Dissertations / Theses: 'York Region'

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Adsit, Daniel Mark. "Academic entrepreneurial ecosystem strategy in the New York state capital region." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90704.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122).
The upstate New York regions are historically significant, but experienced economic decline throughout the later twentieth century. The New York State capital region, located approximately 150 miles north of New York City and west of Boston, has developed government, academic, and industrial institutions that influence economic performance and relationships. Academic theories about cluster and agglomeration development indicate that complex productivity and network dependencies significantly impact economic sustainability and resilience, while entrepreneurial activity is a critical development factor in cluster dependencies. Applied concepts from the MIT Regional Entrepreneurial Acceleration Laboratory (REAL) highlight innovative and entrepreneurial capacities linkages in the capital region, and opportunities for stakeholders to facilitate entrepreneurship. Annually, over twenty capital region academic institutions dispatch thousands of graduates into the regional, national, and global economies with skills and experiences. However, professional social network data indicates that significant fractions of regional graduates that demonstrate innovative and entrepreneurial capacities have departed in the past twenty-three years. Therefore, challenges exist to provide regional economic opportunities to these graduates. Academic entrepreneurial ecosystems present economic opportunities for regional graduates, entrepreneurial ventures, and future jobs. A system engineering analysis reveals networked accelerator potential to enhance existing academic programs, improve venture success, and reduce student entrepreneurial risk.
by Daniel Mark Adsit.
S.M. in Engineering and Management

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Racine, Brian S. "A characterization of internal solitons in the SWARM region of the New York bight." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55049.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-60).
by Brian Scott Racine.
M.S.

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Baldridge, Kenan S. "Emergency medical services in the Rochester region of New York state organization, services and systems /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1177640876.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Public Affairs and Urban Studies, 2007.
"May, 2007." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 05/06/2008). Advisor, Raymond Cox, III; Committee members, Ralph Hummel, Nancy Grant, Lawrence Keller, Dena Hanley; Department Chair, Sonia Alemagno; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Hartnett, Justin Joseph. "Spatial and Temporal Trends of Snowfall in Central New York - A Lake Effect Dominated Region." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4502.

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Central New York is located in one of the snowiest regions in the United States, with the city of Syracuse, New York the snowiest metropolis in the nation. Snowfall in the region generally begins in mid-November and lasts until late-March. Snow accumulation occurs from a multitude of conditions: frontal systems, mid-latitude cyclones, Nor'easters, and most notably lake-effect storms. Lake effect snowfall (LES) is a difficult parameter to forecast due to the isolated and highly variable nature of the storm. Consequently, studies have attempted to determine changes in snowfall for lake-effect dominated regions. Annual snowfall patterns are of particular concern as seasonal snowfall totals are vital for water resources, winter businesses, agriculture, government and state agencies, and much more. Through the use of snowfall, temperature, precipitation, and location data from the National Weather Service's Cooperative Observer Program (COOP), spatial and temporal changes in snowfall for Central New York were determined. In order to determine climatic changes in snowfall, statistical analyses were performed (i.e. least squares estimation, correlations, principal component analyses, etc.) and spatial maps analyzed. Once snowfall trends were determined, factors influencing the trends were examined. Long-term snowfall trends for CNY were positive for original stations (~0.46 +/- 0.20 in. yr-1) and homogenously filtered stations (0.23 +/- 0.20 in. yr-1). However, snowfall trends for shorter time-increments within the long-term period were not consistent, as positive, negative, and neutral trends were calculated. Regional differences in snowfall trends were observed for CNY as typical lake-effect areas (northern counties, the Tug Hill Plateau and the Southern Hills) experienced larger snowfall trends than areas less dominated by LES. Typical lake-effect months (December - February) experienced the greatest snowfall trend in CNY compared to other winter months. The influence of teleconnections on seasonal snowfall in CNY was not pronounced; however, there was a slight significant (5%) correlation (< 0.35) with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. It was not clear if changes in air temperature or changes in precipitation were the cause of variations in snowfall trends. It was also inconclusive if the elevation or distance from Lake Ontario resulted in increased snowfall trends. Results from this study will aid in seasonal snowfall forecasts in CNY, which can be used to predict future snowfall. Even though the study area is regionally specific, the methods may be applied to other lake effect dominated areas to determine temporal and spatial variations in snowfall. This study will enhance climatologists and operational forecasters' awareness and understanding of snowfall, especially lake effect snowfall in CNY.

