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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,944 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2023

Regional development issues can be reflected in land use and addressed through land use restructuring. It is commonly recognized that strengthening the role of small towns in the coordinated and sustainable development of counties, towns, and village...

  • Article
  • Open Access
490 Views
20 Pages

Meter-Scale Redox Stratification Drives the Restructuring of Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in Soil-Sediment Ecotone of Coal Mining Subsidence Area

  • Yingjia Cao,
  • Yuanyuan Li,
  • Xi Zhang,
  • Ruihao Cui,
  • Lingtong Meng,
  • Xuyang Jiang,
  • Lijun Hao and
  • Zhenqi Hu

6 December 2025

The coal mining subsidence area constitutes a distinct ecotone in the transition from agricultural soil to sediment, yet the microbially mediated nitrogen cycle within it remains inadequately understood. This investigation comprehensively analyzed ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,001 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2023

Since China is the largest developing country in the world, its urban reconstruction has significance for countries undergoing rapid urbanization. The recent development of its central cities has gradually changed from large-scale incremental expansi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,867 Views
30 Pages

13 December 2022

Studying land use transition and restructuring has value for promoting sustainable regional development, especially in China’s vast rural areas, which are undergoing rapid changes. Current research tends to focus on the macro level, and analyse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,809 Views
17 Pages

10 December 2015

Since the reform and opening up, the Chinese economy has achieved sustained high-speed growth. However, the widening gaps in income, especially for rural China, seem to be a dark lining to these extraordinary achievements. Taking the duration of pove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,139 Views
22 Pages

2 September 2025

In urban regeneration, co-production has become a significant approach for shaping public space in urban communities. While existing studies focus on the processes and stakeholders involved in co-production of community public space (CPS), few have e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,234 Views
24 Pages

13 June 2025

Global value chain (GVC) restructuring has important implications for the transformation of corporate outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), a process that is closely linked to sustainable economic development. Based on panel data from 2007 to 202...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,061 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2025

Systematically assessing the impact of industrial restructuring on carbon emissions and economic growth from the industrial correlation perspective holds great significance for realizing sustainable economic development. By extending the input–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,523 Views
13 Pages

8 August 2018

A new environmental ban has forced the restructure of open dumps in China since 1 July 2011. A technical process was established in this study that is feasible for the upgrade of open dumps through restructuring. The feasibility of restructuring and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,199 Views
31 Pages

30 December 2022

Complex eigenvalues of random matrices J=GUE+iγdiag(1,0,,0) provide the simplest model for studying resonances in wave scattering from a quantum chaotic system via a single open channel. It is known that in the limit of large matrix dim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,130 Views
29 Pages

7 October 2025

Housing markets worldwide have undergone major disruptions during the COVID-19 period, raising questions about how systemic shocks reshape housing preferences and spatial structures. This study develops an integrated spatial framework to examine mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,493 Views
11 Pages

20 August 2021

(1) Background: The MMPI-2-RF is the most widely used and most researched test among the tools for assessing psychopathology, and previous studies have established its validity. Mood disorders are the most common mental disorders worldwide; they pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,339 Views
23 Pages

7 October 2025

In the knowledge economy era, optimizing R&D team size is crucial for breakthrough innovation. Breakthrough technologies rely more on knowledge restructuring and technological leaps than general technologies do. However, it remains unclear whethe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,272 Views
9 Pages

Testing the Effectiveness of a Mixed-Method Pilot Intervention in Reducing Risky Driving Due to Aggression and Stress

  • Maria Papadakaki,
  • Nikolaos Stamou,
  • Stefanos Bessas,
  • Stavroula Lioliou and
  • Jooannes Chliaoutakis

14 February 2020

The study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a mixed-method pilot intervention in reducing risky self-reported driving performance, upon addressing stress and aggression while driving. The study recruited individuals who had performed these behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,900 Views
16 Pages

Real-Time Safety Evaluation for Slope during Construction Using Numerical Forecast and Sensor Monitoring Platform

  • Sherong Zhang,
  • Dejun Hou,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Xuexing Cao,
  • Fenghua Zhang,
  • Fei Pan and
  • Chengbo Du

6 September 2018

Geology uncertainties and real-time construction modification induce an increase of construction risk for large-scale slope in hydraulic engineering. However, the real-time evaluation of slope safety during construction is still an unsettled issue fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
617 Views
27 Pages

19 December 2025

This study examines how platformized e-commerce logistics reshapes urban land use at the neighborhood scale, using Shanghai as an empirical case. It argues that last-mile logistics infrastructure operates through two intertwined mechanisms: as physic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,696 Views
13 Pages

Recovery and Restructuring of Fine and Coarse Soil Fractions as Earthen Construction Materials

  • Mazhar Hussain,
  • Ines Lamrous,
  • Antony Provost,
  • Nathalie Leblanc,
  • Hafida Zmamou,
  • Daniel Levacher and
  • Abdoulaye Kane

