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Low birth weight (LBW), defined as a live birth weighing <2,500 g, is a significant public health problem in the United States, especially a few states including Georgia. Although much work has been done to study the epidemiology of LBW in various regions, the spatial–temporal patterns of LBW prevalence in Georgia remain unclear to a large degree. This paper investigates the temporal trend of LBW rates over a time span of 11 years and the spatial clusters of LBW prevalence in the state of Georgia at the county level. Comparison is also made between race and gender groups, and between county groups of different socioeconomic statuses to uncover disparities. Results showed a steady and prevalent increase of LBW rate in the state over the study period. Three counties and two county clusters with significantly higher LBW rates than the state rate were detected for 1999–2001, while one more county and two more county clusters of high LBW rates were detected for 2007–2009. More urbanized counties were found to have a relatively lower LBW rate when compared with the less urbanized ones as groups. The findings from this paper are expected to provide valuable insights to better understanding the etiology of LBW and more effective allocating prenatal health care resources in the future. 相似文献
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Danlin Yu 《GeoJournal》2014,79(2):195-207
Due to its rapid economic gains in recent decades, studies of China’s regional development have recently attracted scholarly attentions. Multi-scalar and multi-mechanism are proposed as crucial approaches in China’s regional studies. More advanced methodological development in GIS and spatial analysis also lends power to in-depth understanding of China’s regional development. This study examines the development mechanisms from a spatial–temporal perspective in Greater Beijing Area (GBA), China. In particular, with panel data of GBA from 1995 to 2001 at county level, the study intends to apply a spatial panel regression analysis to study the well identified regional development mechanisms, namely, institutional factors, globalization and urbanization. Based on the panel data analysis, a tentative geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) is also proposed to explore the potentially varying relationships between economic development and its mechanisms from a space–time standpoint. Results from the analyses are quite interesting. First, when urbanization seems to hinder regional development in GBA with cross-sectional analysis, the spatial panel analysis indicates that urbanization contributes to GBA’s development in the 7 years span. Second, per capita foreign investment, which was usually deemed one of the major factors of globalization and a financial engine for regional development in the reform China, turns out to be a negligible mechanism in GBA’s development. Third, among all the development mechanisms, the government’s financial capability seems to dominate the regional development in GBA. GTWR analysis further revealed potential non-stationary relationships among the modeled variables, indicating that the functions of regional development mechanisms are inherently heterogeneous both spatially and temporally in GBA. 相似文献
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The objective of this research is to investigate the role of geography in the venture capital investment in the US biotechnology
industry. Data include 4,409 quarterly investment deals from the MoneyTree Survey during 1995 and 2008. Strong spatial concentration
patterns are identified. Using both ordinary squares regressions and geographically weighted regressions, we find that as
the geographic distance between biotechnology firms and their investors decreases, deal size increases. Location in established
biotechnology clusters, such as New England and California, helps to bring a larger deal into individual firms as well. Also,
the impact of distance decay in these two clusters is more significant than that in other regions. In addition, we find that
a global venture capital investing syndication network brings large deals. Furthermore, firms in later stages of development,
and/or with few financing rounds, tend to receive more capital per deal. 相似文献
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Tímea Vince György Szabó Zoltán Csoma Gábor Sándor Szilárd Szabó 《Central European Journal of Geosciences》2014,6(3):330-343
In the present study we examined the Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn contamination levels of the soils of Berehove, a small city in West-Ukraine. As a first step we determined the spatial distribution of the heavy metal contents of the urban soils; then, by studying the land use structure of the city and by statistical analysis we identified the major sources of contamination; we established a matrix of correlations between the heavy metal contents of the soils and the different types of land use; and finally, we drew a conclusion regarding the possible origin(s) of these heavy metals. By means of multivariate statistical analysis we established that of the investigated metals, Ba, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn accumulated in the city’s soils primarily as a result of anthropogenic activity. In the most polluted urban areas (i.e. in the industrial zones and along the roads and highways with heavy traffic), in the case of several metals (Ba, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn) we measured concentration levels even two or three times higher than the threshold limit values. Furthermore, Cr, Fe and Ni are primarily of lithogenic origin; therefore, the soil concentrations of these heavy metals depend mainly on the chemical composition of the soil-forming rocks. 相似文献
