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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Deserts"”.
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Walk Deserts
… to identify, measure, and understand “Walk Deserts.” This methodology comprises a system for identifying, mapping, and visualizing areas that are ostensibly highly walkable places according to traditional criteria and indicators, but that are also plagued with invisible environmental factors …
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Starved: Food Deserts in the Mississippi Delta
This thesis examines the impact of food deserts on obesity, and builds a case for additional research on rural food deserts independent from urban ones. The Mississippi Delta consistently presents the highest obesity rates within the state, yet both the third unhealthiest county (Quitman) and the …
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Rethinking Food Deserts: the practice and politics of food access
Food deserts, low-income communities with low access to healthy, affordable foods, have received rapidly increasing attention in recent years from academic researchers, policy makers, and activists. Many studies have linked food deserts to increased rates of obesity and their related health …
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Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression
<p>Social aggression is associated with adverse psychosocial consequences such as anxiety, depression, isolation, reciprocal violence, and suicidality (Zhu et al., 2024). Psychopathic personality traits and moral deficits have been linked to antisocial behavior, including social aggression; …
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Geography of urban food access : exploring potential causes of food deserts
We believe we understand food deserts, but we do not. In the last decade the phenomenon of food deserts has been often discussed, and many solutions are proposed to alleviate food access issues in American cities. However, I argue that the efficacy of these solutions is questionable until the …
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Biogeochemical and ecological responses to warming climate in High Arctic polar deserts
High Arctic polar deserts cover 26% of the Arctic and are found to store a larger amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the permafrost and to emit higher amounts of the main greenhouse gases (GHGs) than previously expected. However, the mechanisms of the main GHG production are not clear. …
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Comparative Population Genomics and Speciation of Snakes Across the North American Deserts
<p>Understanding the process of speciation is of central interest to evolutionary biologists. Speciation can be studied using a phylogeographic approach, by identifying regions that promote lineage divergence, addressing whether speciation has occurred with gene flow, and when extended to multiple …
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Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
In a world where one's future is heavily impacted by having postsecondary education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied specifically. This study proposes a geographic information systems based …
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Identifying ‘transit deserts’ in a South African City – The case of Cape Town
… defines and describes the concept of 'transit deserts’, and the important role public transport plays in the lives of people who have few or no other alternatives. Transit deserts are defined as areas containing large portions of public transport dependent populations with limited access to …
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Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
… of this African city qualify as "food deserts" and whether this concept (developed to describe inner-city neighbourhoods in Europe and North America) helps to shed light on the food security situation in Namibia. The thesis concludes that the concept needs to be redefined to be …
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Making Energy Work: Enacting Renewable Transitions in the Deserts of Chile and California
This dissertation explores how different people enact and engage the “Energy Transition,” a temporal orientation increasingly used to describe a range of activities that operate on and through electricity, renewable energy, and fossil fuels. I ask, given the infrastructural, political, economic, …
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The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics
This study evaluates the public market system in New Orleans, Louisiana by focusing on the history of New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using …
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As the Crow Flies: An Underrepresentation of Food Deserts in the Rural Appalachian Mountains
… nutrition behavior and food choice.</p><p>Food deserts are defined as geographic region of low access to healthy affordable food in low income areas. The USDA developed a system for the analysis of food deserts in the United States. However, the methods the USDA uses do not acknowledge potential …
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Birds at risk in warming southern African deserts: inferences from behavioural and physiological thermoregulation
… rapidly in southern Africa's hot deserts, especially the Kalahari.
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Calorespirometric Evidence for Adaptation of Blackbrush and Shadscale to Growth Season Temperatures in Cold Deserts
<p><em>Coleogyne ramosissima</em> Torr. (blackbrush) and <em>Atriplex confertifolia</em> [Torr. & Frem.] Wats. (shadscale) are cold desert shrubs from different families that often grow together in the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau in the life zone between 800 and 2000 m elevation. Tissue …
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Sprawling Fields and Food Deserts: An ontological exploration of food and farming systems in Ohio
Ohio is one of the largest agricultural producers in the United States and yet Ohioans experience food insecurity at a rate two percent higher than the national average. An analysis of Ohio's agricultural sector in relation to the current global food system suggests that the neoliberal imaginary …
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Splitting rides in transit deserts: Ride-splitting dynamics in Chicago before, during and after the pandemic
… public transit service, also known as “transit deserts”. Ride-splitting was introduced by TNCs as an affordable on-demand mobility option which offers door-to-door service while sharing a trip with another passenger. Due to its affordability, ride-splitting can increase even more the …
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Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World
… akin to God's agent than suffering stranger. The deserts of Syria, Palestine and Egypt become the territory of struggle against a world that had fallen out of step with God's will, but was slowly being corrected. This research looks for reasons as to why this prominent form of literature became …
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