Ancient bacterial genomes reveal a high diversity of Treponema pallidum strains in early modern Europe by Majander, K, Pfrengle, S, Kocher, A, Neukamm, J, du Plessis, L, Pla-Díaz, M, Arora, N, Akgül, G, Salo, K, Schats, R, Inskip, S, Oinonen, M, Valk, H, Malve, M, Kriiska, A, Onkamo, P, González-Candelas, F, Kühnert, D, Krause, J, Schuenemann, VJ

“…These findings imply a more complex pattern of geographical distribution and etiology of early treponemal epidemics than previously understood.…”

Natural variation of OsWRKY23 drives difference in nitrate use efficiency between indica and japonica rice by Zhang, S, Ji, Z, Jiao, W, Shen, C, Qin, Y, Huang, Y, Huang, M, Kang, S, Liu, X, Li, S, Mo, Z, Yu, Y, Jiang, B, Tian, Y, Wang, L, Song, Q, Wang, S, Li, S

“…The resultant increase in auxin level improves NO3‒ uptake and assimilation, which ultimately enhances grain yield. Geographical and evolutionary analyses reveal overlapping distribution of OsWRKY23indica and DNR1indica, particularly in low-fertility soils, suggesting their involvement in the adaptation to low N conditions to improve NUE and grain yield. …”

GIS-based scheduling and monitoring irrigation delivery for rice irrigation system: Part II. Monitoring by Rowshon, M.K., Kwok, C.Y., Lee, T.S.

“…A computer program with a geographical information system (GIS)-based user-interface was developed to monitor the delivery of irrigation water. …”
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Social Bridges in Urban Purchase Behavior by Dong, Xiaowen, Suhara, Yoshihiko, Bozkaya, Burçin, Singh, Vivek K., Lepri, Bruno, Pentland, Alex

“…Our findings also suggest that such an effect varies across different merchant categories, that the presence of female customers in social bridges is a stronger indicator compared to that of their male counterparts, and that there seems to be a geographical constraint for this effect, all of which may have implications in the studies of urban economy and data-driven urban planning.…”
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Effect of minimum wage increase on employment and wage levels by Ng, Cheryl Tsuei Yi

“…We first explore the effects in the private non-agricultural sectors, which is covered by the minimum wage legislation, by exploiting the geographical variation in the minimum wages across provinces. …”
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Global study on graduate curricula in library and information science by Anantha Kumar, Deepthi

“…Data has been gathered from educational institutes located in ninety-three countries and in five major geographical regions. Program webpages and the respective curriculum webpages of these educational institutions, offering graduate programs in the field of Library and Information Science have been analysed using the method of content analysis. …”
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UNCLOS and its Limitations as the Foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime by Sam, Bateman

“…The root causes of these problems lie in basic conflicts of interest between countries on law of the sea issues, the “built-in” ambiguity of UNCLOS in several of its key regimes, and the geographical complexity of the East Asian region in particular. …”
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Food environments in Islamabad, Pakistan by Hasnain, S

“…The dissertation examines the ways in which conceptualisations of 'good food', and trust relationships are negotiated in these dynamic food environments. The intensely geographical nature of these food environments and food systems, and the role of place-specific contexts on perceptions and adaptations related to food anxieties are emphasised. …”

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset by Mede, NG, Cologna, V, Berger, S, Besley, J, Brick, C, Joubert, M, Maibach, EW, Mihelj, S, Oreskes, N, Schäfer, MS, van der Linden, S, Abdul Aziz, NI, Abdulsalam, S, Shamsi, NA, Aczel, B, Adinugroho, I, Alabrese, E, Aldoh, A, Alfano, M, Ali, IM, Alsobay, M, Altenmüller, M, Alvarez, RM, Amoako, R, Levy, N

“…To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. …”

Astley's Amphitheatre and the early circus in England, 1768-1830 by Kwint, M

“…The second half is devoted to Astleian spectacle: firstly the key role of its overall presentation and marketing in the development of graphic design, theatre architecture and stagecraft; secondly its various ingredients from ‘high,’ ‘low’ and possibly archaic cultures; and thirdly the generally conservative and imperialistic view of the geographical, political and natural world that Astley's communicated with its socially wide-ranging audiences.…”

Where is place in the history of work? Worksites, workspaces, and the home-work nexus by Schneider, B, Whittle, J

“…We propose a terminological distinction between worksites, which are the geographical places of work, and workspaces, the physical surroundings in which work occurs. …”

The characteristics and improvement paths of think tank construction and exchange between China and ASEAN by Zhang, Wei, Teh, Benny Cheng Guan

“…The ASEAN region is an important geographical area for China’s Belt and Road Initiative. …”
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Trust-aware resource allocation in a cognitive radio system by Qin, Tao, Leung, Cyril, Chen, Yiqiang, Miao, Chun Yan

“…It is widely accepted that in a real-world environment, cooperative spectrum sensing involving many secondary users (SUs) scattered over a wide geographical area can greatly improve sensing accuracy. …”
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ESG disclosure, firm internationalization, and firm financial performance: evidence from Asia-Pacific by Hussain, Waleed, Ong, Tze San, Kamarudin, Fakarudin, Khan, Muhammad Asif, Bács, Zoltán

“…The findings of the fixed effect and robust two-stage least square estimations reflect that the modern pillars of corporate social responsibility – ESGD-significantly and negatively influence FFP; however, the degrees of corporate internationalization (international intensity, geographical extensity) significantly and positively moderate the association between ESGD and FFP. …”
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Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: challenges, progress and future opportunities by Lee, Wei Lin, Gu, Xiaoqiong, Armas, Federica, Leifels, Mats, Wu, Fuqing, Chandra, Franciscus, Chua, Desmond Feng Jun, Syenina, Ayesa, Chen, Hongjie, Cheng, Dan, Ooi, Eng Eong, Wuertz, Stefan, Alm, Eric J., Thompson, Janelle

“…Arboviral epidemics have increased in frequency, magnitude and geographical extent over the past decades and are expected to continue increasing with climate change and expanding urbanisation. …”
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Nanotechnology in food production: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis using R-package by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Wahab, Siti Norida, Yeap, Swee Pin, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina

“…The findings of this study are reported using standard bibliometric indicators including source title, source type, document type, publication year, subject area, languages, keywords analysis, authorship, citation analysis, geographical distribution, and active institutions. According to our findings, the number of publications on nanotechnology in food production has increased dramatically since 2003. …”
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Tshangla verb inflections: a preliminary sketch by Andvik, Erik

“…However, the language described by Zhang and Sun is spoken in a cluster of communities geographically separated from Bhutan by several hundred miles, namely the region formerly known as Padma-bkod, located near the point where the Tsangpo River (Siang), crosses the McMahon Line. …”
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中国汽车工业的产业结构及其调整战略 = The industrial structure of China's automobile industry and its reform by 王舜 Wang, Shun

“…The finding is that the Chinese automobile industry is featured as too many firms, too fragmented geographically, too isolated between firms in production corporation. …”
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The iPod index. by Lee, Ferena Jiamei., Lim, Hui Qi., Ng, Jaime Hong Ming., Tan, Rachel Yuting.

“…The 36 countries are also grouped according to regions to see if there are any geographical effects. T-tests are also conducted to see if the individual currency and regions deviate significantly from the parity. …”
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Search in location based social network by Lew, Stephanie Yin Hui.

“…With a location aware search engine, users can submit geographically constrained searches against a structured database of spatial objects. …”
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