Geographic Influences in the Development of St. Louis

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Ralph and Mollie Izzard. A Walk in the Mountains, A Family's Trip Through the High Lebanon.

Wesley Calef. Private Grazing and Public Lands, Studies of the Local Management of the Taylor Grazing Act.

S. H. Steinberg (editor). The Statesman's Yearbook, 1960-1961.

E. Joseph Dreany. Alaska.

John C. and Elsie F. Caldwell. Our Neighbors in Japan.

R. J. Harrison Church. West Africa: A Study of the Environment and of Man's Use of it.

Alex Somme, editor. A Geography of Norden.     

儿童贵重药片规格合理性研究

目的 研究儿童贵重药片常用剂量,为药片最适包装规格提供参考。方法 根据2013年1月~2016年9月间儿童医院住院患者常用的几种贵重药片各剂量使用情况进行分析,分析现有规格使用率及最高使用率药品剂量,以确定需要生产的儿童药片剂量规格。结果 儿童医院常用的单价 >10元的片剂药品共5种,其中希舒美片剂因有儿童专用的干混悬剂剂型,不列入研究范围。其余4种药品单片价格均 >50元,且斯沃片和威凡片单片价格 >300元。莱立康片和威凡片现有规格剂量可以满足儿科临床需求,而斯沃片和全可利片整理使用率均 <10%,不能满足儿科临床实际需求。需要增加100mg规格的斯沃片和7.8mg规格的全可利片。结论 现有的儿童用贵重片剂不能完全满足儿科临床需求,需要进行适当的剂量调整。     

BrdU标记法探讨糖尿病大鼠H2S与细胞外基质积聚的关系

目的 探讨硫化氢（hydrogen sulfide,H₂S）与糖尿病肾病（diabetic nephropathy,DN）大鼠肾细胞外基质过度积聚的关系。方法 21只SD大鼠随机分成正常对照组（对照组）、糖尿病肾病组（DN组）、硫化氢干预组（DN+H₂S组）。链脲佐菌素（STZ）法建立糖尿病大鼠模型,DN+H₂S组给予NaHS治疗8周,其他组给予同等剂量的0.9%生理盐水治疗。观察3组大鼠肾脏病理改变、BrdU阳性细胞和α平滑肌肌动蛋白（α-smooth muscle actin,α-SMA）分布差异。结果 与对照组比较,DN组大鼠尿蛋白量、相对肾重均明显增多,病理呈典型的DN改变,BrdU阳性细胞比值、肾小球α-SMA表达和分布显著增多（P<0.01）;应用NaHS治疗后,大鼠肾脏DN改变明显减轻（P<0.01）,BrdU阳性细胞比值、肾小球α-SMA表达和分布与正常对照组比较,差异无统计学意义（P>0.05）。结论 H₂S可以抑制DN大鼠肌性成纤维细胞增殖,减少α-SMA表达和分布,减缓DN大鼠的肾小球细胞外基质积聚。     

COMPARING DISTORTION ON SKETCH MAPS AND MDS CONFIGURATIONS∗

The terms “pure'’and “applied'’were used in connection with mathematics and the sciences in the Nineteenth Century and were affixed to geography no later than 1890. This paper is a review of some early occurrences of the term “applied geography'’in the period 1890–1904.     

A review of A Teacher's Handbook on Energy

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A Teacher's Handbook on Energy, prepared under the direction of the Governor's Energy Advisory Council in consultation with the Texas Education Agency, January 1977.     

Learning to See Landscape Through a Flexible Lens

Abstract

Students' established conclusions about the world can often hinder a teacher's efforts to suggest new ideas and new ways to pursue alternative explanations. Flexible thinking helps students practice the value that one's present conclusions should remain tentative and subject to re-evaluation. Meinig's ten alternative perspectives for seeing a landscape were used successfully as a pedagogical rubric to teach students experientially how to observe more attentively and think more flexibly about place.     

Geography Associations and the Teacher

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The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places.Chicago: World Book Inc. 1992. $174.00 (school price: $149.00).

The Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Rio ArribaBaltimore and London: 1992. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 294 pp. $39.95, cloth. ISBN 0-8018-3990-4.

Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's WorldBaltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992. 35 illustrations, endnotes, author index, subject index, ISBN 0-8018-4336-7.

Environmental Hazards in the Valley of MexicoLincoln, Nebraska: National Council for Geographic Education, Great Plains National. 60 slides, annotations, bibliography, $70.00.

Asian Americans: An Interpretive HistoryBoston: Twayne Publisher. 1991. xv and 242 pp., Maps, photos, chronology, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8057-84373. $1 1.95, paperback.

Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey     

Review

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North America. By Israel C. Russell. Pp. × and 435. Appleton's World Series. New York: D. áppletoa & Co., 1904.     

TREASURER'S REPORT

The following arlicle prepared by a member of the School of tho Arts, The Pennsylvania State University presents an artist's analyst's of the character and function of Renaissance maps. The viewpoint of a non-geographer on this niatter may be of interest to the modem day cartographergeographer.     

VIEWS OF THE AAG: RESULTS OF THE LONG RANGE PLANNING MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

In this issue THE PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER presents the first two reports in a series on the Association's long-range planning process, which was described by Past President Marcus in May. David Morgan outlines here the results of a survey of members' attitudes on a number of important questions.     

Reports

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World Geomorphology, by E. M. Bridges New York Cambridge University Press. 260 pp. Cloth $70.00, Paperback—$24.95. ISBN 0-521-38343-9.

Land Degradation, by C. J. Barrow New York: Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. Cloth—$80.00. ISBN 0-521-35333-5.

An Outline of China's Physical Geography, by Ren Mei'e, Yang Renzhang, and Bao Haosheng, compilers, Zhang Tingquan and Hu Genkang, translators Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1985. 471 pp. Paperback—$15.00. ISBN 0-8351-1192-X.

Earth Science for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work, by Janice VanCleave New York John Wiley &; Sons. 1991. 231 pp. $19.89.

SimEarth, by Maxis Software Orinda, CA: Maxis Software. $69.95. Black and white or color. School editions and lab packs are available at reduced prices from Broderbund Software, Novato, CA. For Macintosh and IBM compatible.

MacGlobe, by PC Globe, Inc. Tempe, AZ: PC Globe, Inc. $79.95. For Macintosh.

EARTHALERT, by Mike², Inc. Seattle, WA: Mike², Inc.

Geo-Safari, by Educational Insights Geo-Safari, Educational Insights, 19560 South Rancho Way, Dominguez, Hills, CA 90220.     

The Utilization of Wastes and By-Products

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Commercial Geography. By Jacques W. Redway. Size, 6 × 3 8/4 inches. Pp. viii and 406. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903.     

BOOK REVIEW

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Children Map the WorldSelections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition Jacqueline M. Anderson, Jeet Atwal, Patrick Wiegand, and Alberta Auringer Wood editors. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2005. 128 pages ISBN: 1-58948-125-9 $24.95

World Atlas of Natural Hazards Bill McGuire, Paul Burton, Christopher Kilburn, and Oliver Willetts Oxford University Press Inc./Arnold Publishers. 2004. 128 pages ISBN 03407640582004 $295.00     

Geography,the Integrating Discipline: Explaining China's Population-Driven Geopolitics to Students

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This article demonstrates geography's role as an integrative discipline and its utility in connecting students to the world around them. A case study links China's demography and its geopolitics to the lives of U.S. students. The relationship of China's population pressures to its resulting economic growth, need for economic resources, and geopolitical efforts are examined using the concepts and holistic capabilities that are the academic strength of geography.     

Book Reviews

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Elementary Physical Geography.—William Morris Davis. Boston, Ginn and Company, 1902. Pp. xviii + 401, with 19 plates and 190 figures. $1.25.

The Desert.—John C. Van Dyke. 7×5 in. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1901. Pp. 233, full page photogravure frontispiece. Price, $1.25 net.     

Symposium On Sediment Storage In Rivers And Estuaries

Book Reviewed in this article:

Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India. Rais Akhtarand A.T.A. Learmonth, eds.

Antarctic Treaty System: An Assessment. Proceedings of a Workshop at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica.

American Electoral Mosaics. J. Clark Archerand Fred M. Shelley.

