Exploring the spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and coupling coordination relationship of the composite ecosystem of urban agglomerations is of great significance for promoting the synergistic sustainable development and integration con...
The synergistic improvement in urban resilience and low-carbon development level is significant for mitigating and adapting to climate change, achieving the ‘dual carbon goal’ and promoting sustainable urban development. By constructing a...
The construction of pseudo human settlements in the context of “digital-real integration” in the information age is crucial for the high-quality development of human settlements in the new era. This study aimed to investigate the spatio-t...
With the expansion of power grids, the increasing peak-valley load difference threatens grid security, a challenge addressed by time-of-use pricing which incentivizes load shifting. Since central air-conditioning systems account for over 60% of build...
Climate change and urbanization are altering urban flood pressure, raising questions about whether urban adaptive capacity can keep pace with these changes. This study examined flood pressure, adaptive capacity, and their coordination across 14 citie...
Central Shanxi is one of the nine urban agglomerations proposed in China’s latest national planning, which has great development potential and represents a major opportunity for Shanxi Province to rise in central China. How to determine the exi...
The energy interaction among a load service entity and community energy systems in neighboring communities leads to a complex energy generation, storage, and transaction problem. A load service entity is formed by a local electricity generation syste...
Exploring the spatiotemporal characteristics and spatial correlation structure of the coupling and coordination relationship between urban economic development and ecological resilience is of great significance for optimizing the regional coordinated...
Urban system is a complex entirety composed of various subsystems, including land, population, economy, and society. The coordinated development of these subsystems is important for ensuring the advancement and improvement of the new urbanization pro...
Background: Due to the decrease in the percentage of perinatal mortality, which is one of the Millennium Development Goals, the number of children with a central coordination disorder (CCD) has increased, present in up to 40% of premature babies. Neu...
Tourism urbanization has become an important pathway for promoting regional economic growth, optimizing urban spatial structures and enhancing residents’ quality of life, especially in the context of sustainable development. Balancing the relat...
Tourism destinations increasingly operate through digital platforms, real-time data, and online connectivity tools, yet service coordination among stakeholders remains constrained. This study analyses how tourism logistics information is created, upd...
This study evaluates the new urbanization (NU) quality and the ecological resilience (ER) of 33 districts and counties in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Guizhou from 2010 to 2020. For this purpose, we used a modified coupled coordination degree (...
The present study explores the impact of carbon emissions on supply chain coordination, where the supply chain entities are a retailer and a distributor. The study also involves two types of systems, namely centralized and decentralized. A centralize...
Intrinsic dynamics of the central vestibular system (CVS) appear to be at least partly determined by the symmetries of its connections. The CVS contributes to whole-body functions such as upright balance and maintenance of gaze direction. These funct...
With the increased communication among cities, coordinated development between regions has become a common trend. An urban agglomeration is a special spatial structure unit, which becomes an important driving force for the coordinated development of...
As renewable energy penetration increases, centralized control systems are evolving toward multi-source coordination and intelligent dispatch, creating new requirements for signal simulation. However, existing studies generally examine hydropower and...
COVID-19 supply-chain disruptions clearly illustrated deficiencies in central coordination. Meaningful improvement in the central coordination of supply-chains will require transparency into resource stocks and flows. The latest technology, like 5G,...
Smart maritime transportation requires coordinated decisions across ship arrival management, port services, and Vessel Traffic Services (VTSs). This study develops a cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework representing three i...
Many behavioral tasks in intelligent agent research involve working with mathematical vectors. While traditional methods perform well in some cases, they struggle in complex and dynamic environments. Recently, bionic neural networks have emerged as a...
This entry examines how wage-setting institutions (WSIs) shape wages across advanced economies. It focuses on four core mechanisms—minimum wages, collective bargaining, wage coordination, and wage centralization—drawing on theoretical ins...
Supply chain coordination has been a research hot spot in supply chain management. This paper constructs a secondary supply chain system. Taking the abatement of the bullwhip effect and the double marginal effect as the coordination objective, a simu...
Climate change poses persistent risks to agriculture and rural livelihoods in arid and semi-arid regions. Focusing on 235 townships in the arid Loess Region of Central Gansu, this study links the assessment of potential agricultural resilience with t...
Urban vitality is a key indicator for characterizing the quality of urban space and the operational status of urban functions. However, existing studies still have limitations in multidimensional vitality measurement at the block scale, the represent...
This study examines the impact of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) coordinated development policy on the regional industrial network structure, with a focus on the significance of electricity consumption data in social network analysis (SN...
