured interview schedule was used to collect the data during the empirical investigation and a pilot study was implemented to test the measuring instrument with two participants. A literature study aimed at describing the role and function of the social worker with regards the implementation of family preservation services as well the nature of group work when rendering family preservation services was completed. Thereafter an empirical investigation was done and the results from the empirical investigation were purposefully processed and analysed. Through processing and analysing the results the researcher was able to conclude with certain conclusions and recommendations with regards to the utilisation of group work during the implementation of family preservation services. The most important conclusion resulting from the research study indicate that child and family welfare organisations are struggling to effectively utilise the group work method during the implementation of family preservation services. The research study therefore recommends that social workers should receive thorough in-service training with regards to the possible ways of utilising the group work method more effectively during the delivery of family preservation services. Furthermore it is recommended that appropriate group work programmes be developed that are specifically aimed at family preservation services, in order to ensure that group work is effectively utilised by social workers when implementing family preservation services.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Maatskaplike werkers wat kinderbeskermingsdienste lewer word, volgens die Witskrif vir Maatskaplike Welsyn (Ministry of Welfare and Population Development, 1997) en die Geïntegreerde Diensleweringsmodel (Department of Social Development, 2006), vereis om gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste te lewer deur hoofsaaklik te fokus op voorkomende dienste en vroeë intervensie dienste. Dit beteken dat tydens die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste moet die maatskaplike werker fokus op die voorkoming van die onnodige alternatiewe plasing van kinders deur middel van onmiddellike ingryping wat die krisis situasie ontlont, die familie stabiliseer, en familielede nuwe probleemoplossings vaardighede aanleer ten einde toekomstige krisisse te verhoed. ‘n Maatskaplike werk intervensie metode wat effektief kan bydra tot die bevordering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste is groepwerk. Maatskaplike werkers wat gesinsinstandhoudings-dienste lewer maak egter beperkte gebruik van groepwerk. Verskeie studies wat gedoen is met betrekking tot groepwerk in maatskaplike werk dui ‘n definitiewe afname in die benutting van groepwerk deur maatskaplike werkers by kinder- en gesinsorg welsynsorganisasies aan, moontlike redes vir die afname in die benutting van groepwerk is opgemerk, maar geen definitiewe gevolgtrekkings is gemaak nie. Dus bestaan daar ‘n definitiewe gaping in navorsing rondom die sienings van maatskaplike werkers rakende die benutting van groepwerk in die lewering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste. Daarom is die perspektief van maatskaplike werkers rakende die benutting van groepwerk tydens die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste in die navorsingstudie ondersoek. ‘n Gesamentlike kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodologie is gebruik om maatskaplike werkers in diens by nie-regeringsorganisasies in die Wes-Kaap Metropool area in die navorsingsstudie, gebassseer op ‘n verkennende en beskrywende navorsingsontwerp, te betrek. Vir die doel van die navorsingstudie het die navorser gebruik gemaak van ‘n doelgerigte nie-waarskynlikheids steekproefneming. Twintig maatskaplike werkers wat aan die insluitingskriteria van die navorsingstudie voldoen het is dus volgens hul bereidwilligheid om deel te neem gekies. Tydens die empiriese ondersoek is ‘n semi-gestruktureerde onderhoudskedule gebruik om die data in te samel en ‘n loodsstudie is geïmplementeer om die meetinstrument met twee deelnemers te toets. ‘n Literatuurstudie wat daarop gemik was om die rol en funksie van die maatskaplike werker te beskryf met betrekking tot die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste asook die aard van groep werk tydens die lewering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste is voltooi. Daarna is ‘n empiriese ondersoek gedoen en die resultate van die empiriese ondersoek is doelbewus verwerk en ontleed. Deur verwerking en ontleding van die resultate was die navorser daartoe in staat om sekere gevolgtrekkings en aanbevelings met betrekking tot die benutting van groepwerk tydens die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste te maak. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekking uit die navorsingstudie dui daarop dat kinder en gesins welsynsorganisasies sukkel om effektief gebruik te maak van die groepwerk metode tydens die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste. Die navorsingstudie beveel dus aan dat maatskaplike werkers deeglike in-diens opleiding ontvang met betrekking tot die moontlike maniere waarop die groepwerk metode meer effektief tydens die lewering van gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste benut kan word. Verder word daar aanbeveel dat toepaslike groepwerk programme spesifiek gemik op gesinsinstandhoudingsdienste ontwikkel word ten einde te verseker dat groepwerk effektief benut word deur maatskaplike werkers tydens die implementering van gesinsinstandhoudings-dienste.
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Saint, L. "Choral music in Canterbury Cathedral, 1873-1988 : the role of service settings and anthems in the regeneration, preservation and sustenance of cathedral worship." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2011. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/10812/.
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'What service settings and anthems were sung in Canterbury Cathedral during 1873- 1988' is a straightforward question to answer. The significance of the practice of choral music making in Canterbury Cathedral in the restoration and growth of Cathedral worship and early music repertoire deserves close examination through the information discovered in that first answer. The implication is that reinstatement of the worship and development of early music, following a period of impoverishment, was necessary. Investigation of the nature of changes made in Canterbury Cathedral, together with the progress of expansion of that worship, through music, becomes a challenging essential. Regeneration describes the breathing of new life, as in recovery from serious illness, which was shown to be necessary in the music and worship of the early 19th century, following the vicissitudes of disagreement, war and apathy regarding style of worship in general and the role and compositional characteristics of music in particular. Preservation implies maintenance and safeguarding something of value, which had been hard won, in the battle for wellcrafted music that conveyed and supported the meaning of the words that the music carried. Sustenance speaks of active feeding and nurture of something that has been made healthy, on a daily basis, so that it will have future life. The churchmanship evident in regular choral services in Canterbury Cathedral is middle to high, as is that of the writer, (akin to the Via Media recommended by John Henry Newman, between 'the superstitions of Rome ... and the errors of Protestantism'). The Cathedral building, its people and its musical life were historically damaged by those of excessive Puritanism. A teenage exposure to The Wilderness: John Goss, made a deep and life-changing impression on the writer; in later years serving as Organist and Choir Master of an Anglo-Catholic church choir, together with singing in a national chamber choir in Cathedral services made a significant contrast to the crushing puritanism experienced in childhood and also to some extent the low Anglican church services of early adulthood. However, a respect for those with different approaches to spirituality and worship remains an essential component of the Cathedral ethos and the views of the writer. The knowledge of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist has given purpose to the writer's life, especially when combined with well-crafted music, and in its original language wherever possible. One of the chief roles of this study is to demonstrate the way in which Canterbury Cathedral's music has been an essential part of the movement towards reconciliation of the differing tenets of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Jackson, Vivian H. "An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Culture in Family Preservation and Kinship Care Services: An Africentric Translation." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1195303638.
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Guo, Mingming. "User-Centric Privacy Preservation in Mobile and Location-Aware Applications." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3674.
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The mobile and wireless community has brought a significant growth of location-aware devices including smart phones, connected vehicles and IoT devices. The combination of location-aware sensing, data processing and wireless communication in these devices leads to the rapid development of mobile and location-aware applications. Meanwhile, user privacy is becoming an indispensable concern. These mobile and location-aware applications, which collect data from mobile sensors carried by users or vehicles, return valuable data collection services (e.g., health condition monitoring, traffic monitoring, and natural disaster forecasting) in real time. The sequential spatial-temporal data queries sent by users provide their location trajectory information. The location trajectory information not only contains users’ movement patterns, but also reveals sensitive attributes such as users’ personal habits, preferences, as well as home and work addresses. By exploring this type of information, the attackers can extract and sell user profile data, decrease subscribed data services, and even jeopardize personal safety.
This research spans from the realization that user privacy is lost along with the popular usage of emerging location-aware applications. The outcome seeks to relive user location and trajectory privacy problems. First, we develop a pseudonym-based anonymity zone generation scheme against a strong adversary model in continuous location-based services. Based on a geometric transformation algorithm, this scheme generates distributed anonymity zones with personalized privacy parameters to conceal users’ real location trajectories. Second, based on the historical query data analysis, we introduce a query-feature-based probabilistic inference attack, and propose query-aware randomized algorithms to preserve user privacy by distorting the probabilistic inference conducted by attackers. Finally, we develop a privacy-aware mobile sensing mechanism to help vehicular users reduce the number of queries to be sent to the adversarial servers. In this mechanism, mobile vehicular users can selectively query nearby nodes in a peer-to-peer way for privacy protection in vehicular networks.
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Schwarzenbach, Lorenz. "Sustainable Destination Development in Practice : Can accommodation businesses contribute to cultural landscape preservation? The case of the Ökomodell Hindelang." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445181.
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The focus of this research lies on the possibilities and willingness of accommodation businesses to work for and towards sustainability in a destination. The area of investigation is the municipality of Bad Hindelang located in the German Alps. The so called Ökomodell stands for a collaboration agreement between agriculture and the municipality in order to preserve Bad Hindelang’s ecologically and touristically extremely valuable cultural landscape through continued traditional pasture-based livestock farming. The point of departure for this research is the destination’s goal to bring the accommodation sector on board. Two questions are particularly relevant in this context. First, to what extend do accommodation businesses recognize the Ökomodell’s importance for their own success as tourism stakeholders? And second, what factors influence their willingness to implement appropriate sustainability measures? The approach chosen for this research is mixed methods. Both, qualitative semi-structured expert interviews as well as a quantitative survey have been conducted. The results lay open the perspective of accommodation providers in Bad Hindelang. They have shown to be aware of agriculture being the condition for landscape preservation and thus long-term success in tourism. However, their willingness to contribute by implementing suggested sustainability actions is influenced by a multitude of other factors; above all, the costs and benefits going along as well as their level of engagement and foresight as tourism entrepreneurs.
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Zimba, Zibonele France. "The impact of family preservation and family reunification services on families in South Africa: a case study of Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/3088.
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Families in communities remain vulnerable and, apart from poverty, face a host of other crises and challenges on a daily basis. Amongst the challenges that families face, children are affected most. Services targeting families with very young children therefore are imperative. This study was aimed at exploring the impact of family preservation and family reunification services on families in South Africa, with a focus on the Eastern Cape Province. To answer the research questions of this study, the research adopted a mixed methods design known as methodological triangulation. The study incorporated two sets of participants, Social Workers and heads of families that benefit from family preservation and family reunification services. The total sample for the study included 260 participants; 220 of the participants were heads of families and 40 of the participants were Social Workers. Questionnaires were administered to 200 heads of families and 20 Social Workers selected by means of the random sampling technique. In addition, 20 heads of families and 20 Social Workers who participated in in-depth interviews were purposively selected. The quantitative data were analysed by means of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and qualitative data were categorised with the use of themes and subthemes
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JARDIM, A. M. "O Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais nas Áreas de Preservação Permanente da Bacia do Ribeirão da Confusão no Município de Rancharia - SP: um estudo sobre a viabilidade econômica da implantação." Universidade do Oeste Paulista, 2016. http://bdtd.unoeste.br:8080/jspui/handle/jspui/988.
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Brazil is considered one of the countries with the greatest number of environmental legislation in the world, ingroducing as Governmental strategy the use of command-and-control standards in the conservation of areas of permanent preservation and legal reserve located in rural properties. However, the so-called environmental punishment rules (command and control) have been showing an ineffective result, discouraging rural producers in the care of their environmental areas because the reforestation (planting, cleaning the land, fencing in the area, pest control, seedlings) presents itself very costly for producers. Some economic instruments, however, have been being used in the preservation of resources, in particular the payment for environmental services (PSA), used by many countries in Latin America and in Brazil, this payment model is gaining economic strength. The payment for environmental services is presented as a Prized Punishment, one that does something positive for the environment, should be awarded a prize or reward for the option of keeping the forest standing, taking care and pricing the marginalised services by the market. The work had as main objective to present the importance of payment for environmental services in areas of permanent preservation (APP) in an area located in the basin of the Confusão stream within Rancharia- SP city. At first, the bibliographic survey was about the topic and from seized theories and concepts raised, mapping were held as: arboreal vegetation, water resources and permanent preservation areas. Secondly, we conducted a survey of data through documental research (satellite images and data from the IBGE) in Rancharia city, focusing on the properties located on the banks of the Confusão basil. The hypothesis adopted in this work is that the payment for environmental services in the city of Rancharia is viable and this will facilitate the awareness of farmers in conservation of natural resources within the municipality. The research here adopted, was based on a qualitative research, using the bibliographical and documentary research and techniques of direct intensive observation. It was concluded that the implementation of the payment for environmental services in the areas of permanent preservation located in the basin of the Confusão, would contribute to the formation of public policy focused on the management of natural resources located in the city of Rancharia, in order to restore these forests, due to the multitude of ecosystem services that they provide to all collective. However, the results of the survey showed that it will only be possible through the installation of public policy adhered by municipal bodies.
O Brasil é considerado um dos países que mais possuem legislação ambiental do mundo, apresentando como estratégia governamental a utilização de normas de comando e controle na conservação das áreas de preservação permanente e reserva legal localizadas nas propriedades rurais. Porém, as referidas normas de penalização ambiental (comando e controle) vêm se apresentando de maneira ineficaz, desestimulando os produtores rurais no cuidado de suas áreas ambientais, pois a reposição florestal (plantio, limpeza do terreno, cercamento da área, controle de pragas, mudas) se apresenta muito onerosa aos produtores. Alguns instrumentos econômicos, entretanto, vêm sendo utilizados na preservação dos recursos, em especial o pagamento por serviços ambientais (PSA), utilizado por muitos países da América Latina e no Brasil, este modelo de pagamento econômico vem ganhando força. O pagamento por serviços ambientais consiste na sanção premial, ou seja, aquele que faz algo positivo para o meio ambiente deve ser agraciado com um prêmio ou recompensa pela opção de manter a floresta em pé valorando e precificando os serviços ambientais marginalizados pelo mercado. O trabalho teve como objetivo principal em apresentar a importância do pagamento por serviços ambientais em áreas de preservação permanente (APP) em uma área localizada na Bacia da Confusão dentro do Município de Rancharia SP. Num primeiro momento da pesquisa, fez-se o levantamento bibliográfico sobre o tema e a partir da teoria apreendida e dos conceitos levantados, foram realizados os mapeamentos de aspectos como: vegetação arbórea, recursos hídricos e áreas de preservação permanente. Num segundo momento, foi realizado um levantamento de dados através de pesquisa documental (imagens de satélite e dados do IBGE) no Município de Rancharia, enfocando as propriedades localizadas as margens Bacia da Confusão. A hipótese adotada no trabalho é que o pagamento por serviços ambientais no município de Rancharia seja viável e com isso venha possibilitar a conscientização dos produtores rurais na preservação dos recursos naturais dentro do município. A pesquisa aqui adotada foi baseada sob uma investigação qualitativa, utilizando-se do levantamento bibliográfico e da pesquisa documental e com técnicas da observação direta intensiva. Foi possível concluir que a implementação do pagamento por serviços ambientais nas áreas de preservação permanentes localizadas na Bacia do Ribeirão da Confusão, contribuiria para a formação de uma política pública voltada para o gerenciamento dos recursos naturais localizados no município de Rancharia, de modo a restaurar essas matas, pela infinidade de serviços ecossistêmicos que elas prestam a toda coletividade. Contudo os resultados da pesquisa mostraram que só será possível, mediante a instalação de políticas públicas aderidas pelos órgãos municipais.
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Wikström, Alice. "The Green Area Factor, Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity : An investigation of the preservation of urban biodiversity within the city of Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-285915.
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Urbanization is increasing around the world and causes distress on the urban green areas as more and more people moves into cities. This leads to expansion and densification of the city and green areas within and around the cities run the risk of being exploited and fragmented. Thus, the rapid urbanisation process negatively affects biodiversity, as fragmentation of green areas occurs due to development of housing and roads. This results in habitat loss, causing decreasing species populations, and loss of connectivity for species dispersal. Urban green areas are important for maintenance of ecosystem services provided by nature. One ecosystem service which is considered a supportive ecosystem service is biodiversity. Biodiversity is therefore vital to preserve not only for the survival of nature, but for the survival of mankind. There are several, both international and national, objectives concerning the preservation of biodiversity. One of the Swedish Environmental Objectives is called “A Rich Diversity of Plant and Animal Life” and is directly targeting the conservation of biodiversity and had its due time in 2020. The objective was deemed not fulfilled this year, and one of the reasons mentioned was the expansion of cities, as green areas risked being exploited and fragmented. The shrinkage and isolation of natural habitats increase the risk for degradation of urban biodiversity so therefore the conclusion was to consider green areas at an early stage of the physical planning process. In this context, Green Infrastructure (GI) is the coherent network of structures, nature areas and habitats that are important for the provision of ecosystem services. GI is used when working with climate adaptation, social values, and biodiversity in urban areas. The Green Area Factor (Grönytefaktor, GYF, Swedish abbreviation) used in Sweden has been adapted to fit the current values and goals of the city of Malmö in Sweden, and later on applied in three of the biggest cities of Sweden: Malmö, Gothenburg, and Stockholm. GYF used in the City of Stockholm is a planning tool adopted for development districts and is applied during land allocation within the municipality (abbreviated GYF KVM). GYF KVM is calculated by dividing the sum of the green areas with the total area of the property. This result in a factor which should be achieved when the development on the property is completed. This thesis investigates how GYF KVM is treated by developers and the city of Stockholm during development and whether GYF KVM is a good tool for preserving the biological diversity in cities. The report also investigates whether GYF KVM is a long-term solution for strengthening the GI, especially regarding biodiversity. Methods used for answering the objectives were in the form of literature research of both scientific and grey literature, and interviews with stakeholders. The stakeholders identified were the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), consultants, C/O City and developers operating within the city of Stockholm. The thesis concluded that GYF KVM is a tool that is primarily intended to implement ecosystem services and is not only intended to strengthen biodiversity. However, GYF KVM lacks strong links to GI as the area of application is limited to the district. One solution could be for the city to implement a complementary tool for the design of green areas on public land. In this way, the planning area is expanded. Another proposal that was raised was to implement a binding national GYF model that ensures that more municipalities use GYF when planning urban environments. A national GYF model would also ensure that the additional green values are followed up and maintained.En alltmer ökande urbanisering sker runt om i världen och i Stockholms stad växer antalet invånare för varje dag. Urbanisering innebär oftast en påfrestning på de urbana grönytorna då alltfler människor centreras kring stadskärnan vilket resulterar i expandering och förtätning av staden. Den biologiska mångfalden i den urbana miljön riskerar därmed att påverkas negativt. Grönytorna i städer är viktiga att bibehålla för att upprätthålla ekosystemtjänster som naturen ger oss. En ekosystemtjänst som klassas som en stödjande tjänst är den biologiska mångfalden. Biologisk mångfald är därför viktig att säkra inte enbart för naturens skull utan också för människans överlevnad. Det finns många mål, både internationella och nationella, kopplade till bevarande av den biologiska mångfalden. Ett av Sveriges miljökvalitetsmål berör den biologiska mångfalden och heter Ett rikt växt- och djurliv. Naturvårdsverket bedömde att målet inte skulle uppnås år 2020 och ett av hoten mot biologisk mångfald var stadsutbredning. Skälet till detta ansågs vara att grönytor riskerar att exploateras och fragmenteras, vilket ökar risken för degradering av den biologiska mångfalden i staden. Grönytor bör därför beaktas av kommunerna i ett tidigt skede i den fysiska planeringen. Grön infrastruktur (GI) är det sammanhängande nätverk av strukturer, naturområden och livsmiljöer som är viktiga för tillhandahållande av ekosystemtjänster. GI används vid arbete med klimatanpassning, sociala värden och biologisk mångfald i urbana och andra miljöer. Grönytefaktor (GYF) för allmän platsmark är ett planeringsverktyg som används vid planering av gröna ytor inom en tomt eller en fastighet som ska exploateras. För att särskilja GYF för kvartersmark från andra GYF modeller kommer GYF som används i Stockholms stad hädanefter att förkortas till GYF KVM. GYF KVM räknas ut genom att man dividerar de gröna ytorna inom en fastighet med den totala ytan. På så sätt får man en kvot, eller en faktor, som ska uppnås när fastigheten är bebyggd och färdigställd. GYF modeller används och appliceras i Sveriges tre största städer; Malmö, Göteborg och Stockholm. I dessa städer har GYF modellerats efter den specifika stadens behov och mål. I Stockholms stad ställs GYF som ett krav vid försäljning av kommunal mark till en byggherre för exploatering och är tänkt att stärka den gröna infrastrukturen i staden. Den här rapporten utreder hur byggherrar och Stockholms stad behandlar GYF KVM vid exploatering samt om GYF KVM är ett bra verktyg för att bevara den biologiska mångfalden i städer. Rapporten utreder också om GYF KVM är en långsiktig lösning för stärkande av den gröna infrastrukturen, speciellt gällande den biologiska mångfalden. Metoder som appliceras för att svara på frågorna var en litteraturstudie av vetenskapliga rapporter samt rapporter från statliga myndigheter och Stockholm stad. En intervjustudie utfördes också med berörda parter; Stockholm stad, Naturvårdsverket, konsulter, C/O City och byggherrar verksamma inom kommunen. Sammanfattningsvis kan det konstateras att GYF KVM är ett verktyg som främst är till för att implementera ekosystemtjänster, och är inte enbart till för att stärka den biologiska mångfalden. Dock saknar GYF KVM starka kopplingar till GI då planområdet för GYF KVM är begränsat. En lösning kan vara att staden implementerar ett kompletterande verktyg för utformning av grönytor på den allmänna platsmarken, så kallad GYF AP. På så sätt utökas planområdet. Ett annat förslag som togs upp var att implementera en bindande nationell GYF-modell som säkerställer att fler kommuner använder sig av GYF vid planering av urbana miljöer. En nationell GYF-modell skulle också säkerställa att de tillkommande gröna värdena följs upp och kvarstår.
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Muñoz, Angélica Maria Mosquera. "Serviços ecossistêmicos prestados pela cobertura florestal em parques urbanos : o caso do Parque Guaraciaba (Santo André, SP)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2015.
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Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Simone Rodrigues de FreitasDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão do Território, 2015.
Mudanças nos processos de ocupação e uso das terras insustentáveis, políticas de desenvolvimento inadequadas e crescimento urbano, têm gerado níveis altos de degradação e aumento da pressão sobre os ecossistemas que ameaçam a resiliência do sistema natural. Na atualidade a compreensão dos parques urbanos como elementos importantes para a qualidade ambiental e o convívio social em grandes cidades é relevante, pelo fato dos diferentes serviços que eles fornecem para a sociedade tais como: conforto térmico, absorção de dióxido de carbono, controle da poluição sonora e do ar, proteção dos recursos hídricos e bem estar da população. Dessa forma, é importante identificar e avaliar os serviços ecossistêmicos prestados pelas áreas urbanas, especialmente nas unidades de conservação urbanas, a fim de gerar estratégias de gestão e apropriação da comunidade na conservação e manutenção ambiental; neste sentido, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar potenciais serviços ecossistêmicos prestados pela cobertura florestal no Parque Guaraciaba, em Santo André (SP), orientando a tomada de decisões na conservação e restauração dos fragmentos florestais, direcionando o território a cenários de sustentabilidade urbana. Por conseguinte, foi feito o mapeamento do uso e cobertura da terra em dois períodos (1990 e 2012) para quantificar mudanças nas coberturas vegetais na área do entorno do parque (1km),na área do parque, na APP do entorno do parque e na APP do parque; Esta análise evidenciou mudanças positivas e negativas nas coberturas nos 12 anos estudados, produto dos diferentes processos de urbanização e ocupação do solo; além disso, verificou-se alguns remanescentes florestais conservados em diferentes estádios sucessionais produto dos processos de reflorestamento na área que permitem a manutenção de serviços ecossistêmicos fornecidos pela cobertura florestal. No entanto, é necessário investir mais esforços e estratégias de gestão ambiental para otimizar a conservação da área do parque Guaraciaba para a manutenção das APP e o bem-estar da população.
Changes in occupation processes and unsustainable use of land, inappropriate development policies and urban growth have generated high levels of degradation and increased pressure on ecosystems that threaten the resilience of the natural system. Today the understanding of urban parks as important elements for environmental quality and social life in big cities is relevant, because of the different services they provide to society such as thermal comfort, carbon dioxide absorption, pollution control noise and air pollution, protection of water resources and welfare of the population. Thus, it is important to identify and evaluate the ecosystem services provided by urban areas, especially in urban conservation areas in order to generate community management and ownership strategies in environmental conservation and maintenance; in this sense, this study aimed to evaluate potential ecosystem services provided by forest cover in Guaraciaba Park in Santo André (SP), guiding the decision-making in conservation and restoration of forest fragments, directing the territory urban sustainability scenarios. It was therefore made use mapping and land cover in two periods (1990 and 2012) to quantify changes in vegetation cover in the surrounding area of the park (1km), in the park area in APP surrounding the park and APP park; This analysis showed positive and negative changes in coverage in the 12 years studied, a product of the different processes of urbanization and land use; Moreover, there was some forest remnants preserved in different successional product of reforestation processes stadiums in the area that allow the maintenance of ecosystem services provided by forest cover. However, it is necessary to invest more efforts and environmental management strategies to optimize the conservation of the Guaraciaba park area for the maintenance of APP and the population's well-being.
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Altmann, Alexandre. "Pagamento por serviços ecológicos: uma estratégia para a restauração e preservação da mata ciliar no Brasil?" reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2008. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/352.
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O presente trabalho versa sobre uma nova concepção do direito ambiental, superando a idéia de um direito estritamente focado em normas de comando-econtrole para um direito cuja função seja promover, estimular, incentivar as condutas ecologicamente corretas. No Brasil, o direito ambiental é composto quase que exclusivamente por instrumentos de comando-e-controle e, mesmo diante de todo este aparato jurídico-institucional, a degradação do ambiente atinge níveis alarmantes. Essa constatação faz com que vários setores da sociedade questionem acerca da possibilidade de adoção de instrumentos de incentivo positivo voltados para a preservação da natureza. A abordagem escolhida para enfrentar o tema dos incentivos positivos diz respeito a um dos maiores desafios para a conservação da natureza no Brasil hoje: as matas ciliares. Para o direito ambiental tal abordagem é paradigmática, pois, em que pese encontrarem-se tuteladas juridicamente desde 1934, as matas ciliares continuam sendo sistematicamente degradadas. São exemplo contundente do que acontece com outras questões ambientais no país. A degradação das matas ciliares constitui um dos mais urgentes problemas a serem resolvidos pela sociedade brasileira, a qual depende dos serviços ecológicos por elas prestados, seja nas cidades ou no campo. O conceito de serviços ecológicos permite a concepção de novos mecanismos de conservação do meio ambiente, especialmente em áreas privadas e no tocante ao valor de uso indireto dos ecossistemas, grandes barreiras para a efetividade do direito ambiental hoje. Tal conceito fez emergir um instrumento capaz de operacionalizar os incentivos positivos para a preservação: o Pagamento por Serviços Ecológicos (PSE). O PSE objetiva a internalização das externalidades positivas, compensando os custos de oportunidade daqueles que contribuem com a conservação da natureza. A questão que o presente estudo busca responder refere-se à possibilidade e aos pressupostos para a adoção do PSE no Brasil como forma de incentivo positivo àqueles que preservam e recuperam as matas ciliares. Para tanto, foi realizada ampla pesquisa bibliográfica, sobretudo na literatura estrangeira, vez que no Brasil o assunto é recente e carece de fundamentação teórica, especialmente quanto aos aspectos jurídicos.Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-22T16:23:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Alexandre Altmann.pdf: 680457 bytes, checksum: 010a71487f7d6e1c870c214bc85e10fb (MD5)
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This work is about a new concept of environmental law, overcoming the idea of a law strictly focused on standards for command-and-control to a law whose function is to promote, encourage, stimulate the ecologically correct conducts. In Brazil, the environmental law is composed almost exclusively of instruments of command-andcontrol and, even with all this legal and institutional apparatus, environmental degradation reaches alarming levels. This finding leads various sectors of society questioning about the possibility of adoption of instruments of positive incentive towards the preservation of nature. The approach chosen to address the issue of positive incentives is about one of the biggest challenges for nature conservation in Brazil today: the gallery forests. For the environmental law that approach is paradigmatic because, in spite of finding themselves legally protected since 1934, the gallery forests are still being systematically degraded. This is a scathing example of what happens with other environmental issues in the country. The degradation of gallery forests is one of the most urgent problems to be solved by Brazilian society, which depends on the ecological services they provide, whether in cities or in the field. The concept of ecological services enables the design of new mechanisms for the conservation of the environment, especially in private areas and regarding the value of indirect use of ecosystems, major barriers to the effectiveness of environmental law today. This concept has emerged an instrument able to operationalize the positive incentives for conservation: Payment for Ecological Services (PES). The PSE aims internalization of positive externalities and compensate the opportunity costs of those who contribute to the conservation of nature. The question that this study seeks answer refers to the possibility and conditions for the adoption of the PSE in Brazil as a positive incentive to those who preserve and recover the gallery forests. To that end, was carried out extensive literature search, particularly in foreign literature, because in Brazil the subject is new and lacks theoretical basis, particularly concerning legal aspects.
