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Geography
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Definition of 'Geography'The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed) Common names: Geography; Counties; County; Islands; Island; Geography, Medical; Geographies, Medical; Medical Geographies; Medical Geography; Human Geography; Geography, Human; Administrative Districts; Administrative District; District, Administrative; Districts, Administrative; Geographic Factors |
Monday, November 23, 2009
25 Oct 2009 
The relative location of 2 repetitive DNAs, i.e. ribosomal (rDNA) and a tandemly repeated satellite DNA (satDNA), with respect to the centromere, suggested that B chromosomes in the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans derived intraspecifically from ... Read more...
25 Oct 2009 Although the standard karyotype of the western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) consists entirely of telocentric chromosomes, there are over 100 populations across western Europe and North Africa characterized by different sets of metacentrics ... Read more...
Challenges and solutions of remote sensing at offshore wind energy developments.
11 Oct 2009 Radar is becoming an important tool used to gather data on bird and bat activity at proposed and existing land-based wind energy sites. Radar will likely play an even more important role at the increasing development of wind energy offshore, given ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Geography'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Microdissection and chromosome painting of X and B chromosomes in the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans. 25 Oct 2009
- New metacentric population of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) found in Valchiavenna, Northern Italy. 25 Oct 2009
- Challenges and solutions of remote sensing at offshore wind energy developments. 11 Oct 2009
- Population genetics of the understory fishtail palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti in Belize: high genetic connectivity with local differentiation. 7 Oct 2009
- Genetics without borders.
6 Oct 2009 - Expanding the toolbox for phylogeographic analysis. 29 Sep 2009
- Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). 29 Sep 2009
- Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries. 29 Sep 2009
- Modern human cranial diversity in the Late Pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia: evidence from Nazlet Khater, Pestera cu Oase, and Hofmeyr. 29 Sep 2009
- mtDNA variability in two Bantu-speaking populations (Shona and Hutu) from Eastern Africa: implications for peopling and migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa. 29 Sep 2009
- Where the rare species are. 29 Sep 2009
- Breaching the dispersal barrier to invasion: quantification and management. 29 Sep 2009
- Soils and geomedicine. 29 Sep 2009
- Quantifying effects of seedborne inoculum on virus spread, yield losses, and seed infection in the pea seed-borne mosaic virus-field pea pathosystem. 29 Sep 2009
- Frequent transmission of hepatitis E virus among piglets in farms in Southern France. 29 Sep 2009
- Direct evidence of 1,900 years of indigenous silver production in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Southern Peru. 28 Sep 2009
- Complete mitochondrial DNA replacement in a Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish. 23 Sep 2009
- Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru. 23 Sep 2009
- Anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis - Maine, 2008. 23 Sep 2009
- Reconstructing Indian population history. 22 Sep 2009
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Technical information about 'Geography'
Definition: The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)
Descriptor UI: D005843
Alternative terms: Geography; Counties; County; Islands; Island; Geography, Medical; Geographies, Medical; Medical Geographies; Medical Geography; Human Geography; Geography, Human; Administrative Districts; Administrative District; District, Administrative; Districts, Administrative; Geographic Factors; Geographic Factor; Factor, Geographic; Factors, Geographic;
Related Mesh Headings: Maps as Topic; Topography, Medical;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: H01.374;
Technical Notes: for Earth, Moon, etc.; must discuss geog features (lakes, streams, shores, mountains, plains, seas, etc.); not for epidemiol aspects of disease nor for occur of diseases in cities named in a country or a country ( = /epidemiol); no qualif unless as SPEC; for X ref GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL, do not coord with MEDICINE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL is also available; DF: GEOGR