The establishment and application of the geographic mapping database by city/county unit in China

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIU YUE ◽  
LIANG ZHANG ◽  
CHEN XIAOGANG ◽  
ZHOU YINGMING
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Mapping ◽  
County Unit

Life in a ‘No-go Area’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Kirmani
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Geographic Mapping ◽  
Academic Study

This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is organized around two of Lyari’s most notorious protagonists, Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch. Drawing on narratives of fear that comprise and interweave into everyday life in Lyari, she analyzes the persistent question of the extent to which gang war constitutes politics, rather than being separate to or an obstacle to politics. Through a portrait of Rehman as a community ‘Robin Hood’ figure, Kirmani’s analysis describes a geographic mapping of the paradox of ‘military-humanitarianism’ at the level of local gang warfare. This both mirrors, and also provokes, some original insights into ways these projects are inextricably linked in national and international politics.

Geographic mapping as a tool for identifying communities at high risk of fire and burn injuries in children

Burns ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn G. Poulos ◽  
Andrew Hayen ◽  
Shanley S.S. Chong ◽  
Caroline F. Finch
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Burn Injuries ◽  
Geographic Mapping

Bringing the Arts as Data to Visualize How Knowledge Works

2015 ◽  
pp. 515-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Xu ◽  
Read Diket ◽  
Thomas Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Geographic Mapping ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Visualization Technology

Professional audiences, scholars, and researchers bring varied experiences and expertise to the acquisition of new understandings and to problem solving in visual art and literary contexts. The same breadth of experience and learning capability was found for students at eighth grade, sampled from the national population of students in the United States who were queried in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) about formal knowledge, technical skills, and abstract reasoning in visual art and in language arts. This chapter explores statistical data relating to the presence of art specialists in the sampled eighth grade classrooms. In particular, schools with specialists in place varied in density across the country as is demonstrated through geographic mapping. Secondary analysis of NAEP restricted data showed that students in schools with art specialists performed significantly better than students in schools with other types of teachers, or no teacher. The authors surmise that art specialists conveyed something fundamental to NAEP 2008 Response scores. An aspirational model of assessment assumes broad audience clarity through knowledge visualization technology, via thematic mapping. The authors explore through analog Deleuze and Guattari's double articulation of signs in natural and programming languages and demonstrate through knowledge representation the means by which complex primary and secondary statistical data can be understood in a discipline and articulated across disciplines. This chapter considers NAEP data that might substantiate a general model of aspirational learning and associates patterns in perception discussed by researchers and philosophers.

Child trafficking in China: Evidence from sentencing documents

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Tianji Cai ◽  
Yanyu XIN
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Sex Ratio At Birth ◽  
Child Trafficking ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
Geographic Mapping ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Web Scraping ◽  
New Evidence

Child trafficking has long been internationally recognized as a serious crime. However, due to data scarcity and inconsistent definitions, the scope and nature of such criminal activity are not well understood in China. To fill this gap, this study aims to provide new evidence by digitizing and analyzing sentencing documents on child trafficking in China during 2014-2016.Taking advantage of web scraping techniques, all child trafficking cases were downloaded from the China Judgments Online website. Through geographic mapping and network analysis, we identified four geographic hotspots for trafficking—the central region (Shandong, Henan, and Hebei provinces), the east (Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces), the southeast (Guangdong and Fujian provinces) and the southwest (Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces)—and explored the connection between the hotspots and the gender of victims. We further examined the effect of provincial socioeconomic characteristics on the frequency of trafficking cases, and found that sex ratio at birth and the number of legal adoptions per thousand were positively correlated to the frequency of buying and selling children.

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