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Meneses, Adela. "Interventions in a family preservation service, the narratives of single parent mothers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62796.pdf.
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Mou, Lei. "Toward a customized privacy preservation method in mobile tourism applications." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAM063.
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Le développement rapide des TIC (Information and Communication Technology) a un impact énorme à toutes les industries. Internet Mobile, Web 2.0, la technologie de positionnement sont déployées dans le monde largement, qui a initialisé la demande intérieure des nouvelles technologies dans le domaine du tourisme. En profitant de la commodité apportée par les nouvelles technologies, de plus en plus d'utilisateurs de commencer à se concentrer sur les questions de confidentialité.Comme on le sait, il y a une contradiction entre la qualité des services et la vie privée recommandés basés sur la localisation. profil de l'utilisateur détaillé et informations de localisation précises sont nécessaires pour fournir un service basé sur la localisation avec une grande efficacité et de qualité, tandis que la préservation de la vie privée exige cacher le profil et l'emplacement de l'utilisateur. De nombreuses recherches récentes vise à trouver un équilibre entre eux, pour obtenir la meilleure qualité de la LBS dans le contexte du contenu du profil de l'utilisateur et les informations de localisation moins exposée.Dans cette thèse, l'auteur a porté principalement sur la vie privée de profil de l'utilisateur mobile, qui couvre à la fois les caractéristiques personnelles et les informations de localisation.1, sur mesure modèle de confidentialité des utilisateurs considérant à la fois les qualités personnelles et la localisation spatiale et temporelle est définie pour l'utilisateur mobile.Dans cette recherche, nous avons proposé le modèle de confidentialité personnalisé pour chaque utilisateur de définir, son / sa propre signification de la vie privée. Avec ce modèle, à des fins de Voyage différents, ou même pour le temps et un autre emplacement, ils peuvent avoir des définitions différentes pour leur vie privée.2, Minimiser les données à stocker sur le serveur.Les profils sont stockés de deux façons différentes, le profil complet est stocké sur le côté client, et seules les valeurs des attributs qui sont en mesure pour les utilisateurs de partager sont stockés sur le côté serveur, ainsi minimisé les données à stocker sur le serveur.3, les niveaux personnalisés de granularité de la divulgation de l'emplacement et l'heure sont réglables pour les utilisateurs.Pour changer fréquemment des attributs tels que l'emplacement et l'heure, l'utilisateur peut les divulguer avec une granularité appropriée, afin d'obtenir le service attendu par les fournisseurs de services.Mots-clés: vie privée, l'emplacement, le profil de l'utilisateur, mobile, tourismeThe rapid development of ICT(Information and Communication Technology) brought huge impact to all industries. Mobile internet, Web 2.0, positioning technology are deployed world-widely, that initialized inner request of new technologies in the field of tourism as well. By enjoying the convenience brought by new technologies, more and more users starting to focus on privacy issues.As known, there is a contradiction between the quality of recommended location-based services and privacy. Detailed user profile and precise location information are needed for providing location-based service with high efficiency and quality, while privacy preservation requires hiding user's profile and location. Many recent researches aims to seek a balance between them, to obtain the best quality of the LBS in the context of the least exposed user profile content and location information.In this thesis, the author focused mainly on the privacy of mobile user profile, which covers both personal characteristics and location information.1, Customized user privacy model considering both personal attributes and spatial and temporal location is defined for mobile user.In this research, we proposed customized privacy model for every user to define, his/her own meaning of privacy. With this model, for different travel purpose, or even for different time and location, they can have different definitions for their privacy.2, Minimized the data to be stored on server.Profiles are stored in two different ways, complete profile is stored on the client side, and only the values of the attributes that are able for the users to share are stored on the server side, thus minimized the data to be stored on server.3, Customized levels of granularity of disclosure of location and time are adjustable for users.For frequently changing attributes such as location and time, user can disclose them with suitable granularity, in order to obtain expected service from the service providers.Keywords: privacy, location, user profile, mobile, tourism
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Kainiya, Mohammad. "La dématérialisation des actes et conventions (de l'expérience française à sa réception par le droit iranien ?)." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30038.
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La signature électronique se fonde sur des siècles de sciences et d'expérience mais ce n'est qu'à la fin du XXème siècle que les Américains l'ont reconnue. L'Union Européenne à son tour a adopté la signature électronique en 1999. Le législateur français s'est intéressé à une révision essentielle du droit de la preuve. Le 13 mars 2000 une loi portant sur « l'adaptation du droit de la preuve aux technologies de l'information et à la signature électronique » est promulguée par le gouvernement Jospin. Cette loi a ajouté l'alinéa 2 à l'article 1317. Cet alinéa permet d'établir et de conserver les actes authentiques, dans des conditions fixées par Décret en Conseil d'État. Une dernière phase de l’évolution du droit français de la preuve a été franchie par le décret du 10 août 2005. Ce décret a fixé les conditions relatives à l'établissement et à la conservation des actes authentiques sur support électronique. L'apport le plus important de ce décret est qu'il a inventé l'acte authentique électronique à distance encore imparfait à ce jour. A partir d'ici c'était au Conseil Supérieur du Notariat français de développer le système d'établissement et de conservation des actes authentiques en employant la clé sécurisée « Réal » et le système Télé@ctes. Il a également fondé un Minutier Central de très haut niveau de sécurité.C'est au cours des années 2000 à 2003 que le législateur iranien va s'intéresser lui aussi à l'évolution mondiale en s'inspirant des lois des autres pays, en particulier des lois de l'Union Européenne et des États-Unis. Le 8 janvier 2003 il vote une loi sur le commerce électronique et exclut les actes authentiques du champ d'application de cette loi. Le Conseil Supérieur du Notariat Iranien n'a donc pas été autorisé à établir des actes authentiques électroniques. Dans cette thèse nous avons essayé de comparer les régimes juridiques de France et d'Iran, en particulier en manière d'établissement et de conservation des actes authentiques par officier publicThe electronic signature is based on a history of scientific experiments but it is only at the end of the twentieth century that the Americans recognized electronic signature. The European Union, in its turn, adopted the electronic signature in 1999. In The French legislators became involved in a fundamental revision of the laws of the proof. On March 13, 2000, a law carrying “the adaptation of the law of the proof to information technologies and to electronic signature” was promulgated by the Jospin government. This law added the paragraph 2 in the Article 1317 which allows establishing and keeping authentications under the conditions decided by Decree in Council of State. The last phase of the evolution of the French Law of the Proof was completed by the decree of August 10, 2005. This Decree established the conditions relative to the establishment and preservation of electronic authentication. The most important contribution of this Decree was that it invented remote electronic authentication that was still imperfect to that day. From here it was in the High Council of the French Notary’s practice to develop the system of establishment and preservation of authentication. It employed the networks and secured “Real” key, the Télé@ctes system. It established Minutier Central with very high level of security.It was in 2003 when the Iranian legislators became interested in this global trend and inspired by the laws of the other countries, and in particular by laws of the European Union and the United States. On January 8, 2003, Iran approved a law on the e-commerce. the Iranian legislators excluded electronic authentication in this law. In this thesis, we are going to note some important differences between Iran and France
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Cobra, Elton Abreu. "A Lei 12.651/2012 avanços e retrocessos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6674.
