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The 6G wireless systems are expected to have higher capacity, reliability, and energy efficiency than the existing cellular systems. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies offer high capacity at the cost of high attenuation and blockage losses. Reconfi...

As a new factor of production, data play a key role in driving low-carbon and sustainable development relying on the digital economy. However, previous studies have ignored this point. Based on the panel data of 283 cities in China from 2007 to 2019,...

As one of the most dynamic natural elements, water resources play a vital role in both ecological and economic activities. The rational allocation of water resources is essential for the sustainable development of human society. Using data from prefe...

In the process of using the Distributed Radar Network Localization System (DRNLS) further to improve the survivability of a carrier platform, the random characteristics of the system’s Aperture Resource Allocation (ARA) and Radar Cross Section...

We hypothesized that female and male individuals of the dioecious tree species, Juniperus communis, exhibit different strategies of resource allocation when growing under stress conditions. To test this hypothesis, we performed a two-year pot experim...

Task offloading and resource allocation are the major elements of edge computing. A reasonable task offloading strategy and resource allocation scheme can reduce task processing time and save system energy consumption. Most of the current studies on...

The transformation of mining cities and the realization of high-quality economic development are complicated processes. The objective existence of abundant resource factor endowment in mining cities does not mean that resource allocation is in the op...

The rational allocation of water resources in the basin/region can be better assisted and performed using a suitable water resources allocation model. Rule-based and optimization-based simulation methods are utilized to solve medium- and long-term wa...

Single-Pilot Operations (SPO) mode is set to reshape the decision-making process between human-machine and air-ground operations. However, the limited on-board computing resources impose greater demands on the organization of performance parameters a...

As metro systems are becoming more and more widely used, all kinds of emergencies happen from time to time. A series of cases indicate that inefficient emergency response is a dominating cause of tremendous casualties and losses. The fast and valid a...

Public safety and health cannot be secured without the comprehensive recognition of characteristics and reliable emergency response schemes under the disaster chain. Distinct from emergency resource allocation that focuses primarily on a single disas...

Agricultural water productivity (AWP), which is associated with multiple factors, is an important index for measuring the effectiveness of agricultural water management. The purpose of this study is to promote AWP through optimally allocating limited...

Human resource management during project implementation in a multi-project environment requires addressing the resource-constrained project scheduling problem. Agile methodologies allow for greater management flexibility, necessitating an agile trans...

Monetary markets serve as established resource allocation mechanisms, typically achieving efficient solutions with limited information. However, they are susceptible to market failures, particularly under the presence of public goods, externalities,...

This study investigates the foundational elements that contribute to effective emergency management in urban settings, with a particular focus on experiences from Chinese municipalities. Drawing on resource dependence theory and attention allocation...

This study aims to explore allocation strategies for idle emergency supplies in a “demander–platform–supplier” supply chain system along with government regulation during the post-disaster recovery period. Allocation of emerge...

Using the data of Chinese A-share listed companies in the construction industry from 2010 to 2021, this paper conducts an empirical analysis of the green innovation mechanism of firms under the system formed by target-level elements, resource-level e...

The overcrowding of the wireless space has triggered a strict competition for scare network resources. Therefore, there is a need for a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technique that will ensure fair allocation of the available network resources for di...

The rapid proliferation of AI-enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications has significantly increased the energy consumption of shared edge computing infrastructures. Despite this sustainability challenge, contemporary resource pricing...

With the acceleration of global urbanization, water resources, as a core element supporting the economic and social development of cities, have seen their green configuration efficiency become a significant bottleneck restricting the sustainable deve...

With the increasingly severe problem of water shortage and the increasing contradiction between supply and demand, the optimal allocation of water resources has become an essential method for alleviating the water crisis. In this context, natural-ele...

Utilizing resources effectively is becoming more critical, especially with the ever-increasing healthcare cost. Little is known about the current practices used by healthcare organizations for the procurement, allocation, and utilization of medical r...

To better understand the phenotypic plasticity of the highly invasive native weed, Pedicularis kansuensis, we investigated and compared phenotypes (morphology, biomass, and nutrient composition) at different levels of invasion (low: 0 < cover ≤...

Agricultural land is fundamental to human survival and economic development. Unlike other resources, land resources are embodied in trade goods and commodities, which are continuously re-allocated between countries and regions. As a typical ecologica...

Agricultural water rights trading has become an effective means to solve the shortage of agricultural water. However, in the context of uncertainty, the key elements of the water rights trading system and their interactions remain unclear. Therefore,...

