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Three-dimensional (3D) information technology has become an important technical support in digital heritage preservation practice. However, due to the lack of systematic quantitative research, it is difficult to form a comprehensive understanding of...

(This article belongs to the Collection Performance-Based Urban Design: Integrated Urban Analytics, Simulation and Climate-Responsive Design)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
302 Views
40 Pages

23 September 2026

Commercial districts constitute an intensively used form of urban land, yet little is known about how commercial vitality is distributed across an entire urban land system, whether spatial disadvantage persists over time, and how such evidence can in...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
653 Views
31 Pages

Agricultural heritage systems are traditional agroecosystems formed through long-term ecological adaptation, farming practices, and local knowledge transmission. Their conservation depends not only on formal recognition but also on ecological support...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agroecological Transitions and Socio-Ecological Resilience in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
793 Views
25 Pages

15 December 2025

Financial fraud, as a salient manifestation of corporate governance failure, erodes investor confidence and threatens the long-term sustainability of capital markets. This study aims to develop and validate SFG-2DCNN, a multimodal deep learning frame...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
459 Views
26 Pages

24 June 2026

Tourism development potential and observed development performance do not necessarily evolve synchronously, particularly in old industrial and restructuring regions where attraction supply, market linkage, and visitor experience may be spatially unev...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
1,532 Views
22 Pages

A Decision Support System (DSS) for Irrigation Oversizing Diagnosis Using Geospatial Canopy Data and Irrigation Ecolabels

  • Sergio Vélez,
  • Raquel Martínez-Peña,
  • João Valente,
  • Mar Ariza-Sentís and ,
  • Igor Sirnik and
  • Miguel Ángel Pardo
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Agriculture faces growing pressure to optimize water use, particularly in woody perennial crops where irrigation systems are installed once and seldom redesigned despite changes in canopy structure, soil conditions, or plant mortality. Such static la...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Agriculture, Smart Farming and Crop Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
638 Views
27 Pages

3 September 2026

The renewal of historic districts needs to address human-centered issues, such as cultural expression, spatial experience, and visual comfort, at the street scale. However, existing assessment methods predominantly rely on field surveys, expert judgm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data-Driven Urban Spatial Perception)
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  • Open Access
378 Views
34 Pages

Hybrid CNN–Transformer Framework for Automated Detection of Developmental Coordination Disorder from Motion Imaging Sequences

  • Khaled Mahmoud Heba,
  • Abbas Hassan Abbas Atya,
  • Noor Hazim Saleh Alrawashdeh,
  • Sana Shahab and
  • Mohd Anjum

Hybrid CNN–Transformer (HCT) synthesis for automated neurodevelopmental diagnostics is an effective approach to constructing intelligent detection systems that are not merely oriented toward feature classification but primarily toward solving s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence—Second Edition)
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  • Open Access
602 Views
30 Pages

Citizen Science-Based Evaluation of Urban Thermal Comfort: Evidence from Public Spaces in Urla, İzmir

  • Pelin Özden,
  • Koray Velibeyoğlu,
  • Şeniz Çıkış,
  • Müge Usta and ,
  • Mehmet Kaya and
  • Burçak Karlı Ölmez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2026

Climate change is intensifying heat-related risks in Mediterranean urban environments, increasing the need for pedestrian-scale approaches that combine spatial diagnostics with lived thermal experience. The pilot study develops a three-layer diagnost...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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  • Open Access
398 Views
24 Pages

6 August 2026

Traditional villages commonly face functional decline and vitality loss amid modernization, which severely threatens the long-term cultural and ecological sustainability of rural heritage spaces. Commercial settlements, evolved along ancient trade ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Geological Disaster Prevention and Control for Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
23 Views
44 Pages

5 November 2026

Spatial data quality (SDQ) assessment often emphasizes technical conformance, but conformance alone does not establish whether a data product remains maintainable, interpretable, reusable, or trustworthy throughout its lifecycle. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Information in 2026–2027)
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  • Open Access
505 Views
48 Pages

3 June 2026

Underground space is increasingly positioned in contemporary urban discourse as a strategic resource for sustainable spatial and territorial development, particularly under conditions of limited surface capacity, growing infrastructural demand, and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decentralization and Development: Territorial Dimension and Spatial Disparities Mitigation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
813 Views
25 Pages

18 June 2026

Integration of LiDAR and thermal sensing has become increasingly important in robotics, infrastructure diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and autonomous perception systems. LiDAR sensors provide accurate three-dimensional geometric information bu...

