Underground Water Provinces, Districts and Sub-Districts

Ranking Sustainability of Urban Districts through Factor and Cluster Analyses, Case Study: Municipal Districts of Isfahan

Incidence and Control of Kala-Azar in the Eastern Districts of United Provinces

Kala-azar as a distinct clinical entity has been recognized in this country for about a century. A number of epidemics occurred in Bengal, and though it was in early stages confused with malaria, failure to respond to specific treatment led to the establishment of its separate entity. This was confirmed in 1903 by the discovery of Leishman-Donovan bodies? the causative organism, by W. B. Leishm...

Cultivating "Natural" Cultural Districts

This policy brief—a product of the SIAP Culture and Community Revitalization Collection, in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund---uses existing research on urban culture and community arts to make a case for culture-based neighborhood revitalization. The brief defines and illustrates "natural" cultural districts, highlights the synergy of social diversity and cultural engagement, and draws les...

Unbiased Congressional Districts

This paper presents a strategy for dividing a state into congressional districts using a modified version of Smith and Ryan’s recursive shortest splitline algorithm (2007). Our strategy reduces the cost of the computation by approximating the population of a ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) as a point mass at its population centroid. If there are N ZCTAs in the state with E total edges, and k di...

Districts' use of thrombolytic agents.