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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,997 Views
13 Pages

5 August 2021

In this paper, the design procedure and optimization process of a multi-phase flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) generator for wind power generation system is investigated. Two different optimization methods—stepwise optimization and global optim...

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  • Open Access
912 Views
24 Pages

22 June 2025

Magnetorheological finishing is widely used in the high-precision processing of optical components, but due to the influence of multi-source system errors, the convergence of single-pass magnetorheological finishing (MRF) is limited. Although iterati...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,893 Views
22 Pages

10 February 2023

Central air-conditioning systems account for the largest share of energy consumption in public buildings, wherein the chiller room is the main source. The current empirical strategies of chiller room group control have difficulty realizing integrity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,712 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2022

High-resolution land surface temperature (LST) data are essential for fine-scale urban thermal environment studies. Urban LST downscaling studies mostly remain focused on only two-dimensional (2-D) data, and neglect the impact of three-dimensional (3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,331 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2019

An adaptive-uniform-experimental-design-based fractional particle swarm optimizer (AUFPSO) with non-linear time-varying evolution (NTE) is proposed. A particle swarm optimizer (PSO) is an excellent evolutionary algorithm due to its simple structure a...

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  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,341 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2019

Cloud cover is a common problem in optical satellite imagery, which leads to missing information in images as well as a reduction in the data usability. In this paper, a thick cloud removal method based on stepwise radiometric adjustment and residual...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,375 Views
16 Pages

9 July 2019

This paper aims to introduce a novel maximum power point tracking (MPPT) strategy called transfer reinforcement learning (TRL), associated with space decomposition for Photovoltaic (PV) systems under partial shading conditions (PSC). The space decomp...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,450 Views
23 Pages

Optimized Expansion Strategy for a Hydrogen Pipe Network in the Port of Rotterdam with Compound Real Options Analysis

  • Martine Van den Boomen,
  • Sjoerd Van der Meulen,
  • Jonathan Van Ekris,
  • Roel Spanjers,
  • Olle Ten Voorde,
  • Janwim Mulder and
  • Peter Blommaart

16 August 2021

The port of Rotterdam is the largest seaport in Europe. To maintain its position, the harbor will have to anticipate global transitions such as transferring to sustainable energy. Hydrogen is seen as a promising energy carrier; however, future demand...

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  • Open Access
1,522 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2025

Optimization of injection molding process parameters is essential for improving product quality and production efficiency. Traditional methods, which rely heavily on operator experience, often result in inconsistencies, high time consumption, high de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,841 Views
22 Pages

18 July 2022

Slope units (SUs) are sub-watersheds bounded by ridge and valley lines. A slope unit reflects the physical relationship between landslides and geomorphological features and is especially useful for landslide sensitivity modeling. There have been sign...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,901 Views
37 Pages

From Waste to Worth: Upcycling Plastic into High-Value Carbon-Based Nanomaterials

  • Ahmed M. Abdelfatah,
  • Mohamed Hosny,
  • Ahmed S. Elbay,
  • Nourhan El-Maghrabi and
  • Manal Fawzy

30 December 2024

Plastic waste (PW) presents a significant environmental challenge due to its persistent accumulation and harmful effects on ecosystems. According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), global plastic production in 2024 is estimated to reac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,571 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2025

The increasing integration of wind and photovoltaic energy into power systems brings about large fluctuations and significant challenges for power absorption. Wind–solar–hydro–storage multi-energy complementary systems, especially j...

  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2025

Amid rising global energy demand and Taiwan’s transition toward a non-nuclear and low-carbon future, identifying an optimal renewable energy (RE) mix has become essential. This study analyzes eight RE sources using a three-model framework&mdash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
965 Views
15 Pages

Transcendence Strengths Related to Appreciation and Protection of All People and Nature Among University Students

  • Javier López,
  • Marta Oporto-Alonso,
  • Gonzalo Sanz-Magallón and
  • Cristina Noriega

5 November 2025

Universalism, as defined in Schwartz’s theory of basic human values, reflects a motivational orientation toward understanding, appreciation, and protection of all people and nature. This study examines the psychological foundations of ethical c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,530 Views
26 Pages

