With the advances in the IoT era, the number of wireless sensor devices has been growing rapidly. This increasing number gives rise to more complex networks where more complex tasks can be executed by utilizing more computational resources from the p...
Video streaming has become extremely widespread, especially with the growing number of users and the spread of mobile devices, along with the increase in the availability and diversity of multimedia applications and communication technologies. Real-t...
The adequacy of mineral resources in light of population growth and rising standards of living has been a concern since the time of Malthus (1798), but many studies erroneously forecast impending peak production or exhaustion because they confuse res...
Conventional coal mine reserve estimation methods are misaligned with modern production. This study develops a lifecycle, production-oriented framework for dynamic reserve accounting, including a strip inversion algorithm for mined faces and an impro...
The development of reserve resources of cultivated land (RRCL) is a vital way of supplementing cultivated land in the northern arid and semi-arid regions of China. This study developed a suitability evaluation system for reserve resources of cultivat...
Transparent, objective, and repeatable resource assessments should be the goal of companies, investors, and regulators. Different types of resources, however, may require different approaches for their quantification. In particular, coal can be treat...
In the context of the rapid development of renewable energy and frequent extreme weather, accurate evaluation of the backup operation flexibility of multiple distributed resources is a prerequisite for improving the resilience of power systems. Howev...
Cultivated reserved land resources are pivotal for achieving food security and sustainable agricultural development. However, existing research on these resources often grapples with issues such as the lack of current data and underutilization of ava...
The scientific and reasonable division of geographical units of cultivated land reserve resource areas is an important foundation for comprehensive land consolidation (CLC). Saline–alkali land is an important cultivated land reserve resource, a...
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources based on renewable energy sources in distribution systems leads to a more complex management of power systems. Consequently, ancillary services become even more important to maintain the syst...
In recent years, the introduction of specific software for the evaluation of geological resources and mineral reserves has increased significantly thanks to the use of block models capable of working with large databases and applicable to virtually a...
Elastic optical networks (EONs) can make service accommodation more flexible and precise by employing efficient routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) algorithms. In order to improve the efficiency of RSA algorithms, the advanced-reservation technique...
In order to solve the problem of traditional risk rating methods without considering the cost of risk maintenance resources and ignoring the low risk of “High Loss Severity (HLS) with low probability” and the low risk of “High Failu...
The scientific development and utilization of cultivated land reserve resource areas is an important basis for realizing national food security and regional ecological protection. This paper focuses on land use optimization simulations to explore the...
The sustainable use of farmland depends on the precise identification of promising reserved cultivated land resources, particularly in regions with fragmented spatial patterns and complex environmental conditions. Traditional evaluation methods often...
This paper investigates the routing, modulation, and spectrum assignment (RMSA) problem for advance reservation (AR) requests in semi-filterless optical networks (semi-FONs). A link resource-aware (LRA) algorithm consisting of three parts is proposed...
Iran boasts internationally important deposits of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons can be regarded not only as an exceptional energy resource, but also a geological heritage (geoheritage) resource. A new investigation of the Bangestan carbonate rocks f...
The aim of this paper is to develop two concepts regarding phosphorus that will serve as a contribution fulfilling the call for intergenerational equity: to improve knowledge of future resources and to develop a framework by setting priorities for ma...
Depletion of abiotic resources is a much disputed impact category in life cycle assessment (LCA). The reason is that the problem can be defined in different ways. Furthermore, within a specified problem definition, many choices can still be made rega...
The economic contribution of forest resources to the communities surrounding nature reserves cannot be ignored. The method for which to find a forest resource utilization path to balance the contradiction between local farmers’ economic develop...
This paper aims to characterize and interpret the trends in reserves, resources, and mine production of feldspar and feldspathoid rocks during 2005–2019 in the Czech Republic. With over 101 Mt of total resources and 22 Mt of reserves, feldspar...
Mining supplies metals and minerals to meet the material and energy needs of the modern world. Typically, mineral resources are widely considered to be ‘finite’ in nature, yet, paradoxically, global production and reported reserves and resources cont...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant damage to global healthcare systems. Previous studies regarding COVID-19’s impact on outpatient numbers focused only on a specific department, lacking research data for multiple departments in general ho...
Population increase has placed ever-increasing demands on the available groundwater (GW) resources, particularly for intensive agricultural activities. In India, groundwater is the backbone of agriculture and drinking purposes. In the present study,...
Fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) systems are expected to support multiple traffic classes including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC) at the same ai...
