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View article: <scp>MAKING AN ACCESSIBLE CITY</scp> : A Critique of Cartographic Reason through Emphasis on Corpography
<span>MAKING AN ACCESSIBLE CITY</span> : A Critique of Cartographic Reason through Emphasis on Corpography Open
Inspired by Gunnar Olsson, this article critiques the use of cartographic reason in the process of creating an accessible city for people with disabilities. It also borrows Gregory's ontological conceptual pair of cartography and corpograp…
View article: Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities Open
Objectives The healthcare landscape is challenged by emerging and severe public health threats, and fast shifting priorities. There is an urgent need to build public health workforce capacity to enable rapid adaptation and effective respon…
View article: Effect of Value Added Tax Incentives on Financial Performance of Export Processing Zone Agro-Processing Firms in Nairobi County Kenya
Effect of Value Added Tax Incentives on Financial Performance of Export Processing Zone Agro-Processing Firms in Nairobi County Kenya Open
Many governments employ trade laws and initiatives to increase export trade on a global scale. As a result, numerous trade incentives were introduced. Thus, one of the often-employed strategies to improve the financial performance of EPZ c…
View article: Movement refrains of people with visual impairments: A post-phenomenological geography beyond space and place
Movement refrains of people with visual impairments: A post-phenomenological geography beyond space and place Open
The paper intervenes in current discussions within post-phenomenological geography. It analyzes the movement of people with visual impairments in order to develop an approach to post-phenomenology that emphasizes the in-betweenness of bodi…
View article: “Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies Open
Despite the growing interest in walking methods in disability research, their methodological difficulties are rarely examined. Therefore, we debate the challenges of doing go-along interviews with visually disabled people when geographical…
View article: A fourth derivative test for exponential sums
A fourth derivative test for exponential sums Open
We give an upper bound for the exponential $\sum_{m=1}^M \exp( 2iπf (m))$ in terms of $M$ and $λ$, where $λ$ is a small positive number which denotes the size of the fourth derivative of the real valued function $f$. The classical van der …
View article: Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites
Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites Open
Structural change in the agricultural economy may result in the abandonment of agricultural buildings, creating rural brownfield sites. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, post‐agricultural brownfields have become very common in Ce…
View article: The social stone: a story of transformation from ableist to accessible topology
The social stone: a story of transformation from ableist to accessible topology Open
Using a case study of a kerb – the social stone – found at a tram traffic Island, the text demonstrates the re/production of the ableist city and analyses processes of transforming such a city into an accessible space for people with disab…
View article: Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields
Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields Open
The fall of the Iron Curtain created a vacuum upon which large-scale collectivized agriculture was largely abandoned. Post-agricultural brownfields emerge in multiple manners across national, regional and local levels. While these sites re…
View article: Rational points on an intersection of diagonal forms
Rational points on an intersection of diagonal forms Open
We consider intersections of n diagonal forms of degrees k 1 < $\bullet$ $\bullet$ $\bullet$ < kn, and we prove an asymptotic formula for the number of rational points of bounded height on these varieties. The proof uses the Hardy-Littlewo…
View article: Geografie bariér
Geografie bariér Open
The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, …
View article: A tale of two cities: The comparative chrono-urbanism of Brno and Bratislava public transport systems
A tale of two cities: The comparative chrono-urbanism of Brno and Bratislava public transport systems Open
Time policies in urban environments are discussed in this article, including some difficulties in comparing such policies between cities and in an international comparison of urban times in general. In response to the need to systematise m…
View article: Abandonment or Regeneration and Re-Use? Factors Affecting the Usage of Farm Premises in Different Social Spaces of the Rural
Abandonment or Regeneration and Re-Use? Factors Affecting the Usage of Farm Premises in Different Social Spaces of the Rural Open
Nearly every village in Central and Eastern European countries with heavily collectivized agriculture has its collective farm premises that encompass substantial parts of the village area, were built in the sixties, and now are unable to b…
View article: 'Tied to a wheelchair': How the absence of civil inattention Serves as a Spatial barrier to electric wheelchair users
'Tied to a wheelchair': How the absence of civil inattention Serves as a Spatial barrier to electric wheelchair users Open
The article is based on disability geography and draws on the social-geographic conception of relational space, which is perceived as being constantly created, never finished, heterogeneous, and embodied, and not a space that is given and …
View article: The fate of socialist agricultural premises: To agricultural ‘brownfields’ and back again?
The fate of socialist agricultural premises: To agricultural ‘brownfields’ and back again? Open
The variety of post-socialist agricultural transitions in four different rural regions located in South Bohemia (Czech Republic), with respect to the utilisation of the older premises, is subject to analysis in this article. A complete dat…
View article: Exploring citizen science in post-socialist space: Uncovering its hidden character in the Czech Republic
Exploring citizen science in post-socialist space: Uncovering its hidden character in the Czech Republic Open
Citizen science is a relatively new phenomenon in the Czech Republic and currently a general overview of existing citizen science projects is not available. This presents the challenge to uncover the ‘hidden’ citizen science landscapes. Th…
View article: Vizuální nevědomí: vizuální organizace nevizuálního města
Vizuální nevědomí: vizuální organizace nevizuálního města Open
This article focuses on the organization of space. The practices through which we grasp and conceive space are the paper’s concern. Practices emanating from the visual organization of space are usually so commonplace for seeing people so t…
View article: „A přišel ti naproti?“: dohled rodičů jako neviditelná bariéra prostorového chování jejich dcer ve vzdálených univerzitních městech
„A přišel ti naproti?“: dohled rodičů jako neviditelná bariéra prostorového chování jejich dcer ve vzdálených univerzitních městech Open
Research on perceptions of security has long focused on exploring fear for oneself, but fear for other person, so-called altruistic fear, which can contribute significantly to the overall perception of security, is equally important. Fear …
View article: On Artin's conjecture: linear slices of diagonal hypersurfaces
On Artin's conjecture: linear slices of diagonal hypersurfaces Open
Artin's conjecture is established for all forms that can be realised as a diagonal form on an hyperplane.
View article: Rhythm of urban retail landscapes: Shopping hours and the urban chronotopes
Rhythm of urban retail landscapes: Shopping hours and the urban chronotopes Open
Daily rhythmical patterns in the city are investigated in depth in this paper. The city is conceptualised here as a cyclical process and described by a sequence of relatively stable spatial-temporal stages. The concept of a chronotope is i…
View article: Urban Place as a Heterochronotopia: A Case Study of a Brno Locality
Urban Place as a Heterochronotopia: A Case Study of a Brno Locality Open
This article is based on long-term study of the relationship between time and space. It does not conceive space as a dimensionless, empty, and homogeneous container but draws instead on the concept of place as unique and meaningful. The co…
View article: Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative Space
Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative Space Open
The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)pr…
View article: Semantic map: the case of Ústí nad Orlicí
Semantic map: the case of Ústí nad Orlicí Open
The paper presents a method of creating a semantic map which follows up the tradition of mental mapping. The first step in the construction of a semantic map is a spatial definition of the shared image of a place/town. The second step is s…
View article: Influenza vaccine effectiveness among healthcare workers in comparison to hospitalized patients: A 2004-2009 case-test, negative-control, prospective study
Influenza vaccine effectiveness among healthcare workers in comparison to hospitalized patients: A 2004-2009 case-test, negative-control, prospective study Open
The objective of this study was to calculate Vaccine Effectiveness (VE) in healthcare workers (HCW) and to compare VE between patients and HCW. A case-control investigation based on the prospective study was conducted between 2004 and 2009…