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Baldridge, Kenan Stone. "Emergency Medical Services in the Rochester Region of New York State: Organization, Services and Systems." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1177640876.

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Manaseri, Christopher B. Briggs John. "Keeping school one-room schoolhouse preservation projects in the greater Finger Lakes region of New York State /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Pinkoski, Cassandra N. "Resource management to rural residential| Tools to monitor parcelization in the Catskill Region of New York State." Thesis, State University of New York Col. of Environmental Science & Forestry, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1568946.

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Parcelization is an increasing concern to land managers in the rural regions of the United States. In order to protect vital ecosystem goods and services, resource managers need to account for decreasing parcel sizes. The Catskill region of New York State contains both the New York City Watershed and the Catskill Preserve. In order to maintain ecosystem functions within these sensitive areas, wise planning is needed in the development of rural lands. This study documents the change in private, rural parcel dynamics from 2004 to 2010 in the Catskill region at the township scale. A parcel density map was developed to observe trends in distribution of small parcels. The average parcel size dropped from 13.9 acres in 2004 to 13.1 acres in 2010. The distribution of small private, rural parcels is diffuse across the study region, implying the transition from resource management focused land holdings to rural residential within the Catskill region.

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Smith, Benjamin Richard. "Between places : aboriginal decentralisation, mobility and territoriality in the region of Coen, Cape York peninsula (Queensland, Australia)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402102.

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Nichols, Harry O. "An applied market area study of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company in the New York City region." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=696.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 45 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30).

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Neculai, Catalina. "'Some fanatical New York promoting' : literary economies of urban regime transformation in New York City, 1970s-1980s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2733/.

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The project is an inter-disciplinary intervention into a field that may be largely called New York Studies or, more explicitly, the uses of urban, human and cultural geography for a cultural-materialist history of New York between the fiscal crisis years of the mid-1970s through to the Market Crash of October 1987. My concern is to offer a critique of urban regime transformation in New York, the kind of private-public coalitions taking shape in response to the advent and consolidation of the FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) industries and their socio-spatial implications, through the lenses of cultural production. I am interested in the ways in which representation - the literary, the cinematic (more sparsely and tangentially), the documented and the archival in an analytically productive conjunction - encodes and arbitrates the changes in the production of urban space in New York City. Thus, the project underlines the heightened significance of literary economies for understanding the experiential structures of urban transformation in 1970s and 1980s New York. Driven by the belief that written culture, just like visual art, may prefigure and telescope urban change, a handful of New York writers dared to tread (both literally and symbolically) where the sociologist, the urban geographer or the documenter does so by professional default, and thus engaged head-on with the hard city of socio-economic networks. This kind of ‘urbanisation of [literary] consciousness’ calls for refreshed modes of enquiry, proposed in Chapter 1, at which point fetishist and aestheticist constructions of the city in the postmodernist key become inadequate, insufficient and politically ineffectual interpretative strategies. The following three-fold case study analysis of counterculture and the underground economy, of homesteading and ‘low rent’ fiction, of the finance industry, publishing and ‘financial writing’ may offer radical opportunities for revisiting both the space of representation and the represented space of urban decline and growth through a geocultural reading for the unevenness of urban space.

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Rosati, Clayton F. "The image factory MTV, geography, and the industrial production of culture (New York) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Wachen, Robin Lynne. "THE FUTURE OF RED HOOK, BROOKLYN: LEARNING FROM EVOLVING NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2012. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/776.

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This master’s thesis identifies the potential impacts of planning policies and key stakeholder groups on Red Hook, Brooklyn given current development trends and the neighborhood changes such as gentrification. The premise of this thesis is that through understanding the catalysts and impacts of social and economic change in similar neighborhoods, together with the analysis of current zoning, planning policies, and neighborhood culture and demographics in Red Hook, it is possible to identify how future changes may generate positive outcomes for the neighborhood. A review of planning literature provides a perspective on the disinvestment to reinvestment process seen in many New York City neighborhoods during the second half of the 20th century. The case study research method relying primarily on qualitative data is applied to gain a contextual analysis of the complex urban planning issues in Red Hook. A study of the planning and development impacts on three waterfront neighborhoods in New York City – Battery Park City, the Lower East Side, and Williamsburg – reveals the catalysts of neighborhood change in those neighborhoods and suggests the potential socio-economic impacts of future redevelopment in Red Hook.

