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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Regional studies"”.
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Country town growth in South-eastern Australia : three regional studies, 1861-1891
… this study. In particular, the lack of previous studies has conditioned a concentration on the basic question of country town growth. Chapter Two, having defined 'country towns', is concerned with determining, in a broad way, the role of country towns in south-eastern Australia in the process of …
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Country town growth in South-eastern Australia : three regional studies, 1861-1891
… this study. In particular, the lack of previous studies has conditioned a concentration on the basic question of country town growth. Chapter Two, having defined 'country towns', is concerned with determining, in a broad way, the role of country towns in south-eastern Australia in the process of …
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An Examination of Selected Ethnic Foodways in the Upper Midwest
<p>Many geographers recognize regional studies as a guidepost of geography. Cultural geographers have long identified the significance of ethnic regions and the differences between various ethnic groups in matters of housing, work, agriculture and diet. In many cases foodways and regional cuisine …
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“Where Are We?": New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century
… currents in American Southern discourse and regional studies, specifically by examining the modern Southern gothic mode. Modern imperialist practices of globalization and late capitalism/neoliberalism continue to uproot and unsettle traditional notions of American place and space, …
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An ecologic-economic perspective for coastal zone management
… and water known as the coastal zone. Although regional studies have dealt with one or more of these problem areas in the past, the intensive multiple use of this particular geographic area has focused attention on it from a multiple disciplinary vantage point. This study attempted to …
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HYDROGEOLOGIC PROPERTY ESTIMATION IN PLATE BOUNDARY OBSERVATORY BOREHOLES USING TIDAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS
… given lithology, and are comparable to other regional studies and traditional aquifer test determinations available for one borehole. No obvious trends with distance from large faults are observed, in contrast with previously determined variations in the pressure response to seismic waves, and …
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United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
… Forcing Effects of Climate Change report, for regional studies to better understand climatic responses to LCLU change [NRC, 2005]. This dissertation research has, to date, resulted in one published, one in press and one submitted paper.</p>
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
Chapter 4 develops new indicators of entrepreneurship that capture all three components of the proposed definition. The identification of innovative industries, industries with high level of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues from the perspective of individuals, communities, institutions, as well as national and transnational systems. The work draws from previous scholarship in environmental studies, agroecology, critical race studies, rural sociology, …
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Three Essays on the Spatial Autoregressive Model in Spatial Econometrics
… simultaneous SAR Tobit model; the third chapter studies estimation methods of the SAR model with an endogenous spatial weight matrix.Chapter One considers the LM tests of spatial models with limited dependent variables. It focuses on the specification and hypothesis test of SAR models which have …
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
… size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such vessels as a whole. The vessels from the north of England were recently examined in detail by Hallam (2015), and the present study of the …
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Agricultural revolutions in America’s heartland: the corn belt and the making of American capitalism
… prosperity and long-term stability. Contrary to regional studies of the Corn Belt, the study provides a world-ecological framework for reconstructing the origins, development, and crisis of the Corn Belt family farm and interpreting how the production of nature, the pursuit of power, and capital …
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Crisis in Lancashire: A survey of the 1720's Demographic Crisis
… had been unexplored in Lancashire, with the regional studies conducted in the midlands and to the east of the country. Glimpses of crisis were evident in the forewords of the transcriptions of the parish registers by the Lancashire Parish Register Society and from contemporary accounts. Thus …
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Análise da literatura periódica brasileira na área de história
… majority of works were never published before, regional studies focus mainly the South-Eastern area and the Imperial period (1822-1889) is the most analysed. In regard with the bibliographic material historians used primary documents above secondary and a great variety of types and titles of …
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"A Certain Portion of the Whole." Inspectors, Guardians and Anatomists in East Anglia : 1832-1908
… contributes to the small, but growing, number of regional studies which are necessary to enable us to gain an overview of the effect of the Anatomy Act on the study of medicine across Britain in the nineteenth century.
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The Role of Financial Management in Sustaining Competitive Advantage in Medical Devices Distributing Companies: The Case of Jordan
… market leader in Jordan and is part of a broader regional group. Data collection was conducted in two rounds: semi-structured interviews were followed by a Fuzzy Delphi survey. Thematic analysis (NVivo) and descriptive statistics were used to analyse findings.<br/>The findings identify four …
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Shropshire Deer Parks c.1500 - c.1914 Recreation, Status and Husbandry
… of the country, in the belief that individual regional studies can throw light on the wider national picture. Previous research has largely neglected the post-medieval period; this thesis aims to fill that gap. Following the Norman Conquest, Shropshire was a semi-autonomous region governed by …
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Offshore El Salvador: the first interpretation of a unique 2-D seismic dataset and implications for a working petroleum system in a forearc basin setting
… sequence boundaries correlated from adjacent regional well-tied seismic surveys offshore Nicaragua and Guatemala. Significant truncation and structural dip reversals have been mapped across the research area below the shelf edge at the outer arc high. Little drilling has taken place in the …
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Spatially explicit humid heat stress projections in urban environments under climate change
… has commonly been explored through local and regional studies using air temperature and the urban heat island effect, a phenomenon in which an urban area is hotter than its rural surroundings. Here, I aim to elucidate the impacts of humidity on global patterns of urban humid heat stress and …
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The West Virginia Friends of Firewood Network: Engaging with and exploring the practices of firewood producers
Firewood is the oldest source of energy for cooking and home heating and remains a primary heating source for half of the world's population, yet the industry remains relatively undocumented and immature both in developing and technologically advanced countries. Firewood is an environmentally …
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