BACKGROUND In Pakistan, where gendered norms restrict women's mobility, female community health workers (CHWs) provide doorstep primary health services to home-bound women. The program has not achieved optimal functioning. One reason, I argue, may be that the CHWs are unable to make home visits because they have to operate within the same gender system that necessitated their appointment in the...

This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid racialist, imperialistic, and deterministic forms they sometimes took in the past. Rather, this paper argues t...

India represents an intricate tapestry of population sub-structure shaped by geography, language, culture and social stratification operating in concert [1–3]. To date, no study has attempted to model and evaluate how these evolutionary forces have interacted to shape the patterns of genetic diversity within India. Geography has been shown to closely correlate with genetic structure in other pa...

School texts on geography are an important but neglected repository of geographical knowledge and representations within the historiography of geography. During the period 1830-1918 geography school texts were influenced by European exploration, church sponsors of education, the mediation of religious and scientific explanation of the natural world, popular images of empire, and state education...

■ Abstract Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relat...

a Social Vulnerability and Integrated Risk (SVIR) Coordination, Global Earthquake Model – GEM Foundation, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy b Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30/Bauteil 10/2. Stock, 5020 Salzburg, Austria c Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Callcott, Room 327-A, Callcott Building, 709 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 2920...

of two fundamental or ontological premises embedded in Marxism, one relating the social and the spatial Order binary options Ewell of capitalist societies and the other linking time and space, history and geography. These experiments are hampered by the risk of obtaining heterogeneous isolated brain microvessels and low yields of mRNA.

Keywords-business networks; communication networks; social interaction; spatial statistics; stationary point processes; economy; industrial firms; Abstract—In this paper we report evidence from the Italian industrial sectors whereby firms that buy and sell are spatially distributed with a pattern that reflects the microeconomic powers at play. The main finding is that firms are neither clustere...

With the rapid global proliferation of social media, there has been growing interest in using this existing source of easily accessible 'big data' to develop social science knowledge. However, amidst the big data gold rush, it is important that long-established principles of good social research are not ignored. This article critically evaluates Mitchell et al.'s (2013) study, 'The Geography of...

Frequently, social networks are studied in their own right with analyses devoid of contextual details. Yet contextual features – both social and spatial – can have impacts on the networks formed within them. This idea is explored with five empirical networks representing different contexts and the use of distinct modeling strategies. These strategies include network visualizations, QAP regressi...