The elasto-magnetic method is a promising pathway for cable force monitoring in cable-stayed bridges. Under the action of an externally applied pulsed magnetic field, both the variation in the main flux recorded by the induction coil and the localize...
Under the global climate change, variations in climatic elements such as temperature, precipitation, and sunshine duration significantly impact the growth, development, and yield formation of winter wheat. A precise understanding of the impact of cli...
Since the 20th century, with the rapid development of the global economy, human demand for fossil energy such as coal has been increasing. In the face of fierce competition, the state and various ministries and commissions have put forward the goals...
This paper has proposed a comprehensive indicator based on principal component analysis (PCA) for diagnosing the state of anaerobic digestion. Various state and performance variables were monitored under different operational modes, including start-u...
In order to improve the scientific and rationality of power quality (PQ) comprehensive evaluation, an improved Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) strategy in consideration of the correlation between indices is...
The Northeast Farming-pastoral ecotone (NFPE) in China is crucial for farming and pastoralism. However, sustainable development of land resources faces several challenges from human activities and environmental degradation. Thus, assessing land resou...
Target identification is a crucial process in drug development, aiming to identify key proteins, genes, and signal pathways involved in disease progression and their relevance in potential therapeutic interventions. While C-C chemokine receptor 8 (CC...
DC distribution networks are operationally economical from the perspective of renewable energy penetration due to the reduction of power loss from the simplified power conversion structure. However, the initial investment cost of a DC network is high...
To investigate the impact of parameters of diversion wall holes on the flow state in the forebay of a combined sluice-pumping station project and optimize the relevant parameters, a total of 50 numerical simulations based on the CFD technique were pe...
Maize is one of the important grain crops grown globally, and growth will directly affect its yield and quality, so it is important to monitor maize growth efficiently and non-destructively. To facilitate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fo...
This study’s goal is to present a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of governance measures in relation to sustainable banking, with a focus on the development of themes over time, interdisciplinary approaches, and the contribution of various...
Traditional single-scale indoor air quality (IAQ) evaluation methods often fail to meet the demands of modern, personalized kitchens. To address this limitation, we propose a comprehensive IAQ index, integrating experimental data and simulation resul...
The evaluation and management of frontier fundamental research projects for future advanced aircraft engines are challenging due to the need to balance assessing the innovative potential and technical risks with considering their long-term effects an...
Our study investigates the relevance and application of key performance indicators (KPIs) and key risk indicators (KRIs) in business management from 1992 to 2023 through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis performed in RStudio using the Bibliometri...
Water resources, energy, and food are fundamental resources for high-quality regional development. In the process of rapid regional economic growth, integrating the utilization of these fundamental resources has become a critical challenge for achiev...
This paper examines the value relevance of corporate environmental performance (CEP) using individual environmental performance indicators and multidimensional constructs derived from Trumpp et al. (2015). Accounting information can be described as &...
In the process of metal cutting, the cutting performance of cutting tools varies with different parameter combinations, so the results of the performance indicators studied are also different. So in order to achieve the best performance indicator it...
The era of big data has brought rapid growth and widespread application of data, but the imperfections in the existing data integration system have become obstacles to its high-quality development. The conflict between data security and shared utiliz...
Satellite precipitation products (SPPs) have been widely evaluated at regional scales. However, there have been few quantitative comprehensive evaluations of SPPs using multiple indices. Ten high-resolution SPPs were quantitatively and comprehensivel...
6 June 2022
Conversion of farmlands to forests and grasslands (CFFG) is one of the major ecological projects with the largest investment, strongest policy, widest coverage and highest degree of participation in China, and even in the world. In order to scientifi...
In the light of the shortcomings of the analytic hierarchy process and other common regional sustainable development evaluation methods, this paper proposes the use of a combination of subjective and objective weights to generate input/output indicat...
A comprehensive assessment of smart grids is critical for their development. Existing scientific research testifies to the urgency and complexity of the problem of implementing smart grids effectively, both in terms of a single project performance an...
In view of the high impact of extreme disasters, this paper comprehensively evaluates power grid performance from a new low-carbon toughness perspective. First, considering the increase in carbon emissions and the recovery time of carbon emissions, l...
Sweetness is a traditional sensory indicator used to evaluate the quality of the popular Chinese herb Radix Astragali (RA). RA roots with strong sweetness are considered to be of good quality. However, neither a thorough analysis of the component(s)...
In the context of global carbon neutrality goals and the transition to clean energy, ports have become a focal point due to their significant energy consumption and pollution emissions. This heightened attention has promoted research on green ports,...
