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Common power laws for cities and spatial fractal structures by Mori, Tomoya, Smith, Tony E., Hsu, Wen-Tai

“…City-size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across a wide range of countries. But such distributions are also meaningful at other…”
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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations by Mori, Tomoya, Smith, Tony E.

“…Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within each industry. But such measures often…”
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Geographic distribution of insufficient sleep across the United States: a county-level hotspot analysis by Grandner, Michael A., PhD, Smith, Tony E., PhD, Jackson, Nicholas, MPH, Jackson, Tara, PhD, Burgard, Sarah, PhD, Branas, Charles, PhD

“…Abstract Introduction Insufficient sleep is associated with cardiometabolic risk and neurocognitive impairment. Determinants of insufficient sleep include many…”
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A Divergence Statistic for Industrial Localization by Mori, Tomoya, Nishikimi, Koji, Smith, Tony E.

“…We propose a statistical index of industrial localization based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence. This index is particularly well suited to cases where…”
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THE NUMBER-AVERAGE SIZE RULE: A NEW EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL LOCATION AND CITY SIZE by Mori, Tomoya, Nishikimi, Koji, Smith, Tony E.

“…ABSTRACT The spatial intensities of both industries and population are highly uneven across space. Moreover, these intensities differ not only across…”
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Increased alcohol use after Hurricane Ike: The roles of perceived social cohesion and social control by Ma, Chenyi, Smith, Tony E.

“…Hurricane Ike, the third costliest hurricane in US history, made landfall in the Galveston Bay Area in September, 2008. Existing literature postulates that…”
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The Impact of Hospital Closures and Hospital and Population Characteristics on Increasing Emergency Department Volume: A Geographic Analysis by Lee, David C, Carr, Brendan G, Smith, Tony E, Tran, Van C, Polsky, Daniel, Branas, Charles C

“…Emergency visits are rising nationally, whereas the number of emergency departments is shrinking. However, volume has not increased uniformly at all emergency…”
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Time-varying accessibility to senior centers by public transit in Philadelphia by Li, Shengxiao (Alex), Duan, Hongyu (Anna), Smith, Tony E., Hu, Haoyu

“…•This paper examines the time-varying accessibility to senior centers by public transit in Philadelphia using the GTFS data.•Accessibility to senior centers…”
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The agglomeration of American R&D labs by Buzard, Kristy, Carlino, Gerald A., Hunt, Robert M., Carr, Jake K., Smith, Tony E.

“…We employ a unique data set to examine the spatial clustering of about 1700 private R&D labs in California and in the U.S. Northeast Corridor. Using these…”
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Spatial mismatch, search effort, and urban spatial structure by Smith, Tony E., Zenou, Yves

“…The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behavior on the…”
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Localized knowledge spillovers: Evidence from the spatial clustering of R&D labs and patent citations by Buzard, Kristy, Carlino, Gerald A., Hunt, Robert M., Carr, Jake K., Smith, Tony E.

“…Buzard et al. (2017) show that American R&D labs are highly spatially concentrated even within a given metropolitan area. We argue that the geography of their…”
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The stress-buffering effects of received social support on posttraumatic stress disorder among Hurricane Ike survivors by Ma, Chenyi, Smith, Tony E., Culhane, Dennis P.

“…Hurricane Ike made landfall in the Galveston Bay Area in 2008, destroying parts of the built and natural environment, and leaving survivors with a high…”
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Estimation Bias in Spatial Models with Strongly Connected Weight Matrices by Smith, Tony E

“…This article shows that, for both spatial lag and spatial error models with strongly connected weight matrices, maximum likelihood estimates of the spatial…”
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Geospatial and Socioeconomic Factors Interact to Predict Management and Outcomes in Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery: A Single Institution Study of 740 Patients by Villavisanis, Dillan F, Wagner, Connor S, Morales, Carrie Z, Smith, Tony E, Blum, Jessica D, Cho, Daniel Y, Bartlett, Scott P, Taylor, Jesse A, Swanson, Jordan W

“…Objective Determine interactions between geospatial and socioeconomic factors influencing cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P) management and outcomes. Design…”
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Discrete Choice Model of Food Store Trips Using National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) by Hillier, Amy, Smith, Tony E, Whiteman, Eliza D, Chrisinger, Benjamin W

“…Where households across income levels shop for food is of central concern within a growing body of research focused on where people live relative to where they…”
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A Variational Inequality Formulation of the Dynamic Network User Equilibrium Problem by Friesz, Terry L, Bernstein, David, Smith, Tony E, Tobin, Roger L, Wie, B. W

“…In the present paper we are concerned with developing more realistic dynamic models of route choice and departure time decisions of transportation network…”
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A probabilistic modeling approach to the detection of industrial agglomerations by Mori, Tomoya, Smith, Tony E.

“…Dating from the seminal work of Ellison and Glaeser in 1997, a wealth of evidence for the ubiquity of industrial agglomerations has been published. However,…”
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Improved retransplant outcomes: early evidence of the share35 impact by Brooks, Joseph T., Koizumi, Naoru, Neglia, Elizabeth, Gdoura, Bilel, Wong, Tina W., Kwon, Chang, Smith, Tony E., Ortiz, Jorge

“…Share 35 prioritizes offers of deceased donor livers to regional candidates with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) ≥35 over local candidates with lower…”
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Modeling patient flows using a queuing network with blocking by Koizumi, Naoru, Kuno, Eri, Smith, Tony E

“…The downsizing and closing of state mental health institutions in Philadelphia in the 1990's led to the development of a continuum care network of…”
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A spatio-temporal model of housing prices based on individual sales transactions over time by Smith, Tony E., Wu, Peggy

“…A spatio-temporal model of housing price trends is developed that focuses on individual housing sales over time. The model allows for both the spatio-temporal…”
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