Kompas op Suidwes-Afrika/Namibie. W.S. Barnard, ed.

Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh.

The World as a Total System. Kenneth E. Boulding.

A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, Second Ed. John Burnett.

Human Migration. W.A.V. Clark.

Regional Population Projection Models. Andrei Rogers.

The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus. David Colemanand Roger Schofield, eds.

Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology and the American Future. Joseph C. Corn, ed.

Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kantú. Michael R. Dove.

Glacial Geologic Processes. David Drewry.

Physics of Desertification. Farouk El-Bazand M.H.A. Hassan, eds.

Housing the Homeless. Jon Ericksonand Charles Wilhelm, eds.

Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map. Russel L. Gerlach.

Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands. Yehuda Gradus, ed.

Nuclear Winter. The Evidence and Risks. Owen Greene, Ian Percivaland Irene Ridge.

The Take-off of Suburbia and the Crisis of the Central City. Günter Heinritzand Elisabeth Lichtenberger, eds.

Regional Input-Output Analysis. Geoffrey J. D. Hewings.

Spatial Transportation Modeling. Christian Werner.

The Atlas of Georgia. Thomas W. Hodlerand Howard A. Schretter, eds.

Latin America. 5th ed. Preston E. Jamesand C.W. Minkel.

Applied Remote Sensing. C.P. Lo.

Localities, Class, and Gender. The Lancaster Regionalism Group.

Urban Social Movements: The City after Castells. Stuart Lowe.

Politics and Method. Doreen Masseyand Richard Meegan, eds.

Land Use. A. S. Mather.

The Kingdom of Coal. Donald L. Millerand Richard E. Sharpless.

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, A Documentary History, Vol. 1: 1570–1700. Thomas H. Naylorand Charles W. Polzer, S.J., comps. andeds.

Nuclear Power: Siting and Safety. Stan Openshaw.

The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart. Thomas O'Toole.

Environmental and Dynamic Geomorphology. Márton Pécsi, ed.

Remote Sensing Principles and Interpretation. Floyd F. Sabins, Jr.

Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute between Canada and the United States. Jurgen Schmandtand Hilliard Roderick, eds.

Earth's Changing Surface: An Introduction to Geomorphology. M.J. Selby.

International Migration: The Female Experience. Rita J. Simonand Caroline B. Brettell, eds.

On Geography and Its History. D.R. Stoddart.

Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Approach. D. Teodorovic.

Processes in Physical Geography. R.D. Thompson, A.M. Mannion, C.W. Mitchell, M. Parry, J.R.G. Townshend.

Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys. J.W. Trevett.

Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets. Yi-Fu Tuan.

Capturing the Horizon. The Historical Geography of Transportation since the Transportation Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. James E. Vance, Jr.

Nations at Risk: The Impact of the Computer Revolution. Edward Yourdon.     

Editorials

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Instruction at the primary grade level should be designed to give attention to a child's developmental level and to utilize a child's experience. This article describes how the geographic themes of location, movement, and region can be taught in the primary grades. Students move from concrete to semiconcrete to abstract tasks while learning geographical skills incorporated with math, science, reading, and writing.     

The Delta of the Mississippi

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The fallacy of assuming that one can improve the status of geography by calling it a science is a subset of a larger sophistry of categorization. Some people, for example, seem to think that it is useful to categorize a society as 'rural' or 'commercial' or 'peasant' or 'capitalist,' as if thereupon and forevermore thereafter one could confidently assume that it had automatically acquired all the traits and attributes that have ever been ascribed to all other societies that have been so categorized. Putting something in a pigeonhole does not alter its character, and it would be far better to try to understand the actual character of something than to assume that one knows anything at all about it merely because one has attached a name to it     

Strategic Positivism∗

Many “sociological”factors can account for the initial acceptance and continued persistence of W. M. Davis's Geographical Cycle. Such factors include Davis's attractive and forceful presentation of the cycle and the role of the cycle as a unifier of the discipline of physical geography, to name two. An analysis of the scientific character of the cycle, in the light of Karl Popper's criteria for demarcating between science and non-science, suggests that persistence of the cycle can also be attributed to a “logical”factor, the irrefutability of the central concept, stage.