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Quezada, Jara Andrés Alberto. "Proveniencia Sedimentaria y Ambiente Deposicional de Unidades Atribuídas a los Complejos Duque de York y Denaro, Patagonia XII Región, Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/103943.

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Se caracterizó petrográfica y geoquímicamente las muestras de rocas asignadas al Complejo Duque de York (CDY) y Complejo Denaro (CD). La asignación ha sido hecha en base a características texturales, litológicas, relaciones de contacto y deformación de las rocas que allí se presentan; pero no se habían hecho estudios petrográficos y geoquímicos para confirmar tales asignaciones. El CDY y el CD forman parte de los Complejos Acrecionarios Costeros. El CDY es una sucesión metasedimentaria que aflora en el margen occidental de la Patagonia con una extensión latitudinal de más de 400 km desde isla Mornington hasta isla Desolación. Está constituído por sucesiones turbidíticas con la presencia de lentes tectónicos de chert. El CD está formado por una sucesión que de base a techo incluye basaltos, 3 niveles de chert y calcarenitas. Asimismo en la Península Antártica afloran rocas consistentes en metaturbiditas similares a las del CDY en el bajo grado metamórfico y en edad de depósito, ubicándose en el rango entre el Pérmico Temprano y el Jurásico Temprano. Las muestras analizadas incluyen areniscas, argilitas y chert que cubren latitudinalmente casi toda el área de la Patagonia donde afloran el CDY y CD. Para las dos primeras litologías se determinó fuente y régimen tectónico de la cuenca de depósito y para el tercero su ambiente deposicional. En total se realizaron análisis químicos a 36 muestras de los 3 tipos litológicos nombrados. Las características petrográficas de las areniscas y argilitas estudiadas aquí se asocian a una proveniencia que es congruente con sedimentos generados a partir de la erosión de raíces plutónicas de un arco magmático ubicado en un margen continental. En cuanto a la geoquímica de estas rocas estas evidenciarían una fuente ígnea común, de composición intermedia a ácida y depósito en una cuenca en un margen continental activo. Se pudo establecer que hay muestras de chert de los tres tipos de ambientes distinguibles es decir ridge, pelágico y margen continental. Esto es evidencia de la presencia de un margen continental activo a lo largo de toda la Patagonia entre las latitudes donde aflora el CDY. Se compararon los resultados de este trabajo con los de estudios anteriores en rocas del CDY en la Patagonia y del Grupo Península Trinidad de la Península Antártica confirmándose las similitudes reportadas en trabajos anteriores.

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Pede, Timothy. "Exploring Relationships Between Building And Transportation Energy Use Of Residents In U.S. Metropolitan Regions." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/314.

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There is much potential to decrease energy consumption in the U.S. by encouraging compact, centralized development. Although many studies have examined the extent to which built environment and demographic factors are related to household energy use, few have considered both building and transportation energy together. We hypothesized that residents living further from city centers, or urban cores, consume more energy for both purposes than their inner city counterparts, resulting in a direct relationship between building and transportation energy usage. This hypothesis was tested with two case studies. The first focused on New York City. Annual building energy per unit of parcels, or tax lots, containing large multi-family structures was compared to the daily transportation energy use per household of traffic analysis zones (TAZs) (estimated with a regional travel demand model). Transportation energy showed a strong spatial pattern, with distance to urban core explaining 63% of variation in consumption. Building energy use was randomly distributed, resulting in a weak negative correlation with transportation energy. However, both correlation with distance to urban core and transportation energy became significant and positive when portion of detached single-family units for TAZs was used as a proxy for building energy. Structural equation models (SEMs) revealed a direct relationship between log lot depth and both uses of energy, and inverse relationship between portion of attached housing units and transportation energy. This supports the notion that sprawling development increases both the building and transportation energy consumption of households. For the second analysis, annual building and automobile energy use per household were estimated for block groups across the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan regions with Esri Consumer Expenditure Data. Both forms of energy consumption per household were lowest in inner cities and increased at greater distances from urban cores. Although there may be some error in estimates from modeled expenditure data, characteristics associated with lower energy use, such as portion of attached housing units and commuters that utilize transit or pedestrian modes, were negatively correlated with distance to urban core. Overall, this work suggests there are spatial patterns to household energy consumption, with households further from urban cores using more building and transportation energy. There is the greatest gain in efficiency to be had by suburban residents.

