Dissertations / Theses: 'Nature centers'

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Wong, Tak-ming Humphrey. "Dwelling in nature : an ecological reserve Ping Chau /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25955226.

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Chan, Yung-yung Christina. "Nature Reserve Centre in Mai Po." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595667x.

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Yuen, Chung-keung Dixon. "Connecting coastal eco-education resort." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987461.

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Chan, Tin-yau. "Hong Kong biodiversity museum." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25944861.

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Ng, Hin. "Environmental Education Centre." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31982542.

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Shangguan, Yujin. "Ecological park design revitalization of the ex-Lamma Quarry /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38220222.

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Chan, Yung-yung Christina, and 陳容蓉. "Nature Reserve Centre in Mai Po." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983807.

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Polihronov, Jeliazko G. "Physical nature of light-emitting centers in spark-processed silicon." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000590.

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Haas, Ryan. "Cultured growth Nature as cultural object /." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Browning, Matthew Herbert Emerson Mutel. "Nature Centers in Local Communities: Perceived Values, Support Factors, and Visitation Constraints." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54581.

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This dissertation examines three relationships between nature centers and their local communities. First, what are the values provided by local centers as perceived by community members? Second, what factors lead community members to support local centers? And third, what are the constraints to visiting local centers as perceived by community members? We surveyed random samples of community members living around 16 diverse nature centers across the United States and conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses to address these questions. Chapter one introduces the study and provides a literature review of theories and empirical research related to the research questions. Chapter two reports the results of an exploratory factor analysis on the level of importance communities assign to fourteen nature center services. The factor analysis revealed four underlying values: environmental connection, leisure provision, civic engagement, and community resilience. Chapter three tests sixteen hypothesized predictors of community support for nature centers. All these variables were significant, suggesting people volunteer at, donate to, or respond to threats at nature centers for a range of reasons. These include those related to supporting nature center missions (e.g. environmental connection significance and commitment to nature) but also other reasons such as friends' and family's perceptions of nature centers and assessments of the center staff members. Chapter four explores constraints that emerge during different stages of the decision-making process people go through when considering whether or not to visit a local nature center. The greatest constraints emerge in early stages (e.g. center awareness) and late stages (e.g. limited finances, transportation, and time) of decision-making. Chapter five discusses the study's implications to theory, including ecosystem service and educational leisure setting valuation, environmentally significant and charitable support behavior, and leisure constraints, as well as nature center practice. Centers that consider these implications might better serve their local communities and achieve their missions.
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Arce, Sylvia Eugenia. "Free Spirit Children's Nature Center." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2540.

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The purpose of this thesis is to provide a blueprint for the creation of the Free Spirit Children's Nature Center. The center has in mind the preservation of a habitat and will offer naturalist programs that enhance children's understanding and love of nature. The interactive nature of the experiences provided through the programs and activities will offer children a hands-on approach to learning that is developmentally appropriate. The primary role of the nature center is proposed to re-create a sense of connectedness to nature and generate healthy communities.

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Yuen, Chung-keung Dixon, and 袁頌強. "Connecting coastal eco-education resort." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31987461.

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Shiu, Y. B. Ivan. "Saving the endangered longest beach of Hong Kong enhancing public awareness on coastal and global climate problems /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38219268.

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Wong, Tak-ming Humphrey, and 黃德明. "Dwelling in nature: an ecological reserve Ping Chau." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983704.

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Kearns, Lorraine D. "Revitalization of the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School Nature Center, an on-site learning facility." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/620.

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Chan, Tin-yau, and 陳天佑. "Hong Kong biodiversity museum." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198194X.

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Lam, Yu-kiu Rita. "The nature of the supervision in multi-service centres for the elderly." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13745049.

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Lam, Yu-kiu Rita, and 藍宇喬. "The nature of the supervision in multi-service centres for theelderly." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977406.

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Lippi, Nadia. "Wildlife research and rehabilitation facility." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05282004-085758.

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Ng, Hin, and 吳衍. "Environmental Education Centre." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982542.

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Iverson, Beata. "Naturum - mer än en port till naturen : En explorativ studie av Naturvårdsverkets koncept naturum och dess potentiella betydelse för Tyresö kommun." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188637.