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In Cambrian Mesón Group, NW Argentina, small faults and three opening-mode fracture sets defined by orientation and cement texture (Sets 1–3) formed sequentially in sandstone that most likely had constant mechanical properties throughout deformation. Yet the opening-mode sets display contrasting fracture-aperture-size distributions, spacing patterns, and tendency to be bed bounded. Set 1 fractures are quartz-filled or -lined opening-mode fractures with crack-seal texture, having a wide range of opening-displacement (kinematic aperture) sizes; they are irregularly spaced and non-strata-bounded fractures. Set 1 macro and microfracture-opening-displacement sizes are well described by a power law with slope −0.8. Set 2 fractures are microscopic, mostly quartz filled and have characteristic aperture sizes, are probably not bed bounded and have either a near-random or clustered spatial distribution. Set 3 fractures are quartz-lined, opening-mode fractures with extensive open pore space, having a narrow (characteristic) opening-displacement size distribution; they are regularly spaced and stratabounded. Differences between Sets 1 and 3 can be accounted for by quartz deposition resisting fracture reopening to a greater extent for Set 1 during repeated, episodic growth, where crack-seal texture is present in fracture-spanning quartz. In contrast Set 3 fractures are nearly barren with only trace-cement deposits that did not resist opening. Power-law opening-displacement size distributions may be favored in cases where fracture growth is unequally partitioned amongst variably cemented fractures, whereas a characteristic size is favored where growth is unaffected by cementation. Results imply that thermal history and diagenesis are important for fracture-size-distribution patterning. 相似文献
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Global,regional and local: new firm formation and spatial restructuring in China’s apparel industry 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
The rise of China as the ‘world factory’ has been attributed to the export-oriented industrialization largely driven by some fundamental transformations unfolding in China’s economic, political and cultural arenas, since the Reform and Opening-Up policies. As production costs and competitive pressures both rise, the flexible business environment that export-led production used to embed in has undergone dramatic restructuring and this has further pushed forward new rounds of spatial restructuring and industrial relocation, especially in China’s highly export-oriented apparel industry. Using a large firm-level dataset on new firm formation, we show the articulation of global, regional and local factors are shaping the new firm formation pattern and industrial relocation in interactional and collective ways. The econometric estimations also indicate the ways in which and the extents to which these factors affect firm location choice are highly determined by firm-specific capability. 相似文献
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Flat sharers are one of the most distinct representatives of the ‘new’ household types, but have received only very limited
attention from researchers. Back in the 1960s shared flats were usually founded with a strong ideological impetus, whereas
flat sharing nowadays is just one household type among many others. Typically, this housing arrangement consists of at least
two young adult individuals without children. Sharing the flat and the housing costs is the basis of their relationship but
living with others is an additional motive. As a rule, flat sharing bridges two distinct events in the course of one’s life:
the leaving of the parental home and the foundation of the first independent household. Thus for a restricted period in time,
it is a flexible household type adapted to the situational needs of its members. Germany has one of the strongest and longest
traditions of flat sharing in Europe, especially among university students. An explorative study was conducted in Leipzig
to come to a deeper understanding of what flat sharing means in its ambivalence of being both an economic unit and a social
arrangement. Based on qualitative and quantitative evidence from group discussions and Internet adverts, we shed light on
the highly under-researched social practice of flat sharing. We will show that despite the structural flexibility of this
household type, there is also evidence for its socio-demographic selectivity, spatial concentration and temporal limitation
over the individual life courses. 相似文献