I investigate the question of how to construct a benchmark replicating portfolio consisting of a subset of the benchmark’s components. I consider two approaches: a sequential stepwise regression and another method based on factor models of secu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,092 Views
15 Pages

Limiting Factors and Environmental Adaptability for Staple Crops in Kazakhstan

  • Danmeng Wang,
  • Guoxi Gao,
  • Ruolan Li,
  • Shynggys Toktarbek,
  • Nueryia Jiakula and
  • Yongzhong Feng

12 August 2022

Population growth increases the threat to global food security. Kazakhstan, a major agricultural nation, has made significant contributions to world food security; however, a wide gap exists between its food yield and that of other major crop-produci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,362 Views
10 Pages

16 March 2023

Vibrio fischeri is widely used as the model species in toxicity and risk assessment. For the first time, a global classification model was proposed in this paper for a two-class problem (Class − 1 with log1/IBC50 ≤ 4.2 and Class + 1 with log...

  • Article
  • Open Access
314 Views
35 Pages

A Cost-Effective Standardized Quantitative Detection Method for Soil Microplastics in Different Substrates

  • Xinlei Ling,
  • Yuting Gao,
  • Rongxiang Li,
  • Rongfang Chang,
  • Yanpeng Li and
  • Wen Xiao

22 January 2026

Microplastics (MPs) are emerging pollutants with widespread global distribution, continuously accumulating in soils and posing risks of cross-media pollution. Current soil MP detection methods lack unified standards, suffering from high inter-laborat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
951 Views
43 Pages

A Novel Red-Billed Blue Magpie Optimizer Tuned Adaptive Fractional-Order for Hybrid PV-TEG Systems Green Energy Harvesting-Based MPPT Algorithms

  • Al-Wesabi Ibrahim,
  • Abdullrahman A. Al-Shamma’a,
  • Jiazhu Xu,
  • Danhu Li,
  • Hassan M. Hussein Farh and
  • Khaled Alwesabi

Hybrid PV-TEG systems can harvest both solar electrical and thermoelectric power, but their operating point drifts with irradiance, temperature gradients, partial shading, and load changes—often yielding multi-peak P-V characteristics. Conventi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,240 Views
8 Pages

Risk Factors and Preventive Measures for Lung Cancer in the European Union

  • Katharina Kehrle,
  • Michael Hetjens and
  • Svetlana Hetjens

Background: Lung cancer is worldwide one of the most common types of cancer with still very high mortality rates. The aim of this study was to identify and demonstrate correlations between lung cancer mortality rates and potential influencing factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,971 Views
30 Pages

18 March 2022

Timely, accurate estimates of forest aboveground carbon density (AGC) are essential for understanding the global carbon cycle and providing crucial reference information for climate-change-related policies. To date, airborne LiDAR has been considered...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,228 Views
15 Pages

Current Treatment Options for Children with Functional Constipation—What Is in the Pipeline?

  • Charlotte A. L. Jonker,
  • Tirza M. van Os,
  • Ramon R. Gorter,
  • Marc A. Levitt and
  • Marc A. Benninga

28 June 2025

In this review, we summarize current insights into the treatment of functional constipation (FC) in children. Constipation is a global issue in the pediatric population, with a prevalence of approximately 9.5%. Initial management involves a combinati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,533 Views
19 Pages

Graph-RWGAN: A Method for Generating House Layouts Based on Multi-Relation Graph Attention Mechanism

  • Ziqi Ye,
  • Sirui Liu,
  • Zhen Tian,
  • Yile Chen,
  • Liang Zheng and
  • Junming Chen

9 October 2025

We address issues in existing house layout generation methods, including chaotic room layouts, limited iterative refinement, and restricted style diversity. We propose Graph-RWGAN, a generative adversarial network based on a multi-relational graph at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,235 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2022

Long-term degradation of black soil has led to reductions in soil fertility and ecological service functions, which have seriously threatened national food security and regional ecological security. This study is motivated by the UN’s Sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,039 Views
18 Pages

Aboveground Biomass Retrieval in Tropical and Boreal Forests Using L-Band Airborne Polarimetric Observations

  • Mengjin Wang,
  • Wangfei Zhang,
  • Yongjie Ji,
  • Armando Marino,
  • Kunpeng Xu,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Jianmin Shi and
  • Han Zhao

26 April 2023

Forests play a crucial part in regulating global climate change since their aboveground biomass (AGB) relates to the carbon cycle, and its changes affect the main carbon pools. At present, the most suitable available SAR data for wall-to-wall forest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,718 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2023

Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is critical in agriculture and irrigation water management, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. Our study aimed to develop an accurate and efficient model for estimating ET0 using various climatic variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,074 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2018

Soybean cultivation in China has significantly decreased due to the rising import of genetically modified soybeans from other countries. Understanding soybean’s extent and change information is of great value for national agricultural policy implicat...

