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Recent advances in fine-tuning large-scale vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have shown promising results in quick adaption to downstream tasks. However, prior research often lacks comprehensive inv...
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Various investigations have been conducted to analyze the water-coverage area of the Aral Sea and the Aral Sea Basin (ASB). However, the investigations incorporated considerable uncertainty and the used water ...
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EvolveKG: a general framework to learn evolving knowledge graphs
A great many practical applications have observed knowledge evolution, i.e., continuous born of new knowledge, with its formation influenced by the structure of historical knowledge. This observation gives ris...
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Geoscience knowledge graph (GKG) can organize various geoscience knowledge into a machine understandable and computable semantic network and is an effective way to organize geoscience knowledge and provide kno...
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As a carrier of knowledge, papers have been a popular choice since ancient times for documenting everything from major historical events to breakthroughs in science and technology. With the booming development...
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Open AccessWidespread global disparities between modelled and observed mid-depth ocean currents
The mid-depth ocean circulation is critically linked to actual changes in the long-term global climate system. However, in the past few decades, predictions based on ocean circulation models highlight the lack...
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Open AccessBiophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming
Vegetation change can alter surface energy balance and subsequently affect the local climate. This biophysical impact has been well studied for forestation cases, but the sign and magnitude for persistent eart...
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Open AccessMitigation of China’s carbon neutrality to global warming
Projecting mitigations of carbon neutrality from individual countries in relation to future global warming is of great importance for depicting national climate responsibility but is poorly quantified. Here, w...
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The Chinese government has implemented measures to reduce poverty in the country. Specifically, the Targeted Poverty Alleviation (2013–2020) policy is a set of unique, large-scale and precise poverty control m...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented burdens on people’s physical health and subjective well-being. While countries worldwide have developed platforms to track the evolution of COVID-19 infections a...
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Geographic entities exist in a spatio-temporal continuum, yet traditional geographic information system represents this dynamic geographic world using a map model which is often static in nature. This discrepa...
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Open AccessGeographic modeling and simulation systems for geographic research in the new era: Some thoughts on their development and construction
Regionality, comprehensiveness, and complexity are regarded as the basic characteristics of geography. The exploration of their core connotations is an essential way to achieve breakthroughs in geography in th...
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, the geoscience research has been entering a significant transitional period with the establishment of a new knowledge system as the core and with the drive of big data ...
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Open AccessEffect of different resumption strategies to flatten the potential COVID-19 outbreaks amid society reopens: a modeling study in China
The effect of the COVID-19 outbreak has led policymakers around the world to attempt transmission control. However, lockdown and shutdown interventions have caused new social problems and designating policy re...
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Open AccessThe cyclic expansion and contraction characteristics of a loess slope and implications for slope stability
Loess covers approximately 6.6% of China and forms thick extensive deposits in the northern and northwestern parts of the country. Natural erosional processes and human modification of thick loess deposits hav...
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Multi-level Inter-regional Migrant Population Estimation Using Multi-source Spatiotemporal Big Data: A Case Study of Migrants in Hubei Province During the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan
Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is the most urgent need for society now. Before the closure of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, more than 5 million people had left Wuhan to other regions. A better understanding of...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the spatial–temporal variation of human footprint in Jiangsu Province, China, its anthropogenic and natural drivers and potential implications
Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of human pressures provides a foundation for understanding interactions between human and environment and managing human activities for a sustainable development...
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To resolve conflicts between development and the preservation of the natural environment, enable economic transformation, and achieve the global sustainable development goals (SDGs), green development (GD) is ...