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We estimate the energetic and spatial characteristics of seismicity in the Algeria–Morocco region using a variety of seismic and statistical parameters, as a first step in a detailed investigation of regional seismic hazard. We divide the region into five seismotectonic regions, comprising the most important tectonic domains in the studied area: the Moroccan Meseta, the Rif, the Tell, the High Plateau, and the Atlas. Characteristic seismic hazard parameters, including the Gutenberg–Richter b-value, mean seismic activity rate, and maximum possible earthquake magnitude, were computed using an extension of the Aki–Utsu procedure for incomplete earthquake catalogs for each domain, based on recent earthquake catalogs compiled for northern Morocco and northern Algeria. Gutenberg–Richter b-values for each zone were initially estimated using the approach of Weichert (Bull Seismol Soc Am 70:1337–1346, 1980): the estimated b-values are 1.04 ± 0.04, 0.93 ± 0.10, 0.72 ± 0.03, 0.87 ± 0.02, and 0.77 ± 0.02 for the Atlas, Meseta, High Plateau, Rif, and Tell seismogenic zones, respectively. The fractal dimension D 2 was also estimated for each zone. From the ratio D 2/b, it appears that the Tell and Rif zones, with ratios of 2.09 and 2.12, respectively, have the highest potential earthquake hazard in the region. The Gutenberg–Richter relationship analysis allows us to derive that in the Tell and Rif, the number of earthquake with magnitude above Mw 4.0, since 1925 normalized to decade and to square cell with 100-km sides is equal to 2.6 and 1.91, respectively. This study provides the first detailed information about the potential seismicity of these large domains, including maximum regional magnitudes, characteristics of spatial clustering, and distribution of seismic energy release.
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《Geoforum》2018
This paper examines what it means to be an ‘expatriate’ in Cairo through the lens of movement and space-making. Inquiring into a set of migrant (im)mobilities, spatial practices, relations, and imaginations, it argues that as a ‘spatialised’ identity category ‘expatriate’ narrates and enacts migratory privileges linked to wider hierarchies of social difference. It contributes to a growing literature examining the social and political dimensions of ‘expatriate’ migration and further engages scholarship thinking space and movement in relational and socio-historical terms. Rather than denoting an easily distinguishable group of migrants, ‘expatriate’ emerged as a contingent and ambiguous category of practice. As such, ‘expatriate’ stands in a productive relationship with privileged movement and socio-spatial processes. Like other migrants, respondents skillfully navigated the global differences in wealth, power and status they were presented with. Yet, unlike many other migrants, they did so from a privileged position within the global power-geometries of international migration. Migrants’ personal geographies were further shaped by how bodies were racialised and gendered in entangled, intersecting and sometimes counter-intuitive ways. This diversity and complexity of ‘expatriate’ geographies highlights the necessity of intersectional and situated analyses of privilege. 相似文献
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We estimate the energetic and spatial characteristics of seismicity in the Algeria–Morocco region using a variety of seismic and statistical parameters, as a first step in a detailed investigation of regional seismic hazard. We divide the region into five seismotectonic regions, comprising the most important tectonic domains in the studied area: the Moroccan Meseta, the Rif, the Tell, the High Plateau, and the Atlas. Characteristic seismic hazard parameters, including the Gutenberg–Richter b-value, mean seismic activity rate, and maximum possible earthquake magnitude, were computed using an extension of the Aki–Utsu procedure for incomplete earthquake catalogs for each domain, based on recent earthquake catalogs compiled for northern Morocco and northern Algeria. Gutenberg–Richter b-values for each zone were initially estimated using the approach of Weichert (Bull Seismol Soc Am 70:1337–1346, 1980): the estimated b-values are 1.04 ± 0.04, 0.93 ± 0.10, 0.72 ± 0.03, 0.87 ± 0.02, and 0.77 ± 0.02 for the Atlas, Meseta, High Plateau, Rif, and Tell seismogenic zones, respectively. The fractal dimension D 2 was also estimated for each zone. From the ratio D 2/b, it appears that the Tell and Rif zones, with ratios of 2.09 and 2.12, respectively, have the highest potential earthquake hazard in the region. The Gutenberg–Richter relationship analysis allows us to derive that in the Tell and Rif, the number of earthquake with magnitude above Mw 4.0, since 1925 normalized to decade and to square cell with 100-km sides is equal to 2.6 and 1.91, respectively. This study provides the first detailed information about the potential seismicity of these large domains, including maximum regional magnitudes, characteristics of spatial clustering, and distribution of seismic energy release. 相似文献
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Geographies of identity theft in the U.S.: understanding spatial and demographic patterns, 2002–2006
Identity theft is among the fastest growing white-collar crimes in the United States, although official recognition of it
as a criminal act is a relatively recent development. Utilizing theoretical framework established in crime geography, GIS
mapping and spatial statistics are employed to conduct a spatial analysis of identity theft in the U.S. from 2002 to 2006.