(This article belongs to the Collection 3D Imaging and Sensing System)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
951 Views
15 Pages

Accurate anatomical landmark localization is essential to automate chest X-ray analysis and improve diagnostic reliability. While global context recognition is essential in medical imaging, the inherently high-resolution nature of these images has lo...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
87 Views
29 Pages

Integrating Causal Inference and Transfer Learning for Spatially Heterogeneous Automobile Sales Analysis

  • Xun Zuo,
  • Yi Han,
  • Keyue Zhang,
  • Tianren Ming and ,
  • Junzhe Wang,
  • Yanqing Huang,
  • Xiaojun Huang,
  • Zhuo Li,
  • Yi Zhong and
  • Guoxian Yan
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

2 November 2026

Automobile sales analysis provides an important basis for production planning, procurement, supply-chain coordination, inventory management, and dealership resource allocation. However, dealership sales are jointly influenced by operational practices...

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  • Open Access
447 Views
19 Pages

15 June 2026

Rural sustainability planning requires spatially explicit methods that integrate agricultural resource bases, ecological condition, low-carbon feasibility, community implementation support, and cultural landscape values. Although the Circular and Eco...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainability in Agricultural Systems and Ecosystem Services)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,171 Views
41 Pages

Synergistic Development Mechanism Between Reservoir Resettlers’ Livelihoods and Host Regions

  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Kaiwen Yao,
  • Dan Zhang,
  • Lantao Tu and ,
  • Youping Peng and
  • Hao Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2025

The sustainability of reservoir resettlement depends on the synergistic development of resettlers’ livelihoods and host regions; however, existing studies lack an integrated analytical framework. Combining the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
376 Views
26 Pages

Unified Regulatory Framework for NPP-Based Ecosystem Carbon Absorption Capacity and Its Application in China

  • Wei Zhao,
  • Weihua Gu,
  • Fenghua Bai,
  • Ying Xiao and ,
  • Hao Wang and
  • Fangyuan Liang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2026

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon absorption capacity has become an important component of China’s strategy to enhance nature-based climate mitigation. However, existing studies on China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics are still insuff...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
444 Views
12 Pages

Spathology: The Birth of Spatial Pathology as a Discipline

  • Mengping Long,
  • Mats Nilsson and
  • Taobo Hu

8 October 2026

Pathology has always been a spatial science: for more than 150 years, diagnosis has rested on reading the architecture of cells and tissues. Three technological streams are now converging on this founding principle. Spatially resolved omics can measu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational and Spatial Pathology)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
972 Views
20 Pages

The 2024 World Heritage inscription of the Beijing Central Axis shifts the focus of historic district governance to quality-oriented urban regeneration. However, evaluating the precise alignment between infrastructural topology and cultural meaning r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
400 Views
34 Pages

Rapid urban development has intensified conflicts between land development and ecological conservation, making spatially explicit land-use planning increasingly important for resource-depleted cities. This study develops a geoinformation-based decisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
992 Views
34 Pages

26 March 2026

This study proposes a four-dimensional Historical Building Defect Information Modeling (HBDIM) framework designed to support the documentation, diagnosis, and conservation of deteriorated historic stucco elements. The framework integrates multi-sourc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
632 Views
29 Pages

5 August 2026

Steel-cord conveyor belts are usually assessed using average damage indicators calculated for entire belt sections. Although such indicators are useful for general condition assessment, they do not adequately represent spatially non-uniform degradati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,032 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2025

Under the background of urban stock renewal, the quality improvement of public spaces in aged residential areas is confronted with challenges such as inefficient data collection, disconnection between subjective and objective evaluations, and insuffi...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,386 Views
25 Pages

An Integrative Decision-Making Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Governance: The Case of Yerevan City

  • Khoren Mkhitaryan,
  • Armen Karakhanyan,
  • Anna Sanamyan,
  • Erika Kirakosyan and
  • Gohar Manukyan

11 December 2025

Sustainable urban water governance in rapidly transforming cities requires integrative decision-making frameworks capable of balancing social equity, economic efficiency, and environmental resilience. This study develops an Integrative Decision-Makin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,299 Views
32 Pages

23 August 2025

Manual tissue documentation is a critical step in the field of pathology that sets the stage for microscopic analysis and significantly influences diagnostic outcomes. In routine practice, technicians verbally dictate descriptions of specimens during...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Improving Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
135 Views
30 Pages

