States within the contiguous United States were categorized as "north" if they were located entirely north of parallel 37 north latitude and "south" if entirely below this latitude; states crossing this line (California and Nevada) were excluded from some analyses.
In the models, the geographical area of residence (categorized as North-East, North-West, Centre, South, and Islands) was included as random-effect parameter.
These studies are broadly categorized under North, Central, and Southern forest ecosystem of India.
According to the ethnologue information, Luoba Tibetan (Boga'er Luoba), categorized under the North-Assam branch of the Tibeto-Burman sub linguistic family, is also alternatively referred to as Adi/Abor and is supposed to have been derived from the 'Tani' group, the putative ancestral population of Adi.
The districts in Bihar were categorized into the relatively less developed north zone, which included 21 districts that are north of the Ganges river, and the south zone with the remaining 17 districts.
To determine if geographic location predicted outcome, IHAST centers were categorized post hoc as being either North American (US and Canada, 22 centers, 637 subjects) or non-North American (Europe, Australia, New Zealand, 8 centers, 363 subjects).
These findings have significance because as per the official data from India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) [ 1], Delhi and the adjoining north-Indian states are categorized as low prevalence areas for HIV.
All SHOW households and categorized food outlets were geocoded with ArcGIS North America Geocode Service 10.0.
In north China, the only area categorized as highest SES, education information was unavailable for 50.3% of the cases, so we were unable to analyze the effect of individual demographic characteristics in this subgroup.
Giraffe of northwestern and north-central Namibia have been categorized as Angolan giraffe [ 1, 16] but the taxonomic classification of giraffe from northern Botswana and northeastern Namibia remains uncertain.