16 October 2024

Excessive consumption of natural resources to meet the growing demands of building and infrastructure projects has put enormous stress on these resources. On the other hand, a significant quantity of soil is excavated for development activities acros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,231 Views
22 Pages

17 May 2025

Rural finance provides financial support for agricultural production. Agricultural credit, as the most important rural financial resource, is designed to regulate rural economic activity and guide the rational adjustment of the rural economy and indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,493 Views
13 Pages

In the early 2000s, the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, undertook health system restructuring, including closing some rural hospitals. We examined whether changes in geographic access to hospitals and primary care were associated with changes in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,099 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2017

The response of associating polymers with oscillatory shear is studied through large-scale simulations. A hybrid molecular dynamics (MD), Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm is employed. Polymer chains are modeled as a coarse-grained bead-spring system. Funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,839 Views
23 Pages

11 March 2025

The rapid pace of technological advancement presents cities with emerging socio-economic and environmental challenges. Drastic climate change threatens the viability of biologically comfortable environments, compelling urban areas to adapt to new con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,525 Views
17 Pages

Adaptation, Development, and Validation of the Spiritual Community and Togetherness Scale (SCoTS)

  • Christopher R. Dabbs,
  • Carrie L. Winterowd,
  • Elizabeth A. Albright,
  • Tiffany Kolba,
  • Tianna Etes,
  • Bronson K. Snyder,
  • Jeffery Logan Riddle and
  • Kidist A. Beker

We adapted the SCoTS from the Collegiate Psychological Sense of Community Scale to measure religious/spiritual (R/S) community and belonging among college students. Emerging research indicates that participation and involvement in R/S groups among co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
380 Views
25 Pages

In light of the persistently mounting pressure on urban and rural waste management, developing efficient, low-carbon, and resource-oriented waste treatment technologies represents a critical challenge demanding urgent breakthroughs. Thermophilic anae...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,413 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2018

Large-scale village relocation and urbanization, one of the most significant social changes in China, bring villages both development opportunities and social risks. The social risks mainly stem from the government’s strong position in land exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
45 Pages

15 January 2026

Chennai’s transport sector is undergoing a structural transition as the city seeks to accommodate rapidly growing travel demand while reducing energy consumption and emissions. This study develops a city-scale system dynamics model using STELLA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,323 Views
22 Pages

This paper aims to present a unified overview of the main Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) implementation solutions of forward and inverse discrete sine transforms using systolic arrays. The main features of the most important solutions to impleme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,697 Views
23 Pages

5 April 2021

Due to advancements in science and technology, software is constantly evolving. To adapt to newly demanded requirements in a piece of software, software components are modified or developed. Measuring software completeness has been a challenging task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,978 Views
32 Pages

In the new paradigm where the digital economy is profoundly reshaping urban spatial organization, how the platform economy transcends traditional geographical constraints to restructure the urban system has become a strategic issue in urban geography...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,716 Views
20 Pages

Path to an Integrated Modelling between IFC and CityGML for Neighborhood Scale Modelling

  • Steve Kardinal Jusuf,
  • Benjamin Mousseau,
  • Gaelle Godfroid and
  • Jin Hui Vincent Soh

Planning of the built environment requires two-levels of planning process, city/neighborhood-scale and building-scale levels. At the city/neighborhood-scale, Geographic Information System (GIS) is commonly used with CityGML as its open-source 3D form...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
83 Citations
21,975 Views
15 Pages

Companies and countries have needed to adapt their activities to the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine. The analysis in this article shows that both the Russian war in Ukraine and the subsequent trade restrictions have become a powerful trig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,173 Views
14 Pages

Synthetic Biology: A New Era in Hydrocarbon Bioremediation

  • Valentina Jiménez-Díaz,
  • Aura Marina Pedroza-Rodríguez,
  • Oswaldo Ramos-Monroy and
  • Laura C. Castillo-Carvajal

6 April 2022

Crude oil is a viscous dark liquid resource composed by a mix of hydrocarbons which, after refining, is used for the elaboration of distinct products. A major concern is that many petroleum components are highly toxic due to their teratogenic, hemoto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,205 Views
12 Pages

29 August 2024

The adjustment of stroke survivors is self-directed and multi-dimensional. This study developed an adaptive behavior scale for stroke survivors reflecting these characteristics and performed a psychometric evaluation. The item pool was derived based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,209 Views
14 Pages

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between the risk of smartphone dependence, mental health, and personality traits in university students using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF), an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,410 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2022

Enterprises in socio-economic ecosystems, like organisms in natural ecosystems, have life cycles. Since the enterprise life cycle theory was proposed, how to measure the enterprise life cycle has been a hot research topic. In order to assess the life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,537 Views
22 Pages

20 July 2022

Farmer cooperatives play a significant role in increasing farmers’ income, ensuring food security, and maintaining supply chain stability. While the number of cooperatives in China has increased rapidly in recent years, it is challenge for many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,684 Views
20 Pages

An Optimization Strategy for EV-Integrated Microgrids Considering Peer-to-Peer Transactions

