Perceiving the metropolis: seeing the city through a prism of...

Social Forces;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......nation's metropolitan areas. While racial residential segregation declined modestly over...inequality (Bobo 1989). The causes of racial residential segregation are complex, but sociologists...demonstrated that even small differences in racial residential preferences could generate ...

Understand resolution to "think with maps".(BEYONDMAPPING)

GEO World;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......concepts in the paper-map world is geographic scale: the relationship between a distance...display or hardcopy plot. Therefore, geographic scale is a function of the display, not...Traditionally, it's implicit that as geographic scale decreases, resolution also diminishes...

Boffins find how rabies spread in North American raccoons

The Hindustan Times;  May 18, 2007 ;     474 words ......expansion over 30 years have shaped viral evolution on a geographic scale. Landscape features, such as rivers and mountains, can...Ohio. "These results provide important insights into the geographic scale of rabies persistence and will be increasingly important...

Australian Trade Unions and the Politics of Scale: Reconstructing the...

Economic Geography;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......interpretation focuses on the importance of geographic scale. We contend that a relational sense...events, we focus on the importance of geographic scale and the ways in which these changes...local scales. There is a politics of geographic scale (Massey 1992) that has strongly ...

NATIONAL ESTIMATES OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN RURAL AND SMALL-TOWN AMERICA*

Demography;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......first time, comparative estimates of racial residential segregation of blacks, Hispanics...in previous metropolitan studies. Racial residential segregation in rural places increases...formula omitted.) Most studies of racial residential segregation have been devoted to...

TURNING THE RACIAL POLITICAL CORNER

New York Beacon, The;  April 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Obviously there is a difference in geographic scale and political significance between...York City speak to the difference in geographic scale between the Gubernatorial and Mayor elections. However, the difference in geographic scale may be eclipsed by political snafus...

New album free to download Music THE CRIMEA What's On

Birmingham Mail;  June 1, 2007 ;     197 words ......tomorrow and Wolver-hampton Little Civic on Thursday. Recorded in London, Norfolk and Latvia, the new album is as broad in geographic scale as it is in sweeping melodies. Working closely with the producers of The Automatic, Manic Street Preachers and The Cure...

New album free to download; Music THE CRIMEA What's On.(Features)

Birmingham Mail (England);  June 1, 2007 ;     200 words ......tomorrow and Wolver-hampton Little Civic on Thursday. Recorded in London, Norfolk and Latvia, the new album is as broad in geographic scale as it is in sweeping melodies. Working closely with the producers of The Automatic, Manic Street Preachers and The Cure...

LESSONS IN HISTORY, DEMOCRACY

The Boston Globe;  July 28, 2008 ;     323 words ......country has had an extraordinary positive historical record, because we have faced up to so many of our defects on a larger geographic scale and with a larger population drawn from more races, cultures, religions and places than the Athenians or Florentines probably...

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Geographical Analysis;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of investigating these systems. This involves defining geographic scale, describing the implications for researchers, introducing...they explore bow this relationship differs with changes to geographic scale. Using census data from the UK, Tranmer and Steel describe...

Remittances and inequality: A question of migration stage and geographic...

Economic Geography;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale* Abstract: Over the past decade, the benefits from economic globalization have bypassed most developing countries, and as a result...

Numerical and taxonomic scale of analysis in paleoecological data sets:...

Journal of Paleontology;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......interpretations of community structure are sensitive to sampling intensity, geographic scale, and sample size. INTRODUCTION COMMUNITY ECOLOGISTS generally realize that the geographic scale of a study is one of the most important factors in interpreting...

Measures of geographically uneven subpopulation group change and local...

Geographical Analysis;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the question of change in subpopulation groups at any geographic scale is almost always an ecological one, that is, relative to...operationalized as census tracts; but the measures can be used at any geographic scale. The methodological goal of this study is therefore to...

WATERSHED MANAGEMENT:STEVEN L. STOCKTON

Congressional Testimony;  June 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......square miles in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The large geographic scale, numerous stakeholders, close teamwork, excellent communications...Planning Association. Our efforts to manage water on a large geographic scale have also led to three major Corps aquatic ecosystem restoration...

Isozyme diversity in wild red clover populations from the Caucasus.(Plant...

Crop Science;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......attributed to high rates of gene flow evident on a regional geographic scale. The relationship between gene flow and geography was not examined on a smaller geographic scale. Yu et al. (2001) conducted an extensive study on diversity...