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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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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Characterizing dry mass and volume changes in human multiple myeloma cells upon treatment with proteotoxic and genotoxic drugs by Liu, Xili, Moscvin, Maria, Oh, Seungeun, Chen, Tianzeng, Choi, Wonshik, Evans, Benjamin, Rowell, Sean M., Nadeem, Omar, Mo, Clifton C., Sperling, Adam S., Anderson, Kenneth C., Yaqoob, Zahid, Bianchi, Giada, Sung, Yongjin

“…For the dry mass measurement, we use two types of phase-sensitive optical microscopy techniques: digital holographic tomography and computationally enhanced quantitative phase microscopy. …”
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The role of membrane curvature in nanoscale topography-induced intracellular signaling by Lou, Hsin-Ya, Zhao, Wenting, Zeng, Yongpeng, Cui, Bianxiao

“…However, a mechanistic understanding of how cells interact and respond to nanoscale topographic features is still lacking. In this Account, we focus on some recent studies that support a new mechanism that local membrane curvature induced by nanoscale topography directly acts as a biochemical signal to induce intracellular signaling, which we refer to as the curvature hypothesis. …”
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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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A Coral Reef Algorithm Based on Learning Automata for the Coverage Control Problem of Heterogeneous Directional Sensor Networks by Li, Ming, Miao, Chunyan, Leung, Cyril

“…The coverage problem considered in this paper is characterized by the geographical irregularity of the sensed events and heterogeneity of the sensor nodes in terms of sensing radius, field of angle and communication radius. …”
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Influence of rainfall pattern on suction distribution and slope stability by Lee, Min Lee

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Characteristics of religious diversity in mid-nineteenth century Warwickshire: a study of the 1851 religious census by Geary, F

“…This study is rooted in the geographical, socio-economic and religious contexts of Warwickshire in the middle of the nineteenth century, drawing original raw material from transcriptions of the Warwickshire returns of the Religious Census. …”

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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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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Molecular detection of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in clinically ill local cats by Mummoorthy, Kunambiga

“…Therefore, this study aim to detect FeLV antigen in clinically ill cats by RT-PCR and to compare the currently identified variant similarity with previous related virus isolates from Malaysia and other geographical distribution. By using convenience sampling method, plasma and saliva were collected from 15 clinically ill cats and 5 healthy cats from Gasing Veterinary Hospital. …”
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Pandemic Marine Risks Assessment for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP): A Case Study of Northport, Malaysia by Parmen, Ayati, Mohamad, Nazirah, Ismail, Badrul Hisham, Opaluwa, Yusuf Drisu

“…These results can be integrated into Geographical Information System (GIS) and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to convert them from numerical values to spatial data, and visualize them hierarchically. …”

Weather radar to study rain and cloud events by Tan, Xin Yi

“…A relation for melting layer’s height and ground temperature was noticed and a trend in melting layer’s height was seen as it shifts from tropical, sub-tropical and temperature climate. Even the geographical location such as inland, coastal or island cities had certain effect on the melting layer. …”
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