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27 September 2021

There is a growing demand for developing image sensor systems to aid fruit and vegetable harvesting, and crop growth prediction in precision agriculture. In this paper, we present an end-to-end optimization approach for the simultaneous design of opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,500 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2017

In this paper, we propose a method for using mobile laser-scanning data to estimate the green space ratio (GSR), a landscape index that represents the proportion of green area to the whole-view area. The proposed method first classifies and segments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,462 Views
20 Pages

28 April 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global development. Through bioaerosols emitted by human respiration, respiratory infectious diseases, including COVID-19, are transmitted. The bioaerosol concentrations can be affected by the urban climat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,321 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2024

In the context of waterfront-space design, this study examines the impact of plant enclosures and the ratio of water bodies to green spaces on the microclimate, aiming to enhance the climate environment and mitigate urban heat. Utilizing Fujian Agric...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,289 Views
12 Pages

27 December 2023

Environmental issues related to global warming and urbanization are becoming more serious. Many studies have shown that urban vertical planting can effectively reduce ambient temperature. However, the impact of different vertical planting combination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,914 Views
16 Pages

9 April 2021

In wastewater, nutrient concentrations and salinity vary substantially, however, the optimal N:P ratio for the treatment using microalgae is not well described. In this study, the effects of higher and lower nitrate and phosphate contents and N:P rat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,859 Views
23 Pages

11 March 2024

Greenery impacts the urban thermal environment, but the benefits of the three-dimensional green volume of space have not been effectively evaluated. In this paper, we analyzed the impact of 3D greenery on urban heat island intensity and thermal comfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,066 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2019

The typical Western dietary pattern has an elevated ω-6:ω-3 fatty acid ratio (FAR), which may exacerbate the risk of chronic disease. Conversely, the consumption of diets containing green leafy vegetables (GLVs) have been demonstrated to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,739 Views
14 Pages

A dual-emission ratio-fluorescent sensing nanohybrid based on Radix Hedysari green-synthesized carbon quantum dots (CDs) and glutathione-functionalized gold nanoclusters (GSH-AuNCs) had been developed for the determination of cefodizime sodium (CDZM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,138 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2023

With the active development of offshore wind power worldwide, the development of a green and ecofriendly grouting material (GEGM) has garnered global attention. Such a material must also be developed in Taiwan. Therefore, in this study, a series of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,810 Views
16 Pages

25 September 2024

Theanine, an amino acid unique to tea leaves, has been reported to exhibit stress-relieving effects. However, the stress-relieving effects of theanine (T) are greatly inhibited by caffeine (C) and epigallocatechin gallate (E), the main components of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,014 Views
19 Pages

4 July 2019

Few studies have conducted experiments in daily living environments to examine the effects of indoor plants on objective aspects of the physical environment. This study examined the effects of plant distance and green coverage ratio on the objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
18,733 Views
28 Pages

Climate Change and Green Sea Turtle Sex Ratio—Preventing Possible Extinction

  • Jana Blechschmidt,
  • Meike J. Wittmann and
  • Chantal Blüml

25 May 2020

Climate change poses a threat to species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). A recent study on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) showed a highly female-skewed sex ratio with almost all juvenil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,763 Views
17 Pages

2 January 2025

The major components of tea leaves and their infusions were analyzed for various types of green tea available in Japan in 2022. Almost all the green teas used were from the first crop, known for their high amino acid content. The amino acids theanine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,125 Views
23 Pages

19 July 2017

The green microalga Chromochloris zofingiensis can accumulate significant amounts of valuable carotenoids, mainly natural astaxanthin, a product with applications in functional food, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and with potential therapeutic value in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
14,506 Views
20 Pages

Growing and densifying cities set a challenge for preserving and enhancing green spaces to cool urban spaces. Green roofs, involving the planting of vegetation on rooftops, are regarded as an alternative approach to enhancing urban greenery and urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,323 Views
27 Pages

Conversion of Blue Water into Green Water for Improving Utilization Ratio of Water Resources in Degraded Karst Areas

