A Japan with Fewer Japanese: Enter the Machines by Tan, Ming Hui, Lim, Christopher H.

“…Japan has long been beset by persisting demographic challenges – an ageing population, a shrinking workforce, and a reluctance to embrace immigration. …”
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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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"Wooing the manosphere: he‘s just a bro.” Donald Trump’s 2024 digital transactions with ‘dude’ social media influencers by Wheeler, Mark

“…In the 2024 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s winning 2.0 strategy of “transgression as entertainment” was evident in his decision to target a disaffected demographic of largely young white male voters (the “manosphere”) within the key swing states.…”
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Covid-19 and our sense of place by O'Hara, Joshua Shea

“…While space is commonly thought of as measurable and quantifiable, both phenomenologists and thinkers within the domain of human geography have suggested an inherent existential aspect to spatial ontology that quantitative explanatory structures cannot account for. …”
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Compute North vs. Compute South: the uneven possibilities of compute-based AI governance around the globe by Lehdonvirta, V, Wú, B, Hawkins, Z

“…In this study, we provide the first attempt at mapping the global geography of public cloud GPU compute, one particularly important category of AI compute infrastructure. …”

A macroeconomic analysis of the demand for life insurance in Singapore by Chan, Irene Ee Leng, Chong, Huey Nee, Seet Lindsay

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M.A.P. (Memories And Places) by See, Boon Ping.

“…The final product will be an experimental geography atlas. Information, memories and imagination will be visually represented using maps, pictures and words. …”
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Built to last : the global refugee regime by Ting, Yuanyi

“…Australia and Italy are both parties to the Refugee Convention. Due to geography, both countries are prime destinations for 'boat people', and have responded by employing various deterrence measures to curb the irregular stream of asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants. …”
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BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures by Geistlinger, L, Mirzayi, C, Zohra, F, Azhar, R, Elsafoury, S, Grieve, C, Wokaty, J, Gamboa-Tuz, SD, Sengupta, P, Hecht, I, Ravikrishnan, A, Gonçalves, RS, Franzosa, E, Raman, K, Carey, V, Dowd, JB, Jones, HE, Davis, S, Segata, N, Huttenhower, C, Waldron, L

“…We present BugSigDB, a community-editable database of manually curated microbial signatures from published differential abundance studies accompanied by information on study geography, health outcomes, host body site and experimental, epidemiological and statistical methods using controlled vocabulary. …”

Can a brief online interdisciplinary program enhance the understanding of musculoskeletal pain amongst primary care staff? A prospective study by Ng, Khim Siong, Goh, Bandy Qiuling, Tang, Woh Peng, Lee, Angela Wing Yan, Lee, Samantha, Koh, Kim Hwee, Shah, Mitesh

“…There were poor correlations between the demographic factors and their learning. Conclusion: The pilot study shows that primary care staff may still utilize a biomedical approach in managing musculoskeletal pain. …”
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Relationship between personality and counselling orientation by Ho, Laurence Swee Min.

“…It also examines whether the selection of counselling orientations of the sample group are influenced by their demographic variables such as, age, gender, highest academic qualification received, job designation, number of years of working experience, race, type of degree/diploma and country of degree/diploma. …”
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Growth strategies for liner companies in the time of economic recession by Toon, Nicholas Zhenjie.

“…The main finding of this research was that, strategies for liner industries are not applied as stated from textbooks, and that each company’s demographic profile plays a major part on differences in strategies used and taken. …”
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A system of systems framework for the evaluation of critical infrastructure - the case of Changi international airport. by Payam Zargarzadeh.

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Relationship between variety-seeking behaviour and need for closure by Tan, Jia Hui

“…Participants were required to complete a questionnaire that consisted of the need for closure scale (NFCS), choice-task scenario, and demographic survey. Results indicated a statistically insignificant negative correlation between the two constructs. …”
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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.…”

Coping with peripheralization in small cities. What is the role of human agency? by Bosák, V, Slach, O, Paszová, L, Hýllová, L, Mykhnenko, V, Krtička, L, Nováček, A

“…The agency of public providers (in contrast to private providers) in the foundational economy has buffered the impact of peripheralization on the well-being of residents, while the agency of companies in the competitive economy has had a major impact on path development and demographic change.</p>…”

Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…Using national sample surveys from the early 1990s to 2007 to examine the change in demographic predictors of religiosity, we show that Catholic and Orthodox countries are experiencing different trends, the first group displaying evidence of secularization and the second of revival, and that these two different trends are likely to derive from the legacies of state repression and the differing abilities of the churches to resist such repression. …”

On Power: How Colombia’s National Oil Company Can Support the Country’s Energy Transition by Beron, David

“…It has shifted from geology to geography, from offshore drilling to offshore wind. …”
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Diachronic Toponomastics and Etymology: Epistemological Proposals According to the New Convergence Theory by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

“…The first part is inherent in a brief evaluation of the current approaches to Indo-European origins and Etymology and in the theoretical explanation of the NCT’s epistemological fundamentals, the second part deals with some examples of etymological reconstructions conducted according to this innovative approach in which Historical Phonetics, historical Semantics, historical Geography, and Landscape Archaeology participate in recovering the most ancient origins (or ‘proto-origins’) of names (‘paleo-names’) and of languages in prehistoric Europe.…”
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The magnitude and risk factors of intestinal parasitic infection in relation to human immunodeficiency virus infection and immune status, at ALERT hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Taye, Biruhalem, Desta, Kassu, Ejigu, Selamawit, Dori, Geme Urge

“…Low monthly income, and being married, divorced or widowed were among the socio-demographic characteristics associated with intestinal parasitic infection. …”
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