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856 Views
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21 April 2025

The shock wave/boundary layer interaction phenomenon in hypersonic inlets, affected by background waves, may induce the formation of multiple separation zones. Existing theories prove insufficient in explaining the underlying flow mechanisms behind c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fluid Mechanics Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,491 Views
14 Pages

Assessing the Performance of a Dual-Speed Tool When Friction Stir Welding Cast Mg AZ91 with Wrought Al 6082

  • Krzysztof Mroczka,
  • Carter Hamilton,
  • Aleksandra Węglowska,
  • Mateusz Kopyściański,
  • Stanisław Dymek and
  • Adam Pietras

26 July 2024

A novel dual-speed tool for which the shoulder and pin rotation speeds are separately established was utilized to friction stir weld cast magnesium AZ91 with wrought aluminum 6082-T6. To assess the performance and efficacy of the dual-speed tool, bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Welding and Joining Technologies: Processes, Parameters, Structures, Properties and Simulations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
521 Views
21 Pages

Control of the Finishing Zone by Roller Geometry and Compliance in a Dual-Roller Superfinishing Attachment

  • Wojciech Kacalak,
  • Katarzyna Tandecka,
  • Zbigniew Budniak and
  • Thomas G. Mathia

This study describes the design and analysis of a dual-roller superfinishing attachment for the abrasive-film microfinishing process, where two independently mounted compliant conical rollers make contact with separate zones of the abrasive film in o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Design, Manufacturing, and Applications of Precision Machine Tools)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,797 Views
17 Pages

Study on Medium-Thick Al-Alloy T-Joints by Dual P-GMAW Bilateral Synchronous Welding

  • Chunsheng Wang,
  • Haicang Zhang,
  • Zhaoyang Yan,
  • Yun Zhao and
  • Shujun Chen

8 November 2021

The T-joints of medium-thick 6082 Al-alloy plates created by dual pulsed gas metal arc welding (P-GMAW) and bilateral synchronous welding were investigated to improve weld quality using the adaptive deposition method, which calculates the minimum amo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Welding and Fatigue of Railway Metallic Materials)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,642 Views
22 Pages

Valeriana rigida Ruiz & Pav. Root Extract: A New Source of Caffeoylquinic Acids with Antioxidant and Aldose Reductase Inhibitory Activities

  • Guanglei Zuo,
  • Hyun-Yong Kim,
  • Yanymee N. Guillen Quispe,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Kang-Hyuk Kim,
  • Paul H. Gonzales Arce and
  • Soon-Sung Lim

13 May 2021

Valeriana rigida Ruiz & Pav. (V. rigida) has long been used as a herbal medicine in Peru; however, its phytochemicals and pharmacology need to be scientifically explored. In this study, we combined the offline 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl-hydra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phenolic Compounds in Herbs: Characterization, Antioxidant Properties and Health Benefits)
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  • Open Access
480 Views
31 Pages

9 June 2026

Aquaculture development increasingly faces the dual requirement of increasing economic output and reducing environmental pressure under limited aquatic resources. Existing studies have examined aquaculture efficiency, environmental performance, and p...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,094 Views
18 Pages

16 April 2019

Dual three-dimensional (3-D) view displays have been attracting much attention in many practical application fields since they can provide two kinds of realistic 3-D images with different perspectives to the viewer. Thus, in this paper, a new type of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,479 Views
10 Pages

22 November 2019

The development of a simple, low-cost sensor for the effective sensing of multiple gases in industrial or residential zones has been in high demand in recent days. In this article, we have proposed an optical sensor for the dual sensing of oxygen (O2...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,136 Views
17 Pages

Untangling the Incoherent and Coherent Scattering Components in GNSS-R and Novel Applications

  • Joan Francesc Munoz-Martin,
  • Raul Onrubia,
  • Daniel Pascual,
  • Hyuk Park,
  • Adriano Camps,
  • Christoph Rüdiger,
  • Jeffrey Walker and
  • Alessandra Monerris

