Sentence examples for area studies from inspiring English sources

And area studies were hampered by another problem.

The Ford Foundation started an initiative in 1996 to revitalize area studies.

Increasingly, area studies came under assault for the "ghetto feel" of its world area divisions.

This has been evident in the consistent strength of area studies since the middle of the 20th century.

Thus it was not surprising that eventually even the foundations most responsible for building area studies reassessed their commitment.

If the cold war enabled area studies to flourish, its end meant it had to compete more aggressively for prestige.

This study provides a complete formulation of multi-area generation scheduling, and a framework for multi-area studies.

However, infection in cattle often goes undiagnosed, and small-area studies show difficulty in relating incidence in cattle with tsetse challenge [4].

Another methodological issue associated with many small-area studies is the use of administrative units as proxies for neighbourhoods.

Small-area studies also allow local effects (e.g., impacts of point sources of pollution) to be investigated (Elliott and Wartenberg 2004).

Finally, small-area studies (like other types of epidemiologic inquiry) are susceptible to confounding, which can result in spurious exposure disease associations.