Twenty years of progress: GIScience in 2010

An Examination of Job Titles Used for GIScience Professionals

Over the last 20 years the increasing availability, utility, and importance of geospatial data has led to new kinds of positions in government agencies, non-profit organizations and private businesses. While employment opportunities have grown substantially, guidelines for assigning titles, qualifications and responsibilities have not kept pace. Inconsistency in GIScience titles and job qualifi...

Social Network Analysis of the Academic GIScience Community∗

There is mounting interest among scientists regarding the use of scientometric social network analysis, or quantitative analysis of the evolution of science as defined by individual researchers and the networks they form. Given that geographers have seldom used this approach compared to researchers in other fields, its implications for research and policy need to be assessed. We applied sciento...

GIScience Research at the Twenty-eighth ESRI International User Conference

The role of context in spatial decision-making in GIScience

ii To everyone that has helped me over the years. I will never be able to repay you for your assistance in getting to this point. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my family, friends and colleagues for all of their encouragement, assistance and patience. I know that it hasn't always been easy for you to help me. I would like to thank my committee members and all of the teachers that hav...

Retrospective study of skin neurofibromatosis (SN) of twenty years period (1991 -2000) in 4 Iranian pathology centers

The present study was designed to assess the frequency and stage of skin neurofibroma in the samples of patients with age, gender and biopsy locations. Data obtained from annual record files of four different pathology centers with considering factors of diagnosis, age, and gender and biopsy location, examined for statistical difference. Each diagnosis has been coded by ICD method. Statistical ...