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Operating Theatre Readiness for Urological Emergencies: Challenges, Pitfalls, and a Practical Checklist for Urology On-Call Teams Open

Stefanos Gkaliamoutsas, John Gibson, Ian Pearce, Theodora Stasinou · 2025

Global effects of progress towards SDGs on steeply sloped land use and land cover Open

Hongwei Zhang, Zhihui Li, Haiyang Li, John Gibson, Gui Jin · 2025

Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific Open

John Gibson · 2025

Local economic effects of connecting to China’s high-speed rail network: evidence from spatial econometric models Open

Xiaoxuan Zhang, John Gibson · 2025

China’s high-speed rail (HSR) has quickly expanded to over 40,000 km of lines operating and another 10,000 km under construction. This is over 10 times longer than the networks in long-established HSR countries like France, Germany or Japa…

China’s City size distribution: diverging in terms of people and converging in terms of urbanized area Open

Xiaoxuan Zhang, Chao Li, John Gibson · 2025

The changing size distribution of cities in China affects productivity, food security, resource use, and macroeconomic fragility. The legacy of central planning, and especially the mobility restrictions from hukou registration, hampered ev…

Lost in Translation? A Critical Review of Economics Research Using Nighttime Lights Data Open

John Gibson, Omoniyi Alimi, Geua Boe‐Gibson · 2025

In the three decades since a digital archive of satellite-detected night-time lights (NTL) data was created, thousands of scholarly articles have been published using these data. An important change in the last decade saw a significant sha…

Can Dollarization Mitigate the Macroeconomic Cost of Populism? Lessons from Latin America Open

Nicolás Cachanosky, John Gibson, Emilio Ocampo · 2025

Cumulative excess deaths in New Zealand in the COVID-19 era: biases from ignoring changes in population growth rates: reply Open

John Gibson · 2024

Agricultural land-use system management: Research progress and perspectives Open

Xiangzheng Deng, John Gibson, Malin Song, Zhihui Li, Ze‐Guang Han , et al. · 2024

Structural Transformation in Asia and the Pacific Open

John Gibson · 2024

Many countries in Asia and the Pacific have experienced rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent decades. Yet, some countries are still at an early stage of this structural transformation and face external conditions l…

Are Disaster Impact Estimates Distorted by Errors in Popular Night-Time Lights Data? Open

John Gibson, Yi Jiang, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Geua Boe‐Gibson · 2024

Satellite-detected night lights data are widely used to evaluate economic impacts of disasters. Growing evidence from elsewhere in applied economics suggests that impact estimates are potentially distorted when popular Defense Meteorologic…

The role of spillovers when evaluating regional development interventions: evidence from administrative upgrading in China Open

Xiaoxuan Zhang, Chao Li, John Gibson · 2024

Direct effects of regional development interventions on targeted areas may be amplified by positive spillovers from elsewhere or offset by negative spillovers. Yet spillovers are often ignored in the applied literature, where impact analys…

Cumulative excess deaths in New Zealand in the COVID-19 era: biases from ignoring changes in population growth rates Open

John Gibson · 2024

Accurate health and economic data are needed to evaluate policy responses to COVID-19. A potentially comprehensive health indicator is excess deaths. Local commentators highlight an excess deaths series that suggests negative cumulative ex…

Measurement errors in popular night lights data may bias estimated impacts of economic sanctions: Evidence from closing the Kaesong Industrial Zone Open

Bonggeun Kim, John Gibson, Geua Boe‐Gibson · 2023

Satellite‐detected night lights data are widely used to evaluate economic impacts of sanctions. Such data should be free from political manipulation. However, measurement errors in these data, from blurring and bottom‐coding, are rarely co…

Tackling the erosion of compassion in acute mental health services Open

Elisa Giulia Liberati, Natalie Richards, Sahanika Ratnayake, John Gibson, Graham Martin · 2023

Elisa Liberati and colleagues argue that understanding the systemic and institutional forces behind lack of compassion in mental health services is key to solutions to this problem

