As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imag...

ing away from reality -The interplay between realism and abstraction needs to be further explored. Augmented reality, for example, couples these two to create new perspectives of previously unseen displays. The challenge is to automatically create a sketch to convey a desired action more effectively than can a real picture. Much research has been directed toward realism, and indeed, more is req...

Linnaeus, upon travelling north from southern Sweden, was struck by the differences between that colder land and his homeland. The differences in the composition of species begged explanation. Ever since (and probably before), naturalists, ecologists, and biogeographers have sought to understand why species and the communities they make up differ from place to place. Why does body size, both wi...

Present paper is an attempt to estimate the impact of Economic and Geographic indicators in trade among Islamic countries according to a bilateral trade model as Gravity model, and study the relationship between Economy, Geography and Trade in this way. Fixed effect version of the panel data estimation producer with OIC member country data spanning over the 2007–2012. The result of this researc...

Traditional box plots, described by Tukey in 1977, can be biased representations of geographic or spatial variables, since they do not take into account the areas associated with the elements of geographic variables. To help solve this problem, we propose and evaluate a spatially (areally) weighted box plot, a “geographic box plot,” that can be used to describe a wide variety of geographic vari...

Based on the relevant studies and successful applications of Geographic information ontology and Web services ontology in the last decade, this paper discusses the utility and research trend of the Geographic information services Ontology in the prospective of Geographic information ontology and the Semantization of the Geographic information services. It proposes the concept of Geographic info...

Geographic information fusion is the process of integrating geographic information from diverse sources to produce new information with added value, reliability, or usefulness (cf. [14,67]). Geographic information fusion is an important function of interoperable and web-based GIS. Increased reliance on distributed web-based access to geographic information is correspondingly increasing the need...

background: tuberculosis (tb) spread pattern is influenced by geographic and social factors. nowadays geographic information system (gis) is one of the most important epidemiological instrumentation identifying high-risk population groups and geographic areas of tb. the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between climate and geographic distribution of tb in khuzestan province usi...

As business rules are very common in business information systems, it is fundamental to analyze geographic rules in order to include them into geographic knowledge systems. The goal of this paper is, starting from examples taken overall from urban and environmental planning, to examine geographic rule semantics, and in particular to model space by combining logic and computational geometry. The...