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Geography Colloquium | Commemorating Tragedy: Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Two Memorial Landscapes In China, United States, Feb. 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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The Geography Of The Globe, James O. Cobb

Naval War College Review

Geography is the study of the intimate interrelationship of mankind with his environment. So the Geography of The Globe is then the study of the relationship of all of the many peoples of the globe with the global environment in which they live.

Smucker Gets Ohio University Research Committee Funding, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Alumni News | Roberts Named Curator At Nevada Historical Society, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Alumni News | Oldham Named Presiding Judge For Akron Municipal Court, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Washington Post Science Outlets Report On Houser Tornado Discoveries, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Forecasters, May Be Looking In Wrong Place When Predicting Tornadoes Housers Research Shows, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Archaeology And Climate Change: Sites At Risk Of Sea Level Rise In The Puget Sound, Christy Lynn Berg

2019 Symposium

The Puget Sound Watershed, located along Washington’s Northwest coast, contains 5,467 recorded archaeological sites. 1,290 of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The majority of these sites are located along the coastline and associated waterways making them highly susceptible to climate change induced sea level rise. This research uses data provided from The Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and a geographic information system (GIS) to determine the susceptibility of thousands of sites to rising sea-levels. A mosaic of 10m resolution digital elevation models (DEMS) was created for the Puget Sound Watershed and elevation …

Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts In Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations In Environmental Struggles, Anna Guðbjört Sveinsdóttir

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes corporate-community conflicts around extractive industries in Guatemala with the purpose of better understanding how environmental struggles emerge and take shape. The study uses environmental governance as a framework to analyze the processes, institutions, actors and discourses that shape the conditions of possibility of political action and mobilization in environmental struggles. The dissertation argues that to understand the conditions of possibility of political action and mobilization in environmental struggles we must study the interplay between political actions 'from above' and 'from below', which are seen as dialectically interrelated, with dynamic and contested interactions between actors within and between …

Measuring Sustainability (Geog 100 Intro To Human Geography), Michal Kohout

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

Sustainability is a complex measure of the correlation between economic, social and environmental factors. Using students' campus experiences as well as those from their communities we construct measures of sustainability, and create a sustainability index.

Individual- And County-Level Determinants Of High Breast Cancer Incidence Rates, Mario Schootman, Kendra Ratnapradipa, Travis Loux, Allese Mcvay, L. Joseph Su, Erik Nelson, Susan Kadlubar

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

Background: Age-adjusted breast cancer rates vary across and within states. However, most statistical models inherently identify either individual- or area-level determinants to explain geographic disparities in breast cancer rates and ignore the effects of the other level of determinants. We present a micro-macro modelling approach that incorporates both levels of determinants to better explain this variability and to discover opportunities to reduce breast cancer rates.

Methods: Individual-level data about breast cancer risk factors from eligible Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) study participants (n=13,554) was supplemented with publicly available county-level data using a novel micro-macro statistical approach. This model uses individual-level …

Geographic Barriers To Care: Are There Variations In Care For Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Cross State Borders?, Richard Goins

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Access to care for out-of state Medicaid beneficiaries is known to be difficult as Medicaid programs are designed to work in state. An understanding of how these patients access care across state borders is important as without access, medical abandonment Medicaid beneficiaries can occur and create an additional health disparity solely based upon their geographic location and inability to access care locally. To determine the effects of crossing the state border for care we conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study using archival billing data for patients living in border counties without local hospitals that are contiguous with counties that have hospitals …

The Geography Of Csr, David K. Ding, Christo Ferreira, Udomsak Wongchoti

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We regress socio-economic indicators against firm level CSR scores using a sample of over 26,000 firm year observations from 1991 through 2009. We find that a firm's CSR profile is linked to the socio-economic conditions of the firm's geographic headquarters (HQ) location. The study documents that the legal, cultural, economic, and demographic differences across geography significantly explain the variation in CSR means between metropolitan statistical areas, states, and regions. We also find that the relation between CSR and firm performance is conditional on socio-economic factors, which highlight the endogeneity concerns inherent in CSR studies. Lastly, we show that firms that …

Envisioning Natural And Built Environments As Sacred Landscapes In Prehistoric Casas Grandes, Mexico, Michael T. Searcy, Todd Pitezel, Steve Swanson

Faculty Publications

We develop a hypothesized cosmography in an attempt to evaluate the sacred landscapes of the Casas Grandes cultural tradition of northern Mexico. This analysis includes attention to the relationships among archaeological features and aspects of natural geography in the Casas Grandes region. We draw on previous research regarding hilltop sites, architectural features, settlement patterns, and astronomical alignments noted at Paquimé, to envision how the Casas Grandes people mapped their landscape on both the built and unbuilt environments.