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Previous issue date: 2015-02-03The objective of the present work is the analysis of 12.651/2012 law and the identification of the advances and setbacks in environmental regularization of rural properties.The implementation of this environmental Law in relation to the Forestry Legal Reserve Areas and Areas of Permanent Preservation is necessary to ensure quality of life to Brazilian society. We develop the analysis of the need for preservation and restoration of these areas and distortions brought by the New Forest Act that could bring trouble to the protection of these environmental assets, as a threat to the protection of ecological processes that ensure the sustainability of natural resources and biodiversity conservation. The work approach bases itself on the principle of the prohibition of environmental backsliding in order to verify the possible weakening of the regulation and its constitutionality towards the dictates of the Constitution of 1988. The study proposes alternatives to the effectiveness of the law based on the Payment for Environmental Services - PSA. The goal is to collaborate with the evolution of the effectiveness of law enforcement and the pursuit of sustainability in the use of our environmental assets for the promotion of social and environmental well-being
O presente trabalho tem por objetivo uma análise da Lei 12.651/2012 e identificar os avanços e retrocessos na regularização ambiental das propriedades rurais. O cumprimento desta Lei Florestal em relação às Áreas de Reserva Florestal Legal e Áreas de Preservação Permanente se faz necessário para garantir qualidade de vida à sociedade brasileira. Desenvolvemos a análise da necessidade de preservação e recuperação destas áreas e as distorções trazidas pela Nova Lei Florestal que poderá trazer transtornos para a proteção destes bens ambientais, com ameaça à proteção dos processos ecológicos que garantem a sustentabilidade dos recursos naturais e a preservação da biodiversidade. O trabalho faz uma abordagem com base no Princípio da Proibição do Retrocesso Ambiental para verificar o possível enfraquecimento da norma e sua constitucionalidade frente os ditames da Constituição Federal de 1988. O estudo propõe alternativas para a efetividade da lei com base no Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais PSA. O objetivo é colaborar com a evolução de sua efetividade do cumprimento da lei e a busca da sustentabilidade da utilização dos nossos bens ambientais para a promoção do bem estar socioambiental
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Cannon, Kelly June. "Fort Clatsop National Memorial: A Study in Historic Preservation." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4719.
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Fort Clatsop National Memorial is a unit of the National Park Service in Clatsop County, Oregon. The memorial was established by an Act of Congress in 1958 to commemorate the culmination and 1805-1806 winter encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The memorial centers around a replicated fort structure. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the process of preserving historic sites under the National Park Service (NPS) by examining the history of Fort Clatsop National Memorial. Through this examination it is possible to understand the realities of the national preservation system and the ideals fostered by those involved in the system. The Fort Clatsop site became the subject of folk history in Clatsop County, which culminated in a community movement for national recognition. During the community sponsored l 50th anniversary celebration of the Expedition, local civic groups built the existing fort replica. The management needs of the replica caused the site owner, the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), to actively pursue national recognition. To achieve the creation of a national memorial, OHS and community members enlisted the help of Senator Richard L. Neuberger. Senator Neuberger drafted and successfully sponsored legislation for the creation of the memorial. Since the memorial's creation in '1958, the site has been under the management of the National Park Service (NPS). As a historical, commemorative unit, the NPS is responsible under the 193 5 Historic Sites Act for presenting the history of the Expedition to the public. Such historic interpretation includes the use of costumed demonstrations, exhibits, and other interpretive media. Fort Clatsop also represents the ideals of education and inspiration in NPS interpretive policies. In conclusion, the examination of Fort Clatsop illustrates factors involved in the creation of historic sites within the NPS and how private individuals and Congress affect the selection of historic sites for preservation. While illustrating how the private sector and Congress can decide what historic sites are preserved under the park system, this examination also illustrates how the park system handles those sites placed under its management and how NPS management helps shape public memory.
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Merck, Florence. "La biodiversité végétale au service des ingrédients naturels : étude des propriétés antimicrobiennes et antioxydantes d’extraits végétaux et développement d’un conservateur naturel pour l’industrie cosmétique." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AZUR4118/document.
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Cette thèse de doctorat a été réalisée dans le cadre du projet NATUBAVAL visant à découvrir de nouveaux conservateurs naturels pour l’industrie cosmétique, à partir de plantes issues d’un des hotspots mondiaux de biodiversité : le bassin méditerranéen. Dix-sept extraits ont ainsi été obtenus et évalués quant à leurs propriétés antimicrobiennes contre Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus brasiliensis et Candida albicans, ainsi que leur capacité antioxydante. Santolina chamaecyparissus a démontré des propriétés remarquables, et a été sélectionnée pour une étude plus approfondie. Une approche par fractionnement bioguidé a permis l’isolement du composé majoritaire de la fraction la plus active, également identifié comme actif : un spirokétal énol connu de la famille des polyacétylènes. Une optimisation de l’extrait brut d’intérêt a alors été entreprise dans le but de maximiser son activité et de faire face au challenge d’une transposition industrielle et de son incorporation dans un produit cosmétique. En définitive, cette étude introduit une stratégie de développement d’un ingrédient naturel pouvant potentiellement être utilisé comme une alternative aux conservateurs de synthèse dans les produits cosmétiquesThis PhD thesis is part of the NATUBAVAL project that aims at discovering new natural preservatives for the cosmetics industry, issued from one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots: the Mediterranean Basin. Seventeen plant extracts were obtained and screened for their antimicrobial properties against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus brasiliensis and Candida albicans and their antioxidant capacity. Santolina chamaecyparissus extract was found to present superior properties and selected for further investigation. A bioguided fractionation permitted to isolate the major compound of the most active fraction, that was identified as the active compound, a known spiroketal enol from the polyacetylenes family. An optimization of the crude extract of interest was then performed in order to maximize its activity and to face the challenge of an industrial scale-up and its incorporation in a cosmetic formulation. Finally, this study introduces a natural ingredient development strategy that might potentially be used as an alternative to synthetic preservatives in cosmetics
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Carlson, Sachi. "The Association For The Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities And The Weaponization Of Nostalgia In The Service Of White Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1616444422.
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This thesis addresses the practice of historic preservation, situating preservation and tourism as substantial arms of the Lost Cause movement in the late nineteenth-century. Through this case study of the Association of the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), I illustrate how, in the aftermath of the Civil War, southern historic preservation efforts were primarily acts of self-preservation. The APVA exemplifies how identity can be created and maintained through the very performance of it – by securing of a stage on which to do so. Heralding a specific brand of tradition, the APVA reached for the more distant grandeur of colonial and early America. Their conjuring of a pre-existing white, elite identity enabled them to forge a broader identity that unified whiteness across class boundaries through their preservation and performance. An elite women’s organization based in Williamsburg, Virginia, the APVA deployed their femininity and whiteness dexterously in the service of broader white supremacy. In the context of the post-Civil War South, I show the intentionality with which the APVA selectively preserved sites from which white elites traditionally wielded power and the ways in which nostalgia and memory have been embraced as historical reality. What results from these methods are sanitized depictions of slavery and the glorification of white male figures. This thesis serves to problematize the authority with which heritage tourism sites are afforded by exposing the ideological and exclusionary praxes, which undergird the entire operation.
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Ryan, Molly Michelle. "The house that Smokey built the Forest Service management of historic structures in wilderness /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06252009-083658.
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Martin-Williams, Susan. "National Heritage Areas developing and specifying a model of interorganizational domain development and exploring the role of the National Park Service as a federal partner /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2007. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5356.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2007.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 127 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-120).
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Hearn, Jody. "Family preservation in families’ ecological systems: Factors that predict out-of-home placement and maltreatment for service recipients in Richmond City." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2086.
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Family preservation services are intended to prevent the out-of-home placement (into foster care or some other alternative arrangement) of children and youth in families at risk of maltreating them. An Ecological Systems perspective of these families might suggest that a family’s context (represented by the variables of poverty, agency services, family history, and individual/caretaker characteristics) must be considered as an over-arching influence in families’ risk and outcomes. The purpose of this cross-sectional secondary data analysis study was to identify layered factors that distinguish family preservation cases in Richmond, VA that experience removal or subsequent abuse or neglect from those that do not, in order to make recommendations about how services can be better directed to support families in caring for their children and youth. Using Hierarchical Discriminant Function Analysis, this research project evaluated the “predictive” values of the external conditions and internal characteristics of family recipients of the Richmond, Virginia Department of Social Services corollary to family preservation services on the outcomes of (a) successful case closure, (b) out-of-home placement during services, and (c) child maltreatment after case closure. Contextual factors (poverty), Agency factors (number of services and ratio of concrete services), Family factors (history of placement, chronicity of maltreatment, abuse risk score, and neglect risk score), and Individual/Caretaker factors (caretaker substance abuse, caretaker mental health, and family structure) were investigated. The findings of this study showed that poverty, agency characteristics, and family characteristics each directly explained substantial amounts of variance among the outcomes and that poverty, provision of concrete services, and a family history of foster care placement best distinguished among families experiencing these different outcomes. These findings highlight the need of family preservation programming to directly address conditions of poverty in abuse and neglect risk, and suggest that the services provided to the families need better targeting to families’ needs. Recommendations based on this study include the development of a theory-based, local-evidence-based model of services for family preservation services at the agency for which the research was conducted.
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Wong, She, and 黃舒. "Heritage conservation education: a community service learning approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48348557.
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When designing educational programme in the field of heritage conservation, community service learning approach may not be the first thing that comes to most heritage conservation educator’s mind. In this study the researcher has engaged in a discussion of the association of community service learning to heritage conservation education. The researcher have tried to make clear why she believe that community service learning, as an innovative pedagogical approach, has important things to say about today’s heritage conservation education. Proceeding from fieldworks, through analysis to explanation, based on direct and participant observations and interviews; two heritage training projects are reviewed to illustrate how community service learning can facilitate heritage conservation education. The researcher hope that other researchers will learn from the study, and educators will be able to critically examine which kind of pedagogical approach is more appropriate for today’s heritage conservation education.published_or_final_version
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Ruschel, Rodrigo Semeria. "Servi?os ecossist?micos urbanos: fixa??o de carbono nas ?reas de preserva??o permanente de Campinas-SP." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2016. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/901.
