Russian Socio-Economic Geography: Status, Challenges, Perspectives

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Historical Perspectives on U . S . Economic Geography

We review historical patterns of economic geography for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic area of two different scales is that models that explain location of economic activities at one scale may not apply to other scales. We consider the proce...

A spatial analysis of variations in health access: linking geography, socio-economic status and access perceptions

BACKGROUND This paper analyses the relationship between public perceptions of access to general practitioners (GPs) surgeries and hospitals against health status, car ownership and geographic distance. In so doing it explores the different dimensions associated with facility access and accessibility. METHODS Data on difficulties experienced in accessing health services, respondent health stat...

Russian-Tatar Socio-Political Thesaurus: Methodology, Challenges, the Status of the Project

At the present time, terminology resources for various domains and languages are being actively developed. For low-resource languages like Tatar, terminology compilation may be a challenge in many respects: because of the insufficient degree of terminology development that leads to absent relevant designations for special concepts in a language; because of lacking special sources for assembling...

Future Internet Socio-Economics - Challenges and Perspectives

Socio-economics aims to understand the interplay between the society, economy, markets, institutions, self-interest, and moral commitments. It is a multi-disciplinary field using methods from economics, psychology, sociology, history, and even anthropology. Socio-economics of networks have been studied for over 30 years, but mostly in the context of social networks instead of the underlying com...