  • Sen Tian,
  • Qian Xiao,
  • Tianxiang Li,
  • Yu Jin,
  • Yunfei Mu,
  • Hongjie Jia,
  • Wenhua Li,
  • Remus Teodorescu and
  • Josep M. Guerrero

16 October 2024

The scale of electric vehicles (EVs) in microgrids is growing prominently. However, the stochasticity of EV charging behavior poses formidable obstacles to exploring their dispatch potential. To solve this issue, an optimization strategy for EV-integ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,640 Views
19 Pages

Design of an FPGA-Based Controller for Fast Scanning Probe Microscopy

  • Leonardo Gregorat,
  • Marco Cautero,
  • Sergio Carrato,
  • Dario Giuressi,
  • Mirco Panighel,
  • Giuseppe Cautero and
  • Friedrich Esch

21 September 2024

Atomic-scale imaging using scanning probe microscopy is a pivotal method for investigating the morphology and physico-chemical properties of nanostructured surfaces. Time resolution represents a significant limitation of this technique, as typical im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,918 Views
22 Pages

15 July 2022

Agricultural scale management has become the inexorable trend of modern agricultural development. Plot consolidation and centralized land management are traditionally viewed as the premise and foundation of agricultural scale operations in Europe, In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
818 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2025

Rapid urbanization in China has intensified spatial and social disparities between urban and rural areas, posing major challenges to sustainable rural development. Traditional top-down rural construction and evaluation models often neglect villagers&...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,773 Views
10 Pages

Ecosystems: Climate Change Vulnerability and Resilience

  • Oksana N. Lipka and
  • Tatiana B. Shishkina

Since 1976, mean annual temperature in Russia has been rising at 0.47 °C per decade (in the Arctic at 1 °C per decade). This process determines shifts in biome boundaries and large-scale ecosystem restructuring. Biome boundaries should have m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,203 Views
26 Pages

9 October 2025

With the global deceleration of urbanization, traditional regeneration strategies centered on demolition and reconstruction have revealed substantial limitations. Against this backdrop, land-use transformation has emerged as a more cost-effective and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,446 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2020

Long-term memory formation requires coordinated regulation of gene expression and persistent changes in cell function. For decades, research has implicated histone modifications in regulating chromatin compaction necessary for experience-dependent ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,952 Views
17 Pages

13 November 2023

Land use changes are an important factor contributing to the increasingly severe deterioration of the ecological environment. Therefore, regional analyses of land use and ecological risk should be developed for the restoration of ecological functions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,599 Views
22 Pages

6 November 2019

In the rapidly growing literature on exploring urban restructuring in reference to the state rescaling, many authors have neglected the relatively fixed and immobile forms of territorial organization. The development of China’s National New Are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,059 Views
15 Pages

7 July 2025

China’s accelerated urbanization has instigated construction land expansion and ecological land attrition, aggravating the carbon emission disequilibrium. Notably, the “land carbon emission elasticity coefficient” in urban agglomera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,501 Views
17 Pages

Performance Assessment of Natural Wastewater Treatment Plants by Multivariate Statistical Models: A Case Study

  • Mahmoud Gad,
  • Sayeda M. Abdo,
  • Anyi Hu,
  • Mohamed Azab El-Liethy,
  • Mohamed S. Hellal,
  • Hala S. Doma and
  • Gamila H. Ali

23 June 2022

Waste stabilization ponds (WSPs) as natural wastewater treatment plants are commonly utilized for wastewater treatment due to their simple design, low cost, and low-skilled operator requirements. Large-scale studies assessing the performance of WSPs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,829 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2024

This research addresses three main review points related to the harmful practices of artisanal and small-scale gold mining and the appropriateness of prevention approaches to resilience for local residents’ environments. First, the focus is on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,045 Views
21 Pages

CEMLB-YOLO: Efficient Detection Model of Maize Leaf Blight in Complex Field Environments

  • Shengjie Leng,
  • Yasenjiang Musha,
  • Yulin Yang and
  • Guowei Feng

16 August 2023

Northern corn leaf blight is a severe fungal disease that adversely affects the health of maize crops. In order to prevent maize yield decline caused by leaf blight, we propose the YOLOv5-based object detection lightweight models to rapidly detect ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,769 Views
14 Pages

28 September 2022

The liberalization trend has led to electric restructuring in market industries. At the start of the 1990s, it was recommended to shift the electricity business from a monopoly to a competitive system. The electric power problem becomes more complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,021 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Agent Decision Support Tool to Enable Interoperability among Heterogeneous Energy Systems

  • Brígida Teixeira,
  • Tiago Pinto,
  • Francisco Silva,
  • Gabriel Santos,
  • Isabel Praça and
  • Zita Vale

26 February 2018

Worldwide electricity markets are undergoing a major restructuring process. One of the main reasons for the ongoing changes is to enable the adaptation of current market models to the new paradigm that arises from the large-scale integration of distr...

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