J Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 40539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2140-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The global geography of freeway interchanges
Multi-Energy CT - Nondestructive investigation of historic mortars
Multi-Energy Computed Tomography enables material separation for historical Mortars. • Nondestructive generation of 3D images of historic Mortars. • Pseudo-colored CT images are compared to thin section micrographs. • Improved material separation allows for automatic image Analysis. A wide variety of tools are available and are commonly used in the analysis of historical mortars and plasters, including but not limited to, acid digestion, thin sec…
Section Line Roads in the U.S. Great Plains
The landscape of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), or township and range system, is a well-known feature of the U.S. Great Plains. The area displays a checkerboard pattern of farm fields with a grid of roads, plainly visible from the air. Despite being a substantial component of transportation infrastructure, the mileage of section line roads has never been tallied, nor has their distribution been studied relative to population, land use, or …
Ronnie James Dio: The man on the silver mountain
Ronald James Padovana was born 10 July 1942. In 1957 he began what became a fifty three-year career in music career. In 1960 he began singing under the name Ronnie Dio, and then Ronnie James Dio. Under this name he became an iconic hard rock vocalist, performing with numerous bands including Rainbow (1974–1979), Black Sabbath (1979–1982, 1992, and 2006–2010), and his own band Dio (1982–2004). Before his untimely death on 16 May 2010, he had perfo…
The Unfinished Wheeler Atlas of the American West: Reassessing the Value of a Nineteenth-Century Mapping Project
The Great Death Valley National Monument Mission 66 Conspiracy (That Never Was)
In 1956 the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) launched Mission 66, a ten-year program to rebuild and improve infrastructure within hundreds of units of the National Park System, among them Death Valley National Monument in California. As elsewhere, plans in this unit centered on a visitor center, new employee housing, administrative and maintenance facilities, and campgrounds. The original plans developed for Death Valley were abruptly changed, le…
The Public Land Survey Landscape in the Intermountain U.S. West
Most of the United States was surveyed before settlement with a rectangular survey system called the Public Land Survey (PLS). Surveyors mapped out square townships that were subdivided into one-square-mile sections that could in turn be further divided for sale or homesteading. The system began in northwest Ohio and spread westward through the Midwest and across the Great Plains. Farms took the form of these squares, roads ran along section line…
The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County
Scant attention has been paid to the racial impacts of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the United States. This article examines the links between bankruptcy, housing loss, and "risk responsibilization," a neoliberal process in which consumers rather than lending institutions are held responsible for debt management. We used data sequencing, and Geographic Information Systems Mapping (GIS) to analyse 1,057 cases of home foreclosure and related bankr…
Diamonds, Cloverleafs, and SPUIs: The Geography of Freeway Interchanges in the United States
Freeway interchanges are a fundamental component of freeway networks and provide nodes for economic development. They take a wide range of forms, including diamonds, cloverleafs, and stacks, depending on traffic conditions and other factors. They have not been the subject of study or data collection, however, and their numbers are unknown. Their geography is examined using nationwide data that allow the location and type of every interchange to b…
Covid-19 and the Cares Act: Racial disadvantage, mortgage relief, and foreclosure in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama
The 2020 CARES Act provided mortgage relief to financially distressed borrowers whose loans were insured by the U.S. government. We used cumulative disadvantage theory to examine the effects of mortgage relief in a Deep South County with a history of racial disparities in mortgage lending and homeownership. We collected property and open-access data for a five-year period (2016–2020) to compare pre-moratorium and in-moratorium trends in foreclosu…
America's lost National Monuments
The Lost Meridian of the ’Aha Makhav
Le système d’arpentage Public Land Survey a été instauré en 1785 afin que soit établi rapidement le levé du vaste domaine des terres publiques des États-Unis. Il en est résulté un schéma familier de townships de six milles de côté, subdivisés en sections, avec une grille caractéristique délimitant les propriétés foncières, que l’on retrouve sur la plus grande partie du territoire du Midwest et de l’Ouest américain. À mesure que le système se dépl…
Exploring Remnant Landscapes of Nevada's Arrowhead Trail
