Prior research suggests an inverse relationship between geographic distance and financial market linkages. In this paper, we examine whether and how cultural distance between countries mitigates this finding. We find that country-pairs exhibit higher linkages if they have smaller cultural distance. The result remains significant to alternative measures of linkage. Finally, the cultural effect s...

Telehea l th , b ro adly defined, is the use of telecommunications and information technologies to overcome geographic distances between health care practitioners or between practitioners and patients for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, consultation, education and health information transfer. The vastness of Canada has made the delivery of health services to its widely dispersed population...

Online dating sites have become popular platforms for people to look for romantic partners, providing an unprecedented level of access to potential dates that is otherwise not available through traditional means. Characterization of the user online dating behavior helps us to obtain a deep understanding of their dating preference and make better recommendations on potential dates. In this paper...

The research presented in this paper introduces the principles of a multi-dimensional contextual approach for adaptive GIS. The framework makes the difference beetween the user, geographical and device contexts. The geographical context is modelled according to the location of the user, the region of interest, the extent of the region covered by the diffusion of the data, and the place where th...

A basic proposition of process assessment models is that higher process maturity is associated with improved project performance and product quality. This study provides empirical evidence to support this proposition by testing the hypothesis that higher process maturity is negatively associated with schedule deviation in software maintenance. Next, the present study investigates whether two pr...

Future sensor networks will be composed of a large number of densely deployed sensors/actuators. A key feature of such networks is that their nodes are untethered and unattended. Consequently, energy efficiency is an important design consideration for these networks. Motivated by the fact that sensor network queries may often be geographical, we design and evaluate an energy efficient routing a...

Index Sets. We let R denote the set of geographical regions indexed by r (recall that each geographical region contains several TUs). We let Af be the set of packages on which firm f places bids. They are to distinguish from A in case of missing bids (unobserved bids) by firm f . Arf ⊆ Af represents the set of packages in Af that contain at least one TU in region r. Finally, we let |a| denote t...

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical analysis of 12,309 manufacturing firms in the ICT industry in China shows that R&D offshoring has a pos...

â â â  the geographical territory of caucasia includes areas which have been referred to, in various forms, in geographical, historical and even literary texts. studies on the history of caucasia in different eras show that not only this region was not originally called by this name, but, later on, this name was not used for what is now modern caucasia. studies show that each part of caucasia w...

Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm’s current locations, so that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact ...