Measuring science: performance metrics and the allocation of talent by Hager, S, Schwarz, C, Waldinger, F

“…Citation metrics increased assortative matching between scientists and departments by reducing information frictions over geographic and intellectual distance. Highly cited scientists from lower-ranked departments ("hidden stars") and from minorities benefited more. …”

An exploratory study on Mom and Pop shops : surviving the trade. by Chua, Yew Teck., Quek, Woon Hwee., Fu, Eunice Karina Yumin.

“…In addition, the swift pace of changes in macro-sociology trends such as demographics shifts, IT evolution and transportation networks has also hastened the decline of small business owners (Haltiwanger et al, 2010)…”
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What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries by Ejaz, W, Fletcher, R, Nielsen, RK, McGregor, S

“…The study highlights variations in platform use, trust, and societal impact across demographics and regions, revealing that younger, tech-savvy individuals generally express greater optimism towards different platforms. …”

A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…A Short History of South-East Asia with revised chapters for all of the countries in this geographic area, this interesting text paints a remarkable overview of the characters and events that have shaped this part of the world. …”

Effect of coupling agent on hollow carbon microsphere/phenolic resin syntactic foam by Chan, Sze Hua.

“…The FITR and SEM were used to scan for chemical bonds and topography of hollow carbon microsphere respectively. …”
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Biofilms: Microbial Cities Wherein Flow Shapes Competition by Chew, Su Chuen, Yang, Liang

“…However, two recent publications demonstrate how hydrodynamic flow and substrate topography can also alter the competitive outcomes of different bacterial phenotypes, increasing biofilm phenotypic variation.…”
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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). …”

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. …”

Analysis of Seoul Apartment Prices during Population Decline Era by Cho, Moohyun

“…By applying various indices related to apartment prices, this study demonstrates the correlations between apartment prices and demographic changes, consequently exploring the potential future scenarios for the housing market in Seoul.…”
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The profile of running and running injuries in Singapore by Phua, Joel Chia Keng

“…Results: Across the 50 respondents when comparing demographic and running profile factors, a runner from the Singapore running community is likely to have 1 running-related injury at any given year. …”
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Investigating cross-linguistic influence on relative clause structures in Indian English through a corpus-based approach by Anil, Akshay

“…A k-means cluster analysis was also conducted and showed clusters with inclination towards certain demographics.…”
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Using brain functional connectivity pattern to examine the effectiveness of a reading intervention for children with dyslexia. by Naidu, Shanthini Chandra Sekaran, Al-Naimi, Taha Mahmoud, Samah, Narina A., Sha'Ameri, Ahmad Zuri

“…Partial Directed Coherence (PDC) technique was utilized and 2D EEG topography images were produced when the subjects were involved in live different rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks. …”

Evaluating & enhancing deep learning systems via out-of-distribution detection by Christopher, Berend David

“…Fairness aims to enable equal performance for all demographics, such as gender, age or ethnicity. Security aims to address new DL threats and defenses. …”
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Action research in social media marketing to improve firm performance: Conceptual paper by Zhang, Yuefei, Teo, Poh-Chuin, Baskaran, Shathees

“…This conceptual paper delves into the effectiveness of social media advertising in reaching and engaging specific demographics, the power of live streaming in making real-time connections, and the impact of working with social media influencers. …”
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Informative path planning for anomaly detection in environment exploration and monitoring by Blanchard, Antoine, Sapsis, Themistoklis

“…We demonstrate superiority of the proposed approach in several applications, including reconstruction of seafloor topography from real-world bathymetry data, as well as tracking of dynamic anomalies. …”
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Platelet activation studies on polymeric surfaces by Suzliana Sulaimi

“…Platelet activation effects varies with the nature of topography, in this case, pillars are studied. A series of immunofluorescence staining of platelets was performed to get the optimized parameters; which are 1 wash before stain as shown by the higher intensity and minimal presence of debris as compared to 2 and 0 wash at dilution factors of 1:1 and 4:1 for CD 62P and PAC-1 respectively as the intensity shift between the negative and positive control samples were more significant. …”
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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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