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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"HGIS"”.
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From the Mouths of Babes: Infant Mortality and Medicalised Motherhood in County Durham, England, 1892-1914
… as Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS). This thesis contributes to current histories of public health and motherhood by examining a predominately working-class region of England that experienced infant health outcomes and medical approaches unseen in other parts of the country.
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Beetles or Bureaucrats? Reconsidering the United States' Failure to Stop Dutch Elm Disease
… on Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS), a method which incorporates archival materials into modern mapmaking software. The second chapter addresses the difficulties encountered in controlling the spread of the fungus. I trace the different methods studied and used to reduce the …
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High-resolution geochemical studies on the most recently-accumulated sapropel S1 in the eastern Mediterranean
… conditions. In turbidite and sapropel examples, Hgis always closely associated with Se and it is suggested that Hg and Se become immobilised through the formation of the selenide mineral tiemannite (HgSe). The presence and persistence of Hg peaks in both recent and ancient sediments (up to 4 Ma) …
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The Public Good and Private Business of the Crow Rate: Prairie Grain Handling and Transportation Policy
The Crow rate shaped the Canadian prairies’ agricultural settlement yet a highly charged debate over it fostered a sense of western alienation. Originally signed in 1897 the Crowsnest Pass Agreement, more popularly known as the Crow rate, between the federal government and the Canadian Pacific …