In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

The army's geographic organization and distribution have continued to reflect a concern with internal rather than external defense.

Historical expansion of the usage of Slavic languages in the South and East, and Germanic languages in the West reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area which they had formerly covered.

Other disadvantages of old oil fields are their limited geographic distribution and depths, which require high injection pressures for sequestration.

Large-scale population movements from rural to urban areas of Latin America and to other regions of the world have increased the geographic distribution of Chagas disease, and cases have been noted in many countries, particularly in Europe.

Cap carbonates generally have a restricted geographic distribution ( due to specific conditions of their precipitation ) and usually siliciclastic sediments replace laterally the cap carbonates in a rather short distance and cap carbonates do not occur above every tillite elsewhere in the world.

Procopius interpreted the name Visigoth as " western Goths " and the name Ostrogoth as " eastern Goth ", reflecting the geographic distribution of the Gothic realms at that time.

The geographic distribution of the Italian language in the world: large Italian-speaking communities are shown in green ; light blue indicates areas where the Italian language was used officially during the Italian colonial period.

In the late 1950s, Greenberg began to examine corpora of languages covering a wide geographic and genetic distribution.

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA, ecology, behaviour, morphology, geographic distribution and parasites of the North Island Brown Kiwi has led scientists to propose that the Brown Kiwi is three distinct species.

Migration and international conflict have contributed to the present ethnic composition of the country and to the geographic distribution of its ethnic groups.

* Biogeography is the science which deals with geographic patterns of species distribution and the processes that result in these patterns.

The wildlife of the Persian Gulf is diverse, and entirely unique due to the gulf's geographic distribution and its isolation from the international waters only breached by the narrow Strait of Hormuz.

Racial qualities tended to be related to nationality and language rather than the actual geographic distribution of racial characteristics.

The Mongoloid race sees the widest geographic distribution, including all of the Americas, North Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, the entire inhabited Arctic.

Activities related to planning, scheduling and supporting manufacturing operations, such as work-in-process storage, handling, transportation, and time phasing of components, inventory at manufacturing sites and maximum flexibility in the coordination of geographic and final assemblies postponement of physical distribution operations.

The geographic distribution of surface warming during the 21st century calculated by the HadCM3 climate model if a business as usual scenario is assumed for economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions.

Cloudinids had a wide geographic range, reflected in the present distribution of localities in which their fossils are found, and are an abundant component of some deposits.

Knowledge of the geographic distribution of strongyloidiasis is of significance to travelers who may acquire the parasite during their stay in endemic areas.

The geographic distribution of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease is similar worldwide, with highest incidences in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia.

Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, the varieties of a language that are characteristic of particular groups, based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features.

In the article written by Davidson, 2005 on page 221, Table 1contains known obligate Cecropia-ants listed by species and geographic distribution.

Its geographic distribution extends along the Pacific and Atlantic Mexican coasts and in Central and South American forests and are found over an elevation range of 0 to 2, 600 meters.

By the early 1900s, the recognized geographic distribution of this disease grew to include parts of the United States as far north as Washington State, Idaho, and Montana and as far south as California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Whereas dialectology studies the geographic distribution of language variation, sociolinguistics focuses on other sources of variation, among them class.

In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).

The town of Harwich contains several smaller census-designated places ( CDPs ) for which the U. S. Census reports more focused geographic and demographic information.

The town boasted a " socio-cultural mix ," sat near the exact geographic center of the continental U. S., and Hume and Meyer's research told them that Lawrence was a prime missile target, because 150 Minuteman missile silos stood nearby.

* May 3 – U. S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.

The exact term for the MFJ is given under the general definition of local access and transport area, a term used in U. S. telecommunications regulation for geographic areas in which local telephone companies are allowed to provide service, the term being used is

In U. S. telecommunications, a Wide Area Telephone Service ( WATS ) is a long distance service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications between a given customer station and stations within specified geographic rate areas employing a single telephone line between the customer user location and the serving central office.

In twenty U. S. states, the term " village " refers to a specific form of incorporated municipal government, similar to a city but with less authority and geographic scope.

The Sierra Nevada Mountains, the fertile farmlands of the Central Valley, and the arid Mojave Desert of the south are some of the major geographic features of this U. S. state.

The U. S. Trustee appoints Chapter 7 trustees for a renewable period of 1 year, Chapter 13 trustees are “ standing trustees ” who administrator cases in a specific geographic region.

The Midwestern United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is one of the four U. S. geographic regions.

Beemer is located at ( 41. 930439 ,-96. 809862 ) on the table lands adjoining the Elkhorn River bottoms, 84 miles from Omaha and nine miles northwest of West Point, near the geographic center of Cuming County where Nebraska Link 20A meets U. S. Route 275.

According to the U. S Geological Survey ( which warns that " there is no generally accepted definition of a geographic center "), the center of the continent of North America is 6 miles west of Balta, at a latitude of 48 ° 10 ' and a longitude of 100 ° 10 '.

In 1959, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche as the geographic center of the United States.

Na – Dené and Algic have the widest geographic distributions: Algic currently spans from northeastern Canada across much of the continent down to northeastern Mexico ( due to later migrations of the Kickapoo ) with two outliers in California ( Yurok and Wiyot ); Na – Dené spans from Alaska and western Canada through Washington, Oregon, and California to the U. S. Southwest and northern Mexico ( with one outlier in the Plains ).

" Examples included two UK groups — the country-tinged pop band Boothill Foot Tappers and the tongue-in-cheek New Wave outfit Yip Yip Coyote — and several U. S. bands: X, The Blasters, Meat Puppets, Rubber Rodeo ( which ironically " juxtaposed countrypolitan elements and more conventional rock postures " in homage to " a pop-culture west rather than a geographic or historic one "), Rank and File ( playing " an updated version of 1960s country-rock "), Jason and the Scorchers ( with " authentically deep country roots "), and Violent Femmes ( at that time incorporating " mountain banjo, wheezing saxophones, scraping fiddle, twanging jew's harp, and ragged vocal choruses ").

" In General Westmoreland's view, the purpose of the Combat Base was to provoke the North Vietnamese into a focused and prolonged confrontation in a confined geographic area, one which would allow the application of massive U. S. artillery and air strikes that would inflict heavy casualties in a relatively unpopulated region.

Recent research has examined a decline in U. S. interstate migration from 1991 to 2011, theorizing that the reduced interstate migration is due to a decline in the geographic specificity of occupations and an increase in workers ’ ability to learn about other locations before moving there, through both information technology and inexpensive travel.

U. S. Route 1, known as the Newburyport Turnpike in the area, passes near the geographic center of town, and Massachusetts Route 1A passes through the eastern part of town, through the town center.

During the Cold War, military functions took a prominent role in Plattsburgh, which was home to Plattsburgh Air Force Base ( PAFB ) and was the location of the Strategic Air Command's primary wing on the U. S. East Coast due to its geographic desirability.

and Moore, R. C., 1931, " The Kaiparowits region, a geographic and geologic reconnaissance of parts of Utah and Arizona ", U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 164, 16 p.

* The U. S. National Geodetic Survey, performs geographic surveys as part of the U. S. Department of Commerce

As a result of the geographic importance of this observational platform, experts come from all over the world to take part in research at " Science City ", an astrophysical complex operated by the U. S. Department of Defense, University of Hawaii, Smithsonian Institution, Air Force, Federal Aviation Agency, and others.

A Core Based Statistical Area ( CBSA ) is a U. S. geographic area defined by the Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) based around an urban center of at least 10, 000 people and adjacent areas that are socioeconomically tied to the urban center by commuting.

** the GEOnet Names Server ( GNS ) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's ( NGA ) and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names ' ( US BGN ) database of foreign geographic feature names.