The emergence of dengue fever in the UnitedStates and its public health implications
Diffusion ; Disease ; Epidemic ; Health ; Medical geography ; Regional pathology ; UnitedStates of America
Dengue fever, a virus spread by two species of Aedes mosquitoes, now has those two vectors in the USA. Suitable climate in the southern UnitedStates and frequent movement of people with the disease from Mexico and the Caribbean may create a serious
A multiperiod compartmental model of the HIV pandemic in the UnitedStates
AIDS ; Diffusion ; Disease ; Epidemic;Disease outbreak ; Health ; UnitedStates
The AA. develop a biologically-oriented mathematical model, of intermediate complexity, for the AIDS pandemic in the UnitedStates that is not only quantitatively consistent with the changing dynamics of the disease, but also allows them to estimate
Air quality management in the UnitedStates and some policy considerations for South Africa
The implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 in the UnitedStates offers a number of guidelines for similar action in South Africa. Similarities and contrasts are illustrated. - (AJC)
The management and autonomy of the local state: the role of the judicary in the UnitedStates in Special issue on state, the law and the spatial sciences.
Local control and financing of education: a perspective from the American state judiciary
Cultural studies ; Decision ; Education ; Finance ; Local administration ; School system ; State control ; Teaching ; UnitedStates
Local control of education in the UnitedStates today is more myth than reality. The American judiciary continues to justify its decisions concerning educational governance on the grounds of local control. Most states fund education through
a combuination of local, state and Federal taxes. The A. analyzes the state court decisions involving local control in school financing, with the intent of developing a more comprehensive interpretation of how local control arguments are used as justification
Forty-one years of data from 13 first-order National Weather Service stations in the southeastern UnitedStates were analyzed to determine the spatial variability in the frequency and duration of hours and days when temperatures were ≥32°C (high
Temporal trends in annual Palmer's Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for 53 climate divisions are examined for the period 1895 to 1988 in the southeastern UnitedStates, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
Rus in urbe : the spatial evolution of urban parks in the UnitedStates, 1850-1920
Diffusion ; Historical geography ; Landscape ; Nineteenth Century ; Time series ; Town ; UnitedStates of America ; Urban park
in the UnitedStates are mapped. Both types of parks, although serving different clientele, started in the industrial cities of northeastern UnitedStates. - (SLD)
Trends in fog frequency and duration in the southeast UnitedStates
Atmospheric moisture ; Climatic trend ; Fog ; Forecast ; Linear regression ; Southern UnitedStates ; UnitedStates of America ; Virginia
This study identifies the trends and frequency of fog events across the south-eastern UnitedStates. A simple linear regression was performed on hourly datasets for annual and seasonal fog-event days and on fog duration. The majority of Virginia
Latitudinal range variation of trees in the UnitedStates : a reanalysis of the applicability of Rapoport's rule
Biogeography ; Conifer ; Latitude ; Leafy ; Southern UnitedStates ; Spatial distribution ; Taxonomy ; Theory ; Tree ; UnitedStates of America ; Vegetation
with Rapoport's rule in the Unitedstates are not restricted to high latitudes and are not the result of a boundedness effect but may be intimately linked with the glacial history and physical geography of North America.
The wonders and origins of four national parks in the southern UnitedStates
Leisure ; National park ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Nature reserve ; Southern UnitedStates ; Tourism ; UnitedStates
Between 1921 and 1941, four national parks were established in the USA : Hot Springs (Arkansas) ; Great Smokey Mountains (Tennessee-North Carolina) ; Shenandoah (Virginia) ; and Mammoth Cave (Kentucky). All the parks depended on private and state
Those benevolent boosters : spatial patterns of Kiwanis membership in the UnitedStates
Location ; Service ; UnitedStates of America
Paper begins with a history and description of service clubs in the UnitedStates, 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)