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. …”

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

“…M.A.P. is inspired from my love for maps, exploration of local places and geographic metaphors. The project juxtaposes old and new maps and photos to identify changes in Singapore landscape. …”
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The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions by Knox-Hayes, Janelle, Osorio, Juan Camilo, Stamler, Natasha, Dombrov, Maria, Winer, Rose, Smith, Mary Hannah, Blake, Reginald A, Rosenzweig, Cynthia

“…Using GIS mapping, we illustrate how COVID-19 risk geographies change across the three waves of the pandemic and the particular impact of vaccinations before the onset of the third wave. …”
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The Properties of Whiteness by Williams, Darien Alexander, Delgado, Laura Humm, Cameron, Nicholette, Steil, Justin

“…Third, it draws from Black geographies to suggest takeaways for planners in supporting Black spaces that can simultaneously support Black efforts to name the collective political reality and highlight the contingency of racial constructs in ways that can eradicate the substantive conditions of Black subordination. …”
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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). …”

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. …”

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. …”

Designing Electricity Distribution Network Tariffs for Beneficial Electrification by Turk, Graham

“…We answer this question by running a series of bottom-up optimizations to simulate household’s responses to alternative network tariff designs in two distinct geographies, then assessing cost impacts on different household groups. …”
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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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Reading the transformation: the relationship between literature and territory in contemporary Veneto by Frezzato, E

“…Drawing on concepts pertaining geography, cultural anthropology, and landscape theory, the premise of this thesis is that territory is a complex geographic, historical, social, economic, and cultural entity of which landscape constitutes the visible stratum. …”

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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