The association of sleep duration with the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Koh, Jin Hean, Yeo, Brian Sheng Yep, Tan, Timothy Wei En, See, Mark Yong Siang, Ng, Adele Chin Wei, Loh, Shaun Ray Han, Gooley, Joshua, Tan, Chieh Suai, Toh, Song Tar

“…Meta-regression did not find any significant effect of age, gender, geographical region, and BMI and an association with sleep duration and risk of incident chronic kidney disease. …”
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When mobile phone use becomes problematic : the influence of self, parents and peers on adolescents' mobile phone behavior in Singapore and Malaysia by Chuah, Soo Fei

“…Mobile phones ease the communication between humans by overcoming geographical and time constraints. However, uncontrollable mobile phone usage could lead to negative consequences. …”
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客音客韵 唱响狮城 ：论2000年后 客家歌曲在新加坡的发展与本土化 = The development and localization of Hakka Songs in Singapore after 2000s by 郭丽音 Kok, Li Yin

“…In the process of globalization, traditional geographical space gradually disappeared, which results to the world in become a global village. …”
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Northern gene flow into southeastern East Asians inferred from genome-wide array genotyping by He, Guang-Lin, Li, Ying-Xiang, Zou, Xing, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Tang, Ren-Kuan, Wang, Pei-Xin, Bai, Jing-Ya, Yang, Xiao-Min, Wang, Zheng, Guo, Jian-Xin, Chen, Jin-Wen, Chen, Jing, Yang, Mei-Qing, Zhao, Jing, Sun, Jin, Zhu, Kong-Yang, Ma, Hao, Wang, Rui, Yang, Wen-Jiao, Hu, Rong, Wei, Lan-Hai, Hou, Yi-Ping, Wang, Meng-Ge, Chen, Gang, Wang, Chuan-Chao

“…The southeastern coastal modern East Asians are genetically similar to other southern indigenous groups as well as geographically close to Neolithic-to-Iron Age populations, but they also shared excess alleles with post-Neolithic Yellow River ancients, which suggested a southward gene flow on the modern southern coastal gene pool. …”
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Prevalence of offering menopause hormone therapy among primary care doctors and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study by Low, Tiong Lim, Cheong, Ai Theng, Devaraj, Navin Kumar, Ismail, Rohayah

“…The questionnaire included PCDs’ demographics, their menopause management practices, attitudes towards MHT, perceived barriers in offering MHT, knowledge of related guidelines and received training on menopause management. …”
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Evaluation of rabies awareness and the population dynamics of free-roaming and owned dogs in Herat city, Afghanistan by Nasiry, Zabihullah

“…The objectives of the study were to characterize demographics and estimate the population size of both owned and free-roaming dogs, to assess dog bites cases, and knowledge, attitude, and practices of the community towards rabies and to estimate the post-exposure treatment costs associated with dog bites in Herat city, Afghanistan. …”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…Both methods use Green View Index (GVI) to quantify the presence of trees in a geographical location point. The difference between these two methods is their source of data. …”
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Predicting cognitive scores from wearable-based digital physiological features using machine learning: data from a clinical trial in mild cognitive impairment by Rykov, Yuri G., Patterson, Michael D., Gangwar, Bikram A., Jabar, Syaheed B., Leonardo, Jacklyn, Ng, Kok Pin, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…Supervised machine learning was used to train models predicting NTB scores from digital physiological features and demographics. Performance was evaluated using “leave-one-subject-out” and “leave-one-interval-out” cross-validation. …”
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The dietetic practice of prescribing amino acid-based formulas in paediatrics patients without cow’s milk allergy: a single centre retrospective study by O’Connor, Graeme, Mansell, Melissa

“…Data were collected on demographics, anthropometrics, feed regimens, gastrointestinal symptoms, proton pump inhibitor use and serum phosphate concentration Results: 203 children were prescribed an AAF during the data collection period, of these, 154 of 203 (76%) patients had no allergies. …”
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Mechanism design for internet of things services market by Jiao, Yutao

“…Given the workers’ geographical distribution, we propose the second strategyproof deployment mechanism to improve the spatial crowdsourcing platform’s expected utility. …”
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Task allocation and scheduling for distributed job execution by Guan, Yitong

“…Data analytic jobs usually require large volumes of data inputs that are available at geographically distributed locations. Gathering all the data at a central location for processing would not only place heavy traffic burdens on the underlying networks but also slow down the job execution. …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…This inventory opens a window into the short-term emission patterns of a diverse set of volcanoes in terms of magma composition, geographical location, magnitude of emission, and style of eruptive activity. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…Through experiments, we found that the mobility of devices allows them to be adaptable by moving to different clusters (geographical location) for energy consumption if the current cluster is overloaded. …”
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Exploiting LoRaWAN for efficient and resilient IoT networks by Gu, Chaojie

“…LoRaWAN is promising for collecting low-rate monitoring data from geographically distributed sensors, in which timestamping the sensor data with a common notion of time is a critical system function. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…The use of decentralized control approach mitigates the issue of communication stress when the microgrid control areas are geographically distantly located. The decentralized control is accompanied by mode change based operation so that the distributed units like solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system (ESS) in microgrids can adaptively adjust their operation modes depending upon the designated voltage level. …”
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Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Glob... by Naghavi, M, Ong, KL, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, R, Dolecek, C, Lacey, BWH

“…Analyses of shifting mortality trends reveal that several causes, once widespread globally, are now increasingly concentrated geographically. These changes in mortality concentration, alongside further investigation of changing risks, interventions, and relevant policy, present an important opportunity to deepen our understanding of mortality-reduction strategies. …”

PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…These include, among others, the ending of ETA's activities, political normalisation and opportunities for a peace process; the failure of the socio-economic and territorial model of the Spanish state and the need for a new constitutional order; the ageing of the nation-state model, real administrative division and the emergence of city-regions as urban-based geographical units; the importance of migration movements of all kinds (socio-economic and political, intraregional and transnational, etc.); very specifically, the perpetuation of the inertia of cultural politics rooted to the decimononic medieval ground of feuding Oinaz and Gamboa clans, and very generally, the need for a socially balanced post-crisis economic model. …”