Thesis (M.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Family and Child Studies, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains ii, 43 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-35).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: David L. Ames, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1933. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-187).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 44 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-43).

Thesis (M.U.R.P.)--Ball State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Aug. 21, 2009). Research paper (M.U.R.P.), 3 hrs. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46).

Etudier les processus de légitimations citadines à Douala, capitale économique du Cameroun, au prisme du foncier invite à une analyse des discours et pratiques des habitants afin de négocier leur place en ville – plus ou moins durablement, au regard d’une pluralité d’acteurs. Dans un contexte de situation autoritaire et de forte dichotomie rural-urbain au sein des représentations communes, la citadinité ne va pas de soi à Douala et peut être contestée dans certains cas. Être à Douala et être de Douala ne portent pas le même sens et supposent une reconnaissance de légitimité à occuper l’espace, à l’aune de paramètres identitaires et de pratiques sociales. La confrontation entre trois quartiers – Bonabéri, New-Bell, Akwa – a permis de poser trois regards situés sur les légitimités citadines. Différents registres légitimants sont questionnés, parmi lesquels l’importance de la prise en compte de la dimension identitaire. L’analyse du poids de l’autochtonie dans les représentations citadines et sa traduction spatiale permettent de rendre compte que ce registre de (dé)légitimation est saturant, mais que des marges de manœuvre existent notamment du fait des contours flous de la définition même de cette notion d’autochtonie. Le rapport aux normes officielles est également questionné, plus particulièrement la capacité à jouer, négocier, contourner ces dernières dans un contexte où l’écart est important entre normes officielles et pratiques foncières réelles. L’étude d’un déguerpissement survenu en 2014 montre cependant les limites des stratégies des habitants, révélant un conflit de normes. Les réponses citadines à travers la production matérielle et sociale de l’espace urbain, en contexte marécageux et/ou inondable et face au manque de solutions proposées par l’Etat, deviennent une manière d’interpeller ce dernier / Studying processes of legitimations by city dwellers in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital, with the prism of land invites to an analysis of the discourses and practices of the inhabitants in order to negotiate their place in the city – more or less durably, with regard to a plurality of actors. Taking into account the authoritarian situation in Cameroon and a strong rural-urban dichotomy within common representations, the citadinité (“is cityness”) in Douala nothing short of a hassle and can be questioned in some cases. To be in Douala and to be from Douala are not the same and this is translated by the recognition - or not - of a legitimacy to occupy space, according to parameters of identity and social practices. The confrontation between three districts - Bonabéri, New-Bell, Akwa - gave us three different viewpoints on city-dwellers' legitimacies.Various legitimizing aspects are questioned, including the importance of taking into account the identity dimension. In this context, analyzing the importance of autochthony in city-dwellers’ representations and translating it spatially shows how, even though this register of (de)legitimation is saturating, room of manoeuvre exists in particular because of this autochthony notion’s fuzzy definition. The relation with official standards is also questioned, considering the ability to play, negotiate, and circumvent them in a context where there are huge discrepancies between official standards and actual land practices. The study of an eviction that occurred in 2014, however, shows the limits of the strategies of the inhabitants, revealing a conflict of norms. The dwellers' answers through the material and social production of the urban space, in a marshy and/or floodable context and faced with the lack of solutions proposed by the State, give rise to an interpellation of the latter.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005. / Bibliography: leaves 127-138.

