The performance of the differential evolution algorithm (DE) is known to be highly sensitive to the values assigned to its control parameters. While numerous studies of the DE control parameters do exist, these studies have limitations, particularly...
Methane exceedance events in underground coal mines are often associated with progressive multisensor abnormal evolution processes involving operational, ventilation, environmental, and methane-drainage subsystems. Existing studies primarily focus on...
(1) Background: The increasing complexity of marine organism habitats and the impact of climate change on the marine environment have garnered global attention towards the adaptive evolution of marine organisms. However, there still remains a lack of...
Digital finance has emerged as a rapidly evolving field shaped by advances in financial technology (FinTech), blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital banking, and payment innovations. Our analysis applied bibliometric techniques to examine the e...
Microservices have gained widespread adoption in enterprise software systems because they encapsulate the expertise of specific organizational subunits. This approach offers valuable insights into internal processes and communication channels. The ad...
The semi-automatic construction and analysis of technology roadmaps are at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence techniques. To clarify the development path of the core technologies in the field of agricultural machinery, we propose a cor...
Quantitative research on the evolution and transformation of topics in China’s energy policy can enhance the theoretical and methodological framework of policy document analysis. Utilizing dynamic topic modeling (DTM) and social network analysi...
It is crucial to understand how fitness landscape characteristics (FLCs) are associated with the performance and behavior of the differential evolution (DE) algorithm to optimize its application across various optimization problems. Although previous...
The cultural landscape of Gubeikou, with distinct historical stratification and event-relatedness, bears unique value. Against the backdrop of increasingly prominent themes of cultural heritage development and transformation, research on Gubeikou&rsq...
With the accelerated urbanization and frequent occurrence of climate extremes, the regional ecosystem service level has ushered in a great challenge, and the resilience of the ecological network has gradually weakened, leading to lower ecological ben...
19 February 2021
As the impact factors of the waste Not-In-My-Back Yard (NIMBY) crisis are complex, and the scenario evolution path of it is diverse. Once the crisis is not handled properly, it will bring adverse effects on the construction of waste NIMBY facilities,...
22 May 2018
(1) Background: Work hours are the basic carrier impacting employees’ work–life experience and organizational performance, and employees have greater anxiety in relation to work hours as new technology requires an increasingly faster work...
The structural failure of a tunnel is a process that evolves from local damage to overall destruction. The system reliability analysis method can be useful for analyzing the evolutionary law of local structural failure. In many complex stress environ...
Road traffic safety is a key concern of transport management as it has severely restricted Chinese economic and social development. With the objective to prevent and reduce road traffic crashes, this study proposes a comprehensive spatiotemporal anal...
Owing to the combination of bitumen aging, traffic loading, and environmental factors, the performance of asphalt will gradually deteriorate with time. However, characterizing the deterioration is still challenging. Aiming to reveal how the performan...
Studying the temporal and spatial evolution trends in earthquakes in an area is beneficial for determining the earthquake risk of the area so that local governments can make the correct decisions for disaster prevention and reduction. In this paper,...
Drought is one of the most typical and serious natural disasters, which occurs frequently in most of mainland China, and it is crucial to explore the evolution characteristics of drought for developing effective schemes and strategies of drought disa...
Bromodomain (BRD) is an evolutionarily conserved protein–protein interaction module that is critical in gene regulation, cellular homeostasis, and epigenetics. This study aimed to conduct an identification, evolution, and expression analysis of...
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are crucial regulators in coping with abiotic and biotic stresses, including drought, salinity, fungi, and pathogens. However, little is known about the characteristics, evolution process, and functional dive...
1 June 2022
Under the support of Multi-Regional Input–Output (MRIO) analysis, this study constructs the Embodied Carbon Emission Transfer Network (ECETN) using the input–output tables of 42 sectors in 31 provinces of China in 2012, 2015, and 2017 and...
Complex systems are usually affected by various sources of uncertainty, and it is essential to account for mechanisms that ensure the proper management of such disturbances. This paper introduces a novel approach to solve symbolic regression problems...
Through a combination of 3D representative volume element (RVE) and the metallo-thermo-mechanical coupling finite element (FE) analysis, a multiscale model was established to explore the localized characteristics of microstructure and stress evolutio...
This paper examines a range of results that can be derived from Einstein’s evolution equation focusing on the effect of introducing a Lévy distribution into the evolution equation. In this context, we examine the derivation (derived excl...
Research on hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts at African institutions has grown, yet publication visibility, technical performance and research leadership are seldom distinguished. This study applied bibliometric methods to English-l...
22 November 2021
Since its emergence in 2019, COVID-19 has quickly triggered widespread public discussion on social media. From 26 February 2020 to 26 September 2020, this study collected data on COVID-19-related posts in the knowledge Q&A community, identified 2...
