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Quality of life

Wilson's theories have been used to justify the implementation of zero tolerance policies by many prominent American mayors, most notably Oscar Goodman in Las Vegas, Richard Riordan in Los Angeles, Rudolph Giuliani in New York City and Gavin Newsom in San Francisco.



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Barbary lion

After a respiratory disease nearly wiped out the royal lions in the late 1960s, the current ruler established enclosures in Temara near Rabat, Morocco, to house the lions and improve their quality of life.

Basic needs

The Municipality of Rosario, Batangas, Philippines implemented its Aksyon ng Bayan Rosario 2001 And Beyond Human and Ecological Security Plan using this concept as a core strategy through the Minimum Basic Needs Approach to Improved Quality of Life - Community-Based Information System (MBN-CBIS) prescribed by the Philippine Government.

Campo Bom

Education, health, leisure and quality of life in the city, are references in the state, Has free Internet service available to 100% of the population.

Copán Ruinas

The conference is an opportunity for individuals and grassroots organizations to discuss ways to improve the quality of life in Honduras through addressing the social and economic needs of the country, primarily in the areas of education, healthcare, and community building.

Dawn Sweeney

At the National Restaurant Association, she is leading the organization's mission to help its members "build customer loyalty, rewarding careers and financial success" and "lead America's restaurant industry into a new era of prosperity, prominence and participation, enhancing the quality of life for all we serve".

Diastrophic dysplasia

The Little People of America is an organization of people with all kinds of short-stature syndromes, family members and caregivers, dedicated to improving the quality of life of affected persons, and improving their integration into society.

Disease in Imperial Rome

Periostitis was also found in many samples, with a frequency indicating overcrowding and overall poor quality of life.

Edwin J. Gregson Foundation

Its stated objective is to "enhance the quality of life of California's backstretch workers and their families."

Eight-hour day

The achievement of the eight-hour day has been described by historian Rowan Cahill as "one of the great successes of the Australian working class during the nineteenth century, demonstrating to Australian workers that it was possible to successfully organize, mobilize, agitate, and exercise significant control over working conditions and quality of life. The Australian trade union movement grew out of eight-hour campaigning and the movement that developed to promote the principle."

Ellen Bry

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Episode (6x09): The Quality of Life) (1992) (TV)

Foreign trade of the United States

In 1988, the United States ranked first in the world in the Economist Intelligence Unit "quality of life index" and third in the Economic Freedom of the World Index.

James Till

In the 1980s Till's focus shifted, moving gradually into evaluation of cancer therapies, quality of life issues, and Internet research, including Internet research ethics and the ethics of List mining.

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

In 2006, research commissioned by a major mortgage lender found that, on the quantitative statistical indices used, the borough had the best quality of life in London and was in the top quarter of local authorities nationwide.

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A pilot study performed at the University of San Francisco reported a significant increase in "mental health quality of life indices," though the authors noted that the dropout rate in the study reduced its statistical power.

Lucy Dunn

Lucy Dunn is president and CEO of the OCBC- Orange County Business Council, a position she has held since 2005, where she leads a dynamic organization of business leaders, working with government and academia, to ensure the county’s economic prosperity and high quality of life.

Magnesium in biology

Magnesium orotate may be used as adjuvant therapy in patients on optimal treatment for severe congestive heart failure, increasing survival rate and improving clinical symptoms and patient's quality of life.

Máximo Macapobre

As a resident of Bato (formerly known as Batohanon) and having a family of his own, Captain Imok, as he was now called by the people of his barangay (district) showed his concern for the welfare of his community and for the quality of life for his people.

Merced County Arts Council

The Merced County Arts Council's re-energized programming, launched from their new home, received the League of California Cities' 2001 "Helen Putnam Award for Excellence" Grand Prize for Arts and Quality of Life.

Needy

Codependency, a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that adversely affect one's relationships and quality of life

New Appalachia

New Appalachia is the concept that the quality of life in the San Joaquin Valley of California is comparable or worse than the traditionally impoverished Appalachia region of the Appalachian Mountains and therefore shares similar hardships.

Parkinson Association of the Rockies

The Parkinson Association of the Rockies (PAR) is a Colorado care and research not-for-profit organization whose aim is to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Parkinson's disease through education, research, awareness and support for those with Parkinson's disease, their families and the community.

Pratt Center for Community Development

Located in Brooklyn, NY and part of Pratt Institute, Pratt Center leverages professional skills and practical experience in the areas of community organizing, policy advocacy, planning and technical assistance to support community-based organizations and small businesses in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life and to develop replicable models for equitable, sustainable community development.

Public weal

Common good, the notion of high quality of life for people in general

Raymond F. Chandler

As Sergeant Major of the Army, Chandler serves as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army's personal adviser on all enlisted-related matters, particularly in areas affecting soldier training and quality of life, including the adoption of the new Army Service Uniform, which phases out the Green Service Uniform in 2014.

Robert Pestronk

As the former Health Officer for Genesee County, Michigan, Pestronk enabled Genesee County’s 430,000 citizens to protect, promote, and improve their quality of life in partnership with community resources.

Thomas Dybdahl

The album One Day You'll Dance for Me, New York City features the famous Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss speaking of quality of life, as a sort of interlude.

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

Along with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) process, the Education For All (EFA) movement, and the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), the DESD also aims to achieve an improvement in the quality of life, particularly for the most deprived and marginalised, fulfillment of human rights including gender equality, poverty reduction, democracy and active citizenship.

Urban Appalachian Council

The Urban Appalachian Council (UAC) is an organization that works for a decent quality of life for Appalachian migrants and their descendants in the Greater Cincinnati area, and to concentrate on and serve as a fellowship of those acting upon their issues and concerns.

Vilfredo Schürmann

Vilfredo manages the feasibility of the Schurmann Family projects and also lectures to companies on topics such as strategic planning, organization, motivation, quality of life and team work.

Village by Village

Village by Village is a small UK International development charity/NGO working in Ghana, West Africa to help rural communities improve their quality of life.

Virginia Livingston

A case-control study using self-selected, matched but not randomized groups with late stage cancer compared survival and quality of life between cancer patients receiving conventional treatment and those undergoing the Livingston-Wheeler therapy.

Wilfred Burchett

With Rewi Alley, Burchett wrote China: The Quality of Life (1973) which Robert Manne asserts is "a book of unconditional praise for Maoist China following the Great Leap Forward and the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution".