Based on nighttime light data from 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020, the urban built-up area of 90 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin was extracted, and the urban spatial expansion characteristics of 90 prefecture-level cities were expl...
Rapid urban expansion caused by vigorous urban population growth brought up various socioeconomic and eco-environmental problems, which have important ramifications for sustainable development across the world. Along with the accelerated urbanization...
The current research on the change of homesteads has rarely combined spatial information, and no expansion research has been found with a scale as detailed as the level of the homestead plots. Understanding the changing rules of homesteads expansion...
In smallholder-dominated agricultural systems, farm expansion is often expected to improve agricultural performance, yet a larger operated area does not necessarily translate into higher returns per unit of land. This issue is particularly relevant i...
Farm-scale expansion is widely viewed as a means of improving agricultural efficiency and linking smallholders to modern agriculture. Yet whether it improves the conditions under which smallholders participate in grain production remains unclear. Usi...
China’s technical progress on emissions and vast ocean area make the study for CO2 emission reduction suitable in a marine fishery. This study uses the slack variables of SBM and the Malmquist index to analyze the CO2 emission efficiency of Tra...
With the increasing maturity of renewable energy technologies and the pressing need to address climate change, urban power systems are striving to integrate a higher proportion of low-carbon renewable energy sources. However, the inherent variability...
In this study, a method based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and azimuth-scale expansion is presented to retrieve the sea-surface wind direction from a single X-band marine radar image. The algorithm first distinguishes rain-free and rain-co...
Global large-scale urbanization has a deep impact on climate change and has brought great challenges to sustainable development, especially in urban agglomerations. At present, there is still a lack of research on the quantitative assessment of the r...
Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) hold great potential to generate novel and curative cell therapy products. However, the current large-scale cultivation of hUCMSCs is based on empirical geometry-dependent methods, limitin...
Scaling social impact and solutions beyond the local context is argued to embody a key mechanism for social enterprises (SEs) to contribute to the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to generate welfare-enhancing systemic chan...
Increasing global demand for natural rubber began in the mid-2000s and led to large-scale expansion of plantations in Laos until rubber latex prices declined greatly beginning in 2011. The expansion of rubber did not, however, occur uniformly across...
Recent changes in insect distribution are consistent with the expected interacting effects of climate and habitat change. The orthopteran Ruspolia nitidula has expanded its area of distribution in Western and Central Europe in recent decades. Because...
Permanent surface water is an important component of regional hydrological systems, yet basin-scale area statistics alone may overlook structural changes in highly modified basins. This study investigated long-term permanent surface-water dynamics in...
Concretes with engineered thermal expansion coefficients, capable of avoiding failure or irreversible destruction of structures or devices, are important for civil engineering applications, such as dams, bridges, and buildings. In natural materials,...
Thermal expansion is inevitable for space structures under the alternating temperature of outer space around the earth. This may lead to the thermal stress and deformation due to the mismatch of the coefficient of thermal expansion. Near-zero thermal...
Understanding spatial characteristics of urban building systems is critical for unraveling urban building stock growth patterns, addressing housing vacancy challenges, and advancing urban carbon neutrality. However, existing research on built environ...
“The Dragon and the Elephant” between China and India is an important manifestation of global multipolarization in the 21st century. As engines of global economic growth, the two rising powers have followed similar courses of development...
The assessment of human liver stem cells (HLSCs) as cell therapeutics requires scalable, controlled expansion processes. We first focused on defining appropriate process parameters for HLSC expansion such as seeding density, use of antibiotics, optim...
Road infrastructure is reshaping the rural settlement landscape in the Himalayan area of China through the construction of the rural road and strategic highway network. However, most methods based on multiple factors described in spatial analysis of...
With increasing electrification and the connection of more renewable resources at the transmission level, bulk interconnected electric grids need to plan network expansion with new transmission facilities. The transmission expansion planning (TEP) pr...
Surface water is an important factor affecting vegetation change in desert areas. However, little research has been conducted on the effects of surface water on vegetation expansion. In this study, the annual spatial distribution range of vegetation...
The rapid growth of utility-scale wind power plants has increased the importance of medium-voltage (MV) collector-network design. While conventional collector systems are generally optimized for the initially installed generation capacity, future exp...
This paper presents the results of an ideal theoretical energy and exergy analysis for a combined, building scale Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) and expansion turbine system. This work identifies the upper bounds of energy and exergy efficiency for...
By phenomenologically assuming a slow temporal variation of the percent acceleration rate S̈S -1 of the cosmic scale factor S(t), it is shown that the orbit of a local binary undergoes a secular expansion. To first order in the power expansion of S̈S...
