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Spatial Impact of Industrial Agglomeration and Environmental Regulation on Environmental Pollution—Evidence from Pollution-Intensive Industries in China
In the context of China's efforts to achieve green economic development and adjust the spatial layout of industries, this article focuses on...
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From the Ground Up: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Past Fertility and Population Narratives
Population dynamics form a crucial component of human narratives in the past. Population responses and adaptations not only tell us about the human...
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The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review
Ageing with a disability increases the risk of hospitalization and nursing home admission. Ageing in place interventions aiming to reduce disability...
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The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and...
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A model-based boosting approach to risk factors for physical intimate partner violence against women and girls in Mexico
The goal of this study was to identify and describe the extent to which a comprehensive set of risk factors from the ecological model are associated...
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The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)
This paper investigates the effects of different dimensions of social capital on happiness of Europeans. Unlike other studies, a categorical...
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Exploring Environmental Determinism with Agent-Based Simulation of Settlement Choice
Archaeology and the related fields of geography and anthropology have a long history of debate of environmental determinism going beyond discussing...
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Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Demographic Models
Nonlinearities in demographic models arise due to density dependence, frequency dependence (in 2-sex models), feedback through the environment or the...
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Community Participation in Healthcare in Rural Geographies of the Global South
The role of community participation in healthcare services was fortified after 1978’s Alma Ata Declaration which emphasized the role of health...
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What does PISA Tell Us about the Paradoxes of Students’ Well-Being and their Academic Competencies in Mainland China?
Recent research has shown a growing interest in understanding the relationship between students’ well-being and their academic achievement. However,...
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Making Drawings Speak Through Mathematical Metrics
Figurative drawing is a skill that takes time to learn, and it evolves during different childhood phases that begin with scribbling and end with...
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The promises of persistent homology, machine learning, and deep neural networks in topological data analysis of democracy survival
This paper presents a new approach to survival analysis using topological data analysis (TDA) within Bayesian statistics combined with machine...
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Subjective–Objective Method of Maximizing the Average Variance Extracted From Sub-indicators in Composite Indicators
This research presents an innovative method for constructing composite indicators: the Subjective–objective method of maximizing extracted variance...
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Integration as a Proxy Theory and Governance
This chapter delves into the integration concept as an analytical component from a theoretical lens and as a governance system. It aims to understand...
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Tangent Vector Field Approach to Mortality Projection
This chapter describes mortality projection that uses the tangent vector field (TVF) model. It provides an in-depth discussion of the method for...
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Occam’s razor, machine learning and stochastic modeling of complex systems: the case of the Italian energy market
In the spirit of Occam’s razor, we propose a parsimoniuos regime-switching model for describing the complex dynamics of electricity and natural gas...
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Study on the evaluation and improvement strategy of the ecological environment governance capacity of the Yangtze River Economic Belt
In order to strengthen the improvement and optimization of eco-environment management in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the paper studies the use...
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Toward integrated smart city: a new model for implementation and design challenges
In smart city architecture, information and communication technologies are used to improve living standards and its management by citizens and...
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Cross Mutual Information Analysis of EEG Signals for Cognitive Task Discrimination
This study aims to assess Functional Connectivity (FC) using the Cross Mutual Information (CMI) approach between differents brain areas while several...
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Smoothing, Decomposing and Forecasting Mortality Rates
The Lee–Carter (LC) model represents a landmark paper in mortality forecasting. While having been widely accepted and adopted, the model has some...
