Regional science's formal roots date to the aggressive campaigns by Walter Isard and his supporters to promote the " objective " and " scientific " analysis of settlement, industrial location, and urban development.

He was elected to the Regional Command, as the story goes, with help from Michel Aflaq -- the founder of Ba ' athist thought.

A founder member of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ), the Maldives is also a member of the Bretton Woods system.

The Maldives were a founder member in 1985 of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and the nation plays a very active role in the association.

The airline was established in May 1997 as Servicio de Transporte Aéreo Regional by founder, and Chief Executive, Valentin Kasyanov.

I: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, 497 p.

Nonetheless, Walter Isard's first book in 1956, Location and Space Economy, apparently captured the imagination of many, and his third, Methods of Regional Analysis, published in 1960, only sealed his position as the father of the field.

At Walter Isard's suggestion, the University of Pennsylvania started the Regional Science Department in 1956.

In 1956, the Thornfield house was purchased by Caroline and Walter Isard, active Quakers who moved to the area when Walter founded the Regional Science department at the University of Pennsylvania.

* Doctor Walter O. Moss Regional Medical Center, Lake Charles.

Regional delta wave activity not associated with NREM sleep was first described by W. Grey Walter, who studied cerebral hemisphere tumors.

* Walter Wong, anthropologist, late Ayacucho Regional Director of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura

* Isard, Walter et al., Methods of Regional Analysis: An Introduction to Regional Science MIT Press 1960.

The origins of Canadian Regional go back over 40 years to when Time Air was formed by Walter “ Stub ” Ross from Lethbridge in Alberta.

He studied regional science in University of Pennsylvania under Walter Isard and obtained a Ph. D .( in Regional Science ) from University of Pennsylvania in 1972.

Walter was a member of Spies for Peace — the only member to be publicly identified, and only after his death — who in March 1963 broke into Regional Seat of Government No. 6 ( RSG-6 ), copied documents relating to the Government's plans in the event of nuclear war, and subsequently distributed 3, 000 leaflets revealing their contents.

*' How My Father Spied For Peace ', Natasha Walter on her father's involvement in the exposure of the secret ' Regional Seats of Government '.

The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group ( BMG ) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J. Walter Thompson-Asia Pacific.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission had proposed a US 130 freeway between Camden and Burlington, but it was never built.

Jack Brooks Regional Airport has the distinction of being the only destination that Southwest Airlines has ended scheduled daily service to ( 1980 ), and has never returned.

Regional airlines are never considered major airlines although in many instances, the regional airline may be owed by a conglomerate airline holding company, and have revenues greater than $ 1 billion U. S. dollars in revenue during a fiscal year.

Eurostar previously held the rights to run five trains a day on the line for services from continental Europe to cities north of London, as part of the Regional Eurostar plan, although such services have never been run.

In 1972, the Regional Fixed Guideway Study for MTC proposed a $ 1. 3 billion 37-or 57-mile ( sources differ ) heavy-rail rapid transit system, but the then-separate Metropolitan Council disagreed with that idea — refusing to even look at the plan — and continuing political battles meant that it was never implemented.

In 1972, the Regional Fixed Guideway Study for the Metropolitan Transit Commission ( the forerunner of today's Metro Transit ) proposed a $ 1. 3 billion 37-or 57-mile ( sources differ ) heavy-rail rapid transit system, but the then-separate Metropolitan Council disagreed with that idea – refusing to even look at the plan – and continuing political battles meant that it was never implemented.

Like the Connex X ' Trapolis trains running exclusively on lines owned by Connex prior to gaining ownership of M > Train's lines, the Siemens trains never run revenue services on lines owned by Connex prior to the merger, except for the Flemington Racecourse line which was cleared for Siemens trains to run passengers services on it while Regional Rail Link works were carried out on the Sydenham line.

Alaska was also never served by any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies.

By working with Alaska Airlines and Boeing, British Airways technical pilots were able to demonstrate that a " Hybrid " concept was feasible, and although British Airways never eventually bought the Regional Jet, this was the breakthrough needed for international approval for such systems which meant that they could reach a global market.

I-80 heads west around the north side of Sacramento ; the built portion of the never completed North Sacramento Freeway replacement, in the median of I-80, now serves as parking and access for the northernmost three stations ( Watt / I-80, Watt / I-80 West, and Roseville Road ) on the Sacramento Regional Transit District's light rail Blue Line.

Regional transport in Belgium is operated by regional companies: De Lijn in Flanders operates the Kusttram and the Antwerp pre-metro as well as a bus network, TEC in Wallonia operates the Charleroi pre-metro as well as a bus network and MIVB / STIB in the Brussels Capital-Region operates the Brussels metro as well as the Brussels tram and bus network.

Benin is member of the regional Bourse Regional des Valeur Mobiliés ( BRVM ) located in Abidjan, Côte d ' Ivoire.

Burkina Faso is a member of the regional Bourse Regional des Valeurs Mobilières ( BRVM ) located in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Regional radio personalities, newscasters, politicians or community leaders may be local or regional celebrities.

As the word Capoeira was still forbidden by Brazilian law, Bimba called his new style Luta Regional Baiana ( meaning regional fight from Bahia ).

Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

* Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ), a regional municipality in Nova Scotia

# Regional tournaments: Top teams from each regional tournaments will be promoted to a division depending on the teams ' rankings according to the ICC and each division's empty spots.

The period of Regional Development is identified that for the first time the regional differences in the territorial or political and social organization of people that formed.

The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ( ECRML ) is a European treaty ( CETS 148 ) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.

The preparation for the charter was undertaken by the predecessor to the current Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe because involvement of local and regional government was essential.

Regional bus lines have been regulated by the provincial administration to protect old transit companies, leading to cartel situations like TLO in the Turku region, but strong regional regulating bodies, like the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority ( HSL / HRT ), whose routes are put out to tender exist as well and will become the norm after the transitionary period during the 2010s.

Furthermore, Greek is officially recognized as a minority language in parts of Italy and Albania, as well as in Armenia, Romania and Ukraine as a regional or minority language in the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Regional roads, designated with the letter R, are a mix of primary and secondary routes, which serve as feeder roads to National roads ; while Inter-Regional roads, designated with the prefix IR, connect major settlements across regional borders.

Regional cooperation, through membership in various regional and international organizations, is a key element in its foreign policy.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

Regional stereotypes, like regional dialects, have been breaking down under the influence of centralized education, nationwide media, and the several decades of population movement since the Korean War.

Regional cooperation, especially with the states of Carinthia and Styria, is well developed: as a concrete manifestation of the excellent state of regional relations, Slovenia, Austria, and Italy entered a joint bid to organize the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Following a pre-1999 election commitment to consider the feasibility of introducing fast rail services to regional centres, in 2000 the government approved funding for the Regional Fast Rail project, upgrading rail lines between Melbourne and Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Traralgon.

The UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies ( Bruges, Belgium ) specializes in the processes and consequences of regional integration and cooperation.

The Regional Council of Campania ( Consiglio Regionale della Campania ) is composed of 60 members, of which 47 are elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation, 12 from the so-called " regional list " of the elected President and the last one is for the candidate for President who comes second, who usually becomes the leader of the opposition in the Council.

The concept was introduced in the 1970s by the Natal Town and Regional Planning Commission of the Province of Natal ( now known as KwaZulu-Natal ) in the regional guide plans for Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional.