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  • Commentary
  • Open Access
42 Citations
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14 Pages

Developing Socio-Techno-Economic-Political (STEP) Solutions for Addressing Resource Nexus Hotspots

  • Bassel Daher,
  • Rabi H. Mohtar,
  • Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos,
  • Kent E. Portney,
  • Ronald Kaiser and
  • Walid Saad

14 February 2018

The challenge of meeting increasing water, energy, and food needs is linked not only to growing demands globally, but also to the growing interdependency between these interconnected resource systems. Pressures on these systems will emerge to become...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,483 Views
25 Pages

30 June 2022

Rapid urbanization has already caused many impacts, such as environmental degradation and imbalanced resource allocation. As the frontiers of urbanization, urban fringe areas (UFAs) present both urban and rural characteristics and undergo complex soc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,670 Views
17 Pages

Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers on Resources and the Environment in China

  • Guosheng Han,
  • Rundong Luo,
  • Kaiyue Sa,
  • Min Zhuang and
  • Hui Li

6 January 2022

To review the current state of resources and environmental sciences in China, this study assessed highly cited papers of five leading CSSCI journals sourced from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure database. The fields of resources and envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,672 Views
24 Pages

Mapping Climate Vulnerability of River Basin Communities in Tanzania to Inform Resilience Interventions

  • Denis Macharia,
  • Erneus Kaijage,
  • Leif Kindberg,
  • Grace Koech,
  • Lilian Ndungu,
  • Anastasia Wahome and
  • Robinson Mugo

17 May 2020

Increasing climate variability and change coupled with steady population growth is threatening water resources and livelihoods of communities living in the Wami-Ruvu and Rufiji basins in Tanzania. These basins are host to three large urban centers, n...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,520 Views
19 Pages

Cook Inlet in Alaska has been identified as a prime site in the U.S. for potential tidal energy development, because of its enormous tidal power potential that accounts for nearly one-third of the national total. As one important step to facilitate t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,846 Views
16 Pages

Based on CiteSpace Insights into Illicium verum Hook. f. Current Hotspots and Emerging Trends and China Resources Distribution

  • Zhoujian He,
  • Jie Huan,
  • Meng Ye,
  • Dan Liang,
  • Yongfei Wu,
  • Wenjun Li,
  • Xiao Gong and
  • Liqiong Jiang

13 May 2024

Illicium verum Hook. f. is a globally significant spice, which is recognized in China as a food-medicine homolog and extensively utilized across the pharmaceutical, food, and spice industries. China boasts the world’s leading resources of I. ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,624 Views
12 Pages

6 September 2018

Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) have been catalogued as a technological solution to three pressing global challenges: environmental pollution, resource scarcity, and freshwater scarcity. This study explores the social risks along the supply chain o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,610 Views
25 Pages

Sustainability Assessment of Smallholder Agroforestry Indigenous Farming in the Amazon: A Case Study of Ecuadorian Kichwas

  • Marco Heredia-R,
  • Bolier Torres,
  • Jhenny Cayambe,
  • Nadia Ramos,
  • Marcelo Luna and
  • Carlos G. H. Diaz-Ambrona

15 December 2020

In the Amazon, the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve (YBR) is considered a natural and cultural diversity hotspot. It is populated by several indigenous groups, including the Kichwa, who are characterized by their traditional systems of production, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,722 Views
18 Pages

21 October 2023

Katsuwonus pelamis, or skipjack, is a vital resource in purse seine fishing across the Central and Western Pacific. Identifying skipjack distribution hotspots and coldspots is crucial for effective resource management, but the dynamic nature of fish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,784 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2015

Identification of environmental hotspots becomes a pressing issue for companies pursuing sustainable supply chain management. In particular, excessive dependence on water resources outside the country may put the supply chain at unanticipated risk of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,474 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Mutational Hotspots on Cancer Survival

  • Melissa Gonzalez-Cárdenas and
  • Víctor Treviño

6 March 2024

Background: Cofactors, biomarkers, and the mutational status of genes such as TP53, EGFR, IDH1/2, or PIK3CA have been used for patient stratification. However, many genes exhibit recurrent mutational positions known as hotspots, specifically linked t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,430 Views
16 Pages

Hotspot detection is an important exploratory technique to identify areas with high concentrations of crime and help deploy crime-reduction resources. Although a variety of methods have been developed to detect crime hotspots, few studies have system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,571 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Pattern Analysis of Xinjiang Tourism Resources Based on Electronic Map Points of Interest