The classification of mineral resources and reserves provides a structured framework for evaluating the geological, technical, and economic aspects of mineral deposits. To reduce subjectivity and enhance reliability, international reporting standards...
This study focuses on leveraging the emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology, P4, to design a data plane for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) that can be applied in various scenarios, including both wired and wireless networks....
With the rapid development of the Internet, the number of requests in cloud computing is increasing rapidly. However, cloud resources are limited, and the surge in demand will lead to performance degradation in cloud services. To improve the performa...
Religious belief play an irreplaceable role in the protection of natural resources. This paper explores the influence of religious beliefs on the Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) collection behaviors of farmers, in order to provide new ideas on how...
The watershed of the Peixe River lies in central Minas Gerais state, close to Belo Horizonte city, a densely populated area. The area is located in the geological context of Quadrilátero Ferrífero, one of the most prominent mineral prov...
High renewable penetration makes imbalance settlement inseparable from the physical decisions governing reserve procurement and flexibility activation. This paper develops a decision-focused learning-based optimization framework that trains renewable...
Silver is one of the rarest metals in nature and certainly among the most used ones, not only as precious good for financial investments but also for many industrial critical applications. Because it would be very difficult to analyze the situation r...
The high penetration of renewable energy resources has made it harder to secure a flexible power system. Accordingly, this has become an issue in operating power systems. As a possible solution, pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) has received...
From the perspective of system science, in China, an assignment system of initial water entitlements at the river basin-level can be divided into two subsystems, namely the assignment subsystem of initial water entitlements at the province-level and...
Wind energy is a powerful resource contributing to the decarbonization of the electric grid. However, wind power penetration introduces uncertainty about the availability of wind energy. This article addresses the complementarity of remote offshore w...
With ~70% of the sub-Saharan population living in rural areas, more than 90% of rural African households depend on natural forest products. Although several studies in other parts of South Africa have looked into the use of natural forest products in...
In Germany, the wild ancestor (Apium graveolens L. ssp. graveolens) of celery and celeriac is threatened by genetic erosion. Seventy-eight potentially suitable genetic reserve sites representing differing ecogeographic units were assessed with regard...
In most Sub-Saharan African countries, such as Togo, forest ecosystems provide ecosystem services to the local population. These ecosystem services are of vital importance to the local populations, who depend on the benefits derived from their use to...
Transient electromagnetic (TEM) surveys constitute an important element in exploration projects and can be successfully used in the search for oil and gas. Different modifications of the method include shallow (sTEM), 2D, 3D, and 4D (time-lapse) soun...
Groundwater resources at all times have provided and continue to provide a significant impact on the economic, social, and often political activities of any state, especially if the reserves of this strategic resource are limited. Coordinated groundw...
With the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution networks, traditional passive distribution systems are evolving into active and flexible systems capable of participating in the transmission-level energy market....
Most habitat suitability models and resource selection functions (RSFs) use indirect variables and habitat surrogates. However, it is known that in order to adequately reflect the habitat requirements of a species, it is necessary to use proximal res...
Geostatistical techniques are applied to examine the life cycle of a mineral deposit. There are two main classes of geostatistical techniques: (1) deterministic techniques that include kriging and cokriging for a single best estimate, and (2) probabi...
The Polish part of the Roztocze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve area is characterized by diversified geotourism resources with relatively high value. However, their potential seems not to be fully used in the current product offer. The aim of the stu...
With the widespread application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), WSN virtualization technology has received extensive attention. A key challenge in WSN virtualization is the survivable virtual network embedding (SVNE) problem which efficiently map...
To investigate the dynamic characteristics of early fish life stages and their association with environmental factors in Xiangshan Bay, China, two surveys were conducted in the springs of 2023 and 2024 to collect fish eggs and larvae. A total of 21,2...
With the development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology, the need for real-time data processing and communication in vehicles is increasing. Traditional request-based methods face challenges in terms of latency and bandwidth limitations. Mode 4...
In this work, an interval-parameter two-stage stochastic programming (IPTSP) model of water resources allocation was established for maximizing the restored habitat area of large, rare, and endangered water birds by adjusting the recommended scheme o...
No consensus has been reached on the problem of solving resource depletion. A recognition of the fact that resources are not endless and the Earth is a finite globe reinforces the idea that the vision of continuous economic growth is not sustainable...
The bidirectional uncertainty of source and load creates scarcity in the reserve resources of the distribution network. Therefore, it is highly significant for the safe and economic operation of the system to harness spare energy storage capacity fro...
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