Sustaining the network requires the creation of a malicious environment where the rule of law easily fails, money can enter and leave without detection, information can be controlled, geography can be used without fear of disruption but all the while the appearance of lawfulness is generally maintained.
Culture matters, but it matters a lot less when you control for geography, climate, political structures and past history.
Eastern Europe has demonstrated that, to some extent, a country's fate depends on circumstances beyond its control, like geography, natural resources or size.
A cohort carefully designed to control for geography and diet as much as possible can eliminate much of the noise that is often associated with microbiome data.
To control for geography, I selected clades that had diversified within and occupy overlapping ranges in temperate North America, and that have a predominantly temperate distribution in the remainder of their ranges.
We match cases to controls on geography, socio-economic status and year.
Conservative morality, a diminished force, no longer controls the geography, and the maps of white grievance, of rural disenfranchisement, of anti-élite convictions are less neatly arranged.
If the goal is control over geographies or increasing the loyalty of patients to the health care system, the physician enterprise should be built around primary care physicians and advanced-practice nurses, whose distribution is based on the demand in each geography.
In multivariate analysis, controlling for geography, factors independently associated with reduced doses were obesity (odds ratio [OR], 2.47; 95% CI, 1.36 to 4.51), severe obesity (OR, 4.04; 95% CI, 1.46 to 11.19), and education less than high school (OR, 3.07; 95% CI, 1.57 to 5.99).
For countries, we tested whether inequality remains significant after controlling for geography, and for the demise of communist regimes.
