Linear codes with a few weights have been extensively studied due to their wide applications in secret sharing schemes, strongly regular graphs, association schemes, and authentication codes. In this paper, we choose the defining sets from two distin...
China’s Loess Plateau is both the largest and deepest loess deposit in the world, and it has long been one of the most severely eroded areas on Earth. With the implementation of the Grain-for-Green Project in 1999, the Loess Plateau has become...
Applying organic amendments enhances agroecosystem multifunctionality (EMF), yet its mechanisms via soil food-web energetics remain unclear. A field experiment was conducted on China’s Loess Plateau in a winter wheat system, comparing mineral f...
Optimizing the ecological network is an urgent need to enhance the stability of the ecosystem and maintain regional ecological security. We utilized the PLUS (Patch-generating Land Use Simulation) model to simulate the land use patterns of the Loess...
Wetland ecosystems have been a central focus of ecological research for an quite some time. Nevertheless, the degradation of wetland riparian zones has markedly accelerated due to anthropogenic activities, climate change, and habitat heterogeneity. T...
The plateau environments are always harsh, with low pressure, low oxygen, and low temperature, which are detrimental to the survival of organisms. The Qinghai toad-headed lizard Phrynocephalus vlangalii has a wide range of altitude adaptation from 20...
Plateau environments present unique mental health challenges owing to stressors including hypoxia, low temperatures, and intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation. These factors induce structural and functional alterations in the gut microbiota, disrupting...
Graphical representations of mathematical functions remain difficult to access for blind and visually impaired users, particularly in educational contexts where understanding the overall shape and behavior of a function is essential. This paper propo...
Friction braking is the most spread braking system in vehicles, where the morphologies of the disc and the braking pads are essential to ensure that friction reduces rotation speed efficiently. However, modern braking systems are submitted to a compl...
Linear codes are the most important family of codes in cryptography and coding theory. Some codes only have a few weights and are widely used in many areas, such as authentication codes, secret sharing schemes and strongly regular graphs. By setting...
The Mongolian Plateau is a critical region for land–atmosphere interactions in East Asia. Sensible heat flux (H), a key component of surface energy balance, significantly influences the Asian summer monsoon and atmospheric circulation. Using ER...
As the world’s largest loess deposit region, the Loess Plateau’s vegetation dynamics are crucial for its regional water–heat balance and ecosystem functioning. Leaf Area Index (LAI) serves as a key indicator bridging canopy architec...
Objectives: We developed an original protocol for standing balance and walking function training using immersive virtual reality (IVR) combined with a bodyweight-supporting (BWS) system. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of IV...
The northern Tibetan Plateau is the most traditional and important semi-nomadic region in Tibet. The alpine vegetation is sensitive and vulnerable to climate change and human activities, and is also important as an ecological security in protecting t...
Background/Objectives: Open reduction and internal fixation with plates and screws is the treatment of choice for bicondylar tibial plateau fractures. The use of a surgical approach remains a topic of debate regarding the site and number of incisions...
This study aimed to determine the structure–function relationship (SFR) for ChCl–glycerol mixtures, a deep eutectic solvent (DES), by investigating their microscopic solvation dynamics and how it relates to their macroscopic properties ac...
The aquaporin (AQP) gene family plays a critical role in water balance and osmotic regulation, yet its function and regulatory mechanisms in plateau reptiles remain poorly understood. In this study, we systematically identified 10 AQP genes in the Qi...
Coupling coordination analysis provides a quantitative basis for balancing development and conservation in ecologically fragile regions; however, existing frameworks are predominantly designed for urban agglomerations and seldom integrate transportat...
Agricultural development is facing two problems: insufficient grain production and low profit of farmers. There is a contradiction between the government’s goal of increasing production and the farmer’s goal of increasing profit. Exploring the approp...
The coupling of rapid warming and wetland degradation on the Tibetan Plateau has motivated studies of climate influence on wetland change in the region. These studies typically examine large, topographically homogeneous regions, whereas conservation...
The biodiversity of fungi, which are extremely important in maintaining the ecosystem balance in alpine lakeside wetlands, has not been fully studied. In this study, we investigated the fungal communities of three lakeside wetlands from different alt...
Background/Objectives: Incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) represents a significant challenge in neurorehabilitation, with conventional limitations including recovery plateaus and declining patient motivation. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented real...
The colon plays a crucial role in energy metabolism and intestinal health of ruminants during various physiological stages. Plateau ruminants have long been subjected to extreme environments characterized by hypoxia, cold, and nutritional scarcity, w...
Background and Objectives: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) is widely performed to restore knee stability and facilitate return to activity. However, recovery of muscle strength, balance, functional performance, and patient-repo...
Climate and land-use change are the two main driving forces that affect watershed hydrological processes. Separately assessing their impacts on hydrology is important for land-use planning and water resource management. In this research, the SWAT (So...