27 September 2022
Rivers are beneficial to humans due to their multiple functions. However, human meddling substantially degrades the functions of rivers and constitutes a threat to river health. Therefore, it is vital to assess and maintain river function. This study...
To assess a subject with multiple factors or attributes, a comprehensive evaluation index, or say a composite indicator, is often constructed to make a holistic judgement. The key problem is to assign weights to the factors. There are various weighti...
In developing countries, agricultural development is still a fundamental means of poverty alleviation, economic development and, in general, sustainable development. Despite the great emphasis on sustainable agricultural development, it seems that th...
Most concrete dams have seepage problems to some degree, so it is a common strategy to maintain ongoing monitoring and take timely repair measures. In order to grasp the real operation state of dam seepage, it is vital to analyze the measured data of...
Life-cycle assessment is crucial for evaluating materials’ environmental impact and guiding the development of low-carbon and sustainable buildings. However, conventional LCA methods often overlook critical impacts during the operation and main...
Drought and flood disasters are common events threatening the safety of human lives, and full-time water conservancy emergency rescue teams play an important role in fighting against these disasters. In this paper, a competency assessment indicator s...
The dairy sector faces increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices. Various tools have been developed to evaluate sustainability of the dairy supply chain. This paper provides an overview of these tools, highlighting their strengths and limita...
An increasing number of residents are burdened with psychological pressure, and the majority of them refuse to seek professional mental help, falling to a “silent majority” of the untreated. This “silent majority” lives in eve...
To overcome the limitations of traditional evaluation indicators in determining the optimal wavelet decomposition level, this paper proposes an adaptive method for selecting the best decomposition level by combining the Jarque–Bera test and a c...
Leymus chinensis is important for ecological restoration and stock farming in Eurasia. In the context of climate change, excavating L. chinensis germplasm resources with excellent ecological functional traits is important to resist grassland degradat...
The adoption of power cyber physical systems (Power CPS) is becoming more and more widespread, and as risk spreads, cascading failures of overload behavior can lead to the collapse of individual or entire networks, becoming a major threat to the netw...
In recent years, in order to promote the construction of low-carbon communities (LCCs) in China, many scholars have proposed an evaluation indicator system of LCC. The existing indicator systems are mostly established from the macro perspective of en...
Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) are commonly screened with the Range of Variability Approach (RVA), which captures frequency shifts but can miss changes in central tendency, dispersion, distributional shape, and trend. We propose a Comprehe...
The large-scale integration of volatile and intermittent renewables necessitates greater flexibility in the power system. Improving this flexibility is key to achieving a high proportion of renewable energy consumption. In this context, the scientifi...
The successful implementation of scientific research is one of the key factors for sustainable development, including the development of tertiary education. A leading or “world-class university”, today, transfers knowledge to innovation,...
The water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) shows remarkable fuzziness and randomness, which causes the uncertainty and instability of the WRCC assessment (WRCCA). In order to solve these problems, we proposed a novel hybrid approach for WRCCA, in w...
22 December 2016
Assessing ecosystem health is helpful to determine reasonable eco-environmental restoration and resource management strategies. Based on a pressure-state-response (PSR) framework, a set of comprehensive indicators including natural, social and econom...
Large quantity of rivers have disappeared during rapid urbanization in China’s Yangtze River Delta, and it is difficult to define the changes in the river network owing to its high dense and complex reticular structure. Shanghai’s Pudong...
China, facing severe saline–alkali land degradation, is grappling with the paradox of technically adequate but systemically deficient land consolidation. In response to the existing evaluation system’s over-reliance on physicochemical ind...
The service performance of chromium-free zinc–aluminum coatings exhibits characteristics from multiple perspectives. Fully considering the physical properties, corrosion resistance, and economic viability of the coatings, this study incorporate...
The Yangtze Estuary is confronting unprecedented challenges due to intensifying human activities and a rising incidence of extreme weather events, which collectively threaten its essential functions in flood control, water supply, ecological sustaina...
Although crop-growth monitoring is important for agricultural managers, it has always been a difficult research topic. However, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with RGB and hyperspectral cameras can now acquire high-resolution remote-sensing...
In the past decade soil health has been intensively studied as a science and practiced as a means to help improve the global social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This paper reviews the recent advances of the scientific soil health syst...
As the Chinese government has clearly put forward the development of civil–military integration (CMI) as a national strategy, civilian manufacturing enterprises entering the military products market (CMEE-MPM) can effectively improve China&rsqu...
Under the dual pressure of industrial structure upgrade and atmospheric environment improvement, China, in a transition period, is facing the challenge of coordinating the relationship between the industry and the environment system to promote the co...
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