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This work presents the potential of carbon sequestration and provision of other ecosystem services in the Permanent Preservation Areas along the watercourses of the city of Campinas-SP. Also, the cost associated with the carbon sequestration service was calculated and how much the municipality would benefit from creating a market for the carbon credits generated in the reforestation projects in these areas. It was shown that the commercialization of credits would cover up to 46% of the project implementation costs. In addition to carbon sequestration, the recovery of PPAs along watercourses provides additional ecosystem services to the municipality, which if contemplated in the cost-benefit analysis of reforestation projects represent the largest portion of the total benefits. Therefore, the inclusion of the benefits generated by the additional ecosystem services has proved to be fundamental to make the recovery of PPAs economically viable.
Este trabalho apresenta o potencial de fixacao de carbono e provisao de demais servicos ecossistemicos das Areas de Preservacao Permanente ao longo dos cursos d?agua do municipio de Campinas-SP. Ainda, calculou-se o custo associado ao servico de fixacao de carbono e o quanto o municipio se beneficiaria ao criar um mercado para os creditos de carbono gerados nos projetos de reflorestamento destas areas. Foi demonstrado que a comercializacao dos creditos cobriria ate 46% dos custos de implantacao dos projetos. Alem da fixacao de carbono, a recuperacao das APPs ao longo de cursos d?agua proporciona servicos ecossistemicos adicionais ao municipio, e que se contemplados na analise custo-beneficio dos projetos de reflorestamento representam a maior porcao dos beneficios totais. Portanto, a inclusao dos beneficios gerados pelos servicos ecossistemicos adicionais mostrou-se fundamental para tornar a recuperacao das APPs economicamente viavel.
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Adams, Ashley Adams. "Examining the Cultural and Historical Impact of the National Historic Site Designation in Nicodemus, Kansas." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2708.
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America's National Historic Preservation Act promotes the conservation of irreplaceable sites such as Nicodemus, Kansas, an African American town founded by former slaves in 1877. The collaboration of the National Park Service (NPS) and civic partners is essential to meet the goal of preserving historic properties in Nicodemus and other minority communities. Although the NPS designated 5 Nicodemus buildings as a National Historic Site (NHS) in 1996, the few remaining residents struggle to preserve the site and attract visitors. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to explore the effects of NPS policies related to African American historic and cultural preservation. Research questions focused on the consequences of the NHS designation in Nicodemus and options for NPS policy improvement. This study was inspired by Innes and Booher's theory of complex adaptive systems and consensus building. Data were collected through interviews with 11 residents, educators, and representatives of the NPS. These data were inductively coded and then subjected to thematic analysis. Key findings indicate concerns about limited resources, NPS open competition hiring policies that do not promote the long-term employment of Nicodemus descendant-residents in spite of their ability to recount oral histories, a need for cross-cultural training in the NPS, and the inadequate promotion of the Nicodemus NHS. This study may lead to positive social change by emphasizing the need for the NPS to collaborate with the descendants and long-term residents of rural communities to preserve the historical legacy of African Americans and emphasize the strength of our nation's diversity.
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Erdem, Elif. "Intervention Principles In Wet Spaces For Contemporary Residential Use, In Eski Foca Traditional Dwellings." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608405/index.pdf.
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Traditional dwellings are one of the most important elements of Turkey&rsquos cultural heritage, which constitute a large part of the total quantity of all our traditional buildings. These buildings also have an important economic value due to their forming a huge part of the housing stock of Turkey. However these buildings disappear rapidly, because of many reasons. Besides several external factors, which cause their loss indirectly, such as pressure of the urbanization, the lack or defects of the legal arrangements, shortage in the financial sources&hellip
etc, they also have internal problems such as, structural, functional and environmental ones which lead their users to abandon them, similarly resulting in their deterioration and loss in the long term. Inadequacy of the service units in traditional dwellings are one of the most important problems belonging to the category of functional problems. They will be abandoned or physically altered by unconscious interventions as long as the needs related to the service functions are not met. Because the original service units of the traditional dwellings, especially the ones called &lsquo
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s contemporary houses do not respond to our needs, and are under the requested modern living standards. The change of the traditional way of life parallel to technological developments has resulted in the change in uses within the house and changes in needs and habits of the people. Therefore, the major objective of this study was to make the necessary rehabilitations related to the service needs in terms of adapting the traditional dwellings to contemporary residential use. It was assumed that this study would offer guidelines to eliminate similar types of problems related to the service needs of all the traditional dwellings in Foç
a. In this direction, the architecture of the traditional Foç
a dwellings with special interest in their service spaces were researched in the site survey. Besides their original architectural characteristics, their physical alteration status regarding to their needs, their problems and desires of their users were determined both with physical analyses and social questionnaires. All the interventions were assessed by taking into consideration both their conservation and physical needs of their inhabitants. In the proposal phase of the study, the spatial potentials and carrying capacities of the dwellings were determined while also considering the preservation of their values. The dwellings were grouped after this assessment according to their spatial potentials and problems. The appropriate types of interventions, aimed at meeting the minimum requirements, sometimes realized by rehabilitation of an existent space and in other cases by the addition of a new space were revealed according to the needs and problems of the dwellings. Finally, the principle decisions for the interventions were proposed by considering the necessary balance between usage and preservation in each proposal.
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Kassberg, Anna. "(RE)DEFINE GROWTH : How to Connect Ön and the City while Preserving, Emphasising and Intensifying the Green, Rural and Recreational Qualities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-141644.
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Ön is an island in central Ume River. Today Ön is a rural, green place with key habitats and historical values. In 2008 the municipality took the decision to exploit it by building city there. The decision was preceded by the emerging growth target, for Umeå, to become 200,000 inhabitants in 2050. The research material for this paper consists of legal documents, reports, literature, interviews, and own observations. It can be divided into three main parts. The first part, which is the ‘growth discourse’, is investigated through documents concerning political strategies and influences from within the field in relation to Umeå as a city. The second part consists of research around the ‘image’ of Norrland and the third part focus on questions involving well-being through nature and the concept of Ecosystem Services, in relation to Ön. In this paper, I advocate for an alternative plan concerning Ön and its unique set of qualities: the rural, historical, and nature dominated atmosphere adjacent to the city of Umeå. I argue that the value of this land is greater in its natural vesture, than it would be with added asphalt and concrete. The values of concern are non-monetary, but might as well become monetary in the more long-term scenario. There is mounting evidence of benefits derived from nature, when it comes to human well-being, and further that ecosystems provide services of major importance to us. Ecosystem Services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Ön possesses many of these services today. It holds potential for further cultivation and capacity to become amplified as a recreation area in central Umeå. The objective of this master thesis is to define and validate the qualities of Ön; and further, to develop a programme of possible interventions, in order to preserve and intensify the present atmosphere. This is conducted by identifying Ecosystem Services in the current context; and ways to enhance them, in order to propose an alternative plan for Ön.
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Christensen, Kelly Marie. "Wilderness Values, the Environmental Movement and Mission 66." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12188.
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x, 111 p. ； ill. (some col.), mapsMission 66 was a ten-year program that began in 1956 and concluded in 1966, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. The stated goal of Mission 66 was to increase public access and enjoyment of the national parks through a program of development and reconstruction. However, wilderness conservationists and environmentalists criticized the program heavily during its time. This reaction has left Mission 66 with a controversial legacy that reflects negatively on the historical developments of the program. The goal of this thesis is to delve into why Mission 66 was such a controversial program by examining the historic roots of wilderness and environmental thought in the national parks in the United States. It is hoped this study work will provide an important perspective on Mission 66 that can be utilized in the ongoing conversation about Mission 66 and its cultural legacy.
Committee in charge: Dr. Robert Z Melnick, Chair; Hugh C. Miller, Member;
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Moraes, Fabiane de 1983. "Aplicação do sistema cook chill no preparo de lagarto bovino (músculo Semitendinosus) em restaurantes de coletividade." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/255283.
