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Human Geography and the hinterland: The case of Torsten Hägerstrand’s ‘belated’ recognition

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2017
Seeing Human Geography as a nexus of temporally oscillating concepts, this paper investigates the dissemination of scientific ideas with a focus on extra-scientific factors.
Brauer René, Dymitrow Mirek
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Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in England, 1837-1863 [PDF]

open access: yes
Geography made rural society in the south-east of England unequal. Economies of scale in grain growing created a farmer elite and many landless labourers.
Gregory Clark, Rowena Gray
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Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GEOGRAPHY IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS – SELECTED ISSUES

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2013
The goal of this article is to indicate the position that geography occupies within the organization structure of universities in given countries and to provide an overview of the research of research that predominated in the institutions and ...
Jerzy BANSKI
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Population, mobility and urban dynamics through everyday socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan public space / Población, movilidad y dinámicas urbanas a través de las prácticas socio-espaciales cotidianas en el espacio público metropolitano [PDF]

open access: yesContexto: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2014
In Europe and Latin America the common challenges of urban labyrinth require not postpone its discussion, the pressing problems facing from Impulse from quantitative and qualitative research approaches and creative approaches to overcome the complex and ...
Diego Sánchez-González
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When Languages Die: The Extinction Of The World\u27s Languages And The Erosion Of Human Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people\u27s science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to ...
Harrison, K. David
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Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
Nanosafety data provide a guiding example for establishing best practices in data management, aligning with FAIR principles and quality criteria. This review explores existing quality assessment approaches for reliability, relevance, and completeness, emphasizing the need for harmonization and adaptation to nanomaterials and advanced materials. The aim
Verónica I. Dumit   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Geography, Comparative Advantage and Trade within Industries: Evidence from the OECD [PDF]

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A large share of world trade, especially among the OECD countries, is two-way trade within industries, so called intra-industry trade. Despite this, few attempts have been made to examine why countries export some products within industries, whereas they
Greenaway, David, Torstensson, Johan
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