  • Ke Chen,
  • Shengtian Yang,
  • Changsen Zhao,
  • Zongli Li,
  • Ya Luo,
  • Zhiwei Wang,
  • Xiaolin Liu,
  • Yabing Guan,
  • Juan Bai and
  • Xinyi Yu
  • + 1 author

5 December 2016

Vegetation deterioration and soil loss are the main causes of more precipitation leakages and surface water shortages in degraded karst areas. In order to improve the utilization of water resources in such regions, water storage engineering has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
180 Citations
23,994 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Green Lending on Credit Risk in China

  • Yujun Cui,
  • Sean Geobey,
  • Olaf Weber and
  • Haiying Lin

14 June 2018

This study explores China’s green credit policy from a credit risk perspective. Green finance has been growing rapidly in China since the government issued its Green Credit Policy. The objective of this study is to explore whether green loans a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,318 Views
10 Pages

10 March 2023

Na3ScF6: 20% Yb3+, 2% Er3+ samples were synthesized with different reaction times and reaction temperatures using the solvothermal method. We carried out a series of tests on Na3ScF6 crystals. The XRD patterns showed that the monoclinic phases of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,989 Views
23 Pages

Whether Green Finance Improves Green Innovation of Listed Companies—Evidence from China

  • Zhao Dong,
  • Haodong Xu,
  • Zhifeng Zhang,
  • Yipin Lyu,
  • Yuqi Lu and
  • Hongyan Duan

Facing the intensification of global carbon emissions and the increasingly severe pressure of environmental pollution, listed companies urgently need to promote green innovation, achieve green transformation, and alleviate environmental problems. Gre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,974 Views
17 Pages

A Water Footprint Based Hydro-Economic Model for Minimizing the Blue Water to Green Water Ratio in the Zarrinehrud River-Basin in Iran

  • Behdad Saed,
  • Abbas Afshar,
  • Mohammad Reza Jalali,
  • Mohammad Ghoreishi and
  • Payam Aminpour Mohammadabadi

The efficient use of water should involve decisions for balancing green water (GW) and blue water (BW) use for sustainable development. More specifically, the focus of irrigation water management should be redirected from a BW perspective toward cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,254 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Building Design Elements on Residential Thermal Environment

  • Yingbao Yang,
  • Xize Zhang,
  • Xi Lu,
  • Jia Hu,
  • Xin Pan,
  • Qin Zhu and
  • Weizhong Su

28 December 2017

Residential thermal environment affects the life of residents in terms of their physical and mental health. Many studies have shown that building design elements affect the urban thermal environment. In this study, Nanjing City was used as the study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,100 Views
16 Pages

Improving Green Roof Runoff Modeling for Sustainable Cities: The Role of Site-Specific Calibration in SCS-CN Parameters

  • Thiago Masaharu Osawa,
  • Fabio Ferreira Nogueira,
  • Brenda Chaves Coelho Leite and
  • José Rodolfo Scarati Martins

29 June 2025

Green roofs are increasingly recognized as effective Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for urban stormwater management, contributing to sustainable and climate-resilient cities. The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) model is commonly used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,567 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2017

In response to the call of the Chinese government to support low-carbon development, the issue has come to the view gradually as to whether the behaviors of banks’ green credit will contribute to easing their own credit risk. To reflect the behaviors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,713 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2017

In this study, for restoration of ecological systems in buildings, porous vegetation red clay green roof blocks were designed for performance evaluation. Blast furnace slag (BFS; fine aggregates (agg.)), coarse aggregates, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fib...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,218 Views
10 Pages

Orthogonally Polarized Green Dual-Wavelength Pr3+:LiLuF4 Laser at 523 and 538 nm with the Power Ratio of 1:1

  • Haotian Huang,
  • Yuzhao Li,
  • Yanfei Lü,
  • Nguyentuan Anh,
  • Qian Zhang and
  • Jing Xia

