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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Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Commuting, Residential mobility
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Description
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Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...
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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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Why do the global warming responses of land-surface models and climatic dryness metrics disagree?
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Author
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Scheff, Jacob, Coats, Sloan, Lague, Marysa M.
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Climatic changes, Earth sciences
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Description
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Abstract: Earth System Models’ complex land components simulate a patchwork of increases and decreases in surface water availability when driven by projected future climate changes. Yet, commonly-used simple theories for surface water availability...
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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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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Title
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An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
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Author
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Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
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Description
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Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...
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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...