In the present case, a contiguity-based weighting scheme, which involve assigning a weight of one for contiguous areas and a value of zero for non-contiguous districts, was applied [ 40, 45, 46, 55].
PUMA's are not compact contiguous areas.
In practice, however, defense of those regions seemed to require defense of contiguous areas as well.
In southern Y2Y, contiguous areas were smaller and more numerous than in the north.
In northern Y2Y, large contiguous areas with high avian value were concentrated on the western edge of the continental divide.
Kachin, tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas of India (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan).
But the election will do little to settle the uprising against Mr. Biya in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions, contiguous areas along the Nigerian border.
He rejected suggestions that Assad is in league with Isis, which controls large parts of northern and eastern Syria as well as contiguous areas of Iraq.
Passage through two sets of doors shall be the basic requirement for entry into the work area from access corridors or other contiguous areas.
Mr. Gurung also wants the contiguous areas of the Terai and Dooars, inhabited in part by tribal people, to be added to the GTA's territory.
Most of the Kurds live in contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey a somewhat loosely defined geographic region generally referred to as Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds").
