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Poverty and Place in North America

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America: in Mexico, the United States and Canada. It begins with an overview of growth and inequality in the three countries. The second section of the paper presents concepts and measures of poverty and reports the overall incidence of poverty in the three countries using various measures.
Mary Jo Bane, Rene Zenteno
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Euro-Settler Place Naming Practices for North America through a Gendered and Racialized Lens [PDF]

Terrae Incognitae, 2021
The rich fabric of place names knitting together the Americas weaves into a complex intercultural network of naming practices that span thousands of years as well as the globe.
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Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long‐term palaeoclimate context

Journal of Quaternary Science, 2009
Abstract IPCC Assessment Report 4 model projections suggest that the subtropical dry zones of the world will both dry and expand poleward in the future due to greenhouse warming. The US Southwest is particularly vulnerable in this regard and model projections indicate a progressive drying there out to the end of the 21st century.
Cook, Edward R., Seager, Richard, Heim, Richard R., Herweijer, Celine, Vose, Russell S., Woodhouse, Connie   +5 more
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Contextualized Metrics + Narrating Binaries: Defining Place and Processing Indigenous North America

Cross Americas: Probing Disglobal Networks- Papers, 2016
This paper introduces four cultural catalysts in Indigenous architecture: language, place, kinship and transformation. Inspired by the interrelationship of physical, sociocultural and spiritual factors- the measurable and immeasurable – we investigate a number of concepts related to Indigenous thinking and ways of knowing.
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“A familiar, not fearful place”: sensory histories of hospital birth in twentieth-century North America

The Senses and Society
This paper unpacks sensory histories of childbirth in the North American obstetric ward, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1970. Focusing on the intertwining of spaces, bodies, and behaviors, this paper argues that control and mastery of the childbirth experience – including control of pain, key to the “achievement” of a successful natural birth –
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Is North America the best place for PCNL in obese patients?

Canadian Urological Association Journal, 2014
Darren, Beiko, Janet, van Vlymen
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Second Chances: A Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Survey and Review of Current Practices and Attitudes Toward the Reuse of Deep Orthopaedic Implants. [PDF]

J Pediatr Soc North Am
Rambo A, McCoy A, Qudsi R, Gill C, Goodbody C, Lam C, Igboechi O, Bovid K, Spence DD, Bellaire L.   +9 more
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Russo–German Place–Names in Russia and in North America

Names, 1961
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Swedish Place-Names in North America

The Annals of Iowa, 1987
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Sports-related sudden cardiac arrest: a video analysis of presenting features, management and outcomes. [PDF]

Br J Sports Med
Ungaro S, Truglio TS, Zorzi A, Solberg EE, Caniglia A, Panhuyzen-Goedkoop NM, Chukumerije M, Marijon E, Drezner JA.   +8 more
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