China has developed many strategies to promote sustainable trade, including accelerating the signing of free-trade agreements (FTAs). However, there is a lack of studies examining the impact of FTAs on the sustainable growth of foreign trade from a h...
Chadian Gum Arabic is an essential export commodity with significant potential for international trade, improving living conditions for Sahelian populations in various sectors. However, there is a lack of examination of its potential impact factors o...
One of the key goals of geodesy is to study the fine structure of the Earth’s gravity field and construct a high-resolution gravity field model (GFM). Aiming at the current insufficient resolution problem of the EIGEN_6C4 model, the refined ult...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes international trade as an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction, and an important means to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Given this role, international tr...
Economic globalization promotes industrial division and forms a large stream of products between countries all over the world, which leads to serious environmental problems. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between green logis...
The continuous threat of foreign animal disease (FAD) is real and present for the U.S. swine industry. Because of this, the industry has developed plans to ensure business continuity during a FAD outbreak. A core aspect of these plans is regional sta...
The marine gravity field recovery close to land/island is challenging owing to the scarcity of measured gravimetric observations and sorely contaminated satellite radar altimeter-derived data. The satellite missions that carried the synthetic apertur...
The neural-network-based human activity recognition (HAR) technique is being increasingly used for activity recognition in virtual reality (VR) users. The major issue of a such technique is the collection large-scale training datasets which are key f...
In the present study, the effects of reduced gravity and solar radiation on the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) fluid flow and heat transfer past a solid and stationary sphere embedded in a porous medium are investigated. A model describing the considered...
The time-varying gravity field models derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission suffer from pronounced longitudinal stripe errors in the spatial domain. A potential way to mitigate such errors is to combine GR...
This work presents characterization data and viscosity of 34 secondary vacuum gas oils (H-Oil gas oils, visbreaker gas oils, and fluid catalytic cracking slurry oils) with aromatic content reaching up to 100 wt.%. Inter-criteria analysis was employed...
Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face persistent trade-cost disadvantages arising from distance, transit dependence, border frictions, and uneven logistics performance. This study reconstructs bilateral merchandise exports for 11 Asian LLDCs t...
The craters on the moon hold important clues about the history of impacts in our solar system. To address the limitation of traditional intelligent methods in detecting buried craters, this study proposes a novel intelligent detection approach based...
The phenomenon of augmented gravity on the scale of galaxies, conventionally attributed to dark matter halos, is shown to possibly result from the incremental growth of galactic masses and radii over time. This approach elucidates the cosmological or...
South Africa’s wine industry has traditionally concentrated on developed nations as its principal export markets. In recent years, regional markets within East Africa have emerged as promising areas for growth. However, these markets have not b...
Highly maneuverable fighter aircraft are equipped with various weapons including a gun firing system for successful air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. In the gun firing system, the muzzle is usually positioned at an offset from the centerline of...
Black holes pose great difficulties for theory since gravity and quantum theory must be combined in some as yet unknown way. An additional difficulty is that detailed black hole observational data to guide theorists is lacking. In this paper, I sides...
Depleted gas reservoirs with bottom water show significant potential for long-term CO2 storage. The residual gas influences mass-transfer dynamics, further affecting CO2 dissolution and convection in porous media. In this study, we conducted a series...
The Standard-Model Extension (SME) provides a comprehensive effective field-theory framework for the study of CPT and Lorentz symmetry. This work reviews the structure and philosophy of the SME and provides some intuitive examples of symmetry violati...
In this study, we improve the efficiency of automated tomato harvesting by integrating deep learning into state-of-the-art image processing techniques, which improves the accuracy and efficiency of detection algorithms for robotic systems. We develop...
In this contribution to the Festschrift for Prof. Remo Ruffini, we investigate a formulation of quantum gravity using the Hořava–Lifshitz theory of gravity, which is General Relativity augmented by counter-terms to render the theory regula...