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Florack, Alyssa. "Local Governments Taking on Climate Change: Situating City Actions in the Global Climate Regime:." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108629.

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Thesis advisor: David Deese
Given the current political environment in the US, there is great doubt about the future of American policy on climate change. Still, the optimistic future of American climate policy relies on the new group of leaders that have emerged from municipal government. Although local government is traditionally ignored in favor of the publicity of international negotiations between countries, cities have established a role at the forefront of climate policy over the past ten years. These local governments serve half of the world’s population and often are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, making their contributions more important than ever. Although they face a unique set of difficulties, cities are able to take a range of actions impossible at higher levels of government, reaching communities in unprecedented ways and innovating new policies. This project aims to analyze how local governments fit into the global political regime on climate change, testing the theoretical framework of multilevel governance against reallife examples in Boston and New York City. Further, this paper finds that cities compensate for their relatively small size and limited jurisdiction through a unique set of actions and collaborative relationships, enabling these local actors to become international leaders on this complex global issue
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
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Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Environmental Studies

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Howerter, Sarah E. "Modeling Electric Vehicle Energy Demand and Regional Electricity Generation Dispatch for New England and New York." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1133.

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The transportation sector is a largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the U.S., accounting for 28.6% of all 2016 emissions, the majority of which come from the passenger vehicle fleet [1,2]. One major technology that is being investigated by researchers, planners, and policy makers to help lower the emissions from the transportation sector is the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV). The focus of this work is to investigate and model the impacts of increased levels of PEVs on the regional electric power grid and on the net change in CO2 emissions due to the decrease tailpipe emissions and the increase in electricity generation under current emissions caps. The study scope includes all of New England and New York state, modeled as one system of electricity supply and demand, which includes the estimated 2030 baseline demand and the cur- rent generation capacity plus increased renewable capacity to meet state Renewable Portfolio Standard targets for 2030. The models presented here include fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, public charging infrastructure scenarios, hourly charging demand, solar and wind generation and capacity factors, and real-world travel derived from the 2016-2017 National Household Travel Survey. We make certain assumptions, informed by the literature, with the goal of creating a modeling methodology to improve the estimation of hourly PEV charging demand for input into regional electric sector dispatch models. The methodology included novel stochastic processes, considered seasonal and weekday versus weekend differences in travel, and did not force the PEV battery state-of-charge to be full at any specific time of day. The results support the need for public charging infrastructure, specifically at workplaces, with the “work” infrastructure scenario shifting more of the unmanaged charging demand to daylight hours when solar generation could be utilized. Workplace charging accounted for 40% of all non-home charging demand in the scenario where charging infrastructure was “universally” available. Under the increased renewable fuel portfolio, the reduction in average CO2 emissions ranged from 90 to 92% for the vehicles converted from ICEV to PEV. The total emissions reduced for 15% PEV penetration and universally available charging infrastructure was 5.85 million metric tons, 5.27% of system-wide emissions. The results support the premise of plug-in electric vehicles being an important strategy for the reduction of CO2 emissions in our study region. Future investigation into the extent of reductions possible with both the optimization of charging schedules through pricing or other mechanisms and the modeling of grid level energy storage is warranted. Additional model development should include a sensitivity analysis of the PEV charging demand model parameters, and better data on the charging behavior of PEV owners as they continue to penetrate the market at higher rates.

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Novick-Finder, Taylor. "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please: Transit Equity, Social Exclusion, and the New York City Subway." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/78.

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The history of transportation planning in New York City has created disparities between those who have sufficient access to the public transportation network, and those who face structural barriers to traveling from their home to education, employment, and healthcare opportunities. This thesis analyzes the legacy of discriminatory policy surrounding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and city and state governments that have failed to support vital infrastructure improvement projects and service changes to provide multi-modal welfare to New York’s working poor. By exploring issues of transit equity as they pertain to the New York City subway system, this thesis raises the question: which communities lack adequate access to public transit opportunity and what are the policies and historical developments that have created these inequities? Through examination of grassroots community-based movements towards social justice and transportation equity, this thesis will review the proposals, campaigns, and demands that citizen-driven organizations have fought for in New York City. These movements, I argue, are the most effective method to achieve greater transportation justice and intergenerational equity.

