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Beyond Prediction: Data, Baselines, Explanation, and Causation in Machine Learning for Food Insecurity

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
The gains from machine learning in nowcasting and forecasting food insecurity are still small and limited and cannot be observed in all countries. This review summarizes the public resources for data, corrects common misconceptions about model requirements, and establishes baseline requirements, explanations, causal inference, and equity in operational
Shabnam Mehboob   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Soundscapes of the World: Selection and reproduction of urban acoustic environments with soundscape in mind

open access: yes, 2017
The advent of realistic yet affordable immersive audio-visual recording and reproduction systems that combine binaural or spatial audio with 360-degree video, backed by increasingly efficient and realistic acoustic simulation and auralization models, has
De Coensel, B, Sun, K, Botteldooren, D
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors

open access: yesGlobal Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
wiley   +1 more source

Classified Comparison and Cause Analysis of the Characteristics of Co‐Disabilities Among Older Adults With Physical Disability in China

open access: yesHealth Care Science, EarlyView.
This study used prevalence comparisons and binary logistic regression to analyze the data from the First and Second China National Sample Survey on Disability conducted in 1987 and 2006, respectively. Co‐disability patterns among older adults with physical disability in China were examined, and the associations of other disability types with both the ...
Yiran Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The economics of airport noise: how to manage markets for noise licenses [PDF]

open access: yes
Noise-induced pollution constitutes a hot and topical societal problem for all major airports. This paper discusses various issues in the implementation of a market for noise licenses as a solution to solve the noise externality between the residents ...
BRECHET, Thierry, PICARD, Pierre M.
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New Medical Schools, Access to Physicians, and Health Outcomes: Evidence From Japan

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyse the impact of the construction of medical schools and associated university hospitals in Japan during the 1970s, which was primarily driven by ‘One Prefecture, One Medical School Policy’ (OPOMS). We find that the number of physicians increased significantly in prefectures where a medical school was built, and this effect persisted ...
Kisho Hoshi
wiley   +1 more source

Personal factors affecting the audio-visual perception of the urban public space

open access: yes, 2017
This paper summarises a continued analysis of a previously conducted experiment with a group of 71 normal hearing participants experiencing a virtual walk along an urban bridge over a highway by means of virtual reality technology.
Echevarria Sanchez, GM   +4 more
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Case‐Mix Adjustment of Multidimensional Patient‐Reported Outcomes to Assess Hospital Performance

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multidimensional patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to compare the performance of health care providers. Meaningful comparisons require the data to be adjusted for differences in case‐mix. The common approach in the literature is to aggregate PROM data into univariate summary scores prior to case‐mix adjustment. In
Nils Gutacker, Yuanyuan Gu
wiley   +1 more source

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