Research on High-Quality Urbanization Development and Optimization Pathways Based on the Coupling Coordination Perspective of “Population–Land–Economy–Environment”: A Case Study of... by Siyuan Huang, Yaoben Lin

“…Using a coupling coordination model, we analyze the temporal and spatial evolution, coupling relationships, and optimization of urbanization in the province. …”
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Analysing cold-climate urban heat islands using personal weather station data by Jonathon Taylor, Charles H. Simpson, Jaana Vanhatalo, Hasan Sohail, Oscar Brousse, Clare Heaviside

“…Urban intensification of extreme heat was greater than extreme cold reduction. Practice relevance Urban climate research typically relies on sparse networks of official or researcher-deployed weather stations, interpolations thereof, land-surface temperature observations or urban climate models. …”
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Future Dynamics of Drought in Areas at Risk: An Interpretation of RCP Projections on a Regional Scale by Pietro Monforte, Sebastiano Imposa

“…Data were aggregated on a 0.50° × 0.50° spatial grid and bias-corrected using linear scaling. …”
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Sugar Maple Litter Decay Rates Are Reduced More Strongly by Drought Than by American Beech Proliferation in the Understory by William F. J. Parsons, Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Audrey Maheu, David Rivest

“…Mass loss did not change with mesh size in a consistent manner over 90 days (initial prediction: L > M > S). We estimated k‐values (year−1) by extending the linearized exponential decay model to 12 Proliferation‐Exclusion‐Species combinations. …”
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Influence of Sea Level Rise on Storm Surges in the Pearl River Estuary by HU Yaohui, WANG Zhili, ZHANG Juan, WU Yufu

“…Simultaneously, the variation of water level increase of storm surge within the Pearl River Estuary exhibits a spatially non-uniform characteristic, with an escalation in water level on the northeastern side and a reduction on the southwestern side of the Pearl River Estuary. ③ The ascent of sea level will give rise to an earlier peak water level of the storm surge. …”
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Potential risk of heavy metals release in sediments and soils of the Yellow River Basin (Henan section): A perspective on bioavailability and bioaccessibility by Peng Wang, Furong Yu, Haonan Lv, Lin Wu, Hui Zhou

“…The sediment-soil system in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin (Henan section) was explored. The spatial distribution characteristics of heavy metals (HMs) showed that tributaries, which are affected by anthropogenic activities, contain higher concentrations of HMs than the main channel. …”
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QP-Adaptive Dual-Path Residual Integrated Frequency Transformer for Data-Driven In-Loop Filter in VVC by Cheng-Hsuan Yeh, Chi-Ting Ni, Kuan-Yu Huang, Zheng-Wei Wu, Cheng-Pin Peng, Pei-Yin Chen

“…Additionally, LFFCNN reduces the model size by 32% while slightly improving the coding performance over QA-Filter.…”
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TCAD Simulation of Two Photon Absorption—Transient Current Technique Measurements on Silicon Detectors and LGADs by Sebastian Pape, Michael Moll, Marcos Fernández García, Moritz Wiehe

“…The results confirm the ability of TCAD to model the complex interaction between carrier dynamics and device gain.…”
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A Review of Systematic Methodologies for Shipyard Facility Layout Design by Ghulam Tulus Pambudi, Gunawan Gunawan, Dimas Angga Fakhri Muzhoffar, Wanda Rulita Sari

“…Graph theory enhances the layout design process by optimizing spatial relationships between facilities through weighted planar graphs. …”
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Influence of Sea Level Rise on Storm Surges in the Pearl River Estuary by HU Yaohui, WANG Zhili, ZHANG Juan, WU Yufu

“…Simultaneously, the variation of water level increase of storm surge within the Pearl River Estuary exhibits a spatially non-uniform characteristic, with an escalation in water level on the northeastern side and a reduction on the southwestern side of the Pearl River Estuary. ③ The ascent of sea level will give rise to an earlier peak water level of the storm surge. …”
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Estimating small area population from health intervention campaign surveys and partially observed settlement data by Chibuzor Christopher Nnanatu, Amy Bonnie, Josiah Joseph, Ortis Yankey, Duygu Cihan, Assane Gadiaga, Hal Voepel, Thomas Abbott, Heather R. Chamberlain, Mercedita Tia, Marielle Sander, Justin Davis, Attila N. Lazar, Andrew J. Tatem

