Uear Sir, In your Summer issue you invited correspondence "on this highly controversial subject." As basic issues may vary in different geographical locations in so vast a country as the United States, I submit the following as from the area known here as our "far-West." Your questions are answered in accordance with my experience as Superintendent and Medical Director of a State Institution fo...

The vast majority of people don’t use a scientific geographical vocabulary, nevertheless most use a wide variety of geographical terms on a day to day basis. Identifiers like “Downtown” or “The grim area around the docks” are part of a vernacular geographical terminology which is vastly more used than the coordinate systems and scientifically defined variables so beloved of professional geograp...

Making high-quality decisions in strategic spatial planning is heavily dependent on extracting knowledge from vast amounts of data. Although many decision-making problems like developing urban areas require such perception and reasoning, existing methods in this field usually neglect the deep knowledge mined from geographic databases and are based on pure statistical methods. Due to the large v...

The deep sea is a vast and essentially continuous environment with few obvious barriers to gene flow. How populations diverge and new species form in this remote ecosystem is poorly understood. Phylogeographical analyses have begun to provide some insight into evolutionary processes at bathyal depths (<3000 m), but much less is known about evolution in the more extensive abyssal regions (>3000 ...

Most research on family interventions of children with autism has focused on the role of the mother, and little is known about the effects of training fathers. Through a series of National Institutes of Health– funded studies we have demonstrated treatment success by focusing on fathers who are trained at home. Although our research has been successful, this work introduces questions related to...

Since at least the sixteenth century, the areas of the present day regions of Harar and Wallo have been important centres of teaching and diffusion of Islam as well as of preservation of Islamic culture and education. Preachers and scholars from these areas played a decisive role in the introduction and dissemination of the faith in the country, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...

While the geographical domain has long been involved as an important part of the Linked Data, the small amount of Chinese linked geographical data impedes the integration and sharing of both Chinese and cross-lingual knowledge. In this paper, we contribute to the development of a new Chinese linked geographical dataset named Clinga, by obtaining data from the largest Chinese wiki encyclopedia. ...

Purpose: The present study examines the relationship between job related dimensions and job satisfaction of teaching staff of B-schools in India using Structure Equation Modeling (LISREL 8.5). Methodology: The study is based on a single cross-sectional survey. In all three hundred ten responses were generated from teachers of management institutes located inIndia. A self-administered questionna...