7 September 2021
Increasingly detrimental effects of fine particulate matter (PM) have been observed in Northeast Asia owing to its rapid economic development. Previous studies have found that dust, combustion, and chemical reactions are the major sources of PM; neve...
The rapid economic and urban development in the Yellow River Delta Efficient Ecological Economic Zone (YRDEEZ) has intensified land use changes and aggravated ecological patch fragmentation. Constructing ecological networks (ENs) can reconnect fragme...
Various physical characteristics of urban impervious surfaces (ISAs) and urban green spaces (UGSs) collectively regulate environmental temperatures through heating and cooling processes. However, current research often analyzes each regulating factor...
Cow urine is a rich source of mobile nutrients such as nitrate (NO3−) and potassium (K+). The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the wetting pattern distribution through soil profile of cow urine patch in an andisol. Two field experiments a...
The aim of the present work was the development of heart patches based on gelatin (G) and chondroitin sulfate (CS) to be used as implants to improve heart recovery after corrective surgery for critical congenital heart defects (CHD). Patches were pre...
Carbon neutrality is an important goal for addressing global warming. It can be achieved by increasing carbon storage and reducing carbon emissions. Vegetation plays a key role in storing carbon, but it is often lost or damaged, especially in areas a...
Infrared imaging plays a vital role in critical surveillance, military reconnaissance, and industrial inspection applications due to its advantages such as strong concealment and the ability to operate around the clock. However, the combination of lo...
The Sanjiangyuan region, situated on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, constitutes an exceptionally delicate ecological environment. Alterations in the region’s ecological landscape stem not only from natural factors but also from significant...
The objectives of our survey were to determine the most important environmental factors within buffer zones that influenced mollusc communities and to evaluate the ecological conservation value of natural aquatic habitats (NAHs) that support mollusc...
This investigation delineated an ecological network within South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to enhance ecosystem functionality, with a focus on forest landscape connectivity. The study employed spatial autocorrelation analysis and the min...
Accurate forecasting in low-liquidity futures markets is essential for effective trading. This study introduces a hybrid decision-support framework that combines Mini-TAIEX (MTX) futures data with sentiment signals extracted from 13 financial news so...
Computer systems research faces significant challenges in reproducibility because of toolchain fragmentation and the rapid evolution of the RISC-V ecosystem. Many research artifacts stay as ‘digital tombstones’ because they lack stable bu...
Land space underpins an ecological civilization. A thorough grasp of regional natural resources and subsequent optimization of the ecological security pattern are both essential for the comprehensive development and overall planning of the management...
The landscape pattern of Xinjiang’s wild apple forest (Malus sieversii) area has undergone substantial change due to human activity disruption and frequent natural catastrophes. This change has a significant influence on the biodiversity and st...
The health and productivity of rabbits are highly sensitive to the environmental conditions within the rabbit house, particularly to fluctuations and deviations in temperature, relative humidity, and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration. However, owing...
Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis L.) is a serious invasive alien plant species that exerts negative effects on natural and agricultural ecosystems in China. Few studies have addressed the dispersal of S. canadensis to explain how it rapidly spre...
Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) from Gram-positive bacteria exerts different immune effects depending on the bacterial source from which it is isolated. Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG LTA (LGG-LTA) oral administration reduces UVB-induced immunosuppression a...
Monitoring cropland change requires attention to spatial configuration as well as total area. However, conventional fragmentation assessments can introduce artificial divisions at reporting boundaries and overlook how land-cover transitions reorganis...
Biosurveillance activities focus on acquiring and analyzing epidemiological and biological data to interpret unfolding events and predict outcomes in infectious disease outbreaks. We describe a mathematical modeling framework based on geographically...
The accuracy in predicting the typhoon track can be key to minimizing their frequent disastrous effects. This article aims to study the accuracy of typhoon trajectory prediction obtained by combining several algorithms based on current deep-learning...
The application of the automated analysis of remote sensing data processed into high-resolution digital terrain models (DTMs) using geographic information systems (GIS) tools provides a geomorphometric characterization of the diversity of the relief...
Wireless devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, are intended to be used in the vicinity of the human body. When an antenna is placed close to a lossy medium, near-field interactions may modify the electromagnetic field distribution. Here...
Chang’e-5 (CE-5) successfully landed on the young basalts area in the northeastern Oceanus Procellarum on 1 December 2020. Recent studies on the CE-5 landing area have shown that the lack of gas-related volcanic morphology indicates that the volatile...
Urban heat island networks characterize the spatial organization and potential connectivity of relatively high-temperature patches, but multi-temporal analyses are constrained by the limited availability of fine-resolution and temporally dense land s...
