Development of metric system to measure an innovation district by Poh, Jin An

“…In this study, an innovation district is defined as a geographical area where clusters of world class institutions and companies are well-connected with business accelerators and start-ups to drive growth and increase productivity. …”
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Report on the International Conference on Origins and Migrations among Tibeto-Burman Speakers of the Extended Eastern Himalaya by Post, Mark W.

“…Lehman’s and Burling’s themes surfaced repeatedly throughout the remainder of the conference as participants grappled from a variety of perspectives with the nature and reliability of various types of evidence The conference convenors Toni Huber (Tibetan studies, Humboldt University) and Stuart Blackburn (Folklore, SOAS) assembled a diverse field of presenters, discussants and other participants from a wide range of disciplines – including folklorists, Tibetologists, (other) anthropologists, historians, geographers, and linguists – with the goal of addressing the vexing twin problems of “origins” and “migrations” among T-B speakers in an area stretching from central Arunachal Pradesh to upland Southeast Asia and Southwest China. …”
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Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Now that Winterson has found a new piece of text, she has to find a new language to speak of love and settles upon using science, the language of objectivity, to break down the body and the concept of love through the analogy of geographer and archaeologist. Through the use of Hélène Cixous essay on The Laugh of the Medusa, it is evident that Winterson is trying to produce spaces for fluid gender and sexual positioning. …”
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Distributed multilevel storage infrastructure for visual surveillance in intelligent transportation networks by Chih, Wei Ling

“…To deal with the extreme volume and the massively geographically distributed sources of data, we advocate a tiered storage and processing architecture, using edge nodes to augment a centralized backbone, facilitated by network coding and emerging fog computing solutions. …”
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Infections diagnosed in children and young people screened for malaria in UK emergency departments: a retrospective multi-centre study by Bird, C, Hayward, GN, Turner, PJ, Wasala, D, Merrick, V, Lyttle, MD, Mullen, N, Fanshawe, TR

“…Any CYP less than 16 years presenting to a participating ED with a history of fever and travel to a malaria-endemic area between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017 and who had a malaria screen as a part of standard care were included. Geographical risk was calculated for the most common tropical infections.…”

A co-produced online cultural experience compared to a typical museum website for mental health in people aged 16–24: a proof-of-principle randomised controlled trial by Syed Sheriff, RJ, Vuorre, M, Riga, E, Przybylski, AK, Adams, H, Harmer, CJ, Geddes, JR

“…Trial recruitment was rapid, retention high and feedback positive with broad geographical, occupational and ethnic diversity. <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong></p> Online engagement with arts and culture has the potential to impact on mental health in a measurable way in YP with high unmet mental health needs.…”

Multicenter diagnostic evaluation of onsite COVID-19 Rapid Test (CTK Biotech) among symptomatic individuals in Brazil and the United Kingdom by Thompson, CR, Torres, PM, Kontogianni, K, Byrne, RL, LSTM Diagnostic group, Noguera, SV, Luna-Muschi, A, Marchi, AP, Andrade, PS, Dos Santos Barboza, A, Nishikawara, M, CONDOR steering group, Body, R, de Vos, M, Escadafal, C, Adams, E, Figueiredo Costa, S, Cubas-Atienzar, AI

“…This study provides comparative performance of an Ag-RDT across two different settings, geographical areas, and populations. Overall, the OnSite Ag-RDT demonstrated a lower clinical sensitivity than claimed by the manufacturer. …”

Development and validation of outcome prediction models for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: the SAHIT multinational cohort study by Jaja, BNR, Saposnik, G, Lingsma, HF, Macdonald, E, Thorpe, KE, Mamdani, M, Steyerberg, EW, Molyneux, A, Manoel, ALDO, Schatlo, B, Hanggi, D, Hasan, D, Wong, GKC, Etminan, N, Fukuda, H, Torner, J, Schaller, KL, Suarez, JI, Stienen, MN, Vergouwen, MDI, Rinkel, GJE, Spears, J, Cusimano, MD, Todd, M

“…Participants: Researchers collaborated to pool datasets of prospective observational studies, hospital registries, and randomised clinical trials of SAH from multiple geographical regions to develop and validate clinical prediction models. …”

Water surge risk mapping using GIS-based spatial multi-criteria decision analysis approach by Syarifuddin, Misbari, Siti Sarah, Abd Razak, Muhammad Fuad Fahmi, Jaafar, Nadiatul Adilah, Ahmad Abdul Ghani, Mohd Faizal, Jamlos