In the context of urban stock renewal, the spatial arrangement of public cultural facilities (PCFs) should follow the principles of equity and efficiency to ensure that residents have equitable access to and quality of public cultural services. The a...
In rapidly urbanizing areas, there is a notable aggregation of vitality in high-density urban environments, accompanied by an increasing discrepancy between the supply and demand of urban green space (UGS). This study presented an integrated framewor...
This paper studies a MuJoCo-based locomotion framework that couples an adaptive-frequency central pattern generator (AFCO-CPG) with single rigid-body dynamics model predictive control (MPC) for the RENS Q1 quadruped with elastic parallel knee joints....
The convergence of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offers new opportunities for building adaptive and energy-efficient 6G wireless networks. By jointly exploiting sensing information and prog...
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The aim of the study was to assess the emotional state of parents at the moment of starting therapy for their children using the Vojta method in the context of the physical activity undertaken by the parents. The study involved 68 parents (37 mothers...
Background: Some neonates are assessed for the risk of atypical psychomotor development at birth and are referred for reflex locomotion therapy using the Vojta method. Aim: The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between spontaneous mo...
To meet the increased customer demands, microgrid evolved. The structure of microgrid changes dynamically due to the intermittent nature of renewable-based generation, status of the distributed generator and opening of breakers for fault/maintenance....
Resolving fluid flow structures with multiscale features or boundary layers that arise in many real-world applications effectively requires the use of spatially nonuniform meshes with localized clustering of grids. The lattice Boltzmann (LB) method,...
Housing plays an important role in the development of welfare policies and also often in achieving sustainability goals. There exists, however, implementation gaps between policies and practices in urban development and housing. Here it should be pos...
Electric vehicles have become a crucial component of modern power systems, possessing substantial energy reserves that can be important power supplies in blackouts where the power grid has weak reserves or limited connections to other grids. In order...
The centralized coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) at unsignalized intersections aims to enhance traffic efficiency, driving safety, and passenger comfort. Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) systems introduce a novel approa...
A significant transition is taking place in China’s urban development, which is moving away from rapid expansion and towards improved quality and efficiency. The distribution of primary education resources is thus experiencing a substantial cha...
Human trafficking is a cross-border governance challenge in which criminal justice, migration management, victim protection, and regional cooperation intersect. This article examines how formal anti-trafficking commitments are translated into operati...
Hypertension remains the leading preventable cause of cardiovascular disease and premature death worldwide. In the hypertensive state, renal and cardiovascular dysfunctions become entrenched in a self-perpetuating feedback loop, with immune cells eme...
Conventional shared energy storage (SES) allocation and coordinated operation mechanism are mismatched with the actual time-varying demand of the distribution system, resulting in low utilization of energy storage and renewable energy sources (RES),...
Reliable and fast communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is essential for effective coordination in agricultural settings, particularly when human involvement is part of the system. This study system...
Gross errors in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) coordinate time series can bias velocity and deformation estimates. Conventional three-sigma screening is prone to masking because contaminated observations inflate the residual scale. This st...
With discoveries of brain and spinal cord mechanisms that control gait, and disrupt gait coordination after disease or injury, and that respond to motor training for those with neurological disease or injury, there is greater ability to construct mor...
This paper addresses the issue of choosing an appropriate reward function in multi-agent reinforcement learning. The traditional approach of using joint rewards for team performance is questioned due to a lack of theoretical backing. The authors expl...
Computer modelling of technical constructions is increasingly carried out using software that includes more detailed knowledge, which requires an increase in the level as well as an expansion of the scope of the geometric knowledge. A significant par...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in agriculture face challenges in navigating complex environments due to the presence of dynamic obstacles. This causes several practical problems including mission delays, higher energy consumption, and potential safe...
The fragmentation of clinical information across health systems, community pharmacies, and specialty providers continues to undermine medication safety and emergency care, particularly when patients are unconscious or otherwise unable to communicate...
Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a major threat to global crop production in acidic soils, which can be mitigated by natural substances such as pyroligneous acid (PA). However, the effect of PA in regulating plant central carbon metabolism (CCM) under Al st...
A unique compound (compound 1) with structural features including an unprecedented tridentate-bridging coordination mode of permanganate ions and an eight-coordinated (rhombohedral) κ1-chlorido and tridentate permanganato ligand in a potassium...
To address the persistent challenges of the “disconnect between macro-level spatial zoning and micro-level land allocation” and the paradox of “localized intensification accompanied by overall inefficiency” in territorial spat...
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