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A New Approach to Discrete Integration and Its Implications for Delta Integrable Functions

  • Mohammed M. Al-Shamiri,
  • V. Rexma Sherine,
  • G. Britto Antony Xavier,
  • D. Saraswathi and ,
  • T. G. Gerly,
  • P. Chellamani,
  • Manal Z. M. Abdalla,
  • N. Avinash and
  • M. Abisha
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

11 September 2023

This research aims to develop discrete fundamental theorems using a new strategy, known as delta integration method, on a class of delta integrable functions. The νth-fractional sum of a function f has two forms; closed form and summation form. Mo...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,055 Views
23 Pages

3 October 2022

This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, considering the current status of its transportation development to construct an urban agglomeration land transportation integration index system and to evaluate th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Transport Infrastructure in Regional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,235 Views
19 Pages

Integrated Conceptual Mechatronic Design of a Delta Robot

  • Rogelio de Jesús Portillo-Vélez,
  • Iván Andrés Burgos-Castro,
  • José Alejandro Vásquez-Santacruz and
  • Luis Felipe Marín-Urías

4 March 2022

In this paper, a conceptual design of a Delta robot is developed by means of a mechatronic design methodology. A fully integrated conceptual design, clarifying the recurrence of the conceptual design process using black-box/white-box analysis, is pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,069 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2022

This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, combining it with the current situation of the transportation development of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration to construct the urban agglomeration transp...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,739 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2024

Regional integration policies play a crucial role in promoting coordinated regional development. However, it remains unclear whether the polices simultaneously take into account urban–rural integration to achieve a dynamic balance between effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,736 Views
22 Pages

23 June 2024

Regional integration plays a pivotal role in the socio-economic advancement of various global regions and is closely linked with the expansion of construction land. This expansion is a major contributor to urban carbon emissions. Utilizing a geograph...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,778 Views
21 Pages

14 January 2025

Taking the Demonstration Zone of Green and Integrated Ecological Development of the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, we find that city-regional development of the Yangtze River Delta has advanced to the fifth stage, so-called cross-provincial cit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Land Use Planning II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
28 Pages

8 July 2026

Regional integration is a foundation for coordinated regional development and an important pathway for promoting the green and low-carbon development (GLD) (In this paper, GLD refers to green and low-carbon development, while YRD refers to the Yangtz...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
297 Views
23 Pages

29 September 2026

The pronounced urban–rural dualistic structure in China has given rise to the imperative for urban–rural integrated development. Coordinating urban and rural development and promoting urban–rural integrated development are pivotal t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China—Fourth Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,522 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2024

For the application of Delta robots with a 3-R(RPaR) configuration in machining tasks, this paper constructed a 54-parameter kinematic error model and a simplified dynamic model incorporating an integrated joint’s position error and friction, r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Precision Actuation Technologies)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,715 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2025

The urban–rural relationships in China are experiencing a dual structure period, balancing an urban–rural development period and coordinated urban–rural development period, and urban–rural integrated development has become the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Urbanization: Urban-Rural Coordination and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,463 Views
27 Pages

16 October 2023

The systematic analysis of policy texts on promoting regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta region is of great significance for promoting higher-quality development of this Chinese region. By collecting 803 policy texts from 2003 to 2022 and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation in Planning and Governance for Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,510 Views
22 Pages

12 July 2022

Urban-rural integration has been found to be an inevitable trend in the development of urban-rural relations and a vital measure to tackle the unbalanced and uncoordinated development between urban and rural areas. Most existing studies on the develo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,058 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2025

Amid the deep integration of China’s “dual-carbon” goals with regional coordinated development strategies, this study develops a multidimensional analytical framework of regional integration based on panel data from 41 prefecture-le...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,739 Views
18 Pages

28 September 2025

Effective station–city integration is crucial for sustainable development around high-speed rail stations. However, research assessing public preferences regarding the aspects of this integration remains limited. We constructed a performance ev...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,675 Views
14 Pages

This paper presents an optimal digital filtering technique to enhance the resolution of incremental delta-sigma modulators (incremental DSMs, IDSMs) using a low-power passive integrator. We first describe a link between a passive integrator and its i...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,541 Views
16 Pages

