Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of eco-environmental quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration in China by Lemeng Liu, Jinghua Long, Wei Zhang, Jintian Yang

“…During this period, the ranking of key influencing factors was biological > climatic > soil > topographical > urbanization. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of RSEI exhibited distinct clustering patterns, with H–H regions mainly located in the Bashang Plateau in northern BTH, while L-L regions were concentrated in the southeastern plains, gradually expanding from scattered points to more continuous areas.…”
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On the Influence of the Convective Term in the Navier–Stokes Equation on the Forces in Hydrodynamic Bearings by Jiří Vacula, Pavel Novotný

“…A non-zero effect of the convective term may only arise as a result of the spatial distribution of the momentum density at the inlet and outlet surfaces of the lubricating layer or as a result of variable fluid density due to cavitation or the compressibility of the fluid. …”
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Assessment of Surface Radiogenic Heat Flow in Volcanic Rocks of Trindade Island, South Atlantic Ocean, Brazil by KENJI F. MOTOKI, THOMAS F.C. CAMPOS, JOSÉ HUMBERTO ARAUJO, ANDERSON C. SANTOS, MARIA ELISA P. GOMES, SUSANNA ELENORA SICHEL, ESTEFAN M. FONSECA, LUCAS G.P. MONTEIRO, GABRIEL S. NOGUEIRA

“…This study aims to: Quantify U, Th, and K concentrations in volcanic soils; map their spatial distribution, detect anomalies and evaluate radiogenic heat production and flux. …”
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Improving the estimation precision of the mapping of groundwater salinity by employing the Indicator Kriging Technique by Sandeep Ravish, Baldev Setia, Surinder Deswal, Vishal Puri, Bhupender Singh, Kuldeep Sharma, Ashok Kumar Yadav

“…By using nonlinear and nonparametric techniques with electrical conductivity thresholds, the IKT improved the salinity estimates’ spatial distribution accuracy. IKT was useful for public health, water management, and agricultural planning since it offered a more accurate and probabilistic prediction of high salinity levels. …”
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Extreme wind waves in the Black Sea by Boris V. Divinsky, Vladimir V. Fomin, Ruben D. Kosyan, Yuri D. Ratner

“…Analysis of the spatial distribution of wave heights in the Black Sea suggests that a possibility exists that significant wave height of storm waves can be as high as ∼12 m. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Driving Forces of Landscape Ecological Risks in Highly Urbanized Areas: A Case Study of Suzhou City by Lingyue LU, Dawei SHAO, Dianming WU

“…The proportion of low-risk areas remains consistently high, widely distributed, and stable. In contrast, the proportions of medium- and high-risk areas show continuous growth, with small fluctuations in their respective increases, indicating significant aggregation. 3) LER is primarily influenced by socio-economic factors, exhibiting notable differences in the degree of spatial variability and the characteristics of the coefficients associated with these driving factors. …”
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The influence of roughness in the floodplain of the lower yellow river on water depth and flow velocity of overbank floods by Chaojie Niu, Caihong Hu, Ming Li, Lianjun Zhao, Tianning Xie, Wenzhong Li, Kejia Wen, Shentang Dou

“…Overbank velocities concentrate at 0–0.5 m/s, showing nonlinear relationships with roughness. Introducing frictional thickness improves roughness calculation accuracy for sediment-laden rivers and flood inundation modeling. …”
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Assessment of plant diversity index in degraded desert grassland using UAV hyperspectral multimodal data and Encoder-CNN by Zhaohui Tang, Chuanzhong Xuan, Tao Zhang, Xinyu Gao, Suhui Liu, Mengqin Zhang

“…The use of multimodal data combining spatial spectral features with index features, combined with the Encode-CNN model, can provide the most accurate information on community composition. …”
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Identifying the spatiotemporal patterns and natural and socioeconomic influencing factors of PM2.5 and O3 pollution in China. by Dongsheng Zhan, Zichen Wang, Hongyang Xiang, Yukang Xu, Kan Zhou

“…The MGWR model outperforms traditional OLS and global spatial regression models, evidenced by its enhanced goodness-of-fit metrics. …”
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Stability Analysis of the Huasushu Slope Under the Coupling of Reservoir Level Decline and Rainfall by Hao Yang, Yingfa Lu, Jin Wang

