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Improving the living environment of Singapore

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1991
For the past quarter century, the government of Singapore has redeveloped the city with multiple objectives. The city should be free of squatters, slums and pollutive influences. It should be clean, green and healthy for living. All necessary infrastructures are provided and function well.
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The Living Environment

1990
The influx of adults with disabilities into community-based programs requires careful thought and planning regarding the development of community living programs. This need comes at a significant point in the history of services for adults with disabilities, for we currently have the opportunity to create programs that truly reflect the typical living ...
Robert L. Schalock, William E. Kiernan
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Living environments and older people

Nursing Older People, 2000
The influence of care environments on patients has long been a fundamental concern for nurses. Considerations of how environments might be defined, particularly how multiple aspects of environments might impact on any individual, are complex. This article aims to unpick some of the complexities and to offer ideas on how nurses can positively influence ...
H, Heath, L, Phair
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On Living in a Multicultural Environment

2016
In Chap. 3 the origins of multiculturalism were explained. As was noted, multiculturalism can have different meanings—referring to the demographic composition of society, a policy promoting diversity and equality and finally an attitude towards a culturally plural society.
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The Living Environment

2010
In this chapter we address the question of what kind of living environments the 20 homes provided in the early 2000s and how they compare with the past. Forty years ago, Pincus adopted the term the ‘institutional environment’ which he defined as the psycho-social milieu in which the residents live as expressed through and/or generated by (a) physical
Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith   +2 more
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The Living Environment

1991
Abstract There are millions of different types of individual organisms that inhabit the earth at any one time-some very similar to each other, some very different. Biologists classify organisms into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups on the basis of similarities and differences in their structure and behavior.
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Living in a Patchy Environment

The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1991
Introduction: Patchy environment - an overview 1. Starvation and predation in a patchy environment 2. The response of plants to patchy environments 3. Dynamic stability of a single-species population in a divided and ephemeral environment 4. Variance and patchiness in rates of population change - a planthopper's case history 5.
J.M. Elliott, B. Shorrocks, I.R. Swingland   +2 more
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Gestures in Assisted Living Environments

2012
This paper is concerned with multimodal assisted living environments, particularly based on gesture interaction. The research of ambient assisted living is about the provision of a safe, comfortable, and inde-pendent lifestyle at a domestic environment.
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The Living and Its Environments

Process Studies, 2008
In this article, I claim that Stengers’ interpretation of Whitehead’s speculative philosophy is organized around the concept of “infection.” In focusing on this concept it becomes possible to link process concepts such as “societies,” “environment,” and “historical trajectories” in a real philosophy of life.
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War and the Living Environment

Nuclear Information, 1963
BS>Long term effects of nuclear war on the complex, interrelated world of living things are considered. Local and worldwide fallout effects, late somatic effects, and radiosensitivity of various organisms are discussed. (H.M.G.)
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