Distinct regional variations, such as high rates in the western and southwestern states, and low rates in New England and
the central plains states, are identified for identity theft. Significant spatial patterns of identity theft victims alongside
social demographic variables are also revealed in order to better understand the regional patterns that may suggest underlying
social causes contributing to identity theft. Potential social variables, such as race/ethnicity and urban–rural populations,
are shown to have similar patterns that may be directly associated with U.S. identity theft victims. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2017
This paper scrutinizes how the Meänkieli-speaking minority in The Torne Valley, northern Sweden, use humor in the process of narrativizing their shifting spatial identities, as well as in maintaining and contesting prevailing power relations. A great deal of the research focusing on the social and political nature of humor, and its geographical dimensions, has concerned the humor directed at ethnic and national minorities, with minority groups typically being approached as targets of laughter. However, less interest has been paid to how minorities use and experience humor in their everyday lives and environments. Humor is approached here as an integral part of how people make sense of culture and society in a creative manner and cope with and challenge subordinating power-relations and social inequality. In terms of methodology, laughing together operates as a (research) approach through which spatial identities of linguistic minorities can be renegotiated. The study is based on group discussions held with local culture workers and activists between September 2015 and February 2016 in Swedish Torne Valley. The paper produces new theoretical and empirical knowledge concerning how humor is used in a creative manner to make sense of, produce and contest socio-spatial relations. 相似文献
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The present study attempted to evaluate the influence of human activity on major elements (Na2O, MgO, Al2O3, SiO2, K2O, CaO, Fe2O3), and to find a method to explore correlations between major elements and human disturbances, according to geospatial theories and methods. The study results indicate that landscapes influence major elements in diverse ways: Al2O3 is closely related to road and mine landscapes; strong relationships exist between MgO, Fe2O3, CaO, and SiO2 and roads; Na2O, SiO2, and Fe2O3 are unrelated to city landscapes; and Na2O is unrelated to road and mine landscapes. 相似文献
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新桥矿床是长江中下游成矿带铜陵矿集区内典型的大型层控矽卡岩型铜金硫多金属矿床。矿床成矿过程中除了铜、金、铁、硫等主要成矿元素富集成矿以外,钴、硒、碲等关键金属元素也以伴生形式产生了不同程度的富集。前人对新桥矿床开展了大量研究工作,但对矿床中关键金属钴、硒、碲的分布规律、赋存状态和富集机制等方面系统研究尚未开展。本次研究在新桥矿床系统采集距离成矿岩体不同位置的两条代表性剖面(3804、E601)的岩矿石样品,通过光学显微镜观察、扫描电子显微镜、全岩主微量元素化学分析和矿物原位LA-ICP-MS微量成分测试等分析技术方法,查明了矿床中钴、硒、碲等关键金属的空间分布规律和赋存状态,初步探讨了钴、硒、碲的富集机制。新桥矿床中估算伴生Co、Se、Te资源量分别为:2326t、2590t、1463t,达到大-中型规模。近成矿(热)中心3804剖面Co、Se含量自矿体底板→顶板呈逐渐降低的趋势,Te含量变化没有明显规律,Co、Se、Te均主要在黄铁矿矿石中产生富集;远成矿(热)中心E601剖面上Co、Se、Te含量自矿体底板→顶板均呈逐渐降低的趋势,且主要富集高品位黄铁矿矿石中。矿体走向上自成矿(热)中心→远端,Co含量明显降低,Se、Te含量相对增高。矿床中Co、Se主要以类质同象置换的形式赋存于黄铁矿中,Te的赋存状态以独立碲矿物为主,包括辉碲铋矿和碲银矿。Co主要在石英-硫化物阶段产生富集,成矿流体温度较高,流体中Co大部分随黄铁矿沉淀富集于近成矿(热)中心的黄铁矿矿石中,至碳酸盐-硫化物阶段,成矿流体温度降低,流体中Se、Te大部分沉淀富集于远成矿(热)中心的高品位黄铁矿矿石中,其中Se主要随黄铁矿大量沉淀富集,Te较少进入黄铁矿等硫化物中,主要以独立矿物的形式产出。 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2015
What is ‘good food’? Is it fair trade, local, organic or ethically produced? With an ever-expanding array of products and ‘qualities’ to consider, consumers in the global North may find it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to make the ‘right’ choices. As a result, a range of intermediaries, including food apps and collective buying groups, are emerging to support and influence people with their food choices. While intermediation refers to all activities linking producers and consumers, this paper narrows the focus and considers one important, yet poorly understood, intermediary function within the food marketplace: ‘curation’. Although the concept of curation has long been associated with museums and art worlds, curatorial practices are evolving in the contemporary marketplace