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Thermal comfort in desert refugee camps
Long-term encampment is a growing aspect of a growing refugee crisis. There is hence the need to ensure shelters provide a safe and suitable environment. We present the first field study including social and thermal comfort...
Summer Camps Appeal to Those Interested in Music, Jewelry or Robotics
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The camps will appeal to students interested in studying either music, jewelry design or robotics, according to organizer Courtney Starrett, an associate professor of fine arts. Tuition for a week of activities is $125 and...
Published by: Winthrop University
Thermal comfort in desert refugee camps
Long-term encampment is a growing aspect of a growing refugee crisis. There is hence the need to ensure shelters provide a safe and suitable environment. We present the first field study including social and thermal comfort...
When formal institutions impede entrepreneurship
For this paper we investigated refugee entrepreneurship in the Dadaab
refugee camps, Kenya, a place where humanitarian aid practices and
domestic legislation impede entrepreneurship, yet hundreds of new ventures
have been...
"You wouldn’t celebrate September 11” - Testing Online Polarisation Between Opposing Ideological Camps on YouTube
Online communication is increasingly associated with growing polarisation in society. In this research, we test a dual-pathway model of online polarisation via intergroup and intragroup interaction of supporters of opposing...
"You wouldn’t celebrate September 11” - Testing Online Polarisation Between Opposing Ideological Camps on YouTube
Online communication is increasingly associated with growing polarisation in society. In this research, we test a dual-pathway model of online polarisation via intergroup and intragroup interaction of supporters of opposing...
‘The Common Camp’
I Katz Feigis
Dec 22, 2016
From their emergence in the 19th century to their current global proliferation, camps have been created extensively by and for different populations under the modern state order. Whether employed by national and colonial powers...
MirrorMe@work
Novice teachers are often discouraged by the problems they encounter in their daily professional practices and they (still) feel unable to cope with. This is also reflected in high drop-out rates in the early stages of teachers'...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Monographs of the RIMR. Vol. 10, 1919
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
The Pathology of the Pneumonia in the United States Army Camps During the Winter of 1917-1918 by William G. MacCallum
Published by: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Photoelectrochemical H2 Evolution with a Hydrogenase Immobilized on a TiO2-Protected Silicon Electrode.
The combination of enzymes with semiconductors enables the photoelectrochemical characterization of electron-transfer processes at highly active and well-defined catalytic sites on a light-harvesting electrode surface. Herein...
Biopolitics, borders, and refugee camps
O Zeveleva
Apr 08, 2016
UK business school rankings over the last 30 years (1980–2010)
Business schools globally operate in a market-driven environment and rankings are very much part of that environment. Rankings have a significant impact on a school’s ability to attract the top scholars, the most able students...
Student recruitment at international branch campuses. Can they compete in the global market?
The majority of international branch campuses are located in competitive higher education hubs, such as Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Many find themselves having to recruit students regionally, and some, even globally...
The location and location-routing problem for the refugee camp network design
The refugee crisis is one of the major challenges of modern society. The influxes of refugees are usually sudden and the refugees are in sheer need of services such as health care, education and safety. Planning public...
Branch-price-and-cut Humanitarian logistics Location-routing problem Refugee camp location Transportation Vehicle routing problem sustainability refugees /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205 name=Civil and Structural Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3313 name=Transportation /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions name=SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Teaching Diversity
The province’s five-year action plan to attract more immigrants into the province (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, n.d.) indicates an increase in the number of newcomer students in our education system. Most of these...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution.
Andrea B Migliano, Federico Battiston, Sylvain Viguier, Abigail E Page, Mark Dyble, Rodolph Schlaepfer, Daniel Smith, Leonora Astete, Marilyn Ngales, Jesus Gomez-Gardenes, Vito Latora, Lucio Vinicius
Apr 11, 2020
Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its functional relevance remains unclear. Here, we investigated the effect of multilevel sociality on cumulative cultural evolution by using...
The location and location-routing problem for the refugee camp network design
The refugee crisis is one of the major challenges of modern society. The influxes of refugees are usually sudden and the refugees are in sheer need of services such as health care, education and safety. Planning public...
Branch-price-and-cut Humanitarian logistics Location-routing problem Refugee camp location Transportation Vehicle routing problem sustainability refugees /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205 name=Civil and Structural Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3313 name=Transportation /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions name=SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Nazi Camps on British Soil
GC Carr
Jun 30, 2017
Optimal diversity in investments with recombinant innovation
The notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation is addressed. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules, with...
Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of B. Arthur (1989, Competing technologies, increasing returns...
International student destination choice
Previous research has found that the country and institution choices of international students are greatly influenced by recommendations they receive from others who have experience of undertaking higher education overseas. For...
Paving Scheduled For The Farm Area
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Parents will still be able to drive their children to summer camps but may need to take a detour, which will be clearly marked to minimize disruption. Workers with Catawba Asphalt Paving Co. Inc. of Rock Hill will cover the loop...
Published by: Winthrop University
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