Linkages are essentially determined by similarity measures that may be derived from multiple perspectives. For example, spatial linkages are usually generated based on localities of heterogeneous data, whereas semantic linkages can come from various properties, such as different physical meanings behind social relations. Many existing metric learning models focus on spatial linkages, but leave ...

Most of the literature on University-Industry (U-I) linkages assuming that these linkages will be beneficial per se. We question this assumption and suggest that not all U-I linkages are equally ‘valuable’. In this paper, we explore the factors driving to the formation of ‘valuable’ U-I linkages, conceived as those that have a higher potential to diffuse knowledge to other firms in the economy....

Effortsto identify the determinants of environmental policy success at the national level have largely been anecdotal and case study based. This article seeks to identify empirically the factors that drive environmental performance as measured by levels of urban particulates and sulfur dioxide and energy use per unit of GDP. Although the data are imperfect and causal linkages cannot be definiti...

We use the new economic geography perspective to explore the impacts of the Internet on the market linkages of two manufacturing and two service IT industries, and the consequential effects on their agglomeration. We study IT industry agglomeration at the county level across the entire United States during 1998-2004. The industries that we study are: computer manufacturing, semiconductors manuf...

Using the recently developed 3D GIS (Geographic Information System) and related visualisation technologies, we have created a digital diorama of an entire historical city, which can be used to virtually travel through different realistic landscapes at different times in the history. The digital diorama called Virtual Kyoto is the virtual geographic environment of the past, present, and future o...

Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of single-country databases. The aim of this paper is to extend previous findings by employing a much lar...

LEED®-NDTM is the latest attempt to develop more sustainable urban environs in the United States. The LEED®-NDTM program was created to provide a green rating system that would improve the quality of life for all people through the inclusion of sustainable development practices. To achieve this, a premium is placed on the locational attributes of proposed projects under the “Smart Location and ...