29 October 2026

Integrating adaptive cycle theory with the Pressure–State–Response (PSR) framework, this study proposes a Risk–Connectivity–Potential (RCP) model to assess ecological spatial resilience in Shenzhen from 2000 to 2025—an a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Global Trends and Local Practices in Land Use and Territorial Spatial Planning: Driving Forces, Innovation Strategies, and Future Challenges)
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  • Open Access
229 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2026

Sustainable governance of archaeological heritage requires conservation, public interpretation, and locally retained benefits to be considered together. This study develops a theory-informed diagnostic framework for villages surrounding large archaeo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Sustainable Rural and Regional Development Through Tourism Planning and Management)
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  • Open Access
605 Views
20 Pages

Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading contributor to global physical disability, where delayed diagnosis often results in irreversible joint damage and socio-economic cost. Early diagnosis remains challenging due to subtle radiographic biomarkers an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Intelligence for IoT and Smart Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,636 Views
38 Pages

The early and accurate identification of breast cancer is a significant healthcare issue, largely because the traditional machine learning approaches rely on handcrafted features that are unable to fully capture the spatial and textural complexity fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,662 Views
37 Pages

YOLOv11-Safe: An Explainable AI Framework for Data-Driven Building Safety Evaluation and Design Optimization in University Campuses

  • Jing Hou,
  • Yanfeng Hu,
  • Bingchun Jiang,
  • Zhoulin Chang and ,
  • Mingjie Cao and
  • Beili Wang
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16 November 2025

Campus buildings often present hidden safety risks such as falls and wheelchair instabilities, which are closely related to architectural layout, material selection, and accessibility design. This study develops YOLOv11-Safe, an attention-enhanced an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practice and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Built Environment)
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  • Open Access
580 Views
22 Pages

21 April 2026

Rural territories characterised by dispersed settlement systems face mounting challenges related to demographic decline, economic fragility, ecological degradation, and the erosion of local knowledge systems. In this context, rural self-sufficiency h...

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  • Open Access
1,025 Views
27 Pages

24 November 2025

Fault diagnosis is critical for ensuring the reliability of reciprocating pumps in industrial settings. However, challenges such as strong noise interference and unbalanced conditions of existing methods persist. To address these issues, this paper p...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,624 Views
17 Pages

IHRAS: Automated Medical Report Generation from Chest X-Rays via Classification, Segmentation, and LLMs

  • Gabriel Arquelau Pimenta Rodrigues,
  • André Luiz Marques Serrano,
  • Guilherme Dantas Bispo,
  • Geraldo Pereira Rocha Filho and ,
  • Vinícius Pereira Gonçalves and
  • Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette
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The growing demand for accurate and efficient Chest X-Ray (CXR) interpretation has prompted the development of AI-driven systems to alleviate radiologist workload and reduce diagnostic variability. This paper introduces the Intelligent Humanized Radi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Advancements in Healthcare: Medical Imaging and Sensing Technologies)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,341 Views
26 Pages

Insulation Condition Assessment of High-Voltage Single-Core Cables Via Zero-Crossing Frequency Analysis of Impedance Phase Angle

  • Fang Wang,
  • Zeyang Tang,
  • Zaixin Song,
  • Enci Zhou and ,
  • Mingzhen Li and
  • Xinsong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 July 2025

To address the limitations of low detection efficiency and poor spatial resolution of traditional cable insulation diagnosis methods, a novel cable insulation diagnosis method based on impedance spectroscopy has been proposed. An impedance spectrosco...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
480 Views
38 Pages

21 August 2026

Urban sustainability governance has long been dominated by growth-oriented metrics that measure aggregate improvement without establishing whether neighborhoods provide enough for all residents without continuous territorial expansion or resource-int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Growth: Urban Land Governance and Spatial Planning in Transition)
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  • Open Access
201 Views
33 Pages

19 October 2026

The expansion of artificial nighttime lighting has increased the risk of urban dark sky environmental degradation. Identifying long-term evolution patterns and their associated socioeconomic and environmental factors is essential for conserving dark...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Multi-Source Geospatial Observation for Global Change, Ecological Sustainability and Land System Science)
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  • Open Access
468 Views
13 Pages

Spatial Porosity as a Diagnostic Predictor of Conductivity Collapse in Patient-Specific Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors

  • Nikola Bošković,
  • Branislav Radjenović,
  • Štefan Matejčik and
  • Marija Radmilović-Radjenović

