Construction sites are considered as complicated work environments. Various concurrent activities may overlap apropos to time and workspace, predisposing them to spatial–temporal exposure and repetitive accidents. Detecting the characteristics of rep...
In system processing, video inevitably suffers from distortion, which leads to quality degradation and affects the user experience. Therefore, it is of great importance to design an accurate and effective objective video quality assessment (VQA) meth...
The sustainable development of tourism is essential for revitalizing historically and culturally significant ancient villages in China. Despite the longstanding recognition of the relationship between the spatial distribution of village destinations...
In recent years, attention has been given to the construction and development of new educational centers, but their spatial distribution across the cities has received less attention. In this study, the Average Nearest Neighbor (ANN) and the optimize...
Soil moisture is a key environmental variable. There is a lack of software to facilitate non-specialists in estimating and analyzing soil moisture at the field scale. This study presents a new open-sourced R package mlhrsm, which can be used to gener...
As carbon intensity (CI) can better reflect the coordinated relationship between carbon emissions and economic growth, the related research has gradually increased in recent years. To better explore the influence of production technology and spatial...
The relationship between urban human dynamics and land use types has always been an important issue in the study of urban problems in China. This paper used location data from Sina Location Microblog (commonly known as Weibo) users to study the human...
Urban–rural integration relies on the rational flow of factors between urban–rural areas. Land represents a closely related factor between urban–rural areas, so the effective utilization of land resources can promote the flow of urb...
In response to serious environmental and socio-cultural challenges brought about by fast urbanization, the concept of a sustainable city emphasizes the quality of life of urban residents, assuring the importance of parkland provision in urban develop...
With the advent of the information age and rapid population growth, the urban transportation environment is deteriorating. Travel-route planning is a key issue in modern sustainable transportation systems. When conducting route planning, identifying...
With the acceleration of global climate change and urbanization, urban resilience has become a critical issue. This study, based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model, constructs an urban resilience evaluation index system for Sanming City. Indi...
Composite reinforcements are attracting attention in the reinforced concrete (RC) field for their high corrosion resistance, low thermal conductivity, and low electromagnetic interference behavior. However, compared to metallic reinforcements, compos...
Spring Festival travel rush is a phenomenon in China that population travel intensively surges in a short time around Chinese Spring Festival. This phenomenon, which is a special one in the urbanization process of China, brings a large traffic burden...
In cancer research, population-based survival analysis has played an important role. In this article, we conduct survival analysis on patients with brain tumors using the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) database from the NCI (Natio...
A national cetacean stranding response program in Taiwan has evolved significantly in the past three decades. Initially co-ordinated by National Taiwan University from 1994, the program transitioned to the Taiwan Cetacean Society in 1999, and local g...
In the carbon-neutral scenarios fixed by most developed countries, wind and solar resources play a significant role due to their substantial potential. Their instability can be mitigated through smarter designs of energy systems, including sector cou...
In order to provide more accurate data support for the prevention and control of geological disasters in mines, the article counts the major mine debris flow accidents in China from 1954 to 2019; studies the distribution of debris flow disasters in e...
1 June 2022
Under the support of Multi-Regional Input–Output (MRIO) analysis, this study constructs the Embodied Carbon Emission Transfer Network (ECETN) using the input–output tables of 42 sectors in 31 provinces of China in 2012, 2015, and 2017 and...
Studying the temporal and spatial evolution trends in earthquakes in an area is beneficial for determining the earthquake risk of the area so that local governments can make the correct decisions for disaster prevention and reduction. In this paper,...
High-quality economic development is an important approach for achieving sustainable economic development, and it is an essential condition for coordinated development between economic systems and ecosystems. This paper starts from five key points, n...
Ship pollution emissions have attracted increasing attention in the maritime field due to the massive growth of maritime traffic activities. It is important to identify the ship emissions (SEs) magnitude and corresponding spatial and temporal distrib...
The assessment of ecological space quality (ESQ) and its spatio-temporal change monitoring are crucial for regional ecological management and sustainable development. However, there are few studies on how to construct a comprehensive ESQ assessment s...
Densely populated coastal regions are vulnerable to extreme wave events, which can cause loss of life and considerable damage to coastal infrastructure and ecological assets. Here, an event-based analysis approach, across multiple sites, has been use...
In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of pedestrian behavior in street spaces using pedestrian count data—specifically, the number of pedestrians passing in front of infrared sensors installed throughout the downtown are...
5 May 2016
Objective: To explore the spatial-temporal interaction effect within a Bayesian framework and to probe the ecological influential factors for tuberculosis. Methods: Six different statistical models containing parameters of time, space, spatial-tempor...
