geographical distance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeographicalanddistance
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geographical
adjective
uk/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
relating to geography, or to the geography of a particular area ...
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distance
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.təns/us/ˈdɪs.təns/
the amount of space between ...
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(Definition ofgeographicalanddistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Geographicaldistancebetween the older person and their children was considered a major determinant of whether they could exercise generativity.
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A general rule is that giving help correlates highly but inversely with thegeographicaldistancethat separate giver and receiver.
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In the third modelgeographicaldistancebetween parent and child was added to the analysis.
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The likelihood of referrers being aware of available services appeared to decrease withgeographicaldistancefrom the service.
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The findings reported here show that social mobility has some impact ongeographicaldistancebetween generations and little impact on intergenerational family contacts.
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Theory suggests that repeatability increases asgeographicaldistancebetween sampling points decreases.
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Genetic differentiation among the populations was not correlated withgeographicaldistance.
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This is because the variance of results is supposed to increase withgeographicaldistance.
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Given the importance ofgeographicaldistance, an additional analysis including only those living within a distance of 20 km was carried out (analysis not presented).
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However, whengeographicaldistancewas adjusted for, differences remained only in emotional engagement.
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The use of multiple regression techniques to control for the potentially confounding effect ofgeographicaldistanceas a predictor of community similarity was discussed.
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Floristic distances between localities showed significant correlation withgeographicaldistance, but distances of no ichneumonid group did.
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Logistic regression was applied in the analyses of intergenerational family contact andgeographicaldistanceand the results are presented as odds ratios.
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Among the tangible and common barriers aregeographicaldistanceand poor health.
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Thegeographicaldistancebetween municipality capitals was also included as an objective to be minimized.
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Our measure of loneliness is essentially ' subjective ', whilst many ' objective ' social-contact and proximity measures quantifygeographicaldistanceor the number and frequency of contacts.
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