Rural communities can be conceptualized as spatial organisms interconnected by optimized resource utilization systems. Investigating the efficient utilization of rural resources and spatial construction methods grounded in resource metabolism is a pi...

The high volumes of animal manure and sewage sludge, as a consequence of the development of intensive and specialized cattle dairy farms in peri-urban areas, pose challenges to local environmental quality and demands for systems innovation. Besides t...

Improving the efficiency of green development is an important means of achieving high-quality development, and the optimal allocation of financial resources is the core factor in promoting green development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in...

Wireless sensors networks (WSNs) play an important role in life. With the development of 5G, its security issues have also raised concerns. Therefore, it is an important topic to study the offense and defense confrontation in WSNs. A complete informa...

Implementing high-performance computing (HPC) to solve problems in energy infrastructure resilience research in a heterogeneous environment based on an in-memory data grid (IMDG) presents a challenge to workflow management systems. Large-scale energy...

This study investigates the optimization of energy efficiency in robust visible light communication (VLC)—intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems through a novel resource allocation strategy based on coalitional game theory. By employing c...

This study examines how national public funding and macroeconomic conditions affect higher education performance, measured by graduation rates. A panel dataset covering 2013–2022 and ten Lithuanian public universities integrates economic, finan...

Based on panel data from 173 Chinese listed companies in the new energy vehicle industry from 2016 to 2023, this study constructs a two-way fixed effects model to examine the impact of data elements on corporate innovation capability. Systematically...

In recent years, market-oriented allocation of land has been promoted to support rural revitalization and urban–rural integrated development. To follow the path of sustainable development, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of resource utiliza...

Participatory approaches are an important component of institutional frameworks for the governance of water resources and services. Studies on public participation in water management provide evidence for the outcomes of public participation and insi...

In this study, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless-powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system is proposed, where a single-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted cloudlet provides offloading opportunities to K user e...

Coal-seam gas (CSG), as an alternative energy, has the characteristics of resource scarcity and technological exploitation complexity. The generation of ideas is vital to develop more efficient exploitation technologies for CSG. Innovative ideas orig...

Identifying the driving mechanism of comprehensive land consolidation (CLC) on urban–rural development elements integration (URDEI) is of great significance for promoting the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Based on the compos...

Innovation is the primary driving force for development; the high-quality development of resource-based cities is ultimately driven by innovation. We constructed an innovation-driven high-quality development system for resource-based cities, includin...

As cities are struggling to cope with the second wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of 15-min cities seem to have sparked planners’ imagination and politicians’ willingness for providing us with a new urban planning eutopia. T...

Amid global environmental change, the intensification of nitrogen (N) deposition exerts critical impacts on the growth of forest vegetation and the structure and function of ecosystems in subtropical China. However, the physiological and growth respo...

Given that education infrastructure has been a crucial element of the infrastructural power of the welfare state, surprisingly little is known about how spatial disparities in school infrastructure have been governed. While emphasis has recently been...

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been widely acclaimed as a promising solution to enhance spectral efficiency, increase user fairness, and scale up the number of users in wireless networks by enabling multiple users to share the symmetrical...

Dealing with relationships on farmland is one of the most important issues in China. Since its reform and opening up, the policies of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” h...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a combination of technologies capable of achieving large-scale reductions in carbon dioxide emissions across a variety of industries. Its application to date has however been mostly limited to the po...

In power systems, flow allocation (FA) methods enable to allocate the usage and costs of the transmission grid to each single market participant. Based on predefined assumptions, the power flow is split into isolated generator-specific or producer-sp...

Mobile communication networks evolved from first-generation (1G) to sixth-generation (6G) and the requirement for quality of services (QoS) and higher bandwidth increased. The evolvement of 6G can be deployed in industry 5.0 to fulfill the future ind...

Smart cities directly rely on a variety of elements, including water, gas, electricity, buildings, services, transportation networks, and others. Lack of properly designed transportation networks may cause different economic and safety concerns. High...

Penetration of variable energy resource (VER) is limited by voltage constraints in distribution systems. Hence, distributed energy storage systems (ESS) have been considered to be a promising solution owing to their fast and flexible control capabili...

Tradable water volumes is one of the basic elements of water-rights trading. In China, water-rights transactions mostly occur in water-deficient areas. However, the water-rich areas are also facing serious water-shortage problems. It is necessary to...