Sutter County’s Century Farmers identifies families with an ongoing legacy of land use in Sutter County. Families that have been farming for 100 years in Sutter County are vital resources in identifying regional themes, historic agricultural developments, and landscape character…
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This report gives the information about the noise study of shoulder and transverse rumble strips on rural highways. There are two case studies on two different kind of rumble strips. Case study- I is on shoulder rumble strips, where noise of the vehicles are recorded when vehicl…
Objectives. (1) Determine the food procurement strategies utilized by the Fulani. (2) Identify the prinicipal and minor edible-wild plants used in the study area, with special attention to groups at risk; also determine dietary taboos associated with the dietary use of wild plan…
This research is a qualitative investigation of how baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964) who self-identify as increasing in Christian religiosity from a place of no faith or nominal faith have done so as they enter early old age (age 65 to 80) in the rural American context. The qual…
That rural spaces have both challenges to confront and strengths with which to confront them is well trod territory. Within this larger narrative I set out to analyze the story of a single place along an arc of old transnational highway that lost its high school to consolidation…
Average annual daily traffic (AADT) is important in transportation engineering and planning, and although the State of Louisiana collects AADT on a regular basis on state-maintained highways, most parishes and smaller municipalities do not have the resources to collect AADT freq…
This case study is an ethnographic study of workshops in four schools in Durgapur in rural Bangladesh with the goal to understand the perspectives regarding participation and paribesh (environment) of different groups of youth. Among the groups of youth included in this study ar…
Malaysian politics has long been dominated by tensions arising out of inter-ethnic inequality. However, economic policy in the earlier years of independence took a laissez-faire approach. Following the racial riots in 1969, there was a re-think on policy and the New Economic Pol…
In an age of standardization of learning and the learner, literacy is narrowly defined to view young people from a deficit rather than a strength perspective. Empowering learners to draw on knowledges and experiences that they have access to in their everyday lives broadens the …
A common plea in missions is the need to train pastors and church leaders for the rapidly multiplying churches in the Majority World, resulting in numerous formal and nonformal theological education training programs. In spite of these efforts, many rural churches remain without…
Anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) has become important socially, politically and culturally in the United Kingdom over the past fifteen years. Successive Governments have prioritised tackling ASB, with a plethora of legislation being introduced to tackle low-level nuisance beha…
Background. Death and illness related to pregnancy and childbirth are significant health problems in developing countries. The World Health Organization estimates that 529,000 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth each year, with 99% of these deaths in…
Research objective. The purposes of this research are to discuss the patterns of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments, to explore the determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments, and to find out the potential impact of introducing user fees for selective services, such as…
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2002) estimates that 80 percent of the developing world, including some 60 million indigenous people, relies on non-timber forest products (NTFP) for their nutritional, health, material, and income needs. The factors tha…
This dissertation research was motivated by a reversal in previously declining prime age adult mortality (PAM) rates in sub-Saharan Africa, a reversal brought about by the unabated AIDS epidemic in the region. As the epidemic continues to evolve within the region, there is a nee…