The Arrowhead Trail was an early 20th century automobile highway, running 853 miles between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City via southern Nevada. While some of the road evolved into a modern highway, much of the original road was abandoned and parts even submerged underneath Lake Mead after construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. This study examines the condition of two sections of the Arrowhead Trail in Nevada using Federal Trail Data Standar…
A multiphasic Younger Dryas cold period recorded in sediments of Lake Steisslingen, SW-Germany: A biomarker perspective
The Colorado and Virgin Rivers before Lake Mead
In 1936, the completion of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. When the lake reached capacity in 1941 several canyons and valleys were flooded, along with two towns, several mines, farm fields, and roads. The area had not been surveyed archaeologically and little detailed information exists about the vegetation and geology of this region. The map reconstructions the…
Route change on the American freeway system
The transition from folk to engineered roads in the Mojave Desert
Sharecropper's Tuberculosis: Pathologies of Power in a Fatal Outbreak
Tuberculosis Bacilli (TB) is a global scourge that affects poor people and regions. Drawing on Farmer's (2003) pathologies of power, and a case study approach, we examine the sociostructural landscape of a fatal outbreak of Sharecropper's TB among African Americans in rural Alabama. In a mixed-method qualitative approach involving oral history, surveys, interviews and documentary analysis, we identified three pathologies that contribute to TB sus…
Buffers
Buffers refer to spaces between objects or areas or within a specified distance of an object or place. They appear in a variety of contexts, including vector applications in geographic information systems (GIS), in which they are used to demarcate spaces within particular distances of features, and in political geography, urban planning, and conservation to separate incompatible areas. The meaning and use of the concept can vary significantly amo…
The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans; Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930; The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in Ame…
Racial Disparities in Welfare Dependence and Financial Independence: Links to Human Capital, Local Economy, and State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Policies
This secondary data analysis examined racial disparities in associations betwen welfare dependence/financial independence and human capital, local economy, and state TANF policies. A sample of 6,737 parents was extracted from the public-use data set titled “National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.” Results showed that restrictive TANF policies reduced African Americans’ likelihood of welfare use and increased likelihood of their financial independe…
Losing Ground: Racial Disparities in Medical Debt and Home Foreclosure in the Deep South
Medical debt is a persistent problem in the United States. This study examined the role of medical debt in relation to home foreclosure in a Deep South county with high rates of poverty, health disparities, and a racial gap in homeownership. Statistical analysis and geographic information systems mapping of municipal court records for 890 foreclosees indicated disproportionately high rates of medical debt among African Americans who lived in raci…
Continuity and change in American urban freeway networks
Yesterday's Freeway Network of Tomorrow
In 1939, the Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair amazed visitors with its diorama showing futuristic freeways crossing the countryside and reshaping cities. After the fair, the exhibit's designer, Norman Bel Geddes, elaborated the model into a proposal for a national freeway network. This paper examines the network structure and geographic dimensions of Bel Geddes's vision and compares it to the Interstate Highway System, created severa…
Mobility and Travel Activity Patterns
Evaluating the Effects of Geographic Contexts on Individual Accessibility: A Multilevel Approach 1
Centrality within a city and neighborhood characteristics have often been used as indicators of access to employment and services in statements about urban form and accessibility, but there are reasons to question the appropriateness of doing so. This paper evaluates the importance of geographic context within the urban environment (both location within cities as well as neighborhoods characteristics) for individuals in Portland, Oregon. Because …
A Method for Grouping Pottery by Chemical Composition
A new similarity measure is proposed, the ‘dilution factor spread’ or, derived from it, a ‘goodness of fit’ parameter. This has the advantage that raw data without any transformation can be used, diluted samples are recognized and errors of individual concentration values can easily be included. The use of this similarity coefficient in multivariate cluster analyses to construct dendrograms is shown and compared with the use of the well‐known sim…
Why Do So Few Minority People Visit National Parks? Visitation and the Accessibility of “America's Best Idea”
