The Effect of Virtual Tour on the Intention to Book Tourist Destination by Manijeh Haghighinasab, Samira Narimanyfandoghloui, Nazila Niakan Lahiji

“…The research employs a 2 × 2 experimental design to investigate the role of VR displays and the influence of sensory stimuli on spatial presence and behavioral intentions. Data analysis is conducted using structural equation modeling with partial least squares and two-way ANOVA. …”
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Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Moisture Anomalies Based on Remote Sensing Data: A Semiarid Rangeland Case by Juan José Martín-Sotoca, Ernesto Sanz, Antonio Saa-Requejo, Rubén Moratiel, Andrés F. Almeida-Ñauñay, Ana M. Tarquis

“…MODIS images, with 250 m and 500 m spatial resolution, from 2002 to 2019, were acquired to calculate the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) and the Water Condition Index (WCI) based on the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and soil moisture component (W), respectively. …”
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Assessing the Trend of Landcover Changes in Asaloyeh - Shirino Coastline Applying LCM Model by Siavash Shayan, Maysa Vali

“…The results of the analysis of changes in other uses of human-made areas indicate that during the years 1990 to 2019, 0.6 km2 of vegetation use, 5.3 km2 of use of pastures and barren lands, 11.6 km2 of sand use and 11.2 km2 of sea has been converted to man-made areas. Spatial analysis of the changes also indicates that most of the changes have taken place near the cities of Asaloyeh, Nakhl and the coastal strip. …”
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Distribution Characteristics of Heavy Metals in Sediments and Their Relationship with Benthic Fauna in the Clam Mudflat Aquaculture Area of Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China by Haopeng HU, Lei LI, Wei TIAN, Shuai HAN, Fengbiao WANG, Mei JIANG

“…They are an important spatial carrier for human survival and development and are notably influenced by human activities. …”
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Feasibility of estimating the percentage of desert pavement using Tasseled Cap Transformation indices extracted from Landsat 8 images by farzaneh Fotouhi Firoozabad, Atefeh jebali

“…Remote sensing technology is an effective tool for identifying and classifying landforms because it produces satellite images with spectral and spatial resolution, and it can also be a valuable tool for classifying desert pavements. …”
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Identifying the Effective Factors in the Development of Creative Tourism at Heritage Sites by Amir Mohammad Moazezi Mehr-e-Tehran

“…Ultimately, 29 indicators were identified and organized into 10 criteria: heritage diversity, environmental education, co-creation, spatial creativity, safety and security, inviting environment, permeability and access, inclusiveness, participation and partnership, and recovery and promotion. …”
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Determine the Key Factors of Tourism Development Based on Future Research Approach (Case Study: Mazandaran Province) by Parvin Dadazade- Silabi, Narges Ahmadifard

“…Tourism is considered as the greatest social mobility with cultural, economic and spatial multiple effects which always needs to be effective in its current and future development. …”
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Variability of CO₂ and CH₄ in a coastal peatland rewetted with brackish water from the Baltic Sea derived from autonomous high-resolution measurements by D. L. Pönisch, D. L. Pönisch, H. C. Bittig, M. Kolbe, I. Schuffenhauer, S. Otto, P. Holtermann, K. Premaratne, G. Rehder

“…Results show considerable temporal fluctuations of CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> and CH<span class="inline-formula">₄</span>, expressed as multi-day, diurnal, and event-based variability and spatial differences for variables dominantly influenced by biological processes. …”
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JWST-TST High Contrast: Living on the Wedge, or, NIRCam Bar Coronagraphy Reveals CO2 in the HR 8799 and 51 Eri Exoplanets’ Atmospheres by William O. Balmer, Jens Kammerer, Laurent Pueyo, Marshall D. Perrin, Julien H. Girard, Jarron M. Leisenring, Kellen Lawson, Henry Dennen, Roeland P. van der Marel, Charles A. Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jeff A. Valenti, Joshua D. Lothringer, Nikole K. Lewis, Mathilde Mâlin, Isabel Rebollido, Emily Rickman, Kielan K. W. Hoch, Rémi Soummer, Mark Clampin, C. Matt Mountain

“…These observations have revealed the four known gas giant planets encircling HR 8799, even at spatial separations challenging for a 6.5 m telescope in the mid-infrared, including the first ever detection of HR 8799 e at 4.6 μ m. …”
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The Multi-Compartment Hg Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP): mercury modeling to support international environmental policy by A. Dastoor, H. Angot, J. Bieser, F. Brocza, F. Brocza, B. Edwards, A. Feinberg, A. Feinberg, X. Feng, X. Feng, B. Geyman, C. Gournia, Y. He, I. M. Hedgecock, I. Ilyin, J. Kirk, C.-J. Lin, C.-J. Lin, I. Lehnherr, R. Mason, D. McLagan, D. McLagan, M. Muntean, P. Rafaj, E. M. Roy, A. Ryjkov, N. E. Selin, N. E. Selin, F. De Simone, A. L. Soerensen, F. Steenhuisen, O. Travnikov, S. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, S. Wilson, R. Wu, Q. Wu, Q. Wu, Y. Zhang, J. Zhou, W. Zhu, S. Zolkos

“…The primary goals of the project are to facilitate detection and attribution of recent (observed) and future (projected) spatial patterns and temporal trends of global environmental Hg levels and identification of key knowledge gaps in Hg science and modeling to improve future effectiveness evaluation cycles of the MEAs. …”
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The Assessment of Utility and the Role of Rural Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in West Azerbaijan Province by ali Gholami, Fatemeh Moohamadzadeh

