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Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Adama Ouedraogo, Patrice Ngangue, David Jean Simon, Vénunyé Claude Kondo Tokpovi et al. • BMJ Global Health (2025)

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018333

An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

AN INVESTIGATION OF LOCAL EFFECTS ON SURFACE WARMING WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR)

Y. Xue, T. Fung, J. Tsou • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2012)

Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In the literature the spatial ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B8-131-2012

Dispensador automático de alimento para mascotas

Daniel Orlando Icaza-Álvarez, Gabino Tito, Wilma Padilla, Geovanny Pesántez et al. • FIGEMPA (2017)

Este equipo tiene como finalidad ayudarnos en la alimentación de nuestra mascota en horarios definidos, basta con una simple configuración inicial y trabajará de forma continua indefinidamente, con respaldo del suministro de energía eléctri...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.29166/revfig.v1i2.75

From Military Geography to militarism's geographies: disciplinary engagements with the geographies of militarism and military activities

Rachel Woodward • Progress in Human Geography (2005)

This paper reviews contemporary approaches in Anglophone human geography to the geographical constitution and expression of militarism and military activities. Three main approaches are identified, and the merits, limitations and insights o...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132505ph579oa

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2013)

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203371183

Imaginative geographies

Derek Gregory • Progress in Human Geography (1995)

Reanalyzing the work of Eward Said the essay illuminates the complexity and fractured formation of Orientalism as a constellation of power, knowledge and geography. In doing so the author reconstructs Said's geographical imagination and its...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/030913259501900402

Moral Geographies

David M. Smith • Edinburgh University Press eBooks (2000)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612796); This book explores the interface between geography, ethics and morality. It considers questions that have haunted the past, are subjects of controversy in the present, and which affect the ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474472685

Geography and Economic Development

John L. Gallup, Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger • International Regional Science Review (1999)

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choice...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/016001799761012334

The Geography of Strabo

• Choice Reviews Online (2014)

In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (c. 64 BCE c. 25 CE) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate countries. Geography is a vital ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.187090

Nested Within or Swallowed Up: Le dilemme des chercheurs francophones en pédagogie postsecondaire au Canada

Genevieve Maheux-Pelletier, Vanessa Rukholm, Jovan Groen, Nancy Vézina • Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2017)

La littérature dans le domaine de la recherche en pédagogie postsecondaire (RePP) a pris une expansion importante au cours des dernières décennies, particulièrement dans les espaces anglophones tels que l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe de l’Oue...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2017.2.7

A study of the decontamination procedures used for chemical analysis of polar deep ice cores

Takayuki Miyake, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Ryu Uemura, Kumiko Goto-Azuma et al. • Antarctic Record (2009)

We investigated the decontamination procedures used on polar deep ice cores before chemical analyses such as measurements of the concentrations of iron species and dust (microparticles). We optimized cutting and melting protocols for decont...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15094/00009507

Geography and Economic Development

John L. Gallup, Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger • National Bureau of Economic Research (1998)

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choice...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.3386/w6849

Economic Geography

Pierre‐Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer, Jacques‐François Thisse • Princeton University Press eBooks (2008)

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcm4h9k

Geography and development

J. Vernon Henderson, Zmarak Shalizi, Anthony J. Venables • Journal of Economic Geography (2001)

Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/1.1.81

The geographies of cultural geography III

Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly • Progress in Human Geography (2012)

The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512439154