It has been said that national parks are “America's Best Idea,” they are among the most famous and instantly recognizable places in the country, and they attract visitors from all over the world. Yet visitors to these sites are overwhelmingly white. A number of theoretical perspectives have been proposed for the absence of minority visitors, including socioeconomic marginality, differing cultural norms, and the lingering legacy of discrimination,…
Women foreclosed: A gender analysis of housing loss in the US Deep South
Women were a focus of subprime lending during the housing boom, increasing their risk of mortgage foreclosure during the Great Recession of 2007–2011. Following Valentine's (2007) call for a feminist geography on interactions between social categories and geographic patterns, this article investigates housing loss among women foreclosees in a southern US county with a history of residential segregation. We collected foreclosure data manually from…
Neurosurgical aspects of trepanations from Neolithic times
Trepanation of the cranial vault is the oldest known surgical procedure and has often been reported in the literature. We present two skulls with trepanations from Neolithic excavations in southwestern Germany. One skull exhibits a healed fracture in association with the trepanation. Both skulls show clear signs of healing without evidence of osteolytic inflammatory reaction. We discuss conditions relating to survival from trepanation in Neolithi…
The Civil Rights Movement and the Future of the National Park System in a Racially Diverse America
The U.S. National Park System contains places of world-renowned beauty and tremendous historical significance that represent some of the central values and experiences in American culture, democracy, and freedom for everyone, for all time. However, the vast majority of visitors to these parks are white, which has increasingly been seen as a problem as it suggests a lack of full participation by all members of society. While there are several pers…
Everyday Places on the American Freeway System
The Interstate Highway System is one of the largest civil engineering works in the United States and a crucial component of urban transportation systems. Despite its inescapable presence, it has received relatively little attention from cultural geographers. Although some work has shown how people and communities have adapted to this highway system, it has also been seen as uniform and homogenous, and therefore lacking any real places, or even an…
Building Back: Stratified Recovery After an EF–4 Tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
On April 27, 2011, an EF–4 tornado struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Historic damage from the storm coincided with a recessionary economy, a double blow from which the city has yet to recover. This study applied disaster vulnerability theory to a mixed–methods analysis involving qualitative research, photography, and geographic information systems (GIS) analysis in order to document the recovery of three neighborhoods in the tornado zone. One measure o…
The Nature of Urban Growth and the Commuting Transition: Endless Sprawl or a Growth Wave
The concept of an urban growth wave expanding outwards is used to examine the commuting characteristics of residents of recently developed housing areas within the 50 largest US metropolitan areas at multiple points of time between 1980 and 2000. The results show that not only do areas of recent housing booms have longer commuting times and differing socioeconomic characteristics than older parts of the cities, but this commuting time will subsid…
Racial Disparities in Welfare Dependence and Financial Independence: Links to Human Capital, Local Economy, and State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Policies
This secondary data analysis examined racial disparities in associations betwen welfare dependence/financial independence and human capital, local economy, and state TANF policies. A sample of 6,737 parents was extracted from the public-use data set titled “National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.” Results showed that restrictive TANF policies reduced African Americans’ likelihood of welfare use and increased likelihood of their financial independe…
Non-motorized transport and university populations: An analysis of connectivity and network perceptions
Reflections on the future of accessibility
Effects of the German 1993 health reform law upon primary care practitioners' individual performance: Results from an empirical study in sentinel practices
An empirical study in Lower Saxony aimed to investigate any changes in primary care physicians' diagnostic and therapeutic strategies as a result of Germany's 1993 health reform act (known as the Gesundheitsstruktur Gesetz or GSG), which included the countrywide implementation of a strict drug budget. A sentinel network consisting of a 37% sample of 350 randomly selected doctors (n = 130, GPs, general internists) was established in Lower Saxony. …
America's lost National Monuments
Continuity and change in American urban freeway networks
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
Journal Article From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front Get access Elizabeth R. Escobedo. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xx, 229 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1254–1255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau101 Published: 01 March 2014