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Naturvårdsverkets koncept naturum är ett besökscentrum i naturen och syftar till att vara en port till naturen. Detta för skapa ett fortsatt intresse i att bevara den svenska naturen. Naturumen är också en viktig del av Naturvårdsverkets arbete att göra naturen mer tillgänglig för människor och en del av att synliggöra naturen, dess värde och samtidigt locka fler människor att utforska och upptäcka naturen. Flera kommuner har på eget initiativ skapat naturum och ytterligare kommuner är intresserade av konceptet, dock är betydelsen för kommunerna de är placerade i ett outforskat område. Därför har denna explorativa studie genomfört en kartläggning av tidigare erfarenheter av naturumens betydelse, och applicerats i Tyresö kommun, för att bidra till en ökad förståelse kring betydelsen av Naturvårdsverkets koncept naturum. Kartläggningen av erfarenheter är insamlat via intervjuer med flera aktörer som Naturvårdsverket, Länsstyrelsen Stockholm, stiftelsen Tyrestaskogen och kommuner med naturum tillsammans med ett frågeformulär utskickat till naturumföreståndarna. De tidigare erfarenheterna visar att naturum har en stor betydelse för kommunerna och har många olika funktioner utöver att vara en port till naturen. Dessa sträcker sig från kunskapsspridande och besöksmål, till social mötesplats, symbol för kommunen och en resurs för utbildningsverksamhet. I uppsatsen konstateras att det finns stora möjligheter för Tyresö att uppnå dessa funktioner genom ett naturum och att det väl knyter an till flera av Tyresös kommuns existerade mål. Uppsatsen avslutas med vidare rekommendationer för Tyresö kommun kring deras arbete med ett potentiellt naturum i kommunen.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency concept naturum is a visitor center aimed at being a gateway to nature. It also aims at creating a continuing interest in preserving the Swedish nature. Naturum is also an important part of the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to make nature more accessible to people and it is also aims at visualizing nature, its value and at the same time attract more people to explore and discover nature. Several municipalities have on their own initiative created naturum and there are several others that are interested in the concept, however the impacts of naturum towards the municipalities they are located in is an unexplored field of research. Therefore, this exploratory study conducted an examination of previous experiences of naturums impacts applied in Tyresö municipality to contribute to an increased understanding of the importance of the Environmental Protection Agency concept. The examination of experiences were collected through interviews with several actors as the Environmental Protection Agency, County Administrative Board of Stockholm, the foundation Tyrestaskogen and municipalities together with a questionnaire sent out to the head of all the naturum in Sweden. The previous experience shows that naturum has a great importance for municipalities and has many functions in addition to being a gateway to nature. These range from the dissemination of knowledge and tourist attraction to a social meeting place, a symbol of the municipality and a resource for educational purposes. The paper noted that there are numerous opportunities for Tyresö municipality to achieve these functions through a naturum in the municipality and that it links to several of Tyresö municipality existing goals. The paper concludes with recommendations for Tyresö municipality about their future work with a potential naturum in the municipality.

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Van, der Riet Mary Boudine. "Mediation and the nature of cognitive socialization in the crèche and the home in a black rural context." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002586.

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This thesis examines socialization in the homes and crèches of a rural area in a time of change. Change which is controlled and initiated from outside the local context, creates a dilemma for socialization agents when it introduces a knowledge paradigm different from that operating locally. Rural South African communities frequently experience exogenous change. The introduction of rural preschools, locally known as crèches, provides one example of such change challenging local socialization agents. While rural residents may not operate within knowledge paradigms to deal effectively with such change, they are not necessarily defeated by it. They "grapple" with the uncertainty, developing ways of coping and containing the change. This forms the focus of this thesis. Vygotsky's concept of mediation and conceptualization of the individual/society relationship, informs the examination of "grappling" with change. Two central questions are addressed: In an unfamiliar situation, what is mediated and what resources are drawn on? The research was designed around the recognition of the process nature of research, the constructivism inherent in research and the significance of the social context. Two central mediators, the mother and the crèche teacher, and the broader social context of the home and the creche, were examined. Three levels of investigation were utilised. An analysis of mediation in dyads working on an unfamiliar task provided insight into the social/psychological dynamics. Interviews with residents highlighted socialization beliefs and practices and the social context. Analysis of verses and stories taught to children revealed the inherent ideology of socialization. The main findings of this study are that: Rural residents "grapple" with social change by drawing on their own resources; in "grappling" with the unfamiliar what is mediated is an adult/child interactional status based on the inherent ideology of socialization and the dominant resource drawn on is the "culture of orality". It is argued that in the situation of neither mastery nor defeat, rural residents have used intermediary strategies of coping and containing the effect of the preschool as an agent of exogenous, social change. Recommendations are made for integrating "socialized" and "learned" knowledge from the home and the crèche.

