The term “marginal oil resource” refers to an oil reservoir that has hydrocarbon resource preservation but cannot meet the criteria of resources under the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) standards. When oilfields step into th...
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) with its advantages of low maintenance and massive distribution in temperate zones, has long been regarded as a suitable biofuel feedstock with a promising prospect. Currently, there is no validated assessment of mar...
Bio-energy from energy plants is expected to play an increasing role in the future energy system, with benefits in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy security. Pistacia chinensis is believed to be one of the most promisin...
Rural entrepreneurship is an important way to promote rural revitalization, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas and increase farmers’ income. With the acceleration of urbanization, land resources have become scarcer than capital, techn...
One way to encourage agricultural self-sufficiency in arid regions is to increase the productivity of conventional freshwater agriculture. Another way is to develop and implement novel strategies and technologies that do not deplete scarce freshwater...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are rapidly growing, and more applications are joining the market competition. As a result, the AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) model is experiencing rapid growth. Many of these AIaaS-based applications are not prope...
Flower-rich field margins provide habitats and food resources for natural enemies of pests (NEs), but their potential, particularly in the tropics and on smallholder farms, is poorly understood. We surveyed field margins for plant-NE interactions in...
Sustainable agricultural development requires regional agricultural systems to balance output growth, resource efficiency, ecological protection, and long-term resilience. In mountainous and ecologically sensitive regions, identifying the development...
The agrarian communities of South Asia are dominated by small and marginal farmers (<2.0 ha operational holdings) and are confronted with manifold challenges of lower productivity, income, and resource degradation. For optimized and efficient reso...
A major objective of the optimization of water resources allocation is to ensure the supply an adequate amount of water to users at the right time and maximize the utilization of water resources. However, in case of insufficient water supply, water s...
Arid regions in the Old World Dry Belt are assumed to be marginal regions, not only in ecological terms, but also economically and socially. Such views in geography, archaeology, and sociology are—despite the real limits of living in arid lands...
Small-size, relict and marginal tree-species populations are a priority for conservation of forest genetic resources. In-situ conservation of these populations relies on adequate forest management planning based on knowledge and understanding of both...
Opportunities and constraints for wave energy conversion technologies and projects are evaluated by identifying and characterizing the dominant wave energy systems for United States (US) coastal waters using marginal and joint distributions of the wa...
With the grid-connected operation of large-scale wind farms, the contradiction between supply and demand of power systems is becoming more and more prominent. The introduction of multiple types of flexible resources provides a new technical means for...
Ensuring stable and continuous water supplies in isolated but populated areas, such as islands, where the water supply is highly dependent on external factors, is crucial. Sudden loss of function in the water supply system can have enormous social co...
As the penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) escalates in distribution networks, new network tariffs are needed to cope with this new situation. These tariffs should allocate network costs to users, promoting an efficient use of the dist...
Pakistan faces challenges in both food and energy security. Indeed, extensive literature suggests that food and energy security are interdependent. While acknowledging that food security is still a primary concern for Pakistan, energy security is als...
Post-disturbance operation of a converter-dominated grid is often limited by a small-signal stability margin shared by several oscillation modes and frequency bands, while restoration resources can have conflicting side effects. This paper formulates...
Resource-constrained edge deployment of speaker verification systems requires reducing inference cost without unnecessarily invoking a high-capacity model. This study presents a margin-guided adaptive model-routing framework in which ReDimNet-b0 serv...
The secure and effective use of marginal water resources, such as brackish water, plays a crucial role in ensuring food security and promoting the sustainable development of agricultural land. This paper conducted indoor soil column experiments to si...
Gas hydrates have lately received increased attention as a potential future energy source, which is not surprising given their global and widespread occurrence. This article presents an integrated study of the Nyegga site offshore mid-Norway, where a...
Understanding seasonal precipitation variability and air-mass transport is important for sustainable water-resource management in water-scarce monsoon-margin regions. Stable isotopes in precipitation provide useful tracers of these hydroclimatic proc...
There is growing evidence that passive margin sediments in offshore settings host large volumes of fresh and brackish water of meteoric origin in submarine sub-surface reservoirs. Marine geophysical methods, in particular seismic reflection data, can...
Given its potentialities and characteristics, energy generation, food production, and water availability have a strong interdependency and correlation. Water is needed to produce energy and food, while energy is required to produce water and food. Th...
Microgrids can assist in managing power supply and demand, increase grid resilience to adverse weather, increase the deployment of zero-emission energy sources, utilise waste heat, and reduce energy wasted through transmission lines. To ensure that t...
