To date, little is known about the spatial aspects of the creativity of university campuses and their public spaces. This study recognises that creativity is the fourth sustainability, because the spatial configuration of campuses and city-university...
Mathematician and philosopher Charles Howard Hinton posited a plausible correlation between higher-dimensional spaces, also referred to as ‘hyperspaces’, and the allegorical concept articulated by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in hi...
Implicit integration factor (IIF) methods were developed for solving time-dependent stiff partial differential equations (PDEs) in literature. In [Jiang and Zhang, Journal of Computational Physics, 253 (2013) 368–388], IIF methods are designed to eff...
In this paper, a novel direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm called the Toeplitz fourth order cumulants multiple signal classification method (TFOC-MUSIC) algorithm is proposed through combining a fast MUSIC-like algorithm termed the modifi...
This research proposes a method for reducing the dimension of the coefficient vector for Crank–Nicolson mixed finite element (CNMFE) solutions to solve the fourth-order variable coefficient parabolic equation. Initially, the CNMFE schemes and c...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical scheme for the two-dimensional fourth-order fractional subdiffusion equation with variable coefficients and delay. Using the
In this work, the temporal–spatial evolution of kinetic and thermal energy dissipation rates in three-dimensional (3D) turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mixing are investigated numerically by the lattice Boltzmann method. The temperature fie...
This paper introduces the Fourier spectral method combined with the strongly stable exponential time difference method as an attractive and easy-to-implement alternative for the integration of the multi-dimensional Allen–Cahn equation with no-flux bo...
Focusing on the dynamic change process of urban ecology and economy, this paper explores the spatial correlation pattern of cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region for sustainable development from 2012 to 2023 based on the coupled coordination...
This article presents a methodological approach for the location, characterisation and prospects of multifunctional agrifood systems territorialised on the Spanish State administrative scale. The proposal is applied to Spain, although it can be extra...
This study investigates lump wave structures that arise from the interplay of dispersion and nonlinearity in a generalized Calogero–Bogoyavlenskii–Schiff-like model with spatially symmetric nonlinearity in (2+1) dimensions. A generalized...
Urban trails, as vital urban spaces that integrate historical context with contemporary life, play a central role in the rise of deep tourism and the “City Walk” phenomenon. Their spatial legibility positions them as distinctive narrative...
Digitalisation, referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, is gradually becoming part of all areas of life. The progressing digitalisation inspires new business models, restructures production processes and provides new revenue and value-produc...
The year 2021 witnessed the publication of the latest volume of Refugee Tales, which chronologically coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention by the UK and other countries. This collection is the fourth...
The collection of spatialised electricity consumption data is considered of crucial importance for planning electric power facilities and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7). However, the predominance of statistical dat...
Mass appraisal of real estate is a central challenge for municipal tax administration, which must estimate assessed values fairly. Real estate market is strongly related to location, which is difficult to measure. Spatial autocorrelation in property...
Forests are associated with countrywide ecological security, and there are significant differences in the forests of different regions. Based on the DPSIR model, 25 indicators were selected from five dimensions to determine the index system, and the...
The efficiency of various numerical methods for solving Huxley’s equation—which includes a diffusion term and a nonlinear reaction term—is investigated. Conventional explicit finite difference algorithms often suffer from severe sta...
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a highly prevalent hematological malignancy, especially in children, for whom precise and prompt subtype identification is essential to establish suitable treatment protocols. Current deep learning-based computer...
Mitigating energy intensity stands as a core linchpin for fulfilling China’s “dual carbon” strategic goals and facilitating the low-carbon green transition of the economic system. Against the backdrop of the in-depth convergence of...
The age friendliness of an environment is significant for improving the quality of life of the elderly. This metric is an important measure used by the international community to address the challenges of population aging. In order to explore effecti...
To enable accurate and efficient real-time detection of rail fastener defects under resource-constrained environments, we propose DP-YOLO, an advanced lightweight algorithm based on YOLOv5s with four key optimizations. First, we design a Depthwise Se...
This paper aims to provide a reliable basis for formulating, revising, and selecting sustainable marine economic development plans through a scientific and comprehensive evaluation of the eco-innovation level of China’s marine economy. Based on...
Building information modeling (BIM) is the digital representation of physical and functional characteristics (such as geometry, spatial relationship, and geographic information) of a facility to support decisions during its life cycle. BIM has been e...
Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS), as monostatic LiDAR systems, emit and receive laser pulses through a single aperture, which ensures the simultaneous measurement of signal geometry and intensity. The relative intensity of a signal, defined as the ra...
Urban transport traffic surveillance is of great importance for public traffic control and personal travel path planning. Effective and efficient traffic flow prediction is helpful to optimize these real applications. The main challenge of traffic fl...
The use of non-contact scanning equipment in metrology and in dimensional and geometric inspection applications is increasing due to its ease of use, the speed and density of scans, and the current costs. In fact, these technologies are becoming incr...
The time-fractional Cattaneo equation is an equation where the fractional order
A method of positioning a location on a specific object using a wireless sensor has been developed for a long time. However, due to the error of wavelengths and various interference factors occurring in three-dimensional space, accurate positioning i...
Modern positioning and sensor technology enable the acquisition of movement positions and attributes on an unprecedented scale. Therefore, a large amount of trajectory data can be used to analyze various movement phenomena. In cartography, a common w...
We identified four global fire regimes based on a k-means algorithm using five variables covering the spatial, temporal and magnitude dimensions of fires, derived from 19-year long satellite burned area and active fire products. Additionally, we asse...
Cervical cancer, as the fourth most common cancer in women, poses a significant threat to women’s health. Vaginal colposcopy examination, as the most cost-effective step in cervical cancer screening, can effectively detect precancerous lesions...
Motor Imagery (MI) electroencephalography (EEG) is widely studied for its non-invasiveness, easy availability, portability, and high temporal resolution. As for MI EEG signal processing, the high dimensions of features represent a research challenge....
Urban vitality, intricately connected to urban morphology, has long been a cornerstone of urban planning and design. The accelerated pace of urbanization has created abundant living and working spaces, but it has also brought about a series of issues...
As a progressive and systematic initiative that necessitates the collective participation of society, achieving the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality has had a significant and positive impact on the transformation of the energy structure,...
The concept of green development proposed by the OECD has effectively promoted the coordinated development of economic growth, resource conservation, and environmental protection. In addition, it has provided effective ways and means of improving the...
Under the dual transformation background of global digital economy and low-carbon development, the synergistic promotion of enterprise digital transformation and green upgrading has become an important path to realizing high-quality development. Base...
This paper studies how a localized defect migrates through the
Localizing an underwater acoustic source with a single hydrophone eliminates the cost, synchronization, and deployment burdens of multi-sensor arrays, but the absence of spatial sampling renders the inverse problem underdetermined: positional informa...
Against the backdrop of global climate change and rapid urbanization, extreme rainstorm events have become increasingly frequent, and urban–rural flood risk has continued to intensify, rendering flood resilience an essential concern for sustain...
Time-series remote sensing images are important in agricultural monitoring and investigation. However, most time-series data with high temporal resolution have the problem of insufficient spatial resolution which cannot meet the requirement of precis...
(1) Background: Along with the maturity of smart cities, digital villages and smart villages are receiving more attention than ever before as the key to promote sustainable rural development. The Chinese government has made great efforts in promoting...
Given China’s increasingly severe population ageing, urban comprehensive parks are important places for older adults’ daily activities. Improving their quality directly affects the physical and mental health of older adults. Most previous...
Individual cow identification is a prerequisite for automatically monitoring behavior patterns, health status, and growth data of each cow, and can provide the assistance in selecting excellent cow individuals for breeding. Despite high recognition a...
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Brazil ranks among the world’s largest agricultural producers, generating substantial agro-industrial residues with significant potential for valorization in biorefinery systems. Comprehensive, updated data on the characterization, availability...
This paper deals with the prediction of the future location of vehicles, which is attracting attention in the era of the fourth industrial revolution and is required in various fields, such as autonomous vehicles and smart city traffic management sys...
The extent to which rural public expenditure can be effectively absorbed is central to understanding how public spending translates into poverty reduction and improved regional governance. Using Global Principal Component Analysis (GPCA), this study...
In both the Geospatial (Geo) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) domains, it is widely acknowledged that the integration of geo-data and BIM-data is beneficial and a crucial step towards solving the multi-disciplinary challenges of our built env...
The body of scientific literature on slum mapping employing remote sensing methods has increased since the availability of more very-high-resolution (VHR) sensors. This improves the ability to produce information for pro-poor policy development and t...
We develop the geometry of events in a deformable cellular spacetime, extending our earlier cellular-spaces framework from cellular complexes to cellular events complexes. The framework operates within the conformal class of Minkowski space; in four...