Search results
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Title
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Non-linear associations between the urban built environment and commuting modal split : a random forest approach and SHAP evaluation
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Nikparvar, Behnam
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Commuting, Statistics
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Description
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The study of commuting mode choice is crucial since driving, with all its associated environmental and economic consequences, is the United States' most popular mode of transportation due to urban sprawl, priority to road construction and America'...
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Title
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Predicting the upcoming services of vacant taxis near fixed locations using taxi trajectories
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hu, Chunchun
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Taxicab industry, Taxicabs
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Description
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Emerging on-line reservation services and special car services have greatly affected the development of the taxi industry. Surprisingly, taking a taxi is still a significant problem in many large cities. In this paper, we present an effective solu...
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Title
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Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Data mining, Statistics
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Description
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Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...
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Title
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Machine learning on the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility and air quality : a review
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Machine learning, COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic is touching every facet of human lives (e.g., public health, education, economy, transportation, and the environment). This novel pandemic and non-pharmaceutical interventions of lockdown and confinement implem...
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Title
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Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...
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Title
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Diverging trends in US summer dewpoint since 1948
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Author
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Scheff, Jacob, Burroughs, James Cody
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Climatic changes, Earth sciences
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Description
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Increases in summer humidity are a basic threat to human survival, because the body cannot shed heat by sweating if absolute humidity is too high. However, climate change trends and patterns of extreme humidity have been much less studied than tho...
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Title
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CO2-plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5
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Author
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Scheff, Jacob, Mankin, Justin S., Coats, Sloan, Liu, Haibo
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Climatic changes, Earth sciences
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Description
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Recent studies have found that terrestrial dryness indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and Aridity Index calculated from future climate model projections are mostly neg...
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Title
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COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
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Description
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This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...
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Title
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The role of skills in Islamic financial innovation : evidence from Bahrain and Malaysia
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Author
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Poon, Jessie, Chow, Yew Wah, Ewers, Michael, Ramli, Razli
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Subjects--Topical
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Financial institutions, Finance (Islamic law)
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Description
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A body of work has emerged that examines human capital from the perspective of skills to better understand the types of expertise that influence innovation. The relationship between skill and financial innovation, however, is poorly understood in ...
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Title
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The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
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Author
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Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Urbanization, Forest birds
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Description
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Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...
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Title
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The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
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Author
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Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
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Description
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Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...
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Title
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The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
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Author
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Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Urbanization, Forest birds
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Description
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As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...
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Title
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Machine learning of spatial data
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Machine learning, Geospatial data
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Description
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Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify these properties and investigate their influence and methods to...