Multispectral disaster recognition draws on common optical measurements, but differences in feature construction, target definitions and evaluation design complicate comparisons across tasks. We present a unified feature framework that applies the sa...
This paper presents a non-uniform metasurface (MS)-based circularly polarized (CP) antenna that is able to perform with a wideband operation characteristic. A squared patch with truncated corners was chosen as a radiating CP source. Then, unlike the...
The northernmost and most arid mangrove ecosystem of West Africa is found in Mauritania, in the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (PNBA). The existing global and regional maps of Mauritania’s mangroves have little detail, and available estimates of the...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from pastures can vary significantly depending on soil and environmental conditions, nitrogen (N) input, as well as the plant’s ability to take up the N. We tested the hypothesis that legume-based N sources are character...
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, making early and accurate mammogram classification essential for its effective diagnosis and treatment. Data augmentation has been widely employed to improv...
Despite all the advances in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cardiovascular disorders, they still account for a significant part of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The advent of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has provided novel t...
Detecting known vulnerabilities in binary functions requires associating each function with relevant Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) knowledge and determining the function’s state with respect to a specified CVE. Compilation obscures...
Remote sensing vision–language models, such as RemoteCLIP and GeoRSCLIP, have advanced image–text representation learning. However, they rely on manually curated caption datasets that are expensive to scale and provide only global image-l...
Habitat loss and fragmentation threaten forest-dependent ungulates in subtropical mountain systems, yet integrative assessments linking habitat quality and landscape configuration remain limited. Here, we evaluated habitat suitability and identified...
Impervious surfaces (IPS) are the major source of urban heat island effect (UHI), and the relationships between IPS and land surface temperature (LST) have been widely studied. However, the spatial impact of landscape patterns of patches with differe...
Under the threat of COVID-19, many regions around the world implemented lockdown policies to control the spread of the virus. This restriction on both social and economic activities has improved the quality of the environment in certain aspects. Howe...
Territorial space ecological restoration is a significant way to map the development of “ecological priority, green, and low-carbon” and realize the goal of reducing carbon emissions. Based on the evaluation of the degree of urban ecologi...
A shape detail transfer is the process of extracting the geometric details of a source region and transferring it onto a target region. In this paper, we present a simple and effective method, called GeoStamp, for transferring shape details using a P...
A growing number of severe infections are related to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, therefore, in recent years, alternative antimicrobial materials based on silver nanoparticles (NPs) attracted a lot of attention. In the current research, we present...
Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered some the main threats to biodiversity. Original forests have suffered an accentuated fragmentation and agricultural homogenization, leaving only some areas of natural vegetation, relegated to strongly ant...
The accumulation of plastic debris on land and coastlines and in waterways and garbage patches is one of the greatest ecological concerns of the 21st century. In that context, the sources and pathways of plastic marine debris (PMD) have been increasi...
Automation and autonomous systems are quickly becoming a more engrained aspect of modern society. The need for effective, secure computer code in a timely manner has led to the creation of automated code repair techniques to resolve issues quickly. H...
In this paper, we present a workflow that combines supervised and unsupervised methods for the reconstruction of geometric models with architectural information from unordered 3D data. Our method uses a downsampling strategy to enrich features to pro...
A pilot study employing a template-matching approach on the detection of repeating earthquakes (or repeaters) in a small volume of the Irpinia fault (Southern Italy) is presented here. A catalog of repeaters nucleating over about a decade with local...
The unprecedented regional urbanization has brought great pressure on the ecological environment. Building an ecological security pattern and guide regional land and space development is an important technique to ensure regional ecological security a...
To address the challenges of the loss of ethnic cultural carriers and the spatial fragmentation of landscape management due to rural population shrinkage, constructing heritage corridors has emerged as a crucial strategy for integrating fragmented re...
Understanding how landscape structure affects nutrient pollution is essential for contemporary effective river basin management. This study examined the influence of landscape composition and configuration on concentrations of nitrate (NO3−), n...
Promoting sustainable urban development is crucial in light of upcoming environmental change and population expansion. Urban forests play a key role in transporting ecosystem services to urban areas. They not only offer a crucial biological setting f...
Rapid urbanization has intensified artificial light at night (ALAN) and reduced access to natural dark sky environments. Dark sky parks provide a potential spatial approach for nighttime environmental protection, ecological conservation, and astronom...
Scenario-based simulation in land use and cover change (LUCC) is a practical approach to maintaining ecological security. Many studies generally set constraints of LUCC utilizing ecological patches but without consideration of corridors connecting th...
Spherical images have the advantage of recording full scenes using only one camera exposure and have been becoming an important data source for 3D reconstruction. However, geometric distortions inevitably exist due to the spherical camera imaging mod...
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