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Orientador: Nilo Sérgio Sabbião RodriguesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos
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Resumo: A carne assada, um item bem aceito pelos clientes de restaurantes coletivos, é comumente preparado com lagarto bovino (músculo Semitendinosus). O mercado da alimentação fora de casa está em franca expansão. Para atender à maior demanda dos restaurantes de coletividade, é necessário o aumento da produção e a busca e aprimoramento de tecnologias. O preparo de alimentos pelo sistema cook chill preserva as características sensoriais, reduz as perdas de processo, e resulta em alimento mais padronizado e microbiologicamente mais estável, quando comparado com sistemas convencionais, permitindo melhor programação e centralização da produção. Visando à comparação destes dois sistemas para a produção de lagarto bovino, na Etapa I desse estudo foi executado um planejamento experimental para a maximização do rendimento e da força de cisalhamento no produto processado pelo sistema cook chill. Foi aplicado um delineamento composto central rotacional para as variáveis independentes: tempo de cozimento, escala de injeção de vapor e temperatura do forno. Para a definição dos níveis das variáveis independentes foram realizados estudos preliminares. Foram obtidos maiores rendimentos no cozimento com menores tempos de cocção, maiores escalas de injeção de vapor e temperaturas intermediárias. A carne cozida a 177,7 °C apresentou menor força de cisalhamento, que é maior com o aumento do tempo de cozimento. Para a Etapa II, foram selecionados dois tratamentos dentre os dezessete do sistema cook chill da Etapa I: um de mínima força de cisalhamento (cook chill 1) e outro de máximo rendimento no cozimento (cook chill 2), os quais foram comparados com o sistema convencional por análises físico químicas, microbiológicas e sensoriais, no processamento e durante a estocagem. Os dois sistemas propiciaram carne assada de boa qualidade, em relação aos parâmetros analisados. As carnes processadas pelo sistema cook chill obtiveram melhor avaliação para os atributos sensoriais: aparência e gosto salgado. Embora a carne processada pelo sistema convencional tenha sido mais bem avaliada no atributo textura no corte com a faca e sua força de cisalhamento tenha sido a maior, não houve diferença significativa para o atributo textura na mastigação. A maior oxidação lipídica encontrada no lagarto processado pelo sistema cook chill 2 não impactou nos resultados da análise sensorial. Obteve-se carne com boa qualidade microbiológica até o quinto dia de estocagem nos três processamentos, destacando-se a carne processada pelo sistema cook chill 1 pelas baixas contagens microbianas mesmo no décimo dia de estocagem. Assim, o processamento de carne assada pelo sistema cook chill é vantajoso, principalmente, por permitir a produção de alimento com características mais estáveis, propiciar melhor programação e favorecer o aumento e a centralização da produção em restaurantes de coletividade
Abstract: Roast beef is a well accepted item by food service customers and it is commonly prepared with Semitendinosus beef. The food service market is currently booming. To meet the higher demands, it is necessary to increase production, develop new technologies as well as improve existing ones. Food preparation by the cook chill system preserves sensory characteristics, reduces water loss and delivers more standardized and microbiologically stable food, when compared to conventional systems, allowing better planning and centralization of production. In order to compare these two systems in terms of production of Semitendinosus muscle, Phase I of this study involved an experimental design to maximize cooking yield and shear force on the product processed by cook chill system. It was applied a central composite design for the independent variables: cooking time, steam scale injection and oven temperature. To define the levels of these independent variables preliminary studies were performed. Cooking yield is maximized when time is reduced, and higher scales of steam injection and intermediate temperatures are applied. The meat cooked at 177.7 ° C had lower shear force which increases when cooking time increases. For Phase II, two treatments were selected from the seventeen treatments in Phase I: one of minimal shear force (cook chill 1) and another of maximum cooking yield (cook chill 2), which were compared with the conventional system using physical chemical, microbiological and sensorial analysis during processing and storage. The two processing systems, cook chill and conventional, resulted in roast beef of good quality, in relation to the analyzed parameters. Meats processed using the cook chill system had better sensory evaluation in terms of the following attributes: appearance and salty taste. Although meat processed by the conventional system were more thoroughly evaluated in terms of cutting texture and had the biggest shear force, there was no significant difference in the mouth texture attribute between the samples. The higher lipid oxidation found on the meat processed by cook chill 2 system did not impact the sensorial analysis results. Meat with good microbiological quality were obtained up to the fifth day of storage for the three cases, especially for meat processed by cook chill 1 system, that showed low results until the tenth day of storage. Roast beef processing by cook chill system is advantageous, especially because of its ability to produce food that is higher in terms of stability, provide better programming and promote the increase and centralization of production in food service
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Consumo e Qualidade de Alimentos
Mestra em Alimentos e Nutrição
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Wu, Chih-Ying, and 吳芝螢. "Social workers’ treatment practices in family preservation services." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53861072092355334323.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
社會工作學研究所
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This study investigates social workers’ treatment practices in family preservation services. Researchers use qualitative research method to collect and analyze research data. Using the one-on-one in-depth interview method, this study interviewed a total of 7 social workers, who are currently, or who have worked as family preservation social workers. The research results are included in the following four sections: 1. The value beliefs and case understanding of social workers in family preservation services Interviewees think that there are many reasons why child abuse occurs. In addition to personal factors, the biggest reason is that, underneath the existing social structure, it is the result of poor interaction of the whole family system. Secondly, most of the interviewees agree that family is the best nurturing environment for children, and that only when a child's personal safety is threatened, that a social worker will have conflicting ideals between "in the best interest for the child" and "maintain family integrity". 2. Factor analysis on treatment models for family preservation services This research found that interviewees adopted differing theories at different treatment phases, and that the goal strategies set in a treatment process, service subjects and the role a social worker plays are all different. No specific theory or treatment model can flawlessly assist in meeting the needs of a case subject. Therefore, social workers adopted a contingency attitude to assist the case subject. They present a treatment model that may be best described as generic or eclectic. 3. The work practices of social workers of family preservation service This study found that interviewees divided the workflow for family preservation into beginning, middle and ending phases, and that each phase comprises a different treatment content. In addition, interviewees also developed a treatment strategy for working with involuntary family during a treatment process. Levels of elements that affect social workers’ work practices include individual level, institution level and relationship level. 4. Program effectiveness and recommendations for family preservation services In terms of program effectiveness, interviewees think that it is effective in the individual aspect, family aspect and social aspect. They also expect that government will actively invest resources to implement this program and establish improved community network resources. Lastly, this study provides discussions and makes recommendations at the end of the paper as future references for governing policies, work practices and social work education.
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Ryan, Joseph Patrick. "Matching family problems with specific family preservation services : a study of service delivery and service effectiveness /." 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3048420.
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Willson, Stella Ingrid. "The feasibility of intensive family preservation services in South Africa." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17863.
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Children are being removed unnecessarily from their families and placed into substitute care because service programmes lack resources to keep families intact. There are overseas programmes, which provide home services to families, with children at risk of out of home placement. Although there has been an IFPS project there is no established intensive short-term programme in South Africa that deals with families at the brink of dissolution.The objective of the research is to investigate whether an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa. The researcher received training in the United States and met with leaders in the field, to discuss the development and implementation of the programme in South Africa. Surveys obtained the attitudes and opinions of the local social workers and commissioners of Child Welfare in Durban towards the programme. The results from opinion surveys indicate that an Intensive Family Preservation Programme is feasible in South Africa.Social Science
M.A.(Social Work)
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Chen, Yen-Chung, and 陳彥仲. "Privacy Preservation for User Queries and Search Results in Cloud Services." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b95665.
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博士國立交通大學
資訊科學與工程研究所
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Cloud services become popular in recent years and change how people use the Internet deeply. Many software vendors also utilize the cloud resource to supply greater services for their users. In most of the cloud services, the mechanism of data query always plays an important role. However, during the query process, it usually involves the inspection of what user concerns or even the private data, which should not be disclosed to an untrusted entity, such as a cloud service provider. Maintaining end-user privacy and allowing the query mechanism to work on the cloud seem contradictory. From users’ point of view, there are two kinds of query scenarios. One is the service provider with the readable dataset, like the search engine to its crawled data. The other one is the service provider with the user data which is encrypted. To protect user privacy, the query and the result should be hidden in the former scenario. On the other hand, as the user data is unknown for the service provider in the latter scenario, the user needs to offer a secure index structure. For those scenarios above, we firstly present a framework for building privacy-preserving cloud-based security services. For resource-constrained end-user devices, the security vendors not only provide the fundamental functions for security analysis, but also integrate with cloud-based security services which contain constantly improved security intelligence to assist in protecting against security attacks. With abundant hardware and strong support by security professionals, cloud-based security services can provide better protection than traditional solutions. The framework consists of an architecture for building cloud-based security services and a technique, called private signature filtering, to preserve end-user privacy. The framework supports security monitoring signatures whose correspondence with end-user device queries can be established through conjunction of keywords and numeric value ranges. The framework also allows a trusted middle layer to do a part of the security monitoring computation for the end-user device to reduce the computation overhead on the end-user device. We implement the prototype systems for the cloud-based network intrusion service and the cloud-based malicious URL detection service, to verify effectiveness of our design. The experimental results show that the framework can indeed ensure end-user privacy with acceptable performance overhead in a practical cloud-based security service setting. On the other hand, with the growth in the popularity of cloud storage service (CSS), users can simply store their data in the cloud provided by the CSS and access the data through any device via the Internet anytime and anywhere. For security concern, the accumulation of private data on the cloud requires the use of data encryption to prevent leakage of sensitive information to untrusted third parties. However, as the amount of data kept on the cloud storage is increasing, the use of data encryption makes it difficult or even impossible to locate the data of interest efficiently and securely. Therefore, for the second scenario, we also present a framework for CSS to support queries in encrypted form so that the data on cloud storage can be located efficiently and securely. At the core of the framework is a novel indexing structure, called the bloom filter encrypted search tree (BFEST). The BFEST supports queries in the form of phrase keywords. Client-side encryption, using secret keys that are unknown to the cloud service provider, protects the queries and the retrieved data. We implemented a prototype by extending the hicloud S3 CSS with the proposed framework. The experimental results indicate that the framework can ensure query privacy for encrypted data with an acceptable performance overhead in a practical setting.
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Jinnan, Li. "A business plan: TCM health-preservation club." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18896.
