Les paysages de décharges publiques urbaines au Liban : quelle problématique ? by Nada Chbat

“…If the waste dumps management policies have not been yet defined by the successive governments, then by which geographical localization logics do the urban waste dumps in Lebanon abide ? …”
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rancuska koncepcja mocarstwa morskiego w XXI wieku by Piotr Mickiewicz

“…The French concept of a maritime power was based on the thesis that a state with such potential and geographical location should create regional projects for the long-term sustainable exploitation of the sea basins and coastal regions. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…At the individual level, SEDD combines various demographic and socioeconomic records, including causes of death, place of birth and geographic data on the place of residence within a parish. …”
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Lourdes, a major religious tourism destination, between crisis and transition? by Nathalie Jarraud, Sylvie Clarimont

“…The obsolescence of some tourism sites has been researched and modelled by the geographers R.W. Butler and M. Chadefaud who applied the concept of a product’s life cycle. …”
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Strong Nonagricultural Demand Keeps Agricultural Land Values Increasing by John E. Reynolds

“… The Florida Land Value Survey, conducted by the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, provides estimates of the value of different types of agricultural land for geographic regions of the state. The survey questionnaire was designed to obtain estimates of the market value for different types of land as of May 2005. …”
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A Role for RNA Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Burkitt's Lymphoma: The Need for Reappraisal by Corry van den Bosch

“…Certain infectious agents are associated with lymphomas, but the strength of the association varies geographically, suggesting that local environmental factors make important contributions to lymphomagenesis. …”
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Agency Costs and Scarce Resources: Influences on Brazilian Franchising by Eugenio Jose Silva Bitti, Vinicius Medeiros Magnani, Bianca Thomazella

“…The results corroborate aspects related to monitoring and incentives advocated by the agency theory, that is: costs of monitoring in elevation due to the geographic dispersion induce a greater proportion of franchised stores. …”
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Econometric Analysis of the Hot Research of Marxist Theoretical Journals Based on Knowledge Map by Lan Wang, Kai Wang

“…In this paper, by constructing a self-expanding Chinese word separation and self-expanding address data knowledge graph, matching Marxist Chinese addresses based on the full-text indexing knowledge graph, incorporating a weighted pinyin full-text search mechanism to improve the matching accuracy of misspelled addresses, constructing a multiple matching mechanism for Marxist addresses by combining an online geographic parsing interface, and performing semisupervised matching for a small number of difficult addresses, a complete system of Marxist address matching methods is formed. …”
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Precision Farming Adoption by Florida Citrus Producers: Probit Model Analysis by Brian J. Sevier, Won Suk Lee

“…The use of soil sampling; yield monitoring; remote sensing; and variable-rate applications of herbicide, pesticide, and fertilizer, as well as the global positioning system (GPS) and a geographic information system (GIS) can be considered precision agriculture. …”
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Computer 3D Scene Simulation of Ecological Landscape Layout Planning by Tong Ling, Yun Ma

“…Virtual reality, virtual plants and geographic information systems, and other technologies are used. …”
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De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states" by Marie Bouchet

“…In an attempt at mapping the protagonists’ journeys, the present paper also identifies two geographical poles of the immense American territory: one is in the North-East, and stages the satisfaction of Humbert’s desire, and the other is in Colorado, where Lolita’s suffering is emphasized, and from where she escapes. …”
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Lessons Learned from Evaluations of Citizen Science Programs by Luke Gommerman, Martha C. Monroe

“…Citizen science uses volunteers of all ages, professions, backgrounds, and skills — often across broad geographic areas — to engage non-scientists in a variety of tasks, but most commonly data collection. …”
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Precision Farming Adoption by Florida Citrus Producers: Probit Model Analysis by Brian J. Sevier, Won Suk Lee

“…The use of soil sampling; yield monitoring; remote sensing; and variable-rate applications of herbicide, pesticide, and fertilizer, as well as the global positioning system (GPS) and a geographic information system (GIS) can be considered precision agriculture. …”
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Closing gaps in Open Distance Learning for theology students by E. Oliver

“… UNISA’s policy documents state clearly that the Open Distance Learning (ODL) concept aims to bridge the time, geographical, economic, social, educational and communication distance between student and institution, student and academics, student and courseware as well as student and peers. …”
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Lessons Learned from Evaluations of Citizen Science Programs by Luke Gommerman, Martha C. Monroe

“…Citizen science uses volunteers of all ages, professions, backgrounds, and skills — often across broad geographic areas — to engage non-scientists in a variety of tasks, but most commonly data collection. …”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…In ways comparable to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in 2005, the series of yellow fever epidemics that devastated New Orleans through the nineteenth century were also the result, in part, of the city’s geographical position, its unforgiving climate, and the policies of interested parties; the fever’s awful death toll was likewise accompanied by a grotesque array of sights, sounds and smells. …”
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TEI, Ontologies, Linked Open Data: Geolat and Beyond by Fabio Ciotti, Maurizio Lana, Francesca Tomasi

“…The purpose of Geolat is the annotation of the geographical and personal references in a corpus of Latin TEI encoded texts. …”
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Floating Photovoltaic Systems in Italy: Challenges and Future Prospects in an Uncertain Regulatory Framework by Tedioli Francesco

“…This feature is particularly pertinent in geographic contexts characterised by high population density and limited land availability, as is the case in many regions of Italy. …”
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Southern Madagascar, polycrisis and project failures: A scoping review. by Léo Delpy, Claire Gondard Delcroix, Maxime Galon, Benoît Lallau, Isabelle Droy

“…Firstly, in terms of methodology, it presents an original approach to conduct a scoping review in a geographical area characterized by the presence of numerous development players and a low number of scientific articles. …”
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Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire by M. Ben Hamed, Pierre Darlu

“…The Afro-Asiatic linguistic group occupies a geographical zone which straddles two continents, Africa and Asia, a distribution which brings into question the location of this family’s homeland. …”
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