12 May 2023

Using a sample of 122 county-level units in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region from 2000 to 2017, this study employs a difference-in-differences model (DID) to examine the impact of regional integration strategy (RIS) on city-region formation and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territory Spatial Planning toward High-Quality Development in China II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,319 Views
19 Pages

23 May 2019

Recently, the Chinese government decided to support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in a national strategic way. On this background, this paper investigates the regional integration in the technology transfer system of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,057 Views
13 Pages

Efficiency of Different Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture Systems in the Red River Delta of Vietnam

  • Nguyen Van Huong,
  • Tran Huu Cuong,
  • Tran Thi Nang Thu and
  • Philippe Lebailly

13 February 2018

Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture (IAA) is characteristic with diversity of small-scale production systems in the Red River Delta, Vietnam where most integrated aquaculture systems are closely associated to the VAC model, an ecosystem production tha...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,791 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2023

A viable pathway towards achieving shared prosperity is made possible by the growth of tourism, which encourages the movement of urban and rural elements. This harmonious alignment of tourism development and urban–rural integration also helps t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,016 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Sustainability Through Regional Integration: A Quasi-Natural Experiment on Green Innovation of Listed Firms in the Yangtze River Delta

  • Huiling Zhao,
  • Yujie Xiang,
  • Feng Gong,
  • Tianxiang Xu and ,
  • Yinghao Chen and
  • Xinyu Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 December 2025

Enhancing corporate green innovation has become a critical question in the context of sustainable development. Prior studies have predominantly examined the macro-level effects of regional integration while largely overlooking its micro-level impacts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,880 Views
22 Pages

14 October 2025

As regional integration accelerates globally, green development has emerged as a pivotal imperative for reconciling economic growth with environmental sustainability. This study employs a Difference-in-Differences framework incorporating city and yea...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,856 Views
19 Pages

How Destination City and Source Landholding Factors Influence Migrant Socio-Economic Integration in the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region

  • Xuanyu Liu,
  • Zehong Wang,
  • Yungang Liu,
  • Zhigang Zhu and ,
  • Jincan Hu,
  • Gao Yang and
  • Yuqu Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 May 2023

Few studies have analyzed the mixed effects of city size and land factors at the macro level on migrant socio-economic integration. On the basis of survey data on migrants in the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRDMR), this study developed a s...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,755 Views
24 Pages

18 February 2025

Addressing the urban–rural income disparity and fostering coordinated urban–rural development pose critical challenges for China in pursuit of its common prosperity strategy during its new phase of development. Regional integration emerge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,462 Views
21 Pages

1 June 2023

Regional transportation integration is a key aspect in promoting regional integration and high-quality economic development, as it can improve inter-regional connectivity, decrease transportation costs, and facilitate the flow of labor, capital, tech...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,231 Views
25 Pages

Regional integration can significantly affect carbon emissions, but scholars have paid more attention to the impact of integration level, ignoring the importance of regional integration expansion. This study attempts to demonstrate whether, in the pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Environmental Economics of Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,408 Views
21 Pages

An Integrated InSAR and GNSS Approach to Monitor Land Subsidence in the Po River Delta (Italy)

  • Massimo Fabris,
  • Mattia Battaglia,
  • Xue Chen,
  • Andrea Menin and ,
  • Michele Monego and
  • Mario Floris
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 November 2022

Land subsidence affects many areas of the world, posing a serious threat to human structures and infrastructures. It can be effectively monitored using ground-based and remote sensing techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ground and Structural Deformations Monitoring Systems Integrating Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Data)
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  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,762 Views
19 Pages

An Approach Based on Landsat Images for Shoreline Monitoring to Support Integrated Coastal Management—A Case Study, Ezbet Elborg, Nile Delta, Egypt

  • Mohamed T. Elnabwy,
  • Emad Elbeltagi,
  • Mahmoud M. El Banna,
  • Mohamed M.Y. Elshikh and ,
  • Ibrahim Motawa and
  • Mosbeh R. Kaloop
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Monitoring the dynamic behavior of shorelines is an essential factor for integrated coastal management (ICM). In this study, satellite-derived shorelines and corresponding eroded and accreted areas of coastal zones have been calculated and assessed f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,889 Views
34 Pages