  • Yao Chang,
  • Dongbing Li,
  • Zibibula Simayi,
  • Shengtian Yang,
  • Maliyamuguli Abulimiti and
  • Yiwei Ren

This study considers the Point of Interest data of tourism resources in Xinjiang and studies their spatial distribution by combining geospatial analysis methods, such as the average nearest neighbor index, standard deviation ellipse, kernel density a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
19,739 Views
12 Pages

MODIS Hotspot Validation over Thailand

  • Veerachai Tanpipat,
  • Kiyoshi Honda and
  • Prayoonyong Nuchaiya

17 November 2009

To ensure remote sensing MODIS hotspot (also known as active fire products or hotspots) quality and precision in forest fire control and management in Thailand, an increased level of confidence is needed. Accuracy assessment of MODIS hotspots utilizi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,519 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2018

A better understanding of the ultimate mechanisms driving bat fatalities at wind turbines (i.e., the reason why bats are coming in close proximity to wind turbines) could inform more effective impact reduction strategies. One hypothesis is that bats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,048 Views
27 Pages

13 August 2023

In recent years, changes in climate, land cover, and sociodemographic dynamics have created new challenges in wildfire management. As a result, advanced and integrated approaches in wildfire science have emerged. The objective of our study is to use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,107 Views
10 Pages

Self-Organized Neural Network Method to Identify Crash Hotspots

  • Esmaiel Karimi,
  • Farshidreza Haghighi,
  • Abbas Sheykhfard,
  • Mohammad Azmoodeh and
  • Khaled Shaaban

Crash hotspot identification (HSID) is an essential component of traffic management authorities’ efforts to improve safety and allocate limited resources. This paper presents a method for identifying hotspots using self-organizing maps (SOM). T...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
22,405 Views
20 Pages

6 September 2021

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are an essential component of renewable electricity infrastructure to resolve the intermittency in the availability of renewable resources. To keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 °C, renewable electricity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,144 Views
21 Pages

Exploring the Main Determinants of National Park Community Management: Evidence from Bibliometric Analysis

  • Yangyang Zhang,
  • Ziyue Wang,
  • Anil Shrestha,
  • Xiang Zhou,
  • Mingjun Teng,
  • Pengcheng Wang and
  • Guangyu Wang

11 September 2023

The establishment of protected areas such as national parks (NPs) is a key policy in response to numerous challenges such as biodiversity loss, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, and environmental education. Globally, the number a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,430 Views
25 Pages

21 July 2021

Fire Service is the fundamental civic service to protect citizens from irrecoverable, heavy losses of lives and property. Hotspot analysis of structure fires is essential to estimate people and property at risk. Hotspot analysis for the peak period o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,155 Views
29 Pages

Nitrogen Hotspots on the Farm—A Practice-Oriented Approach

  • Witold Grzebisz,
  • Alicja Niewiadomska and
  • Katarzyna Przygocka-Cyna

29 May 2022

The proactive management of nitrogen (N) on a farm is the best way to protect the environment against N pollution. The farm is the basic business unit, where simple and low-cost methods of identifying and ameliorating weaknesses (nitrogen hotspots) i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,393 Views
14 Pages

Valuing User Preferences for Geospatial Fire Monitoring in Guatemala

  • Jared Berenter,
  • Isaac Morrison and
  • Julie M. Mueller

1 November 2021

Like many landscapes across Central America, forests in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) are increasingly susceptible to forest fire, with most forest fires resulting from untended agricultural fires. Fire damage poses significant risk to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,012 Views
12 Pages

2 December 2021

The global increase of livestock has caused illegal intrusion of livestock into protected areas. Until now, hotspot areas of illegal grazing have rarely been mapped, long-term monitoring data are missing, and little is known about the drivers of ille...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
9,101 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2020

Energy utilization of agricultural waste, due to the depletion of petroleum resources and the continuous deterioration of the ecological environment, has become an increasingly important development area at present, with broad prospects. The Citespac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,012 Views
18 Pages

When and Where Did They Strand? The Spatio-Temporal Hotspot Patterns of Cetacean Stranding Events in Indonesia

  • Putu Liza Kusuma Mustika,
  • Kathryn K. High,
  • Mochamad Iqbal Herwata Putra,
  • Achmad Sahri,
  • I Made Jaya Ratha,
  • Muhammad Offal Prinanda,
  • Firdaus Agung,
  • Februanty S. Purnomo and
  • Danielle Kreb

