Prototypical career paths in urban, suburban, and rural locations in the United States by Setor, Tenace, Joseph, Damien

“…The analyses reveal eight prototypical career paths, some commonly found across geographic locations and others idiosyncratic to specific geographic locations. …”
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Proximal advantage in knowledge diffusion : the time dimension by Wang, Jue, Zhang, Liwei

“…This paper intends to explore the impact of geographic proximity on the diffusion of knowledge in the form of publication citations, and argues that codified knowledge is transmitted faster in proximity and is subject to similar geographic constraints as tacit knowledge. …”
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Power-aware routing in wireless sensor networks by Zha, Wei

“…A general algorithm component is proposed to serve existing geographic routing algorithms to guarantee the success of packet delivery in duty-cycling sensor networks. …”
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Belgrave's quest for moral order in Bahrain, 1926-1957 by Fakhro, E

“…</p> <p>The thesis places the project of moral regulation in its historic context, and identifies it as a response to social and demographic changes taking place in Bahrain following two transformative events: the discovery of oil in 1932, and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. …”

Strange mythologies: cultural and linguistic opacity in Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Scott, Bede

“…I then address his conviction that even the most mundane features of social and cultural life carry ethnographic value, allowing the anthropologist to produce a comprehensive overview of any given culture. …”
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Effects of Surface Scattering in Waveform Inversion by Bleibinhaus, Florian, Rondenay, Stephane

“…We compute synthetic data for this model and different topographies, and we invert it neglecting the free surface. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Fong, Veronica Cheng Xi

“…In this project, the alteration of the surface topography method will be used to investigate the degree of wetting. …”
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THE DOUBLE HELIX / by Trueit, Trudi Strain, author 655686

“…THE THIRD BOOK IN THE GROUNDBREAKING INTERNATIONAL FICTION SERIES INSPIRED BY THE REAL ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY! >PETRA, JORDAN. Bored with waiting, Cruz dug his mind-control camera out of his pack. …”

The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries by Chang, Dianna, Chang, Xin, He, Yu, Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng

“…Besides factors commonly associated with infectious diseases (e.g., population and tourism activities), we discover a list of country characteristics that shape COVID-19 outcomes. Among demographic-geographic factors, the male-to-female ratio, population density, and urbanization aggravate the severity of COVID-19, while education, temperature, and religious diversity mitigate the impact of the pandemic on morbidity and mortality. …”
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Looking at the Map, Together: Modeling Treatment Center Location Selection and its Effects on Access to Gene Therapy in Brazil by Wertheimer, Sarah R.

“…We model how these approaches would affect patients’ geographic accessibility to treatment and discuss potential modifications to our model. …”
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History education for transitional justice: how students understand and construct historical legacies in the post-apartheid South African history classroom by Robinson, N

“…It draws on nine months of ethnographic research in four Grade 9 history classrooms in Cape Town, each with a different racial composition. …”

Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle by Peh, Colin Jin Wei

“…The study of these 5 feature films by renowned Directors Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yi Mou, Tan Bee Thiam and Phillip Noyce will also showcase a detailed visual analysis of various narrative styles. Through ethnographic study, the thesis will include visual analysis of Christopher Doyle’s lighting design and cinematography techniques. …”
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Non-prescribed spaces, creativity and narrative formation: a systems-based examination of a community art group exploring food poverty by Wheeler, B

“…The research used ethnographic methods and a theoretical framework informed by systems theory, critical health psychology and narrative analysis to explore the group’s experiences of food poverty. …”

Simulating resource allocation for protecting public events by Wong, See Lai

“…The objective of this project is to design and create a simulation model integrated with Geographic Information System (GIS) to simulate how systems behave in real-life using resource allocation algorithms and then use the data collected to evaluate the performance of these algorithms. …”
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Research on Traditional Village Spatial Differentiation from the Perspective of Cultural Routes: A Case Study of 338 Villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor by Zhao, Weiqi, Xiao, Dawei, Li, Jing, Xu, Ziyu, Tao, Jin

“…With the help of 91-satellite maps and a geographic information system (GIS), a cultural and geographic database of the traditional villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor was constructed to objectively explore the roles of the traditional villages’ natural geography, historical, and humanistic elements in the spatial categorization on a large scale. …”
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Segregated interactions in urban and online space by Dong, Xiaowen, Morales, Alfredo J., Jahani, Eaman, Moro, Esteban, Lepri, Bruno, Bozkaya, Burcin, Sarraute, Carlos, Bar-Yam, Yaneer, Pentland, Alex

“…Classical studies on segregation have largely focused on the geographic distribution of residential neighborhoods rather than on patterns of social behaviors and interactions. …”
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McAdvertising and children: fast food television advertisement strategies and reception by preschoolers by Afshan Asad Junaid

“…The reception of television fast food advertisements by these children was studied using ethnographic in-depth interviews.…”
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Rapid response : email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia by Grayman, Jesse Hession

“…This article presents a medical humanitarian case study based on ethnographic data I collected while working for a large aid agency in post-conflict Aceh from 2005-2007. …”
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Language and ‘postcolonial shame': the politics of policy, curriculum and classroom practices in urban India by Gupta, M

“…</p> <br> <p>Through ethnographic observations, the thesis unpacks contemporary pedagogic practices such as ‘reverse’ or ‘demanded’ translanguaging or ‘bhasha-washing’ (terms mine), that claim to challenge postcolonial linguistic hierarchies but continue to privilege English over Hindi in schools today. …”

Hydrologic behaviour of residual soil slopes in Singapore by Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon, Rezaur, R. B., Lee, T. T.

“…The variability of hillslope hydrologic responses from storm to storm is distinctive when compared with previous results at other geographic locations.…”
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