Academic Articles & Research Papers

Statistics, Not Experts

The legal system should rely much more than it now does on statistical evidence. It should be cautious about the judgments of experts, who make predictable cognitive errors. Like everyone else, experts have a tendency to blunder about risk,...

Disciplining Statistics

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

Exploring Surgeons' Perceptions of the Role of Simulation in Surgical Education: A Needs Assessment

Introduction: The last two decades have seen the adoption of simulation-based surgical education in various disciplines. The current study’s goal was to perform a needs assessment using the results to inform future curricular planning and n...

Hacia un urbanismo más diverso e inclusivo: la ‘Ciudadela de la libertad’ de Lina Bo Bardi

Este artículo explora la contribución de la arquitecta ítalo-brasileña Lina Bo Bardi para crear un urbanismo más equitativo, inclusivo y sostenible. Tras ofrecer una breve reseña biográfica, el ensayo examina algunos de los temas que influe...

Influence of proxy data uncertainty on data assimilation for the past climate

Data assimilation (DA) is an emerging topic in palaeoclimatology and one of the key challenges in this field. Assimilating proxy-based continental mean temperature reconstructions into the MPI-ESM model showed a lack of information propagat...

Investigando o perfil e elementos motivacionais de plantadores de árvores em suas práticas de protagonismo ambiental

O presente artigo origina-se de pesquisa que teve por objetivo investigar práticas de protagonismo ambiental relacionadas à arborização. Dessa forma, procurou-se investigar as motivações envolvidas em práticas de arborização promov...

PENGARUH INTERVAL TRAINING TERHADAP KECEPATAN

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh interval training terhadap kecepatan. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah anak SSB BBC Batung Taba Kota Padang U-13, yang berjumlah 52 orang. Pengambilan sampel dengan (purposive sampling) de...

Analysis of physical and morphological parameters of silk fibers in the aesthetic properties of silk fabrics

This article outlines the issues of providing the medium-sized industrial sector with natural fiber products, analyzing the aesthetic properties of fabrics in the production of fabrics that meet the aesthetic and hygienic requirements of co...

Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Abstract Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch – and the manner in which these work alone, o...

The Geography of Development

We develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced-growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. Different migration sc...

Ecosystem Geography

Geographic Profiling

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite...

Cloud geographies

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamb...

Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom

Preface Prologue Part One: Universal Values 1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography 2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism 4. The New Cosmopolitans 5. The Banality of Geographical Evi...

Children's Geographies

1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine Part I: Playing 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces:...

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

Un modèle gravitaire géoéconomique des échanges commerciaux entre les pays de l’U.E., les PECO et les PTM

The process of enlargement of the European Union is continuous, involving in 2004 ten Central or Oriental European Countries (PECO), and later some Mediterranean countries (PTM). But the EU still asks important questions: what are the candi...

Cuantificación de los niveles de actividad física a través de podómetros en las clases de Educación Física: Un estudio piloto

La inactividad física durante los primeros años de vida está reconocida actualmente como un factor importante en el incremento de los niveles de obesidad y de otros trastornos médicos graves que se observan en los escolares europeos. Los es...

Economic Geography

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologi...