Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States by Manu Nimmala, Shane D. Ross, Hosein Foroutan

“…As a step towards assessing hemp cross-pollination risk, this study characterizes the seasonal and spatial patterns in windborne hemp pollen dispersal spanning the conterminous United States (CONUS). …”
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Deep Learning-Based Infrared Image Segmentation for Aircraft Honeycomb Water Ingress Detection by Hang Fei, Hongfu Zuo, Han Wang, Yan Liu, Zhenzhen Liu, Xin Li

“…Through rigorous experimentation, our model surpasses existing benchmarks, yielding a commendable 22.44% reduction in computational effort and a substantial 38.89% reduction in parameter count. …”
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The Integration of Land Use Planning and the Varied Responses of Coupled Human–Natural Systems: A Case Study of Changning County in Southwest China by Yanlan Xie, Xiaobo Liu, Xiaoshuang Zhuo, Shaoyao Zhang, Hao Zhang

“…The results are as follows: (1) The TG was classified into five categories that were stratified according to the coupling intensity and orientation of the socioeconomic system and natural ecosystems in Changning County. (2) The transition type with the most complex socio-ecological coupling was the type of semi-socioeconomic process–semi-natural ecological process, occupying 32.6% (309.4 km²) of the county’s total area in 2000 and demonstrating the most pronounced spatial dynamics, exhibiting a reduction of 78.6 km² during the study period. (3) Negative impacts on TG dynamics were observed for the conversion of ecological space into agricultural production space (<i>p</i> < 0.01; R² > 0.24) and the dynamic degree of PLE transformations (<i>p</i> < 0.01; R² > 0.13). (4) The impacts of trends in PLE on the TG varied significantly across temporal phases, whereas the CONTAG index exhibited consistently non-significant effects throughout all study periods. …”
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Mitigating Risks in Hospital Facilities—An Analysis of the Relationship Between Healthcare Risks and the Built Environment: A Literature Review and Survey in the Italian Scenario by Beatrice Pattaro, Michele Dolcini, Andrea Brambilla, Stefano Capolongo

“…The results reveal critical gaps in implementation, particularly in spatial flexibility, environmental monitoring, and antimicrobial surfaces. …”
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High-Speed Railway Planning for Sustainable Development: The Role of Length Between Conventional Line and Straight Length by Francesco Russo, Corrado Rindone, Giuseppe A. Maiolo

“…The research problem that arises is to analyze the high-speed lines built in order to verify, given a pair of extreme terminals, how much the length is reduced by passing from a conventional line to a high-speed line, and to verify how this length is getting closer and closer to the distance as the crow flies. The reduction of spatial distance produces direct connections between two territories, making the railway system (HSR) more competitive compared to other transport alternatives (e.g., air travel). …”
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Dynamic land use efficiency and human-land relationship in traditional industrial cities by Xianglong Kong, Xianglong Kong, Yutong Wu, Peng Cui, Yiwen Sun, Guangpu Wei

“…Studying the dynamic land utilization efficiency during urbanization is crucial for understanding the human-land relationship in cities facing economic decline.MethodsUsing land utilization and population data from 2000 to 2020, a dynamic land utilization efficiency index was developed to identify patterns in land utilization dynamics at the district and county level and assess the coordination of human-land relationships at the municipal level. The spatial structural relationships among districts and counties are analysed using the Getis-Ord Gi* statistical model, while the co ordination mechanisms of human-land interactions are explored through the Kaya identity and the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI).ResultsThe results demonstrate that 40.9% of counties suffer from low land utilization efficiency. 57.6% of cities experience simultaneous population decline and expansion of urban-rural construction land. …”
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RT-DETR-EVD: An Emergency Vehicle Detection Method Based on Improved RT-DETR by Jun Hu, Jiahao Zheng, Wenwei Wan, Yongqi Zhou, Zhikai Huang

“…Specifically, compared to the baseline RT-DETR-r18 model, RT-DETR-EVD reduces parameter count to 14.5 M (a 27.1% reduction), lowers floating-point operations (FLOPs) to 49.5 G (a 13.2% reduction), and improves precision by 0.5%. …”
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Tumor-specific MHC-II guides anthracycline exemption and immunotherapy benefit in breast cancer by Zehao Wang, Yanhui Wang, Zhishuang Gao, Yue Zhou, Xiaoting Chen, Rui Xu, Yangsiyuan Zhao, Yi Zhang, Bingqiu Xiu, Jing Liu, Zhiming Shao, Shengmei Gu, Jingyan Xue, Jiong Wu

“…Results In eTNBC, high tsMHC-II expression predicted improved disease-free survival (DFS) and comparable overall survival (OS) with paclitaxel-carboplatin (PCb) versus anthracycline-sequential paclitaxel (EC-P), identifying tsMHC-II as a predictive marker for anthracycline exemption. …”
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Elemental Associations with Groundwater Nitrate in Northeastern Region of Saudi Arabia: Implications for Sustainable Water Management by Al Mamun