As a developing country, China is experiencing rapid urbanization. With rapid economic development and urban population growth, urban land continues to expand. The urban land expansion provides development space for cities; however, the disorderly ex...
Expansion of a polymer chain released from a confined state under theta conditions is investigated by means of Langevin dynamics simulations in both three- and two-dimensional geometries. Using a bead–spring chain representation, the
Proximity-based planning frameworks such as the 15 min city and community life circle (CLC) are widely promoted to improve age-friendly access to essential resources, based on the assumption that enlarging spatial scale improves access. This assumpti...
Rapid growth in photovoltaic (PV) development has intensified competition between renewable energy expansion and land resources, highlighting the importance of integrating PV growth with spatial planning toward carbon neutrality. This study addresses...
A two-stage model is developed to explain the phenomena of chain expansion, released from a confining cavity. In the first stage, the chain is assumed to expand as a sphere, while in the second stage it expands like a coil. The kinetic equations for...
The biodiversity crisis and ecosystem degradation caused by habitat destruction and human activities can be reduced by organizing protected areas. However, many protected areas currently take the form of “green islands,” which has led to...
Since organ donation after citizen death became the sole legal source in 2015, lung transplantation (LTx) in China has undergone a systematic transformation, shifting from numerical scarcity to scale expansion and from technical exploration to sustai...
Excessive settlement of the subgrade seriously reduces the service quality of slab tracks and threatens trains’ running safety. While the utilization of foamed polyurethane is recognized as an effective solution, previous research on its expans...
Super-resolution microscopy has transformed biological imaging by enabling nanoscale visualization of cellular structures beyond the diffraction limit. However, its effective application in highly dense molecular environments still poses challenges....
Vast rural populations squeezed into cities, leaving small townships hollowed out. Even so, some townships’ lands are still expanding. The dilemma of land expansion with a shrinking population raises various challenges including farmland reduct...
The first objective of this paper is to investigate the scaling behavior of liquid-vapor phase transition in FCC and BCCmetals starting from the zero-temperature four-parameter formula for cohesive energy. The effective potentials between the atoms i...
Renewable energy sources (RES) are becoming more attractive due to the global demand for the utilization of clean energy and their easy accessibility. The integration of renewable energy technologies into power systems has been made easy, such that R...
The challenge of maintaining ride quality and serviceability in flexible pavements built over expansive soil deposits remains a critical concern for transportation agencies. These expansive subgrades exhibit swell-shrink behavior in response to moist...
We develop a model-independent response-window formalism that describes how small perturbations of the cosmological expansion history around that of the standard
Land-use and land-cover change plays a critical role in shaping urban expansion patterns and modifying near-surface soil conditions, hydrological behaviour, and geomorphological stability in rapidly developing regions. This study presents a comparati...
Rural e-commerce is reshaping agricultural markets, yet its environmental consequences remain insufficiently understood. This study examines how the Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration (RECD) program affects agricultural carbon outcomes in C...
In this study, exergy and economic analysis were conducted to gain insight on small-scale movable LNG liquefaction considering leakage. Optimization and comparison were performed to demonstrate the quantitative results of single mixed refrigerant, du...
An algorithm for large-scale correlated calculations on atoms is presented that significantly reduces the scaling of these calculations with the number of single-particle functions used to construct the N-particle states. The reduction is provided in...
A general propagation lattice Boltzmann model is used to solve Boussinesq equations. Different local equilibrium distribution functions are selected, and the macroscopic equation is recovered with second order accuracy by means of the Chapman–E...
While the importance of pursuing integrated population, health and environment (PHE) approaches and ensuring their sustainable expansion to regional and national levels have been widely affirmed in the development field, little practical experience a...
Metabolic rate and its covariation with body mass vary substantially within and among species in little understood ways. Here, I critically review explanations (and supporting data) concerning how cell size and number and their establishment by cell...
Storing hydrogen in interstitial metal hydrides has several advantages. These include high volumetric capacity (50–100 kg/m3), fast kinetics, and safer conditions due to mild operating temperatures (<100 °C) and pressures (<50 bar). H...
Medium-scale farms have become a major force in Malawi’s agricultural sector. Malawi’s most recent official agricultural survey indicates that these account for over a quarter of all land under cultivation in Malawi. This study explores the causes an...
Velocity, pressure, and density fields computed in earlier three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of a statistically stationary, planar, one-dimensional, low-Mach-number hydrogen–air flame propagating in small-scale, moderately intense,...
Railway idle land offers a large and underused space for solar power, yet its economic value has not been evaluated. Revenue depends on the volatile System Marginal Price (SMP) and Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) markets, whose uncertainty cannot...
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