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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"regional comparison"”.
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Civil society and democratisation theory : an inter-regional comparison
… It revolves around an investigation into, and comparison between, recent discourses on civil society originating from within diverse political contexts. This is in order to uncover what the central claims - both normative and programmatic - of civil society theory are in the contemporary era, …
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Black and White Adolescents' Aspirations and Achievement in Mathematics: A Regional Comparison
Research on the comparison of educational aspirations among Black and White students has produced conflicting results. Some studies at the national level have shown that the level of educational aspirations for college between these two groups is similar, while other studies at the state, regional, …
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Survey on retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda : an inter-regional comparison
The main concern of this study was to detemine factors that are responsible for disparities in retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda. The study also came out with methods that can be used to minimise these disparities and to control retail prices of prescription drugs in Uganda.
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Structural Style and Regional Comparison of the Paleoproterozoic Ketyet River Group in the Region North-Northwest of Baker Lake, Nunavut
Archean to Paleoproterozoic rocks of the Rae Craton, Western Churchill Province, have been affected by polyphase deformation and metamorphism causing structural complexity and confusion regarding the age and affiliation of rock units. This study improves the stratigraphic and structural …
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Comovements of Equity Markets in Emerging Economies
… region. In particular, it offers a cross-regional comparison of the correlations and trends of correlations between the equity markets of the emerging countries in the Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Middle East regions. Using correlation matrices, this paper shows that even though …
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The Geologic and Archaeological History of the Dickie Carr Site 41PR26
… environments, and soils of the locality. A regional comparison is made with respect to the Late Quaternary geology of the upper Trinity River basin, Texas to interpret the geologic data. Two stratigraphic units were identified that record the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The buried lower …
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Comparison of positive and negative cloud-to-ground lightning dominant storms in three regions of the United States
… and environmental information to tracked storms. Comparison of environmental characteristics of the positive cloud-to-ground lightning (+CG) and negative cloud-to-ground lightning (-CG) dominant storms in the three regions showed no clear environmental difference between storms of different CG …
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La Comida y las Memorias: Food, Positionality, and the Problematics of Making One's Home
… Americans" may or may not be complicated by a regional comparison (of rural Hispanos in Colorado and New Mexico and urban Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Philadelphia). The main question I asked myself in this exploration (as well as asked field consultants) was: How does food play a role in …
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Public Sentiment on Immigrants and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. A Cross -National Multilevel Analysis
… of threat and rational calculations. An inter-regional comparison further suggests that contextual factors play a heightened role in explaining the dispersion of attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policies in the Central and Eastern European countries.
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Testing the late-Holocene climate signal from ombrotrophic bogs in southernmost Chile and the Falkland Islands: a multi-proxy, multi-profile and multi-site approach
… discovered in the Falkland Islands, to form a regional comparison. A multi-proxy approach was used, combining both palaeoecological and stable isotopic methods. At one site, Karukinka, intra-site replicability was tested across three profiles located along a microtopographical gradient. A low …
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Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolia: Implications for Cultural/Regional Interaction and Craftmanship
… distribution by area and site, highlighting regional and local tool preferences. A thorough examination of tools from metal hoards and shipwrecks reveals the existence of tool kits, and this observation has important implications for reassessing how hoards are interpreted. While it is …
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A comparative study on the effect of acid preparation methodologies on bulk organic materials, and a long-core geochemical palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from South China.
… Ti concentrations by local sources. A regional comparison of the Tianyang records appears to suggest a change in the strength of the land-sea thermal contrast in south China, implying a shift in mosiutre source region.
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Lake sediments as climate and tectonic archives in the Indian summer monsoon domain
… lake) in central India); (iii) undertaken a regional overview to generate “snapshots” of selected time slices; and (iv) interpreted the spatial precipitation anomalies in terms of those caused by modern teleconnections. This approach must be considered only as the first step towards …
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A climatology of the Middle Atlantic Bight shelfbreak front
… periods to study seasonal trends. For inter-regional comparison, similar analyses were performed for the south flank of Georges Bank and the shelf off New Jersey. The climatological temperature and salinity are consistent with previous descriptions of the frontal hydrography (e.g. Wright …
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Climate change, variable colony sizes and temporal autocorrelation : consequences of living in changing environments
… rainfall. However, on a long time scale, or in a regional comparison, the response may be compensated or buffered by a variety of mechanisms. These may include behavioural or life history adaptations, shifts in the interactions with other species, or differences in the physical environment. The …
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Holocene climate and environmental variability in NE Germany inferred from annually laminated lake sediments
… tephras provide a valuable base for detailed comparison and synchronization of the Lake Tiefer See data set with other climate records. The sediment profile of Lake Tiefer See exhibits striking alternations between well-varved and non-varved sediment intervals. The combination of microfacies, …
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Találkozás a szent igazzal : A magyar nyelvű orthodox zsidó sajtó cádik-képe (1891-1944)
… the trends studied in an imperial or wider regional comparison. Here the emphasis shifts to trends spanning national borders, for example in research carried out by Eli Lederhendler, Hillel J. Kieval, Adam S. Ferziger and others. At the same time the local economic, political and cultural …