Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within the LA region there are considerable differences between countries, success stories coexisting with extremely vulnerable economies. …”
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Modeling the population and industry distribution impacts of urban land use policies in Beijing by Niu, Fangqu, Li, Jun

“…Capable tools are desired for urban spatial policies planning in China to safeguard its sustainable development strategy. …”
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Environmental policy stringency, renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions: panel cointegration analysis for BRIICTS countries by Wolde-Rufael, Yemane, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between environmental policy stringency and CO2 emissions in BRIICTS (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, Turkey and South Africa) for the period 1993–2014 after controlling for renewable energy, fossil energy, oil prices and income. …”

Italianerie: transculturality, co- creation and transforming identities between Italy and Asia by Ling, Wessie, Marinelli, Maurizio

“…Extending from the original French word and concept of Chinoiserie (the Eighteenth-century European ‘fascination for China’), this special issue introduces the concept and analytical-interpretive paradigm of Italianerie. …”
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Turkey's battle with Covid‐19: a multifaceted investigation by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Erkoc, Taptuk Emre, Dogan, Salih

“…Although airports in Istanbul are points of intersection between East and West, and despite the fact that Ankara was late to sever travel connections with places where the virus struck forcefully, such as Iran and China, Turkey did not see its first case until March 11 - much later than many countries. …”

RFID Network Planning of Smart Factory Based on Swarm Intelligent Optimization Algorithm: A Review by YEJIAO, WANG, KAMALUDIN, HAZALILA, MOHAMMED ALDUAIS, NAYEF ABDULWAHAB, MOHD SAFAR, NOOR ZURAIDIN, ZHONGCHAO, HAO

“…With the development of intelligent manufacturing in China, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a key technology for smart factories, has received widespread attention. …”
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Structural Breaks and the Equilibrium Chinese Yuan/US Dollar Real Exchange Rate: A FEER Approach by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…We find structural breaks in all trade and the sustainable current account equations, with the break dates corresponding to important policy changes in China. The misalignment rates show that the real exchange rate was overvalued in most years until 2003, followed by undervaluation during 2004-2009. …”
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Hey, did you see that label? It’s sustainable! - understanding the role of sustainable labelling in shaping sustainable purchase behaviour for sustainable development by Siraj, Ahsan, Taneja, Shilpa, Zhu, Yongming, Jiang, Hongbing, Luthra, Sunil, Kumar, Anil

“…This research integrates the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with environmental concern, consumer effectiveness, consumer innovativeness and sustainable label awareness to determine how these affect the sustainable purchase behaviour for food products in China. The findings of structural equation modelling using data gathered from 273 consumers indicate all the constructs as significant, with consumer innovativeness having a negative and significant association. …”
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Design of intelligent agricultural environmental big data collection system based on ZigBee and NB-IoT by Niu, Lu

Football fandom, glocalisation and the ‘Man United in Pidgin’ Twitter community: a study of the glocal village created through the social media practices of a Twitter account dedic... by Mbassi Elong, Wally Shannon

“…MUIP is an unofficial MUFC’s social media fan account created by a Nigerian fan of MUFC that provides readers with the team’s news updates in Pidgin English, a lingua franca spoken in many West African countries. …”
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Wideband and multiband antennas for multi-configuration mode applications by Idris, Izni Husna

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The commercial street as “frozen” festival: a study in Chinese mercantile traditions by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Li, Yan

“…This study explores themes relating to these intersections between building and festive occasion through an examination of two traditionally designed commercial streets in China. It argues that architecture in these two cases presents in different ways a “foregrounding” of festivals, in which participants are reminded of previous events. …”
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A literature survey on vaccine supply chain management amidst COVID-19: literature developments, future directions and open challenges for public health by Joshi, Sudhanshu, Sharma, Manu

“…The top five countries contributing to VSCM literature are the USA, France, China, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Supply chain, vaccine, immunization, and Vaccine Supply Chain Management are the high-frequency keywords in the area of VSCM. …”
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Building tomorrow's smart cities with 6G infrastructure technology by Singh, Sushil Kumar, Virdee, Bal Singh, Jadeja, Rajendrasinh, Tanwar, Sudeep, Khanna, Ashish

A Data Mining-Based Model for Assessing Guangzhou's Higher Vocational Colleges 'New Energy Automobile Majors' Vocational Skills by He, Ling, Hamid, Hashima

“…For the purpose of measuring the real-world abilities of students participating in Renewable Energy (RE) vehicle programs at the HVC in Guangzhou, China, this study develops a unique model. The approach employs algorithms for data mining to enhance the accuracy and accessibility of results through the use of Random Forest (RF) and Generalized Additive Models (GAM) in a layering architecture. …”
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Improved aerosol optical depth and Ångstrom exponent retrieval over land from MODIS based on the non-Lambertian forward model by Yang, Leiku, Xue, Yong, Guang, Jie, Kazemian, Hassan, Zhang, Jiahua, Li, Chi

“…This new algorithm was applied to MODIS measurements of the whole year of 2008 over Eastern China. By comparing the results with that of AERONET, we found that the accuracy of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieval was improved with the regression plots concentrating around the 1 : 1 line and two-thirds falling within the expected error (EE) envelope EE = ±0.05 ± 0.1τ (from 53.6% with L_FM to 68.7% with NL_FM at band 0.55 μm). …”
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Fashion-making and co-creation in the transglobal landscape: Sino-Italian fashion as method by Ling, Wessie, Segre Reinach, Simona

“…Specifically, what happens when Italy and China collaborate in transglobal fashion-making? …”
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Decoding Covid-19 with the SARS-CoV-2 genome by Ellis, Phoebe, Somogyvári, Ferenc, Virok, Dezső P., Noseda, Michela, McLean, Gary R.

“…Purpose of review: SARS-CoV-2, the recently emerged coronavirus (CoV) that is responsible for the current global pandemic Covid-19, first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan China. Here, we summarise details of the SARS-CoV-2 genome to assist understanding of the emergence, evolution and diagnosis of this deadly new virus. …”
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Multiple cross-docks scheduling with multiple doors using fuzzy approach and meta-heuristic algorithms by Movassaghi, Mitra, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

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Influence of culture on learning object design and evaluation by Qi, Mei

“…This study began with an empirical case study that was carried out in two universities in China and the UK to elucidate influences of culture on the reuse of learning objects, and then identified four dimensions of culturally sensitive factors that may be involved in learning objects designs through a systematic review. …”
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