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To promote the application of entropy concepts in uncertainty analysis of water resources complex system, a quantitative evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis model of agricultural drought disaster risk was proposed using connection number and inf...

To further quantitatively assess the water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) system and analyze and identify the regional water resources carrying state and the physical mechanism of the state change, WRCC and obstacle factor diagnosis were carried...

High-quality development is China’s response to the global agenda of sustainable and low-carbon growth. The “Four Provinces of Mountains and Rivers” (Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces, abbreviated as SSHH region), a strate...

Many poverty−alleviation−relocation projects in China resort to tourism to sustain immigrants’ livelihood in new communities. However, how tourism contributes to poverty elimination and maintaining gains is yet to be discovered. Bas...

Migrant resettlement communities in large-scale development regions face persistent pressures from environmental change, livelihood disruption, and social restructuring. Evaluating resilience in such communities requires a framework that captures bot...

Land ecological security is essential for sustainable land resource use and socioeconomic development. This study presents an evaluation index system combining single-indicator quantification, multi-indicator integration, and multi-criteria comprehen...

The sustained rebound in cultivated-land ecological security (CLES) indices across Northeast China’s Black-Soil Region is often interpreted as ecological improvement. However, aggregate recovery may mask unresolved or strengthening pressures an...

Lake-island villages face increasing cultural–ecological pressures due to tourism expansion and rural transformation, yet few studies have systematically assessed their cultural–ecological health. To address this gap, this study aims to q...

Clarifying the spatiotemporal evolution pattern of cultivated land use system resilience (CLUSR) in major grain-producing areas and identifying the key obstacles constraining its enhancement is of great significance for promoting the sustainable deve...

This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution and key obstacle factors of urban flood resilience in the Shenyang Metropolitan Area, aiming to inform regional flood resilience planning and management. A comprehensive assessment indicator system...

Using panel data from 11 prefecture-level cities in Zhejiang Province (2014–2023), this study applies the entropy method, spatial autocorrelation analysis, and an obstacle-factor diagnosis model to examine the spatiotemporal evolution, regional...

In order to promote the sustainable development of a social economy and ecology, the social–economic–natural compound ecosystem (SENCE) conceptual framework was used to construct the water environmental carrying capacity index system. Tak...

The assessment of the carrying capacity and suitability of spatial resources and the environment can provide effective guidance for regional planning and make vital contributions to the high-quality advancement of society and the economy. Additionall...

As the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals advance rapidly, grasping the development status and differences in carbon neutrality across China’s provincial regions is crucial for interpreting the regional collaborative governance patter...

Cultivated land quality (CLQ) is at the core of the trinity protection of cultivated land in China. Scientific evaluation of CLQ and identification of its obstacle factors are the foundation for the construction and improvement of the quality of cult...

Currently, promoting the high-quality development (HQD) of higher education is an urgent need of the country, which is the requirement for achieving stable and sustainable development. As the main bodies of the university, the development levels of t...

The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is an essential part of China’s goal of reducing its national carbon emissions. Focusing on economic and social development, the development of science and technology, carbon sinks, energy consumption, and...

The construction of resilient cities is the key to guaranteeing the safe and stable development of cities in the face of shocks, and it is affected by various aspects such as ecological construction, economic development, and infrastructure construct...

The dual problems of the public crisis from the global epidemic and the deterioration of the ecological environment constrain the economic development in the Yellow River Basin. To promote the sustainable and balanced development in the Yellow River...

Inventory management not only determines the health of the real estate market development, but also affects the regional economy and the capacity of sustainable social development. In this paper we use the DPSIR framework to integrate multi-dimension...

Advancing urban–rural integration (URI) is pivotal to addressing the current urban–rural development imbalance in China. The urban agglomeration, as a crucial engine propelling China’s modernization, holds significant importance in...

Land resources are essential natural resources and strategic economic resources for human survival and development. However, human improper use has brought unprecedented pressure and challenges to the ecosystem. Therefore, the assessment and analysis...

Water resource conservation and intensive utilization is an important pathway for promoting sustainable regional water resource management and high-quality development. Against the backdrop of increasing constraints on water resources, existing studi...

Membrane fouling caused by many direct and indirect triggering factors has become an obstacle to the application of membrane bioreactors (MBRs). The nonlinear relationship between those factors is subject to complex causality or affiliation, which is...

Mining activity combines industrialization, urbanization, and urban-rural integration in the compound area of mine agriculture urban. The land ecological environment has become a major hidden problem, restricting the sustainable development and ecolo...

