Comparative assessment of satellite-based models through Planetscope and landsat-8 for determining physico-chemical water quality parameters in Varuna River (India) by Bikash Ranjan Parida, Shivangi Tiwari, Chandra Shekhar Dwivedi, Arvind Chandra Pandey, Bhaskar Singh, Mukunda Dev Behera, Navneet Kumar

“…Results also showed that the regression models of TSS, DO, Calcium, Chloride, and pH are highly significant to visible (B, G and R) and near-infrared (NIR) bands of PlanetScope which can be attributed to finer spatial resolution. The water quality is mainly very poor around densely populated areas which crosses the permissible limit. …”
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Parasites in the Digestive Tract of Lion (Panthera leo) at the Safari Park of Gurun Putih Lestari Jantho, Aceh Besar by Fajri Dwitama, Razali Daud, Arman Sayuti, Yudha Fahrimal

“…Factors such as environmental contamination, abrupt alterations in ecological circumstances, and spatial constraints render captive animals vulnerable to stress, consequently compromising their immune systems. …”
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Impact of gravel bar flooding on arthropods in the upper Isar: implications for river management by R. Wessels, A. Sundermann, A. Sundermann, A. Sundermann

“…This study focused on the spatial distribution and flood response of two spider species and two beetle species in a gravel bank area along the upper Isar (Germany). …”
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Landscape dynamics and its related factors in the Citarum River Basin: a comparison of three algorithms with multivariate analysis by Moh. Dede, Sunardi Sunardi, Kuok-Choy Lam, Susanti Withaningsih, Hendarmawan Hendarmawan, Teguh Husodo

“…Data was acquired from Landsat-series imageries from 1993 to 2023, and LULC analyses were conducted using classification and regression trees (CART), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM). …”
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UniU-Net: A Unified U-Net Deep Learning Approach for High-Precision Areca Palm Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery by Shaohua Wang, Yan Wang, Jianwei Yue, Haojian Liang, Zihan Zhang, Bojun Li

“…To validate the effectiveness of UniU-Net, comprehensive experiments were conducted on a specialized areca palm dataset, demonstrating superior performance compared to several state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models. …”
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Entertainment Chatbot for the Digital Inclusion of Elderly People Without Abstraction Capabilities by Silvia Garcia-Mendez, Francisco De Arriba-Perez, Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano, Jose A. Regueiro-Janeiro, Felipe Gil-Castineira

“…This approach permits defining metrics of the abstraction capabilities of the users depending on a spatial representation of the word space. To prove the suitability of the proposed solution we present results of real experiments conducted with elderly people that provided valuable insights. …”
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Influence of <i>Miscanthus floridulus</i> on Heavy Metal Distribution and Phytoremediation in Coal Gangue Dump Soils: Implications for Ecological Risk Mitigation by Jiaolong Wang, Yan Jiang, Yuanying Peng, Xiaoyong Chen, Wende Yan, Xiaocui Liang, Qian Wu, Jingjie Fang

“…Fieldwork was conducted at three sites operated by the Pingxiang Mining Group: Anyuan (active, barren), Gaokeng (8 years, natural vegetation), and Qingshan (12 years, partially remediated). …”
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An Innovative GIS-Based Policy Approach to Stream Water Quality and Ecological Risk Assessment in Mediterranean Regions: The Case of Crete, Greece by Nektarios N. Kourgialas, Chrysoula Ntislidou, Eleana Kazila, Agathos Filintas, Catherina Voreadou

“…The final map depicts the spatial distribution of streams concerning their water quality risk and is represented by two classes of WQE risk. …”
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Equitable transportation and resilience hubs: Analysis of underserved population needs, usage, and travel behaviour by Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco, Syeda Narmeen Zehra, Veronica Wambura, Stephen D. Wong

“…Simple descriptive statistics and statistical tests were used to understand the groups’ needs and observe similarities and divergences between groups. We also calculated spatial statistics to identify how mode choices varied with people’s preferred resilience hub locations. …”
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AI4HealthyCities: a protocol for a mixed-method ethnographic study on the social determinants of cardiovascular health in New York City by Anna-Maria Volkmann, Elizabeth Adamson, Yongkang Zhang, Peter Speyer, Emma Boxley, David Napier, Reekarl Pierre, Wenqin Zhang

