An undue emphasis on rural older adults in the Chief Medical Officer's annual report 2023? by Cheetham, NJ, Dhesi, J, Hopper, A, Dowd, JB, Steves, CJ

“…Policy-makers need to consider both absolute and relative demographic trends as well as making use of direct measures of health when planning how healthcare services for older adults are distributed geographically in England.…”

Agricultural transition and the adoption of primitive technology by Ang, James B.

“…Using a proxy for the geographic diffusion barriers of Neolithic technology and an index of biogeographic endowments to isolate the exogenous component of the timing of agricultural transition, the findings indicate that countries that experienced earlier transitions to agriculture were subsequently more capable of adopting new technologies in 1000 BC, 1 AD, and 1500 AD. …”
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Leveraging or overcoming distance? Global strategy and structure of professional service firms by Sako, M, Peo, J

“…In this study, geographic distance is an instructional logic that influences the international strategy and structure of professional service firms (PSFs). …”

China's rural migrant workers, the state, and labor politics by Chan, J, Selden, M

“…They also discuss the impact of demographic changes and geographic shifts of population and production on the growth of working-class power in the workplace and the marketplace.…”

Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets by Petrongolo, B, Ronchi, M

“…This is also related to the polarization of female employment and to the geographic distribution of jobs, which is expected to be especially relevant for female employment prospects. …”

Job search channels, neighborhood effects, and wages inequality in developing countries: the Colombian case by Nicodemo, C, Adolfo Garcia, G

“…This paper analyzes the relationship between social networks and the probability of finding a job. We explore geographic closeness as the social interaction to explain the job search function. …”

Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data by Wojcik, D, Keenan, L, Pazitka, V, Urban, M, Wu, W

“…Situating our findings at the intersection of these literatures allows us to remain sensitive to geography, history and institutions in our analysis of financial centre primacy. …”

Gender identity in the 2021 census of England and Wales: how a flawed question created spurious data by Biggs, M

“…This article argues that its results are implausible with regard to geography, language, education, ethnicity, and religion. …”

Interactive 3D city modeling based on Google earth by Yu, Jianmin.

“…This report proposes a methodology to extract out geographic terrain data using Google Earth for any place in the world, and develops an interactive method for 3D city modeling, which is an integration of many algorithms including triangulation, mesh simplification, elevation linear interpolation and texture mapping. …”
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Design of solar panel energy system by Zhang, Guanxing

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Analysis and systematic verifications of a low-IF RF receiver targeting GNSS applications by Pramoda, Damle

“…Positioning methods built on the basis of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) like GPS, GLONASS, Beidou and Galileo system find popular applications in tracking systems, automobile and air navigation, surveying, mapping and geographic information systems, archaeology, and pedestrian navigation systems (PNSs). …”
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Natural gas in Brazil: a challenging market landscape by Gomes, I

“…Local gas distribution companies (LDCs) market gas to all consumers in their exclusive geographic franchise areas.…”

Student teachers learning to use Assessment for Learning in schools by Tan Chia Chun, D

“…The present study investigated how four secondary geography student teachers on a one year post-graduate training programme in England worked with ideas associated with AfL in their teaching during two school placements. …”

Economic outcomes predicted by diversity in cities by Chong, Shi Kai, Bahrami, Mohsen, Chen, Hao, Balcisoy, Selim, Pentland, Alex

“…Additionally, the diversity of consumption behaviour or the diversity of flows together with geographic centrality and population density accurately predicts neighborhood economic growth, even after controlling for standard factors such as population, etc. …”
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Can Neighborhood Planning in Shrinking Cities Achieve Demolition Goals? A Conformance and Performance Evaluation of Neighborhood Action Plans in Youngstown, Ohio by Gao, Shuqi, Ryan, Brent D.

“…We examine conformance and performance dimensions of demolition recommendations in seven “Neighborhood Action Plans” (NAPs) issued between 2015 and 2017 in the shrinking city of Youngstown, Ohio. We use geographic information systems (GIS) to compare plan-suggested and actual demolitions. …”
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Domains, feasibility, effectiveness, cost, and acceptability of telehealth in aging care: scoping review of systematic reviews by Zhang, Yichi, Leuk, Jessie Siew-Pin, Teo, Wei-Peng

“…Telehealth can remove geographic and time boundaries, as well as enabling socially isolated and physically homebound people to access a wider range of care options. …”
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Genomic perspective on the bacillus causing paratyphoid B fever by Hawkey, J, Frézal, L, Tran Dien, A, Zhukova, A, Brown, D, Chattaway, MA, Simon, S, Izumiya, H, Fields, PI, De Lappe, N, Kaftyreva, L, Xu, X, Isobe, J, Clermont, D, Njamkepo, E, Akeda, Y, Issenhuth-Jeanjean, S, Makarova, M, Wang, Y, Hunt, M, Jenkins, BM, Ravel, M, Guibert, V, Serre, E

“…However, little was known about the global population structure, geographic distribution, and evolution of this pathogen. …”

Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade by van Elst, T, Sgarlata, GM, Schüßler, D, Tiley, GP, Poelstra, JW, Scheumann, M, Blanco, MB, Aleixo-Pais, IG, Rina Evasoa, M, Ganzhorn, JU, Goodman, SM, Hasiniaina, AF, Hending, D, Hohenlohe, PA, Ibouroi, MT, Iribar, A, Jan, F, Kappeler, PM, Le Pors, B, Manzi, S, Olivieri, G, Rakotonanahary, AN, Rakotondranary, SJ, Rakotondravony, R

“…We demonstrate that species diversity has been overestimated primarily due to the interpretation of geographic variation as speciation, potentially biasing inference of the underlying processes of evolutionary diversification. …”

Radiocarbon calibration: from bane to blessing by Bronk Ramsey, C

“…Furthermore, it has become possible to test degrees of variation over much longer timescales and with ever wider geographic coverage. As knowledge has improved, the interpretation of ¹⁴C measurements has had to be revised. …”

Globalization : Perak's Rise, Relative Decline, and Regeneration / by Nazrin Shah Ibni Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, Sultan, 543480, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…This book ties together various sub-themes: economic geography, the institutional legacy of colonialism, increasing federal government centralization, forces of economic agglomeration and human migration, which drove Perak’s fortunes in sometimes dramatic economic cycles and ultimately led to the collapse of its tin and rubber industries and the migration of many of its young and skilled. …”
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