“…Considering that the above conditions are in the villages of West Azarbaijan province, in order to identify and resolve some of these problems, the present article seeks to assess the utility of rural entrepreneurship ecosystem of the study area in comparison with the national and international model as well as the role of Each subsystem in its present condition. 2-Materials and Methods This is an exploratory and descriptive-analytical research. …”
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Key Drivers Affecting the Future of Power Relations in Tehran Metropolis with a Scenario-Writing Approach by Afshin Mottaghi, Arash Ghorbani Sepehr, Joseph Saloukadz

“…This was likely to impede the implementation of spatial justice initiatives that would allow other cities to benefit from the presence of these central institutions. …”
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Constraining the budget of NO_<i>x</i> and volatile organic compounds at a remote tropical island using multi-platform observations and WRF-Chem model simulations by C. Poraicu, J.-F. Müller, T. Stavrakou, C. Amelynck, C. Amelynck, B. W. D. Verreyken, B. W. D. Verreyken, B. W. D. Verreyken, B. W. D. Verreyken, N. Schoon, C. Vigouroux, N. Kumps, J. Brioude, P. Tulet, P. Tulet, C. Mouchel-Vallon, C. Mouchel-Vallon

“…The coexistence and spatial heterogeneity of anthropogenic and biogenic emission sources in this region present a valuable but challenging test of the model performance. …”
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Resolving the Young 2 Cygni Runaway Star into a Binary Using iLocater by Justin R. Crepp, Jonathan Crass, Andrew J. Bechter, Brian L. Sands, Ryan Ketterer, David King, Derek Kopon, Randall Hamper, Matthew Engstrom, James E. Smous, Eric B. Bechter, Robert Harris, Marshall C. Johnson, Nicholas Baggett, Shannon Dulz, Michael Vansickle, Al Conrad, Steve Ertel, B. Scott Gaudi, Philip Hinz, Marc Kuchner, Manny Montoya, Eleanya Onuma, Melanie Ott, Richard Pogge, Gustavo Rahmer, Robert Reynolds, Christian Schwab, Karl Stapelfeldt, Joseph Thomes, Amali Vaz, Ji Wang, Charles E. Woodward

“…An R  ≈ 1500 miniature spectrograph recently installed at the LBT named Lili provides spatially resolved spectra of each binary component, indicating similar spectral types and strengthening the case for companionship. …”
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Virgo Filaments. V. Disrupting the Baryon Cycle in the NGC 5364 Galaxy Group by Rose A. Finn, Gregory Rudnick, Pascale Jablonka, Mpati Ramatsoku, Gautam Nagaraj, Benedetta Vulcani, Rebecca A. Koopmann, Matteo Fossati, James Agostino, Yannick Bahé, Santiago Garcia-Burillo, Gianluca Castignani, Francoise Combes, Kim Conger, Gabriella De Lucia, Vandana Desai, John Moustakas, Dara Norman, Damien Sperone-Longin, Melinda Townsend, Lizhi Xie, Daria Zakharova, Dennis Zaritsky

“…This imaging is particularly powerful as a probe of environmentally induced quenching because different physical processes affect the spatial distribution of star formation in different ways. …”
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First assessment of biofouling assemblages in the northern Red Sea, an important region for marine non-indigenous species transfer by Juan Sempere-Valverde, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Eva Aylagas, Vitaly Syomin, Vitaly Syomin, Marcos A. L. Teixeira, Glafira D. Kolbasova, Glafira D. Kolbasova, Sofía Ruiz-Velasco, Sahar Chebaane, Arthur Anker, João Curdia, Ronald Cadiz, Dylan M. Cottrell, Andrea Desiderato, Luiz F. Andrade, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Carolina Bocanegra-Castano, Matilde Marzucchi, Angelo Poliseno, Doaa Baker, Basmah Alabdulaziz, Flor Torres, Ameer A. Eweida, Ameer A. Eweida, Susana Carvalho, Susana Carvalho

“…The eDNA analysis of seawater confirmed these spatial differences, also detecting a variation between sampling times that was not observed with the other approaches. …”
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) workshop on the Fucino paleolake project: the longest continuous terrestrial archive in the MEditerranean recording the... by B. Giaccio, B. Wagner, G. Zanchetta, A. Bertini, G. P. Cavinato, R. de Franco, F. Florindo, D. A. Hodell, T. A. Neubauer, S. Nomade, S. Nomade, A. Pereira, L. Sadori, S. Satolli, P. C. Tzedakis, P. Albert, P. Boncio, C. De Jonge, A. Francke, C. Heim, A. Masi, M. Marchegiano, H. M. Roberts, A. Noren

“…The existing information and unpublished data presented and reviewed during the workshop confirmed that the Fucino Basin fulfils all the main requisites for improving our understanding of the mode and tempo of the Plio-Quaternary climatic–environmental evolution in a terrestrial setting at different spatial and temporal scales. …”
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Landslide and Collapse Susceptibility Analysis in Wenchuan Earthquake-damaged Area Based on Ensemble Learning Methods by DING Jiawei, WANG Xiekang

“…As a result, the precise delineation of the actual spatial distribution of areas susceptible to landslides and collapses remains a formidable challenge. …”
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A Systematic review of the success and unintended consequences of management interventions on African elephants by Manqoba Zungu, Rob Slotow

“…We focus on the effects of management on elephants, and present information on success of each method, as well as its demographic effects. …”
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STRAIN LOCALIZATION PECULIARITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN ROCK SAMPLES TESTED BY UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION AND EXPOSED TO ELECTRIC PULSES by V. A. Mubassarova, L. M. Bogomolov, A. S. Zakupin, I. A. Panteleev, O. B. Naimark

“…Results of uniaxial compression tests of rock samples in electromagnetic fields are presented. The experiments were performed in the Laboratory of Basic Physics of Strength, Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of RAS (ICMM). …”
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