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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rural Urban Continuum"”.
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Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum
… shown to be unreliable across types of counties. Rural and Urban counties had significantly different ratios of Cook's Index to Pistol Permits in New York. The models show a general finding that the relationship between Cook's Index and legitimate firearm ownership varies depending on the …
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Three Essays on Food Insecurity and Economics
… ``Differences in Food Insecurity Across the Rural/Urban Spectrum - The Role of Trade Flows" uses county food trade data to examine its correlation with food insecurity rates based on a county's rural-urban continuum code. In addition, an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is employed to determine …
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness. Respondents were identified as urban or rural by using the nine party county codification scheme of …
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Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
… for consumers, particularly those in rural areas, has additionally become of great interest. This thesis aims to investigate the potential relationship of dollar store presence and grocery store closures. Data used included County Business Patterns, Rural Urban Continuum Codes, …
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Quechua and Spanish in the urban Andes: A study on language dynamics and identity construction among Peruvian youth
… social practices in the construction of a new urban Andean identity in Peru. Since the 1940s, socio-economic events have led to massive migration of Quechua speakers from rural to urban areas. Migration has been understood as negatively affecting the vitality of Quechua in the cities, where …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
This dissertation examines the formation of urban poverty and slums which have long stigmatized South Asian cities. It focuses on the emergence of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of …
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Atitudes lingüísticas de alunos de escolas públicas de Juiz de Fora MG
… rating in three Brazilian dialects in the rural-urban continuum. A private school was also included because it could be a good contrasting parameter in this investigation. The results of the attitude test showed a strong identification of all students with the rurban variety, which is in …