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Poverty and Place in North America
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]
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.
Lauren Beck
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Poverty and place in North America: Overview [PDF]
This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and explore some of the correlates of poverty.
Bane, Mary Jo, Zenteno, Rene
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The three sustainability pillars of social, environment and economy were initially introduced by the United Nations in 2002, addressing major global sustainability issues including economic problems, income inequality, environmental pollution and social ...
Mehrab Nodehi, A. A. Arani, V. Taghvaee
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Food Safety Considerations Related to the Consumption and Handling of Game Meat in North America
Emerging foodborne pathogens present a threat to public health. It is now recognized that several foodborne pathogens originate from wildlife as demonstrated by recent global disease outbreaks.
H. Hedman +4 more
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Viruses in Bovine Respiratory Disease in North America
Advances in viral detection in bovine respiratory disease (BRD) have resulted from advances in viral sequencing of respiratory tract samples. New viruses detected include influenza D virus, bovine coronavirus, bovine rhinitis A, bovine rhinitis B virus ...
R. Fulton
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An Empirical Note on Regionalization and Globalization [PDF]
Purpose – Is it regionalization or globalization that more accurately depicts the state of the global economy? Exports and foreign direct investments (FDI) data are analyzed with the aim of answering the question and determining how intra- and inter ...
Akhter, Syed H., Beno, Colleen
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The weight of place: Built environment correlates of obesity and diabetes.
In recent decades, the prevalence of obesity and diabetes has risen substantially in North America and worldwide. To address these dual epidemics, researchers and policymakers alike have been searching for effective means to promote healthy lifestyles at
N. Howell, G. Booth
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First report of amynthas carnosus (goto & hatai, 1899) (oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) in the western hemisphere [PDF]
Citation: Carrera-Mart'nez, R., & Snyder, B. A. (2016). First report of amynthas carnosus (goto & hatai, 1899) (oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) in the western hemisphere. Zootaxa, 4111(3), 297-300.
Carrera-Mart'nez, R., Snyder, Bruce A.
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