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Please mind the gap: students’ perspectives of the transition in academic skills between A-level and degree level geography [PDF]

, 2013
This paper explores first-year undergraduates’ perceptions of the transition from studying geography at pre-university level to studying for a degree. This move is the largest step students make in their education, and the debate about it in the UK has ...
Anderson L., Ballinger G. J., Berzonsky M. D., Birnie J., Bloom B., Blunt A., Bonnett A., Bryson J. R., Castree N., Castree N., Glenn J. M., Haigh M. J., Harrison D., Hirsch E. D., Huckle J., Imrie R., Jeffrey C., Johnston R. J., Jon Swords, Kantanis T., Lambert D., Leat D., Leat D., Ley D., Maguire S., Marriott A., Morgan J., Parker J. D. A., Parker J. D. A., Pointon V., Prykett J., Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Rawling E. M., Simon Tate, Soja E. W., Standish A., Stannard K., Stevenson D. L., Wilce H.   +38 more
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The Geography of Evolution and the Evolution of Geography [PDF]

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2012
Abstract Insights into the geography of life have played a fundamental role in motivating major developments in evolutionary biology. The focus here is on outlining some of these major developments, specifically in the context of paleontology, by emphasizing the significance of geographic isolation and allopatric speciation, punctuated ...
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Geography of symplectic 4-manifolds with Kodaira dimension one [PDF]

, 2005
The geography problem is usually stated for simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds. When the first cohomology is nontrivial, however, one can restate the problem taking into account how close the symplectic manifold is to satisfying the conclusion of ...
Gompf, Li, Li, Liu, McDuff, Scott Baldridge, Stipsicz, Tian-Jun Li   +7 more
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Historical geography II: traces remain [PDF]

, 2018
The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this
Anderson J, Berghahn VR, Bressey C, Cameron L, Cheryl McGeachan, Daniels S, Evans SL, Fulbrook M, Keighren IM, Keighren IM, Lambert D, Lee H, Livingstone DN, Lorimer H, Marcus L, McDermid V, McGeachan C, Moore FPL, Morley C, Naylor S, Naylor S, Nicholl C, Norcup J, Ogborn M, Patchett M, Scarparo S, Smith A, Smith M, Weinberg S, Withers C   +29 more
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How Long Has It Taken for the Physical Landscape to Form? Conceptions of Spanish Pre-Service Teachers

Education Sciences, 2020
This paper analyses the conceptions of a group of students about geological time and its relation to physical landscape formation, focusing on the frequency and rate of a number of geological processes that have shaped our planet over time and that are ...
Alejandro Gómez-Gonçalves, Diego Corrochano, Miguel Ángel Fuertes-Prieto, Anne-Marie Ballegeer   +3 more
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Use and abuse of the planet in non-rich regions: histories of fracking and windmills in a more than human geographical perspective

AIMS Geosciences, 2022
Remote and marginal areas with scarce and vulnerable populations are "comfortable" settings and suitable places for the development of new extractive activities for energy production.
Angel Paniagua
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Critical geography in Germany: from exclusion to inclusion via internationalisation [PDF]

, 2011
Critical perspectives have become more visible in German human geography. Drawing on an analysis of the debate around the German reader "Kulturgeographie" published in 2003, we suggest that this case provides new insights into the "geography of critical ...
Belina, Bernd, Best, Ulrich, Naumann, Martin   +2 more
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
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Geographer Harm J. de Blij: Academic Contributions and Scientific Communication in Geography

Redai dili
This study aims to broaden the research scope of the history of geography in China. The materials used for the study included Harm J. de Blij's profile (CV), website, autobiography, geography textbooks, and research papers, as well as reviews and ...
Tang Maolin
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Vers des convergences interdisciplinaires dans le champ des études électorales ?

L'Espace Politique, 2014
Introductory article of the issue 23 (2014-2) of the journal L’Espace politique entitled "Electoral Geography and Sociology: Duel or Duo?"
Joël Gombin, Jean Rivière
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