Recognizing the spatial effects of regional poverty is essential for achieving sustainable poverty alleviation. This study investigates these spatial effects and their determinants across three distinct administrative levels within Hubei Province, Ch...
Organometal halide perovskites have achieved great success in solution-processed photovoltaics. The explorations quickly expanded into other optoelectronic applications, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, and photodetectors. An in-depth analysi...
Vegetation phenology reflects the temporal dynamics of vegetation growth and is an important indicator of climate change. However, differences consistently exist in land surface phenology derived at different spatial scales, which hinders the underst...
The present study aims to investigate the scale effects of the open water propeller performance using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The results are presented for the propeller which was previously 3D scanned and digitized. The results obtained...
In this study, statistical data on the national economic and social development, including the year-end actual area of arable land, the crop yield per unit area and 10 factors, were obtained for the period between 1980 and 2010 and used to analyze th...
Thinning is a crucial approach to the near-natural conversion of plantations, contributing to the sustainability of forest management. However, over a rotation, the effects of thinning on tree growth, structure, and species diversity, as well as thei...
To advance breakthroughs in core technologies and foster the growth of technology-based enterprises, China has introduced the Sci-Tech Finance Pilot Policy with the aim of promoting sci-tech enterprise development through optimized financial resource...
The net carbon effect of farming is crucial for climate change mitigation, yet there is insufficient research on the impact of land management scale on it in China. This study aims to explore the magnitude and role of land management scale on the net...
The investigation of the wake field and nominal wake fraction in shallow water is critical for understanding ship hydrodynamics in confined environments. While extensive research has been conducted on deep water wake behavior, limited studies have ad...
The scale effect on the accuracy of a numerical simulation in ship hydrodynamics represents an important issue of the propeller numerical analysis. To grasp a better understanding on the influence of this effect, an introspection on the performances...
The ability to understand and predict the expected internal behaviour of a given solid-propellant rocket motor under transient conditions is important. Research towards predicting and quantifying undesirable transient axial combustion instability sym...
Scale effects on the mechanical behavior of rock joints have been extensively studied in rocks and rock-like materials. However, limited attention has been paid to understanding scale effects on the shear strength of rock joints in relation to normal...
Wetland birds are undergoing severe population declines globally, primarily attributed to extensive wetland loss and degradation. The attributes of the landscape surrounding a focal locality, referred to as ‘landscape context’, have been...
The ability to predict with some accuracy a given solid rocket motor’s performance before undertaking one or several costly experimental test firings is important. On the numerical prediction side, as various component models evolve, their incorporat...
Soundscape quality in green spaces of residential areas directly contributes to residents’ quality of life. It has close relationships with landscape characteristics, which should be considered in landscape planning and design processes in resi...
The objectives of this study were to clarify the effects of scale on farmland drainage water and the nitrogen and phosphorusload discharged in hilly irrigation areas. An experimental study was conducted to monitor the drainage water volume and nitrog...
The 1688 Sannio–Matese earthquake, with a macroseismically derived magnitude of Mw = 7 and an epicentral intensity of IMCS = XI, had a deep impact on Southern Italy, causing thousands of casualties, extensive damage and significant environmenta...
The identification, evaluation, and spatial distribution of “Production–Living–Ecological” space (PLEs) have been widely studied, but there is still little attention paid to whether their distribution characteristics will vary...
In this study, the 3D numerical modelling of flow in a pool-type fishway with bottom orifices was performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software (FLOW-3D®). Numerical results were compared with experimental data obtained from acoustic Do...
Ecosystem services (ESs) assessment plays a significant role in managing ecological resources. Uncovering the complex interdependencies between ESs and their key drivers is an essential preliminary step toward the coordinated management of ESs. Curre...
To study the influence of the spatial distribution and structure of multi-scale cracks on the mechanical behavior of rocks, triaxial compression tests and cyclic triaxial complete loading and unloading tests were conducted on sandstone, with real-tim...
Green tide area is a crucial indicator for monitoring green tide dynamics. However, scale effects arising from differences in image resolution can lead to estimation errors. Current pixel-level and sub-pixel-level methods often overlook the impact of...
Water cycles exist in all processes of water resources utilization, including water-saving irrigation. Due to the complex water cycle process of irrigation, the ecological effects and safety of large-scale water-saving irrigation have received increa...
The temporal scale effect is an important issue for groundwater system evolution research. The selection of an appropriate time scale will enhance the understanding of the characteristics and mechanisms of groundwater flow field evolution. In this st...
The scale effect problem is one of the most challenging issues in remote sensing studies. However, the research on the methodology and theory of the scale effect is scarcely applied in practice. To this end, in this study, 3 years of field experiment...
