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Do Institutional Group Holding Anomalies Drive Broad Market Trends?
This paper focuses on the behaviour of institutional investors in the Chinese stock market and quantifies their “group holding” behaviour. Using the Shannon entropy in network systems, the authors measure institutional...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Henning Schmidgen, Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography. Translated by Gloria Custance. New York
Shannon O’Rourke
Jan 07, 2019
Bruno Latour in Pieces (BLP) offers a brief but extensive introduction to Latour’s education, career, collaborations, and collaborators. BLP is Latourean in its insistence on pointing to the “ego, hic, nunc”. By following...
Review of Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime. Cambridge
Shannon O'Rourke
Jan 07, 2020
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime (FG, 2017) in significant ways represents an ecological application of Latour’s lifelong development of an anthropology of the moderns. Latour tells us in 2008, in an...
Predicting Woody Plant Diversity as Key Component of Ecosystems
The Mediterranean basin is a global hotspot of biodiversity. Woody plants are key components of ecosystems. This article explores the environmental impacts on woody plant species richness and diversity in maquis and abandoned...
Published by: IGI Global
Predicting Woody Plant Diversity as Key Component of Ecosystems
The Mediterranean basin is a global hotspot of biodiversity. Woody plants are key components of ecosystems. This article explores the environmental impacts on woody plant species richness and diversity in maquis and abandoned...
Published by: IGI Global
Capacity Performance Analysis of 73 GHz Frequency Band for 5G Technology
Small cells, millimeter waves (mmW), and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) deployments have emerged as key technologies for mobile systems in the fifth generation (5G). However, a very few studies have been done on...
Published by: IGI Global
Characterization of Microbial Community Structure Associated with Pollution in Xiaoqing River Sediment
To understand the impacts of anthropogenic activities on structure and composition of microbial communities and evaluate how microbial communities respond environmental gradients at river sediments, the composition of microbial...
Decrease in Soil Functionalities and Herbs' Diversity, but Not That of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Linked to Short Fire Interval in Semi-Arid Oak Forest Ecosystem, West Iran.
The semi-arid forest ecosystems of western Iran dominated by Quercus brantii are often disturbed by wildfires. Here, we assessed the effects of short fire intervals on the soil properties and community diversity of...
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Suture workshops
Background Suturing is an integral part of medical training but exposure can be limited. Objectives Quality assessment of the effectiveness of 2nd year medical student suture workshop. Medical students underwent a training...