The evolving Interstate Highway System and the changing geography of the United States
Covid-19 and the Cares Act: Racial disadvantage, mortgage relief, and foreclosure in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama
The 2020 CARES Act provided mortgage relief to financially distressed borrowers whose loans were insured by the U.S. government. We used cumulative disadvantage theory to examine the effects of mortgage relief in a Deep South County with a history of racial disparities in mortgage lending and homeownership. We collected property and open-access data for a five-year period (2016–2020) to compare pre-moratorium and in-moratorium trends in foreclosu…
The transition from folk to engineered roads in the Mojave Desert
Sharecropper's Tuberculosis: Pathologies of Power in a Fatal Outbreak
Tuberculosis Bacilli (TB) is a global scourge that affects poor people and regions. Drawing on Farmer's (2003) pathologies of power, and a case study approach, we examine the sociostructural landscape of a fatal outbreak of Sharecropper's TB among African Americans in rural Alabama. In a mixed-method qualitative approach involving oral history, surveys, interviews and documentary analysis, we identified three pathologies that contribute to TB sus…
The morphogenesis of state highway networks in the United States
The development of a surveillance system to monitor emergency food relief in New York State
A representative sample of emergency food relief (EFR) programs was selected on the basis of a census of 1,488 EFR programs in New York State. The census was a two-stage telephone survey. EFR was provided in every county although there was considerable variation in the amount of EFR per county. The soup kitchen and food pantry components of EFR had to be differentiated. The surveillance system was operational one year after the census began
Baffin Island Expedition, 1953: A Preliminary Field Report
Contains description and brief summaries of results of the second Baffin Island Expedition of the Arctic Institute of North America, May-Sept. 1953. The 13-man party carried out a program in the Penny Highland region of Cumberland Peninsula, centering on Pangnirtung Pass. Glaciological work on the Penny Icecap and Highway Glacier included studies of glacier physics, seismic work, and meteorological observations on bedrock geology and structure ar…
Organization for Treatment: A Comparative Study of Institutions for Delinquents . David Street , Robert D. Vinter , Charles Perrow
Lactate: Physiologic, Methodologic and Pathologic Approach
Maps of the Arctic Basin Sea Floor: A History of Bathymetry and its Interpretation
The history of oceanographic exploration of the Arctic Ocean basin from the beginning of this century to the present is summarized. Soviet, U.S. and Canadian contributions after World War II are described in some detail including sounding methods and navigational techniques. The major bathymetric charts of the Arctic Ocean basin from 1954 on are discussed. Comparison of the LOREX bathymetric map with other maps reveals that the Lomonosov Ridge is…
Maps of the Arctic Basin Sea Floor. Part II: Bathymetry and Gravity of the Alpha Ridge: The 1983 Cesar Expedition
The general scarcity of geophysical data in the Arctic Ocean Basin and the lack of knowledge about the evolution of the Amerasia Basin and of the nature and origin of the Alpha Ridge led, in 1983, to the undertaking of a multidisciplinary polar expedition, code-named CESAR 83 for Canadian Expedition to Study the Alpha Ridge. The expedition was supported by the Canadian Armed Forces, first by parachuting 18 airborne engineers onto the CESAR site t…
The development of a surveillance system to monitor emergency food relief in New York State
A representative sample of emergency food relief (EFR) programs was selected on the basis of a census of 1,488 EFR programs in New York State. The census was a two-stage telephone survey. EFR was provided in every county although there was considerable variation in the amount of EFR per county. The soup kitchen and food pantry components of EFR had to be differentiated. The surveillance system was operational one year after the census began
A Method for Grouping Pottery by Chemical Composition
A new similarity measure is proposed, the ‘dilution factor spread’ or, derived from it, a ‘goodness of fit’ parameter. This has the advantage that raw data without any transformation can be used, diluted samples are recognized and errors of individual concentration values can easily be included. The use of this similarity coefficient in multivariate cluster analyses to construct dendrograms is shown and compared with the use of the well‐known sim…
Effects of the German 1993 health reform law upon primary care practitioners' individual performance: Results from an empirical study in sentinel practices
An empirical study in Lower Saxony aimed to investigate any changes in primary care physicians' diagnostic and therapeutic strategies as a result of Germany's 1993 health reform act (known as the Gesundheitsstruktur Gesetz or GSG), which included the countrywide implementation of a strict drug budget. A sentinel network consisting of a 37% sample of 350 randomly selected doctors (n = 130, GPs, general internists) was established in Lower Saxony. …