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  • Open Access
312 Views
24 Pages

As a key node of the energy internet, the park-level integrated energy system undertakes the dual functions of improving energy supply reliability and promoting low-carbon development in the transformation of the global energy structure. The need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,692 Views
14 Pages

13 February 2025

Global climate change necessitates an immediate reduction in carbon emissions. This study aimed to categorize rail transit energy consumption factors into “traction energy consumption” and “non-traction comprehensive energy consumpt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,293 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2024

High-dimensional datasets, where the number of features far exceeds the number of observations, present significant challenges in feature selection and model performance. This study proposes a novel two-stage feature-selection approach that integrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,244 Views
22 Pages

Passenger-Centric Integrated Timetable Rescheduling for High-Speed Railways Under Multiple Disruptions

  • Letian Fan,
  • Ke Qiao,
  • Yongsheng Chen,
  • Meiling Hui,
  • Tiqiang Shen and
  • Pengcheng Wen

18 June 2025

In high-speed railway networks, multiple spatiotemporal correlated disruptions often cause passenger trip failures and delay propagation. Conventional single-disruption rescheduling strategies struggle to resolve such cross-line conflicts, necessitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,594 Views
25 Pages

29 November 2023

The well-documented decrease in the annual minimum Arctic sea ice extent over the past few decades is an alarming indicator of current climate change. However, much less is known about the thickness of the Arctic sea ice. Developing accurate forecast...

  • Review
  • Open Access
500 Views
16 Pages

27 January 2026

Conservative management of rotator cuff disorders remains challenging, with no comprehensive, evidence-based framework integrating diagnosis, prognosis, rehabilitation, and biological therapies. Existing recommendations usually address isolated compo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,107 Views
25 Pages

Brucellosis and One Health: Inherited and Future Challenges

  • Ignacio Moriyón,
  • José María Blasco,
  • Jean Jacques Letesson,
  • Fabrizio De Massis and
  • Edgardo Moreno

One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment, a concept that historically owes much to the study of brucellosis, including recent political and ethical considerations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,716 Views
25 Pages

23 October 2024

Automatically extracting buildings from remote sensing imagery using deep learning techniques has become essential for various real-world applications. However, mainstream methods often encounter difficulties in accurately extracting and reconstructi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,468 Views
11 Pages

An Overview of the Treatment Strategy of Esophagogastric Junction Cancer

  • Masatoshi Nakagawa,
  • Masanobu Nakajima,
  • Masaki Yoshimatsu,
  • Yu Ueta,
  • Noboru Inoue,
  • Takahiro Ochiai,
  • Shuhei Takise,
  • Junki Fujita,
  • Shinji Morita and
  • Kazuyuki Kojima

12 June 2025

Background: The incidence of esophagogastric junction cancer (EGJC) is increasing in both Western and Eastern countries. Despite this trend, a globally accepted treatment strategy remains elusive due to the tumor’s anatomical complexity and var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,430 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2025

With the global surge in patent filings, accurately evaluating similarity between patent documents has become increasingly critical. Traditional similarity assessment methods—primarily based on unimodal inputs such as text or bibliographic data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,160 Views
33 Pages

An Adaptive Process-Wise Fitting Approach for Hydrological Modeling Based on Streamflow and Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration

  • Chen Wang,
  • Huihui Mao,
  • Tatsuya Nemoto,
  • Yan He,
  • Jinghao Hu,
  • Runkui Li,
  • Qian Wu,
  • Mingyu Wang,
  • Xianfeng Song and
  • Zheng Duan

29 November 2024

Modern hydrological modeling frequently incorporates global remote sensing or reanalysis products for multivariate calibration. Although these datasets significantly contribute to model accuracy, the inherent uncertainties in the datasets and multiva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,082 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2020