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Shangguan, Yujin, and 上官榆勁. "Ecological park design: revitalization of theex-Lamma Quarry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38220222.

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Shiu, Y. B. Ivan, and 蕭猷斌. "Saving the endangered longest beach of Hong Kong: enhancing public awareness on coastal and global climateproblems." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38219268.

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Lorenzi, Federico. "Human-Nature centered design. Pensare e progettare sostenibile l'interazione uomo-natura." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.

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Il tema della sostenibilità è un argomento tanto vasto quanto complesso. La sua comprensione risulta semplice ai più, tuttavia il termine stesso può assumere definizioni e sfumature differenti, a seconda del campo in cui viene applicato. Il concetto in sé di sostenibilità è applicabile infatti in ogni settore. Dalla politica fino all’economia, così come nell’architettura e nel design, dove ne influenza i processi sia di progettazione che di produzione. Lo sviluppo della relazione di tesi nasce dall’interesse nel fatto che in questo periodo di profondi cambiamenti sociali, ovviamente dovuti soprattutto alla pandemia globale, stiamo assistendo ad un lento processo di transizione ecologica in ognuno di questi settori. Così in questo breve saggio ho cercato di legare gli argomenti studiati e appresi durante il corso di laurea con il mio interesse legato al tema della sostenibilità, cercando di favorire anche in questo caso il processo di transizione ecologica nel campo del Service design. Attraverso un’attenta analisi delle criticità e tante opportunità nascoste nell’approccio user centered (a mio avviso troppo user centered), lo studio dell’influenza del design sulla vita delle persone, il comportamento umano e ovviamente il tema della sostenibilità. Tutte argomentazioni utili alla mia relazione di tesi per lo sviluppo di un nuovo approccio legato alla progettazione dei servizi. Un modello che si rifà alla filosofia esistente e già codificata del Human Centered Design. In cui alle quattro fasi del Double Diamond si aggiungono quattro nuove fasi dove all’interno dei processi di progettazione l’oggetto del pensiero non è più l’uomo, bensì la natura.

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Engdahl, Martin. "Långforsen Nature Center." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-222132.

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A project to suggest an alternative to small scale hydro power at the old power plant in Långforsen, Jämtland, Sweden. Using excavation as a tool and raw materials from the site, the aim is to take the visitor into nature by using choreographed movement through the site, close to nature shelters, and a visitor center to tie it all together.

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McMurry, Benjamin L. "Self-Access Centers: Maximizing Learners' Access to Center Resources." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd966.pdf.

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Farber, Jeffrey W. "Natural interactions : a commentary on our relationship with nature." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391229.

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The objective of this creative project is to develop a series of paintings in oil on canvas that focus on the issue of mankind's crumbling relationship with the natural world. The paintings will be produced through a process that begins with an intuitive abstract approach and will later develop layered representational imagery. My technique of painting involves initially choosing and mixing colors without regard to the finished painting, allowing the subconscious to determine the direction that the painting will take. Upon completion of the under painting, I begin creating stencils and layering imagery that provoke thought concerning nature and our place in it. This collection of paintings is representative of the process I have developed through a wide variety of influences, and is a means of communicating my concern for the ever dwindling natural environment and our connection to it.
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Ho, Florence Kit Ming. "Anacostia's Nature Discovery Center on Kingman Island." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8463.

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Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Wagner, Cherie Ann. "AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INTERNSHIP AT AULLWOOD AUDUBON CENTER AND FARM IN DAYTON, OHIO." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1064609125.

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Hartle, Brett David. "Long Branch Nature Center - modern primitivism and the constructed dialogue of being within nature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50961.