Large collections of the forage and bioenergy grass Dactylis glomerata were made in northwest (NW) Europe along east to west and north to south clines for genetic resource conservation and to inform breeding programmes of genetic diversity, genepools...
In a global context in which obtaining new energy sources is of paramount importance, the production of biodiesel from plant crops is a potentially viable alternative to the use of fossil fuels. Among the species used to produce the raw material for...
Land use change is extremely sensitive to natural factors and human influence in active debris flow. It is therefore necessary to determine the factors that influence land use change. This paper took Wudu District, Gansu Province, China as a study ar...
Marine phosphorites are known to concentrate rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) during early diagenetic formation. Much of the REY data available are decades old and incomplete, and there has not been a systematic study of REY distributions in mar...
The rapid expansion of the high electricity-intensive industries like data center has led to a structural increase in industrial electricity demand, thereby increasing the need for demand response (DR) to enhance power system flexibility. However, in...
This paper seeks to provide a cost benefit analysis of the implementation of a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging strategy relative to a smart charging (V1G) strategy from the perspective of an individual electric vehicle (EV) owner with and without sola...
Salicornia spp. is a halophytic plant with great potential in sustainable agriculture due to its ability to thrive in saline environments where conventional crops cannot grow. This study investigated Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods cultivated under t...
Estuarine organisms experience frequent fluctuations in salinity and temperature, facing major challenges to their physiological homeostasis. Such variability can promote high energetic costs for osmoregulation, potentially reducing tolerance to addi...
This paper presents a data-driven decision-support framework for distribution system operations using logistic regression (LR) on the Voltage Margin Index (VMI). Treating VMI as the sole explanatory feature, the proposed two-stage workflow first fits...
The advancement of Industry 5.0 hinges on the deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with domain expertise to foster sustainable industrial development. This study proposes a deep learning-based surrogate modeling framework that integrates...
Soil salinization and alkalization severely limit agricultural sustainability in alpine regions. The integrated responses of oats to complex saline–alkali stress, covering phenotypic, physiological, and metabolomic alterations, remain poorly el...
Face recognition has achieved great success due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and loss functions based on margin. However, complex DCNNs bring a large number of parameters as well as computational effort, which pose...
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Rivers and reservoirs in urban areas have been associated with environmental quality problems because of the discharge of domestic waste into water bodies. However, the key effects and the extent to which environmental factors can influence the integ...
The disordered access of massively distributed energy resources (DERs) brings great challenges to the operation stability of the power grid. This paper puts forward the concept of a cluster, which gathers DERs in large quantities, small capacities, d...
Objectives: We aimed to examine associations between social marginalization, defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (“ON-Marg”), and overall survival (OS) in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Methods: This was a population-based retr...
Supporting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is key from both a conservation and ecosystem services perspective. Planting flower margins along crop field edges is one of the most established approaches to try and improve habitat and resources f...
(1) Intensive agriculture has a high impact on pollinating insects, and conservation strategies targeting agricultural landscapes may greatly contribute to their maintenance. The aim of this work was to quantify the effect that the vegetation of crop...
High-resolution seismic reflection profiles from the offshore segment of the Littoral Fault Zone (LFZ) near Nan’ao Island were analyzed to investigate fault activity and its potential link to the 1918 M7.3 earthquake. The data reveal a ~19 km-w...
Coastal and estuarine margins are considered natural resources with various functions and are covered by different management and protection tools. In Portugal, the Maritime Public Domain (MPD) aims to regulate property in maritime and coastal areas,...
(1) Background: This study used the cold-tolerant cultivar “Daye No. 3” (DY) and the cold-sensitive cultivar “Longdong” (LD) as plant materials to study the metabolic changes in plant hormones in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) u...
As a foodstuff crop, Jerusalem artichoke has a promising prospect for providing sustainable feed-stock sources for bioenergy development. Due to relatively limited cultivated land resources in China, it is crucial to evaluate Jerusalem artichoke&rsqu...
To achieve a succesful energy transition, the collaboration of all stakeholders and policies for decarbonization at all levels are required. In this context, we aim to assess the perspective of energy transition in marginalized urban areas in Romania...
This study reconceptualizes resilience by centering marginalized teachers’ agentic resistance as a critical pathway to wellbeing. Using critical qualitative inquiry, we conducted in-depth interviews with 17 U.S. teachers who identified with mar...
New global directions align agricultural land resources towards food production; therefore, marginal lands could provide opportunities for second-generation energy crops, assuming that in the difficult conditions of plant development, productivity ca...
In contrast to the original investigation by William Stanley Jevons, compensations of energy savings due to improved energy efficiency are mostly analyzed by providing energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions. In support of a sustainable resour...
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