17 April 2025

In the context of high-quality economic development, the empowering effect of regional integration policies on urban green and low-carbon development has significantly strengthened, playing a crucial strategic role in achieving the coordinated develo...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,377 Views
18 Pages

6 July 2023

Ecosystem service assessments are crucial for sustainable water area management. Previous studies and actions on waterfront area management often emphasized merely the saving and use of water resources per se, ignoring the safeguarding of hydrologica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current and Future Trends of Socio-Economic Values in Terrestrial Ecosystem Services)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,721 Views
14 Pages

Application of Mobile Monitoring to Study Characteristics of Air Pollution in Typical Areas of the Yangtze River Delta Eco-Green Integration Demonstration Zone, China

  • Xinran Fu,
  • Qixin Cai,
  • Yitao Yang,
  • Yu Xu and ,
  • Fanghong Zhao,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Liping Qiao,
  • Lan Yao and
  • Weiyue Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 December 2022

Mobile observation improves the accuracy and coverage of environmental monitoring, and can locate and track pollution sources. We conducted mobile monitoring to obtain real-time atmospheric pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO and O3) in typical are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosols and Air Pollution)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,285 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2025

Enhancing green development efficiency (GDE) is of great significance in achieving regional green transition. Against the backdrop of rapid advancements in digital technology, digital–real economy integration (DRI) opens a new avenue for enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,758 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2023

Regional synergy innovation capability is an important driving force in promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the regional economy. Taking the regional innovation development panel data of the Yangtze River Delta integration regio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,439 Views
20 Pages

Multiple Diamond-Alpha Integral in General Form and Their Properties, Applications

  • Zhong-Xuan Mao,
  • Ya-Ru Zhu,
  • Jun-Ping Hou,
  • Chun-Ping Ma and
  • Shi-Pu Liu

15 May 2021

In this paper, we introduce the concept of n-dimensional Diamond-Alpha integral on time scales. In particular, it transforms into multiple Delta, Nabla and mixed integrals by taking different values of alpha. Some of its properties are explored, and...

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  • Open Access
770 Views
31 Pages

Using AI Approach to Explore Vietnamese ESL Students’ Perceptions on Integrations of Local Culture into English Language Teaching

  • Vo Phan Thu Ngan,
  • Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam,
  • Trung-Cang Nguyen,
  • Ngo-Tien Nguyen and ,
  • Thanh-Hung Dinh and
  • Hsiu-Chia Ko
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study aims to explore perceptions of English as a Second Language (ESL) students on integrations of local culture into English language teaching using Artificial Intelligence approaches. Research samples included 511 ESL students of the English...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,300 Views
14 Pages

Research on Optimization Technology of Cross-Regional Synergistic Deployment of Fire Stations Based on Fire Risk

  • Kai Guo,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Shixiang Tian,
  • Juntao Yang and ,
  • Zebiao Jiang and
  • Zhangyin Dai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 November 2022

Regional planning and development of urban agglomerations such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities provide a good opportunity for fire resc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,396 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2023

Background: In the context of sustainable development, urban–rural integration is not solely focused on high economic growth but has been expanded to a wider range of social and ecological fields. Objectives: To analyze the spatial and temporal...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,159 Views
14 Pages

A 96 dB DR Second-Order CIFF Delta-Sigma Modulator with Rail-to-Rail Input Voltage Range

  • Juncheol Kim,
  • Neungin Jeon,
  • Wonkyu Do,
  • Euihoon Jung and ,
  • Hongjin Kim,
  • Hojin Park and
  • Young-Chan Jang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

A second-order delta-sigma modulator (DSM) is proposed for readout integrated circuits of sensor applications requiring a small area and low-power consumption. The proposed second-order CIFF DSM with the architecture of cascaded-of-integrator feedfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design of Mixed Analog/Digital Circuits, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,965 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2024

Ecological security is related to human well-being, is closely linked to a region’s sustainable development, and is an essential cornerstone of any national security system. The Demonstration Zone of Green and Integrated Ecological Development...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,287 Views
22 Pages

17 February 2024

In the pursuit of carbon neutrality goals, local governments usually face the dilemma of whether to focus on economic development or environmental protection. Regional integration is a beneficial policy solution to address the challenges inherent to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Recent Progress of Sustainable Energy Economic, Energy Policy and Energy Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,324 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2022

Urban–rural transformation development is the key to resolving the imbalance in the dual structure of urban and rural areas. However, the transformation of the urban–rural relationship will also affect the structure and spatial distributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,484 Views
11 Pages

A Portable Phase-Domain Magnetic Induction Tomography Transceiver with Phase-Band Auto-Tracking and Frequency-Sweep Capabilities

  • Chan Sam Park,
  • Jiyun Jeon,
  • Byungjoo Oh,
  • Hee Young Chae and ,
  • Kyeonghwan Park,
  • Hungsun Son and
  • Jae Joon Kim
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 November 2018

This paper presents a portable magnetic induction tomography (MIT) transceiver integrated circuit to miniaturize conventional equipment-based MIT systems. The miniaturized MIT function is enabled through single-chip transceiver implementation. The pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,272 Views
11 Pages

The Rise of Border Areas in an Integrated Region of China

  • Minsheng Li,
  • Haohui Chen,
  • Yaofu Huang and
  • Meiyu Huang

15 October 2019

Increasing economic integration between countries has spurred the rapid growth of border areas. However, whether city-level boundary areas can benefit from regional integrations within one regime is unknown. Along with growing numbers of integrated r...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,987 Views
15 Pages

County-to-district reform (CTDR) is an important policy path for the government to promote the cultivation and construction of urban agglomerations, and exploring its “carbon emission” effect is of great significance for the high-quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,321 Views
12 Pages

A Large Measurable Range Capacitance-to-Digital Converter for Smart Humidity Sensors

  • Rongshan Wei,
  • Weiwen Lin,
  • Xiaoxia Xiao,
  • Qunchao Chen and
  • Fanyang Li

24 August 2019

This study aims to propose a capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) based on a third-order cascade of integrators with a feed-forward (CIFF) incremental sigma-delta modulator for smart humidity sensor application. Disguised zoom-in technology was pro...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,874 Views
24 Pages

The Development of a Framework for the Integrated Assessment of SDG Trade-Offs in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve

  • Charlotte L. J. Marcinko,
  • Robert J. Nicholls,
  • Tim M. Daw,
  • Sugata Hazra and ,
  • Craig W. Hutton,
  • Chris T. Hill,
  • Derek Clarke,
  • Andy Harfoot,
  • Oindrila Basu and
  • Partho P. Mondal
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

18 February 2021

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding targets are significantly interconnected, with many interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between individual goals across multiple temporal and spatial scales. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management, Conservation and Restoration in Deltaic Ecosystems with Special Emphasis on the Mississippi Delta)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,130 Views
18 Pages

Understanding the spatial structure of a megaregion with urban and rural areas is crucial for promoting sustainable urbanization and urban–rural integration. Compared to the city network (or the network of urban areas), however, fewer studies f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,672 Views
19 Pages

Improving Productivity in Integrated Fish-Vegetable Farming Systems with Recycled Fish Pond Sediments

  • Chau Thi Da,
  • Phan Anh Tu,
  • John Livsey,
  • Van Tai Tang and ,
  • Håkan Berg and
  • Stefano Manzoni
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 July 2020

The increasing intensification of aquaculture systems requires the development of strategies to reduce their environmental impacts such as pollution caused by the discharge of nutrient rich sediments into local water bodies. Recycling of fish pond se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Fertilizers and Innovative Organic Amendments for Sustainable Agricultural Systems)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,949 Views
14 Pages

Identifying PM2.5-Related Health Burden in the Context of the Integrated Development of Urban Agglomeration Using Remote Sensing and GEMM Model

  • Lili Xu,
  • Binjie Chen,
  • Chenhao Huang,
  • Mengmeng Zhou and ,
  • Shucheng You,
  • Fangming Jiang,
  • Weirong Chen and
  • Jinsong Deng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 May 2023

Integrated development of urban agglomeration is emerging as the main pattern of China’s new modernization. Yet, atmospheric pollution continues to have an adverse impact on public health, challenging efforts to promote coordinated regional dev...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,197 Views
6 Pages

Delta function is a widely used generalized function in various fields, ranging from physics to mathematics. How to express its fractional derivative with integral representation is a tough problem. In this paper, we present an integral representatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2020 Selected Papers from Fractal Fract’s Editorial Board Members)

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