Graphical Abstract: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 23/2023 Open

Anna Hartmann, H Weissenboeck, A. Schepers, Rongkun Zheng, Yutao Li , et al. · 2023

Covalent Organic FrameworksThetransformation of imine cages into acovalent organic framework film through dynamic covalent chemistry

Issue Information Open

M. Wicks, Elizabeth Barr, Louise Maple‐Brown, Sujita W. Narayan, Fady Gad , et al. · 2023

The role of agriculture in the development process in the Pacific Open

John Gibson · 2023

The need for agriculture to contribute to economic development in the Pacific is greatest in Melanesia, given rapid population growth and limited emigration options compared with those available to the Polynesian countries. The non-agricul…

Escalation of civil war in Nepal: The role of local poverty, inequality and caste polarization Open

Hari Shanker Sharma, John Gibson · 2023

A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically use spatially aggregated data. Many civil wars exhibit great spatial heterogeneity so very local effects may be obscured.…

A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations About Incomes Abroad? Open

David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman · 2023

Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers Open

Javier Cano‐Urbina, John Gibson · 2023

Really Boring Art Open

Andreas Elpidorou, John Gibson · 2022

There is little question as to whether there is good boring art, though its existence raises a number of questions for both the philosophy of art and the philosophy of emotions. How can boredom ever be a desideratum of art? How can our sta…

Timing of reproduction modifies transgenerational effects of chronic exposure to stressors in an annual vertebrate Open

Agnieszka Magierecka, Antreas Aristeidou, Maria Papaevripidou, John Gibson, Katherine A. Sloman , et al. · 2022

Stressful environmental conditions can shape both an individual's phenotype and that of its offspring. However, little is known about transgenerational effects of chronic (as opposed to acute) stressors, nor whether these vary across the b…

Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia Open

Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Alan de Brauw, John Gibson, Kalle Hirvonen, Abdulazize Wolle · 2022

Telescoping errors occur if survey respondents misdate events from outside the reference period and include them in their recall. Concern about telescoping influenced the design of early Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys, w…

Does intra‐country poverty convergence depend on spatial spillovers and the type of poverty measure? Evidence from Pakistan Open

Zaira Najam, John Gibson · 2022

Knowing whether poverty rates converge within a country matters for regional development policy and for understanding growth processes. In this paper, we use five poverty measures, calculated biennially from 2004 to 2014 for 100 districts …

SimpleRecon: 3D Reconstruction Without 3D Convolutions Open

Mohamed Sayed, John Gibson, J.S. Watson, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Michael Firman , et al. · 2022

Traditionally, 3D indoor scene reconstruction from posed images happens in two phases: per-image depth estimation, followed by depth merging and surface reconstruction. Recently, a family of methods have emerged that perform reconstruction…

Near Peer POCUS Education Evaluation Open

Cassidy Miller, Louisa Weindruch, John Gibson · 2022

Objective: At Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is taught to medical students in conjunction with trained medical student teaching assistants (TAs). The purpose of our study is to evaluate the e…

Widespread Public Misunderstanding of Pivotal Trials for COVID-19 Vaccines May Damage Public Confidence in All Vaccines Open

John Gibson · 2022

OPINION article Front. Public Health, 11 March 2022Sec.Public Health Policy https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.847658

Using Multi-Source Nighttime Lights Data to Proxy for County-Level Economic Activity in China from 2012 to 2019 Open

Xiaoxuan Zhang, John Gibson · 2022

The use of nighttime lights (NTL) data to proxy for local economic activity is well established in remote sensing and other disciplines. Validation studies comparing NTL data with traditional economic indicators, such as Gross Domestic Pro…

Using Engel Curves to Measure CPI Bias for Indonesia Open

Susan Olivia, John Gibson · 2022

To measure real income growth over time a price index is needed to adjust for changes in the cost of living. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is often used for this task but studies from several countries show the CPI is a biased measure of …

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