Under the national “dual-carbon goal” and the pressing demand for sustainable development, eco-city construction and carbon reduction have become critical issues on China’s urban development agenda, closely aligned with the United N...

The high-quality development of rural e-commerce is not only one of the important tasks to solve the “three rural” problems and comprehensively promote rural revitalization, but also the internal requirement to implement the new concept o...

(1) Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common causes of cancer. Timely diagnosis is critical, with even minor delays impacting prognosis. Primary care providers face obstacles in accessing specialist care. This study investigates...

Irrigation districts are a pivotal infrastructure of agricultural water conservancy engineering. Implementing modernization will be the main task of large-scale irrigation districts for a considerable amount of time in the future. In this study, four...

Ethnic inequalities in cancer incidence and outcomes are widespread, although the evidence available for people in the UK is more limited than in some other countries. This narrative review details the current evidence relating to ethnicity and diffe...

Based on the evaluation model of the gray correlation-TOPSIS method, this paper examines the index system of grass-roots water conservancy services in Hunan Province, China. This paper aims at the present situation of grassroots water conservancy in...

Resource-based cities, constrained by resource dependence and economic restructuring, exhibit high sensitivity and vulnerability when responding to external shocks. Enhancing human settlement resilience can strengthen the capacity of urban systems to...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have recently developed beyond the research realm and started to mature into clinical applications. Here, we review the current use of NGS for laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections. Since the first re...

Recently, with the rapid increase of urban population and industrial agglomeration, the price of construction land has increased, and construction land has become increasingly scarce. Therefore, how to improve the construction land use quality (CLUQ)...

With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the systematic assessment of water environment security in lake-type basins and the identification of key restoration zones have become critical scientific challenges for sustainable w...

In the rapid development of rural tourism, multiple disturbances, such as capital reorganization, uneven resource distribution, and the marginalization of farmers as the main body, have emerged. This has led to the dual challenges of increased vulner...

Background/Objectives: Relapse is the greatest obstacle in treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), occurring in 40–50% of younger patients and most elderly patients. Current immunophenotyping panels for diagnosis and detection of measurable resi...

Ecological Product Value Realization (EPVR) is regarded as an effective tool for ecological civilization construction in China and has received widespread attention. Based on the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model, this study constru...

Promoting the intensive utilization of arable land is a critical strategy for addressing the scarcity problem of arable land resources and thus ensuring food security. However, public emergencies pose significant challenges to the intensive utilizati...

In recent years, the study of urban flood resistance has included the perspectives of spatial environment and multiple elements of urban space, which break through the limitation of only focusing on engineering measures in traditional disaster preven...

To investigate the effects of long-term cultivation on soil physicochemical properties, cotton production and soil quality dynamics in the oases of southern Xinjiang, uncultivated and unfertilized wasteland was used as the control (CK), and cotton fi...

Recovery capital (RC) encompasses the wide range of resources individuals can employ to recover from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). It consists of five subdomains: human, social, cultural, financial, and community RC. Negative recovery capital (NRC) r...

Cancer research faces significant biological, technological, and systemic limitations that hinder the development of effective therapies and improved patient outcomes. Traditional preclinical models, such as 2D and 3D cell cultures, murine xenografts...

Prenatal alcohol exposure is one of the major avoidable causes of developmental disruption and health abnormalities in children. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a significant consequence of prenatal alcohol exposure, have gained more attent...

At present, the method of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with traditional navigation equipment for inspection of overhead transmission lines has the limitations of expensive sensors, difficult data processing, and vulnerable to weather and env...

The evaluation and trend prediction of tourism economic vulnerability (TEV) in major tourist cities are necessary for formulating tourism economic strategies scientifically and promoting the sustainable development of regional tourism. In this study,...

How to realize the sustainable use of land resources is extremely important for environmental protection and sustainable development in ecologically fragile regions. Nevertheless, the logic of achieving sustainable land use (SLU) in ecologically frag...

The Yellow River Basin serves as a critical ecological barrier and economic corridor in China, playing a pivotal role in national ecological security and sustainable development. This study develops a comprehensive evaluation framework grounded in th...

HIV-tuberculosis (HIV-TB) co-infection remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV and disproportionately affects immigrant and refugee communities in the United States. While antiretroviral therapy has improved HI...

Effective evaluation of cultivated land quality (CLQ) and limiting factors diagnosis is essential for sustainable land use and soil improvement. Studies on CLQ evaluation and limiting factors diagnosis have mainly focused on staple crops. However, re...