To make it easy for foreign businesses to choose their playing field,China has been categorized into multiple tiers. These tiers are different administrative units that are vastly different in terms of the retail landscape. This classification serves as a practical tool to help businesses track marke...
Population trajectoriesConvergenceThis paper considers the relationship between city-size and growth in a UK context. This has a number of elements. Using population data from 62 cities with an extended Turok and Mykhnenko (2007) classification of time paths, aligned ranks of population shares ...
297 cities were above prefecture level, an increase of 8; there were also 394 county-level cities, an increase of 26 over 2012. The scale of urban population is expanding. According to the surveyed population at the end of 2020, there were 96, 46 and 22 cities above ...
Agent types with greater specialization, as was empirically observed for earners in more prestigious International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) categories and firms in more complex industries, experience both greater β and \(\bar{d}\), while the opposite holds for less-specialized ...
China’s city-tier classification continues to be a good reference point for businesses seeking a general overview of the Chinese market. However, the system is by no means comprehensive and should not be used in isolation. As Cameron puts it in the context of the F&B industry, “Having work...
We use VHR satellite images at 2.4mresolution fused by multiple sensors (see Data in Methods) and multilevel semantic segmentation (see Methods) to map land functional zones. According to the codes of urban land-use classification and planning published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural...
[6]. As an example, environmental sustainability benchmarking and common standards have advanced significantly over the last decade in botany, which has classification systems in place for more than a century. In order to identify and reuse data on stakeholder roles, policy requirements, and ...
They were grouped into less than 1 year and 1-5 years based on CDC classification system. 218 children were under 1 year and 402 were 1-5 years. The overall results showed that malaria infection recorded the highest prevalence with 71.10% in less than 1 year and 76.37% in 1-5 years. ...
Table 5 represents the overall accuracy of the maximum likelihood supervised image classification method. The accuracy assessment was carried out by estimating the producer's accuracy and user's accuracy value and Kappa Statistic. The value of the overall accuracy is 93.33%, 93.33%, and 96.67% for...
According to the classification of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), ecosystem services include provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services59. In this study, the ecosystem services (goods and services) provided by the city functional components (artificial ecosystems) were divided in...