scholarly journals Sensing global tourism numbers with millions of publicly shared online photographs

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Preis ◽  
Federico Botta ◽  
Helen Susannah Moat
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Online Data ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Global Travel ◽  
Opening Up

In our increasingly connected world, individuals produce continuous streams of data through their constant interactions with the Internet. This data is opening up opportunities to measure human behaviour that was previously time consuming or expensive to capture. Here, we explore whether data from online photographs can be used to estimate travel statistics on a global scale. We draw on the locations attached to 69 million publicly shared photographs to infer the global travel patterns of almost half a million users of the photo-sharing platform Flickr. We find that our photo-based estimates of tourist arrival statistics for the G7 countries Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States correlate with the corresponding official statistics released by those countries. Our results highlight the potential for vast volumes of online data to inform the generation of timely, low-cost indicators of the state of society. We discuss practical considerations that remain before this methodology could be used in the production of official statistics.

scholarly journals Análisis de indicadores de ventajas comparativas reveladas: competitividad de las exportaciones de fresa (Fragaria spp.) mexicana

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Quintero-Ramírez ◽  
José Miguel Omaña-Silvestre ◽  
Laura Cecilia Ramírez-Padrón
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

China and the main United States of America producing strawberry countries in 2016, contributed as a whole more than forty per cent of the entire volume of strawberry produced in the world. Spain, the United States of America, Mexico and Netherlands are the main exporting countries, while the main importer countries were the United States of America, Germany, Canada, France and the United Kingdom; the same year, Mexico occupied the third place like producing and third place between the exporting countries. In the previous context, this one investigation raises the analysis of the competitiveness of the strawberry produced in Mexico as regards Spain and the United States of America those who are the biggest exporters of the product on a global scale; by means of the calculation of the index of revealed comparative advantage of Vollrath (IVCR) for the period 1994-2016, the analysis of the indicator recounts that the competitiveness was increasing and that Mexico is provided with a comparative advantage revealed in the strawberry exportation

Lines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra D. Bhimull
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Central Image ◽  
Blue Line ◽  
The Right ◽  
Line P ◽  
Opening Up

In 1949, the famous British graphic design artist, Abram Games, created a poster for the state-owned airline that succeeded Imperial Airways at the start of the decade: BOAC. The poster showcases the new Stratocruiser service between London and New York. The design on the poster is of the horizon on the ocean, as seen from the sky. The central image is a four-page foldout map that is opening up and spreading out, or folding up and closing in. Three places are shown on the map. The United Kingdom is cut out of the center of the right-hand page, and the United States out of the left-hand one. The word “Atlantic Ocean” is spread across the middle pages, as are grid lines, a compass, and the Equator. There are no continents or islands. The right and left pages are red, blue, and white, which are the national colors of both countries. The middle pages are white and black, except for the Equator, which is notably a thin red and blue line....

Nudges.gov

2014 ◽  
pp. 718-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cass R. Sunstein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Choice Architecture ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Default Rules

Behavioral economics is influencing regulatory initiatives in many nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom. The role of behavioral economics is likely to increase in the next generation, especially in light of the growing interest in low-cost, choice-preserving regulatory tools. Choice architecture—including default rules, simplification, norms, and disclosure—can affect outcomes even if material incentives are not involved. For example, default rules can have an even larger effect than significant economic incentives. Behavioral economics has helped to inform recent and emerging reforms in areas that include savings, finance, distracted driving, energy, climate change, obesity, education, poverty, health, and the environment.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of Two Decades of Global Research on Organizational Ambidexterity using the Scopus Database

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-390
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Organizational Ambidexterity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Link Strength ◽  
Performance Challenges

Modern organizations face dynamism and due to which come across various performance challenges. Ambidexterity, which is the organizational balance among exploration and exploitation related activities, has gained significant attention in recent times on a global scale and is applicable in multiple domains. To advance the organizational ambidexterity understanding in an integrated and holistic manner, the current bibliometric analysis evaluates the globally published research conducted on organizational ambidexterity incorporating varied expressions. Using the Scopus database, the current research accumulated 282 journal articles from 1996 until 2018. The analysis of this research highlights, organizational ambidexterity research publications experienced a considerable upward momentum since year 2014 and onwards, with more than 40 papers per annum between 2015-2018. Top contributing institutions in organizational ambidexterity domain come from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, and Italy. Moreover, top-cited papers are from authors in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Netherlands. Most importantly, VOS viewer software is used to analyze co-authorship, author keyword co-occurrences, and network strength. The United States and the United Kingdom have the strongest link strength, followed by Canada, China, and South Korea, and Norway.

Effectiveness of Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Del Campo ◽  
Marisalva Fávero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Abstract. During the last decades, several studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention programs implemented in different countries. In this article, we present a review of 70 studies (1981–2017) evaluating prevention programs, conducted mostly in the United States and Canada, although with a considerable presence also in other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The results of these studies, in general, are very promising and encourage us to continue this type of intervention, almost unanimously confirming its effectiveness. Prevention programs encourage children and adolescents to report the abuse experienced and they may help to reduce the trauma of sexual abuse if there are victims among the participants. We also found that some evaluations have not considered the possible negative effects of this type of programs in the event that they are applied inappropriately. Finally, we present some methodological considerations as critical analysis to this type of evaluations.

Creating a ‘Masala’ Self: Bicultural Identity in Desi Young Adult Novels

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Superle
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Small Body ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Cultural Identity Development

In the past two decades, the previously silent voices of diasporic Indian writers for young people have emerged, and a small body of texts has begun to develop in the United States and the United Kingdom. One of the major preoccupations of these texts is cultural identity development, especially in the novels published for a young adult audience, which often feature protagonists in the throes of an identity crisis. For example, the novels The Roller Birds of Rampur (1991) by Indi Rana, Born Confused (2002) by Tanuja Desai Hidier, and The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (2005) by Mitali Perkins all focus on an adolescent girl coping with her bicultural identity with angst and confusion, and delineate the ways her self-concept and relationships are affected. The texts are empowering in their suggestion that young people have the agency to explore and create their own balanced bicultural identities, but like other young adult fiction, they ultimately situate adolescents within insurmountable institutional forces that are much more powerful than any individual.

Science, Politics, and the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
J. Nicholas Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Advice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
The Uk

Comparing the virus responses in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States shows that in order for scientific expertise to result in effective policy, rational political leadership is required. Each of these three countries is known for advanced biomedical research, yet their experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic diverged widely. Germany’s political leadership carefully followed scientific advice and organized public–private partnerships to scale up testing, resulting in relatively low infection levels. The UK and US political responses were far more erratic and less informed by scientific advice—and proved much less effective.

Opening up a New Field of Modern Medical Research 1

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoguang Li
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Acupuncture Point ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Body Structure ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Opening Up

Modern medicine tells us that the human body is an organism composed of heart, lung, liver, kidney, spleen, stomach, brain, nerves, muscles, bones, blood vessels, blood and so on, while traditional Chinese medicine believes that besides these tissues and organs, the human body still has another part of the structure, traditional Chinese medicine calls them Jing Luo and Shu Xue. Jing Luo means the longitudinal line of the human body and the accompanying net, translated into English Meridians and Collaterals. Shu Xue means holes distributed on Jing Luo and outside Jing Luo, because stimulating Shu Xue's position by acupuncture, massage and other methods can cure diseases, so Shu Xue is translated into English acupuncture point, abbreviated as acupoint or point. Meridians and acupoints are the special knowledge of human body structure in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine not only draws the distribution map of the meridians and acupoints in the human body, but also has been using them to treat diseases for thousands of years. There are hundreds of these acupoints, stimulating each one by acupuncture, massage or other methods will have a special effect on the human body and can treat various diseases. But what effect does stimulating every acupoint have on the human body so that it can treat various diseases? The discussion of traditional Chinese medicine is vague and incomprehensible, and can not be proved by experiments. According to the author's research for more than 30 years, this paper makes a clear and accurate exposition of the effects on the human body and diseases that can be treated with acupoint massage. These statements can be proved by experiments, so they are believed to be reliable. It is hoped that meridians, acupoints and massage therapy can be incorporated into modern medicine and become a part of modern medicine after being proved by others through experiments. Massaging acupoints can not only treat many diseases that are difficult to be treated with drugs, but also have simple methods and low cost.

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