9 April 2020

As opposed to monostatic radars where incoherent backscattering dominates, in bistatic radars, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R), the forward scattered signals exhibit both an incoherent and a coherent component. Curr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of GNSS Reflectometry for Earth Observation)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,699 Views
22 Pages

Comparison of Three Methods for Distinguishing Glacier Zones Using Satellite SAR Data

  • Barbara Barzycka,
  • Mariusz Grabiec,
  • Jacek Jania,
  • Małgorzata Błaszczyk,
  • Finnur Pálsson,
  • Michał Laska,
  • Dariusz Ignatiuk and
  • Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir

24 January 2023

Changes in glacier zones (e.g., firn, superimposed ice, ice) are good indicators of glacier response to climate change. There are few studies of glacier zone detection by SAR that are focused on more than one ice body and validated by terrestrial dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Earth Observation of Climate Change Effects on Glaciers and Ice Sheets)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,821 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2020

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been used in characterizing intertidal zones along northern Canadian coastlines. RADARSAT-2, with its full polarimetric information, has been considered for monitoring these vulnerable ecosystems and helping enhance...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,283 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2025

Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) in geological formations offers a promising solution for large-scale energy buffering, but its long-term safety and mechanical stability remain concerns, particularly in fractured rock environments. This study devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hydrogen Energy IV)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,280 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2023

The blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) is still the main process used for the production of iron and steel in China. With the approach of the “dual carbon” target, the iron and steel industry needs to transform and upgrade to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Simulation and Modeling Technologies of Metallurgical Processes)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,102 Views
13 Pages

Study on Fracture and Seepage Evolution Law of Stope Covered by Thin Bedrock under Mining Influence

  • Zhaolin Li,
  • Lianguo Wang,
  • Ke Ding,
  • Bo Ren,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Chongyang Jiang and
  • Zhiyuan Pan

18 March 2022

Aiming to better understand the fracture evolution characteristics of thin bedrock affected by mining, a program was developed to establish a numerical calculation model for the fracture evolution of the overlying rock in the stope under the coupled...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Mining of Coal Mine in China)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,082 Views
16 Pages

Therapeutically Induced Modulation of Collagen I-to-III Ratio Three Weeks After Rabbit Achilles Tendon Full Transection

  • Gabriella Meier Bürgisser,
  • Olivera Evrova,
  • Pietro Giovanoli,
  • Maurizio Calcagni and
  • Johanna Buschmann

22 January 2026

During tendon healing, collagen III expression precedes that of collagen I. The collagen I-to-III ratio at a certain time point post-laceration serves as an indicator of the healing status. Consequently, it is crucial to understand how different ther...

(This article belongs to the Section Zoology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,052 Views
23 Pages

Quantifying Swirl Number Effects on Recirculation Zones and Vortex Dynamics in a Dual-Swirl Combustor

  • Hafiz Ali Haider Sehole,
  • Ghazanfar Mehdi,
  • Rizwan Riaz,
  • Absaar Ul Jabbar,
  • Adnan Maqsood and
  • Maria Grazia De Giorgi

16 December 2025

Swirl-stabilized combustors are central to gas turbine technology, where the swirl number critically determines flow structure and combustion stability. This work systematically investigates the isothermal flow in a dual-swirl combustor, focusing on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental and Numerical Methods for the Design of Internal Combustion Engines and Turbomachines)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,476 Views
20 Pages

Flow and Flame Stabilization in Scramjet Engine Combustor with Two Opposing Cavity Flameholders

  • Jayson C. Small,
  • Liwei Zhang,
  • Bruce G. Crawford and
  • Valerio Viti

13 August 2025

Scramjet operation requires a comprehensive understanding of the internal flowfield, encompassing fuel–air mixing and combustion. This study investigates transient flow and flame development within a HIFiRE-2 scramjet engine combustor, which fe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Thermal Fluid, Dynamics and Control)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,513 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2022

In the context of the One Country–Two Systems policy, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have rapidly grown into a dual-core international metropolis. However, a huge barrier is the commuting cost incurred by the tariff policy, which blocks the road to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Territory Spatial Planning toward High-Quality Development in China)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,232 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2025

