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This article examines the relationship between interannual changes in the sea ice extent and thickness in the Kara Sea with climate change in the region and with sea surface temperature in the tropical North Atlantic. The data from observations at me...

Currently, more and more remotely sensed data are being accumulated, and the spatial analysis methods for remotely sensed data, especially big data, are desiderating innovation. A deep convolutional network (CNN) model is proposed in this paper for e...

Background: This systematic review aimed to explore the factors influencing retention among regional, rural, and remote undergraduate nursing students who were enrolled in Australian universities. Methods: Mixed-methods systematic review. A+ Educatio...

Land degradation is one of the significant ecological and environmental issues threatening regional sustainable development. Datong Coalfield is located in an arid and semi-arid ecologically fragile area and is also an important energy base, the mini...

The remote calibration of instrumentation transformers is theoretically possible using synchronous measurements across a transmission line with a known impedance and a local set of calibrated voltage and current transformers. In this paper, an extens...

This study, grounded in the Ecological Environmental Systems Theory, commenced by extracting structured proxy variables from satellite remote sensing imagery spanning 2013 to 2022. Subsequently, a research data set was constructed by integrating annu...

The Upper Yellow River Region plays an irreplaceable role in water conservation and ecological protection in China. Due to both natural and human-induced factors, this area has experienced significant grassland deterioration, land desertification, an...

With the continuous development of China’s economy and the acceleration of urbanization, the phenomenon of high-quality cultivated land being converted to construction land is becoming increasingly prominent. In mountainous provinces such as Yu...

The study of the forest coverage rate (FCR) is related to the ecological environment and sustainable development goals (SDGs) of a region. In light of the lack of an organic integration method of “spatiotemporal evolution, correlation analysis,...

Three experiments examined the influence of complex distractors on the Remote Distractor Effect (RDE), a robust finding of an increase is saccade latencies when two, rather than one possible targets are presented simultaneously (Walker, Deubel, Schne...

The Amazon, and Neotropical forests, are one of the most important global biomes because of their extent and unique biodiversity, as well as their importance to global climate and as a habitat and resource for humans. Unravelling the influence of hum...

Using CMIP5 model outputs in different El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phases, this work investigates the indicator that could be used as an Index to characterise regional Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) precipitation. Dividing the Indian subcontinen...

Few studies have investigated how remote work influences personality trait–performance linkages over time in heterogeneous work populations. Hence, the aim of this study was twofold: (1) to explore the predictive validity personality traits have on w...

The objective of this study was to explore the research carried out and the existing scientific information on remote work and its influence on the work stress of workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The specific objectives were as follow...

The article studied databases of vegetation created from remote sensors, outcome of analyses of Cross-Country Movement in forests, and quality of utilized data. The aim was to combine various databases of forests and get statistics of best data by us...

Monitoring and assessing soil erosion is essential for reducing land degradation and ensuring food security. It provides critical scientific insights for developing effective policies and implementing targeted preventive measures. The emergence of re...

The modulation transfer function (MTF) serves as a crucial technical index for assessing the imaging quality of remote sensing cameras, which is integral throughout their entire operational cycle. Currently, the MTF evaluation of remote sensing camer...

Reasonable allocation of urban resources can effectively control changes in ecological quality. This study used Sentinel-2 images, taking urban functional areas as the dividing scale, and combined spatial analysis, statistics, and other relevant meth...

The Albufera of Valencia, a Mediterranean coastal lagoon, has experienced a shift to hypertrophic conditions over the past 40 years due to agricultural and urban-industrial pollution. From August 2023 to early 2024, the water of the lagoon turned red...

Ensuring the regularity and correctness of rehabilitation exercises in the home environment is a prerequisite for successful treatment. This clinical study compares balance therapy in the home environment on a conventional balance mat and an instrume...

Monitoring of river discharge is a key process for water resources management, soil and water conservation, climate change, water cycling, flood or drought warning, agriculture and transportation, especially for the sustainable development of rivers...

This paper presents the observational, remote sensing, and model simulation used to analyze southern Brazil Antarctic ozone hole influence (SBAOHI) events that occurred between 2005 and 2014. To analyze it, we use total ozone column (TOC) data provid...

River water temperature (RWT), a primary parameter for hydrological and ecological processes, is influenced by both climate change and anthropogenic intervention. Studies on such influences have been severely restricted due to the scarcity of river t...

The spatiotemporal distribution pattern of the surface temperatures of urban forest canopies (STUFC) is influenced by many environmental factors, and the identification of interactions between these factors can improve simulations and predictions of...

Human activities and climate change have profound impacts on the ecological environment of oases in Xinjiang, and it is of great significance to explore the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of ecological environment quality in this region for...