This study investigates the evolution and prospective directions of big data applications within the global digital economy over the past twelve years. A comprehensive bibliometric analysis was conducted using Biblioshiny and included 752 documents a...
A new approach for flood frequency analysis based on the probability density evolution method (PDEM) is proposed. It can avoid the problem of linear limitation for flood frequency analysis in a parametric method and avoid the complex process for choo...
Meteorological drought is a continuous spatiotemporal phenomenon that poses a serious threat to water resource security. Dynamic evolution and multivariable frequency analysis of meteorological drought are important for effective drought mitigation a...
This paper presents a robust trajectory design method for approaching and rendezvous with a space target considering multi-source uncertainties. A nonlinear covariance analysis method based on the state transition tensor is presented to formulate the...
The aim of herein work is to develop an automatized algorithm for detecting, as objectively as possible, the flame front evolution of lean/ultra-lean mixtures ignited by low temperature plasma-based ignition systems. The low luminosity characterizing...
Inland waters are critical nodes in the global nitrogen cycle, where microbial processes govern transformations that impact water quality and ecosystem functioning. Inland waters are critical nodes in the global nitrogen cycle, where microbial proces...
F-box genes play an important role in the growth and development of plants, but there are few studies on its role in a plant’s response to abiotic stresses. In order to further study the functions of F-box genes in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, Sl),...
Experimental evidence supports the counterintuitive notion that rapid eradication of pathogens within a host, infected with both drug-sensitive and -resistant malaria parasites, can actually accelerate the evolution of drug-resistant pathogens. This...
In this study, based on the OneKP database and through comparative genetic analysis, we found that HMT and HDM may originate from Chromista and are highly conserved in green plants, and that during the evolution from algae to land plants, histone met...
An innovative methodology is proposed to identify potential risk factors and possible accident escalation consequences, and to determine the evolution of an accident from cause to consequence, thereby to identify the most probable path and discover k...
Investigating the spatial correlation characteristics and configurational pathways of ecological space service value (ESSV) is of importance for alleviating urban ecological pressure. This study, focusing on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountai...
Background/Objectives: Copper-based wood preservatives are widely used to protect timber from fungal decay; however, the emergence of copper-tolerant fungi reduces their long-term effectiveness. This study aimed to elucidate the molecular mechanisms...
This study used rainfall and annual landslide data for the 2003–2017 period in Taiwan to determine the long-term evolution of landslides and conducted a spatiotemporal analysis of landslides at the subwatershed scale. The historically severe la...
This study aimed to identify a viable solution for the development of China’s electric power industry in line with “dual carbon” objectives. Accordingly, we collected and analyzed 2230 policy documents spanning 25 years to track the...
Background/Objectives: GDSL lipase is crucial for plant growth and the response to environmental stress. While GDSL gene families have been identified in some plants, a comprehensive genome-wide identification and analysis in M. domestica is lacking....
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing (UAV-RS) has emerged as a transformative technology in high-resolution Earth observation, with widespread applications in precision agriculture, ecological monitoring, and disaster response. However, a systemati...
As an important livelihood strategy choice to promote the sustainable development of themselves and regions, returnees’ entrepreneurship has played a vital role in the governance of all-level Chinese local governments since the 21st century. Th...
The policy of linking the increase and decrease in urban and rural construction land is a land policy that gradually forms and develops to solve the contradiction between “food and construction” under the background of urbanization in Chi...
Abstract: Tidal flats are dynamic coastal ecosystems continually reshaped by natural processes and human activities. This study investigates the application of Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis to the long-term profile evolution of tidal f...
Groundwater quality degradation in industrial zones presents a critical environmental challenge, as diverse and compositionally complex pollution sources severely constrain precise source identification and the formulation of effective remediation st...
Based on China’s provincial panel data from 2007 to 2017, this paper constructs a comprehensive indicator system for high-quality development of manufacturing from eight dimensions. Using the composite entropy weights method, kernel density est...
Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms of cropping patterns’ evolution tailored to local conditions is crucial for the effective allocation of black soil in northeast China and the advancement of agricultural developme...
A region’s ability to maintain biodiversity and the health of its ecosystems depends heavily on the quality of its habitat. The Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model was utilized in this investigation, in conj...
As a result of climate change and human activities, water resources in the Xiangjiang River Basin (XRB) are subject to seasonal and regional shortages. However, previous studies have lacked assessment of the spatiotemporal evolution of water yield in...
In this research article, we investigate a three-dimensional dynamical system governed by fractal-fractional-order evolution differential equations subject to terminal boundary conditions. We derive existence and uniqueness results using Schaefer&rsq...
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