Background: Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors relies on tightly coupled electromagnetic–thermal dynamics. However, conventional computational models oversimplify tissue heterogeneity and the dynamic evolution of biophysical properties, li...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
766 Views
29 Pages

Driving Mechanisms and Adaptive Governance for Cultivated Land in Agro-Pastoral Ecotones: A 40-Year Empirical Study of Yulin City, China

  • Hao Liu,
  • Maosheng Zhang,
  • Li Feng,
  • Shaoqi Yun and ,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Chuanbo Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 March 2026

The northern agro-pastoral ecotone of China faces persistent trade-offs among cultivated land (CL) protection, energy development, water constraints, and ecological restoration, posing challenges for sustainable human–land interactions. Focusin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Cover Change Detection: Emerging Algorithms and Applications in Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
342 Views
31 Pages

8 October 2026

Traditional village built heritage conservation requires attention to both the preservation of heritage cores and their relationships with peripheral environments. Existing research has extensively examined heritage preservation, spatial change, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
2,448 Views
13 Pages

Ultrafast laser systems, implemented at the ELI-NP, require exceptional beam quality and spatial stability due to their femtosecond pulse durations and extremely high peak powers. This work presents a diagnostic and computational framework for analyz...

(This article belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
493 Views
25 Pages

26 June 2026

Rapid urbanization and the aging of large-scale building stocks have created a critical disconnection between strategic urban planning and physical structural realities. This study introduces a multi-dimensional resilience framework to evaluate the s...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
915 Views
29 Pages

21 January 2026

Historic waterfront streets are not only an important component of urban public spaces but also highlight the distinctive features and historical contexts of the city. High-quality streetscape visual perception plays a crucial role in advancing the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Socially Sustainable Urban and Architectural Design)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,218 Views
31 Pages

Novel Deep Learning Framework for Evaporator Tube Leakage Estimation in Supercharged Boiler

  • Yulong Xue,
  • Dongliang Li,
  • Yu Song,
  • Shaojun Xia and
  • Jingxing Wu

25 July 2025

The estimation of leakage faults in evaporation tubes of supercharged boilers is crucial for ensuring the safe and stable operation of the central steam system. However, leakage faults of evaporation tubes feature high time dependency, strong couplin...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
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  • Open Access
511 Views
33 Pages

29 July 2026

Urban ground collapse (UGC) threatens dense coastal cities because failures can occur abruptly beneath roads and buried lifelines. We developed a dynamic and interpretable machine-learning framework for UGC susceptibility assessment in Shenzhen, Chin...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geospatial AI: Systems, Model, Methods, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
341 Views
37 Pages

6 September 2026

Traditional evaluation of Networks-on-Chip is based on aggregate metrics. Most of these metrics (latency, throughput, hop count, packet loss, energy consumption, buffer occupancy, thermal or reliability summaries) compress detailed execution traces i...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
457 Views
27 Pages

13 September 2026

Population ageing challenges the social sustainability of high-density cities, where equitable eldercare access underpins SDG 3, SDG 10 and SDG 11. In China, rapid expansion of community-based eldercare facilities (CEFs) under the “90-7-3&rdquo...

(This article belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,821 Views
27 Pages

30 August 2025

The Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Mega Region (CCEMR), as a strategic economic hub in Western China, is increasingly facing challenges in balancing urban growth, agricultural stability, and ecological conservation within its territorial spatial pl...

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  • Open Access
760 Views
23 Pages

Latent Salinity Stress Detection in Opuntia ficus-indica Using Hyperspectral Imaging and a 3D-CNN Framework

  • Juan Arredondo-Valdez,
  • Horacio Abdiel Rodríguez-Garza,
  • Héctor Flores-Breceda,
  • Zayd Eliud Rangel-Nava and ,
  • Néstor Everardo Aranda-Ledesma,
  • Jesús Rodolfo Valenzuela-García,
  • Moisés Hinojosa-Rivera,
  • Ajay Kumar,
  • Urbano Luna-Maldonado and
  • Alejandro Isabel Luna-Maldonado
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

7 June 2026

Salinity stress remains a major bottleneck for agriculture in arid regions. While Opuntia ficus-indica is known for its resilience, its young cladodes maintain a misleadingly healthy visual appearance and stable biomass even under heavy saline pressu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensors in Precision Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
45 Pages

First/last-mile accessibility around metro stations in hot–arid cities depends not only on proximity and network connectivity but also on climatic exposure, physical movement friction, visual legibility, and route continuity. This study develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: Advancing Accessibility, Efficiency, and Equity)

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