“…The three-dimensional model further reveals the spatial distribution characteristics of the landslide deformation area, which helps to accurately identify potential destabilization locations. …”
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Seismic Optimization of High Cantilever Multianchor Pile Strengthening Soil Slopes against Earthquakes by Honggang Wu, Lifang Pai, Hao Lei

“…Under the reciprocating action of seismic waves of different intensities, our slope model showed the continuous effect of spatial coupling deformation leading to regional damage and failure. …”
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Research on Sustainable Development from the Perspectives of ecosystem service value and Urbanization: A Case Study of Guangxi by Zhou Lanhui, Xu Jinxuan, Qu Hongjiao

“…The main results are as follows: (1) From 2000 to 2020, the ESV of Guangxi shows a slightly decreasing trend and a dispersed spatial distribution characteristic of low in the middle and high in the surrounding area. (2) The urbanization index of Guangxi shows a continuous upward trend. …”
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Optimization of land use at Mt. Yuelu scenic area: an analysis using the ecological green equivalent by Xi Chen, Ke-lin Wang, Wei-jun Zhou, Hong-bin Li, Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf

“…Yuelu scenic area in Hunan Province, China. A mathematical model is established based on land use and land cover data, and then ArcGIS used to extract the spatial extent of the ecological green equivalent within each of the relevant elements. …”
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Compound climate events and their role in the decay of Greece’s cultural heritage by Iason Markantonis, Theocharis Katrakazis, Diamando Vlachogiannis, Athanasios Sfetsos, Ioannis Kioutsioukis, Ioannis Karatasios

“…This study investigates the spatial and temporal distribution of these decay-inducing events across Greece, utilizing observational data and the Ensemble of five high-resolution climate simulations from EURO-CORDEX and EC-EARTH models. …”
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Compact Waveguide Antenna Design for 77 GHz High-Resolution Radar by Chin-Hsien Wu, Tsun-Che Huang, Malcolm Ng Mou Kehn

“…An open-ended external waveguide is placed over each slot for polarization purification. Equivalent circuit models of slotted waveguides aid the design. An approach for sidelobe suppression using the Chebyshev distribution is adopted. …”
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Research on the influence of spontaneous commercial space on the commercial vitality of historical and cultural districts by Ruoyao Wang, Wei Shang, Guoliang Zhang

“…Additionally, the spatial density of spontaneous commercial spaces shows a strong correlation with pedestrian flow intensity (R2 = 0.9062, p < 0.01), indicating their critical role in local economic dynamics. …”
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The co-evolution and driving mechanism analysis of ecosystem services value and tourism economic resilience from 286 cities in China by Shuang Zhao, Zhengyong Yu, Wei Liu

“…The key findings are as follows: (1) ESV displayed an inverted “N” trend, declining from southeast to northwest. (2) The spatial distribution of TER showed a persistent pattern of “high in the south, low in the north,” indicating a sustained stage of coordination. (3) The CCD of TER revealed positive spatial clustering, characterized by a distinct “two poles” pattern. (4) Economic and tourism-related factors were the dominant forces enhancing the CCD of TER, while social factors imposed constraints. …”
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Effective Detection of Cloud Masks in Remote Sensing Images by Yichen Cui, Hong Shen, Chan-Tong Lam

“…On a self-made cloud and cloud shadow dataset based on the Landsat8 satellite, MDU-Net achieves scores of 95.61% in PA and 84.97% in MIOU, outperforming other models in both metrics and result images. Additionally, we conduct experiments to test the model’s generalization capability on the landcover.ai dataset to show that it also achieves excellent performance in the visualization results.…”
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Impact of radial modification coefficient of bevel gear on the load-bearing characteristics of differential by XI Junjie, BAO Menghao, LIANG Zhaowei, LI Kaixuan, ZENG Guang, ZHANG Yishuai, LIU Yuanpeng

“…The modal analysis results of the planet gear and side gear in the differential show that as the positive and negative modification coefficients increase, the maximum natural frequency and maximum spatial displacement of both the side gear and planet gear gradually increase.…”
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Efficient Region-Wise Packing of Stereoscopic ERP Videos Based on Information Loss Minimization by Hossein Pejman, Stephane Coulombe, Carlos Vazquez, Ahmad Vakili

“…In addition, when the performance is measured based on user attention probability, using the Laplacian Distribution model, the coding performance of our proposed packing methods outperforms the state-of-the-art packing method with significantly lower computational complexity.…”
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