“…Future research should focus on elucidating factors influencing nitrate distribution in groundwater systems and developing more robust predictive models based on readily measurable water quality parameters.…”
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Factor structure and validation of the Motor Imagery Vividness Scale (MIV-S) by Nobuchika Yamaki

“…Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified a three-factor structure—Spatial and Temporal Imagery, Emotional and Motivational Imagery, and Sensory Clarity and Flow—explaining 38.6% of the total variance. …”
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Virtual Reality in Building Evacuation: A Review by Ming-Chuan Hung, Ching-Yuan Lin, Gary Li-Kai Hsiao

“…Future research should integrate VR with artificial intelligence and machine learning for predictive and adaptive evacuation models. Expanding VR applications to underrepresented groups, including individuals with disabilities and the elderly, and collaborating with policymakers and urban planners are vital for translating research into practice. …”
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Integrating Geospatial Intelligence and Digital Transformation for Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Emerging EU Economies by Nicoleta Mihaela Doran, Gabriela Badareu, Marian Ilie Siminică

“…Environmental sustainability is assessed via greenhouse gas emissions and the share of renewable energy in total energy consumption, capturing critical spatial and ecological dynamics. Applying a generalized linear model, the results reveal that enhanced digital infrastructure and affordability contribute to emissions reduction, whereas increased user adoption correlates with higher energy demand and emissions. …”
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The influence of urban form on car travel following residential relocation: a current and retrospective study in Scottish urban areas by Lee Woods, Neil Ferguson

“…Spatial planning and policy continues to be used as a tool to bring about changes in travel behavior. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on SCNN and Optimized HKELM by Yulin Wang, Xianjun Du

“…A stochastic pooling layer, based on a Bernoulli distribution, was introduced to retain more spatial feature information while ensuring feature diversity. …”
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Reconstructed global monthly burned area maps from 1901 to 2020 by Z. Guo, W. Li, P. Ciais, S. Sitch, G. R. van der Werf, S. P. K. Bowring, A. Bastos, F. Mouillot, J. He, M. Sun, L. Zhu, X. Du, N. Wang, X. Huang

“…The trained models can well reproduce the long-term spatial patterns (slopes <span class="inline-formula">=</span> 0.70–1.28 and <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>²</span> <span class="inline-formula">=</span> 0.69–0.98 spatially), inter-annual variability and seasonality of the satellite-based burned area observations. …”
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Multi-Timescale Fault Interactions and Earthquakes: A Review by Mian Liu

“…Earthquake models are based on elastic rebound, which predicts cyclic stress accumulation and release on fault planes. …”
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Whole genome resequencing reveals the evolutionary history and geographic isolation of the eastern Asian Hickory (Carya) by Da Zhang, Rui‐Feng Yang, Jia‐Hui Chen, Lang‐Bo Pan, Wei Duan, Guo‐Hua Xia, Qi‐Xiang Zhang, You‐Jun Huang

“…Species distribution modeling predicted suitable habitats for five EA Carya species, revealing the potential distribution of endangered C. kweichowensis. …”
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Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real‐Time Urban Flood Forecasting by Valeriy Y. Ivanov, Donghui Xu, M. Chase Dwelle, Khachik Sargsyan, Daniel B. Wright, Nikolaos Katopodes, Jongho Kim, Vinh Ngoc Tran, April Warnock, Simone Fatichi, Paolo Burlando, Enrica Caporali, Pedro Restrepo, Brett F. Sanders, Molly M. Chaney, Ana M. B. Nunes, Fernando Nardi, Enrique R. Vivoni, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Gautam Bisht, Rafael L. Bras

“…Currently, there are no operational systems to forecast flooding at spatial resolutions that can facilitate emergency preparedness and response actions mitigating flood impacts. …”
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Physical processes influencing the Asian climate due to black carbon emission over East Asia and South Asia by F. Luo, B. H. Samset, C. W. Stjern, M. Joshi, L. J. Wilcox, R. J. Allen, W. Hua, S. Li, S. Li

“…Results show that regional BC aerosols lead to strong surface cooling, air temperature warming in the low-level troposphere, and drying over the perturbed areas, with seasonal differences in magnitude and spatial distribution. Atmospheric energy budget analysis suggests that reductions in local precipitation primarily depend on the substantial local atmospheric heating due to shortwave absorption by BC. …”
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Three‒Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Breaching Process of Landslide Dams with Heterogeneous Structures by HU Xianrui, PENG Ming, FU Xiaoli, YANG Ge, ZHU Yan, SHI Zhenming, ZHANG Gongding

“…With prediction errors maintained within 10% under complex experimental conditions, this model provides a robust tool for enhancing risk assessments and emergency planning in regions prone to landslide dam breaches.…”
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