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Madu, Ednah N. "A study of the Relationships between Psycho-Social factors and Self-Perceived Treatment Regimen Adherence in a New York Metropolitan Community Sample of Black Race Diagnosed with Hypertension." Thesis, Adelphi University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13818341.

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Background: Hypertension (HTN), also referred to as a silent killer, has been the leading cause of mortality in the world for more than 10 years. Uncontrolled HTN is associated with cardiovascular complications like stroke, heart failure and chronic kidney disease. Disparity is noted in hypertension prevalence, blood pressure control, cardiovascular burden and adherence to hypertension treatment regimens, with worse consequences for Blacks/African Americans compared to their racial counterparts. Multiple factors account for these differences and include biological, psychological and socio-cultural issues. Despite the many salient factors identified to be associated with adherence to hypertensive treatment regimens, as well as current strategies in place, high cardiovascular burden from uncontrolled HTN persist in Black communities.

Purpose: To determine the strongest factors associated with adherence to hypertension treatment regimens among all of the most salient factors identified by prior research, within the context of a community sample of Black/African Americans residing in an urban setting.

Design: Cross-sectional, correlation design.

Theoretical Framework: The Biopsychosocial model framework. Data Analysis: Data analysis consisted of descriptive and bivariate analysis of the predictor variables. Significant variables was analyzed using multiple linear regression model to identify the strongest variables predicting adherence.

Result: Four factors remained significant predictors to adherence in the final regression model: Annual income [$10,000-$20,000 (β= .21, p = .04); annual income $40,001-$80,000 (β = .25, p = .03), Full-time work status (β= -.23 p = .04), Last blood pressure within normal range (β= .19, p = .02) and Depressive symptoms (β = -.20, p = .02).

Implications: The identification of mainly inter-related psychosocial factors (depressive symptoms, income and employment status) as significant predictors of adherence in this sample has implications for priority psychosocial assessment (depression screening in particular), when rendering care to hypertensive Black/African American patients.

Keywords: hypertension, hypertension control disparity, Blacks or African Americans, antihypertensive treatment regimens, adherence

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Ukattah, Chukwuechefu Okwudiri. "General Average and the York-Antwerp Rules: The historical quest for international conformity, the divisive effect of more recent amendments to the Rules and recommendations with regard to the way forward to regain more widespread acceptance of the Rules in today's global maritime industry." Thesis, Faculty of Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32595.

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General average emerged as an independent mechanism in ancient times for the redistribution of losses incurred for the safety of the common maritime adventure from peril. Its robustness and efficiency as a risk and loss distribution device led to its recognition and incorporation in a plethora of medieval codes and the laws of many maritime states. As the concept evolved in different maritime states there emerged a divergence in the principles and practice of general average. The undesirability of a divergence in such a concept of international import led to the adoption of the York-Antwerp Rules by the maritime community as a tool for achieving uniformity. The York-Antwerp Rules have been amended periodically over the course of more than a century with the object of achieving greater uniformity in the law of general average and to keep abreast of developments in international trade and the maritime industry. The most recent revision of the York-Antwerp Rules adopted in 2004 (York-Antwerp Rules 2004), is the first revision adopted without a consensus amongst the majority of interested parties. Nine years after their adoption, the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 have failed to gain widespread acceptance and use in the maritime industry. An attempt by the Comité Maritime International to resolve the impasse on the use of the Rules at its 2012 Beijing Conference was unsuccessful and it was resolved instead to work towards the adoption of a new set of Rules at its next Conference in 2016. To ensure that the revision of the York-Antwerp Rules presented for acceptance at the 2016 Conference does not suffer the fate of the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 it is important that the mistakes made with regard to the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 are not repeated. Consequently, this thesis analyses the substantive revisions made in the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 to ascertain why other interested parties, particularly shipowning interests, are opposed to the York-Antwerp Rules 2004. This will assist in the recommendations to be made with regard to the substantive changes to the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 that could ensure the widespread acceptance of the Rules to be adopted in 2016. Furthermore, the factors that led to the periodic revision of the Rules are examined and the ingredients of the previous successful revision processes are identified as a comparative base to ascertain the flaws, if any, in the process that led to the adoption of the York-Antwerp Rules 2004; which culminated in the lack of widespread acceptance of the Rules in the maritime industry. This thesis contends, among other things, that the York-Antwerp Rules 2004 failed to gain widespread acceptance in the maritime industry because the substantive changes introduced by the Rules did not ensure a measure of equitable balance of the interests of all interested parties. Furthermore, the ingredients of the previous successful revision processes were disregarded in the process of adopting the 2004 Rules. This thesis makes recommendations on the content of the York-Antwerp Rules to be adopted in 2016 and the process of adopting the new Rules in an attempt to enhance their widespread acceptance and use in the maritime industry.