“…This study builds on prior quantitative research conducted under the AI4HealthyCities initiative, which applied machine learning to identify spatial clusters of cardiovascular vulnerability and social disadvantage. …”
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Neuro-VGNB: Transfer Learning-Based Approach for Detecting Brain Stroke by Muhammad Usama Tanveer, Kashif Munir, Bharati Rathore, Abdulatif Alabdulatif, Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Maham Fatima

“…Our innovative approach, termed Neuro-VGNB, aims to leverage these advanced methodologies to improve classification accuracy significantly.To evaluate the effectiveness of our Neuro-VGNB model, we conducted comprehensive comparisons between traditional spatial features and the newly proposed transfer features. …”
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An Efficient Semantic Segmentation Framework with Attention-Driven Context Enhancement and Dynamic Fusion for Autonomous Driving by Jia Tian, Peizeng Xin, Xinlu Bai, Zhiguo Xiao, Nianfeng Li

“…This is further augmented by positional encoding, enabling better awareness of spatial structures and local details. The dynamic fusion mechanism employs an adaptive weighting strategy, adjusting the contribution of each feature channel to reduce redundancy and improve representation quality. …”
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Contribution of Nontimber Forest Products Earn to Livelihood in Rural Households and the Type of Use: A Systematic Review by Binega Derebe, Asmamaw Alemu, Zebene Asfaw

“…The researcher conducted a review of 83 articles published between 2011 and 2021 to determine the nontimber forest products (NTFPs) income contribution and usage types based on spatial and temporal patterns. …”
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Construction of a Desertification Composite Index and Its Application in the Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Desertification in the Ring-Tarim Basin over 30 Years by Lei Xi, Zhao Qi, Yiming Feng, Xiaoming Cao, Mengcun Cui, Jiaxiu Zou, Shiang Feng

“…We also incorporated 383 UAV imagery datasets to accurately identify and analyze the spatial and temporal distributions of desertification in the Ring-Tarim Basin from 1990 to 2020 and subsequently assess its spatiotemporal trends. …”
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Rainfall forecasting in arid regions in response to climate change using ARIMA and remote sensing by Hany F. Abd-Elhamid, Amr M. El-Dakak, Martina Zeleňáková, Saleh O. K, Mohamed Mahdy, Samah H. Abd El Ghany

“…Climate changes in increasing at alarming rates which caused outward changes in the hydrological cycle parameters such as temperature and precipitation. The spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall has changed all over the world. …”
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Diethyl nitrosamine-induces neurobehavioral deficit, oxido-nitrosative stress in rats' brain: a neuroprotective role of diphenyl diselenide by Solomon Owumi, Joseph Chimezie, Praise Dyap Emmanuel, Anthony Chukwuma Okeibuno, Olatunde Owoeye

“…DEN-treated rats exhibited decreased locomotor activity, spatial memory function and antioxidant activity, increased oxidative and nitration stress, anxiety, and depressive-like behaviour, causing histoarchitectural damage in prefrontal and hippocampal cortices. …”
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Research trends and frontiers of groundwater-lake interaction by Zesen YANG, Jingjing LIN, Qixin CHANG, Aiguo ZHOU, Xiaolong HUANG

“…Significance To analyze the research trends and frontiers in the field of groundwater-lake interaction, we conducted a comprehensive review the relevant papers from the Web of Science (WOS) database. …”
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Combined effect of phosphate fertilizer types and dripline depth on distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in soil and maize yield by WANG Huiyun, WANG Zhen, RAN Yanli, LI Xiumei

“…In each treatment, we measured the spatial variation of nitrogen and phosphate, as well as grain yield. …”
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Skill-Level Dependent Lower Limb Muscle Synergy Patterns During Open-Stance Forehand Strokes in Competitive Tennis Players by Yucheng Wang, Dong Sun, Dongxu Wang, Diwei Chen, Fengping Li, Zhanyi Zhou, Xuanzhen Cen, Yang Song, Danica Janicijevic, Yaodong Gu

“…Independent sample t-tests were conducted to examine differences between muscle synergies. …”
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Low-Carbon-Economic Collaborative Optimal Dispatching of Microgrid Considering Electricity-Hydrogen Integration by Lingling TAN, Wei TANG, Dongqing CHU, Zihan YU, Xingquan JI, Yumin ZHANG

“…Finally, a case study of an industrial park microgrid is conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.…”
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