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Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment [PDF]

, 2010
· Embedded funders are foundations that have made long-term commitments to the communities in which they are located or work. · Foundations have a long history in funding community development, often with few concrete results. · Political conditions, the
Allen-Meares, Paula, Gant, Larry, Shanks, Trina   +2 more
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Discourse analysis and the use of media in the good neighbor policy
Análise do Discurso e o uso dos meios de comunicação na Política Externa de Boa Vizinhança.

Semina: Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2012
This article, making use of discourse analysis, sough to cast an eye the use and impacts caused by the media in Brazil Foreign Policy Good Neighbor government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States of America - USA from 1933 to 1945.
Isaias Albertin Moraes
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Imperial Revisionism: US Historians of Latin America and the Spanish Colonial Empire (ca. 1915–1945)

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2013
During the period 1915–1945, United States historians contributed important revisions to the subfield of colonial Hispanic American History. Their histories argued for a reconsideration of inherited wisdom about the Spanish colonial empire, in issues of ...
Ricardo D. Salvatore
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“‘You Shall Love the Alien as Yourself’: Hope, Hospitality, and Love of the Stranger in the Teachings of Jesus”

Religions, 2019
The Trump administration’s controversial immigration policy has provoked significant opposition, including against a 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government over Trump’s insistence on a “wall,„ but the most outrage was ...
David B. Gowler
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Measuring the geography of opportunity [PDF]

, 2016
Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely ...
Lens, Michael C
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Circuitos da boa vizinhança. Diplomacia cultural e intercâmbios educacionais entre Brasil e Estados Unidos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial

Varia História
Resumo Este artigo analisa o programa de intercâmbio educacional firmado, em 1938, entre o Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos (IBEU) e a Universidade de Michigan.
Simone Petraglia KROPF
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The Influence of Environmental Perception on Farmers' Willingness to Act in Pro-Environment Behavior: A Case Study of Ecological Restoration in the Tailings Area of the Dabaoshan Mountain

Redai dili, 2023
With regard to China's vigorous promotion of environmental governance and ecological restoration, farmers around mines are victims of environmental damage and major participants in ecological restoration.
Xia Yan, Jiang Haiyan, Li Shijie
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Markov Decision Processes with Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey [PDF]

, 2015
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of autonomous and resource-limited devices. The devices cooperate to monitor one or more physical phenomena within an area of interest.
Alsheikh, Mohammad Abu, Hoang, Dinh Thai, Lin, Shaowei, Niyato, Dusit, Tan, Hwee-Pink   +4 more
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CoLight: Learning Network-level Cooperation for Traffic Signal Control

, 2019
Cooperation among the traffic signals enables vehicles to move through intersections more quickly. Conventional transportation approaches implement cooperation by pre-calculating the offsets between two intersections.
Chen, Chacha, Li, Zhenhui, Wei, Hua, Xu, Kai, Xu, Nan, Zang, Xinshi, Zhang, Huichu, Zhang, Weinan, Zheng, Guanjie, Zhu, Yanmin   +9 more
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Remote Sensing Scene Classification and Explanation Using RSSCNet and LIME

Applied Sciences, 2020
Classification is needed in disaster investigation, traffic control, and land-use resource management. How to quickly and accurately classify such remote sensing imagery has become a popular research topic.
Sheng-Chieh Hung, Hui-Ching Wu, Ming-Hseng Tseng   +2 more
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