The first essay uses Chinese Urban Household Survey (CUHS) data from 1988 to 2003 to conduct a cohort analysis of household income, household consumption, and household saving rate, and then uses synthetic panel data to explore the determinants of household saving rate. The cohort analysis not only offers stylized patterns of age profiles on household income, household consumption, and household saving rate but also their profiles of cohort effect and age effect by decomposition work. The cohort analysis likewise tests the relation between cohort effect and productivity growth. Overall, the empirical results present a different pattern compared with other studies and also contradict with the general predictions of the standard model in the consumption theory. In investigating the determinants of household saving rate, this essay examines the roles of household income, economic growth rate, inflation rate, and demographic variables, especially from the perspective of income inequality and systematic difference among cohorts. / The second essay examines the existence of a precautionary saving motive due to labor income uncertainty, using CUHS data from 2002 to 2003. Methodologically, this essay adopts a novel method to construct the proxy for labor income uncertainty, by the ratio of infra-group dispersion conditional on the individuals' labor income determinants to labor income. The empirical results present robust evidence that labor income uncertainty negatively affects household consumption, and there exists obviously different responses to labor income uncertainty from three perspectives: between old households and young households, among different households whose household heads are in different occupations, and between households whose household heads work in the State-owned Units and their counterparts. / The third essay then attempts to explore the determinants of housing wealth and housing price by a hedonic pricing model and evaluate the housing wealth effect on household consumption behavior. For the determinants of housing wealth and housing price, this essay demonstrates that incomplete property rights depress the value of housing asset by both a theoretical model and the empirical results. Regarding housing wealth's effect on household consumption behavior, the empirical results show that the housing wealth effect is significant and that it is obviously smaller for those observations whose houses' property rights are incomplete, compared with their counterparts. / Zhou, Shaojie. / "August 2007." / Advisers: Jun Sen Zhang; Hong bin Li. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0704. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-222). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Effective communication is essential for both a satisfying and productive patient-provider relationship. Ineffective communication can lead to many detrimental patient outcomes including a lack of access to care, an inability to navigate the healthcare environment, a decreased adherence to treatment recommendations, and a lack of patient understanding about disease risk factors, prevention, and management. The Healthy People 2010 initiative recognized the importance of communication by including several health communication-related goals in its objectives. A goal of one of these objectives included increasing the percentage of patients who reported that their care providers have satisfactory communication skills. Researchers can gain insight about those barriers that prevent providers from experiencing effective communication by examining the patients' perspectives about communication. The primary aim of this pilot study was to explore urban African American women's perspectives about the communication utilized during clinical encounters with providers via the use of semi-structured interviews. The semi-structured interviews collected data about a variety of topics including participants' breast cancer-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices. Data was also collected about participants' clinical encounter experiences, including their comprehension of health information and their communication experiences with medical providers and other types of health care professionals. Any responses that discussed participants' communication experiences with providers, comprehension of health information, or perspectives about factors that could impede or facilitate communication were selected for analysis. In addition to the semi-structured interviews, participants also completed two health literacy assessments in order to gauge their health literacy levels. Women were administered the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM), a word recognition assessment, and the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), a comprehension assessment. Eligibility criteria included women who: (1) were aged 50 and older, (2) were English-speaking, (3) able to respond to interview questions without assistance, (4) of African descent, (5) were Harlem residents, and (6) had never received a diagnosis of breast cancer. One hundred women participated in the study. Data about the effectiveness of providers' communication skills, patients' abilities to comprehend health information, patients' communication experiences with various types of health care providers, and preferred sources of health information were collected from the interviews. Open-ended questions were utilized to gather information about factors that women deemed as either impediments or facilitators to effective communication with providers. Collected data from interviews were analyzed qualitatively. In addition to information about participants' health literacy scores from the literacy assessments, final results included demographic information, preferred sources of health information, and information about those factors that women viewed as either impediments or facilitators to effective communication with doctors and with other health care providers both in and outside of the medical appointment. Additionally, findings from the qualitative analysis results were utilized in order to inform the creation of health communication recommendations for providers who treat urban African American female patients.

Univ., Diss.--Utrecht, 2007. / Introduction: displacements, public transport and democracy -- Where are the politics? perspectives on democracy and technology -- Theory and method: issues, settings and displacements -- Following the issues: the case of self-service in the Amsterdam trams -- Settings and framing: the case of a flexible public transport system -- Displacements and democratic quality: the case of high-quality public transport in Utrecht -- Displacements: dynamics and democratic quality.