This study addresses inlet flow distribution and pressure pulsation-induced vibration in LNG dual-pump parallel systems. We investigate an LNG dual-submerged pump tower system. Our approach combines computational fluid dynamics with vortex dynamics t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrodynamics Science Experiments and Simulations, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
300 Views
26 Pages

Multimodal Disentangled Dynamic Fusion for Short-Term Multimodal Travel Demand Forecasting

  • Shizhen Liu,
  • Jinzhou Cao,
  • Shuhan Lin,
  • Shengao Yi,
  • Ding Ma and
  • Tianhong Zhao

Short-term multimodal travel demand forecasting must reconcile shared mobility patterns with mode-specific dynamics and uneven spatial coverage. This paper proposes Multimodal Disentangled Dynamic Fusion (MDDF), which combines three mechanisms: dual-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Foundation Models for Smart Cities: Theories, Methods, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
631 Views
20 Pages

Delineating Management Zones in Tea Plantations by Coupling Soil Fertility and Heavy Metal Safety: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Bin Yang,
  • Yao Xiao,
  • Wenbo Huang,
  • Min Shen,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Songjiayi Wei,
  • Wanping Fang,
  • Zhihao Zhang and
  • Jie Jiang

Precision soil management is fundamental to the sustainable production of high-quality tea, yet the spatial integration of fertility and heavy metal safety remains a significant challenge. This study aimed to delineate multi-dimensional management zo...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,443 Views
14 Pages

Fracture Toughness of Ti6Al4V/Cp-Ti Multi-Material Produced via Selective Laser Melting

  • Arseniy Repnin,
  • Evgenii Borisov,
  • Anton Emelianov and
  • Anatoliy Popovich

13 October 2023

Multi-materials can locally enhance the properties of products to improve their performance. In some cases, it might be necessary to improve the fracture toughness properties locally. This work is devoted to investigating the fracture toughness of mu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Laser Processing of Metallic Materials)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2026

The single-heat-exchanger dual-channel water circulation structure is a critical process configuration in laboratory-scale bioreactors. However, frequent switching between heating and cooling modes and the difficulty of establishing an accurate mecha...

(This article belongs to the Topic Bioreactors: Control, Optimization and Applications—3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,317 Views
18 Pages

Computational simulations of three-dimensional flow around a NACA 0018 wing with an aspect ratio of AR=5 were carried out by using the Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) equations with the Shear-Stress Transport turbulence model c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Applied Aerodynamics)
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  • Open Access
148 Views
21 Pages

Impact Performance Enhancement of Dual-Adhesive Joints Through Adhesive and Geometric Parametric Investigation

  • Raul Duarte Salgueiral Gomes Campilho,
  • Hamza Belkhanchi,
  • Abílio José Araújo Vieira,
  • Diogo Costa Gonçalves,
  • Luís Daniel Costa Ramalho and
  • Kouider Madani

1 October 2026

Adhesively bonded joints are widely used in engineering structures due to their high strength-to-weight ratio and improved stress transfer. However, stress concentrations near the overlap edges limit their performance. Dual-adhesive joints (DAJs) com...

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  • Open Access
946 Views
31 Pages

The alpine grassland ecosystem in the Source Region of the Yellow River (SRYR) faces the dual pressures of ecological protection and economic development. Its ecological fragility and climate sensitivity make local animal husbandry susceptible to met...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
913 Views
15 Pages

Background/Objectives: The popliteus muscle (PM) plays a crucial role in stabilizing the posterolateral aspect of the knee. However, its layered structure and innervation are not well understood due to its location, size, and proximity to neighboring...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinical Anatomy and Diagnosis in 2025)
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  • Open Access
1,218 Views
11 Pages

14 April 2026

In this article, I will use the ecological approach to explore the recent videos of Pınar Öğrenci. I will focus on two works: Aşît—The Avalance (2022) and Cemetery of the Nameless (2025). In the latter work, there is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Art History and Culture: Defining an Ecological Approach)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,247 Views
21 Pages

