Changes of Soil Moisture from Multiple Sources during 1988–2010 in the Yellow River Basin, China by Dan Lou, Guojie Wang, Chan Shan, Daniel Fiifi T. Hagan, Waheed Ullah, Dawei Shi

“…The spatiotemporal variations of soil moisture from multiple sources during 1988–2010 are evaluated against in situ observations in the Yellow River basin, China, including the Essential Climate Variable satellite’s passive microwave product (SMECV), ERA-Interim reanalysis (SMERA), the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/Department of Energy’s Reanalysis-2 (SMNCEP), and the Variable Infiltration Capacity model products (SMVIC). …”
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Decade-Long Changes in Disparity and Distribution of Transit Opportunity in Shenzhen China: A Transportation Equity Perspective by Qingfeng Zhou, Donghui Dai, Yaowu Wang, Jianshuang Fan

“…In this paper, we took China’s fastest urbanizing city, Shenzhen, as a case study to assess transport equity by comparing accessibility among groups. …”
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Changing trends in human brucellosis in pastoral and agricultural China, 2004–2019: a Joinpoint regression analysis by Xiaojuan Ma, Zhuo Liu, Yuhui Geng, Yuan Zhao, Hua Meng, Mingbo Chen, Ting Pan, Dongfeng Pan, Peifeng Liang

“…Methods Annual and monthly incidence and numbers of reported cases of human brucellosis in regional China between 2004 and 2019 were accessed from the National Public Health Science Data Sharing Center, and the annual percentage change (APC) in pastoral and agricultural areas was calculated. …”
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Population Shrinkage and Spatio-Temporal Changes in Cultivated Land Use Efficiency in China’s Agro-Pastoral Ecotone by Lu Chen, Ning Zhao, Zhixun Zhang, Yun Zhang, Wenjie Zuo, Youshuo Wang, Bin Wu, Monika Stanny, Yuheng Li, Guoming Du

“…The results show the following: (1) The rural population in all provinces and counties in the agro-pastoral ecotone in northern China showed a continuous loss trend. The southwest was a hot spot area for rural population reduction, and the northeast was a cold spot area for rural population reduction. (2) During 2000–2020, the cultivated land use efficiency in the agro-pastoral ecotone in northern China showed a fluctuating upward trend, rising from 0.595 in 2000 to 0.754 in 2020. …”
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Impacts of Land Use Change on the Regional Climate: A Structural Equation Modeling Study in Southern China by Zhanqi Wang, Bingqing Li, Jun Yang

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Variations of Near Surface Energy Balance Caused by Land Cover Changes in the Semiarid Grassland Area of China by Qun’ou Jiang, Chengcai Tang, Enjun Ma, Yongwei Yuan, Wei Zhang

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Lunar Radiometric Measurement Based on Observing China Chang’E-3 Lander with VLBI—First Insight by SongTao Han, ZhongKai Zhang, Jing Sun, JianFeng Cao, Lue Chen, Weitao Lu, WenXiao Li

“…Since July 2014, OCEL (Observing Chang’E-3 Lander with VLBI) project has been conducted jointly by IVS (International VLBI Service of Geodesy and Astrometry) and BACC (Beijing Aerospace Control Center), a global IVS R&D network augmented with two China Deep Space Stations configured for OCEL. …”
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Orthostatic Dysregulation during Postural Change on the Dental Chair and Intraoperative Monitoring by Heart Rate Variability Analysis by Yukihiro Momota, Shigemasa Tomioka, Mayuko Furukita, Kenji Fujisawa, Hideyuki Takano, Masayuki Azuma

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Observational Study on the Characteristics of the Boundary Layer during Changes in the Intensity of Tropical Cyclones Landing in Guangdong, China by Fei Liao, Ran Su, Pak-Wai Chan, Yanbin Qi, Kai-Kwong Hon

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Annual change in the distribution and landscape health of mangrove ecosystems in China from 2016 to 2023 with Sentinel imagery by Yuchao Sun, Mingzhen Ye, Bin Ai, Zhenlin Lai, Jun Zhao, Zhuokai Jian, Xinyan Qi