An orthogonally polarized green dual-wavelength (OPGDW) laser output in a Pr3+:LiLuF4 (Pr:LLF) crystal with the power ratio of 1:1 was realized for the first time. We calculated the condition for obtaining the identical power of the two output wavele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
777 Views
18 Pages

Residential areas are the basic unit related to the living quality of urban residents, and their comfort is one of the key concerns of residents. Greening has always been an important means to improve the living environment of residential communities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,187 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Urban Morphology on Microclimate Parameters in an Urban University Campus

  • Sheikh Ahmad Zaki,
  • Nurnida Elmira Othman,
  • Siti Wan Syahidah,
  • Fitri Yakub,
  • Firdaus Muhammad-Sukki,
  • Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey,
  • Mohd Fairuz Shahidan and
  • Ahmad Shakir Mohd Saudi

8 April 2020

This study investigated the effects of urban morphology on microclimate parameters in an urban university campus in Malaysia. Outdoor air temperatures (Tout) were recorded at eight different locations inside the campus for seven days. The study used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,776 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2020

The relatively recent green bond market is increasingly attracting interest at the technical, regulatory, and academic research levels. Although a considerable body of research on green bonds focuses on the investor’s perspective, this study takes th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,807 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2024

Architectural vertical green walls can mitigate the urban heat island effect, provide shade and cooling, reduce energy consumption, improve a microclimate, and increase indoor comfort. However, an excessive pursuit of high coverage may diminish the b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,278 Views
26 Pages

ESG as a Booster for Logistics Stock Returns—Evidence from the US Stock Market

  • Maria Rodionova,
  • Angi Skhvediani and
  • Tatiana Kudryavtseva

28 September 2022

This article investigates the connection between US logistics companies’ commitment to environmental, social and fair governance (ESG) strategy and their performance on the US stock market during the 2007–2022 period. The research conside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,671 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2021

Previous studies have found that built-environment characteristics in large cities produce important effects of the urban heat island (UHI) and know the horizontal space affected by the urban canopy microclimate ranges from about 30–200 m, but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
10,610 Views
8 Pages

7 November 2007

The green up-conversion emissions centered at the wavelengths of about 534nmand 549nm of the Er3+ doped silicate glass were recorded, using a 978 nm semiconductorlaser diode (LD) as an excitation source. The fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,351 Views
13 Pages

Green Space and Apartment Prices: Exploring the Effects of the Green Space Ratio and Visual Greenery

  • Jong-Won Lee,
  • Sang-Woo Lee,
  • Hai Gyong Kim,
  • Hyun-Kil Jo and
  • Se-Rin Park

17 November 2023

Urban green spaces provide various social, economic, health, aesthetic, environmental, and ecological benefits. This study aimed to investigate the influence of green spaces on apartment prices, with a particular emphasis on visual greenery and the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
10,344 Views
21 Pages

Monitoring the Effects of Water Stress in Cotton Using the Green Red Vegetation Index and Red Edge Ratio

  • Carlos Ballester,
  • James Brinkhoff,
  • Wendy C. Quayle and
  • John Hornbuckle

10 April 2019

The main objective of this work was to study the feasibility of using the green red vegetation index (GRVI) and the red edge ratio (RE/R) obtained from UAS imagery for monitoring the effects of soil water deficit and for predicting fibre quality in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,159 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2016

Hickory plantations play an important role in improving local farmers’ economic conditions, but extreme drought in July–August 2013 seriously influenced hickory nut production. It is necessary to understand the extent and magnitude of this drought-in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,148 Views
23 Pages

23 November 2021

This paper constructs a two-sector manufacturer model of endogenous technological progress. We analyze the impact of environmental regulations on the factor input and output of different industries. Then, we reveal the intermediary role of inter-indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,077 Views
18 Pages

Identification of Green Tide Decomposition Regions in the Yellow Sea, China: Based on Time-Series Remote Sensing Data

  • Guangzong Zhang,
  • Yufang He,
  • Lifeng Niu,
  • Mengquan Wu,
  • Hermann Kaufmann,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Qinglei Kong and
  • Bo Chen