4 November 2022

Analyses of the spatial and temporal patterns of 26 years of stranding events (1995–2011 and 2012–2021, n = 568) in Indonesia were conducted to improve the country’s stranding response. The Emerging Hot Spot Analysis was used to obt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,259 Views
20 Pages

6 June 2023

Construction and demolition (C&D) waste is steadily increasing as both urbanization and the construction industry advance. Therefore, numerous studies on C&D waste have been conducted. In this paper, the literature published in the field of C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,613 Views
11 Pages

Risk Stratification to Guide Prevention and Control Strategies for Arboviruses Transmitted by Aedes aegypti

  • Manuel Osvaldo Espinosa,
  • Verónica Andreo,
  • Gladys Paredes,
  • Carlos Leaplaza,
  • Viviana Heredia,
  • María Victoria Periago and
  • Marcelo Abril

Strategies for the prevention of arboviral diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti have traditionally focused on vector control. This remains the same to this day, despite a lack of documented evidence on its efficacy due to a lack of coverage and sust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,428 Views
28 Pages

18 December 2024

The water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) is a crucial indicator for assessing the sustainability of regional development. This study integrates the gray water footprint (GWF) into the WRCC evaluation, constructing a comprehensive framework that e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,610 Views
18 Pages

Public health management can generate actionable results when diseases are studied in context with other candidate factors contributing to disease dynamics. In order to fully understand the interdependent relationships of multiple geospatial features...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,331 Views
47 Pages

Frontier Research on Low-Resource Speech Recognition Technology

  • Wushour Slam,
  • Yanan Li and
  • Nurmamet Urouvas

10 November 2023

With the development of continuous speech recognition technology, users have put forward higher requirements in terms of speech recognition accuracy. Low-resource speech recognition, as a typical speech recognition technology under restricted conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,334 Views
50 Pages

Efficient Hotspot Detection in Solar Panels via Computer Vision and Machine Learning

  • Nayomi Fernando,
  • Lasantha Seneviratne,
  • Nisal Weerasinghe,
  • Namal Rathnayake and
  • Yukinobu Hoshino

15 July 2025

Solar power generation is rapidly emerging within renewable energy due to its cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment. However, improper inspection and maintenance lead to significant damage from unnoticed solar hotspots. Even with inspections, fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Hotspots of Current Energy Potential in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic

  • Tarsila Sousa Lima,
  • Syumara Queiroz,
  • Maria Eduarda Américo Ishimaru,
  • Eduardo José Araújo Correia Lima,
  • Márcio das Chagas Moura and
  • Moacyr Araujo

9 January 2026

In the effort to mitigate climate change, the Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) energy from ocean currents emerges as an important renewable source due to its large potential, although it remains underexploited. In the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic, surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,298 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2024

Forest fires pose a multifaceted threat, encompassing human lives and property loss, forest resource destruction, and toxic gas release. This crucial disaster’s global occurrence and impact have risen in recent years, primarily driven by climat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,518 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2024

In today’s urban hotspot regions, service traffic exhibits dynamic variations in both time and location. Traditional fixed macro base stations (FMBSs) are unable to meet these dynamic demands due to their fixed coverage and capacity. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,140 Views
20 Pages

Water-Yield Variability and Its Attribution in the Yellow River Basin of China over Four Decades

  • Luying Li,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Yayuan Che,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Ziqiang Du,
  • Zhitao Wu,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Zhenrong Du,
  • Xiangcheng Li and
  • Yaoyao Li

2 August 2025

The water-yield function in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) of China for maintaining the basin’s ecological water balance plays a crucial role. Understanding its spatiotemporal variation and the underlying drivers in the basin is crucial for the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,529 Views
25 Pages

28 July 2023

In recent years, marine ranching, as an emerging model of marine industry development, has become a research hotspot in the marine industries of many countries. A marine ranching is an ecological aquaculture fishing ground formed within a specific se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,365 Views
12 Pages

Introduction: Alignment of National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) clinical services with the spatial distribution of breast and cervical cancer burden is essential to maximizing programmatic impact and addressing cancer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,412 Views
27 Pages

11 March 2021

Fungal genome sequencing data represent an enormous pool of information for enzyme discovery. Here, we report a new approach to identify and quantitatively compare biomass-degrading capacity and diversity of fungal genomes via integrated function-fam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,939 Views
15 Pages

Fine-Scale Risk Mapping for Dengue Vector Using Spatial Downscaling in Intra-Urban Areas of Guangzhou, China

  • Yunpeng Shen,
  • Zhoupeng Ren,
  • Junfu Fan,
  • Jianpeng Xiao,
  • Yingtao Zhang and
  • Xiaobo Liu

