Exploring the use of mobile phone data for domestic tourism trip analysis by Maarten Vanhoof, Liane Hendrickx, Aare Puussaar, Gert Verstraeten, Thomas Ploetz, Zbigniew Smoreda

“…In total, we detect 18,380 domestic tourism trips from mobile phone data of 69,000 users sampled in 32 cities in France. By analysing temporal, spatial and social characteristics of the domestic tourism trips, we explore several possible directions for the use of mobile phone data when studying domestic tourism on a large scale. …”
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Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: a legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China by Moulin Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Xiaohong Yu

“…With data on sentence length consisting of 15,142 rape offenders nationwide, this article conducts bivariate and multilevel multivariate analyses to demonstrate negligible sentencing differences across cities and provinces. Authors believe the sentencing rules under jurisdictional uniformity pave the way for balanced sentencing, while the political mechanism in the judicial system controls jurisdictional disparity. …”
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The Shared Transportation Industry in China: Examining the Influence of Regional Environmental Factors on New Venture Formation by Yan Zhou, Sangmoon Park, Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Xin Rong

“…We examine the influence of regional environmental factors on new venture formation using a dataset encompassing newly established bike-sharing startups in 257 cities in China from 2015 to 2019. The empirical results show that entrepreneurial capital, entrepreneurial support policies, and urban auxiliary infrastructure positively impact the formation of new ventures. …”
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Cultural heritage and flexibilization of touristic production in the eastern Brazilian Amazon by Maria Augusta Freitas Costa Canal, Elcivânia de Oliveira Barreto, Milene de Cássia Santos de Castro

“…The research revealed, through indicators such as entrepreneurship, creative production, privatization, and public-private partnerships, a localized concentration of heritage organization and tourism liberalization in the areas comprising the cities of Macapá (AP), Belém (PA), and São Luís (MA). …”
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Public administration: effectiveness and inhibiting factors of one day service by I Wayan Astawa, Gede Wirata, Yudistira adnyana, Sri Sulandari, I Nyoman Suargita

“…This service program aims to provide population and civil registration services in villages, cities and provinces. This service aims to provide convenience to the public in the implementation and public administration. …”
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Fitness centrality: a non-linear centrality measure for complex networks by Vito D P Servedio, Alessandro Bellina, Emanuele Calò, Giordano De Marzo

“…This paper explores the formalism of Economic Fitness Complexity (EFC), initially designed to predict and explain the economic trajectories of countries, cities, and regions, which has also proven applicable in diverse contexts such as ecology and chess openings. …”
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Digital financial inclusion, population structure, and consumption upgrades: Evidence from China. by Qianwen Liu, Jianjie Zheng, Shihui Luo

“…This study empirically tests the role of population structure in the process of digital financial inclusion empowering the upgrading of consumption structure by taking 248 prefecture-level cities between 2013 and 2019 as the research objects. …”
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Healthy Foods as Proxy for Functional Foods: Consumers’ Awareness, Perception, and Demand for Natural Functional Foods in Pakistan by Akhter Ali, Dil Bahadur Rahut

“…Geographically the people in the cities were more aware and willing to pay more for the functional foods as compared to people living in the villages. …”
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EC-Structure: Establishing Consumption Structure through Mining E-Commerce Data to Discover Consumption Upgrade by Lin Guo, Dongliang Zhang

“…The authors of this paper combine the consumption structure analysis method and data processing technology using data from an e-commerce platform to extract the consumption structure of cities, compare the structural differences between different periods, and then discover consumption upgrading according to swarm intelligence. …”
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Spatial analysis of earthquake crisis management (Case study: Khuzestan province) by HOOMAYOON Molaei, Emamgholi Babadi

“…Abstract Iran is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world and its cities have suffered a lot due to this natural phenomenon. …”
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Le territoire, un levier complémentaire pour l’atteinte du facteur 4 by Jacques Theys, Éric Vidalenc

“…The Commissariat Général au Développement Durable (the French Sustainable Development General Commission) and the ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) have jointly launched a research program called “Reconsidering cities in a post-carbon society” in order to emphasize the role of territorial aspects in the energy transition.…”
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Models of distribution of public transport correspondence by T. N. Sakulyeva

“…The subject of this research is the theory of traffic flow modeling and modern transport infrastructure in cities and regions. The article discusses the classification and application of various models of correspondence on public transport routes – network, route, and multimodal. …”
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A BP Neural Network-Based GIS-Data-Driven Automated Valuation Framework for Benchmark Land Price by Lei Wu, Yu Zhang, Yongchang Wei, Fangyu Chen

“…The framework can be applied for automated benchmark land price valuation in other cities.…”
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A curated walk with peer researchers and their communities: Engaging a research journey toward meaningful impact by Bradley Rink, Gina Porter, Bulelani Maskiti, Sam Clark, Caroline Barber, Peer Researchers

“…The curated walk that we share guides readers on the research journey that we have taken together from the homes of those involved to the metaphorical centre of power in the cities/regions where our work takes place, with the intention of long-term, meaningful impact. …”
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Digital economy, green finance, and economic resilience. by Jianqi Zhang

“…This study explores how the digital economy and green finance contribute to economic resilience using panel data from 30 provinces and cities in China from to 2011-2023. The development of the digital economy can effectively promote economic resilience, and green finance plays a significant mediating role between the digital economy and economic resilience. …”
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Megacities as Sources for Pathogenic Bacteria in Rivers and Their Fate Downstream by Wolf-Rainer Abraham

“…The goal of clean water for everyone has to be achieved with a still growing human population and their rapid concentration in large cities, often megacities. How long introduced pathogens survive in rivers and what their niches are remain poorly known but essential to control water-borne diseases in megacities. …”
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Advanced Harmony Search with Ant Colony Optimization for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem by Ho-Yoeng Yun, Suk-Jae Jeong, Kyung-Sup Kim

“…The TSP, in general, is well known as an NP-complete problem, whose computational complexity increases exponentially by increasing the number of cities. In our algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is used to search the local optimum in the solution space, followed by the use of the Harmony Search to escape the local optimum determined by the ACO and to move towards a global optimum. …”
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UFIR Filtering for GPS-Based Tracking over WSNs with Delayed and Missing Data by Karen Uribe-Murcia, Yuriy S. Shmaliy, Jose A. Andrade-Lucio

“…In smart cities, vehicles tracking is organized to increase safety by localizing cars using the Global Positioning System (GPS). …”
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Creative tourism special issue - foreword by João Filipe Marques, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Sónia Moreira Cabeça, Mirian Tavares

“…The second trend is cultural changes that have been designated as ‘the creative turn’ (e.g. an insistence on the ‘rhetoric of creativity’). Cities must be creative in order to attract not only tourists but also ‘creative industries’ (Tavares, 2014, 2015) and ‘creative classes’ (Cruz, 2016; Florida, 2003). …”
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Résurgence des premiers parcs victoriens : l’exemple de l’arboretum de Derby by Catherine-Emilie Corvisy

“…It was in the 1830s that the need for parks available for public use in the main towns and cities of Britain was identified in order to face an uncontrolled urbanisation. …”
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