This paper focuses on the back analysis of an ancient, catastrophic rock avalanche located in the small city of Lettopalena (Chieti, Italy). The integrated use of various investigation methods was employed for landslide analysis, including the use of...

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury in aortocoronary bypass surgery, potentially via extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their micro-RNA content. Clinical data implicate that propofol might inhibit the cardioprotec...

In this paper, the M2 internal tides (ITs) originating from the continental slope in the South China Sea are studied using the CROCO model. The simulation results show that there are two origins of ITs on the continental slope: at 118°–119.5° E along...

Soil salinity is a crucial parameter affecting soil health. Excessive surface salt accumulation degrades soil structure, inhibits vegetation growth, and diminishes plant diversity. Such increases in salinity can accelerate desertification, leading to...

The China–Nepal Transportation Corridor is vital to the country’s efforts to build a land trade route in South Asia and promote the Ring-Himalayan Economic Cooperation Belt. Due to the complex geological structure and topographical enviro...

Rapid urbanization and climate change have exacerbated urban heat stress, underscoring the importance of research on human thermal comfort for sustainable urban development. This study analyzes the spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of appa...

Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key parameter for studying the carbon cycle, evaluating grassland growth, and assessing the grass–livestock balance. In this study, we established an optimal inversion model for alpine grassland AGB and estimated...

Understanding the spatial distribution of soil organic matter (SOM) is important for land use management, but conventional sampling methods require significant human and financial resources. How to map SOM and monitor its changes using a limited numb...

In Australia, water resource management is a major environmental, biological, and socio-economic issue, and will be an essential component of future development. The Hawker Area of the central Flinders Ranges, South Australia suffers from a lack of r...

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) confers cardioprotection in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Despite intense research, the translation of RIC into clinical practice remains a challenge. This may, at least partly, b...

Urbanization has led to environmental challenges, with the urban heat island effect being a prominent concern. Understanding the influence of urban environmental characteristics (UECs) on land surface temperature (LST) is essential for addressing thi...

This study aims to contribute to a better estimation of the density of fractures likely to favour the drainage of surface water in the High Ziz River (HZR) basin. The method adopted consists of the use of different airborne image processing technique...

Since the middle of the 20th century, the peak snowpack in the Upper Rio Grande (URG) basin of United States has been decreasing. Warming influences snowpack characteristics such as snow cover, snow depth, and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), which can a...

Wetlands are essential carbon sinks in the global ecosystem, absorbing CO2 in their biomass and soils and mitigating global warming. Accurate aboveground biomass (AGB) and organic carbon (Corg) estimation are crucial for wetland carbon sink research....

Soil erosion is one of the most important environmental problems of the moment, especially in areas affected by wildfires. In this paper, we study pre-fire and post-fire erosion using remote sensing techniques with Sentinel-2 satellite images and LiD...

A multitemporal dataset of medium-resolution imagery was used to document a tree cover loss process in three forest reserves of Zambia. This degradation process was attributed to charcoal production with a high degree of certainty, as evidence of kil...

The boreal winter 2019/2020 was very irregular in Europe. While there was very little snow in Central Europe, the opposite was the case in northern Fenno-Scandia, particularly in the Arctic. The snow cover was more persistent here and its rapid melti...

With numerous efforts undertaken by both industry and academia to develop and implement autonomous merchant vessels, their safety remains an utmost priority. One of the modes of their operation which is expected to be used is a remote control. Therei...

Atmospheric properties have a significant influence on electromagnetic (EM) waves, including the propagation of EM signals used for remote sensing. For this reason, changes in the received amplitudes and phases of these signals can be used for the de...

The adverse impact of common diseases like diabetes mellitus and acute hyperglycemia on morbidity and mortality from myocardial infarction (MI) has been well documented over the past years of research. In the clinical setting, the relationship betwee...

Remote sensing techniques currently used to detect oil spills have not yet demonstrated their applicability to dispersed forms of oil. However, oil droplets dispersed in seawater are known to modify the local optical properties and, consequently, the...

The continuous expansion of impervious surfaces replacing the vegetation cover and surface water areas increases urban heating. Such heating leads to downward heat transfer and latent heat flux from the surface to subsurface aquifers. This study used...

An important problem that arises when planning experiments on remote sensing from space in the P-band is taking into account the influence of the Earth’s ionosphere. We investigated the influence of ionospheric inhomogeneities on the results of...

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) protects hearts from ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury in experimental studies; however, clinical RIPC trials were unsatisfactory. This discrepancy could be caused by a loss of cardioprotection due to comorbidit...

Trees are indispensable to ecosystems, yet mortality rates have been increasing due to the abnormal changes in forest growth environments caused by frequent extreme weather events associated with global climate warming. Consequently, the need to moni...