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Janak, Haidee N. "Three State-run Green Building Programs: A Comparative Case Study Analysis and Assessment." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/337/.

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Patch, William. "Implementing the soft path approach to water management: A case study of southern York Region, Ontario." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5453.

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This research study develops a framework of indicators to evaluate the ‘institutional capacity’ of a municipality to implement the soft path approach. The soft path approach is a new strategy for water conservation that complements existing supply and demand water management regimes. The soft path approach aims to achieve sustainability by changing how individuals think about water and how water is used. The framework of indicators consists of qualitative descriptions of elements that should be present in a municipality to successfully implement the soft path approach. These indicators fit into eight themes: human resources, information resources, financial resources, policy and legal environment, political environment, community awareness and involvement, technological solutions, and practical considerations. These indicators are also applied to evaluate the institutional capacity of a case study (southern York Region, Ontario, Canada) for its potential to implement the soft path approach. The case study is compatible and equipped to implement the soft path approach, but this can only be accomplished if coordinated with other levels of government and external organizations.

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Kirchhoff, Denis. "Contributions of Strategic Environmental Assessment to planning and decision making: The case of York Region, Ontario." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6007.

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organizations to pursue the goal of sustainability. SEA is presented here as a decision-making supportive approach that is meant to improve strategic initiatives, rather than just analysing them. As an approach to planning (as opposed to a mechanical technical instrument that is done on the side and ‘might’ inform the big decisions), SEA has been promoted as a promising instrument expected to be able to provide better informed, more credible and more broadly beneficial strategic initiatives, as well as more timely and clearer guidance for subsequent undertakings. As such, by adjusting and improving planning, governance, and decision-making processes, SEA has a major role in contributing to sustainability. One of the many different planning and decision-making contexts in which SEA can be used is growth-related planning – the object of interest of this research. Planning in a growth context is typically driven by a mix of biophysical, social and economic concerns, and is unavoidably complex, with many independent agents interacting with each other in many ways, all of this involving the full range of intersecting sustainability issues. In this research I explore the concept of sustainability as an overall planning goal, as it relates to a particular approach to planning, i.e., strategic environmental assessment. In addition, this research acknowledges the importance and need to address the context in which SEA applications occur, and therefore, it highlights the need to specify the application for particular areas. This research was guided by an interest in improving understanding of how SEA can help to contribute to sustainability through planning/EA processes and activities, especially in the context of growth-related planning. Above all, this research addressed how SEA best practices can be used to improve regional planning and decision making, including its link to the project level, and how regional planning experience can help illuminate possible means of strengthening SEA practice. As such, this research presents how a sustainability-based SEA approach could contribute to growth-related planning in a rapid growth setting, using York Region, Ontario as the empirical case study. While York Region was not using the SEA nametag, some essential characteristics of SEA were found in a few planning initiatives, in accordance with what some scholars have called a SEA-type approach, i.e., an approach that does not meet formal specifications or definitions of SEA, but which has some of the SEA characteristics or components. This research presents three main scholarly contributions. First, it develops a SEA best practice framework based on the international literature and, as a result, it provides SEA practitioners with a useful generic framework that they can use as guidance and a starting point for SEA studies. In addition, this research brings to light the importance of paying attention to contextual issues in order to make successful use of SEA best practice frameworks. The context of application will always be unique, so the particularities of the case will still need to be carefully considered and incorporated, so that application can be customized to the particular case. Second, this research further develops the discussion about what SEA can achieve, or more specifically, how SEA can help to contribute to sustainability. As such, this research contributes to the discussion about how SEA can help planning and decision-making approaches through a more in depth look at three main components of SEA: sustainability-centred decision making, tiering and communication. The third contribution relates to how SEA adoption becomes a priority or how governments become interested enough in SEA application to actually give it a shot. The concept of a policy window was borrowed from the policy sciences field to provide the framework of analysis for this part of the research, and shows how problem, policy and political streams converged to provide the necessary conditions for the adoption of an SEA-type approach in York Region. In sum, the results of this research suggest that SEA has potential to play an important role in planning and decision making, with particular attention to growth-related planning. In this context, SEA can contribute to planning and decision making that is more integrated, farsighted, open, efficient, credible and defensible, and ultimately brings desirable and durable benefits. Moreover, by providing clearer guidance to the subsequent undertaking, SEA has potential to serve as a bridge to the planning of project-level undertakings.

