In this paper we measure the degrees of association among aggregate pronunciational, lexical and syntactic differences in 70 Dutch dialect varieties. First, we show that pronunciation is marginally more strongly associated with syntax than it is with lexis and that syntax and lexis are only weakly associated. Then, we check for the influence of geography as an underlying factor because geograph...

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I ntegrated plastic surgery is among the most competitive specialties in medicine. In 2015, there were 67 integrated plastic surgery residency programs, offering 148 training positions, with 206 applicants for these positions. 1 Geography plays a significant role in applicants' decision as to where to apply. An association between residents' matriculated medical school and residency program has...

The issue of teaching transport geography at the undergraduate level has rarely been the focus of much discussion, although geographical education itself has received a lot of attention. 1 Over the last 40 years, transport geography has been part of the curriculum of many geography programs, providing a significant contribution, both conceptually and methodologically. Indeed, many spatial theor...

The goal of this paper is to both understand and depathologize clinically significant mental distress related to criminalized contact with psychoactive biotic substances by employing a framework known as critical political ecology of health and disease from the subdiscipline of medical geography. The political ecology of disease framework joins disease ecology with the power-calculus of politic...

In the literature, innovation is the outcome of spatial interactions between the innovative structure of a district and its knowledge structure: innovations tend to concentrate in the locations where they find knowledge that is necessary for the development of innovating activities. Thus, proximity increases the chance of developing new ideas (Feldman, 1999). Starting from this theoretical hypo...

The theoretic fundamentals of the geography extremal situations as a new approach for environmental science and socio-economic investigations are disclosed. direction research named extreme is substantiated. formation operating mode in socio-ecological-economic systems (landscapes) that have destructive, unbalanced nature lead to imbalances their development explored. term «geography situations...