How may configurations of content which are exposed to users as a result of an ‘algorithmic gut feeling’ on the Facebook News Feed challenge dominating epistemologies of news? The article suggests a genealogical-inspired framework to study news distinguishing between journalistic, user and...

Development status and five principal practice modes of ecological cycling agriculture are introduced, such as the quantitative reduction mode with the characteristics of fertilizer reduction and clean production, the ecological chain connection and conversion mode including the combination of...

This study introduces the concentration index (CI) to assess socioeconomic inequality in the distribution of obesity among American adults aged 18-60 years old. The CI provides a summary measure of socioeconomic inequality, and enabled comparisons across gender, age, and ethnicity. Data from the...

Poyang Lake, directly connected with the Yangtze River, is one of the most frequently flooded areas in China. The frequent large floods have caused huge damages to the environment and economy and threatened the life of approximately 10 million people. Understanding the changing characteristics...

This paper examines, for the first time, the trade and FDI impacts of a North American Security Perimeter that would liberalize the post 9/11 security measures at the Canada-US border. First, the study estimates econometrically the impact of post 9/11 security measures on bilateral (US-Canada)...

The potentially damaging effects of climate change make it imperative to develop zero-carbon energy systems and societies based on renewable energy sources that do not negatively affect the environment. However, these systems are often criticized for their intermittency, and the present paper...

For the case of the UK there are currently three ways of obtaining energy from sea areas, namely from wind, tides and waves. A methodology was developed to determine the future size of the offshore renewable industry based on the concept of employment factor, or the number of people required to...

To reduce the curse of dimensionality arising from nonparametric estimation procedures for multiple nonparametric regression, in this paper we suggest a simulation-based two-stage estimation. We first introduce a simulation-based method to decompose the multiple nonparametric regression into two...

Objective To examine the effect of supplemental health insurance for prescription drug coverage on health care utilization as measured by the number of visits to physicians in a setting with incomplete public insurance coverage.Methods A latent-class modeling approach is used to capture the...

The hydrotreatment of bio-oil, which obtained from fast pyrolysis of pine sawdust, was investigated over MoNi/[gamma]-Al2O3 catalyst under mild conditions (373 K, 3 MPa hydrogen pressure). Acetic acid was taken as a model compound to investigate the effects of Mo promoter contents and...