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Poblocki, Alfons Josef Jr. "Uncooperative housing (New York, mixed income housing)." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/14027.

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This thesis is intended to demonstrate a strategy for the creation of mixed income housing in the City of New York as an alternative not only to the upper income cooperative and condominium schemes of the 1980's which do not respond to current housing demands but also to the perennially unpopular, albeit necessary low income housing projects. In the interest of providing a low-impact solution which effectively mediates between speculative concerns and sensitivity to the identity and character of existing neighborhoods, inspiration was derived from unconventional sources. The low profile occupation tactics employed by squatters, artists and the homeless have been applied to the creation of a series of experimental shelter and circulation prototypes which ultimately inform the design of a mixed income housing project to be sited on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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"Aligning expenditure reporting systems for consistency and decision making: A descriptive study of New York State and New York City regions." ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK), SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES, 2008. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3294220.

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Butler, Edward Rhett. "Synthesis: Middle ground in New York City housing." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13570.

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Traditional urban moderate income multifamily housing in the City of New York has failed to provide its inhabitants with an acceptable living environment. That environment being defined as an adequate condition of middle ground, or shared space, that space between the house and the street, both internal and external to the community at large, as well as space supportive of the individual in today's society. The objective of this thesis is threefold. The first, to evaluate the historical and existing precedents of middle ground in moderate income multi-family housing located within the City of New York, the second, to analyze the successes and failures of these housing typologies, and the third, to focus on the challenge of finding appropriate design principles for its making. In short, this thesis is on the history, design and making of an urban middle ground in moderate income multi-family housing.

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Cliff-Jüngling, Susanne. "Changes in the population geography of the Northern Lake Constance region (Baden and Württemberg), 1870-1910." 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27340.

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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1997. Graduate Programme in Geography.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-185). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL:http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27340.

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Ruiz, Ricardo Machado. "Growing regions from the bottom up : regional economies as a self-organizing system /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School for Social Research, 2003.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-174). Also available in electronic format on the World Wide Web. Access restricted to users affiliated with the licensed institutions.

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Wu, Baodong. "Functions of the 5' untranslated region of Tomato bushy stunt virus genome in viral RNA replication." 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ67889.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Biology.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ67889.

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Prenzel, Björn. "Remote sensing and GIS for thematic land surface analysis and monitoring a case study of the Tondano study area, Sulawesi, Indonesia /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71616.

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Thesis (M. Sc.)--York University, 2002. Graduate Programme in Geography.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-160). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71616.

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Bae, Hyun Hye. "An Analysis of the Community Participation Process in New York City - Focusing on its Effectiveness, Representativeness, and Inclusiveness." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-pp5m-yq26.