Water Land: Land And Water Forms Around The World, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Ever wonder what the difference between a bay and a cape was? Or have no idea what the term isthmus means? With uniquely cut pages and a glossary of definitions, this book sets out to help readers understand what the terms we use to refer to land and water forms are and what they mean.

Map My Neighborhood, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Grandma is coming for a visit, and you want to make her a map of the neighborhood to show her what is nearby! With primary terminology and simple examples on every page, you can learn how to plan, draw, and create a map of your own neighborhood! Symbols found on the map key, the compass rose with cardinal directions, and the easy-to understand glossary are all included in this informative picture book.

Alienation, And Its Antidote, Anna Nissley

English Department: Traveling American Modernism Posters (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This poster visually portrays and distills arguments within the paper of the same name, outlining its principal arguments and incorporating pictures of people/landscapes discussed within.

Happy Beginnings: Arbino Joins Nbc 24 In Toledo As Meteorologist, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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On The Space/Time Of Information Literacy, Higher Education, And The Global Knowledge Economy, Karen Patricia Nicholson

FIMS Publications

Local sites and practices of information work become embroiled in the larger imperatives and logics of the global knowledge economy through social, technological, and spatial networks. Drawing on human geography’s central claim that space and time are dialectically produced through social practices, in this essay I use human/critical geography as a framework to situate the processes and practices—the space and time—of information literacy within the broader social, political, and economic environments of the global knowledge economy. As skills training for the knowledge economy, information literacy lies at the intersection of the spatial and temporal spheres of higher education as the …

Alienation, And Its Antidote: Geographical Estrangement In The Modern Moment, Anna Nissley

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

The modern American moment has been marked by geographic estrangement: the alienation of human populations from their surrounding physical environments. This paper explores the modern phenomenon of geographic alienation by situating it within a specific historical frame, beginning with American Manifest Destiny in the mid-1800s and ending in the second half of the twentieth century, drawing connections between sociopolitical movements and their aftereffects. Identifying examples of alienation between humans and their environments through analysis of texts Black Elk Speaks and Blue Highways, as well as other cultural artifacts, this work gestures toward ways of reconciling past wrongs and offers solutions …

Herald News Writes About Fonseca's Book On Portuguese Americans In Southeastern New England, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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The Monadnock Volume 60, December 2018, Clark University Geographical Society

The Monadnock (Clark Geographical Society)

Volume 60 of The Monadnock. The Monadnock was the alumni magazine of the Clark University Geographical Society (1927-1985) (2014-present).

Lein Presents On Sustainable Land Cover Named To 3 Editorial Boards, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Career Corner: Jobquest Geography Career Panels With Alumni, Nov. 16, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Accessibility To Reconstructive Plastic Surgery In The United States, Naomi Parker

Honors Projects

This essay attempts to explore accessibility to reconstructive plastic surgery in the United States. Information was compiled from over 40 scholarly articles, as well as personal interviews with reconstructive plastic surgeons. The barriers to access addressed in this essay include cost, co-morbidity, physician bias, geography, and education. Many of the issues discussed are cyclic in nature and thus result in a self-perpetuating multifactorial problem that cannot be addressed with one simple solution. This essay describes possible reasons for why that might be, and ways we can overcome these issues so as to provide better accessibility to reconstructive plastic surgery for …

Fall 2018 Global Solidarities Lecture Series, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Wealth And Poverty | World Food Drive Includes On Campus Kroger Drop Offs, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Introduction To Human Geography (Ksu), Tiffani Reardon, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, Jason Rhodes, Ulrike Ingram

Geological Sciences and Geography Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Introduction to Human Geography was created under a Round Eleven ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Earth From Above (Ksu), Tiffani Reardon, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, Jason Rhodes, Ulrike Ingram

Geological Sciences and Geography Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Earth from Above was created under a Round Eleven ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Introduction And Geographic Availability Of New Antibiotics Approved Between 1999 And 2014, Cecilia Kållberg, Christine Årdal, Hege Salvesen Blix, Eili Klein, Elena Martinez, Morten Lindbæk, Kevin Outterson, John-Arne Røttingen, Ramanan Laxminarayan

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been developed to stimulate antibiotic R&D. For these incentives to be effective, geographic availability for recently approved antibiotics needs to be better understood. In this study, we analyze geographic availability and market introduction of antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014.