The paper addresses informational interactions in a community and considers the dynamics of concepts that represent distribution of knowledge among the individuals. The evolution of a set of concepts maintained by a community is derived by the use of...
From supporting wood production to mitigating climate change, forest ecosystem services are crucial to the well-being of humans. Understanding the mechanisms that drive forest dynamics can help us infer how to maintain forest ecosystem services and h...
Microorganisms in nature form diverse communities that dynamically change in structure and function in response to environmental variations. As a complex adaptive system, microbial communities show higher-order properties that are not present in indi...
This article investigates the stability of evolutionarily stable strategy in replicator dynamics of two-community with multi-delays. In the real environment, players interact simultaneously while the return of their choices may not be observed immedi...
Background: Understanding the factors that influence the market entry, exit, and stability of community pharmacies (i.e., market dynamics) is important for stakeholders ranging from patients to health policymakers and small business owners to large c...
(1) Background: The purpose of this paper is to explicate the logic of community engagement in American policing. In the United States, the police are organized for crime control and social order through law enforcement. In fact, the terms police and...
In recent years, the graph embedding approach has drawn a lot of attention in the field of network representation and analytics, the purpose of which is to automatically encode network elements into a low-dimensional vector space by preserving certai...
The soil microbial community and nitrogen (N) dynamics change seasonally due to several factors. The microbial community structure (MCS) can regulate N dynamics. However, there is insufficient information on seasonal changes in MCS and the relationsh...
Urbanization significantly impacts river ecosystems, altering fish community structure and dynamics and posing challenges to the sustainable management of these vital resources. In the heavily urbanized Haihe River in China, understanding the spatial...
Symbiotic bacteria contribute to insect physiology and environmental adaptation, yet their dynamics and potential functions in the major migratory pest Loxostege sticticalis remain poorly understood. We characterized bacterial community composition,...
Climate change has altered precipitation regimes with concomitant influences in hydrology. For a complex assemblage of ungulates, these water-level fluctuations might alter habitat partitioning thought to be crucial for coexistence in response to liv...
This study proposes a discrete-time eco-genetic model of a planktonic community that includes zooplankton and two competing phytoplankton haplotypes with and without a toxicity trait. The Holling type II response function describes predator consumpti...
In some mountainous areas of Japan, the Ki-no-Eki system, in which wood is collected to thin the forest and is exchanged for community currency, has been specifically designed and implemented as a solution to current and emerging forest governance is...
Knowledge of microbial community dynamics in relation to process perturbations is fundamental to understand and deal with the instability of anaerobic digestion (AD) processes. This study aims to investigate the microbial community structure and func...
This paper proposes a Mixed Integer Conic Programming (MICP) model for community microgrids considering the network operational constraints and building thermal dynamics. The proposed multi-objective optimization model optimizes not only the operatin...
Biological treatment of table olive processing wastewater (TOPW) may be problematic due to its high organic and polyphenolic compound content. Biomass acclimatization is a necessary, yet sensitive, stage for efficient TOPW biological treatment. Next-...
Global refugee flows’ increasing scale and complexity pose significant challenges to national education systems. Turkey, hosting one of the largest populations of refugees and individuals under temporary protection, faces unique pressures in en...
The emergence of a peri-urban area is driven by a high degree of accessibility in the suburbs due to the development of housing and urban facilities. Such a phenomenon requires specialized planning approaches in accordance with the peri-urban dynamic...
This paper proposes a deep-learning-based scheduling approach for community microgrids that explicitly accounts for building thermal dynamics and customer comfort preferences. Traditional heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) scheduling m...
The complex dynamics between technological niches and regime “lock-in” are critical in determining the pace and outcomes of energy transitions. The socio-technical transitions literature has received growing scholarly attention, but it la...
Public health emergencies often unfold over extended periods and place sustained pressure on community-level governance, particularly when demands for supplies, information, medical access, and daily support exceed routine service capacity. This stud...
The objective of this study was to explore whether collecting rumen samples of finishing steers at monthly intervals differed, and whether this difference or similarity varied with diets. For these purposes, 12 Chinese Holstein steers were equally di...
This article critically examines the Islamic Religious Community (IRC) in North Macedonia, focusing on its significant role in influencing religious practices, socio-political dynamics, and interfaith relations within the country. Since its inception...
To develop a silage fermentation technique to adapt to global climate changes, the microbiome and fermentation dynamics of corn silage inoculated with heat-resistant lactic acid bacteria (LAB) under high-temperature conditions were studied. Corn was...
To investigate the effects of different Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim. varieties on leaf nutrients, soil nutrients, and microbial community composition, this study selected Yuelou No. 3 and Huiji No. 2, two major cultivars from the primary production...