Optimizing the spatial pattern (spatial compositive and spatial configuration) of urban greenspace can effectively alleviate the urban heat island effect. While the relationship between air temperature (AT) and spatial composition of urban greenspace...
With the rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent years, UAV-based remote sensing has emerged as a highly efficient and practical tool for environmental monitoring. In vegetation remote sensing, UAVs equipped with hyperspectral...
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The type of noise annoyance scale and aspects of its presentation such as response format or location within a questionnaire and other contextual factors may affect self-reported noise annoyance. By means of a balanced experimental design, the effect...
Precipitation is an important parameter in water resource management, urban flood warning systems, and hydrological analyses. Precipitation forecasting can provide a decision-making basis for relevant organizations, such as those in the agricultural...
This paper analyses the nonlinear forces on a moored point-absorbing wave energy converter (WEC) in resonance at prototype scale (1:1) and at model scale (1:16). Three simulation types were used: Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS), Euler an...
Urban forests are expected to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect in megacities. The mechanism and factors influencing the cooling effect of urban forest have been extensively discussed; however, the spatial scale effect of cooling heterogene...
This paper is dedicated to the extended solid (continuum) model of tensegrity structures or lattices. Tensegrity is defined as a pin-joined truss structure with an infinitesimal mechanism stabilized by a set of self-equilibrated normal forces. The pr...
Unveiling the scale effects on the interactions and driving factors of ecosystem services (ESs) contributes to the differentiated conservation of ESs across multiple scales. Utilizing models such as Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trad...
The theoretical system of existing civil engineering typhoon models is too simplified and the simulation accuracy is very low. Therefore, in this work a meso-scale weather forecast model (WRF) based on the non-static Euler equation model was introduc...
Land use has been demonstrated to have an important influence on PM2.5 concentrations; however, how the scale effects and regional disparities in land use influence PM2.5 concentrations remains unclear. This study investigated the scale differences i...
Urban environments have a strong influence on the land surface temperature (LST) in urban areas. Understanding the relationship between LST and urban environmental factors can help develop effective strategies to reduce high LSTs in urban areas, whic...
The tribological study of materials inherently involves the interaction of surface asperities at the micro to nanoscopic length scales. This is the case for large scale engineering applications with sliding contacts, where the real area of contact is...
Fiber metal laminates (FMLs) are a novel lightweight composite material, predominantly utilized in the aerospace sector for large-scale components like skin panels and fuselages. However, research on FMLs in the microsystem domain remains limited. Ad...
The aim of this study was, first of all, to associate the mercury (Hg) concentrations and respiratory functions of the gold miners in the artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) environment in San Martín de Loba, Colombia. We carried out a cr...
Remote sensing (RS) technology can rapidly obtain spatial distribution information on soil salinization. However, (1) the scale effects resulting from the mismatch between ground-based “point” salinity data and remote sensing pixel-based...
Urban heat island (UHI) effect, the side effect of rapid urbanization, has become an obstacle to the further healthy development of the city. Understanding its relationships with impact factors is important to provide useful information for climate a...
Understanding the spatial distribution of land surface temperature (LST) and its impact factors is crucial for mitigating urban heat island effect. However, few studies have quantitatively investigated the spatial non-stationarity and spatial scale e...
This paper summarizes the content and scope of the “Catalogue of Earthquake Geological Effects in Spain”. The catalogue has been published by the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) and constitutes the first official publication (in Spain)...
Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) and its influencing factors are crucial for green and low-carbon development and facilitate human well-being in the Yellow River Basin (YRB). Although the research...
The quality of cultivated land has been seriously degraded due to the overuse of chemical fertilizer in China. Land conservation technologies (LCTs) have been proven to effectively address land degradation and improve land productivity. In this study...
This research analyzed the scale effect of water saving in Bielahonghe (BLH) Basin, a rice-cultivating district on the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China. Water budgets with different surface irrigation water supply ratios and water-saving measures were...
Short fiber-reinforced polymers have recently been introduced to large-scale additive manufacturing to improve the mechanical performances of printed-parts. As the short fiber polymer composite is extruded and deposited on a moving platform, velocity...
Water and chloride ions within pores of cementitious materials plays a crucial role in the damage processes of cement pastes, particularly in the binding material comprising calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H). The migration mechanism of water and chlo...
Interactions between pollution sources, water contamination, and ecological integrity are complex phenomena and hard to access. To comprehend this subject of study, it is crucial to use advanced statistical tools, which can unveil cause-effect relati...
The incoming solar radiation arriving the Earth’s surface is strongly influenced by surface terrain. Conventional global weather forecast models, with grid scales of about 10 km, lack the resolution to accurately capture terrain-induced variati...
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