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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
wiley   +1 more source

MAGT-toll: A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach to dynamic traffic congestion pricing. [PDF]

PLoS One
Lu J, Hong C, Wang R.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

Survey on Visualization of Information Diffusion over Networks

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Information Diffusion (ID) describes how a value (e.g., a pathogen, a rumor, a packet) spreads through an underlying “medium” network of elements (e.g., a social or computer network). Understanding the information diffusion process is essential to predicting trends, controlling misinformation, and enhancing decision‐making as well as ...
T. Baumgartl, M. Sondag, V. Filipov, M. Tuscher, S. Rajendran, S. Miksch, D. Archambault, A. Arleo, T. von Landesberger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Impact of Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commercial Property Rental Value in Mararaba, Karu LGA, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management
The objective of this paper was to evaluate the Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commercial Property Rental Value in Mararaba, Karu LGA, Nasarawa State Nigeria using appropriate standard procedure after collecting data from 127 respondents through a ...
B. Ayuba, S. Adamu, K. U. Muhammad, M. K. Dauda   +3 more
doaj  

Impact of traffic congestion on asthma-related hospital visits in major Texas cities. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yang M, Wang T.
europepmc   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli, Alfons van Marrewijk, Arne Carlsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does bike-sharing reduce traffic congestion? Evidence from three mega-cities in China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Xu X, Zuo W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of Traffic Congestion on Labour Investment Efficiency

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines the effects of headquarters‐city traffic congestion on labour investment efficiency. The results indicate that firms headquartered in congested cities may engage in inefficient labour investment decisions. Further analysis indicates that the inefficiency is associated with both overinvestment and underinvestment in labour ...
Rajib Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

A New Multi-Branch Convolutional Neural Network and Feature Map Extraction Method for Traffic Congestion Detection. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Jiang S, Feng Y, Zhang W, Liao X, Dai X, Onasanya BO.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source