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The Architect's first drawn line marks a significant moment where alteration to the site is conceived and intervention with nature is beset. Equilibrium of the natural order; vegetative, habitat, hydrology, and geology are all in a vulnerable state. Rarely do these develop into harmonious balances. More often they are imposed instances. The Industrial Revolution forever changed the relationship between humans and nature, tilting the weight of power towards man. While humans capacity for innovation and destruction have grown enormously, our dependence on the natural cycles and resources of the planet remain and grow more voracious. Yet simultaneously, modern progress has facilitated the physical and psychological detachment of that interdependence. The fundamental elements of our existence are veiled through the efficiency of urbanization and its derivatives of specialization, mass-production, and globalization. This project is an examination of the interrelationship between humans and nature through the lens of civic architecture within a naturalistic setting. The fundamental thesis of this project is that there is a primal biological thread that connects human beings to the natural order, whether on a visceral or conscious level. This project explores the belief that humans intrinsically yearn to reinforce that bond - awakening primordial instincts developed over millions of years of evolutionary survival that have been suppressed by the artifice of modern life. Through a process of retreat and contemplation, this project offers the opportunity of individuals to evaluate and rebalance their own scales with nature and find their own accord and harmony.
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Gibson, Susannah. "The pursuit of nature : defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244381.

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Many histories of natural history see it as a descriptive science, as a clear forerunner to modern studies of classification, ecology and allied sciences. But this thesis argues that the story of unproblematic progression from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century and modern natural history is a myth. Eighteenth-century natural history was a distinct blend of practices and theories that no longer exists, though many individual elements of it have survived. The natural history that I discuss was not solely about collecting, displaying, naming and grouping objects. Though these activities played an important part in natural history (and in many histories of natural history) this thesis focuses on some other key elements of natural history that are too often neglected: elements such as experimenting, theorising, hypothesising, seeking causes, and explaining. Usually these activities are linked to natural philosophy rather than natural history, but I show how they were used by naturalists and, by extension, create a new way of understanding how eighteenth-century natural history, natural philosophy and other sciences were related. The first chapter is about the end of eighteenth-century natural history and looks at the role of the Linnean Society of London. It argues that this society tried to homogenise British natural history through the promotion of the Linnean sexual system of plant classification and through the suppression of the kinds of experimental and theoretical work described in this thesis. To understand that experimental and theoretical work, and to see what British natural history really entailed in this period, three central chapters focus on specific case studies. The second chapter shows how English-based naturalists such as John Ellis (1710-1776) approached the problem of distinguishing plants from animals, and especially about how they used chemical experiments to decide whether things such as coral and corallines should be placed in the animal or plant kingdom. The third chapter discusses sensitive plants and the overlaps between natural history and natural philosophy. It draws on case studies of naturalists who investigated things like plant motion and apparent plant sensitivity with different observational and experimental methods, and tried to explain them using various mechanical and vitalist explanations. The fourth chapter focuses on the controversy over whether plants (like animals) can be male or female and shows the theoretical and experimental tools that naturalists used to address this issue. Together, these chapters give a very detailed insight into the everyday practices and theories used by eighteenth-century naturalists and show the variety of activities that made up the field. The next two chapters focus on the identity and interactions of naturalists and show how they created a distinctive science: the fifth chapter is about how someone in England could go about becoming an authority on natural history in the late eighteenth century; and the final chapter looks outwards from Britain and examines how British natural history influenced, and was influenced by, European natural history; it uses correspondence to examine how British naturalists communicated with their overseas counterparts and what each party gained from those exchanges.

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Matton, Arvid. "Nature Interpretation Center : Re-connecting people to the forest." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172990.

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Kabat, Cathleen A. "Floristic inventory of Morningside Nature Center, Alachua County, Florida." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000715.

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Mullins, Christopher. "An evaluation of interpretive media at the Dillon Nature Center." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32726.

