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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,552 Views
18 Pages

31 December 2023

Based on the unit life and death technology, the dynamic evolution process of soil loss is considered, and a pipe-soil nonlinear coupling model of buried pipelines passing through the collapse area is constructed. The analysis shows that after the th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,201 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2021

The recession of a coast can destabilize coastal cliffs. The stability of a cliff is controlled by a rock bridge. Identifying the volume-expansion point of rock bridges is crucial to assess cliff stability, but currently there are few identifying met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
583 Views
26 Pages

30 October 2025

Karst collapse columns (KCCs) represent key concealed hazard-inducing factors that threaten the safety of coal mines in North China. To clarify their primary controlling geological factors and evolutionary processes, this study focuses on KCCs in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
469 Views
31 Pages

Global Dynamics and Bifurcation of an Evolutionary Beverton-Holt Model with the Allee Effect

  • Emma D’Aniello,
  • Saber Elaydi,
  • Eddy Kwessi,
  • Rafael Luís and
  • Brian Ryals

27 October 2025

We study the global dynamics and bifurcation structure of an evolutionary Beverton–Holt model with Allee effects, a framework that couples ecological constraints with adaptive trait evolution. The model accounts for density dependence, mate lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,155 Views
20 Pages

Study on the Evolution Characteristics of Dam Failure Due to Flood Overtopping of Tailings Ponds

  • Zhijie Duan,
  • Jinglong Chen,
  • Jing Xie,
  • Quanming Li,
  • Hong Zhang and
  • Cheng Chen

27 August 2024

There has been a frequent occurrence of tailing dam failures in recent years, leading to severe repercussions. Flood overtopping is an important element contributing to these failures. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity of studies about the evolutiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,008 Views
12 Pages

5 August 2022

Generative adversarial networks have made remarkable achievements in generative tasks. However, instability and mode collapse are still frequent problems. We improve the framework of evolutionary generative adversarial networks (E-GANs), calling it p...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,229 Views
15 Pages

5 April 2022

Commons (or common-pool resources) are inherently dynamic. Factors that appear to contribute to the evolution of a stable commons regime at one time and place may undergo change that results in the collapse of the commons at another. The factors invo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
488 Views
19 Pages

28 April 2025

The instability and collapse of surrounding rock in mine goaf areas often lead to the destabilization of geological structures, surface subsidence, and mining safety accidents. To investigate the evolutionary mechanisms and precursor characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,302 Views
15 Pages

The Spatiotemporal Relationship between Landslides and Mechanisms at the Heifangtai Terrace, Northwest China

  • Tianfeng Gu,
  • Jiading Wang,
  • Henry Lin,
  • Qiang Xue,
  • Bin Sun,
  • Jiaxu Kong,
  • Jiaxing Sun,
  • Chenxing Wang,
  • Fanchen Zhang and
  • Xiao Wang

18 November 2021

Landslide disasters have occurred frequently in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) due to increased agricultural irrigation. To explore the spatiotemporal relationship between landslides and mechanisms at the Heifangtai terrace, the HFT irrigated area w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,792 Views
18 Pages

Integrated Field Surveying and Land Surface Quantitative Analysis to Assess Landslide Proneness in the Conero Promontory Rocky Coast (Italy)

  • Francesco Troiani,
  • Salvatore Martino,
  • Gian Marco Marmoni,
  • Marco Menichetti,
  • Davide Torre,
  • Giulia Iacobucci and
  • Daniela Piacentini

13 July 2020

Rock slopes involved in extensive landslide processes are often characterized by complex morphodynamics acting at different scales of space and time, responsible for different evolutionary scenarios. Mass Rock Creep (MRC) is a critical process for lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,906 Views
21 Pages

GAGAN: Enhancing Image Generation Through Hybrid Optimization of Genetic Algorithms and Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

  • Despoina Konstantopoulou,
  • Paraskevi Zacharia,
  • Michail Papoutsidakis,
  • Helen C. Leligou and
  • Charalampos Patrikakis

19 December 2024

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are highly effective for generating realistic images, yet their training can be unstable due to challenges such as mode collapse and oscillatory convergence. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid optimization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,389 Views
12 Pages

Global Discontinuity: Time for a Paradigm Shift in Global Scenario Analysis

  • Dale S. Rothman,
  • Paul Raskin,
  • Kasper Kok,
  • John Robinson,
  • Jill Jäger,
  • Barry Hughes and
  • Paul C. Sutton

28 August 2023

The evolutionary paths of social-ecological systems comprise periods of structural continuity punctuated by moments of convulsive change. Various forms of systemic global shock could materialize in the coming decades, triggered by the climate crisis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,284 Views
16 Pages

China’s Land-Use Changes during the Past 300 Years: A Historical Perspective

  • Lijuan Miao,
  • Feng Zhu,
  • Zhanli Sun,
  • John C. Moore and
  • Xuefeng Cui

Understanding the processes of historical land-use change is crucial to the research of global environmental sustainability. Here we examine and attempt to disentangle the evolutionary interactions between land-use change and its underlying causes th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,202 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Anatomical Analysis of Bark Structure in 10 Quercus Species

  • Changzhao Li,
  • Xiaorui Yang,
  • Songyang Chen,
  • Yuxi Huang,
  • Yushan Yang and
  • Jian Qiu

6 July 2024

Detailed anatomical features of bark are used and interpreted in plant taxonomy, phylogenetics, and other areas of plant science. However, the delicate nature of bark cells, combined with the difficulty of obtaining high-quality sections and reliable...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,040 Views
26 Pages

11 July 2025

The rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) is responsible for the creation of roughly half of the elements heavier than iron, including precious metals like silver, gold, and platinum, as well as radioactive elements such as thorium and uranium. D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
517 Views
20 Pages

22 July 2025

Modeling mainshock–aftershock ground motions is essential for seismic risk assessment, especially in regions experiencing frequent earthquakes. Recent studies have often employed Copula-based joint distributions or machine learning techniques t...