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Temporal heterogeneity in climatic responses of four tree species in the Altai Mountains, northwest China
In the context of ongoing climate change, relationships between tree growth and climate present uncertainties, which limits the predictions of future forest dynamics. Northwest China is a region undergoing not...
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Spatiotemporal variation and scenario projections of heat wave during 1961–2100 in the Loess Plateau
Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of heat wave (HW) is vital for both natural systems and human populations. The Loess Plateau is located in a climate transition zone and is highly sensitive to ...
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Predicting the potential distribution of Campsis grandiflora in China under climate change
Because the research on the geographical distribution of species significantly influences people’s understanding of species protection and utilization, it is important to study the influence of climate change ...
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Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonists induce hepatocellular apoptosis and impair hepatic functions via FXR/SHP pathway
Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) plays an indispensable role in liver homeostasis and has been a promising drug target for hepatic diseases. However, the concerns of undesired biological actions limit the clinical a...
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Does drought show a significant weakening trend from 1961 to 2017 in northern China?
Understanding the multi-dimensional drought variation and its driving mechanism is essentially important in climate change and risk assessment. Based on the monthly meteorological data at 321 stations from nor...
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Examining the efficacy of revegetation practices in ecosystem restoration programs: insights from a hotspot of sandstorm in northern China
Retrospectively evaluating the efficacy of revegetation practices is helpful in planning and implementing future ecosystem restoration programs (ERP). Having a good understanding of how human activities can af...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Generalized Graph Features Fusion Framework for Finger Biometric Recognition
The finger contains three compact biological features named fingerprint, finger-vein, and finger-knuckle-print. How to effectively integrate the biological characteristics of the three modalities is the key to...
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Review of drought impacts on carbon cycling in grassland ecosystems
Grasslands play a key role in both carbon and water cycles. In semi-arid and arid grassland areas, the frequency and intensity of droughts are increasing. However, the influence of a drought on grassland carbo...
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Recent asymmetric warming trends of daytime versus nighttime and their linkages with vegetation greenness in temperate China
Asymmetric warming has been increasingly discussed recently, yet knowledge of this difference in warming between daytime and nighttime is still limited. Most studies of how climate warming influences the terre...
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Responses of vegetation activity to the daytime and nighttime warming in Northwest China
Though temperature over the past three decades has shown an asynchronous warming trend between daytime and nighttime, the response of vegetation activity to such non-uniform warming is still not very clear. In...
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Vegetation and soil wind erosion dynamics of sandstorm control programs in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China
To combat soil erosion and desertification, large-scale sandstorm control programs have been put in place since 2000 in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China. Vegetation dynamics as well as soi...
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Open AccessQuantifying influences of physiographic factors on temperate dryland vegetation, Northwest China
Variability in satellite measurements of terrestrial greenness in drylands is widely observed in land surface processes and global change studies. Yet the underlying causes differ and are not fully understood....
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Open AccessFunctional human induced hepatocytes (hiHeps) with bile acid synthesis and transport capacities: A novel in vitro cholestatic model
Drug-induced cholestasis is a leading cause of drug withdrawal. However, the use of primary human hepatocytes (PHHs), the gold standard for predicting cholestasis in vitro, is limited by their high cost and batch...
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Carbon sequestration from China’s afforestation projects
Since the late 1970s, the Chinese government has implemented massive afforestation projects to address grievous environmental disasters, protect human health and provide long-term environmental security. Havin...
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Open AccessA Korpelevich-like algorithm for variational inequalities
A Korpelevich-like algorithm has been introduced for solving a generalized variational inequality. It is shown that the presented algorithm converges strongly to a special solution of the generalized variation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tactical Internet Reliability Evaluation with Variable Radio Transmission Range
As one of the most important performance measures of Tactical Internet (TI), reliability will be paid much attention to. Most of the existing techniques assume the transmission range is constant. It is not app...