29 December 2025

Blue–green spaces are essential for mitigating urban heat islands. The matching between their supply and demand affects the fairness and effectiveness of urban cooling facilities. This study focuses on the third ring area of Urumqi, Xinjiang, C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leveraging Socioeconomic and Geospatial Data for Understanding Urban–Rural Continuum)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
490 Views
26 Pages

Optimizing Spatial Representativeness of LULC Samples over Complex Karst Terrain Using Remote Sensing Phenology and Landform-Constrained Joint Stratification

  • Ya Li,
  • Zhongfa Zhou,
  • Denghong Huang,
  • Huanhuan Lu,
  • Ruiqi Fan,
  • Qingqing Dai,
  • Ying Luo,
  • Changyan Huang and
  • Yuexing Yu

10 June 2026

Karst regions are characterized by fragmented topography and significant micro-relief mosaics, leading to prominent spectral aliasing of land features, which can result in insufficient spatial representativeness of remote sensing samples for Land Use...

(This article belongs to the Topic Large-Scale and Long-Term Land Use and Land Cover Mapping)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,764 Views
34 Pages

Under the dual pressures of global climate change and anthropogenic activities, enhancing the ecological functions of hydraulic structures has become a critical direction for sustainable watershed management. While traditional spur dike designs prima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Catchments Hydrology and Sediment Dynamics (Second Edition))
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,773 Views
24 Pages

CFD Modelling of Flow and Solids Distribution in Carbon-in-Leach Tanks

  • Divyamaan Wadnerkar,
  • Vishnu K. Pareek and
  • Ranjeet P. Utikar

28 October 2015

The Carbon-in-Leach (CIL) circuit plays an important role in the economics of a gold refinery. The circuit uses multiphase stirred tanks in series, in which problems such as dead zones, short-circuiting, and presence of unsuspended solids are detrime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrometallurgy)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
665 Views
29 Pages

12 February 2026

The strong heterogeneity of clastic reservoirs and the phenomenon of similar log responses for different lithologies (i.e., “same spectrum, different rocks”) significantly weaken feature separability. Furthermore, distribution shifts betw...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,796 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Axial Flow in Hydrokinetic Turbines via Multi-Slot Diffuser Design: A Computational Study

  • Daniel Sanin-Villa,
  • Jorge Sierra-Del Rio,
  • Diego Hincapié Zuluaga and
  • Steven Galvis-Holguin

11 September 2025

Straight-walled diffusers can boost the power density of horizontal-axis hydrokinetic turbines (HKTs), but are prone to boundary layer separation when the divergence angle is too large. We perform a systematic factorial study of three diffuser config...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,489 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Saccharides Coating on Antibacterial Potential and Drug Loading and Releasing Capability of Plasma Treated Polylactic Acid Films

  • Ilkay Karakurt,
  • Kadir Ozaltin,
  • Hana Pištěková,
  • Daniela Vesela,
  • Jonas Michael-Lindhard,
  • Petr Humpolícek,
  • Miran Mozetič and
  • Marian Lehocky

More than half of the hospital-associated infections worldwide are related to the adhesion of bacteria cells to biomedical devices and implants. To prevent these infections, it is crucial to modify biomaterial surfaces to develop the antibacterial pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SMART and Macromolecular Biomaterials: From Materials to Biology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,216 Views
17 Pages

Marine concrete frequently experiences performance degradation due to the combined effects of chloride ion (Cl−) erosion and carbonation. While many studies have examined the separate effects of Cl− erosion and carbonation, their combined...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
906 Views
15 Pages

27 February 2026

Efficient RFID spatial exploration in dynamic warehouse environments is challenging due to occlusions, sensing geometry constraints, and the weak coupling between information acquisition and navigation decisions. Many existing inventory robots treat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Navigation for Intelligent Robots: Perception, Planning, and Control)
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  • Open Access
328 Views
29 Pages

1 August 2026

Passive-microwave sea ice concentration (SIC) products, such as AMSR2, provide broad coverage but limited spatial detail in coastal and marginal ice zones. This study presents a Sentinel-1 IW-mode dual-polarimetric framework for interannual sea ice c...

