Malestream Geography: Gender Patterns among UK Geography Faculty

The Geography of Gender Inequality.

Reducing gender inequality is a major policy concern worldwide, and one of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, our understanding of the magnitude and spatial distribution of gender inequality results either from limited-scale case studies or from national-level statistics. Here, we produce the first high resolution map of gender inequality by analyzing over 689,000 households in 47 coun...

Tartu University Faculty of Bology and Geography

• BLAST – Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (an algorithm for comparing biological sequences, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the DNA sequences*) • cDNA – complementary DNA (DNA synthesized from a mature mRNA template*) • EST – expressed sequence tag (short sub-sequence of a transcribed protein-coding or non-protein coding DNA sequence*) • FASTA – " FAST-All " (sequenc...

Showcasing India: gender, geography, and globalization.

Phylogenetic Patterns in Northern Hemisphere Plant Geography

Geological and climatological processes that have impacted the biota of the Northern Hemisphere during the Tertiary are expected to yield little resolution when area cladograms are compared without taking the timing of diversification into account. In an attempt to establish a set of appropriate phylogenetic comparisons, we distinguished between a Pacific track involving (minimally) China, Japa...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...