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Debates on Changes in the Foreign Policy of Contemporary China (A Case Study of the English Language Academic Publications) by S. K. Pestsov

“…The present paper aims to provide a framework for a systematization of debates on the contemporary foreign policy of China in the English language academic literature based on two criteria: whether a researcher admits that the Chinese foreign policy is changing and how he assesses implications of these changes. …”
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Bilateral Numb Chin Syndrome as the Initial Presentation of Burkitt’s Lymphoma/Leukemia: A Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature by Hussein Algahtani, Bader Shirah, Wafaa Bassuni, Reem Adas

“…In this article, we present two cases with bilateral numb chin syndrome as the first manifestation of Burkitt’s lymphoma/leukemia and review the relevant literature. …”
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Analysis of Two-Layered Random Interfaces for Two Dimensional Widom-Rowlinson's Model by Jun Wang, Jiguang Shao, Bingtuan Wang

“…The statistical behaviors of two-layered random-phase interfaces in two-dimensional Widom-Rowlinson's model are investigated. …”
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Environmental sustainability of urban expansion: Implications for transport emissions, air pollution, and city growth by Susana Lopez-Aparicio, Henrik Grythe, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Konrad Chwastek, Kamila Toboła, Lidia Górska-Niemas, Urszula Kierpiec, Miha Markelj, Joanna Strużewska, Bartosz Kud, Gabriela Sousa Santos

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Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics and Influencing Factors of e-Commerce Industrial Chains from the Perspective of Embeddedness: Taking Xiong’an New Area in China as an Exampl... by Yifan Gu, Jianghui Ding

“…Based on the embeddedness theory, this paper takes the e-commerce industrial chain in Xiong’an New Area of China as an example, uses location entropy method and local spatial autocorrelation to analyze its spatial characteristics and influencing factors, and also discusses the features of embeddedness from each dimension of industrial chains. …”
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Systemic nitric oxide metabolites and the chance of pre-diabetes regression to normoglycemia: A 9-year cohort study by Zahra Bahadoran, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi, Asghar Ghasemi

“…Higher BW-adjusted NOx-to-Cr increased chance of returning to NG (OR=2.05, 95% CI= 0.98-4.32, P=0.058) and decreased levels of 2h-serum glucose over time (Ptime×group=0.025), as well as the decreased overall mean of fasting (106, 95% CI=103-109 vs. 110, 95% CI=108-112 mg/dL, P=0.008) and 2h-serum glucose (153, 95% CI=146-159 vs. 163, 95% CI=158-168 mg/dL, P=0.018). …”
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Rapid landslide detection from free optical satellite imagery using a robust change detection technique by Rosa Coluzzi, Angela Perrone, Caterina Samela, Vito Imbrenda, Salvatore Manfreda, Letizia Pace, Maria Lanfredi

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PRA Melting-ICE Project: Svalbard 2022 Expeditions Report [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Enrico Maiero, Elisa Baldrighi, Riccardo Cerrato, Delia Segato, Massimiliano Vardè, Mauro Mazzola, Iain Rudnik, James Bradley, Margaret Cramm, Angelina Cordone, Stefano Caliro, Donato Giovannelli, Francesco Montemagno, Carlo Cardellini, Martina Cascone, Elena Manini, Jacopo Pasotti

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Green Innovation: A Meta-Analytic Exploration of Green Supply Chain and Knowledge Sharing Dynamics by Dhani Heryanto Soegieharto, Dini Rosdini, Citra Sukmadilaga

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Changes in sexual activities and risky sexual behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review by Alinaghi Seyed Seyed Ahmad, Karimi Amirali, Mirzapour Pegah, Qaderi Kowsar, Mohammadi Parsa, Salehi Mohammad Amin, Tantuoyir Marcarious M., Arjmand Ghazal, Shahmohamadi Elnaz, Mahalleh Mehrdad, Kianzad Shaghayegh, Pashaei Ava, Khodaei Sepideh, Afsahi Amir Masoud, Mehraeen Esmaeil

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