Cyanobacterial blooms are considered a major threat to global water security with documented impacts on lake ecosystems and public health. Given that cyanobacteria possess highly adaptive traits that favor them to prevail under different and often co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,605 Views
31 Pages

An Improved Hybrid Approach for Daily Electricity Peak Demand Forecasting during Disrupted Situations: A Case Study of COVID-19 Impact in Thailand

  • Lalitpat Aswanuwath,
  • Warut Pannakkong,
  • Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri,
  • Jessada Karnjana and
  • Van-Nam Huynh

22 December 2023

Accurate electricity demand forecasting is essential for global energy security, reducing costs, ensuring grid stability, and informing decision making in the energy sector. Disruptions often lead to unpredictable demand shifts, posing greater challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,379 Views
25 Pages

Data-Driven Based Prediction of the Energy Consumption of Residential Buildings in Oshawa

  • Yaolin Lin,
  • Jingye Liu,
  • Kamiel Gabriel,
  • Wei Yang and
  • Chun-Qing Li

21 November 2022

Buildings consume about 40% of the global energy. Building energy consumption is affected by multiple factors, including building physical properties, performance of the mechanical system, and occupants’ activities. The prediction of building e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,553 Views
19 Pages

Role of Machine Learning in Precision Oncology: Applications in Gastrointestinal Cancers

  • Azadeh Tabari,
  • Shin Mei Chan,
  • Omar Mustafa Fathy Omar,
  • Shams I. Iqbal,
  • Michael S. Gee and
  • Dania Daye

22 December 2022

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, consisting of a wide spectrum of pathologies, have become a prominent health issue globally. Despite medical imaging playing a crucial role in the clinical workflow of cancers, standard evaluation of different imaging m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,329 Views
17 Pages

A Lightweight Stepwise SCMA Codebook Design Scheme for AWGN Channels

  • Min Hua,
  • Shuo Meng,
  • Yue Juan,
  • Borui Bian and
  • Xiaoming Liu

30 January 2025

Forests play a critical role in maintaining global ecological balance, regulating climate, and supporting biodiversity. Effective forest management and monitoring relies on the deployment of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for real-time d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,108 Views
18 Pages

Male infertility represents a significant global problem due to its essential health, social, and economic implications. It is unsurprising that scientific research is very active in this area and that advances in the diagnostic and therapeutic field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2026

As global warming intensifies, urban heat stress is increasing. Urban blue–green spaces (UBGSs) reduce heat exposure, and refined planning can enhance cooling in space-limited cities. Yet drivers and mechanisms at the urban-agglomeration scale...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,022 Views
17 Pages

Venetoclax Initiation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: International Insights and Innovative Approaches for Optimal Patient Care

  • Mary Ann Anderson,
  • Renata Walewska,
  • Fidelma Hackett,
  • Arnon P. Kater,
  • Josie Montegaard,
  • Susan O’Brien,
  • John F. Seymour,
  • Matthew Smith,
  • Stephan Stilgenbauer and
  • Jennifer R. Brown
  • + 1 author

28 February 2024

Venetoclax, a highly selective, oral B-cell lymphoma 2 inhibitor, provides a robust targeted-therapy option for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), including patients with high-risk del(17p)/mutated-TP53 and immunoglobulin heavy vari...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,041 Views
28 Pages

17 August 2023

Decarbonizing buildings is crucial in addressing pressing climate change issues. Buildings significantly contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing their carbon footprint is essential to achieving sustainable and low-carbon cities. R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,234 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2022

Background and Objectives: It is important to understand the temporal and spatial distributions of standing wood carbon storage in forests to maintain ecological balance and forest dynamics. Such information can provide technical and data support for...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
8,423 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2017

Medium spatial resolution biomass is a crucial link from the plot to regional and global scales. Although remote-sensing data-based methods have become a primary approach in estimating forest above ground biomass (AGB), many difficulties remain in da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,102 Views
31 Pages

24 August 2025

As the urbanization and industrialization processes in developing countries continue to advance, environmental issues caused by carbon dioxide emissions (CDEs) have become a significant research topic in the field of sustainable development. However,...

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