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  • Open Access
719 Views
24 Pages

23 April 2026

Rapid urbanization has intensified jobs–housing separation and increased commuting distances in megacities, posing challenges for sustainable urban development. Existing studies often examine commuting behavior at a single spatial scale or focu...

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  • Open Access
85 Citations
8,136 Views
20 Pages

The concept of the local climate zone (LCZ) has been recently proposed as a generic land-cover/land-use classification scheme. It divides urban regions into 17 categories based on compositions of man-made structures and natural landscapes. Although i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Feature Extraction from Satellite Images and Point Cloud Data)
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  • Open Access
206 Views
22 Pages

Hybrid Physics-Guided Neural Network for Vibration Sensor Nonlinearity Correction

  • Alexander P. Lyapin,
  • Faizulddin Ebrahimi,
  • Evgeny D. Agafonov,
  • Viktor S. Ratushnyak and
  • Julia Schnitzer

29 September 2026

Accelerometers built on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) play a critical role in structural monitoring and machinery diagnostics; however, their accuracy suffers from intrinsic nonlinearities—dead zones, hysteresis, saturation, and colore...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
530 Views
23 Pages

23 July 2026

The leakage and dispersion behavior of CO2 in the ground injection stage of oilfield CCUS systems is highly complex under high-pressure, low-temperature, and continuous-operation conditions, while quantitative criteria for emergency control distances...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Safety and Condition Monitoring for Energy and Gas Infrastructure)
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  • Open Access
451 Views
30 Pages

27 June 2026

Breakthrough innovation—central to industrial competitiveness and the ongoing clean-energy transition—remains persistently constrained by information homogenization and weak cross-domain integration in single-layer innovation networks. Te...

(This article belongs to the Section Complex Systems and Cybernetics)
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  • Open Access
803 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2026

Rapid urbanization in coastal regions presents complex challenges for environmental management and public safety. Accurate, high-resolution wind field monitoring is critical for urban disaster mitigation, infrastructure resilience, and pollutant disp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applied in Urban Environment Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
181 Views
43 Pages

29 September 2026

In multi-mission air operations, area-patrol missions and long-range missions typically share a limited tanker fleet while imposing different constraint structures: patrol refueling is bounded by hard time windows, whereas long-range missions are gov...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
23 Pages

Method for Determining the Critical Value of Stratified Roof Separation in Mining Roadways Based on the Instability of Anchored Support Structures

  • Zhiqiang Liu,
  • Guodong Li,
  • Pingtao Gao,
  • Honglin Liu,
  • Hongzhi Wang,
  • Haotian Fu,
  • Kangfei Zhang and
  • Guodong Zeng

23 April 2026

To address the technical challenges of difficult deduction, limited field measurement, and ambiguous instability determination of roof separation critical values in mining roadways within the weakly cemented coal-bearing strata of Xinjiang, this pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Geotechnical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,823 Views
20 Pages

Joint Inversion of Audio-Magnetotelluric and Dual-Frequency Induced Polarization Methods for the Exploration of Pb-Zn Ore Body and Alteration Zone in Inner Mongolia, China

  • Shah Fahad,
  • Chunming Liu,
  • Rujun Chen,
  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Yaseen,
  • Shahid Ali Shah,
  • Farid Ullah,
  • Ijaz Ahmed,
  • Osama Abdul Rahim and
  • Hesham El-Kaliouby
  • + 2 authors

12 March 2025

Models of subsurface structures are important for successful deposit exploration, but are challenged by the need to integrate data from different geophysical methods. In the present study, we evaluated a method of joint inversion in which audio-magne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geoelectricity and Electrical Methods in Mineral Exploration)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,671 Views
28 Pages

14 November 2024

In view of global climate and environmental challenges, exploring sustainable urban vegetation management and development is crucial. This study aims to investigate the design strategies of urban road green space plants under the guidance of the dual...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,131 Views
28 Pages

15 October 2025

In promoting the “dual-carbon goals” and sustainable development strategy, analyzing the spatio-temporal response mechanism of landscape patterns to carbon emissions is a critical foundation for achieving carbon emission reductions. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)