introduction today, the mentality should be revised that a village is an atmosphere bounded in a special place with a set of economic and geography circumstances. a better understanding of rural features requires a deeper understanding of our rural areas where social relations and gender relations are well understood. rural areas, like other geographic areas, are highly generized spaces and all...

A survey was conducted in the Borana rangeland pastoral areas of southern Ethiopia between October 1998 and May 1999 to generate information on the ethnoveterinary use of plants. Information was collected by direct interview of 24 healers and 97 livestock owners. Forty-three plant species were collected, compressed, and submitted to the national herbarium for botanical classification. Roots, le...

The application of data mining and machine learning technology and especially machine learning clustering algorithms can aid in the design of thematic maps portraying structural characteristics of geographical distributions. However, a review of the literature indicates that such applications are relatively rare. In order to stimulate greater use of clustering algorithms for thematic map design...

Escale is a travelling physical theatre company based in France. For most of the past twenty years, its members have lived in caravans and performed in a marquee, bringing experimental performances to rural areas. Their itinerant lifestyle and artistic choices do not only situate them in the margins of the French theatrical landscape, but also in a terminological gap, as ‘physical theatre’ does...

s Workshop on Mathematical Biology and Nonlinear Analysis, December 19-21 2014 Afrah Abdou [email protected] Title: Common Fixed Point for Infinite Mappings in Modular Metric Spaces Afrah A.N. Abdou King Abdulaziz University The notion of a modular metric on an arbitrary set and the corresponding modular spaces, generalizing classical modular over linear spaces like Orlicz spaces, were recently...

A national deportation campaign targeting Romanian Roma in France has recently drawn international criticism from human rights organizations and the European Union. In this context, some French municipalities have created villages d’insertion—integration villages—for some of their Roma residents. Proponents of these spaces have declared that they are humanitarian solutions to the existence of R...