Peruvian fresh-grape exports have expanded substantially but remain concentrated in a limited number of markets. This study examines the factors associated with bilateral export value for 17 destinations during 2001–2024, using a balanced panel...
This study investigates how Chinese ownership in European ports affects trade flows between China and Eurozone countries, set against the backdrop of recent global economic disruptions that have emphasized the crucial role of maritime trade and port...
This paper addresses the critical challenge of preventing front-end failures in forklifts by addressing the center of gravity, accurate prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL), and efficient fault diagnosis through alarm rules. The study’...
Lower-limb exoskeleton robots play a pivotal role in rehabilitation medicine and assistive augmentation, where precise dynamic modelling and trajectory tracking control are fundamental to effective assistance. Existing models predominantly focus on h...
This study empirically examines the effects of digital services trade liberalization on digital services trade imports and its mediating mechanism through an augmented gravity model, utilizing data from 55 importing nations and 56 exporting countries...
The European Union has implemented various trade policies in the textile and clothing sector, a major global employment generator, over the past three decades. This paper investigates how these evolving policies have impacted the four largest exporte...
Rock mechanics and the estimation of their material properties through field tests are important aspects and challengees in civil and geotechnical engineering. However, this procedure is expensive and difficult to attain, while the machine learning a...
While transitioning to clean energy technologies offers countries economic advantages, the risk of “low carbon leakage” arises if production shifts to more favorable locations. We conducted a scenario analysis to examine potential shifts...
Hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicles require adequate low-speed lift and cruise efficiency. This study investigates a 3 kg propeller-aided biplane (PAB) with distributed electric propulsion using unsteady computational fluid dynamics. Propeller&nda...
This research delves into the impact of World Trade Organization (WTO) membership on trade dynamics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, focusing on the potential augmentation or diversion of trade resulting from CIS countries&rsqu...
Cryogenic propellant sloshing presents significant challenges in aerospace systems, inducing vehicle instability, structural fatigue, energy losses, and complex thermal management issues. This review synthesizes experimental, analytical, and numerica...
Intensive groundwater abstraction has augmented socio-economic development worldwide but threatens the sustainability of groundwater resources. Spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater storage changes is a prerequisite to sustainable water resource man...
Capillarity refers to the driving force to propel liquid through small gaps in the absence of external forces, and hence enhanced capillary force has been pursued for various applications. In this study, flower like ZnO nanostructures are successfull...
Large language models (LLMs) offer new possibilities for natural-language interaction with geospatial analysis systems, but their use in remote sensing instrument data analysis remains limited by weak execution control, poor reproducibility, and limi...
The Asia-Pacific region has gradually become a driver of global economic growth, with economic integration agreements (EIAs) and climate distance playing increasingly important roles in the agri-food trade in the 21st century. The recent signing and...
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The estimated number of Substance Users (SU) globally has currently reached a very high number and is still increasing. This aspect necessitates appropriate interventions for prevention and specific treatments. The literature shows that digital treat...
In low-permeability sandstone reservoirs (LPSR), impermeable interlayers significantly challenge carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and enhance oil recovery (CO2-EOR) processes by creating complex, discontinuous flow units. This study ai...
As low-altitude transportation becomes essential to global integrated transport systems, developing extensive and well-structured networks in urban agglomerations is crucial for fostering regional synergy and enhancing three-dimensional transport. Fo...
Cosmogenic beryllium-10 and beryllium-7, and the ratio of the two (10Be/7Be), are powerful atmospheric tracers of stratosphere–troposphere exchange (STE) processes; however, measurements are sparse for altitudes well above the tropopause. We pr...
This study examined the effect of free trade on intra-African bilateral trade balances for Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania to assess the potential implications of the African Continental Free Trade area. The four countries have experienced persis...
The Qinba Mountains in China span six provinces, characterized by a large population, rugged terrain, steep peaks, deep valleys, and scarce flat land, making large-scale agricultural development challenging. Terraced fields serve as the core cropland...