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Master of Science
Horticulture, Forestry, and Recreation Resources
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Dillon Nature Center has a wide variety of exhibits that teach the public about the natural resources of Kansas. The purpose of my study was to conduct an exploratory study about the effectiveness of two key exhibits in the nature center (Underground Theater and Tornado), as well as evaluate the use of Quick Response Code or QR codes along one of the trails. A visitor survey was used to collect these data over 30 3- hour sampling periods. One hundred and ninety-five visitors were surveyed during the extent of my study. Fifty-four of those who were surveyed went into the Underground Theater exhibit and 47 went into the Tornado exhibit. I concluded that the Underground Theater exhibit was successful in providing useful information to the visitor, whereas the Tornado exhibit provided little useful information to the visitor. Visitors slightly preferred the use of QR codes along the trail even though the actual use was low. This study indicated that the type of exhibit greatly impacts what the visitor takes away from the exhibit. I also showed that it is likely people prefer newer technology to be available at the nature center. These findings provided the management and staff of Dillon Nature Center with information to guide their interpretive-planning efforts.

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Ndoh, Henry M. "An Internship in Environmental Education at the Cincinnati Nature Center." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1092763424.

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Richards, Bradley Vincent. "The James River Nature Center: A Study of Context and Concept." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34067.

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Contextually, each program has a set of inherent issues, stemming from physical, social and historical conditions. This context can be helpful, if not essential, in developing the architectural questions that lead to a concept. To establish an autonomous existence as an architectural place. The James River Nature Center provided a complex program that allowed for the exploration of context and concept as a thesis.
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Horobik, Valerie C. "SIX MONTHS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR AT THE CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1146273509.

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Mirzaei, Narek. "Healing By Design: Evidence-Based Approach in Designing Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491315343286767.

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Billinge, Richard. "Nature, grace and religious liberty in Restoration England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:18c8815b-4e57-45f5-b2c1-e31314a09d4f.

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This thesis demonstrates the importance of scholastic philosophy and natural law to the theory of religious uniformity and toleration in Seventeenth-Century England. Some of the most influential apologetic tracts produced by the Church of England, including Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Robert Sanderson's Ten lectures on humane conscience and Samuel Parker A discourse of ecclesiastical politie are examined and are shown to belong to a common Anglican tradition which emphasized aspects of scholastic natural law theory in order to refute pleas for ceremonial diversity and liberty of conscience. The relationship of these ideas to those of Hobbes and Locke are also explored. Studies of Seventeenth-Century ideas about conformity and toleration have often stressed the reverence people showed the individual conscience, and the weight they attributed to the examples of the magistrates of Israel and Judah. Yet arguments for and against uniformity and toleration might instead resolve themselves into disputes about the role of natural law within society, or the power of human laws over the conscience. In this the debate about religious uniformity could acquire a very philosophical and sometimes theological tone. Important but technical questions about moral obligation, metaphysics and theology are demonstrated to have played an important role in shaping perceptions of magisterial power over religion. These ideas are traced back to their roots in scholastic philosophy and the Summa of Aquinas. Scholastic theories about conscience, law, the virtues, human action and the distinction between nature and grace are shown to have animated certain of the Church's more influential apologists and their dissenting opponents. The kind of discourse surrounding toleration and liberty of conscience is thus shown to be very different than sometimes supposed. Perceptions of civil and ecclesiastical power were governed by a set of ideas and concerns that have hitherto not featured prominently in the literature about the development of religious toleration.

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Asserlind, Caroline. "Urban nature center : The development of educational spaces and how they can interplay with nature in an urban context." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6017.

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Educational spaces that interact with nature can give children in the city a start in experiencing the nature close to them. First hand experiences have the potential to influence and inspire children to continue learning about the environment that they are a part of. The Urban Nature Center aims to bring the concept of Nature School into the urban setting of Tantolunden in Stockholm city in order to invite the public to experience the urban nature. It creates a link to further explore the nature areas surrounding the city. By developing educational spaces that interplay with nature, focus has been on the relationship between inside and outside and on creating different levels of openness. Providing spaces for teaching both in groups and individually. The interior spaces either focus inwards on the activity taking place or outwards towards the nearby environment by filtering the view between inside and outside.
Pedagogiska miljöer som interagerar med naturen kan ge barn en start till att börja utforska sin närmiljö. Förstahandsupplevelser i naturen har potential att påverka och inspirera barn att fortsätta lära sig om miljön som de är en del av. Centret syftar till att ta konceptet av Naturskolan till stadsmiljön i Tantolunden i Stockholm för att bjuda in allmänheten att uppleva den urbana naturen. Centret skapar en länk till utforskande av naturområden runt om staden. I utvecklingen av dessa läromiljöer har fokus legat på relationen mellan inne och ute samt på att skapa olika nivåer av öppenhet. De interiöra utrymmena fokuserar antingen inåt på aktiviteten som äger rum där eller utåt mot den närliggande miljön genom att filtrera utsikten mellan insidan och utsidan.

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Koulas, Heather Marshall. "Native Indian cultural centres : a planning analysis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26861.

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Native Indian Cultural Centres have grown out of the on-going struggle for native self-determination and are rapidly becoming a focus for native cultural revitalization. This thesis investigates the evolution of two Northwest Coast native Indian cultural centres--the 'Ksan Village and the Makah Cultural and Research Centre (MCRC)—through each stage of development, outlining the historical, cultural, economic and social context, the form and function of conceptual development and the planned and unplanned processes involved in building and operating each centre. Analysis has indicated that 'Ksan and the MCRC have evolved as a response to local cultural and economic pressures and opportunities and have been funded primarily on the basis of economic rather than cultural viability. Six factors were found to be collectively sufficient to promote the successful development of each cultural centre: local cultural knowledge, social mobilization, local project relevance, native Indian control, access to resources and common motivational ground. The relationship between native Indians and non-native specialists is changing. Native people are no longer allowing non-native specialists to define their culture and interpret their heritage and 'Ksan and the MCRC have positively re-inforced that change. The development of native Indian cultural centres has provided an important step in the on-going native struggle for self-determination by providing a focus and/or forum for native cultural identity and is likely to continue in the future.
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Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Franklin, Robert Daniel. "Architectural Postures: A Proposed Education Center of Nature for Rock Creek Park." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33673.

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The human form becomes the bearer of my inspiration, revealing a cosmology within itself, appealing to the idea of understanding the body and implementing its essence into architecture. The lessons found in the tectonic of oneâ s body will assist in discovering an integral logic that may translate in the design of the building. Living organisms inspire architectural posture that generate my architectural ideas. Architecture considered, in a very natural way reflects humans. I try to find a methodology inspired by natural organisms, finding the human body the most beautiful and functional of all natural objects. The structure begins to illustrate the innovation of the materials being employed to a different type of solution to a structural problem. The truth of materials, and honesty in the expression of structure reflect the movement of the object.
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Myatt, Taylor Scott. "Preservation, Education, and Rehabilitation: A Wildlife Conservation Internship at Brukner Nature Center." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1493336910350278.

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Zhang, Xu. "Art Center on the Lake." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96806.

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The water's shore, used for defense, trade, transportation and industry, always plays an important role in a city's development. Buildings were built there to fulfill related practical functions, such as barns, factories or piers. However, at the present time, the functions mentioned above are not the only purpose of the shore, now more entertainment activies happen along the water's edge. Therefore, architecture's roles are changing. The site is in a small town called Riva San Vitale, which is located at the south end of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. For this small town, lake's shore is usually used by local people as a place for relaxation. Based on my four-month long living experiences there, I decided to design an art center on the lake to enrich residents' daily life.
Master of Architecture
A folding method was used in form processing to reflect the mountains' shapes surrounding the town. Through this whole process, my thesis explores how the architecture is used as an instrument to bring art into people's daily life and, at the same time, extend people's life into nature. As a result, the Art Center will become a new plaza of Riva San Vitale.

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Sankar, Gopal Ravi. "An investigation into a natural language interface for contact centers." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/890.

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Contact centres are the first point of contact between a company and a customer after the purchase of a product or service. These centres make use of contact centre agents to service customer queries. In the past contact centres hired as many agents as they could in order to service customers, which have led to an increase in personnel costs causing contact centres to become costly to run. Automation techniques were introduced to decrease personnel costs and one such technique is the Interactive Voice Response (IVR). The usability of IVR systems is, however, dismal. Customers would rather speak to a contact centre agent than navigate through the menu structure found in these systems. The menu structure has come under scrutiny because it is difficult to use and navigate, is often not aligned to caller usage patterns, and the menu options are long and vague. This research investigated whether a Natural Language Interface (NLI) could alleviate the problems inherent to IVR. NLIs, however, come with their own disadvantages of which the main ones are ambiguity and the loss of context of a conversation. Two prototypes were implemented, one of which resembled an IVR and the other an NLI (using ALICE concepts). An evaluation of two prototypes confirmed the advantages and disadvantages of these concepts in accordance to theory. A Hybrid prototype was proposed with the aid of two models. The model which proposed an NLI using a rule base was chosen for implementation. The Hybrid prototype was then evaluated against the NLI and IVR prototypes to deduce which prototype was the most effective, efficient and satisfying. The evaluation through the aid of descriptive and inferential statistics showed that the Hybrid prototype was the most usable prototype. The evaluation of the Hybrid prototype confirmed that a Hybrid approach could limit the shortcomings of IVR through the elimination of the menu structure found in these systems, thereby allowing users to state their queries in natural language. The incorporated rule base provided the Hybrid system with long term memory, eliminating one of the main disadvantages of NLIs.