The three-dimensional morphological analysis of urban buildings constitutes a pivotal component of urban planning and sustainable development. Nevertheless, the majority of current research is two-dimensional in nature, which constrains the comprehen...
13 May 2022
Background: The goal of this study is to identify geographic areas for priority actions in order to control COVID-19 among the elderly living in Residential Care Homes (RCH). We also describe the evolution of COVID-19 in RHC throughout the 278 munici...
Urban expansion is a dynamic and complex phenomenon, often involving adverse changes in land use and land cover (LULC). This paper uses satellite imagery from Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-8 OLI, Sentinel-2 MSI, and GIS technology to analyse LULC changes in...
Available potassium (AVK) in the soil of cropland is one of the most important factors determining soil quality and agricultural productivity. Thus, it is crucial to understand the variation of AVK and its influencing factors for sustaining soil fert...
The last-mile delivery crisis, exacerbated by the surge in e-commerce demands, continues to face persistent challenges. Logistics companies often overlook the possibility that recipients may not be at the designated delivery location during courier d...
Both directly and indirectly transmitted infectious diseases in humans are spatial-related. Spatial dimensions include: distances between susceptible humans and the environments shared by people, contaminated materials, and infectious animal species....
Stakeholders’ Participation (SP) aims to involve stakeholders in decision-making processes about significant choices affecting their organizations, cities, or communities. Stakeholders’ participation is maintained through SP processes (SP...
Playas, as the flattest landforms in semiarid and arid regions, are extremely sensitive to climate changes, such as changes in the hydrologic regime of the landscape. The changes in these landforms due to irrigation, anthropogenic activities, and cli...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has already been applied in a number of areas to facilitate the tracking process. However, the insufficient tracking accuracy of RFID is one of the problems that impedes its wider application. Previous...
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that can be used as computing nodes are an important part of future communication networks. However, growing user demands, scarce channel resources and unstable satellite–ground links result in the challenge to...
The transport of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has significant impact on traffic capacity of waterways, especially the approach channels shared by LNG carriers and other types of ships (general cargo ships, container ships, etc.). Few studies take the...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the world, and it is necessary for us to implement effective methods to prevent and control the spread of the epidemic. In this paper, we propose a new model called Spatial–Temp...
As the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas that contributes most to global warming, CO2 plays an important role in climate changes in Central Asia. Due to the lack of studies of near-surface CO2 in this region, we first confirmed the applicability of t...
As air pollution characterized by fine particulate matter has become one of the most serious environmental issues in China, a critical understanding of the behavior of major pollutant is increasingly becoming very important for air pollution preventi...
With the rapid acceleration of industrialization and urbanization in China, PM2.5 pollution has emerged as a major challenge to public health and sustainable development of the society and economy. At the interprovincial level, PM2.5 exhibits a compl...
Accurate air quality prediction is paramount in safeguarding public health and addressing air pollution control. However, previous studies often ignore the geographic similarity among different monitoring stations and face challenges in dynamically c...
Museum cultural relics represent a special material cultural heritage, and modern interpretations of them are needed in current society. Based on the catalogue data of cultural relics published by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, this p...
As a symbol language, toponyms have inherited the unique local historical culture in the long process of historical development. As the birthplace of Manchu, there are many toponyms originated from multi-ethnic groups (e.g., Manchu, Mongol, Korean, H...
29 March 2020
Nowadays, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, measles, influenza, and mumps are five major notifiable respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs) in China. The objective of this study was to describe, visualize, and compare the spatial-temporal distributions of...
The escalating ambient ozone (O3) pollution in China has garnered significant attention, necessitating an intensified focus on O3 pollution control and the coordinated management of PM2.5 and O3. This study reviews and analyzes the spatiotemporal cha...
Human action recognition is a computer vision task that identifies how a person or a group acts on a video sequence. Various methods that rely on deep-learning techniques, such as two- or three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D-CNNs, 3D-C...
As a green and sustainable travel mode, the bikeshare plays an important role in solving the “last-mile” problem. The new dockless bikeshare system (DBS) is widely favored by travelers, and the traditional docked bikeshare system (BS) is...
The journal and authors retract the article (Spatial–Temporal Characteristics and Determinants of Digital Divide in China: A Multivariate Spatial Analysis) [...]
4 July 2018
While the progress of China’s industrialization and urbanization has made great strides, atmospheric pollution has become the norm, with a wide range of influence and difficult governance. While many previous works on NOx pollution have been de...
China’s transportation carbon emissions account for 10% of the total, with nearly 90% originating from road transport. Additionally, China is the world’s largest automotive demand market. Therefore, in the context of achieving the “...
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