23 December 2024

Approximately 1 million tons of green tides decompose naturally in the Yellow Sea of China every year, releasing large quantities of nutrients that disrupt the marine ecological balance and cause significant environmental consequences. Currently, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
10 Pages

26 December 2025

Background: Anastomotic leak (AL) after esophagectomy remains a devastating complication. Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence angiography may mitigate this risk by enabling perfusion-guided anastomotic site selection. This study evaluates the feasib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,727 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2022

Green roofs are implemented to reduce the urban heat island effect; however, studies are limited to comparing the reduction in urban heat island effect before and after implementation, and the focus is on the structural stability of the building rath...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,130 Views
20 Pages

Currently, green-based materials are receiving attention in a quest to achieve a sustainable environment for human life. Herein, we report an investigation of developing a simple novel green nanofibre by using H2O2-assisted water soluble chitosan/pol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,198 Views
14 Pages

Comparative Study of Bioactive Lipid Extraction from Squid (Doryteuthis gahi) by-Products by Green Solvents

  • Santiago P. Aubourg,
  • Marcos Trigo,
  • María Jesús González,
  • Salomé Lois and
  • Isabel Medina

23 July 2022

A novel approach of bioactive lipid extraction by different green solvents was carried out on squid (Doryteuthis gahi) by-products. By-products (viscera, heads, skin, tails, etc.), considered as a single product, were subjected to the following solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,547 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2022

Single nanoparticle imaging is a significant technique to help reveal the reaction mechanism and provides insight into the nanoparticle transformation. Here, we monitor the in situ morphological transformation of Au nanostars (GNSs) induced by iodide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,641 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2021

The crop yield and quality of seven annual forages (four grasses and three legumes) in sole crop and in mixtures (ratio 50:50) for oat (Avena sativa L.), Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), triticale (x Triticosecale Wittmack), barley (Hordeu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,999 Views
18 Pages

Substitution of Inorganic Nitrogen Fertilizer with Green Manure (GM) Increased Yield Stability by Improving C Input and Nitrogen Recovery Efficiency in Rice Based Cropping System

  • Muhammad Qaswar,
  • Jing Huang,
  • Waqas Ahmed,
  • Shujun Liu,
  • Dongchu Li,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Lisheng Liu,
  • Yongmei Xu,
  • Tianfu Han and
  • Huimin Zhang
  • + 2 authors

3 October 2019

A long-term field experiment was carried out (since 2008) for evaluating the effects of different substitution rates of inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizer by green manure (GM) on yield stability and N balance under double rice cropping system. Treatme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,143 Views
20 Pages

Sentinel-2 Exposed Soil Composite for Soil Organic Carbon Prediction

  • Klara Dvorakova,
  • Uta Heiden and
  • Bas van Wesemael

4 May 2021

Pilot studies have demonstrated the potential of remote sensing for soil organic carbon (SOC) mapping in exposed croplands. However, the use of remote sensing for SOC prediction is often hindered by disturbing factors at the soil surface, such as pho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,489 Views
18 Pages

4 April 2022

Sponge city planning aims to manage urban development land to prevent flooding and to support the achievement of water resource protection objectives. In this study, from the perspective of rainfall management demand and ability, we present an improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,820 Views
36 Pages

28 August 2025

Since the hydrogen-production process is not yet fully efficient, this paper proposes a poly-generation system that is driven by a geothermal energy source and utilizes a combined Kalina/organic Rankine cycle coupled with an electrolyzer unit to prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
940 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2025

This paper addresses the optimization of traffic signal timing at urban intersections by introducing a dynamic green ratio allocation framework based on cycle-based delay classification. Conventional methods such as the Webster delay model often fail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,783 Views
24 Pages

3 August 2025

This study investigated the nuanced influence of urban morphology on the thermal performance of nine mass housing blocks (21–26, 28–30) in New Belgrade’s Central Zone. These blocks, showcasing diverse structures, provided a robust b...

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