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Burns, Kyle. "Re-inventing the National Park Visitor Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337007451.

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Sullivan-Hayes, Jo Marie. "THE INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF NURSE ASSAULT IN A SOUTHWEST REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610470.

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This study explored the frequency and nature of verbal and physical assault directed toward nurses, by patients, their family members, and visitors in a southwest emergency department. To be eligible for participation in this study, a registered nurse must have been employed in this emergency department for at least one year prior to completing the survey.

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Perinetti, Dario. "Hume, history and the science of human nature." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38509.

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This thesis sets out to show that a philosophical reflection on history is, in the strongest possible way, an essential feature of Hume's project of a science of human nature: a philosophical investigation of human nature, for Hume, cannot be successful independently of an understanding of the relation of human beings to their history. Hume intended to criticize traditional metaphysics by referring all knowledge to experience. But it is almost always assumed that Hume means by "experience" the result of an individual's past sense perception or personal observation. Accordingly, Hume's criticism of traditional metaphysics is taken to lead to an individualistic conception of knowledge and human nature. In this thesis I claim that this picture of Hume's "empiricism" is simply wrong. He is not a philosopher who reduces "experience" to the merely private happenings within a personal psychology. On the contrary, Hume has a wider notion of experience, one that includes not only personal observation and memory, but, fundamentally, one that includes implicit knowledge of human history. Experience, so understood, brings about what I term a historical point of view, namely, the point of view of someone who seeks to extend his experience as far as it is possible in order to acquire the capacity to produce more nuanced and impartial judgments in any given practice. It is precisely this historical point of view that enables us to depart from the individualistic perspective that we would otherwise be bound to adopt not only in epistemology but, most significantly, in politics, in social life, in religion, etc.
Chapter 1 presents the historical background against which Hume elaborates his views of history's role in philosophy. Chapter 2 discusses and criticizes the individualist reading of Hume by showing that he had a satisfactory account of beliefs formed via human testimony. Chapter 3 presents a view of Hume on explanation that underscores his interest in practical and informal explanations as those of history. Chapter 4 provides a discussion of Hume's notion of historical experience in relation both to his theory of perception and to his project of a "science of man."

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Yuennan, Choosak. "The nature of family-centred care in Thailand : a case study." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59197/.

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Thalassemia is a long-term condition that is highly prevalent in children in northern Thailand and the management of this disease requires a strong input from families. Family-centred care is a key philosophy in the nursing care of children and their families, especially as parents play a key role in the health and well-being of a child. However, the concept of family-centred care is a western one and there is limited literature on its use in Thailand. The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of family-centred care in one hospital in Thailand and the factors that influence the nature of the nursing care. Using a qualitative case study approach, data was collected by non-participant observations, semi-structured interviews of five families, four nurses, a medical doctor and a Buddhist monk and the analysis of documentation in 2010. The data was initially analysed deductively using a recognised framework of family-centred care and this was followed by a thematic inductive analysis. The results showed that all the elements of the framework of family-centred care existed in varying degrees although the concept was not recognised as shaping the nature of this care. The nature of this care was influenced by three factors: the family, the hospital and Thai culture with its strong religious traditions. These factors were incorporated into a model of family-centred care that could be applied to other institutions in Thailand. This study has shown that the family-centred care model is practiced but it requires a strong commitment and input from healthcare professionals. Strengthening and formalising the use of this concept can be a very useful strategy to ensure that the needs of the child and family are recognised, valued and met.

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