“…Abstract Effective governance requires timely and reliable small area population counts. Geospatial modelling approaches which utilise bespoke microcensus surveys and satellite-derived settlement maps and other spatial datasets have been developed to fill population data gaps in countries where censuses are outdated and incomplete. …”
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Estimating Wheat Chlorophyll Content Using a Multi-Source Deep Feature Neural Network by Jun Li, Yali Sheng, Weiqiang Wang, Jikai Liu, Xinwei Li

“…Compared to the second-best model, the DNN (R² = 0.799, RMSE = 6.479, RRMSE = 18.23%), the MDFNN achieved a 6.4% increase in R², and 13.5% reductions in both RMSE and RRMSE. (3) The MDFNN exhibited strong robustness and adaptability across varying years, wheat varieties, and nitrogen application levels. …”
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Changes in forest ecosystem stability under climate change in a temperate landscape by Pavithra Rangani Wijenayake, Takuto Shitara, Akiko Hirata, Tetsuya Matsui, Tetsuya Matsui, Yasuhiro Kubota, Takashi Masaki

“…We hypothesize that even with the expected changes in climate, the structural stability of the species assembly will remain unchanged until the end of this century. We modeled the influence of climate change on the spatial distribution of major tree species in a temperate deciduous forest reserve using local and regional presence data. …”
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New approaches to unveil the unknown: oxygen depletion and internal eutrophication in a Baltic lagoon over decades by Gerald Schernewski, Gerald Schernewski, Thomas Neumann, Sarah Piehl, Mario von Weber

“…This approach allows us to assess the duration, spatial extent, and ecological impacts of oxygen depletion in the Oder/Szczecin Lagoon, located in the southern Baltic Sea. …”
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Sensitivity assessment and simulation of ecosystem services in response to land use change in arid regions: Empirical evidence from Xinjiang, China by Xiaoyun Li, Chunsheng Wu

“…An improved framework for assessing and simulating ecosystem services combining a modified equivalent factor method, a future land use simulation (FLUS) model, and a cross-sensitivity analysis is proposed. …”
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Transitional Housing and the Family Capacity Building Planner: An Urban Graduation Approach for Improving the Mental Health and Well-Being of Poor Households in Hong Kong by Siu-Ming Chan, Heng Xu, Yuen-Ki Tang, Kim Kwok, Ka-Man Leung

“…Together, these interventions address the multidimensional challenges of urban poverty while fostering sustainable improvements in residents’ capacity to achieve housing security and economic stability. (4) Conclusions: The integration of transitional housing with capacity-building services demonstrates the effectiveness of the Urban Graduation Approach in addressing urban poverty. This model highlights the importance of viewing housing not merely as a physical shelter but as a comprehensive infrastructure for well-being that combines spatial improvements with targeted social support. …”
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Sevoflurane aggravates hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in preterm neonates via VGluT1 upregulation and myelinogenesis impairment by Minyang Qin, Dongyan Shi, Xiaoqian Song, Ruiqing Zhang, Zhaowei Feng, Longzhi Li

“…Behavioral assessments using the Morris water maze (MWM) revealed that sevoflurane significantly exacerbated HI-induced spatial learning and memory deficits. Immunohistochemical and Western blot analyses showed that sevoflurane exposure caused significant reductions in myelin basic protein (MBP) levels and disrupted oligodendrocyte maturation. …”
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Do the Street Sweeping and Washing Work for Reducing the Near-ground Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants? by Sheng-Lun Lin, Yunzhou Deng, Ming-Yeng Lin, Shih-Wei Huang

“…Results show that there were certain reductions of PM2.5 after the street washing, especially for the road section with drainage ditch. …”
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Tracking Long-Term Ozone Pollution Dynamics in Chinese Cities with Meteorological and Emission Attribution by Hongrui Li, Xiaoyong Liu, Zijian Liu, Mengyang Li, Tong Wu, Peicheng Li, Peng Zhou

“…Although China has achieved substantial reductions in particulate matter pollution, continually rising ground-level ozone now constitutes the primary challenge to further air-quality improvements. …”
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YOLOv8-OCHD: A Lightweight Wood Surface Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8 by Zuxing Chen, Junjie Feng, Xueyan Zhu, Bin Wang

“…Compared with the YOLOv8n algorithm, the model size is significantly reduced, with the parameter count at only 2.9M and the computational load at 7.0G, representing reductions of 21.6% and 15.6%, respectively. …”
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