MAUP

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Acronym	Definition
MAUP	Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
MAUP	Movement Against Uranium Project (India)
MAUP	Most Acidic Urinary Protein (molecular biology)

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This scale-flexible nature can be useful to researchers and policy makers to examine the effectiveness of planning and policies targeted at multiple scales or the impacts of MAUP.

Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas and Hospital Referral Regions by Modularity Optimization

With respect to MAUP, we argue that the mapping of a spatial composite indicator using integrated geons is embedded in a conceptual framework.

Geons--domain-specific regionalization of space

This paper discusses the legitimacy of using census zoning systems for measuring residential segregation, and proposes the use of data disaggregation and regrouping (DDR) techniques that may at some degree contribute in reducing MAUP biases.

El uso de zonas censales para medir la segregacion residencial. Contraindicaciones, propuesta metodologica y un estudio de caso: Argentina 1991-2001

A way for dealing with the MAUP consists in substituting absolute measures like (1) with relative ones, where the economic variable under consideration is weighted by region-specific weights.

Specialization and agglomeration patterns in Eastern Europe

Espa (1996) Effects of the MAUP on Image Classification.

Does economic geography matter for Pakistan? A spatial exploratory analysis of income and education inequalities

That is issue is the ability to select the correct unit of analysis or geography based on what has been called the Modifiable Aerial Unit Problem (MAUP) (Bolstad, 2006).

Identifying spatio-temporal patterns of articulated criminal offending: an application using phenomenologically meaningful police jurisdictional geographies

The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) is well known in many fields (King, 1997) and has recently received attention in the child maltreatment literature (Lery, 2008, 2009).The MAUP is an issue encountered when arbitrary geographic areas are established.

Analyzing the relationship between poverty and child maltreatment: investigating the relative performance of four levels of geographic aggregation

Born in 1951, Duke received in September 2005 a Kandidat Nauk degree or a PhD in History from the Ukrainian Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP).

Duke: Jewish Supremacism will Lead World to War of Armageddon, Zionists Control the Media and Want to Take Over Al-jazeera

I met with Ukrainian journalists, Jewish leaders, experts in anti-Semitism and students, eventually paying a visit to the strangely named Mizhrehional'na Akademiia Upravlinnia Personalom--the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, known by its Ukrainian acronym, MAUP.

The Mysterious tale of a Ukrainian University's anti-Semitic crusade: featuring the KKK's David Duke, former KGB operatives, Palestinians and many more