Based on topics of research examining how metropolisation processes affect the areas surrounding metropolitan centres and change locations functions in urban regions, this article examines: (i) pronounced process regionalisation is; (ii) which sub-areas a region can be observed (iii) places are anchor points regionalisation. The studied using municipal-level dataset from German regions. finding...

OBJECTIVES The BRAZOS (The Brazilian Osteoporosis Study) study is the first epidemiological and population-based study carried out in a representative sample of Brazilian men and women, 40 years or older, with the objective of identifying the prevalence and main clinical risk factors (CRF) associated with low-impact fractures. This report shows the main results according to each region of the c...

INTRODUCTION The 'Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada' recognized that people living in rural and remote areas of Canada are at a disadvantage in health status, access to care and health professionals, and it considers the fight against these problems as a national priority. Although some attention has been paid to the prevalence of chronic diseases, very few studies have studied ...

The author earlier conducted a research, attempting to make two models, one for understanding, monitoring and describing settlement patterns in metropolitan regions, dependant primarily on remotely sensed data; and the second, for predicting settlement patterns in such regions, using National Capital Region (NCR), of Delhi, India, as a case study. As part of the model, a transferable approach o...

In this paper we use a unique, large dataset collected from a social networking website to develop a typology of the educational and post-educational mobility in Poland, to identify regions that are winning or losing in terms of human capital accumulation, and to elaborate on factors of human capital migration using empirical model of interregional flows of students and graduates. We find out t...

The author earlier conducted a research, attempting to make two models, one for understanding, monitoring and describing settlement patterns in metropolitan regions, dependant primarily on remotely sensed data; and the second, for predicting settlement patterns in such regions, using National Capital Region (NCR), of Delhi, India, as a case study. As part of the model, a transferable approach o...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate variations in the regional incidence of glioblastoma in US adults in 2004-2013. Study Design and Setting: We evaluated 24,262 patients with primary glioblastoma. Data were categorized based on geographic regions that included different SEER registry sites as follows: (1) Northeast: Connecticut, New Jersey (3,977 patients); (2) South: Kentucky...