45 Result(s)
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Winter Wheat Yield Estimation Based on Sparrow Search Algorithm Combined with Random Forest: A Case Study in Henan Province, China
Precise and timely prediction of crop yields is crucial for food security and the development of agricultural policies. However, crop yield is influenced by multiple factors within complex growth environments....
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Industrial Carbon Emission Distribution and Regional Joint Emission Reduction: A Case Study of Cities in the Pearl River Basin, China
China’s low-carbon development path will make significant contributions to achieving global sustainable development goals. Due to the diverse natural and economic conditions across different regions in China, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Characterization of Compact On-Metal UHF RFID Tag Antenna for Smart Cities
In today’s smart cities, the use of passive Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) tags gained popularity in access control, file tracking for healthcare, supply chain management in logistics, smart labels, veh...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Smart Buildings and Grid Features in City Energy System
This study presents a proposed approach that is focused on two aspects of smart buildings (SBs), which are near or real-time measuring and monitoring of energy consumption and energy generated locally. The des...
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Open AccessSolar energy for low carbon buildings: choice of systems for minimal installation area, cost, and environmental impact
Solar application in buildings is limited by available installation areas. The performance of photovoltaic (PV) and solar collectors are compared in meeting the heating and cooling demand of a residential hous...
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Influence Mechanism of New-type Urbanization on Urban Land Use Efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Rapid urbanization in China has led to inefficient use of urban land and spatial structure disorder, attracting attention from academia and society. Taking the Yangtze River Delta, China as an example, this st...
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Urban Land Use Efficiency and Contributing Factors in the Yangtze River Delta Under Increasing Environmental Restrictions in China
Evaluating urban land use efficiency (ULUE) provides insights into the interactions between land use systems and their external environment. Specifically, changes in ULUE are important for monitoring urban tra...
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Variation in Short-term Temperature Fluctuations Across China During the Past 60 Years
Short-term temperature fluctuations (STFs), including amplitude and frequency fluctuations, are one of the main features of weather and play vital roles in determining the type of ecosystem present. Although t...
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Open AccessDesigning Mixed Reality-Based Indoor Navigation for User Studies
Mixed reality (MR) is increasingly applied in indoor navigation. With the development of MR devices and indoor navigation algorithms, special attention has been paid to related cognitive issues and many user s...
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Space-Time Cube for Visual Queries over Metadata of Heterogeneous Geodata
Nowadays, huge amounts of geodata are increasingly made accessible on geodata portals. Typically, these data portals provide extensive metadata with various attributes, such as topic, size, and quality, that d...
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Open AccessThe ecological mechanisms of Acetes blooms as a threat to the security of cooling systems in coastal nuclear power plants
Recently, there have been an increasing number of reports on the shutdown of coastal nuclear power plants because of outbreaks of marine organisms, such as jellyfish and fish. These organisms clog the pipes du...
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Chapter
Morphology and Typology: A Village as a Cultural and Environmental Process
A village is a rural settlement that has grown in close relation with the environment and geography, being constantly shaped by the social and cultural development. The most powerful force fostering environmen...
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Regional Sustainable Assessment at City Level Based on CSDIS (China Sustainable Development Indicator System) Concept in the New Era, China
The core issue of sustainable development refers to the coordinated development of economic-social-environmental issues. In the present study, by complying with the China Sustainable Development Indicator Syst...
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Evolution Characteristics of Government-Industry-University Cooperative Innovation Network of Electronic Information Industry in Liaoning Province, China
It is important to optimize the cooperative innovation network for the improvement of economic competence and innovative power. Based on the patent information services platform, we obtain invention patent dat...
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Fish Assemblage Responses to a Low-head Dam Removal in the Lancang River
Dam removal is becoming an effective approach for aquatic biodiversity restoration in damming river in order to balance the aquatic ecosystem conservation with large-scale cascade damming. However, the effects...
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Global Trends in Dam Removal and Related Research: A Systematic Review Based on Associated Datasets and Bibliometric Analysis
Dam removal has been increasingly reported globally and is becoming an important approach for river management, restoration and environmental conservation in damming rivers. However, current limited knowledge ...
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Review of Rapid Transformation of Floodplain Wetlands in Northeast China: Roles of Human Development and Global Environmental Change
Northeast China is the region with the largest area of wetlands in China. The Sanjiang Plain and the Songnen Plain are large freshwater marsh distribution regions that are affected by climate warming and by th...
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Open AccessHow Complex Is a Fractal? Head/tail Breaks and Fractional Hierarchy
A fractal bears a complex structure that is reflected in a scaling hierarchy, indicating that there are far more small things than large ones. This scaling hierarchy can be effectively derived using head/tail ...
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Design and Implementation of Travel-time Cartograms
A travel-time cartogram is an effective method for representing travel time distances from a given point to the other points on a map and the geographic space is deformed accordingly. Compared with other map r...
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An object-based approach for two-level gully feature map** using high-resolution DEM and imagery: a case study on hilly loess plateau region, China
Gully feature map** is an indispensable prerequisite for the motioning and control of gully erosion which is a widespread natural hazard. The increasing availability of high-resolution Digital Elevation Mode...