and are performed by a growing range of actors operating in physical, temporary and virtual spaces. Rather than acting as brokers or gatekeepers, curators interpret, translate and shape the marketplace by sorting, organising, evaluating and ascribing value(s) to specific products. They also offer general and personalised recommendations to consumers. Although the literature on local food privileges the direct relations between producers and consumers, this paper considers the important role of intermediaries. Drawing on interviews and participant observation in Sweden it contributes to the existing literature on curation by examining the spatial dynamics and nature of curatorial practices, the motivations behind them and the values they create for consumers. The findings demonstrate that a range of activities can be understood as curation and that in order to nuance and extend existing conceptualisations of curation a wider and more dynamic range of actors (food apps), spaces (blogs) and values such as inspiration, convenience and sense of community need to be considered. 相似文献
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Natural Hazards - Inner Mongolia, located in the northern China, is a natural disaster-prone region. This study is dedicated to making a comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the... 相似文献
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Pía Simonetti Sandra Elizabeth Botté Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2017,76(18):636
Intertidal sediments of the inner and middle zone from the Bahía Blanca estuary were sampled for geochemical and environmental assessment of metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, Mn, Ni, Cr and Fe). Results indicate that both the organic matter content and the sediment grain size plays an important role in controlling the differential concentrations of the metals found in sediments from both zones. For most of the elements (except Mn), sediment metal concentrations were greater in the middle zone, although the concentrations did not exceed the maximums for quality of marine sediments. In this sense, anthropogenic impact (i.e., sewage drain) appears to be a key factor in the distribution of metals within the estuarine system. Comparing the levels obtained with quality levels (LEL and SEL), except Cu that showed levels slightly above the LEL, the rest of the concentrations of metals were lower to those levels. The low metal concentrations obtained within this highly impacted estuarine system suggest that the great volume of water that flooding the extensive flats in each tidal cycle has much importance. Although the potential risks of metals to the estuarine environment were low, taking into account the toxicity of some of these metals, continuity of monitoring is highly recommended. 相似文献
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The evolution of the Yangtze delta, where the largest economic zone (e.g. Shanghai) in China is located, directly affects the regional economic development and ecoenvironment. The mean high tide lines as the coastline delineated from multi-temporal remote sensing data of Landsat during 1974–2010 at intervals of about 8 years were used to examine the shoreline progradation and recession of the Yangtze delta in the past four decades. Our results show that significant parts of the shoreline in the Yangtze delta in the past four decades and particularly after the operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR), the world’s largest hydropower project ever built, experienced continual progradation despite a substantial decrease in the Yangtze sediment input. During 1974–2010, the area of the Yangtze subaerial delta increased by 667 km2 with a net progradation rate of 18.5 km2/yr, and the maximum progradation occurred at the eastern parts of Chongming Island and Nanhui bank, where the coastline advanced seaward about 8 and 6 km, respectively, with mean net progradation rates of 0.22 and 0.17 km/yr, respectively. An important (probably dominant) reason for the Yangtze shoreline progradation despite markedly decreased riverine sediment supply is coastal engineering, such as sea reclamation works, filling project, and wharf constructions. 相似文献