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01.01 Leading Ethnic Or Ancestry Group, 2012

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County-level map of ethnic/ancestry groups in the United States, 2012

January 2015 - Who Is At Risk Of Mt. Rainier Lahars? Evacuation Routes For Hospitals

DePaul Map of the Month

In GEO 344 - GIS III, Hannah Dorn-Eboh mapped Mount Rainier in Pierce County, Washington. A dormant strato-volcano that has more glacial ice coverage than any other volcano within the continental United States. Mount Rainier has the potential to become one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to its steep topography and significant ice coverage. Geothermal activity can melt the volcano’s ice causing it to mix with dirt or ash creating significant lahars, or volcanically induced mud flows. Historically, lahars have buried communities that lie within their destructive paths. Due to the significant risk, it was decided ...

November 2014: Shooting Hotspots And Relative Distances To Level 1 Trauma Centers In Chicago

DePaul Map of the Month

Alex Williams created this map in GEO 344 - GIS III to compare the areas of the city of Chicago with the highest densities of shootings to relative driving distances to the nearest Level 1 trauma center. Using publicly available Chicago Police Department crime data for the year 2013, a density map was created to identify shooting hotspots throughout the city. A map showing relative driving distances to the nearest Level 1 trauma center was also created as a means of identifying areas of the city most underserved by such facilities. Examined in the context of one another, these maps show ...

The Power Of Geographical Boundaries: Cultural, Political, And Economic Border Effects In A Unitary Nation, Bowon Chang

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Geography plays a significant, fundamental role in shaping outcomes in human societies. Among other geographical elements, borders have significant implications—they are not only geographical figures, but also political creatures. Against previous theories that have studied border effects along with institutional differences mostly about economic implications, this thesis considers how sub-national borders with weak jurisdictions affect cultural, political, and economic phenomena using data from South Korea. Unlike international borders and intra-national borders in a federal state, this thesis suggests borders in a unitary nation have less economic effects, but more cultural and political effects.

Attitudes And Perceptions Of Local Residents And Tourists Toward The Protected Area Of Retezat National Park, Romania, Andrea Blanka Szell

Master's Theses

Despite the fact that there has been a significant increase in interest in the sustainable management of protected areas (PAs), many of them still fail to meet conservation goals. Considering that the availability of financial resources and the general public's interest toward environmental conservation play such an important role in the successful performance of PAs, it is of great importance to investigate local residents' and visitors' attitudes and perceptions regarding PAs. This will help gain knowledge of the level of financial and social support they would be willing to give to environmental conservation in PAs. To elicit attitudes and ...

No Evidence From Genome-Wide Data Of A Khazar Origin For The Ashkenazi Jews, Doron M. Behar, Mait Metspalu, Yael Baran, Naama M. Kopelman, Bayazit Yunusbayev, Ariella Gladstein, Shay Tzur, Havhannes Sahakyan, Ardeshir Bahmanimehr, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Kristiina Tambets, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Aljona Kusniarevich, Oleg Balanovsky, Elena Balanovsky, Lejla Kovacevic, Damir Marjanovic, Evelin Mihailov, Anastasia Kouvatsi, Costas Traintaphyllidis, Roy J. King, Ornella Semino, Antonio Torroni, Michael F. Hammer, Ene Metspalu, Karl Skorecki, Saharon Rosset, Eran Halperin, Richard Villems, Noah A. Rosenberg

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The origin and history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population have long been of great interest, and advances in high-throughput genetic analysis have recently provided a new approach for investigating these topics. We and others have argued on the basis of genome-wide data that the Ashkenazi Jewish population derives its ancestry from a combination of sources tracing to both Europe and the Middle East. It has been claimed, however, through a reanalysis of some of our data, that a large part of the ancestry of the Ashkenazi population originates with the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking group that lived to the north of ...

May 2015: Percent Change In Reported Hate Crimes In The Us (2008 & 2013)

DePaul Map of the Month

In his GEO 391 - Statistical Analysis for GIS course, Jack Floyd asked how preventative of a tool is hate crime legislation? In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act into law. This law expanded on the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law (which included race, color, religion and national origin) to include attacks and crimes based on perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability federally punishable.

Annual reports from before (2008) and after (2013) the act was signed into law were extracted from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website ...

Plastic Bags: Hazards And Mitigation, Jessica Sutton, Brittany Turner

Social Sciences

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Tattoos: A Marked History, Audrey Porcella

Social Sciences

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Australian Geography Unit, Daniel Scarbrough

Social Sciences

These lesson plans are designed for American students to learn about Australian Geography in a exciting and fun way. It will cover both physical and cultural geography aspects and this unit is designed for 9th grade geography and social science classes. The lesson plans consist of lecture portion and activities. This variety of teaching styles will cater to students of all learning styles (audio, verbal, and kinesthetic) and be enjoyable and informative.