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2014 SWAAG-GPRM Joint Regional Meeting

Concurrent Paper Session F

* Indicates Session Chair

F01 Academic Publishing

Discussants:
K. Maria D. Lane – Editor, Historical Geography (University of New Mexico)
John Tiefenbacher – Editor, Southwestern Geographer (Texas State university – San Marcos)
Bimal Paul – Editor, Geographical Review (Kansas State University)
Michael Leon Trujillo – Co-Editor of Contextos Book Series from University of New Mexico Press
Ronald Keith Gaddie – Editor, Social Science Quarterly (University of Oklahoma)

F02 Transportation and Urban

Urban Growth and Development Re-imagined (in Minnesota)
*Rod Squires
University of Minnesota

Urban Transport Governance and Public Dialogue: A Transition to Compressed Natural Gas in Bolivia
Jerl Levi McCollum
University of North Texas

Internship Program at the United Nations Office at Nairobi: Building a National Urban Policy Database for United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat)
Gaurav Thapa
New Mexico State University

Revisiting the Functional Region:  Two Case Studies of Cargo Transport and Economic Development
Michael S. Yoder
University of Central Arkansas

Mediating Power: The Agency of Urban Open Space in the Post-Industrial City
Joern Langhorst
University of Colorado Denver

F03 Social Media and Networking

Viewing China through the Geopolitical Lens of Late-Night Humor
*Darren Purcell
University of Oklahoma

Metageographic Communities:  Structuring the Non-place Place
Katherine Nashleanas 
University of Nebraska- Lincoln 

The Relationship of Social Media and Area Marketing in Promoting Boy-Bands 
Susanna Diller
University of Colorado at Denver 

Geographic Discourse in Children’s Literature
Deborah G. Hann 
Texas State University – San Marcos 

The Appalachian Trail: Visual Discourse of the National Geographic Society 
Benjamin Prince 
Texas State University – San Marcos

F04 Health

An Individual-based Assessment of Air Pollution Exposure and Health Risk
*Yongmei Lu
Texas State University – San Marcos

Influence of the Choice of Disease Mapping Method on Population Characteristics in Areas of High Disease Burdens
Khyati Desai, Chetan Tiwari, and Joseph Oppong
University of North Texas

Analyzing Human Health Effects and Perceptions of Using Shampoo and Conditioner that uses Sodium Lauryl Sulfate as an Emulsifier
Madeline Hinchliffe, and Travis Gliedt
University of Oklahoma

Landscape of Cervical Cancer Screening, Diagnosis and Pre-Cancerous Treatment Services in New Mexico, USA
Yolanda J. McDonald (1), Michael Schwind (1), Daniel W. Goldberg (1), Isabel Scarinci (2), Philip E, Castle (3), Jack Cuzick(4), Ann Powell (5), Michael Robertson (5), and Cosette M. Wheeler (5,6)  
(1) Texas A&M University, (2) University of Alabama, (3) Global Coalition Against Cervical Cancer, (4) University of London (UK), (5) University of New Mexico, (6) New Mexico HPV Pap Registry Steering Committee

Doves and Dust Revisited: An Improved Object-Oriented Maximum Entropy Approach for Modeling Dust Sources from Presence-Only Data
Charles P. Jackson and Curtis W. Atherton
New Mexico State University

F05 Place Mapping

Spatial-Temporal Cluster Analysis to Identify Emerging Agglomeration of Texas Wineries, 1973-2014
*Thomas C Shelton
Texas State University – San Marcos

Where is the Texas Hill Country?
Don Jonsson
Austin Community College

Animated Growth of Colorado Springs
John Harner
University of Colorado

Benefits of Return Migration to Rural U.S. Communities
Christiane von Reichert (1), John Cromartie (2), and Ryan Arthun (1)
(1) University of Montana, (2) Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sacred Space and Globalization:  An Historical and Geographical Appraisal
Alyson Greiner
Oklahoma State University