Bringing Time Back In: A Study on the Influence of Travel Time Variations and Facility Opening Hours on Individual Accessibility
Although recent studies of individual accessibility have used detailed representations of urban street networks, unrealistic measures of travel time based on assumptions about constant travel speeds through the network were often used. Utilizing constant travel times does not allow for daily congestion and assumes that the effects of congestion are uniform throughout the city and affect all people equally. This research measures individual space-…
Individual Accessibility Revisited: Implications for Geographical Analysis in the Twenty‐first Century
Analytical methods for evaluating accessibility have been based on a spatial logic through which the impedance of distance shapes mobility and urban form through processes of locational and travel decision making. These methods are not suitable for understanding individual experiences because of recent changes in the processes underlying contemporary urbanism and the increasing importance of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in p…
Evaluating the Effects of Geographic Contexts on Individual Accessibility: A Multilevel Approach 1
Centrality within a city and neighborhood characteristics have often been used as indicators of access to employment and services in statements about urban form and accessibility, but there are reasons to question the appropriateness of doing so. This paper evaluates the importance of geographic context within the urban environment (both location within cities as well as neighborhoods characteristics) for individuals in Portland, Oregon. Because …
Everyday Places on the American Freeway System
The Interstate Highway System is one of the largest civil engineering works in the United States and a crucial component of urban transportation systems. Despite its inescapable presence, it has received relatively little attention from cultural geographers. Although some work has shown how people and communities have adapted to this highway system, it has also been seen as uniform and homogenous, and therefore lacking any real places, or even an…
The morphogenesis of state highway networks in the United States
Reflections on the future of accessibility
Neurosurgical aspects of trepanations from Neolithic times
Trepanation of the cranial vault is the oldest known surgical procedure and has often been reported in the literature. We present two skulls with trepanations from Neolithic excavations in southwestern Germany. One skull exhibits a healed fracture in association with the trepanation. Both skulls show clear signs of healing without evidence of osteolytic inflammatory reaction. We discuss conditions relating to survival from trepanation in Neolithi…
Excavations at Tell Brak 2006–2007
Excavations at Tell Brak in 2006–7 explored two key episodes in Mesopotamian political and social history, developing early social complexity in the fifth to fourth millennia BC and the shift from territorial state to early empire in the second millennium BC. Late Chalcolithic complexity is represented in Area TW on the main mound and at the outlying sub-mound of Tell Majnuna, while investigation of the Old Babylonian to Mitanni state-to-empire t…
Scale and accessibility: Implications for the analysis of land use–travel interaction
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Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape. By John R. Stilgoe
(2011). Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape. By John R. Stilgoe. Geographical Review: Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 130-132
The evolving Interstate Highway System and the changing geography of the United States
Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
Why Do So Few Minority People Visit National Parks? Visitation and the Accessibility of “America's Best Idea”
It has been said that national parks are “America's Best Idea,” they are among the most famous and instantly recognizable places in the country, and they attract visitors from all over the world. Yet visitors to these sites are overwhelmingly white. A number of theoretical perspectives have been proposed for the absence of minority visitors, including socioeconomic marginality, differing cultural norms, and the lingering legacy of discrimination,…
The Civil Rights Movement and the Future of the National Park System in a Racially Diverse America
The U.S. National Park System contains places of world-renowned beauty and tremendous historical significance that represent some of the central values and experiences in American culture, democracy, and freedom for everyone, for all time. However, the vast majority of visitors to these parks are white, which has increasingly been seen as a problem as it suggests a lack of full participation by all members of society. While there are several pers…
Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies
Geography (37 works) · Engineering (19 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (15 works) · Transport engineering (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works)