The concept of household vulnerability along with sustainable livelihoods has currently emerged as a significant concept in the climate change vulnerability and adaptation (CCVA) literature. In this paper, the vulnerability of Bangladesh has been ass...
High-accuracy, long-time-series and large-scale land classification mapping are essential for assessing the evolutionary patterns of land systems and developing sustainability studies. In this paper, using Google Earth Engine (GEE) and Landsat satell...
Background: Due to the rise in Alzheimer disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD) in an aging population, millions of caregivers will be at risk for physical and mental health decline. As those they care for already have physical and cognitive...
Tourism-driven villages in metropolitan suburbs have become crucial spaces for the interaction of urban and rural factors; however, the spatiotemporal patterns and underlying mechanisms of land use change in such contexts remain inadequately explored...
The adaptability of marine organisms to changes in salinity has been a significant research area under global climate change. However, the underlying mechanisms of this adaptability remain a debated subject. We hypothesize that neglecting salinity fl...
This article proposes a general integrative model focusing on psychological control and psychological reserve. The former refers to internal psychological control and external psychological control. Internal psychological control refers to the manage...
Drama therapy is applied to children and adolescents with psychosocial problems. Drama therapy is an experimental form of treatment which methodologically uses drama and theatre processes to achieve psychological growth. Although in clinical practice...
21 January 2020
The research explored explanatory mechanisms of change for a personalized normative feedback (PNF) intervention, through an adapted application of the Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situation (ATSS) cognitive think-aloud paradigm. A sample of 70 (...
This study investigates the mechanism behind the heat-induced color change (brown to yellowish green) in Mn- and Fe-rich elbaite tourmaline under reducing atmosphere at 500 °C. A combination of analytical techniques including gemological characte...
In the domains of geographic information systems and remote sensing image analysis, change detection is vital for examining surface variations in high-resolution remote sensing pictures. However, the intricate texture characteristics and rich details...
Coastal cities are highly sensitive and vulnerable to climate change risks. A scientifically grounded assessment of urban climate change risk and its driving mechanisms is essential for strengthening urban climate adaptation capacity and supporting s...
Land use change is closely related to land surface temperature (LST). Based on remote sensing data from 2001 to 2020, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal variations and driving mechanisms of daytime and nighttime LST in the Urumqi Metropolitan Are...
Artificial muscles translate the biological principles of motion into soft, adaptive, and multifunctional actuation. This review accordingly highlights research into natural actuation strategies, such as skeletal muscles, muscular hydrostats, spider...
In this paper, a pawl composite linkage transfer mechanism is designed for the automatic in-orbit sample transfer mission of Chang’E-5 lunar sample return mission, which can realize the sample container in-orbit transfer under various critical...
Background: Intervention effectiveness studies rarely empirically assess Theories of Change (ToC) to determine how an intervention worked. We examine the ToC underlying the Sugira Muryango (SM) parenting program in rural Rwanda to understand whether...
15 March 2021
Climate change risk has become an important challenge for global sustainable development. The insurance industry can play an important role in coping with the increasingly severe climate change risk. This paper first describes the increasing climate...
Background/Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions show promise for treating childhood ADHD, yet the mechanisms through which they produce effects remain unclear. This study provides the first direct comparison of treatment mechanisms between a m...
Adaptive changes encompass physiological, morphological, or behavioral modifications occurring in organisms in response to specific environmental conditions. These modifications may become established within a population through natural selection. Wh...
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the effects of behaviour change interventions is vital for accumulating valid scientific evidence, and useful to informing practice and policy-making across multiple domains. Traditional approaches to such eval...
4 November 2022
Climate change has become a major environmental issue facing all countries, having a significant effect on all aspects of agricultural production, such as the agricultural mechanization process and fertilizer use. Greenhouse gases produced by agricul...
Color parameters were used in this study to develop a machine learning model for predicting the mechanical properties of artificially weathered fir, alder, oak, and poplar wood. A CIELAB color measuring system was employed to study the color changes...
The use of phase change materials (PCMs) in the construction industry is one of the primary strategies for addressing the building industry’s present excessive energy usage. However, since PCMs must be enclosed before being used in construction...
Water yield is a critical component of hydrological ecosystem services, influenced by both natural environments and human activities. Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) are particularly pivotal in causing water yield variations at the basin le...
The Huanggangliang area in Inner Mongolia is a major fluorite and polymetallic ore district in China. Its skarn-type deposit yields rare color-change fluorite, yet the coloration and photochromic mechanisms remain poorly studied. Five faceted samples...
To reduce the thermal response and improve the heat storage capacity of energy piles, a phase change (PC) energy pile was proposed. This innovative PC pile is made of concrete containing macro-encapsulated PCM hollow steel balls (HSB) as coarse aggre...
