Research on Green Building Design Optimization Based on Building Information Modeling and Improved Genetic Algorithm by Fengtao Liu, Ting Ouyang, Bingzhang Huang, Jiehong Zhao

“…Based on this, building information modeling (BIM) modeling was carried out for an office building project in Southwest China, and energy consumption analysis and evaluation were conducted based on the project’s multidisciplinary model. …”
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Uncovering the complex relationships among distributed leadership, departmental teacher leadership, and professional learning community in Chinese schools by Xin Zheng, Chenxi Jiang, Chenlu Liu

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Correction: Genome assembly of an endemic butterfly (Minois aurata) shed light on the genetic mechanisms underlying ecological adaptation to arid valley habitat by Wenqian Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Jialong Huang, Jingge Kuang, Lei Wang, Kangshan Mao, Liang Dou

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Failure Mechanism of Anti-Inclined Karst Slope Induced by Underground Multiseam Mining by Nanyun Wang, Zuliang Zhong, Xinrong Liu, Guofu Gao

“…There occurred a lot of catastrophic landslides in Southwest China karst areas in recent years. This study numerically simulated the failure process of Pusa landslide by distinct element method (UDEC). …”
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Evaluation of the Influence Caused by Tunnel Construction on Groundwater Environment: A Case Study of Tongluoshan Tunnel, China by Jian Liu, Dan Liu, Kai Song

“…This study presents an indicator system and quantifies each indicator of Tongluoshan tunnel, which is located in southwest China with a length of 5.2 km and mainly passes through carbonate rocks and sandstones, based on field investigation and related technological reports. …”
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Impacts of Future Climate Changes on Shifting Patterns of the Agro-Ecological Zones in China by Yingzhi Lin, Anping Liu, Enjun Ma, Fan Zhang

“…The shifting patterns of AEZs will be characterized by northward expansion of humid AEZs to subhumid AEZs in south China, eastward expansion of arid AEZs to dry and moist semiarid AEZs in north China, and southward expansion of dry semiarid AEZs to arid AEZs in southwest China.…”
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Study on the Dynamic Response of Landslide Subjected to Earthquake by the Improved DDA Method by Xiu-Li Zhang, Bi-Ting Xie, Hao Wang, Yu-Yong Jiao

“…Majiagou landslide, a major ancient landslide in Three Gorges Reservoir region, is located in the high earthquake area of southwest China. The 2013 Badong earthquake caused an obvious deformation of landslide monitored by the sliding inclinometer. …”
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A Direct Eulerian GRP Scheme for the Prediction of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in HTHP Transient Wells by Jiuping Xu, Min Luo, Jiancheng Hu, Shize Wang, Bin Qi, Zhiguo Qiao

“…The basic data of “X well” (HTHP well), 7100 m deep, located in Southwest China, is used for the case history calculations. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Soft Rocks Subjected to Water-Rock Reaction and Cyclic Pressure by Wei Huang, Rui Feng, Huanran Fu, Jingyu Chen, Zili Feng

“…In this paper, two soft rocks from Southwest China (i.e., muddy siltstone and silty mudstone) were selected as test samples. …”
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Prediction of Drought Risk Based on the WRF Model in Yunnan Province of China by Chunhong Zhao, Xiangzheng Deng, Yongwei Yuan, Haiming Yan, Hong Liang

“…Yunnan province is the core region of the drought in the Southwest China, which makes the region become the hot spot in the meteorological research. …”
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Description and Dynamic Analyses of the 1935 Luchedu Rock Avalanche in Sichuan, China by Jie Cui, Chunyu Gao, Zhilong Zhang, Guifu Xiang

“…The Luchedu rock avalanche (LRA) that occurred in 1935 at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan in Southwest China is a disaster chain of the rock slide, debris avalanche, and river blocking induced by heavy rainfall. …”
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Species delimitation of newly collected spiders of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae) from Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China: An integrated morpholog... by Jianshuang Zhang, Tianqin Pan, He Zhang, Yuanqian Xing, Hao Yu, Yang Zhong

“…A further study of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000, from Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, southwest China, is presented. A total of six species are here addressed based on morphology and five methods of molecular species delimitation, increasing the number of known species of the genus in this area from 10 to 13. …”
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Designing Landscape of Urban Gardening Based on Optimized Artificial Intelligence Model by Long Liu

“…The landscape is driven by innovative design, adhering to the concept of “poetic residence, inheritance, and innovation,” which has long served China’s urban and rural development and the construction of ecological civilization and provided high-quality planning and design services for governments at all levels throughout the country; we construct a particle swarm optimization (PSO) landscape pattern spatial optimization model and solution algorithm to optimize the spatial layout of the landscape for economic development, ecological protection, and integrated scenarios in a city in southwest China. The results show that the PSO-based landscape pattern spatial optimization model and algorithm can use particle position to simulate landscape distribution for spatial pattern optimization. …”
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Understanding metro station areas’ functional characteristics via embedding representation: A case study of shanghai by Heping Jiang, Ruihua Liu, Shijia Luo, Disheng Yi, Jing Zhang

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Precise Orbit Determination of BDS MEO Satellites Based on Satellite TT&C Stations by Kezhao Li, Zhiwei Li, Lin Chai, An-min Ding, Jin-ben Wei, Long Li

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Indirect Multicultural Experiences: A Multidimensional Journey to Inspire Self-Change by Jun Zhang, Guanglan Rong, Wenxi Du, Yan Bao

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Physiochemical Restrictions of Mineral Zoning of Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit in SW China by Yan Zhang, Runsheng Han, Shuming Wen, Pingtang Wei

“…The Chuxiong basin, located in southwest China, is well known as a mineralization area of red-bed type copper deposits in China. …”
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The Impact of Reservoir Fluctuations on Reactivated Large Landslides: A Case Study by Javed Iqbal, Xinbin Tu, Wei Gao

“…Filling of Xiangjiaba Reservoir Lake in the Southwest China triggered and reactivated numerous landslides due to water fluctuation. …”
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Experimental Study on Oxygen-Enriched Sintering of Vanadium-Titanium Magnetite by Hao Liu, Yuelin Qin, Xinlong Wu, Bing Xie

“…The experiments are based on the field production parameters of a sintering trolley in a steel enterprise in southwest China. Prolonged oxygen enrichment time results in the gradual increase in vertical sintering speed, sintering utilization coefficient, sintered ore yield, sintered ore drum strength, and reductivity. …”
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Sulfur Speciation in the Surface Sediments of Lakes from Different Regions, China: Characterization by S K-Edge XANES Spectroscopy by Wang Jingfu, Chen Jingan, Dai Zhihui, Yang Haiquan, Ma Chenyan

“…The three lakes located in Southwest China have similar composition characteristics of S species, indicating similar S sources including chemical weathering of carbonate and atmospheric deposition. 60–90% of S compounds in the surface sediments were in the form of sulfate and FeS. …”
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