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  • Microgeography of a Republican Revolution : 1992, 1994, and 1996 congressional district change in Washington State
  • Circonscription électorale ; Comportement électoral ; Election ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie politique ; Géographie électorale ; Seattle ; Washington State
  • Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Electoral district ; Electoral geography ; Political geography ; Seattle ; United States of America ; Washington State
  • 1998
  • Those benevolent boosters : spatial patterns of Kiwanis membership in the United States
  • Location ; Service ; United States of America
  • Paper begins with a history and description of service clubs in the United States, with special attention to Kiwanis. A. seeks to identify regions where Kiwanis membership is strong or weak and then to develop a socioeconomic profile of counties
  • (as in northern Midwest and Wyoming and Montana). Low LQ counties are in urbanized states such as Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maryland. - (SLD)
  • 1998
  • Hindu temple development in the United States : planning and zoning issues
  • Cultural studies ; Hinduism ; Immigrants ; Religious practice ; United States of America ; Zoning
  • Especially since the 1970s, Hindu immigrants in the United States have been planning and buiding Hindu temples in their new homeland. Often there has been resistance to temple construction proposed in residential areas. In those states following
  • the more permissive New York majority position, the courts have been reluctant to allow zoning to restrict church land use. In those states where the more restrictive California minority position is followed, the courts allow zoning of church land use
  • 1998
  • Administration ; Administrative reform ; Finland ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Power ; Production of space ; Region ; Regionalization ; State
  • The A. wishes to capture the effective history and geography of a particular geopolitical discourse, on promoting the idea of a natural subdivision of the Finnish state territorial space. A reform of regional administration in Finland exemplifies
  • a state-centred discourse based on the savoir of regions as spontaneous organic entities.
  • 1998
  • The Soviet agitational vehicle : state power on the social frontier
  • Geopolitics ; Historical geography ; Nation ; Political geography ; Power ; Russia ; State ; Territoriality ; Years 1920-29
  • as a means of linking the processes of state-building and nation-building. The Communists failed to appreciate the importance of that experience as a seed-bed for citizenship.
  • 1998
  • The effect of federal wilderness on county growth in the intermountain western United States
  • Demographic change ; Economic impact ; Employment ; Land ; Mountain ; Regional economy ; Rocky Mountains ; United States of America ; Wilderness
  • The paper finds, for a sample of 250 nonurban counties in the eight states of the intermountain west, no evidence that the existence of federal wilderness is directly or indirectly associated with either population-density or total-employment
  • 1998
  • Evolution of federal and state policies for persons with disability in the United States : efficiency and welfare impacts
  • Disability ; Employment policy ; Labour ; Public policy ; Social policy ; United States of America
  • 1998
  • Regional patterns of business performance among small and medium sized public accounting firms in New York State
  • Effet de barrière ; Entreprise ; Etats-Unis ; Expertise ; Internationalisation ; New York State ; Petites et moyennes entreprises ; Service ; Services aux entreprises
  • Barrier effect ; Enterprise ; Expertise ; Internationalization ; New York State ; Producer services ; Service ; Small and medium sized enterprises ; United States of America
  • 1998
  • Interannual to interdecadal variations of the regionalized surface climate of the United States and relationships to generalized flow parameters
  • Climate oscillation ; Climatic variability ; Climatic variation ; El Niño ; Interannual variability ; Precipitation ; Teleconnection ; Temperature ; United States of America ; Weather type
  • This analysis attempts to discern primary causes of interannual and interdecadal climate variations for precipitation and temperature regions of the conterminous United States. To determine the causes of the derived climate shifts, correlation
  • analysis was performed with various atmospheric teleconnection indices. It is suggested that El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events are the source for much of the precipitation change evident in the eastern and Northwestern United States and temperature
  • 1998
  • Where do tigers sleep at night ? The state's role in housing policy in South Korea and Singapore
  • Housing ; Housing policy ; Public sector ; Real estate speculation ; Singapore ; Social development ; South Korea ; State control
  • 1998
  • Early state formation in native medieval Wales
  • Administration ; Historical geography ; Middle Age ; Political geography ; Power ; Society ; State ; Territorial structure ; United Kingdom ; Wales
  • 1998
  • The scope for poverty alleviation among elderly home-owners in the United States through reverse mortgages
  • Elderly people ; Housing ; Housing occupance ; Interest rate ; Living standard ; Poverty ; Sensitivity analysis ; United States of America
  • 1998
  • independent of the national statistics of the member states) plays an important role to make the future trends prevailing in different euroregions comparable with each other. The paper deals with a fundamental role to be played by euroregions in the future
  • of the continent, where state borders are to be downgraded and the weakening of nation states is expected to lead eventually to the formation of regional self-awareness. - (ZK)
  • 1998
  • Cultural studies ; Hinduism ; Immigrants ; Pennsylvania ; Semiotics of space ; United States of America
  • Paper examines the role of the temple as an important symbol for ethnic regrouping of Hindu immigrants in the United States. The new temples in postindustrial America provide a nexus of cultural expression that could lead to a renaissance in temple
  • building and possibly in Hinduism itself. There is an extensive discussion of the Sri Venkateswara Temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reportedly the first and certainly the best known temple in the United States. - (SLD)
  • 1998
  • Culturel ; Etats-Unis ; Grunge ; Musique populaire ; Rock alternatif ; Seattle ; Vulgarisation ; Washington State
  • Cultural studies ; Popularization ; Seattle ; United States of America ; Washington State
  • 1998
  • An analysis of recent state conservation policy and the complexities of local control of forest land in northern Thailand. Author holds that government agencies resist allowing ethnic minorities to have a role in conservation. The government
  • maintains that shifting cultivation has only a negative impact on the environment, disregarding the variety of local practices. The state has striven to extend its control over forests, and the implementation of the state's conservation policy has had many
  • 1998
  • Capital, state and space : contesting the borderless world
  • Capitalism ; Economic space ; Frontier ; Globalization ; International economy ; Internationalization ; State control ; Territorial structure ; Transnational corporation
  • 1998
  • Women's status, environmental changes and child health in the riverine area of Ondo State, Nigeria
  • Condition féminine ; Enfants ; Enquête ; Femme ; Nigéria ; Ondo State ; Qualité de la vie ; Santé ; Structure socio-économique ; Village ; Vulnérabilité
  • 1998
  • Late Pleistocene C4 plant dominance and summer rainfall in the southwestern United States from isotopic study of herbivore teeth
  • Arizona ; California ; Global change ; Isotope analysis ; Model ; Monsoon ; Nevada ; New Mexico ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimatology ; Pleistocene ; Precipitation ; Quaternary ; United States of America
  • Patterns of climate and C4 plant abundance in the southwestern United States during the last glaciation were evaluated from isotopic study of herbivore tooth enamel. The primary objectives were to : delineate synoptic patterns in late Pleistocene C4
  • 1998
  • Climatology of wind-driven rain for the contiguous United States for the period 1971 to 1995
  • Applied climatology ; Climatic chart ; Climatic event ; Linear regression ; Model ; Precipitation ; Season ; United States of America ; Wind ; Years 1970-79 ; Years 1980-89 ; Years 1990-99
  • . Additionally, WDR is an agent for enhanced soil erosion and for dispersal of certain plant diseases. This research provides a descriptive climatology of WDR for the contiguous United States. WDR intensity is estimated from a linear regression model
  • 1998