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Since the second half of the 20th century, public participation in local governance has been widely recognized and promoted by planning theorists and practitioners. Nevertheless, in practice, public participation has faced multiple criticisms, such as a disconnect between process and outcome, low levels of substantive representation for participating community groups, and rigidity in participatory methods. These three criticisms raise the question as to how effective public participatory programs are for multicultural cities, such as New York City, with their increasing numbers of ethnic residents. The goal of this three-article dissertation is to evaluate the current official participatory process in New York City while focusing on effectiveness, representativeness, and inclusiveness, that is, the three aspects of the process receiving the most criticism. Using path analysis, the first article compares and contrasts the effects of Community Board recommendations with those of the recommendations and reviews of other key representatives during the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure and neighborhood characteristics. The results indicate that, although Community Board recommendations have greater direct and indirect effects than those of the borough president, the second model, which incorporates neighborhood variables, reveals that increases in the socio-economic factor and decreases in the immigrant concentration factor are positively associated with changes in decisions within the procedure. Moreover, the second article observed the level of substantive representation in terms of Community Boards using the annual Statement of Needs and survey of residents. The research finds that, Community Board opinions exhibit a high correspondence with the opinions of residents on the need of affordable housing but that the opinions of residents and Community Boards diverged in other topics. Comparatively, Community Boards tend to choose topics that are related to developmental policies as the most pressing issues, while residents find topics relevant to redistributive policies as problematic. The research also reveals that the opinions of ethnic residents are represented less well than those of their non-ethnic neighbors. Lastly, the third article searches for the equity necessary to bring forth inclusive planning processes using interviews with leaders of Community Boards and community-based organizations. The research observes the choices that planners make and finds practical limitations, including legitimacy challenges, linguistic barriers, and definitions of culture. In conclusion, the article proposes that equity comes in multiple forms, including structured collaboration and communication among relevant participants and stakeholders, diverse participation methods for multiple cultures and publics, support from the City, and assistance from planning scholars. Although all three articles point out existing ethnic disparities, the dissertation concludes that an effective, representative, and inclusive participatory process is required for both ethnic and non-ethnic residents in multiethnic, multicultural New York City.

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Davis, Jennifer. "Planning for Industrial Land and Industrial Jobs: An Evaluation of New York City's Industrial Business Zone Program." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/767.

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In recent years, industrial preservation policies, which aim to preserve urban industrial activity and industrial employment often through the preservation of industrial land, have emerged as a flashpoint in cities across the country that have implemented these policies. While critics contend that industrial preservation policies amount to smokestack chasing in “post-industrial” cities like New York City, industrial preservationists argue that such policies help to preserve well-paying, middle-class jobs and thus represent a tool to mitigate rising income inequalities in cities. Despite considerable attention to these policies, minimal research has evaluated the effectiveness of industrial preservation policies as land use and economic development planning tools. This paper inserts itself into the debate surrounding the utility of industrial preservation policies by evaluating the effectiveness of New York City’s 2006 Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) program. Specifically, this paper uses propensity scoring to evaluate various measures of urban industrial activity in designated IBZs compared to a control group of similar areas. This paper finds that IBZs outperformed the control group in terms of better stemming industrial employment losses and industrial land decline. The control group, however, provided a more favorable climate to industrial business starts and performed about the same as IBZs in encouraging capital investments in industrial infrastructure. These findings suggest that the IBZ program yielded mixed results in its efforts to both attract and retain urban industry.

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Kown, Robert Oliver. "INHABITING THE PERIPHERY: a dialogue between individual and site." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/991.

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What is a periphery? We can think about this word in more than one way. First off, peripheries are places that exist as spatial conditions in cities, They indicate edges and places that have been left behind. Spaces that have lost their meaning. But in this thesis I will use the word in another way as well. What does the periphery mean for us today? What are those parts of our lives that have been marginalized, and how can we begin to reclaim what has been lost? It is the aim of this thesis to address these issues of the individual in a site that exists on the edge of Manhattan--a place physically separated from the city by means of a highway, and in so doing, redeem both a physical space as well as a place within ourselves. One way in which we as a society create this edge condition within ourselves centers around how we structure our time. How do we work? When do we work? And, conversely, when do we rest? An important part of our twenty-first century lives centers around our ability to be in constant communication. Recent advancements in communication technology are fast shaping the way in which we live, and, as a result, we have constructed a world in which productivity and communication are no longer limited by our physical place. For its many benefits, one problem created by this is that of a population simultaneously connected to the world, yet easily disconnected from their physical place. When do we turn off? And, more importantly, what are we missing by being so endlessly connected? In response to this situation, I feel that we as a society need moments of repose to restore balance in our lives. It is during these breaks in our day that we are better able to synthesize information, form memory and maintain balance between engagement and rest. By connecting our minds with our bodies, moments of repose serve as physical and mental experiences that ground us in place.

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Houle, Michaël. "Le potentiel des technologies de l’information et des communications pour le renforcement de la résilience organisationnelle lors des opérations d’évacuation : étude de cas de la ville de New York." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13110.

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