In an examination of epidemiology and social time, this paper argues that the time perspective should be an important consideration within epidemiology. Time' is an element to which this field devotes little theoretical attention, although it is present as a part of epidemiology's main concepts. Drawing from history and geography, the text offers historical notes on social time as imposed by gl...

It is generally accepted that in sexual interaction men are the hunters and women the gatherers. An expressly sexual environment such as a red-light district would be expected to only reinforce this image. Strikingly enough, however, it is precisely prostitutes who seem able to break with these established gender roles. This ethnographic study uses participant observation to demonstrate how ass...

A new inequality for the parameters of distance-regular graphs is proved. It implies that if there are infinitely many distance-regular graphs with fixed λ,μ, ai and ci containing an induced quadrangle then necessarily ci+1 ≥ 1+(μ−1)ci . As the dual polar graphs show, this inequality is best possible. Some related results are also discussed. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This article investigates how expansive new security projects have gained both legitimacy and immediacy as part of the ‘global war on terror’ by analysing the process that led to the fencing and securitising of the border between India and Bangladesh. The framing of the ‘enemy other’ in the global war on terror relies on two crucial shifts from previous geopolitical boundary narratives. First, ...

This article investigates common economic consequences of population aging and economic integration for agglomeration processes. We introduce demography into the New Economic Geography by generalizing the constructed capital approach to account for changes in the age structure of the population. Interestingly, the level of trade costs triggering catastrophic agglomeration is rather sensitive to...

The South-Verona community psychiatric service (CPS) was implemented in 1978, according to Law 180, by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Verona. Since then this CPS provides prompt, comprehensive and coherent answers to patients' needs, psychological and social, as well as practical, while trying to decrease and control symptoms. Special emphasis is given to integrating differen...

This article presents a socioecological approach (accounting for physical, societal, and interpersonal environments) to psychological theorizing and research. First, we demonstrate that economic systems, political systems, religious systems, climates, and geography exert a distal yet important influence on human mind and behavior. Second, we summarize the historical precedents of socioecologica...

OBJECTIVES To examine if Aboriginal health research conducted within the field of social sciences reflects the population and geographic diversity of the Aboriginal population. STUDY DESIGN Review. METHODS We searched the Web of Science Social Science Citation Index, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Scholars Portal for the time period 1995-2005 using search terms to reflect differ...

This paper analyzes factors explaining supply and demand of local public transportation. Together with variables related to traditional economic factors and mobility, we consider variables reflecting institutional characteristics and geographical patterns. Being a political capital increases supply and demand of local public transportation, inequality is associated with higher supply, and contr...

Connecting scientific observations to stakeholder needs in sea ice social–environmental systems: the institutional geography of northern Alaska Amy Lauren Lovecraft a , Chanda Meek a & Hajo Eicken b a Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756420, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-6420, USA b Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA Published...