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    Geographic maldistribution has creates barriers of care to people living in rural areas. Although there is an oversupply of physician specialists in many of the urban healthcare areas around the world, while the inner cities and rural community are struggling to attract healthcare physician professional to provide high quality care to the local population. “The supply of specialties has increased more than 100% over the last 20 years, while supply of generalists has increased only 18%” (Niles,2014)

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    Topic: How did economic, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775? The introduction of Africans to America in 1619 set off an irreversible chain of events that effected the economy of the southern colonies. With a switch from the expensive system of indentured servitude, slavery emerged and grew rapidly for various reasons, consisting of economic, geographic, and social factors. The expansion

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    There are five distinct geographic regions, also known as physiographic provinces, in Virginia that each carry its own physiography and background in the underline geology. Among these five main geographic regions of Virginia, the Valley and Ridge of Virginia plays an important role in the geology of Virginia starting from its Proterozoic period that dates back to 600 Ma through Cenozoic period in 0 Ma. The significant activities during the Silurian period as far as sediment deposition is concerned

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    Geographic Location: The Chippewa Indians primarily inhabited the Northern regions of the United States. They could be found in states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Additionally, a few bands of the Chippewa tribe inhabit parts of southern Canada. Together, there are approximately 150 different bands or groups of Chippewa Native Americans. Social Structure: In the Chippewa culture, the roles of men and women were much defined. Women were domestic, taking care of the home and the farm

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    One of the only two reasons that a person cannot receive said treatment is because there is no trained professional that is capable of giving the treatment. The geographic disparity exists most “The figures are stark: the average density of dentists to head of population in Africa is 1 to 150,000; in industrialized countries, the average is 1 to 5,000” (“High Risk” 1). There is no shortage of capable dentists in the

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    When it comes to discussing the geographic landscape of the African continent people are quick to overlook the important role that soil has played in the development of cultures and civilizations in Africa because it can be so easily overshadowed by Africa’s other geographic features such as its rivers, mountains, deserts and grasslands. However, to ignore soil is undoubtedly a mistake because “African soils cannot be separated from African history” (Showers 118). Soils are literally the foundation

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    The Nature of Tourism in Hawaii Geographic and Climatic Description Hawaii is the fiftieth state of the US and is located within the Pacific Ocean. The capital state of Hawaii is Honolulu, which also ranks as the state’s largest city, aside from being a cultural hub. The languages spoken include Hawaiian and English. The geographical formation of Hawaii is made up of a total of eight islands as follows: Hawaii, Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. However, only six of these

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    GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES MATH 166 Ian Gilley, Kelvin Brandl, Kayla Muehlhauser, Nathan Koehler, Justin Ebnet, Kylie Bentz Our method for determining the center of mass of each state is split up into five steps. The first two, file conversion and sorting, gave a huge amount of raw data, and then condensed it into a workable form. The third step converted latitude and longitude coordinates into kilometers. The fourth step took the trapezoids formed by the previous steps and calculated

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    Paper 3: Autonomous Cars Cars have diminished the barrier of geographic separation, and because of this the structure of american society and industry is dependent on cars. Our current world would not be able to function without cars. With such an impact on society, heavy regulations were made to insure the best possible outcome for this new technology. Automobiles now exist under a complex system of laws and regulations and because of this, new advancements in respect to automobiles are closely

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    change the world if we continue to be ignorant of the issue. He has been a part of the National Geographic team for over thirty years and has “broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era: human modification of our planet’s natural systems.” (James Baolog, Founder & Director, Extreme Ice Survey/Founder, Earth Vision Trust.) As mentioned before, National Geographic has its eye constantly on the future with innovation and exploration. Right now, social networking

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