Identifying communities in dynamic networks is essential for exploring the latent network structures, understanding network functions, predicting network evolution, and discovering abnormal network events. Many dynamic community detection methods hav...
As the number of elderly continues to increase in China, anxiety about related problems has encouraged special care for the elderly. Social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services (SO-CHECS) seem to be a promisin...
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Assessing the bacteria pathogens in the lakes with reclaimed water as major influents are important for public health. This study investigated microbial communities of five landscape lakes replenished by reclaimed water, then analyzed driven factors...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an efficient, non-invasive approach for surveying fish diversity in complex habitats such as large rivers. This study conducted continuous eDNA monitoring along the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River mainst...
Tartary buckwheat is a healthy grain rich in nutrients and medicinal ingredients and consequently is commonly used for Huangjiu brewing. In order to reveal the correlation between microbial succession and higher alcohols production, in this study, Hu...
(1) Background: Suitable harvest maturity stage selection and microbial inoculation during anaerobic fermentation are effective strategies for improving the quality of triticale (×Triticosecale) silage for ruminant nutrition. (2) Methods: In th...
Objective: This study aims to explore the changes in dynamic overlapping communities in the brains of schizophrenia (SZ) patients and further investigate the dynamic restructuring patterns of overlapping communities in SZ patients. Materials and Meth...
Marginalized youth experience persistent systemic health disparities. Therefore, an academic–community partnership was formed with Black Swan Academy (BSA), a youth-led community-based organization (CBO) in Washington, D.C., to implement and ex...
Optimizing forest management requires a comprehensive understanding of how soil properties and microbial communities evolve across different plantation ages. This study examines variations in soil nutrient dynamics, enzyme activities, and bacterial c...
To enhance the operational efficiency of high-speed trains (HSTs), Train-to-Train (T2T) communication has received considerable attention. This paper introduces a T2T cooperative communication model that allows direct information exchange between HST...
To fully characterize the evolution process of the topological structure of dynamic communities, we propose a dynamic community detection based on Evolutionary DeepWalk (DEDW) for the high-dimensional data and dynamic characteristics. First, DEDW sol...
This work addresses the problem of dynamic consensus, which consists of estimating the dynamic average of a set of time-varying signals distributed across a communication network of multiple agents. This problem has many applications in robotics, wit...
The link prediction problem is a time-evolving model in network science that has simultaneously abetted myriad applications and experienced extensive methodological improvement. Inferring the possibility of emerging links in dynamic social networks,...
Detecting dynamic community structure in vehicle movements is helpful for revealing urban structures and human mobility patterns. Despite the fruitful research outcomes of community detection, the discovery of irregular-shaped and statistically signi...
Satellite network optimization is essential, particularly since the cost of manufacturing, launching and maintaining each satellite is significant. Moreover, classical communication optimization methods, such as Minimal Spanning Tree, cannot be appli...
Local overlapping community detection is a hot problem in the field of studying complex networks. It is the process of finding dense clusters based on local network information. This paper proposes a method called local greedy extended dynamic overla...
Locating community facilities is a long-term, daunting task for governments, requiring ongoing budget or policy updates for gradual improvement. This study proposes a bi-objective multi-scenario dynamic model (BOMSDM) for community-facility siting, w...
Microcystin (MC) contamination of surface waters threatens ecosystems and public health. Nature-based solutions such as Multi-Soil-Layering (MSL) systems have been used for MC remediation. However, the biological mechanisms controlling MC degradation...
The node embedding method enables network structure feature learning and representation for social network community detection. However, the traditional node embedding method only focuses on a node’s individual feature representation and ignore...
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Eco-evolutionary forces are the key drivers of ecosystem biodiversity dynamics. This resulted in a large body of theory, which has partially been experimentally tested by mimicking evolutionary processes in the laboratory. In the first part of this p...
One of the main ideas about the Internet is to rethink its services in a user-centric fashion. This fact translates to having human-scale services with devices that will become smarter and make decisions in place of their respective owners. Online So...
This paper presents a dynamic optimization solution for the data packet-based communication of programmable logic controller (PLC) visual monitoring, and the objective is to improve the communication efficiency between a supervisory computer and fiel...
Last mile handover is the most problematic phase in the delivery process, while real-time communication and dynamic scheduling are major problem areas associated with attended last mile handovers. These problem areas need to be addressed holistically...
Quantum communication can be realized by transmitting photons that carry quantum information. Due to decoherence, the information encoded in the quantum state of a single photon can be distorted, which leads to communication errors. In particular, we...
Cultural resources embedded in local traditions are increasingly recognized as contributors to sustainable community development. Even so, the mechanisms through which these resources support sustainability remain insufficiently understood, particula...
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