“…The process entails gathering geographical data and evaluating data using GIS-based Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA), which is generally based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model in ArcGIS Pro. …”
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Rapid taqman-based quantification of chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacteria in the genus acaryochloris by Behrendt, Lars, Nielsen, Jeppe L., Sørensen, Søren J., Larkum, Anthony W. D., Winther, Jakob R., Kühl, Michael

“…The majority of this evidence is based on amplification of the gene coding for the 16S rRNA, and due to the wide geographical distribution of these sequences, a global distribution of Acaryochloris species was suggested. …”
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Toward sustainable waste management in small islands developing states: integrated waste-to-energy solutions in Maldives context by Wang, Yao, Ruiz-Acevedo, Alejandro, Rameez, Eemaan, Raghavan, Vijaya, Hussain, Abid, Fei, Xunchang

“…Maldives exemplifies these issues as one of the most geographically dispersed countries, with a population unevenly distributed across numerous islands varying greatly in size and population density. …”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…To address this gap, we utilized panel regression models to quantitatively assess the impact of China’s financial development scale, structure, and efficiency on the SDGs of the BRI participating countries, and adopted Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) model to explore the spatial-temporal effects of China’s financial development scale, structure, and efficiency on the SDGs of the BRI participating countries. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…Highlighting these dynamic, non-exclusive links based on creativity and adaptation, rather than on predefined geographical or cultural boundaries, illustrates how these boundaries are socially negotiated and dynamically recomposed over time, defying the traditional, unidirectional perception of a hierarchical structure of dependence between center and periphery. …”

Exploring green gentrification in 28 global North cities: the role of urban parks and other types of greenspaces by Triguero-Mas, Margarita, Anguelovski, Isabelle, Connolly, James J T, Martin, Nick, Matheney, Austin, Cole, Helen V S, Pérez-Del-Pulgar, Carmen, García-Lamarca, Melissa, Shokry, Galia, Argüelles, Lucía, Conesa, David, Gallez, Elsa, Sarzo, Blanca, Beltrán, Miguel Angel, López Máñez, Jesúa, Martínez-Minaya, Joaquín, Oscilowicz, Emilia, Arcaya, Mariana C, Baró, Francesc

“…We assessed improved access to different types of greenspace (i.e. total area of parks, gardens, nature preserves, recreational areas or greenways [i] added before the 2000s or [ii] added before the 2010s) and gentrification processes (including [i] gentrification for the 2000s; [ii] gentrification for the 2010s; [iii] gentrification throughout the decades of the 2000s and 2010s) in each small geographical unit of each city. To estimate the associations, we developed a Bayesian hierarchical spatial model for each city and gentrification time period (i.e. a maximum of three models per city). …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…Chapter three proposes that gambling preference is a determinant of the significant geographical variation in U.S. firms’ cash holding. Local gambling preference, measured as the ratio of local Catholics to Protestants, is positively associated with local firms’ cash holding. …”
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Assessment of critical rainfall scenarios for slope stability analyses based on historical rainfall records in Singapore by Kim, Yongmin, Rahardjo, Harianto, Nistor, Margarit Mircea, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Leong, Eng Choon, Sham, Aaron Wai Lun

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Competition in rig building by Toh, Jermaine Yahui.

“…In order to enhance the long-term sustainability and competitiveness of Singapore's offshore rig-building industry, further business diversification in three dimensions, namely geographical diversification, vertical integration and horizontal integration, has been recommended. …”
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Service quality gaps in the container shipping industry by Phua, Jia Hui.

“…Further studies should be conducted in other geographical regions to strengthen the reliability of the service quality attributes identified in this paper.…”
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Study of 3PL selection and development in Singapore by Liu, Zelai

“…However the outcome varies from one research to another, depending on the specific industrial and geographical context in discussion. This research aims to address the gaps found in the literature by proposing a conceptual 3PL provider selection criteria framework which includes the most frequently cited factors, taking into account the characteristics of the Electronics and Electrical (EE) industry in Singapore. …”
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Exploring population structure, antibiotic resistance and horizontal gene transfer in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Unitt, A

“…</p> <p>Together, these results provide an improved understanding of <em>N. gonorrhoeae</em> genetics with implications for public health: informing efforts to survey and suppress the evolution of resistance inducing mosaic <em>penA</em> alleles, and describing how gonococcal population structure relates to features such as geographical location and antibiotic resistance, while providing a publicly available lineage nomenclature for future analyses. …”