Census Bureau's data which showed that many areas located in or near the Great Plains and West Texas experienced the most rapid population growth from July 2011 to July 2012, with Texas as the fastest-growing metro area with a 4,6 percent increase....
such as locating the universal in the West and theparticular in the ‘rest,’which then was divided according to the geographies ofknowledge produced by Area Studies. The unmaking of these knowledge hier-archies entails productive risks that are worth taking as they help us rediscoverand uncover...
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However, literature suggests that there may be differences in the understanding of abstinence across adolescents, and this study sought to explore the understanding of sexual abstinence among both male and female learners in a secondary school in a semi-rural area of North West Province, South ...
Concentrations of natural seismic activity occur in an arc extending from the Koffiefontein area of the Free State through Lesotho and northeast through KwaZulu Natal to the Mozambique Channel, in Namaqualand, and also in the Ceres area of the Western Cape, where an earthquake of magnitudemb= 6....
The land area of South Africa’s nine provinces, from smallest to largest: Gauteng: 18,178 square kilometres (1.5% of total) Mpumalanga: 76,495 square kilometres (6.3%) KwaZulu-Natal: 94,361 square kilometres (7.7%) North West: 104,882 square kilometres (8.6%) ...
where theEast Indiamantrade ships could find shelter from northwesterly winter gales. The constraints of mountain, sea, and sand shaped the direction of Cape Town’s growth, and the pattern was followed in subsequent road and rail construction. A railway line reached Wynberg in 1864 and Muizen...
SouthAustraliais the driest of the Australian states. Only about one-fifth of the area receives annual precipitation of more than 10 inches (250 mm), and less than half of that has more than 16 inches (400 mm). The higher rainfall occurs along the southern coasts and the north-south-tren...
In this area, the Quaternary deposits cover a large surface, overlying the Neogene sediments. The basal strata correspond to the Barranquita Fm. (Upper Pleistocene–Lower Holocene) (Figure 5), which is constituted by brown-yellowish-colored sands and silts of a tabular geometry, with dominant ma...
Regardless of whether precipitation is high or low, high temperatures mostly result in lower crop growth over large areas, especially in India. Here, India plays a dominant role with the largest cropland area in this study region. It is worth mentioning that crops also positively respond to ...