This paper presents a thermo-mechanical model with phase transition considering changes in the mechanical properties of the medium. The proposed thermo-mechanical model is described by a system of partial differential equations for temperature and di...
Background: Cochlear implant (CI) electrode insertion can change the mechanical state of the ear whereby wideband tympanometry absorbance (WBTA) may serve as a sensitive tool to monitor these mechanical changes of the peripheral auditory pathway afte...
Abrupt temperature changes and warming hiatuses have a great impact on socioeconomic systems; however, their mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, the quantitative mechanisms of the responses of abrupt seasonal temperature changes and warming hia...
Declining cultivated land poses a serious threat to food security. However, existing Change Detection (CD) methods are insufficient for overcoming intra-class differences in cropland, and the accumulation of irrelevant features and loss of key featur...
Changes to habitat salinity may induce oxidative stress in aquatic organisms. The effect of salinity on the antioxidant function of bay scallops was investigated at 55, 70, 85 and 120% of seawater salinity (SW), with 100% SW as the control. The scall...
Despite their high nutritional value, high quantities of fish caught in the Adriatic Sea are underused or discarded for their insignificant economic value. Mechanical separation of flesh represents an opportunity for developing innovative semi-finish...
27 November 2021
Urban green space plays an important role in beautifying the environment, improving the quality of life of residents, and promoting sustainable urban development. Rapid urbanization has led to great changes in the spatial structure and layout of urba...
Heavy lake-effect snowfall (HLES) events are snowfall events enhanced by interactions between lakes and overlying cold air. Significant snowfall rates and accumulations caused during such events disrupt socioeconomic activities and sometimes lead to...
The impacts of climate change on unsaturated porous media have been investigated through the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis by leveraging a discrete fracture model. The transport of gas and liquid phases in unsaturated porous media is captu...
With the world’s population increasing, the issue of energy consumption has become increasingly prominent, particularly during the building operation phase, where substantial energy is required for heating and cooling. Presently, the energy nec...
Alpine, subalpine and boreal tree species, of low genetic diversity and adapted to low optimal temperatures, are vulnerable to the warming effects of global climate change. The accurate prediction of these species’ distributions in response to climat...
Research on evapotranspiration and its drivers in the Aksu River Basin from the perspectives of climate change and land use is of great significance for promoting the efficient use and precise allocation of its water resources. Theil-Sen median trend...
SMYD3 is a SET-domain-containing methyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of methyl groups onto lysine residues of substrate proteins. Methylation of MAP3K2 by SMYD3 has been implicated in Ras-driven tumorigenesis, which makes SMYD3 a potential...
Limited research has been published on land changes and their driving mechanisms in Central Asia, but this area is an important ecologically sensitive area. Supported by Google Earth Engine (GEE), this study used Landsat satellite imagery and selecte...
To reduce the structural deterioration of mass concrete structures from temperature cracks, and lower energy consumption caused by the traditional mass concrete hydration heat cooling process, this paper reports the preparation of concrete temperatur...
Numerous studies have observed and analyzed the dynamics of language change from a diffusion perspective. As a complex and changeable system, the process of language change is characterized by a long memory that conforms to ultraslow diffusion. Howev...
The middle reaches of the Minjiang River, shaped by the Dujiangyan irrigation system, provide a typical setting for studying long-term human–water interactions. During the Little Ice Age, the water management system as a whole experienced a ful...
Changes in river plane shapes are called river planform changes (RPCs). Such changes can impact sustainable human development (e.g., human habitations, industrial and agricultural development, and national border security). RPCs can be identified thr...
The critical problem restricting the development and application of phase change energy piles is that adding phase change materials to concrete generally reduces its thermal conductivity. Therefore, exploring a scheme to improve the heat transfer per...
Haizhou Bay is an open bay located in northern Jiangsu Province, China. This study analyzes the changes in the coastline, coastal development, and water quality of Haizhou Bay between 2006 and 2016. The box model method and numerical simulation are a...
This study investigated twelve gem-quality color-change fluorite specimens exhibiting a purple–blue gradient from Nova Era, Brazil, using colorimetry, Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, EDXRF, and DiamondVi...
Anthropogenic climate change is an existential threat whose influences continue to increase in severity. It is pivotal to understand the implications of climate change and their effects on mental health. This integrative review aims to summarize the...
A coupled thermo-mechanical model has been developed to assess permeability changes in the vicinity of an underground coal gasification (UCG) reactor resulting from excavation and thermo-mechanical effects. Thereto, we consider a stepwise UCG reactor...
Microencapsulated phase change materials (MicroPCMs)-incorporated in epoxy composites have drawn increasing interest due to their promising application potential in the fields of thermal energy storage and temperature regulation. However, the study o...
This paper suggests a new multi-lane lattice model that incorporates both overtaking mechanisms and drivers’ aggressive lane-changing behaviors to investigate macroscopic traffic stability in multi-lane expressway environments. To enhance the f...
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