A multilayer gradient composite membrane was fabricated on a PES ultrafiltration substrate through layer-by-layer assembly of chitosan (CS) and montmorillonite (MMT), followed by Ca2+ crosslinking. The designed architecture forms a multi-layer gradie...
The possibility of an equilibrium state of a gravitating scalar field (describing ordinary matter) inside a black hole, compressed to the state of boson condensate, in balance with a longitudinal vector field (describing dark matter) from the outside...
Background/Objectives: Cerebral palsy is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition associated with motor impairment and activity limitation, and adolescence is a clinically important period during which functional decline or plateau may occur. Virtual...
The majority of the world’s forests are located at landscape edges and are highly fragmented; the plantations on the Loess Plateau are no exception, experiencing pronounced edge effects. However, edge effects are often overlooked in assessments...
Due to climate change and human activities, the eco-environment quality (EEQ) of eco-fragile regions has undergone massive change, especially in the Tibet Plateau. The Qilian Mountains (QLM) region is an essential ecological function zone in the nort...
Non-native fish invasions are important drivers of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem function loss. In this study, we compared the trophic niches of four non-native (Rhinogobius giurinus, Hemiculter leucisculus, Hypomesus nipponensis, and Tachysu...
Glaciers have been recognized as the most sensitive indicators of climate change. Mountainous areas, with their characteristic snow and glacier cover, have long been recognized as special hydrological environments, receiving above-average amounts of...
A static structure of matter, extremely compressed to the state of a Bose–Einstein condensate by its own gravitational field, is considered. Instead of the widely spread restriction
Excessive nitrogen addition in farmland on the Loess Plateau reduces soil quality and endangers the atmospheric environment. We designed an experiment to investigate the effects of different nitrogen application rates on the soil physicochemical prop...
This study investigated the effects of different concentrate-to-roughage ratios on the rumen microbial community, functional potential, and fermentation characteristics in yak. Forty Qinghai Plateau-type yaks (8–9 months, 68.725 ± 18.973...
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Global climate change has aggravated the hydrological cycle by changing both the amount and distribution of precipitation, and this is especially notable in the semiarid Loess Plateau. How these precipitation variations have affected soil carbon (C)...
Urban wetlands, an important part of the urban ecosystem, play an important role in regional carbon cycles and the carbon balance. To analyze the CO2 source and sink effects of plateau urban wetlands, based on the data measured by an eddy covariance...
The burning of fossil fuels by humans emits large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and strongly affects the Earth’s carbon balance, with grassland ecosystems changing from weak carbon sinks that were previously close to equilibrium to core ca...
The replacement of fishmeal with plant-based ingredients in aquafeeds, while economically and environmentally advantageous, can impair lipid metabolism and liver function in fish due to the lack of specific bioactive compounds such as bile acids (BAs...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, famously known as the “Roof of the World”, has witnessed a surge in individuals traveling or working there. However, a considerable percentage of these individuals may suffer from acute mountain sickness (...
Since entering the process of industrialization, human activities have interfered with the original ecological environment, and the expansion of cities has also impacted the ecological service function. In order to maintain the balance of the ecosyst...
Assessing stability in filled epoxies requires specifying the intended material state and processing history. This structured narrative review examines local structural stabilization, physical support during fabrication, and functional retention, dra...
Based on surface radiation balance data and meteorological observations at 19 radiation stations in China from 1993 to 2012, we assessed the applicability of seven empirical formulas for the estimation of monthly surface net long-wave radiation (Rnl)...
The Gannan Water Conservation area is an indispensable part of the ecological barrier on the Tibetan Plateau and is a key ecological area for the water supply. Exploring the coupled coordination relationship between vegetation and soil contributes to...
In autonomous exploration tasks in unstructured terrain, exploration efficiency and map topology quality have been a difficult problem to balance. Among the current autonomous exploration methods, geometry-based exploration methods only focus on expl...
Although the net primary productivity (NPP) of arid/semiarid ecosystem is generally thought to be controlled by precipitation, other factors like CO2 fertilization effect and temperature change may also have important impacts, especially in the cold...
Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) is a key factor to study the radiation balance of the earth–atmosphere system. It is of great significance to explore the temporal and spatial variation characteristics over the OLR value in China region and to...
The present paper presents the interactions between water retention/evaporation and cracking during the desiccation of intact and disturbed Belgian Luvisol. The disturbed (DS) and undisturbed (NDS) samples (reduced-tillage-residue-in (RTRI) and conve...
One of the challenges of managing grasslands sustainably is the conflict between the different ecosystem services they provide. This is especially evident in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) region, where fragile alpine ecosystems make balancing the...
Accurate prediction of photovoltaic performance hinges on resolving the electron density in the P-region and the hole density in the N-region. Motivated by this need, we present a comprehensive assessment of a meshless global radial basis function (R...
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