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This master project has the objective to develop a Business Plan which will enable the
launch of a TCM health-preservation club which will offer TCM method servicess for
modern female consumers in Anyang area, Henan Province, China. The health problems
of modern females are rising rapidly due to the unhealthy lifestyle and environmental
problems and the TCM in this area has highly potential market, especially targeting for
females. However, based on a ground study, we quickly realised that all clinic or club
look alike and propose the same local specialties with less professional and services
level. By catching the markt opportunities, we analyse the current market with macro
data and comparing them with field data I acquired with a questionnaire and a field trip,
I decided to launch a TCM club - the new serves intends to change female relationship
with TCM consumption providing them a solution specifically designed to satisfy their
needs. It is aiming to use TCM therapy to not only solve females’ health problems, but
also improve females' life quality, even achieve longevity. We show in this business
plan that our business are low capital requirement business that become quickly
profitable and we do not need to have a loan. It should reach a turnover of 47,617€ and
a profit of 4,130€ the first year.O objetivo deste projeto de mestre é desenvolver um Plano de Negócios que poderá abrir um clube de preservação da saúde da Medicina Tradicional Chinesa (MTC), que oferecerá os serviços de métodos da MTC para as consumidoras femininas modernas na área da cidade de Anyang, Província de Henan, China. Devido ao estilo da vida pouco saudável e aos problemas ambientais, os problemas de saúde das mulheres modernas estão a aumentar rapidamente, por isso, a MTC nesta área tem um grande mercado potencial, especialmente direcionada para as mulheres. No entanto, de acordo com um estudo preliminar, percebemos rapidamente que todas clínicas ou clubes locais são parecidos e consideram que eles faltam as especialidades e têm um nível mais baixo. Para aproveitar as oportunidades do mercado, analisamos o mercado atual pelos dados macroeconómicos e comparamos os dados macroeconómicos com os dados adquiridos pelo inquérito e pela viagem de campo, decidi organizar um clube da MTC - os serviços novos que pretendem mudar o relacionamento entre as mulheres e o consumo da MTC a qual lhes fornecerá especificamente as soluções projetadas para satisfazer as suas necessidades. O Clube visa utilizar a terapia da MTC para não só resolver os problemas de saúde das mulheres, mas também para melhorar a qualidade de vida delas, até mesmo prolongar a vida. Manifestamos neste plano de negócios que o nosso negócio é capital baixa, ganha rapidamente o benefício e não precisa empréstimo. No primeiro ano, deve atingir um volume de negócios de 47.617 € e um lucro de 4.130€.
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Smithgall, Cheryl D. "Assessing the worker-client relationship in child welfare and family preservation services /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3088789.
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"Intensive family preservation services with non-imminent risk families: A descriptive, exploratory study." Tulane University, 2003.
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The Intensive Family Preservation Services Model has conventionally been utilized as a final attempt to prevent child removals, a largely residual approach. The target population for intensive family preservation services has almost exclusively been families in acute crisis, at imminent risk of having children removed due to severe child maltreatment or child behavioral problems Evolving federal policy over the past three decades has broadened the application of family preservation programs to families along the continuum of risk. Federal legislation has progressively encouraged and supported movement towards the provision of more intensive services at earlier stages of family disruption, as a proactive, preventive approach to avoid more serious problems in the future. Over the past several years, a single-site intensive family preservation services program, located in Southeast Louisiana, has experienced a distinct shift in the level of out-of-home placement risk of families referred, from high or imminent risk families, to a preponderance of families at low to moderate risk This exploratory, descriptive study, applied a secondary analysis of data from 82 closed case files to consider the application of the Intensive Family Preservation Services Model to families at low to moderate, non-imminent placement risk, a population for whom this model approach was not originally intended. This study provided vital new information about these families to answer three research questions related to demographic and socio-economic characteristics, changes in family functioning and goal accomplishment, and the types and intensity of services received. Further exploration of these variables was conducted in relation to successful and non-successful outcome families Study findings revealed a high degree of homogeneity in demographic and socio-economic attributes of successful and non-successful outcome groups. Results suggest non-imminent risk families experienced positive outcomes if primary caregivers were cooperative, received necessary concrete resources from program workers, accessed recommended resources and referrals, accomplished case plan goals and objectives, and made significant improvement in the various domains of family functioning under consideration The application of the Intensive Family Preservation Services Model to non-imminent risk families appears fairly promising, as a form of early intervention to help prevent the occurrence of more serious riskacase@tulane.edu
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Nephawe, Nkhensani Gladys. "Challenges faced by social workers in rendering family preservation and reunification services to child migrants." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5326.
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M.A.Child migration in society today appears to be escalating at a very high rate. The influx of child migrants has put an enormous strain to social workers in terms of rendering family preservation and reunification services. In most cases families are not available to enable social workers to render family preservation and reunification services. International Social Services (ISS) assist in tracing families of across the border child migrants but the service does not extend beyond reunifying the child with family. There are no monitoring and tracking systems to prevent the child from migrating again. The aim of this study is to identify and describe the challenges faced by social workers in rendering family preservation and reunification services to child migrants. The objectives of the study are as follows: to conduct a literature study on family preservation and reunification services and the child migrant; to determine social workers’ strategies used in family preservation and reunification services to child migrants, and the challenges they are experiencing; to obtain social workers’ views on effective strategies that can be implemented in rendering family preservation and reunification services to child migrants and to make recommendations that will assist social workers in rendering family preservation and reunification services. A qualitative study of two focus groups consisting of 15 social workers each from Department of Social Development Johannesburg Region was conducted. The research findings revealed the need of coming up with strategies for family preservation and reunification services to child migrants. Presently social workers have no strategies but processes only.
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Nhedzi, Felistas. "The experiences and perceptions of social workers on the provision of family preservation services in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan, Gauteng Province." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14363.
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Many South African families are beset by social, psychological and economic challenges placing children at risk. Family preservation services, capitalising on families’ strengths to resolve their problems, are crucial to avoid the removal of children from their homes.
Using a qualitative approach, this study reveals the experiences and perceptions of twelve social workers providing family preservation services in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan of Gauteng Province. These social workers articulate their understanding of and experiences with the Children’s Act (Act No. 38) of 2005. They are generally optimistic that family preservation services can offer a helping process with the potential to improve family functioning.
Nevertheless, there are stumbling blocks to effective service delivery, such as the kinds of social problems experienced by families, lack of funding, high caseloads, lack of resources and little co-operation from other disciplines and agencies. Based on these findings, recommendations are made for practice, policy and further research.Social Work
MA (Social Work)
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Beattie, Laura Jean. "The ethnic church and immigrant integration: social services, cultural preservation and the re-definition of cultural identity." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8003.
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Consideration of the significance of religious institutions in the experience of immigrant
settlement is, at best, marginalized in immigration and church history literature. The limited
amount of research that has been carried out is limited in time frame and/or by its lack of
consideration of the wider social service functions of the church. It is rarely recognized that for
new immigrants, churches can function as critical access routes to the host society or as
protective cultural communities. Churches provide stability in unfamiliar territory through the
creation of a sense of community, a sense of place and an extended family of support. This
research seeks to understand how the church has served the German ethnic and immigrant
community; how the church has aided cultural preservation as well as immigrant integration; and
finally, how some churches have re-defined themselves in the face of member 'assimilation,'
generational changes and neighbourhood transition. For some churches, their mission has been
extended beyond their original German ethnic community to local neighbourhood residents,
predominantly of Asian origin. Unstructured interviews with over twenty-five church leaders
from ten German ethnic churches in Vancouver suggest that for many immigrants, the church
provided stability and acted as a centre of social networks through which, for example,
employment and housing were found. However, the position of the church in maintaining
culture is significantly more complex; often dependent upon various factors including church age
and the histories of immigrant congregations. This research demonstrates that churches have
significant but generally unrecognized impacts on the immigrant settlement experience and that
ethnic churches can, but do not necessarily, play supportive roles in maintaining culture.
Churches that have recognized the social changes impacting their congregations have found new
models of mission to integrate new immigrant communities.
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Colenbrander, Hilde. "Digital ‘Publishing’ Services at UBC Library: cIRcle and more." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7794.
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The UBC Library along with many other research libraries is beginning to develop a range of publishing support services for faculty and students. This presentation focuses on cIRcle, the Library's institutional repository, and was delivered as part of a graduate seminar in the Dept of English on April 2, 2009.
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Kleijn, Willemien Cornelia. "A developmental approach to statutory social work services." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27091.
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The changeover of the South African government in 1994, brought along a need for transformation on all levels of society, including social welfare. As part of this transformation the South African government adopted the developmental approach to social welfare. Within this policy framework the government expects all social welfare services to be developmental. Existing services, including statutory social work services, should thus be reoriented to make them developmentally focused (White Paper for Social Welfare, 1997:7). The researcher has, however, identified a lack of clear guidelines for the transformation process of social welfare services and particularly of statutory social work. The goal of this study was therefore to investigate how statutory social work services can be rendered in a developmental manner, that is, in an empowering and upbuilding manner, and to formulate guidelines for social work practice in this regard. For this study, the researcher utilised the qualitative approach. The respondents included were seven social workers and six clients in the study as respondents, representing five welfare organisations in Tshwane. The key findings indicated that the developmental approach to statutory social work entails an emphasis on family preservation, which implies prevention and early intervention as well as reunification strategies. The findings also indicate that, although social workers are aware of what the developmental approach entails, this emphasis currently does not exist in practice due to various reasons, including the fact that social workers are overburdened and under-resourced. The recommendations of this study are captured in guidelines for developmental statutory social work and guidelines for creating an enabling environment for statutory social work services. The guidelines for developmental statutory social work include various strategies for prevention and early intervention, while the guidelines for creating an enabling environment especially emphasise creating working partnerships with the government and other professionals and organisations.Dissertation (MSD)--University of Pretoria, 2005.
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