25 June 2025

Generating fine-scale risk maps for mosquito-borne diseases vectors is an essential tool for guiding spatially targeted vector control interventions in urban settings, given the limited public health resources. This study aimed to generate fine-scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,117 Views
28 Pages

Species Diversity and Geographical Distribution Patterns of Balsaminaceae in China

  • Yi Chen,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Qin-Qin Yong,
  • Tao-Hua Yuan,
  • Qiu Wang,
  • Mei-Jun Li,
  • Sheng-Wei Long and
  • Xin-Xiang Bai

12 September 2023

Balsaminaceae are world-famous ornamental flowers because of their high species diversity, rich variation, peculiar flower patterns, and long ornamental cycles. To study the species diversity, distribution patterns, and distribution hotspots of Balsa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,350 Views
14 Pages

HotSPOT: A Computational Tool to Design Targeted Sequencing Panels to Assess Early Photocarcinogenesis

  • Sydney R. Grant,
  • Spencer R. Rosario,
  • Andrew D. Patentreger,
  • Nico Shary,
  • Megan E. Fitzgerald,
  • Prashant K. Singh,
  • Barbara A. Foster,
  • Wendy J. Huss,
  • Lei Wei and
  • Gyorgy Paragh

5 March 2023

Mutations found in skin are acquired in specific patterns, clustering around mutation-prone genomic locations. The most mutation-prone genomic areas, mutation hotspots, first induce the growth of small cell clones in healthy skin. Mutations accumulat...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,299 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2022

Biological diversity is declining globally. The current national environmental policies that many countries around the globe have adopted and are implementing have not halted biodiversity loss as expected. This is also happening in several European p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,861 Views
14 Pages

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Space-Time Clusters and Risk Factors in Cattle and Buffalo in Bangladesh

  • A K M Anisur Rahman,
  • SK Shaheenur Islam,
  • Md. Abu Sufian,
  • Md. Hasanuzzaman Talukder,
  • Michael P. Ward and
  • Beatriz Martínez-López

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is highly endemic in Bangladesh. Using passive surveillance data (case records from all 64 districts of Bangladesh, 2014–2017) and district domestic ruminant population estimates, we calculated FMD cumulative incide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,087 Views
20 Pages

Wave Energy Assessment around the Aegadian Islands (Sicily)

  • Carlo Lo Re,
  • Giorgio Manno,
  • Giuseppe Ciraolo and
  • Giovanni Besio

22 January 2019

This paper presents the estimation of the wave energy potential around the Aegadian islands (Italy), carried out on the basis of high resolution wave hindcast. This reanalysis was developed employing Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) and WAVEWATCH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,443 Views
14 Pages

Hotspots Reduction for GALS NoC Using a Low-Latency Multistage Packet Reordering Approach

  • Zhenmin Li,
  • Ruimin Shen,
  • Maoxiang Yi,
  • Yukun Song,
  • Xiaolei Wang,
  • Gaoming Du and
  • Zhengfeng Huang

14 February 2023

Traffic splitting enabled by Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) Network-on-chip (NoC) brings multipath routing capability, which significantly increases link bandwidth at the cost of out-of-order packet delivery. Solving the packet reor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,511 Views
24 Pages

30 January 2024

Rural tourism serves as a crucial means for fostering rural economic prosperity and inheriting rural culture. The assessment of the quality of rural tourism development and the identification of disparities in rural tourism development among regions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
499 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2025

Karst aquifers, vital freshwater resources, are highly vulnerable to agricultural pollution, yet their hydro-geochemical responses remain poorly understood due to high spatial heterogeneity. This study aimed to unravel these complex responses in a su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,909 Views
16 Pages

The Link between Landscape Characteristics and Soil Losses Rates over a Range of Spatiotemporal Scales: Hubei Province, China

  • Qing Li,
  • Yong Zhou,
  • Li Wang,
  • Qian Zuo,
  • Siqi Yi,
  • Jingyi Liu,
  • Xueping Su,
  • Tao Xu and
  • Yan Jiang

Controlling soil erosion is beneficial to the conservation of soil resources and ecological restoration. Understanding the spatial distribution characteristics of soil erosion helps find the key areas for soil control projects and optimal scale for i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,585 Views
21 Pages

To reduce the burden caused by an increased elderly population and to provide efficient service resources, scholars worldwide have proposed and applied smart elderly care. This paper summarizes the hotspots of the existing literature and explores the...

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